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It's Not Just the Science That Has to Be Memorable
Clinical Applications of and Challenges in Single-Cell Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells
A Series of Unanticipated Discoveries Have Been Made Using Single CTC Sequencing
Immuno-Oncology Enhances Battlespace Awareness
Molecular Imaging Could Help Clinicians Accurately Select Patients for Treatment or Monitoring
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Rougher Passage to India's Drug Market
FDA raises quality concerns, Indian officials favor domestic makers, pharma giants balk.
FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., contrasted the craftsmanship and beauty of India's Taj Mahal with recent lapses in quality by "a handful" of the country's drug manufacturers during a recent visit there. If the comparison was meant to flatter the domestic pharma executives and regulators with whom she met, they didn't appear to think so.
Dr. Hamburg and officials from India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare pledged cooperation in data sharing and even "medical and cosmetic product and inspections conducted by the other Participant." That's no small promise since India is the world's second largest exporter of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Yet their formal Statement of Intent conditioned such cooperation "as time and resources allow" and didn't set specific terms.
In a conference call with reporters today, Dr. Hamburg said implementing the statement was a five-year commitment "already under way" as both countries "have already embarked upon some cross-training activities and started to identify some critical areas for future activities together, so I think progress will be made."
India's ultimate cooperation with FDA is hard to predict given public uneasiness by Indian officials and drug companies about agency scrutiny. Days before Hamburg's visit, India's chief pharma industry regulator, Drug Controller General G. N. Singh, Ph.D., told India's Business Standard: "If I have to follow U.S. standards in inspecting facilities supplying to the Indian market, we will have to shut almost all of those."
Asked by GEN today how she could be confident of Indian cooperation based on the statement, Dr. Hamburg said Dr. Singh "discussed with me his eagerness to work closely with us and interest, in fact, in getting technical assistance and training opportunities" for his regulators to observe FDA's Indian inspections. FDA stations 12 staffers in India—a number she said is expected to rise to 19.
"I think he also understands that every regulatory authority must work within their own national laws and regulatory framework," Dr. Hamburg added. "When products are sold in the United States for use by American citizens, then those products do have to meet our standards."
Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy has come under repeated FDA scrutiny. It agreed last year to pay a $500 million fine for safety and record-keeping violations. More recently, it urged Dr. Hamburg to lift the FDA's consent decree. Extended as of January, this decree effectively bans four of Ranbaxy's Indian plants from exporting active pharmaceutical ingredients to the United States. Although Ranbaxy contended that it needed the export activity to fund FDA-sought quality improvements, Dr. Hamburg declined the company's request.
Dr. Hamburg's visit highlighted the challenges Washington perceives from India's growing domestic biopharma industry, which exports some $15 billion in drugs each year. As far as the FDA is concerned, these challenges pertain to product quality. But there are other challenges that lie beyond the FDA's purview, as global pharma giants have found in their pursuit of business opportunities in India.
Domestic Generics
According to the All India Chemists and Druggists Association data reported by Indian newspaper The Economic Times, Mumbai-based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals impacted the Rs 3,000 crore ($483.7 million) Indian diabetes drug market long dominated by multinationals last year. Glenmark racked up Rs 16 crore ($2.58 million) in eight months for its Zitamed and Zita generic versions of sitagliptin
These generics sold 30% cheaper than the Januvia and Janumet branded drugs of market leader Merck & Co., which generated more than $5.8 billion in combined global 2013 sales for Merck and are the subject of a patent dispute between the companies.
Through court decisions and regulatory actions, Indian officials have pressed foreign-based multinationals for lower-cost drugs. These multinationals, however, have argued that Indian actions hinder their ability to do business selling innovative if costlier drugs.
"The upper socioeconomic segments can afford western products at western prices, but the middle class can benefit from innovative products tailored to their specific needs and pocketbooks," Gunjan Bagla, managing director of Amritt, a Cerritos, CA, management advisory service that assists U.S. companies expanding into India, told GEN. "Some western companies are capable of and interested in addressing this segment while others are not."
Patent Questions
India's Patent Office sent shivers through the biopharma industry in 2012 when it revoked the exclusive patent rights held by Bayer for cancer drug Nexavar, and awarded the nation's first-ever compulsory license to a domestic maker of a much cheaper generic. Industry cringed again last year when India's Supreme Court rejected patent protection for Novartis' blockbuster cancer drug Glivec, as the drug faces a 2015 expiration of its first U.S. patent.
The patent decisions, Bagla explained, reflect Indian compliance with the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organization, of which India is a founding member.
"Western companies need to factor this situation among the risks of doing business in India," Bagla emphasized. "Some of our clients are limiting their involvement in India due to this. Others are a taking a measured approach to what products and technologies they bring. Very few are walking away from India completely."
The reason: India has numerous advantages for globally focused biopharma companies that include growing local demand for drugs, a large technical talent pool, a large-enough pool of executive talent to build and run drug manufacturing plants, and a location suitable for manufacturing products for the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
Concerns over patent protection, however, have pushed investment in India behind the other three emerging BRIC nations (Brazil-Russia-India-China), Marcus Ehrhardt, Ph.D., a partner in the New York office of Booz & Co., told GEN.
Citing Nexavar, he said: "You have strong patent protection in every part of the world, and you invested a lot of money to develop this drug. And suddenly the Indian government allowed a local generics company to copy the product, and then they sold this cancer drug at one-thirtieth of the price. That basically kills your whole business case, and that's why India, so to speak, is less high on the radar to pharma companies."
"The present concern in India pushes more toward investments from a generics point of view than from your best innovations," Dr. Ehrhardt added.
Legal and Regulatory Moves
Last year, the Indian Supreme Court ordered a nationwide halt to clinical trials for 157 new chemical entities, citing the need for stricter ethical standards after seven girls died in a Phase IV trial of an HPV vaccine carried out on children unaware they were under study. The court also shifted responsibility for trials from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization headed by Dr. Singh, ordering India's Health Secretary personally responsible for new-drug clinical trials.
