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Indo-Fusion Guitarist Rahul Mukerji's Debut Album "Ma De Re Sha" Receives Rave Reviews!
One of the most impressive albums of this year by Indo-Fusion guitarist Rahul Mukerji has been garnering enthusiastic reviews from the music press and fans alike worldwide! "Ma De Re Sha" was released in May 2017 and the response has been no less than astounding!
Says Rahul, "It has been an exhilarating experience seeing the positive reviews flood in and to see the album featured in prominent magazines and music outlets. I'm very grateful to the fans and people who helped make this album the success it has become."
Rahul is a guitarist/musician based in Maryland, USA. Born in India, he has been performing live for over fifteen years. From dive bars and weddings, to crowds of thousands opening for the B-52s, he has had a varied performing career that has included gigs in Chicago, Boston, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., and India.
Rahul has been featured on a wide array of recordings. His original pieces were featured in the short indie film "Tokyo Confidential." His music was also featured on international and national radio stations and his compositions have been featured in various fractal and traditional animations videos and used in the official score for the Fractal Forums web episodes.
Rahul was featured in various publications like Songlines magazine, Pipeline magazine, and in 2008 Guitar Player Magazine Editors' Picks. He is also a guest Guitar Instructor on the Shred Academy website. In addition to music, Rahul is also an accomplished visual artist and regularly exhibits his work in the Washington metropolitan area. From the traditional to the digital domain, Rahul utilizes a wide array of mediums such as wood engraving, spray painting, pencil sketching, and computer fractal renderings.
From the source inspiration, to the concept, writing, arrangement, and its actual making, this project is truly a reflection of unity in diversity. This world fusion rock guitar album brings together flavors of Indian music, Middle Eastern percussion, jazz, ambient, rock, and metal. The compositions and the arrangements were inspired by interactions with people from different cultural backgrounds and walks of life, all filtered through the prism of Rahul's own multicultural upbringing between East and West. The actual making of the music involved coordination with musicians and mixing/mastering engineers living in the US, Germany, Spain, and France.
Here's what the press have been saying about Rahul Mukerji:
"His expressive guitar playing through 'Ma De Re Sha' demonstrates a dizzying range of technique and tone, while the compositions make a highly electrified fusion mix that borrows from Joe Satriani as much as John McLaughlin. These dynamic instrumental pieces stay most firmly rooted in rock mode, though it's an adeptly malleable one that always has room for exotic motifs. Mukerji's fretwork in any mode is fluid and buoyant enough to make his excitement contagious, and the result is an album happy to weave and blend all those elements until it's easy to forget they're so different at all." – All About Jazz
"Indian born / Maryland-based guitarist Rahul Mukerji is making waves with his 2017 CD called 'Ma De Re Sha.' Rahul's music is very cinematic and his fleet fingered guitar work sounds influenced by masters such as Jeff Beck, Jan Akkerman and Al DiMeola." – Pipeline Magazine
"Ambitious, varied and at times full of energy, 'Ma De Re Sha' has the feel of Indian cinematic music more so than Indian classical music. And it is really good…the breadth of his interests and potential that makes this an exciting debut." – Amardeep Dhillon, Songlines Magazine
"This cat can play. Many influences can be heard, but I want to give Mukerji more credit than that. He takes those influences, and in some cases, is an improvement over them. I highly recommend 'Ma De Re Sha' be listened to immediately and often thereafter." – Walter Kolosky, Author and host of the Jazz Rocks Podcast
"…Perhaps the best parts of Mukerji's playing are the emotional buoyancy and lightness of being that run through his writing and playing, even the heaviest parts. His melodies and grooves flow through the ears and leave behind a sense of bold and positive creativity. This makes him an emerging artist to contend with, one who should do well even beyond the guitar community. Buy this record tonight!" – Mike O'Cull, IndieBandGuru
"…a vertiginous mix of tasty colors. 'Ma De Re Sha' is a rapture throughout announcing the advent of a new force on the fusion scene." – Dmitry M. Epstein, Let It Rock
"… twelve succinct tunes that showcase his compositions and chops, brilliant melodies and inventive arrangements, one foot in his Indian culture and the other foot firmly in American instrumental rock, drawing influences from both and freely superimposing them on each other…There's a lot of variety among these dozen cuts to absorb, all performed with impeccable power and precision." – Peter Thelen, Exposé Online
"Mukerji combines powerful rock guitar hero licks with jazz-rock fusion, Middle Eastern beats and Indian music influences. He also uses a note bending technique that gives it a South Asian flavor and sets him apart from western guitar players." – Progressive Rock Central
"Mukerji is an amazing guitarist and instrumentalist who is drawing comparisons to players as diverse and acclaimed as Joe Satriani, John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola and Steve Vai on his 13-track debut 'Ma De Re Sha.'" – Sights and Sounds of Note
"…an effective set with some impressive guitar playing" – Gary Hill, Music Street Journal
"…a fusion album of the highest quality of musical excellence." – Exclusive Magazine
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Indo-Fusion Guitarist Rahul Mukerji To Release Debut Album "Ma De Re Sha"
Baltimore, MD – Indo-Fusion guitarist Rahul Mukerji will be releasing his eagerly awaited debut album "Ma De Re Sha" on May 29, 2017!
Rahul has been featured on a wide array of recordings. His original pieces were featured in the short indie film "Tokyo Confidential". His music was also featured on DC local tri-state radio and his compositions have been featured in various fractal and traditional animations videos and used in the official score for the Fractal Forums web episodes.
Rahul was featured in the Guitar Player Magazine Editors' Picks in 2008. He is also a guest Guitar Instructor on the Shred Academy website. In addition to music, Rahul is also an accomplished visual artist and regularly exhibits his work in the Washington metropolitan area. From the traditional to the digital domain, Rahul utilizes a wide array of mediums such as wood engraving, spray painting, pencil sketching, and computer fractal renderings.
"Rahul employs a shimmering acoustic and a bell-like clean tone to craft a light and airy piece that sits ever so nicely in the 'feel good' pocket. There are no guitar histrionics or crafty arrangements, here – just breezy melodies kissed by empathetic tones. Its a very pleasurable seduction." – Michael Molenda, Editor, Guitar Player Magazine
Says Rahul, "The name for the album, as well as the title song, is derived from a word that a friend's daughter used to exclaim at every occasion she could find. No one quite knows what it means, but she made it up herself and she just loved clamoring it with conviction and glee. This project is similar, as it's a deeply personal statement, and the continuing journey to bring it to fruition has been a labor of love. The title song is dedicated to this little girl and the album name is a tribute to the spirit that the word represents."
The guitars range from crisp acoustic tones and ethereal tapping soundscapes, to Indian Carnatic music inflected leads, heavy riffs, jazz chord progressions and blazing legato runs. Indian tablas and Middle Eastern percussion augment the rhythm section where Ruben Rubio's superb bass lines go from anchoring the grooves to adding delightful counterpoints. The album's wide stylistic palette is a reflection of the Rahul's multicultural background and influences coming together as something new and distinctly unique.
Says Rahul, "Over the years, I have accumulated a large collection of songs and have posted them on different platforms (Myspace, Reverbnation, Soundcloud, etc.). There were also compositions that my band Iritis could not use because of the variance in style. I had always wanted to release a solo album from all this material, and in 2011, I had the opportunity to start working on this project. My former Iritis bandmate and drummer, Bruce Ng, who is currently in Germany, was enthusiastic about being a part of this undertaking. He became an integral and inseparable part of the journey as the co-producer of the album. In addition to programming drums he also reviewed all aspects of the project: from individual tracks, to the artwork, and any written materials. I can't imagine this album without his help and am extremely grateful for all he has done and continues to do.
"From a writing perspective, the idea initially was to pick the 'best of the litter' from my old catalog and rework and release them as a homemade album for free. But as I started working on the pieces, I found myself composing new stronger material compared to my early work. I've always enjoyed the sound of tablas in heavy music and I decided to tailor the songs to that theme. Most of the songs were inspired by people from different backgrounds and walks of life, and my interaction with them. I tried to channel the essence of these interactions and the corresponding emotions into my music"
Rahul Mukerji: Producer, songwriting, arrangements, guitars, guitar synth, e-bow, sampling, tabla and drum programming
Bruce Ng: Co-producer, arrangements, additional drum and percussion programming on all tracks
Ruben Rubio: All basses – http://www.rubenrubiobass.com
In closing Rahul has this to impart, "The album was born of multiculturalism and created with help from musicians and engineers in four different countries, over more than 5 years, through thousands of emails. We were all already friends or recommended by friends. It proved to me the importance of forging and nurturing bonds despite any geographic and cultural distances. While making this album, we may not have always been able to completely break through the language barrier, yet ultimately we were able to work through it all, and in music we found our common language. It was unity from diversity."
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/RahulMukerji (coming May 29th)
http://www.mukerji.us


