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EUROPEAN JIHADISTS

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<br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggyBLGObFX-QUJu7Ltg-k2ZiZr_1SqbgH8WGJiE4F00Z-b8LlGflCJFNfvf3kFJNwhTp7ewvI6AfJAAR3akl8tCRrcDX7ZFk55cDGyhEmYoLYcPCcCfdeVaWQDNHGuqncwj2ySrHLrwmje/s1600/9D3A182E-5F7D-4C15-97AF-A677625A6B34_mw1024_n_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggyBLGObFX-QUJu7Ltg-k2ZiZr_1SqbgH8WGJiE4F00Z-b8LlGflCJFNfvf3kFJNwhTp7ewvI6AfJAAR3akl8tCRrcDX7ZFk55cDGyhEmYoLYcPCcCfdeVaWQDNHGuqncwj2ySrHLrwmje/s320/9D3A182E-5F7D-4C15-97AF-A677625A6B34_mw1024_n_s.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>BALKAN Jihad fighter in SYRIA</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">FROM YOUTUBE TO JIHAD – BALKAN VOLUNTEERS IN SYRIA</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even though conservative Islam is not much appreciated among the liberal and secular BOSNIAK and ALBANIAN communities in the WESTERN BALKANS, radical groups show an increasing online and real-life presence.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Executive Summary: </span></b></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First YouTube war</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What      are EUROPEAN jihadists capable of doing once back from SYRIA? </span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most of these young people have      been mobilized and radicalized through the internet</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Affiliated      NGOS provided both rhetorical and logistical support to SYRIA volunteers </span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">52 volunteers left BOSNIA and      joined the al Nusrah front, widely-recognized as al Qaida associates</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Cyber      war”</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BOSNIAN      Wahhabi website glorifying life and ideology of Wahhabi leader Jusuf Barcic      supported by embassy of BOSNIA in DENMARK</span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Radical      groups show an increasing online and real-life presence in the western BALKANS      </span></b></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FIRST YOUTUBE WAR</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Source: <b><i>Trans</i></b></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Conflict’s</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> written by Vladimir Ninkovic</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The alleged popular uprising in SYRIA has quickly turned into a predominantly religious conflict, if it had ever been anything else. SYRIA’S president, Bashar el Assad, belongs to the minority <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">ALAWITE</span></b> community, an off-shoot of Shia branch of Islam, representing roughly 12% of SYRIAN population. With Sunni ARABS a vast majority in SYRIA, their dissatisfaction partly derives from the fact that power rests with a rival, minority group. Assad’s regime is supported by RUSSIA and the extremist Shia organization, Hezbollah, funded and run by IRAN’S government and secret service. The ‘rebels’, meanwhile, receive generous support from neighbouring ARAB states, and are thought to be supported by the USA, TURKEY and a majority of EU countries.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></u></b></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information:</span></u></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">UNDERSTAND THE ALAWITES</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/the-alawites-and-israel.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/the-alawites-and-israel.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“FOREIGN FIGHTERS” ARE INVOLVED—MOSTLY ISLAMIC JIHADISTS</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/syria-and-dogs-of-war.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/syria-and-dogs-of-war.html</a></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">WHAT ARE EUROPEAN JIHADISTS CAPABLE OF DOING ONCE BACK FROM SYRIA?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The belief that religious, as opposed to ethnic, affiliation is much stronger amongst Muslims deserves consideration. Rough estimates suggest that there might be over one thousand EUROPEAN jihadists fighting with the rebels in SYRIA. In many respects, the biggest security threat is not what they’re doing there, but what they might be capable of doing once they’re back.  In HOLLAND, for instance, the national terrorism threat level has recently been raised significant, given that around one hundred DUTCH nationals are currently in SYRIA, whilst a dozen who have already returned are now subject to government surveillance. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MOST OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MOBILIZED AND RADICALIZED THROUGH THE INTERNET</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">, </span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">where a narrative for jihad has incited young people to join the fight. The BBC’s Paul Wood went so far as to insist that “this feels like the first YouTube war”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With respect to the BALKANS, media outlets suggest that around 300 local Islamists went to fight for the Sunni cause in SYRIA, primarily from BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA, ALBANIA, MACEDONIA and SERBIA (from its Southwestern part, called ‘RASKA OBLAST’ by SERBS, and ‘SANDZAK’ by BOSNIAKS). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">SANDŽAK REGION:</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">NOT ONLY THE GATEWAY FOR BALKANS ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATES, BUT ALSO FOR SPREADING WAHHBISM TO EUROPE?</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/wahhabism-in-bosnia-herzegovina-part-4.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/wahhabism-in-bosnia-herzegovina-part-4.