Late in 2013, India enacted the Drug Price Control Order, reducing the price wholesalers can charge retailers for some 350 medicines accounting for about 60% of the domestic drug market, squeezing profits from retailers. In retaliation against pharmas that complied with the law, retailers stopped selling drugs by those companies.
"In the major pockets of the country, our products are not being purchased by the trade from September 15, 2013," GSK's Indian prescription-drug subsidiary GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals told the Bombay Stock Exchange on October 7, explaining a 7% third-quarter dip in Indian sales.
Expansions, Closings, Partnerships
GSK is now seeking majority stakes in GSK Pharmaceuticals and a second publicly traded Indian subsidiary focused on consumer health products. The company is also building a Rs 864 crore (about $139 million) medicines manufacturing plant in India that will produce gastroenterology and anti-inflammatory medicines, as well as vitamins.
GSK said the plant will employ 250 people and produce 8 billion tablets and 1 billion capsules annually after it opens in 2017. Still unknown is where the plant will rise. A GSK spokesman, Kalpesh X. Joshi, told GEN last week the company had not decided definitively on a location, "but the lead site is in Bangalore."
"The investment is being made to increase the capacity of our manufacturing base and enable us to bring more medicines to the people of India," Joshi said. "India is our biggest volume business, and we need to be able to keep up with demand."
GSK is better able to adapt than most other pharmas given its long history in India, thanks to long-popular products such as health-food drink Horlicks. During that time, GSK has faced and surmounted past pricing reform efforts, with CEO Sir Andrew Witty urging more cooperation between Indian regulators and industry. "GSK takes a long-term view on the Indian market. We have been here for nearly 100 years and remain committed for the long-term," Joshi added.
AstraZeneca (AZ), on the other hand, is closing the Avishkar R&D site in Bangalore it has operated since 1984. A total 168 employees are based there, down from 180 a decade ago. AZ has blamed its ongoing companywide restructuring. It has narrowed its core therapeutic areas and will no longer carry out R&D on Avishkar's specialty of neglected tropical diseases.
With India's business climate getting chillier, big pharma will have to focus short-term on generics through partnerships offering Indian drug companies access to the United States and Europe. On February 13, Merck's joint-venture partner in India, Sun Pharma, won FDA approval for a generic Temozolomide, which generated about $400 million last year for Merck as Temodar®—down from $917 million in 2012 after losing patent protection in August.
Long-term, the partnerships hold hope of building support for new branded drugs within India by showing a benefit to Indian companies. Building such support will take longer than an FDA visit or a couple of quarters.
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What Would Socrates Do?Historians/History
tags: books, Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
In recent weeks, increased scrutiny of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man --men who, in most eyes, failed the ethical tests posed by the rise of the Nazis -- has raised questions about the connection between words and deeds, and about the moral responsibilities of thinkers and writers living under brutal regimes. For students of philosophy, these questions have a very long, indeed ancient, pedigree.
Publication in Germany of the first volume of Heidegger's private notebooks, now known to be tinged by anti-Semitism, has revived debate over the philosopher's leadership of the University of Freiburg in 1933, during a purge of non-Aryan faculty. In this country, meanwhile, Evelyn Barish's biography of literary theorist Paul de Man has shed new light on a man who often transformed himself, chameleon-like, to advance his career. As a newspaper editor in occupied Belgium in the early 1940's, de Man embraced a Nazi agenda, probably without any personal conviction, to rise more quickly through literary ranks.
How badly has collusion with Hitler – whether out of shared racist beliefs, as in Heidegger's case, or mere opportunism, as in de Man's -- tainted the writings of these men? Does the rise of autocracy, with its power to bend wills and cloud minds, excuse their bad choices? Within the Greco-Roman philosophic tradition, to which Heidegger and de Man claimed to be heirs, these issues are exemplified by a Roman portrait bust today displayed – appropriately, perhaps – in Berlin.
The bust shows two great thinkers in a Janus-faced arrangement, joined at the back of the head as though sharing a single mind. Looking one direction is Socrates, the great paradigm of lived philosophy, a man famous for never swerving from his moral code. Looking the opposite way is a less familiar visage, and a more complex man; an inscription identifies him as Seneca, the Roman ethical thinker of the mid-1st century A.D. The pairing invites viewers to contrast two very different sages, who differed most in their responses to political power.
Socrates famously refused to collude with despots, even when his life was at stake. The fascistic regime of the Thirty, who ruled Athens briefly in 403 B.C. -- a gang as ruthless as any Gestapo squad—put Socrates to the test by demanding that he help arrest one of their enemies. Socrates, according to Plato's Apology, dutifully went to the Thirty's headquarters, along with four other men, to receive his assignment. But then he went home and did nothing. The fall of the regime shortly after saved him from becoming one of its victims – though the democracy that replaced it was no kinder.
Half a millennium later, Seneca, an adherent of the Stoic school with its emphasis on reason and moral awareness, served as chief advisor and head speechwriter to Nero. In the course of a decade at court, he became ever more deeply enmeshed in the emperor's crimes and perversions. He wrote treatises extolling philosophic virtue even while helping to disguise those crimes. Critics called him a collaborationist, a charge he seemed to concede when, in moments of self-examination, he claimed that his soul was ill with an incurable disease.
Ironically, Seneca revered the courage Socrates had shown in defying potentates. He wrote pointedly of how Socrates declined to join the court of Archelaus, a king of Macedon, despite powerful inducements. Archelaus had usurped the throne in a bloody coup and was buying up Greek thinkers and writers at great expense – the playwright Euripides was one of his acquisitions – to bolster his legitimacy. But Socrates, Seneca explained, knew that the gifts bestowed by a despot can never be repaid. To accept them, inevitably, is to enter a voluntary servitude.