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In his early twenties Ian Rogers, chief experience officer at cryptocurrency company Ledger, got a tattoo on his forearms. The tattoo stretches across his right hand and onto his fingers.
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Francesca Gino relates the story of an experiment she conducted at Harvard Business School. She taught one class wearing a dark suit and regular smart shoes. For another class she wore a pair of red Converse sneakers with the same suit. After the classes, she reflected on what she found. There was a big difference between the two classes that day. In the red-sneakers class the students were more attentive and thoughtful, and they laughed more.
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Bringing your inner rebel to work can be empowering, unlocking confidence and creativity. I sense that first hand. It's why I like wearing my green boots on stage or when leading a workshop. They make me feel more me. And like Francesca, that fuels my confidence.
I've learned that the closer I stay to who I really am, the more confident I am, the more success I have. Embracing my own inner rebel gives me an edge.
Our young spirit often gets quashed when we're older as we're told we have to toe the line and be serious. Drawing on our youthful edge though might give us the confidence boost we need. It could be embracing an adventurous spirit or a desire to go against the flow, or it might be something quieter but still intrinsically us. It doesn't have to be tattoos and red shoes. What's the equivalent that will bring you confidence and energy in your everyday life?
I tell the story of Ian Rogers and Francesca Gino in my new book 365 Ways To Have a Good Day — out now
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Time Warner Chief Urges Investors To Focus On Digital Growth Instead Of Rising Costs
February 8, 2012 9:25am
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes channeled his inner Les Moonves in a conference call with analysts this morning to deliver one of the most relentlessly cheery infomercials he has ever presented for his company. But he wasn't able to duplicate the CBS chief's ability to mesmerize investors: Time Warner shares dipped sharply during the presentation after opening up on the company's strong 4Q results and announcement of a new stock buy-back plan. The drop was due to the company's warning that corporate expenses will rise in 2012. Execs also acknowledged that the film studio — which won't have a new Harry Potter film — faces difficult comparisons with the 2011 results.
Still, Bewkes hammered on his theme that "our best years are ahead of us" — especially due to TV Everywhere and business models that promote digital distribution. "We're at the vanguard of the industry" in promoting them, Bewkes says. For example, the HBO Go app soon will be available for Microsoft's XBox. The company also is developing apps so pay TV subscribers can watch programs from all Time Warner networks on a VOD basis — including on television sets. Turner has made 1,000 hours of content available for digital distribution, and Bewkes says there's more to come in 2012. He doesn't understand why some pay TV companies including Comcast and Time Warner Cable have been reluctant to let subscribers access shows on demand on a wide array of broadband-connected devices. It would "make it less likely that the subscriber will ever cut the cord" and encourage young people to become pay TV customers. "Now it's time for the whole industry to drive consumer awareness and consumer usage" of TV Everywhere, he says. Bewkes adds he's "optimistic that the industry will get past the minor concerns that they have."
The CEO reaffirmed his support for the entertainment industry's UltraViolet initiative, which gives people who buy certain DVDs and Blu-ray discs the additional opportunity to stream the titles to broadband-connected devices. Yesterday Disney's Bob Iger said that it hasn't been "as consumer friendly as we had hoped." But Bewkes says that "the consumer response we've seen so far reinforces how much pent up consumer demand exists" for streaming. He'd also like to see the studios sell digital downloads of their films earlier than they do now. "The whole industry will move to earlier sell-through" of home video, he says adding that it won't necessarily cannibalize theater ticket sales or home video revenues.
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Nina Edge trained as a ceramicist in Cardiff and became known for subversive use of craft processes in shows with Black British artists in the 1980s. Using lowly techniques such as slip trailing, batik, and shisha embroidery she challenged ideas around identity and gender, exposing hierarchies and anomalies in the curation, and funding of cultural projects. Her interest in the status of people, materials and production methods lead to a series of artworks made from international currency, sugar, gold, keys, disposable nappies, and seeds.
Her work is designed to be understood by viewers who have no art education, as well as those who do. Initially known for scaled up drawing, subversive ceramics and radical textiles she expanded into public art and performance. She works alone and in collaboration with the communities where she lives and with similarly unbounded creative groups such as Hull Time Based Arts, Mori Roti, and Visual Stress. She has made interactive digital work, kinetic and mechanical objects, gardens, games and occasional massed performance work involving all comers. Her practice is socially engaged and she has made longstanding projects with communities wherever she lives. Productions include bi-lingual advertising hoardings, radical garments and seed dispersal schemes. She is currently showing large scale vinyl print, concerned with land clearances as part of a long investigation into demolition and forced removals in the Welsh Streets and similar neighbourhoods.
She is published by Third Text, International Journal of Art & Design Education, Feminist Art News, Liverpool University Press and Liverpool Biennial. Exhibitions include Virtual Duality (Bluecoat, 1994), Mirage (ICA, 1995) Transforming the Crown (Studio Museum in Harlem, 1997) The Fifth Floor (Tate Liverpool, 2008), Turning FACT Inside Out (FACT, 2013) Live work includes Sold Down the River (Bluecoat Liverpool,1995) and Habeas Corpus (Albert Dock, 2007)
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Endoscopic morphologic features of ulcerative colitis–associated dysplasia classified according to the SCENIC consensus statement
Shinya Sugimoto, Makoto Naganuma, Yasushi Iwao, Katsuyoshi Matsuoka, Masayuki Shimoda, Shuji Mikami, Shinta Mizuno, Yoshihiro Nakazato, Kosaku Nanki, Nagamu Inoue, Haruhiko Ogata, Takanori Kanai
The Sakaguchi Laboratory of Developmental Biology Department of Organoid Medicine
Center for Preventive Medicine
Division of Diagnostic Pathology
Center for Endoscopy
Background and Aims Recent advances in endoscopic equipment and diagnostic techniques have made possible the detection of early dysplasia in the inflamed mucosa of ulcerative colitis (UC). The SCENIC consensus statement recommends the use of unified terminology for the morphology of dysplasia. In this study, we investigated the endoscopic features of high-grade dysplasia (HGD) in a clinical setting. Methods We retrospectively identified 62 patients with UC who were diagnosed with colitis-associated cancer or HGD between 1997 and 2015. A total of 39 lesions of HGD detected by targeted biopsy sampling in 31 patients were reviewed, and the endoscopic morphology was classified according to the SCENIC guidelines. Results In total, 0 (0%), 6 (15.4%), 19 (48.7%), 12 (30.8%), and 2 (5.1%) lesions with HGD were classified as pedunculated, sessile, superficial elevated, flat, and depressed, respectively. Nearly 80% of the lesions were located in the rectum or sigmoid colon. All flat and depressed lesions were red in color. Typically, sessile/superficial elevated lesions accompanied a flat area (Is+IIb/IIa+IIb). Ulceration was observed in 2 depressed lesions (5.1%). Although the borders were indistinct in 21 lesions (53.8%) without the use of magnifying colonoscopy, all lesions could be distinguished from the surrounding mucosa using magnifying endoscopy. Conclusions This is the first study to classify the morphologic features of HGD using the SCENIC guidelines in a clinical setting. Based on our findings, endoscopists should recognize that HGD is frequently associated with a flat/superficial elevated area and red discoloration and should inspect particularly carefully in the rectum and sigmoid colon. The findings of chromoendoscopy and magnifying colonoscopy may also be useful in distinguishing lesions from the surrounding mucosa.