Seneca spoke of such servitude out of first-hand experience. Nero offered lavish handouts to his court circle of intellectuals, and Seneca himself amassed a fortune. Attacked by his his contemporaries, Seneca tried to give back all he had received, but Nero refused to take it: The Roman people, the emperor claimed, would think he had confiscated it. Seneca was doomed to prove his own point, that taking gifts from tyrants makes one a slave of power.
In one of his essays, Seneca sought to justify his wealth by imagining how Socrates might defend him. Yet he also rejected the idea that he should be measured by such a yardstick of moral perfection. "I am not a wise man, nor will I ever be," he wrote, employing a term of art (sapiens) by which the Stoics anointed their saints and exemplars. "Ask not that I be equal to the best, but better than the bad." The plea rings hollow, for it was the lives of "the best," enshrined in stories and anecdotes, by which philosophers, even Seneca himself, imparted their ethical lessons.
Seneca tried one last time to emulate Socrates, but once again fell short. As Nero's antipathy grew, Seneca collected a cup of hemlock, the numbing poison Socrates had cheerfully drunk at the order of the state, to use as his own means of suicide. When his death sentence at last arrived from the palace, Seneca found that his toxin had no effect. He was forced to end his life by other means. His great role model outshone him right up to the end.
The rise of the Nazis in Europe posed different problems than that of the Thirty at Athens or the Caesars in Rome. But the Janus-faced bust nonetheless offers lessons for modernity, lessons that Heidegger and de Man would have done well to heed. On one side stands Socrates, who taught that the unexamined life is not worth living. On the other stands Seneca, whose collusion with Nero supplied the corollary: Merely to examine life is not enough.
"I profit from a philosopher only insofar as he can be an example," wrote Nietzsche in 1874. Like Seneca under the Caesars, Heidegger and de Man under the Nazis went astray in their response to autocratic power, the very arena where the Socratic tradition demanded most from them. The books of such tainted sages will endure, as they should. But it is the man who wrote nothing, who taught through deeds rather than words, who continues to inspire.
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Defining Engagement in the Middle East
For much of last month, dramatic images out of Tehran displaced a brewing debate over "engaging Iran." Similar debates over engaging Hamas and Hezbollah fell by the wayside, too, and the debate over engaging Syria seemed to have been decided in the affirmative, with the announcement that the United States would return an ambassador to Damascus for the first time in more than four years.
Just as the isolation of adversaries lay at the heart of the Bush administration's strategy in the Middle East, properly calibrating engagement lies at the heart of the Obama administration's strategy. For advocates, engagement with real or potential adversaries is an elixir that softens hostility and builds common interests. For opponents, it is a sign of surrender to dark forces of violence and hatred. Yet, for all of the passion that the issue of engagement excites, no one seems to want to define it. Each side would rather talk about the effects of engagement than the nature of engagement itself.
Part of the problem is a matter of definition. Refusing to have any official contact with a group or country does not constitute engagement. But what then? Engagement must mean more than merely holding diplomatic discussions, but how much more? How should issues be sequenced? Should symbolic statements be demanded at the beginning as a sign of positive intentions, or held to the end as part of a final declaration? Even staunch advocates of engagement differ on these key issues.
History is replete with examples of both engagement and disengagement working well. Europeans often cite the role the Helsinki Process played in diminishing threats from the Soviet Union; similarly, South Africa's international isolation in the 1980s helped guide a transition to majority rule in the country. Disengagement followed by engagement can be effective too, as two decades of isolation of Libya, followed by a cautious engagement in this decade, have helped moderate Libyan behavior.
The scorecards, however, are not always so clear. Regarding one of the most ambitious goals of engagement-nurturing moderate voices and common interests that help transform target groups and countries-people still disagree on successes. Arguments persist whether engagement has truly transformed groups such as the Irish Republican Army and the Palestine Liberation Organization, and whether Pakistan's leadership is truly a partner battling terrorism. Even after decades, the fruits of engagement are often debated.
What is clear, however, is that engagement and disengagement both hold the seeds of their own failure. By engaging, countries may be throwing a lifeline to hostile groups or governments that are struggling for survival, allowing them to continue their hostilities. On the other hand, disengagement can engender further hostility as the costs of defiance wither in the absence of bilateral ties that targets seek to sustain.
In the Middle East, engagement is often taken to a fine art. Dialogues easily can be drawn out over years, and cross-border investment and coinvestment are common. Arabs start from the premise that they can only rarely change the chessboard, so they play the game before them with the most skill they can muster. Arab states often have a strong preference for engagement, especially with each other. Even when tensions are high, bilateral visits continue.
While Iran causes deep concern among most regional states, foreign ministers and heads of state continue to shuttle back and forth. The Arab states try to bring Iran closer rather than isolate it, persuaded that some level of Iranian threat is a likely constant in the region, regardless of who rules Tehran. They have inherited that threat from their ancestors and will bequeath it to their descendents. Yet, they argue, an Iran that has Arab interests to protect is less likely to make trouble than a country that feels desperate and cornered, and they continue to try to bring the Iranians in.
Underlying Arab tensions with Iran-and intra-Arab tensions as well-is an acceptance that some level of difficulty is inevitable, yet enemies are unlikely to merely fade away. It is as if they have learned the lessons of Fidel Castro's Cuba, which has endured more than four decades of U.S. isolation without surrender.
The notable exception to Arab engagement is Israel, which most Arab states continue to shun. Although leaders are far more fearful of Iranian intentions toward them than Israeli intentions, popular sentiment and an underlying sense of Israeli injustice continue to block more regular Arab contact.
Something else is at work too. There is a deep sense that engagement with Israel would be from a position of weakness rather than strength. Militarily, technologically and bureaucratically, Israel is stronger than its neighbors. While its GDP cannot match that of major oil exporters, its non-oil economy is the envy of the region. Arabs, who are experts at engagement, are happy to have things in play with a weaker power (and they consider Iran weaker than the GCC as a collectivity), but they fear a give and take with a stronger power.
There is a lesson here for U.S. policy, which often devotes tremendous energy to the question of whom to engage and far less energy to the question of how to engage. In a world with enduring problems, engagement frees up the United States to use a wide variety of tools against weaker powers. If anything, those tools have remained underdeveloped. With a principled focus on U.S. objectives and a realistic set of both near- and long-term goals, a more pro-engagement U.S. foreign policy can have a dramatically positive effect on U.S. interests around the world.


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Experts have revealed that comet PANSTARRS can be best viewed from March 12-18 when it appears low in the west after sunset. PANSTARRS will appear on Tuesday night nearly four degrees to the left of the thin crescent moon.
The comet will be in the brightness range of Spica, which will enable to see with naked eyes. Moreover, Experts have predicted that the comet can be as bright as a first-magnitude star.
However, binoculars will be required for clear view of the western horizon to locate the comet. Comets are best visible when they are closest to the sun.
Comet PANSTARRS can be viewed by the Outer Banks residents around sunset on Mar 21. Experts have said that PANSTARRS will be the brightest on March 10. Also, the comet will rise alongside with the new moon over the next few days and if the clouds stay away people can have a nice photography session.
Also, the second comet ISCO predicted by the experts to be bright enough to be visible broad daylight as it grazes the Sun at perihelion in November. However, they said predicting future comet is a little more than guessing work. There are concerns regarding Comet ISON's development as it grows closer to the sun.
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* Bank sees inflation at 5.7 pct in 2013, 5.3 pct in 2014
* Sees 25 pct chance of inflation piercing target ceiling
* Sees economy rebounding to expand 3.1 percent in 2013
By Alonso Soto and Asher Levine
BRASILIA, March 28 (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank said on Thursday it expects inflation to remain relatively high in the next two years, raising its forecasts closer to the ceiling of the official target range, but it stopped short of signaling an imminent rate increase.
The bank's quarterly inflation report confirmed market expectations that inflation is quickening despite slower growth in Latin America's largest economy, a political liability for President Dilma Rousseff who must campaign for re-election next year.
Inflation hovering well above the center of the official annual target range of 4.5 percent, plus or minus two percentage points, has raises pressure on Brazilian policymakers to curb price pressures soon.
In recent months, the central bank has flagged it is ready to raise borrowing costs to control prices after an easing cycle that slashed 525 basis points off its benchmark Selic rate in little over a year. However, the market remains confused on when the bank will hike rates.
The bank reiterated in the report that its next monetary policy decision on April 10 would hinge on upcoming economic data, leaving the door open for a rate hike.
Central bank director Carlos Hamilton Araujo reaffirmed the bank's intentions to hike rates by paraphrasing a famous quote by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill regarding democracy as the least-worst form of government.
"Interest rates is the worst form of remedy to fight inflation except all the others," Hamilton told reporters in a briefing about the report. But he said it was up to the bank's eight-member monetary policy committee to decide whether and when to hike rates.
Inflation in 2013 could climb to 5.7 percent, the bank said, up from a previous estimate of 4.8 percent. It also increased its inflation view for 2014, to 5.3 percent from 4.9 percent.
The central bank said there was a 25 percent possibility that inflation will pierce the target ceiling of 6.5 percent this year, up from a 12 percent chance seen in its last report.
The bank was more optimistic about the economy, forecasting growth of 3.1 percent this year. That level of growth would be above the meager 0.9 percent expansion Brazil posted in 2012 but below the 4 percent projected by the finance ministry.
The market is ruling out a rate hike in the first half of the year after Rousseff said on Wednesday that her government did not support policies that tame inflation by lowering economic growth.
The quick market reaction prompted Rousseff to say her comments were "manipulated," and she called on central bank chief Alexandre Tombini to clarify to the media that inflation control remains a top government priority.
Yields on Brazil's interest rate futures contracts fell again on Thursday after the inflation report.
Many investors believe Rousseff's government is pressuring the bank to keep rates at their current record low of 7.25 percent to help support a sluggish economic recovery. To help tame inflation, the government has slashed taxes on food staples, lowered electricity rates and even asked local authorities to delay raising bus fares.
Some analysts said Rousseff's efforts to keep prices down could delay a rate hike despite the higher inflation forecast.
"The (bank's) report reinforced the idea that there is still uncertainty on whether worsening inflation is temporary or permanent," said Flavio Serrano, senior economist with Espirito Santo Investment Bank in Sao Paulo. "Inflation is troubling, we know something needs to be done about it, but how the central bank will act is still unclear."
In the 12 months to mid-March, inflation accelerated to 6.43 percent from 6.18 percent in the year ended one month before.
Tombini has said repeatedly that policymakers are uncomfortable with current levels of inflation, yet a growing chorus of analysts have said the central bank is tolerant of annual inflation at around 5.5 percent.
Tombini's tougher message has not done much to lower the market's inflation expectations by much for this year and next.
Inflation expectations tend to push up real prices as companies raise the value of their products and families stock up on goods to avoid possible price hikes.
Authorities have said easing pressure on commodity prices, lower electricity rates and cheaper food staples will help slow inflation in the second half of the year.


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Upstream activities are involve finding the new field, drilling the hydrocarbons from reservoirs, processing these hydrocarbons into gas, condensate, and oil. These produced gas, condensate and oil are become refinery raw materials for transforming to final output , such as LPG and diesel, or raw materials for plastic industry. The mid-stream phase is a transition from upstream to downstream. The downstream activities are involve refining the produced gas, condensate, and oil from upstream activities. The life cycle of upstream activities is Exploration, Appraisal, Development, Production, and Abandonment phases (refers to above diagram 1).