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2016.11.013
Published - 2017 Mar 1
10.1016/j.gie.2016.11.013
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Ulcerative Colitis Medicine & Life Sciences
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Sugimoto, S., Naganuma, M., Iwao, Y., Matsuoka, K., Shimoda, M., Mikami, S., Mizuno, S., Nakazato, Y., Nanki, K., Inoue, N., Ogata, H., & Kanai, T. (2017). Endoscopic morphologic features of ulcerative colitis–associated dysplasia classified according to the SCENIC consensus statement. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 85(3), 639-646.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2016.11.013
Endoscopic morphologic features of ulcerative colitis–associated dysplasia classified according to the SCENIC consensus statement. / Sugimoto, Shinya; Naganuma, Makoto; Iwao, Yasushi; Matsuoka, Katsuyoshi; Shimoda, Masayuki; Mikami, Shuji; Mizuno, Shinta; Nakazato, Yoshihiro; Nanki, Kosaku; Inoue, Nagamu; Ogata, Haruhiko; Kanai, Takanori.
In: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Vol. 85, No. 3, 01.03.2017, p. 639-646.e2.
Sugimoto, S, Naganuma, M, Iwao, Y, Matsuoka, K, Shimoda, M, Mikami, S, Mizuno, S, Nakazato, Y, Nanki, K, Inoue, N, Ogata, H & Kanai, T 2017, 'Endoscopic morphologic features of ulcerative colitis–associated dysplasia classified according to the SCENIC consensus statement', Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 639-646.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2016.11.013
Sugimoto S, Naganuma M, Iwao Y, Matsuoka K, Shimoda M, Mikami S et al. Endoscopic morphologic features of ulcerative colitis–associated dysplasia classified according to the SCENIC consensus statement. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 2017 Mar 1;85(3):639-646.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2016.11.013
Sugimoto, Shinya ; Naganuma, Makoto ; Iwao, Yasushi ; Matsuoka, Katsuyoshi ; Shimoda, Masayuki ; Mikami, Shuji ; Mizuno, Shinta ; Nakazato, Yoshihiro ; Nanki, Kosaku ; Inoue, Nagamu ; Ogata, Haruhiko ; Kanai, Takanori. / Endoscopic morphologic features of ulcerative colitis–associated dysplasia classified according to the SCENIC consensus statement. In: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 2017 ; Vol. 85, No. 3. pp. 639-646.e2.
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abstract = "Background and Aims Recent advances in endoscopic equipment and diagnostic techniques have made possible the detection of early dysplasia in the inflamed mucosa of ulcerative colitis (UC). The SCENIC consensus statement recommends the use of unified terminology for the morphology of dysplasia. In this study, we investigated the endoscopic features of high-grade dysplasia (HGD) in a clinical setting. Methods We retrospectively identified 62 patients with UC who were diagnosed with colitis-associated cancer or HGD between 1997 and 2015. A total of 39 lesions of HGD detected by targeted biopsy sampling in 31 patients were reviewed, and the endoscopic morphology was classified according to the SCENIC guidelines. Results In total, 0 (0%), 6 (15.4%), 19 (48.7%), 12 (30.8%), and 2 (5.1%) lesions with HGD were classified as pedunculated, sessile, superficial elevated, flat, and depressed, respectively. Nearly 80% of the lesions were located in the rectum or sigmoid colon. All flat and depressed lesions were red in color. Typically, sessile/superficial elevated lesions accompanied a flat area (Is+IIb/IIa+IIb). Ulceration was observed in 2 depressed lesions (5.1%). Although the borders were indistinct in 21 lesions (53.8%) without the use of magnifying colonoscopy, all lesions could be distinguished from the surrounding mucosa using magnifying endoscopy. Conclusions This is the first study to classify the morphologic features of HGD using the SCENIC guidelines in a clinical setting. Based on our findings, endoscopists should recognize that HGD is frequently associated with a flat/superficial elevated area and red discoloration and should inspect particularly carefully in the rectum and sigmoid colon. The findings of chromoendoscopy and magnifying colonoscopy may also be useful in distinguishing lesions from the surrounding mucosa.",
author = "Shinya Sugimoto and Makoto Naganuma and Yasushi Iwao and Katsuyoshi Matsuoka and Masayuki Shimoda and Shuji Mikami and Shinta Mizuno and Yoshihiro Nakazato and Kosaku Nanki and Nagamu Inoue and Haruhiko Ogata and Takanori Kanai",
doi = "10.1016/j.gie.2016.11.013",
journal = "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy",
T1 - Endoscopic morphologic features of ulcerative colitis–associated dysplasia classified according to the SCENIC consensus statement
AU - Sugimoto, Shinya
AU - Naganuma, Makoto
AU - Iwao, Yasushi
AU - Matsuoka, Katsuyoshi
AU - Shimoda, Masayuki
AU - Mikami, Shuji
AU - Mizuno, Shinta
AU - Nakazato, Yoshihiro
AU - Nanki, Kosaku
AU - Inoue, Nagamu
AU - Ogata, Haruhiko
AU - Kanai, Takanori
N2 - Background and Aims Recent advances in endoscopic equipment and diagnostic techniques have made possible the detection of early dysplasia in the inflamed mucosa of ulcerative colitis (UC). The SCENIC consensus statement recommends the use of unified terminology for the morphology of dysplasia. In this study, we investigated the endoscopic features of high-grade dysplasia (HGD) in a clinical setting. Methods We retrospectively identified 62 patients with UC who were diagnosed with colitis-associated cancer or HGD between 1997 and 2015. A total of 39 lesions of HGD detected by targeted biopsy sampling in 31 patients were reviewed, and the endoscopic morphology was classified according to the SCENIC guidelines. Results In total, 0 (0%), 6 (15.4%), 19 (48.7%), 12 (30.8%), and 2 (5.1%) lesions with HGD were classified as pedunculated, sessile, superficial elevated, flat, and depressed, respectively. Nearly 80% of the lesions were located in the rectum or sigmoid colon. All flat and depressed lesions were red in color. Typically, sessile/superficial elevated lesions accompanied a flat area (Is+IIb/IIa+IIb). Ulceration was observed in 2 depressed lesions (5.1%). Although the borders were indistinct in 21 lesions (53.8%) without the use of magnifying colonoscopy, all lesions could be distinguished from the surrounding mucosa using magnifying endoscopy. Conclusions This is the first study to classify the morphologic features of HGD using the SCENIC guidelines in a clinical setting. Based on our findings, endoscopists should recognize that HGD is frequently associated with a flat/superficial elevated area and red discoloration and should inspect particularly carefully in the rectum and sigmoid colon. The findings of chromoendoscopy and magnifying colonoscopy may also be useful in distinguishing lesions from the surrounding mucosa.
AB - Background and Aims Recent advances in endoscopic equipment and diagnostic techniques have made possible the detection of early dysplasia in the inflamed mucosa of ulcerative colitis (UC). The SCENIC consensus statement recommends the use of unified terminology for the morphology of dysplasia. In this study, we investigated the endoscopic features of high-grade dysplasia (HGD) in a clinical setting. Methods We retrospectively identified 62 patients with UC who were diagnosed with colitis-associated cancer or HGD between 1997 and 2015. A total of 39 lesions of HGD detected by targeted biopsy sampling in 31 patients were reviewed, and the endoscopic morphology was classified according to the SCENIC guidelines. Results In total, 0 (0%), 6 (15.4%), 19 (48.7%), 12 (30.8%), and 2 (5.1%) lesions with HGD were classified as pedunculated, sessile, superficial elevated, flat, and depressed, respectively. Nearly 80% of the lesions were located in the rectum or sigmoid colon. All flat and depressed lesions were red in color. Typically, sessile/superficial elevated lesions accompanied a flat area (Is+IIb/IIa+IIb). Ulceration was observed in 2 depressed lesions (5.1%). Although the borders were indistinct in 21 lesions (53.8%) without the use of magnifying colonoscopy, all lesions could be distinguished from the surrounding mucosa using magnifying endoscopy. Conclusions This is the first study to classify the morphologic features of HGD using the SCENIC guidelines in a clinical setting. Based on our findings, endoscopists should recognize that HGD is frequently associated with a flat/superficial elevated area and red discoloration and should inspect particularly carefully in the rectum and sigmoid colon. The findings of chromoendoscopy and magnifying colonoscopy may also be useful in distinguishing lesions from the surrounding mucosa.
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DO - 10.1016/j.gie.2016.11.013
JO - Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
JF - Gastrointestinal Endoscopy