The next phase is appraisal phase of drilling once exploration drilling has encountered the presence of oil or gas. The main appraisal tools are drilling wells, shooting 2D/3D seismic surveys, and re-processing of old seismic data. During this process, delineation wells are drilled to defined the extent of reserves and may take several years to complete it. Appraisal phase is vital to determine either being proceeded with development phase or being carried out more detail appraisal program that will delay the first oil and hence improving the overall profitability. Sometimes, abandont of field is being considered if no economically recoverable reserves are foreseen or having negative cash flow. The appraisal phase is normally involves feasibility study and field development study.
After being confirmed the field has potentialy positive cash flow through exploration and appraisal phase, the development phase will start to implement. The development planning is involves estimation of recovery factor, prodution profile, field decline rate, etc. Detail design of facilities, procurement of the material of construction, fabrication of the facilities, and commissioning of all plant and equipment are implemented in this stage.


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"American Beauty" star Mena Suvari is set to wed for a second time after accepting music producer Simone Sestito's proposal during a recent Jamaican getaway.
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Supreme Court ruling holds government accountable for death of inmates
The Supreme Court (STF) ruled Wednesday (Mar. 30) that the State may be held accountable for the death of inmates for not offering adequate prison conditions. According to the thesis presented, it will now be the duty of the federal and state governments to prove they are not responsible for the casualties.
The decision was made during deliberations over an appeal filed in a Rio Grande do Sul state court, which questioned a local judicial ruling which stipulated the payment of compensation to family members of a prisoner who committed suicide. The court subscribed to Justice Luiz Fux's vote unanimously, which was in favor of the protection of the detainees.
To Fux's judgment, it is the job of the government to ensure the physical integrity of those under its custody. "A democracy under the rule of law, where everyone is equal, must not tolerate that some individuals may be deprived of their fundamental rights, even if they have harmed society's most precious legal interests," he argued.
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Malabo - African nations will not execute an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, an African Union summit decided on Friday.The summit in Equatorial Guinea said the warrant issued on Monday hampered efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict between Gaddafi's forces and Libyan rebels.An assembly of the summit decided that "AU member states shall not co-operate in the execution of the arrest warrant", according to a text of the decisions.The warrant "seriously complicates the efforts aimed at finding a negotiated political settlement to the crisis in Libya, which will also address, in a mutually reinforcing way, issues related to impunity and reconciliation," it said.The 53-nation African Union took a similar stance against an ICC warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in 2009 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.On Monday the ICC issued warrants for Gaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam, and the head of Libyan intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, for atrocities committed in a bloody uprising that began mid-February.Friday's African Union statement called on the UN Security Council to intervene to stop legal action against Libya "in the interests of justice and peace in this country".ICC trying Africans onlyAnd it absolved Chad, Kenya and Djibouti of any wrongdoing for having received Bashir since the warrant against him was issued, saying they were "acting in pursuit of peace and stability in their respective regions".The Union was not against the ICC but the way it appeared to be targeting the continent, African Union Commission chairperson Jean Ping told reporters."We support the fight against impunity, we do not support impunity, we are not even against the Criminal Court," he said.However, "we are against the way justice is being rendered because ... it looks as if this ICC is only interested in trying the Africans", he said, referring to decisions by ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo."Does this mean that in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Gaza, in Chechnya, there is nothing happening there?"It is not only in Africa that there are problems. So why no one else except the Africans are being tried and judged by this court?"Of ICC prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo, he said: "We say to him, read the law, don't do politics. As one president said: 'Ocampo, it's a joke'."
Saudi Arabia, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Gaza, Chechnya,Syria, North Korea..to name a few human rights violators....I dont see the ICC whipping out arrest warrants for Israel. who the UN said we practising apartheid against Palestinians.
Good on you AU. Let NATO waste their money and bombs
Africa is a big place and not all countries deserve to be bracketed with the likes of Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Pakistan etc.
@ Marco Who missed the point? Do you really think so? Why all the fuss about the point? It seems silly to repeat the same thing all the time.
You made your point and I respect that. It's always good to have different and challenging points of view. But, oh, why do you feel the need to repeat yourself? Over and over.... and over!
You missed the point mate!Read what the AU says to the ICC on "Pakistan,Afghanistan,Gaza and Chechnya," before you and so many other twisted,onesided freaks squirts out rectal abuse at the African Continent,its leaders/governments and what have you.At least with this business of the ICC and its laughable pursuit of Gaddafi which in turn makes a mockery of the whole ICC organization and discredits itself and questions its pursuit of selective justice toward African people on the continent,one gets a rare glimpse of what it must have been like in the the 1800's during Colonization by European powers struggling for control of Africa.We still see their K@K attitude towards Africa showing it's ugly face today in modern times now playing itself out in black silk gowns,court coats,bar jackets,wing collar and bands.
Last place they should have had the summit is Equatorial Guinea they are in the pay of the Americans Stuff human rights. Check out worlds worst (or best dictators). guess whose near no 1
Africa is like an alcoholic who refuses to admit it has a problem.
What is the first thing an alcoholic does when told it has a problem..? It immediately points at others and say: 'look, they are much worse, but nothing is said/done about them'.
Its called DENIAL and is the product of ENTITLEMENT.
Entitlement is in turn the product of the West's benevolence. An 'entitlement' that makes blacks think they have 'rights' just because they are black. Eg the 'West' (or lately the 'East') MUST just give them stuff because they are black... Like a child who insists on a new toy every day, but it can never explain to the adult, why it needs it...
Similar to feeding the animals in the game reserve - the moment you do it, you have created a monster you can only stop upon extermination.
Africa is simply the product of the West's hand-outs. If it was not for the West's philanthropy, Africa would have self-destruct half a century ago (probably more).
People are 100% correct when saying the West created Africa's problems. The West should have left the Africa to destroy itself and the world would have had a fraction of the problems it faces today.