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The new kind of infection which is transmitted through the computer generated software is the malware infection. They can often pose a serious threat to the working of hospital medical equipments and eventually become a potential life threat for patients too.
Hospital medical equipments is subject to computer generated malware infections and mostly happens due to the using outdated versions of the operating systems. The most used obviously is Microsoft Windows, along with iOS and Linux.
According to a recent survey report by a technology firm, it was found out that there is a new malware signature in every half second. This happens due to the computer devices brought in the hospitals every day and which infects the software controlled equipments when they are connected to internet via any source. Also a system running multiple versions of Windows is more open to hacking.
The hacking attacks can become a very serious issue. The lack of technical security in hospitals is paving the way for it. Once corrupted, it will be difficult to regain the system back and malware can play with the hospital and patient's medical stats, leading to wrong diagnosis and delayed operations. These security breaches often affects the operations like, cancelling patient's exam, changes in glucose monitors, changed report in the MRI scans and even sudden breakdown during a complicated surgery. This problem of virus attacks can be blown to huge proportions when not only the hospital staff but also the equipment manufacturers aren't able to fix the problem.
To get a fix on the situation, the manufacturers need to go through a certification process which updates their Windows to the latest version in use. Although there have been cases where the system was patched with the latest software but the problem of malware ceased to exist. Hospitals get a lot of malware infected mails in a day, through the suppliers of hospital medical equipments, the MRs, or any other party promoting its business; due to this the threat of malware infections increases to a new level.
A simple radiology workstation or an IV pump or echocardiogram machines are some of the common appliances which uses a lot data to generate reports. These machines are also the one which easily gets corrupted as they run on outdated software, like Windows NT or Apache 1.0. Even their manufacturers never thought of updating their devices as for so many years they were running fine. However, the process of taking these equipments away and fixing them may take a long time, which is the simplest reason why many of the hospitals don't even consider them getting fixed and simply procure new equipments. However, these equipments are often bought by second hand market, restored and brought back to the hospitals, so the problem never ends actually.