The real issues here:
1. The West created Gaddafi, so let us simply stand aside and allow the West to 'resolve' the monster it created.
2. The West created Mugabe, where is the ICC warrant for his arrest..?
3. The West created post-Apartheid SA – where is the West now that SA is in free fall towards a failed state..?
@ Spyker May: And is the Alki wrong to point out the other wrongs in the world, even if it is only to justify itself? It does not make the other wrongs less wrong just because it was pointed out by the drunk dude.
And neither does it mean that the people drinking the nice beverages in a clean, orginized enviroment is not as perverted as the drunk.
@Spyker May -South Africa was a failed state under Apartheid mate.Not so anymore since 1994.Granted South Africa is not an established democracy,but rather a developing one.The world has come a long way in proliferating democratic institutions and democratic rule.After WW2 in 1946 only 31 democracies existed worldwide and 54% of all independent countries lived under dictatorships.In 2011 it was a whole lot different with 167 countries democratic and that number still growing.True South Africa has had and probably still have measured levels of volatility,frequent amendment laws(electoral and otherwise),growing concerns of corruption and arrogance.Not the best and not pretty at times,as democracy often is,but we have encouraging signs going forward in the country's development.At least some people in SA are seeing pluralism and dissent being encouraged perpetually towards the one-party state rule of the ANC.One day soon maybe South Africa's democracy will become fully teleological in purpose,in directive and permanence.
@Michaelx - while they are about it the west should also stop all their other raping and pillaging activity in Africa. The West should stop having corrupt african leaders on their payrolls and stop thieving off african resources and people. Report in M&G shows a typical example of the West grabbing land to grow sugar cane for Bio fuel. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/02/biofuels-land-grab-kenya-delta
Why the world bothers with Africa beats me. I feel so sorry for the innocent victims in Africa but the leaders of African countries are so corrupt and support each other in that corruption that it makes outside help almost impossible.
Perhaps Africa should be left to self-destruct, if only it wasn't for the millions of innocent victims..............
I agree Ralph. The UN and their partners are wasting their time and they are pouring their money into a black hole. If they are unwilling to cooperate with the UN and related institutions then I say stuff that, then they don't receive any of the benefits either
It is because the west support these corrupt african "leaders". The african leaders are the puppets for the west doing its(the west's) bidding. With out these corrupt african leaders the west cannot get its filthy hands on african resources, land and cheap labour.
good on the AU.
The west thinks that africa is blind to the pursuit of it's resources.
Nato hasnt helped any other african countries that had conflict and genocide, just cause libya has oil wealth the USA will be the first to launch missiles and start a war.
Ur right, but Africa better catch a wake up and fast. The world is eyeing Africa's resources so Africa better stop its nonsense and start playing the game...otherwise years from now Europe, USA and China are just gonna recolonize & take it and theres nothing any African country will be able to do about it. eg. Iran but easier.
Those with wealth and strength are protected by it(wealth), those with wealth but without strength should fear it(wealth). - Emperor Constantine
Scene in Zimbabwe:
"My husband, why are you digging a hole?"
"I'm looking for oil."
"Why don't you rather dig for clean water – its more important than oil?"
"Why? Because if I find oil the West will help us get rid of Mugabe."
You are right and wrong. The West is indeed hypocritical, this is true - but that does not excuse Ghadafi or Al Bashir or any number of corrupt and murderous African leaders who are protected by the AU. Two wrongs do not make a right and the AU remains a dictators club to it's core.
The world needs Africa to make the most of its resources, failing that the West should seize control to ensure the West can provide a standard of living and quality of life to its own citizens. We can't accommodate Africa's corruption and inefficiencies anymore. Stop financial aid, stop food aid and kill self-enriching dictators who seize wealth only for themselves. Africa won't miss the seized resources, it is not like in thousands of years it has ever benefited or been developed by them, they must have seen it before and chosen not to use it. If it is oil, green grass or rich soil - it went undeveloped till this day unless Western companies or individuals developed it. What about the Africans you may ask, who cares? They are of no benefit to the world, just an unstoppable growing mouth to feed. They've shown that despite famine or war their population numbers can double in a generation (Ethiopia) so we don't need to worry about them, they will cope somehow even without food.
@doublySalmon - Maybe the West can start with siezing your house and land.
Viva Afrika!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Viva Backwardness!!!!! Viva Human Rights Abuse!!!! Viva!!!
It is nogal ironic when our government claims a great democracy and human rights regime but support killers like Mugabe and Quadaffi. Thus it is difficult to separate these bedfellows.
@Zion and Wow You missed the point mate!Read what the AU says to the ICC on "Pakistan,Afghanistan,Gaza and Chechnya," before you two and so many other twisted,onesided freaks squirts out rectal abuse at the African Continent,its leaders/governments and what have you.At least with this business of the ICC and its laughable pursuit of Gaddafi which in turn makes a mockery of the whole ICC organization and discredits itself and questions its pursuit of selective justice toward African people on the continent,one gets a rare glimpse of what it must have been like in the the 1800's during Colonization by European powers struggling for control of Africa.We still see their K@K attitude towards Africa showing it's ugly face today in modern times now playing itself out in black silk gowns,court coats,bar jackets,wing collar and bands.
Viva savages!!!!!!!
Eish man, did your mother drop you on hed as a baby "tokolosxi"?
@Charles Kane dont think it matters which end landed first.
Marco, I find your crude diatribe rather indicative of your mentality but I will not dwell on that. However, you too are well off the mark. You may have not noticed my target was criminality and the aiding and abetting thereof. That is , without doubt, prevalent and a sickness in Africa. And of course: The hypocrisy found in OUR GOVERNMENT. I suggest you take a look at the thumbs down for your diatribe.
"Viva Backwardness!!!!! Viva Human Rights Abuse!!!! Viva!!! "
@wow! - Yes thanks to the West for instilling and supporting corrupt african "leaders" to do their bidding.
So, acheving a political acommodation is more important than someone being Brought to justice over the killing of thousands of innocent civilians who just wanted to take charge of their own futures for once. Nice.
and BTW, the last comment was made out of Dark Sarcasm.
@Martin it's the African way. Here we protect criminals in the street and especially pricks in government.
The fact that they are signaturies to the ICC, and are therfore bound to support its decisions, will fly right over the head of these goons. It proves that when a still signs an agreement, it is not worth the paper it is written on.
Piet Retief could confirm that...
Once it is understood that the only good goon is a dead goon africa will move forward.
Wots a still?
@ tryanything: Once you find out I hope you'll try it! Lol.
Of course they won't, they are all birds of the same feather. The AU is virtually a mob of dictators.
And Africa wonders why an African isn't made the head of the IMF. They deliberately oppose the arrest of one of the world's most evil men, and then have the arrogance to insist that they should be in charge of millions of Europeans and American's hard earned money.
@LuCypher Who are you, really ? Barry Hilton ? Your post is the funniest I have read in quite a while ! Keep it up !
Do do know that the USA is not associated with the ICC in any way as well as owing trillions. But don't let a few inconvienient facts cloud your bigotry.
The AU couldn't even wipe their own asses,never mind execute an ICC warrant.They are just a bunch od useless despotic old fools.
And now you want to know why SA (Africa) did not get the IMF presedent appointment.
Yes well they blew it at Interpol.We are no longer the flavor of the month anymore....
Africa are proud of their despots.
Its easy to blow up a plane full of innocent people. Not so nice if you get your ass kicked and arrested. Lock him up and through away the key, there is nothing his corrupt buddies in Africa can do about it.
I hope Nato bombs the crap out of him.DO NOT TAKE PRISONERS!!!!!!!If Malemmer can take farms for free,than Nato can take Kakdaffie`s oil.
Find him, arrest him, put him in front of a court for 10 to 15 years blah blah blah... Just find the tyrant and blow his head off... An African solution to an African problem...
AU idiots. Their opinion counts for nothing, stupid, backward clowns.
There is so much truth in the expressions: Typical African, (We will) follow the rest of Africa, Africa the dark continent, and a host of others.This article indicates simply that politics and justice for the murder of mllions are not an issue. Rather, the defence and protection of criminals of the highest order. It is more accurate to categorically state that "Africa has the greatest amount of ethnic killers and murderers in their chosen governments then anywhere else in the world". Chosen in the sense of coups and other undemocratic processes. "Africa will never change"
MARCO. You and your childish repetitive behaviour has really made my day.
You remind me of a patient suffering from OCD.
nice stance finally Africans are working together...stop the bombing and leave Libya's oil to its people
Kill all the bastards!!!!!!!!!!
Sisi you are stupid. The people of libya want this murderous dictator gone.
viva afreekuk
No surprise here. Africa always back the killers.
Then it's time for the seals to do the job for them!!!!
its a wonder why some white commentators on these forums cannot see beyond the colour barrier...its your white brothers who have for years installed these dictators all over the world,and kept them there with money and perks across the world...now that they are of no use,they issue arrest warrants...the first arrest warrants should be issued for the biggest mass murderers of all time ie. BUSH,BLAIR,SHARON,NETANYAHU,PEARL,RUMSFELD,WOLFOWITZ and those that control the WORLD BANK and IMF...these are the ones that have the blood of millions on their hands...in reality they make HITLER look like a breeze on a chiily day...
,,its a wonder why some commentators on these forums cannot see beyond the colour barrier,,
Don't confuse this Libya issue with ,race,
One either supports a dictator
you support the people who want to choose their destiny and their own leaders.
And that has NOTHING to do with race.
The most important cases at the ICC at present, are NOT African cases but European cases.
(The thugs from the Srebrenica massacre.)
And sure, some of the names you mentioned ,should also be brought in front of this Court.
Plus a whole lot more.
But that does not mean that in the meantime, we should protect Dictators and Tyrants.
And sorry, but for you to bring Hitler into this, shows a serious lack of history knowledge, and a lack of knowledge of international politics.
You speak the truth Sir - but only those who are truly interested in what is happening in the world today will know whereof you speak. The remainder will call you foolish and choose to remain ignorant. They think that a reaction to the latest quote from Julius Malema is called for or that the latest rugby score is important and will continue to wallow in their self-imposed blindness.
Let them be.
Interesting commentary ... you 'white' this, you 'white' that who can't see past the colour barrier. Better yet ... 'your white brothers' as if every caucasian on the planet is intrinsically linked and shares a common goal to enforce their dominion over the world. Get over yourself you racist, you're the one who can't see past colour... which is usually the case every time a member of the ANC or ANCYL opens their mouth. No one spoke about race, but rather the fact that the AU is a bunch of clowns who will do anything to oppose the rest, even if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
You are right but so what?? Ghadafi is a killer who's own people want him out.
So who put the cannibals Amin and Bakossa, along with the driveling incompetents Machel, Nkrumah, Neto and the rest of them into power?
You have forgotten Idi Amin and Robert,sorry Doctor Robert Mugabe these two together far surpass Hitler. Maybe you have,too, forgotten about the thousands that were murdered in Africa during the 1960's. Crime, despotism tyranny and graft are a natural property of Africa.
Well, that was again a great meeting.........!!
That the AU, was going to come to this agreement, was off course predictable.
If you have Gaddafi arrested, who of these leaders, would be next ?????
But surely, they could have agreed to this, on the phone,
For this one does not have to built a 5.8 Billion Rand resort!!!!!!!!
The ICC is the stooge of western imperialism - especially the amerikan thirst to dominate all natural resources. Step back everyone and actauly look at what is happening - not what a controlled media tell us is happening.
For example, read this carefully - if you dare:
@ Marco Who missed the point? Do you really think so? Why all the fuss about the point? It seems silly to repeat the same thing all the time.