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Post by andrewgd » Feb 25th 2003, 10:00 am
GaryEA wrote: Characters from the current trilogy will appear in the old, such as the footage of Natalie Portman shot during Episode II's production that will be inserted somewhere into the SE's.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that was revealed to be false. You never know with the Lucas spin machine, but I'm almost positive I've read that that was only a rumour, and wasn't true.
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Post by GaryEA » Feb 25th 2003, 8:08 pm
lance,
Thanks. It's a shame my post came out so short!
andrewgd,
Never heard about it being debunked, so if I missed it, I apologize.
Then again, it's definitely possible - Boba Fett was never in Star Wars until the 1997 SE.
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Post by lance » Feb 25th 2003, 10:10 pm
(Sigh)
Well ya never know maybe Lucas will read some the bad press he has received over this decision and maybe, just maybe, change his mind.
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Post by Megs » Feb 26th 2003, 11:51 am
lance wrote: (Sigh)
Doubtful. Very doubtful.
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Post by GaryEA » Feb 26th 2003, 11:58 am
The one detail I keep in mind is when Episode I was released to theaters, the DVD community was clamoring for news about the eventual home release, despite the fact that the OT/SE had yet to debut.
Lucas said no, there would be no DVD release of "Phantom Menace". Now my memory is hazy, but the Japanese laser disc came out along with the VHS editions, a full year(?) before Menace was released to DVD. I say a year because I had the VHS box set shrinkwrapped and sitting in a drawer for a long time while I waited for a definitive answer from the guy.
I'm just tossing this out there, only because it seems relavent. For all I know, Lucas burned all of his "drafts".
Post by lance » Feb 26th 2003, 2:47 pm
GaryEA wrote: The one detail I keep in mind is when Episode I was released to theaters, the DVD community was clamoring for news about the eventual home release, despite the fact that the OT/SE had yet to debut.
Of course there is always the possibility:
a) that like Disney products, he could decide to release the original triliogy on DVD for a limited time
b) he could decide to play "the region game" and only release in one DVD region or another
Just speculatin here,
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lance wrote: b) he could decide to play "the region game" and only release in one DVD region or another
That works fine for me. I will take them in any region as long as they are widescreen and anamorphic would be sweet, but i wont be that upset if they aren't.
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This tactic could really turn up the heat, or even backfire. If R1 consumers find out that Lucas offered the OT only to other countries, he'll either have to make them available here, or move to one of those countries to flee from furious fans.
It happened to a lesser degree when "The Phantom Headache" was available on laser disc, but only in Japan. So what, right? Well, at the time, laser was already on its way out, but companies continued to produce titles for the format because DVD was still a risk even though the sales looked fantastic.
American consumers bought a lot of copies of the laser disc to get a digital copy of the film. Less than a year later (I think), PM was on DVD.
The more I think about it, I really need a flowchart for this mess...
Post by lance » Feb 27th 2003, 9:35 am
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When you get the chart finished, post a copy for the rest of us
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Post by eugeisia » May 20th 2003, 7:01 pm
i dont understand how anyone could bash lucas, yes and even about jar jar. the man has given all of us so much, yet the general public still finds slandering his newest work a joyous occasion in some instances. it seems like everyone has forgotten what its like to be a kid and accept what is. so many have imagined what they would have liked the prequel story to be like that they left no room for the one man's vision that started the whole thing in the first place. it seems to me that noone takes anything into consideration, they instantly presume anyone could have written a better script, directed a better movie, and casted a better ensemble. when i hear this i couldn't disagree more. with the original trilogy, all lucas had to do was cast a group that worked well together... and let the characters develop into his vision. with the prequel story he had to find actors of correct age, eye coler, facial features, tones, etc. to match what earlier characters would have looked like, grew into, and gave birth to who knows who. but it all goes down the tube because the movie didn't meet the rediculously high standard that everyone placed on the film. i congratulate mr. lucas on what will always be to me the greatest story/adventure ever told. i think its sad that more people can't appreciate what he's infact given to them. which is five great movies (as of now) and what will be one superb story.
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El Baluchistán o Beluchistán es una región histórica de Asia, hoy repartida entre varios países: su parte occidental corresponde a Irán (provincia de Sistán y Baluchistán); su parte septentrional pertenece a Afganistán; y su parte oriental, a la provincia pakistaní de Baluchistán.

Geografía
La región del Baluchistán puede considerarse que tiene por límites:

 al nordeste, las montañas de Sulaimán, que marcan el límite con el Panyab. Esta cadena montañosa, en forma de arco, culmina en el pico de Kalifat (3487 m) al este de Quetta y se abre hacia la llanura de Kacchi, a través del puerto de Bolán, un paso ancestral de las caravanas que hacían el trayecto entre Oriente Medio y el subcontinente indio. En la zona han sido descubiertos numerosos yacimientos arqueológicos antiguos (Cultura del valle del Indo).

 al sudeste, la cadena montañosa de Jirtar se extiende hasta el  desierto de Makrán que ocupa la zona costera del golfo de Omán.

 al este, la frontera de Karachi, que fue la primera capital de Pakistán, con el llamado «cementerio de barcos»: la playa de Gadani.

Por otro lado, los baluchi ocupan la provincia pakistaní de Baluchistán con alrededor de 8 millones de personas, el sudeste de Irán que es una zona fundamentalmente desértica en la que residen aproximadamente 1 millón de baluchis, el sur de Afganistán (unos 100 000) y en el Turkmenistán (unos 30 000).

Historia

Antigüedad
En el Baluchistán han sido encontrados los primeros asentamientos de agricultores de la meseta iraní, siendo los más antiguos los correspondientes a Mejergar, que se remontan a VII milenio a. C.

En la época de declive del reino de Harappa, diferentes tribus, probablemente de origen drávida e indoiranio, pueblan la zona, en forma de hábitats dispersos. A lo largo del tiempo, la región es invadida por diversos pueblos: arios, persas, griegos, kuchanes, árabes, turcos, mongoles, afganos o británicos.

El Baluchistán pakistaní se corresponde con la antigua provincia persa aqueménida de Gedrosia, anexionada por los griegos.

Los baluchis
Los baluchis son un pueblo de pastores nómadas de origen iranio, llegados a la región desde las orillas del mar Caspio hacia el año 1000. Viven en tribus, a veces unidas en confederaciones.

La más conocida de dichas confederaciones de tribus fue el kanato de Kalat, que unió a la práctica totalidad de las tribus, siendo fundado en 1638, y que proclamó su independencia en 1747.

Dominio británico

Los británicos, intentando agrandar los territorios que ya controlaban en la India (Imperio de la India), crearon en el Beluchistán un total de cuatro restados principescos: Makrán, Jarán, Las Bela  y Kalat, siendo este último el de mayor pujanza y extensión. Por otro lado, los británicos delimitan las fronteras con los estados vecinos:

 con Persia en 1871 (Línea Goldsmith);
 con Afganistán en 1893 (Línea Durand)

De esta manera, la partición del Baluchistán entre tres países diferentes se produce ya en ese momento.

A principios del siglo XX, resultaba más evidente no solo que el Reino Unido abandonaría su dominio colonial en la India, sino que la India británica sería dividida en varios Estados independientes entre sí.

Mir Ahmed Yar Khan era el rey de Kalat, y deseaba que Baluchistán, con una historia independiente a sus espaldas y con acusadas diferencias con los territorios que posteriormente formaron Pakistán, fuese independiente de ese nuevo Estado, en aplicación de los principios acordados por los británicos en 1947 con la independencia, acuerdos que permitían a cada príncipe decidir a cual de los nuevos Estados se unirían o bien decidir sobre su propia independencia.

Tras la creación de Pakistán
Inmediatamente después de la proclamación en 1947 de las independencias de la India y Pakistán, Mir Ahmed Yar Khan proclamó la independencia de Kalat. El ejército pakistaní interviene en abril de 1948 y Yar Khan firma un acuerdo por el que se pone fin a la independencia de Kalat.

Sin embargo, su hermano, el príncipe Abdul Karim rechaza este acuerdo, dándose inicio una guerrilla terrorista, en la que los combatientes baluchis contaban con bases de retaguardia en territorio afgano.

Esta guerrilla fracasó por los siguientes motivos:
 la eficaz represión pakistaní;
 la ausencia de apoyo por parte de la Unión Soviética que nunca se concretó
 el apoyo de la minoría pastún de tipo electoral, sin involucrarse en la lucha armada.

En 1958, Pakistán le compra a Omán el puerto de Gwadar que, hasta ese momento, era un enclave omaní en la costa norte del golfo de Omán.

Guerras baluchis

Cinco guerras distintas han enfrentado a los baluchis con el gobierno y el ejército pakistaníes, en 1947-1949, 1955, 1958-1969, 1973-1977 (con 8000 muertos), y desde 2004 hasta la actualidad.

Los conflictos tienen su origen no solo en las diferencias culturales e históricas, sino también por los diferentes niveles de desarrollo entre las provincias orientales de Pakistán y el Baluchistán, que únicamente recibe una pequeña parte de la financiación del Estado, lo que genera una situación de subdesarrollo económico respecto del resto del país.

Además, la situación en Afganistán, con la intervención soviética de 1979, que provocó la llegada a Baluchistán de una oleada de refugiados que huían del conflicto, contribuyó a desestabilizar las ya precarias condiciones económicas baluchis.

Desde 1998, el Ejército pakistaní efectúa ensayos de armas nucleares en las montañas del norte de la provincia, en Razko.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Historia de Afganistán
 Historia de Baluchistán

Regiones históricas de  Afganistán
Regiones históricas de  Irán
Regiones históricas de Pakistán
Regiones divididas
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The first look at gameplay in the highly-anticipated Red Dead Redemption 2 has finally been provided by Rockstar Games.
On Thursday, August 9, Rockstar Games released the first in-game footage of Red Dead Redemption 2 after the studio has only released cinematic trailers and still images up to this point.
Red Dead Redemption 2 will follow Arthur Morgan, a trusted 'Senior Gun' in the Van Der Linde Gang as they travel as outlaws across the United States in the late 1800's as the 'Modern World' was born.
Rockstar included a collection of in-game aspects in the first gameplay trailer, including shooting mechanics, mini-games, camps, environment interaction, and much more in 4K resolution.
The full Red Dead Redemption official gameplay video can be viewed below.
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Realty major Parsvnath Developers has joined hands with Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail, to develop an 11,138 acres knowledge city near Chandigarh. HT reports.
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Realty major Parsvnath Developers has joined hands with Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail, to develop an 11,138 acres knowledge city—Parsvnath Nano City—near Chandigarh involving a total project cost of Rs 50,000 crore.
Under the joint venture agreement, Parsvnath Developers has picked up 38 per cent stake for Rs 41.5 crore. In addition, the reality major would help the joint venture to raise debt of Rs 360 crore, said Pradeep Jain chairman and managing director of Parsvnath Developers.
Former Hotmail innovator Sabeer Bhatia, who promoted the project, holds the majority stake of 52 per cent.
Haryana government owns the balance 10 per cent stake in the company. Under the agreement, Bhatia will be the chairman of the company while Pradeep Jain will be the managing director of the company.
To be developed in Panchkula, the project would be completed in two phases over the next 10 years, where the company would develop 5,000 acres in the first phase. "We have already acquired about 1,500 acres and we are talking to various land owners for acquiring the rest," Jain said.
The JV would raise funds from private equity funds and would also enter the capital market in the next 18 – 24 months.
"In the first phase the company would raise resources at verticals level such as IT park, or biotech city from the private equity funds. In the second stage, it would enter the capital market," Jain said.
"We plan to take the company public in 18-24 months, but we have not finalised how much stake will be diluted or how much money we are going to raise."
Elaborating on the project, Jain said: "The knowledge city will be divided in four districts - IT, University, Airport and Biotech." Residential area would constitute 30 per cent of the total city, while commercial area would be of four per cent area, he added.