@marco what has the AU done "to promote democratic institutions, good governance and human rights." in Libya as set out in their own charter??? Ghadafi is not a new problem and yet they have done nothing about him in all these years... AU = absolutely useless...
@nutsymoore you asked me what has the AU done "to promote democratic institutions,good governance and human rights" as set out in their own charter??? Well well you ****ing need to get out of the house more mate.I'll give you some examples of what AU did in answering your pathetic question:(1)Togo...In response to the death of Gnassingbé Eyadéma,President of Togo,on 5 February 2005,AU leaders described the naming of his son Faure Gnassingbé the successor as a military coup.And that being so because Togo's constitution calls for the speaker of parliament to succeed the president in the event of his death.By Togo law,the parliament speaker must call national elections to choose a new president within 60 days.The AU's PROTEST forced Gnassingbé to hold elections.Under heavy allegations of election fraud,he was officially elected President on 4 May 2005.Had the AU said and done nothing who know's what might have transpired in TOGO.So an election none the less albeit littered with fraud.An example of "promote democratic institutions" by the AU to quote you I'd say wouldn't you?Next Mauritania...On 3 August 2005,a coup in Mauritania led the AU to suspend the country from all organisational activities.The Military Council that took control of Mauritania promised to hold elections within 2 years.These were held in early 2007,the first time that the country had held elections that were generally agreed to be of an acceptable standard.Following the elections,Mauritania's
membership of the AU was restored.However,on 6 August 2008,a fresh coup overthrew the government elected in 2007.The AU once again suspended Mauritania from the continental body.This time nutsymoore I'd say "promote democratic institutions, good governance" by the AU wouldn't you?What are the AU doing that's worth mentioning?Ah what about Regional conflicts and military interventions:Article 4(h) of the Constitutive Act,repeated in article 4 of the Protocol to the Constitutive Act on the PSC(the Peace and Security Council),recognises the right of the Union to intervene in member states in circumstances of war crimes,genocide and crimes against humanity.How have the AU done that exactly?Here we go:Somalia has no functioning central government as we all know.Starting in March 2007,AU soldiers began arriving in Mogadishu as part of a peacekeeping force that would eventually be 8,000 strong.What about Eritrea?Eritrea recalled its ambassadors to the African Union on 20 November 2009 after the African Union called on the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on them due to their alleged support of Somali Islamists attempting to topple the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia,the internationally recognized government of Somalia which holds Somalia's seat on the African Union.On 22 December 2009,the Security Council passed UNSCR 1907,which imposed an arms embargo on Eritrea, travel bans on Eritrean leaders,and asset freezes on Eritrean officials.Thanks AU for
applying pressure on the UN in getting that Security Council resolution UNSCR 1907 passed.So nutsymoore next time take a good look at what the AU is doing on the continent to promote peace,security,and stability before blasting them as "they have done nothing" type of stereotypes ok mate,cheers.
@ marco - try using your space bar after , and . - u Muppet.
Make it 1 Billion Dollars dead or alive!
Then you'll see how quickly these africans will turn on each other!
Nato and the rest of the First World are not that worried about what Africa have decided about Libia. In fact, it will not play any role in what Nato is going to do.
And so NATO it seems is infallible.They can't put a foot wrong right?Is that why NATO killed nine Libyan civilians including a child in Tripoli last week and blamed the K@K stray air strike on a "weapons system failure".My a**se!UN Resolution 1973 says protect civilians in Libya,not ****ing kill them dumb ass****s!AU this or AU that and yet it seems superfluous and excessive NATO have lost its raison d'être in Libya?
African leaders and A.U are useless and toothless bulldog in the world. It is all about them not the people.
And so NATO it seems is infallible.They can't put a foot wrong right?Is that why NATO killed nine Libyan civilians including a child in Tripoli last week and blamed the K@K stray air strike on a "weapons system failure".My a**se!UN Resolution 1973 says protect civilians in Libya,not ****ing kill them dumb ass****s!AU this or AU that and yet it seems superfluous and excessive NATO have lost its raison d'être in Libya?
@ marco,its about power and NATO is exercising it on other people not their own people. But African Leaders and AU are exercising it on their own people abusively. There are many dictators in Africa!!!!!!
and this is the whole reason why africa will always be a third class continent, coming from an african.
@michaelx.......Africans dont need aid from the west....Africa is in chaos because of the west interest in exploiting Africa...aid from the the west is just to blind us in thinking they are helping but instead they are stealing all the wealth. causing all the wars in Africa and destroying what is left in Africa....Jean Ping is Right the ICC should concentrate in the law and not in Politics as the ICC is being used by the west to bring down African Leaders who goes agains Western policies
Actually the people of Africa are dependent on the whole of the rest of the world.
That is how it will stay.
If you wish to drive a Merc or use a cell phone you had better behave suitably and give the rest or the world something in return. Or make the things yourself.
You are so right. Africa is in the mess it is in because of the exploits of the West.
Dictatorship is not the way to go.
Anyway, Hillary Clinton has again made it clear today what the outcome will be.
Fate has been determined.
Some decency to the credit of humankind.
Goodbye, Gaddafi and Friends.
Well, of course they won't! In fact they never will - it is part of Africa's tradition and heritage
Reading this, as an African, I can but hang my head in shame.
Thta's because Boss Gaddafi gives them lots of bonsela
It's time the west stopped giving so much aid to these terrorist orgasnisations.
You are so full of crap! What has the West given Africa? They ran the continent for over a hundred years and in all that time failed to give to the Africans the human rights and democracy they now want to bomb into them. Actually it is the "terrorist organisations" that brought to Africa the ideas that people could actually vote for their leaders, that all people are equal before the law, that you cannot disposes people of their property without compensation e.t.c.
The west gave Africa the Boers and two hundred slavery, genocide (the San)and apartheid. I wish the West had stopped giving to Africa two hundred years ago