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Comets are typically composed of dust, rock, and ices
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The largest comet ever spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope is barreling towards the heart of our solar system, but experts say there is no need to worry about this icy behemoth.
C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) was originally spotted by observers in Chile in 2010, but NASA says images from the Hubble Space Telescope have recently helped experts determine its size.
The agency estimates the icy comet's nucleus is approximately 80 miles across, making it larger than the state of Rhode Island and about 50 times bigger than other comets.
On the left is a photo of the comet taken by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 on January 8, 2022. A model of the coma (middle panel) was obtained by means of fitting the surface brightness profile assembled from the observed image on the left. This allowed for the coma to be subtracted, unveiling the point-like glow from the nucleus.
(NASA, ESA, Man-To Hui (Macau University of Science and Technology), David Jewitt (UCLA); Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI))
Experts say the mass, which is likely made up of dust, rock and ices, will never get closer than about a billion miles from the sun and stay well away from Earth.
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"This comet is literally the tip of the iceberg for many thousands of comets that are too faint to see in the more distant parts of the solar system," said David Jewitt, a professor of planetary science and astronomy at the University of California and co-author of the new study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. "We've always suspected this comet had to be big because it is so bright at such a large distance. Now we confirm it is."
The comet is on a 3-million-year-long elliptical orbit, and NASA believes at the current rate of speed of 22,000 mph, the celestial body will make its closest approach to Earth in 2031.
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C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) Telescope is barreling towards the heart of our solar system.
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Researchers said they were able to come to their conclusion thanks to the more than 30-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.
The giant telescope was only expected to have a lifespan of about 15 years, but because of service missions in space, NASA says they expect operations to continue into at least the late 2020s.
The Hubble was recently joined by the James Webb Space Telescope, which is more powerful and is expected to give glimpses of the first galaxies and help discover new worlds.


> > the African wild dogs or hyaenas.
> With remnants you mean, small populations vulnerable to extinction?
*and* (at least in the southern edge of boreal Canada) reduced size.
> In such a case, this is also true of African wild dogs.
larger than the extant ones.
ago is not well known.
which we have no examples.


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On this day in history one of the worlds most iconic screen goddess's, Elizabeth Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011), marries for the first time. For the regular folk this is no big deal, but for Elizabeth it would be the start of two lifelong love affairs; one with marriage, the other jewelry.
With a total of 8 marriages under her belt, to 7 different men (Richard Burton was a repeat), there were few who knew it better than Elizabeth.
In 1950, an 18 year-old Elizabeth Taylor married Conrad Hilton, heir to the famous hotel chain, in a ceremony in Los Angeles attended by over 700 guests. Elizabeth hired costume designer Helen Rose, whose dressmaking skill would eventually earn her two Oscars for work on films The Bad and the Beautiful and I'll Cry Tomorrow (she also went on to design the wedding dress for Grace Kelly's marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956!).
Opting for a classic style, Elizabeth Taylor wore a lace and ivory satin dress, with a full skirt and pearl embroidery. The wedding dress went down in fashion history as the epitome of 50's glamour and was eventually sold at auction at Christie's.
Elizabeth's first engagement piece was a $10,000 4 carat diamond platinum ring.
After the breakdown of her short-lived marriage to Conrad Hilton which lasted only nine months, Elizabeth Taylor married Michael Wilding, a British actor twenty years her senior, in 1952. As it was her second trip down the aisle Elizabeth chose to show her sophisticated side and opted for a modest suit featuring a fitted jacket with large white collar and a knee-length flared skirt. Just like her first wedding dress, this discrete and elegant outfit was designed by Helen Rose.
Elizabeth's engagement ring with Michael was a cabochon sapphire that had a domed, polished effect, rather than a faceted look. She was fond of rare styles that set her apart, and by wearing a sapphire ring she began a trend with many couples at the time opting for sapphires instead of diamonds.
After five years of marriage, Elizabeth Taylor divorced Michael Wilding and married the American film producer Mike Todd in 1957. It was to be her only marriage that didn't end in divorce, as Mike Todd died in 1958 when his private jet crashed. Many say Todd was the great love of Elizabeth's life and that she would have stayed married to him until the end. The actress revealed in later years that this was true to an extent – he was one of the three true loves of her life, along with Richard Burton and her jewelry!
Their wedding was an intimate affair in Acapulco, where Elizabeth Taylor wore a light, hooded organza dress. The American actress started her serious jewelry collection with her engagement ring from Mike Todd, which featured a 29 carat diamond.
Devastated by the death of her previous husband Mike Todd, Elizabeth Taylor found comfort with his best friend, Eddie Fisher, who she married in 1959 in Las Vegas. At the intimate ceremony which took place in the synagogue, the actress moved away from her usual pale tones and wore a green silk dress with hood and long sleeves. Continuing the unconventional theme, Fisher proposed to Taylor with a bracelet. Obviously this was no ordinary bracelet but a 40 carat spectacular, made with 50 diamonds!
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton famously began their affair in 1964 whilst shooting the film Cleopatra in a scandalous romance publicly condemned by the Vatican. After both divorced their respective spouses they tied the knot in 1964 in Montreal.
This time, the screen siren called on Irene Sharaff, Cleopatra's costume designer, who created another colourful number in canary yellow chiffon. The actress completed the look by weaving hyacinths and lilies of the valley into her impressive braid, and adorned her dress with a diamond and emerald Bulgari brooch.
The Bulgari broach was the piece of jewellery that Burton proposed with and featured a 18.61 carat emerald surrounded by diamonds, which could be detached and worn as a brooch. Burton famously said "The only Italian word Elizabeth knows is Bulgari".
After a swift divorce in 1974, Elizabeth Taylor couldn't resist re-marrying Richard Burton in 1975. She confessed "Our love is so furious that we burn each other out". On the banks of the Chobe river in Botswana , the actress renewed her vows in a hat-trick of a colorful tie-dye dress by Gina Fratini. The dress ranged from emerald green, to violet, to turquoise and embellished with tiny feathers.
Five years into their first marriage, he gave her one of the most renowned diamonds in the world – the Krupp asscher cut, now known as the Elizabeth Taylor diamond. An incredible 33.19 carats, it's widely reported that she wore it almost daily.
In 1976, after her second divorce from Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor married senator John Warner. Without witnesses, the actress and the politician exchanged vows on his farm in Virginia. On a hilltop in the middle of Warner's cattle farm, Elizabeth wore a violet cashmere dress under a tweed and fur coat, opting for a matching turban to top off the look.
Warner's proposal gift has never been quite established: some say he proposed with a diamond ring, others say a band of rubies, diamonds and emeralds.
Most certainly Elizabeth Taylor was a traditionalist, saying "At first, I guess I didn't know what was love and what was not. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage. I couldn't just have a romance; it had to be a marriage…".
NO-ONE CAN EVER TAKE HER PLACE. VERY BEAUTIFUL VERY BEAUTIFUL.


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Interview with Dalia Mogahed
By Ayeshah Ali
Dalia Mogahed is an American leader with notable achievements in research related to Muslims societies worldwide and, in particular, the Middle East. She is currently President and CEO of Mogahed Consulting, an executive coaching and consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. She served as the Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and also as an adviser for the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships under the Obama administration. In addition, she contributed to the Countering Violent Extremism Working Group of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and worked with Madeleine Albright on the U.S. Muslim Engagement Project where she produced policy recommendations, many of which were adopted by the Obama administration.
Mogahed also serves as a nonresident senior public policy scholar at Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and was chosen a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Her experience began as founder and director of a cross-cultural consulting organization in the U.S. that offered workshops and other programs addressing diversity and cultural understanding. Mogahed joined with John Esposito in co-authoring the book, "Who Really Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think," a work compiling many years of research and interviews with or related to Muslims from more than 30 countries.
Q: Your career began as a researcher in marketing products for Procter and Gamble but progressed to social work and research related to Muslims. How did you progress to these types of roles from your position at Procter and Gamble?
A: My position at P&G taught me the art of applying science to the study of human behavior. I took this passion for research into my MBA and when I graduated, I joined Gallup. At Gallup I was able to live my dream of helping the world understand Muslims by giving them a voice through rigorous survey research.
Q: What was the motivation or incentive that drove you towards this path?
A: My motivation was to be a bridge and a 'translator' between Muslims and the broader society. I always played this role in different ways though the means changed throughout my career.
Q: You co-authored a book "Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think?" What impact do you feel this book has made on bridging the gap between Muslims and non-Muslims, particularly the understanding of Muslims by non-Muslims?
A: I think the book's biggest impact was in changing the conversation regarding Muslims and violence. The book dispelled the myth that religion was the problem and showed clearly that it was politics and not [some misguided] piety that drove the small fringe who condoned violence.
Q: What were the most challenging criticisms to the book that you have had to respond to?
A: The most challenging criticisms were ones that simply dismissed the entire book because they claimed Muslims lie to pollsters. My response to this claim is it is pretty hard for so many people in so many countries to agree on a common lie. Polling is not perfect by any means, but the best way to understand what people think is still to ask them and then listen.
Q: We have seen rises and falls in the wave of Islamophobia that has spread across many different regions. What is your understanding of the current situation of Islamophobia, especially in terms of its intensity?
A: It is important to understand that anti-Muslim prejudice is largely manufactured by an industry of well-funded organized activists. It intensifies around war and elections, not just terrorist attacks. This means that it is more than a response to bad Muslims doing bad things. It is also a product of a media campaign meant to instill fear and hate to forward a political agenda. I think it is going to get much worse as the 2016 election starts to heat up.
Q: Our focus, as a Muslim-American community, is to change the currently negative narrative about Islam and Muslims that we have been witnessing lately. In what areas do you feel our community needs to expend more effort and development to achieve this goal?
A: We need to do two things: We need to offer a human narrative of Muslims and continue to unapologetically explain Islam as it is. And we need to challenge the bigotry and call it out and this includes the incessant and never-ending demand to have Muslims condemn terrorism. We can't do one without the other.
Q: What are some insights about the perceptions of Islam and the Muslim communities that you have come across in your work at the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies that are relevant to the Islamophobia crisis we constantly see around the world? You can share with us insights about what has fostered the misunderstanding of Islam/Muslims as well as the actions taken that have helped reduce the public's negativity about Islam.
A: One of the major ones is what I mentioned earlier [about the myth regarding Muslims and violence]. Another is that Muslims around the world want democracy and see it as a key to Muslim progress. Yet another is that men who support women's rights are neither more or less religious than men who do not support women's rights. The main difference is their education and their own employment. When men are more educated and have greater well-being, they support women's rights.
Q: Are there certain behaviors and actions that are critical to being successful in the dissemination of accurate information about Islam and Muslims?
A: I think it is reaching people's hearts and not just their minds. We need to make people laugh. We need to make people cry. We need to touch their hearts and connect on a human level.
Q: Of all your efforts that you have executed in the past, which do you feel was the most effective in helping the public to better understand Muslims?
A: My best and proudest achievement was befriending and, I hope, educating Howard Gordon on Islam and Muslims. He is an American television writer and producer, and the screenwriter for [the television series] "24." He went on to write much more human depictions of his Muslim characters.
Q: To the aspiring younger generation, what advice would you provide to help them continue the efforts for better understanding between communities of all backgrounds? Where should their focus be and what assets should their development be focused on?
A: Young people should first ground themselves in a mad love for Islam. If it isn't there they can't convey it to others. Then they should explore their own talents and do what they do best, letting God's hand guide their path. If their eyes are set on the right mission, they will find that the best road will unfold before them.
Q: The recent situation in France was a tragedy for Muslims in the sense of how much Islamophobia it has generated on top of what we were already experiencing. Yet, in my personal opinion, I think sometimes tragedy leads to an explosion of hate followed by a proactive measure by the public to contemplate on the situation and really question whether what they hear from media is true or exaggerated. And in turn, this actually leads to more understanding of Islam and Muslims eventually. For example, the event of 9/11 elevated Islamophobia but it also had copies of the Quran flying off the shelves and people converting to Islam as they discovered what it really was. So in conclusion, do you feel that outcome is possible here? In other words, what do you feel will be the outcome of this tragedy in terms of the situation of Islam, Muslims, and Islamphobia?
A: The shooting was tragic in every way. I hope that good things can come from terrible tragedies but it is not clear if this will occur. The issue in France is that racism that would make us cringe in the U.S. if it were applied to our racial minorities, is hailed as a symbol of progressive modernity in France. France needs to evolve and join the modern world. Their problem is not being "too free" or "too modern" but instead backward and bigoted. Unless France reforms and modernizes, the hate will only worsen.
Ayeshah AliAuthor Ayeshah Ali is the assistant editor of The Message magazine.
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Genevacakes was founded by expat mum Ana Moraleda. The idea came to her when she started looking for the ingredients to bake a cake for her best friend's birthday party. It was 2012 and it was very hard, if not impossible, to find sugar paste in Geneva. The cake she eventually made was so successful that during the party she decided it was the right time to embark on a new business venture.
When she started Genevacakes, Ana had zero knowledge about how to run a business, but by dedicating time and commitment, she threw herself head first into the adventure. Before she realised it, she was ordering hundreds of kilos of sugar paste, developing web pages and learning about import/export regulations. After two months of intense work, Genevacakes.ch went live in December 2012.
Following requests from her customers, she went on to open a workshop in Rue de la Navigation in Les Pâquis (Geneva), at first only to give classes and to allow customers to pick up their orders, but eventually opening for direct sales in August 2013. In early 2014, Ana decided to pursue new projects and began to look for someone to take Genevacakes forward. Finally, in August 2014, after a few months of transition, Genevacakes was taken over by Elena Burau and the store moved to 34, Rue de la Servette in June 2018.
Always on the lookout for new products and constantly listening to our customers, we want to empower everyone with the knowledge and supplies they need to create their dream cake. We yearn to bring you the widest possible choice (more than a thousand different products, as of August 2014) at the best price. This is the challenge we set ourselves every day!
Like many young mothers, it was because she wanted to make her children smile that Elena discovered the wonderful world of cake design. She particularly enjoys decorating biscuits with royal icing and experimenting with pastry recipes from all over the world. An early Genevacakes customer, it was during a discussion with Ana that the idea of joining the company and then taking over was put in place so that Elena could realise her dream and Ana could continue with new projects.
Angélique joined us in late 2014 to help with stock: everything has to be in its proper place and in the right quantity. Through her varied experience that goes beyond cake design, she brings to Genevacakes that little touch of organisation and efficiency that allows you to be served more quickly and expertly. She also handles the processing of online orders.
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The second son of the late dictator is gaining support among tribal leaders in the south of the country to endorse his candidacy for a hypothetical election
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PHOTO/FILE - In this file photo taken early on 23 August 2011, Saif al-Islam Kadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi (portrait), is surrounded by supporters and journalists at his father's residential compound in the capital Tripoli
Saif al-Islam had been missing for seven years. No one knew where the second son of the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi had ended up. A group of rebels from his native Zintan captured him in an ambush near the remote desert town of Ubari, as he hurriedly fled south to neighbouring Niger. Saif had witnessed the fall of his father's regime, which was also his regime, a repressive and authoritarian system that he had timidly tried to reform from within, but which he had defended with arms after the revolutionary outbreak. There was nothing left of the Jamahiriya that had ruled the country with an iron fist for more than three decades. The ravages of the Arab Spring had swept everything away.
It officially reappeared a decade later in the pages of The New York Times. In a lengthy report published in July 2021, Saif took stock of his journey and described his captivity in detail. But he had not given that interview to resolve doubts. He made it clear that he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and rule Libya. In his answers, Saif, who had predicted the fragmentation of the country in the early days of the 2011 uprising, threatened to run in the next general elections, initially scheduled for 24 December 2021. He was paving the way for his return just over a decade later.
AP/YOUSEF MURAD - Forces loyal to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah secure the streets of Tripoli, Libya
In this time, Libya has suffered two civil wars and economic collapse. The state was divided into two parallel administrations that are still vying for power today. One is from the east, in Tobruk, and the other from the west, in Tripoli. In between, the parties had to contend with the Islamist insurgency, which established a small caliphate on the coast. Even the jihadist threat did not unite their agendas. Successive UN-sponsored agreements cushioned the blows, halted hostilities by establishing a lasting ceasefire, but have proved incapable of resolving the protracted political stalemate.
Saif al-Islam eventually ran in those elections, the first nationally recognised candidate to register. But the elections did not take place on time. In fact, they have not yet been held. The Government of National Unity in Tripoli and the House of Representatives in Tobruk, the institutions vying for control, cannot agree on a joint electoral law to put the process back on track. Libya's political elite remains entrenched in power in the absence of a legal text that would allow the vote to take place with guarantees. "Libya again finds itself with two governments, neither of which has been elected or chosen by Libyans, but both of which are the product of continuous misdirection by corrupt politicians unwilling to let go of their positions of power," summarises Libyan activist Asma Khalifa.
PHOTO/FILE - Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah attends the graduation ceremony of a group of Libyan army cadets, in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022
But there have been significant developments in recent weeks. Khalid Almishri, head of the High Council of State, a body that acts as an upper house, met with the speaker of the Tobruk parliament, Aguilah Saleh, in Cairo on Thursday. Egyptian Parliament Speaker Hanafy El Gebaly arranged the face-to-face meeting, highlighting Egypt's role as a mediator in the Libyan crisis. Although El Sisi's regime has shown a clear preference for the eastern faction represented by Saleh himself and his ally Khalifa Haftar.
Representatives of the two administrations came closer on the constitutional document that should govern the pre- and post-election period but left many issues unresolved. No dates or deadlines were mentioned. Nor did they determine whether dual citizens would be able to run for the presidency, or when candidates would have to resign from any office if they wished to run. These two issues concern the prime minister of the National Unity Government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibé, and Eastern strongman General Haftar.
REUTERS/ESAM OMRAN AL-FETORI - Libyan Marshal Khalifa Haftar
After the meeting in Egypt, Almishri and Saleh agreed to meet again in Egypt to initial the final version of the legal text. But Libyan society and the international community are running out of patience. In the words of former UN Special Envoy for Libya Stephanie Williams, 'a transactional ruling class, part of whose network can be traced back to the days of the old regime, uses Libya's state and sovereign institutions as cash cows in what might be described as a "redistributive kleptocracy", regularly bringing enough of their compatriots into their circles to sustain the system'.
"Divisions within the international community, political manoeuvring by Libyan actors and a lack of urgency linked to the low intensity of the conflict contribute to the current stalemate," Riccardo Fabiani, North Africa project director at the International Crisis Group, explains in conversation with Atalayar. "There is little pressure on Libyan officials to get their act together and finally agree to hold elections and, unfortunately, for the time being it looks like the crisis will continue as it is".
AFP/ DENIS BALIBOUSE - Speaker of Libya's House of Representatives Aguila Saleh, UN Special Adviser on Libya Stephanie Williams and President of Libya's Higher Council of State Khaled Al-Mishri hold a press conference following a high-level meeting on Libya's constitutional path at UN headquarters in Geneva on 28 June 2022
"There is a need for the UN envoy to play a more proactive role in coordinating international positions and putting pressure on Libyan actors to move the situation forward," Fabiani adds. Senegal's Abdoulaye Bathily has continued his predecessor's efforts, always within the UN framework, holding meetings with representatives of both factions and regional leaders. The work has been in vain. He will need the impetus of the US special envoy, Richard Norland, who has summoned his counterparts from France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom to Washington this Friday to organise the elections once again.
Libya loses patience
Libyan society no longer has any expectations of the political class. The institutions that control the country lost their legitimacy too long ago. Dbeibé's interim government was born in February 2021 in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LDPF), a 75-member body appointed by the United Nations, with the task of holding elections. It failed. The unknown Misurata businessman pledged to step down from power after the ballot box pronouncement and not to run. He reneged on both promises. Meanwhile, the Tobruk House of Representatives was established in June 2014 with a turnout of less than 20%. In other words, it has not been subject to the scrutiny of the ballot box for almost a decade.
AFP/MAHUMD TURKIA - A Libyan man registers to vote inside a polling station in Tripoli, 8 November 2021
"There is a lot of frustration with the current impasse, the deterioration of social services and the lack of security, and many Libyans have lost faith in the political class to the point of sometimes staging protests and riots," says Fabiani. This is the perfect breeding ground for the emergence of a new profile to unite the discontent. It is essential that he be perceived as a leader capable of leaving the post-revolutionary crisis period behind. The name increasingly repeated in certain circles is that of Saif al-Islam himself, popular among those nostalgic for the Qadhafi regime, a spectrum made up of former officials, clans and communities that sided with the dictator, especially those in Tripoli's so-called green belt, which has a large demographic weight.
The Crisis Group analyst tells this report that Gaddafi's second scion "retains some degree of support in Libya, but at the moment no one knows the real size of his support. There have been no elections in Libya for eight years and Seif al-Islam remains a controversial figure in many respects. His support base is highly mobilised, but he does not seem to enjoy much support from the rest of society. Fabiani argues that Libyans are more likely to "look for new faces rather than Gaddafi's son, whom the vast majority of Libyans still remember at least for his words and his role during the 2011 revolution".
PHOTO/FILE - File photo taken on 18 August 2007 of Libyan leader Mu'ammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam
Tribal leaders and prominent figures in Fezhan have come out in defence of Saif al-Islam's right to participate in the elections. The head of the Supreme Council of Tribes and Cities in the southwest region of the country, Sheikh Ali Mesbah Abu Sbeiha, stressed in a statement the need to take steps to ensure that the second of Gaddafi's nine legitimate descendants could stand as a candidate. In December 2021, the authorities struck down his registration in the electoral race as illegal. He was one of 25 candidates rejected by the High National Electoral Commission.
Saif's appearance was shrouded in controversy from the outset. Adel Karmous, the head of the State Council's Legal Commission, the committee in charge of overseeing candidacies, stated that regardless of the conditions of the candidacy and whether they allow or prevent him from running, "if we think with reason and logic, how can a person who leads a secret life and requires him to visit all regions of the country to complete his election campaign stand for election?" Saif has not been seen in public for months. He may fear for his safety. The International Criminal Court continues to demand his extradition for his alleged involvement in war crimes.
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