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For further background information see: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%C5%BEak">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%C5%BEak</a>as well as <a href="http://www.bmlv.gv.at/pdf_pool/publikationen/crime_omero.pdf">http://www.bmlv.gv.at/pdf_pool/publikationen/crime_omero.pdf</a>(page 47), <a href="http://www.transconflict.com/about/where-we-work/the-balkans/sandzak/">http://www.transconflict.com/about/where-we-work/the-balkans/sandzak/</a>and <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2667210/posts">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2667210/posts</a>and <a href="http://www.bmlv.gv.at/pdf_pool/publikationen/rel_exterm_vs_fried_beweg_05_radical_movements_moderate_balkan_islam_e_hecimovic_17.pdf">http://www.bmlv.gv.at/pdf_pool/publikationen/rel_exterm_vs_fried_beweg_05_radical_movements_moderate_balkan_islam_e_hecimovic_17.pdf</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two SERBIAN citizens – Eldar Kundakovic from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Novi Pazar</b> and Adis Salihovic from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rozaje</b>– recently lost their lives. Fighting under the combat names of Abu Bera and Abu Merdia, they were shot during an attack on a prison controlled by government forces in. Another young man, Muaz Ahmeti – a 23-year old student of the Islamic Cairo University, from Veliki Trnovac in the municipality of Bujanovac – was killed in SYRIA in May. The death of Naman Demoli from Pristina last year, meanwhile, figured prominently in the <a href="http://www.transconflict.com/category/balkans/kosovo/">KOSOVO</a> media.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AFFILIATED NGOS PROVIDED BOTH RHETORICAL AND LOGISTICAL SUPPORT TO SYRIA VOLUNTEERS </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Muslim community in SERBIA is deeply-divided, with two Islamic Communities operating – the Belgrade-based Islamic Community of SERBIA, and the Novi Pazar-based Islamic Community in SERBIA.  Whilst both official <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">meshihats</i> condemn the practice of sending volunteers to SYRIA, some radical imams, small Salafist communities and affiliated NGOs are understood to have provided both rhetorical and logistical support, including organizing travel to SYRIA. However, in the light of growing outrage of the global Sunni community, particularly after the recent speech of the spiritual leader of the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood, QATARI-based Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, who called Hezbollah (an organization he once endorsed, despite being condemned by conservative SAUDI clerics) the “servants of Satan”, seems that even some moderate Islamists are willing to support it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">QATAR WAS THE MOTHER WHOSE MILK FED THE ISLAMIST GROUPS</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/qatar-and-muslim-brotherhood.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/qatar-and-muslim-brotherhood.html</a></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Belgrade-based ‘Pravda’ newspaper quoted ef. Resad Plojovic – the deputy of Novi Pazar Mufti, Muamer Zukorlic – accusing the extremist factions, in the <a href="http://sandzakpress.net/resad-ef-plojovic-o-dzihadu-u-siriji-video"><b>interview given to Sandzak Press</b></a>. Plojovic said that his words were taken out of context, and that if anyone wants to help the “good cause” in SYRIA, no one should stop them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">52 VOLUNTEERS LEFT BOSNIA AND JOINED THE AL NUSRAH FRONT, WIDELY-RECOGNIZED AS AL QAIDA ASSOCIATES</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In neighbouring BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, where Salafists and Mujjahadins were settled in several locations after the tragic war of the nineties, the situation is even more alarming. According to various sources, some 52 volunteers left BOSNIA and joined the Al Nusrah front, widely-recognized as Al Qaida associates. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The media recently reported that their recruitment was organized by the extremist leader of the Salafi (Wahhabi) community in the village of Gornja Maoca in northern BOSNIA, Nusret Imamovic, and Dzevad Golos, from Mostar, who runs the Daru-l-Quran Foundation for Koran studies.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information:</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7 part dossier on</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">BALKANS ORGANIZED CRIME AND RADICALISM</b> at: <a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/01/the-balkans-organized-crime-and.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/01/the-balkans-organized-crime-and.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6 part dossier on</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WAHHABISM IN BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA</b> at:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/wahhabism-in-bosnia-herzegovina.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/wahhabism-in-bosnia-herzegovina.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/the-bosnia-and-herzegovina-dossier.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/the-bosnia-and-herzegovina-dossier.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">INFLUENTIAL ISLAMIC COMMUNITY IN BOSNIA </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">at:<b> </b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/ethnic-rift-key-hindrance-to-bosnias.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/ethnic-rift-key-hindrance-to-bosnias.html</a></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“CYBER WAR”</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbiXEdbs71iR8O5ewDn-41h_eWjWu1AHfPfLfVO2mxV_ZSWtbRy9ISnCkEfn6cWWTBDFFJjrFDVmboAZC4GcDulub85B1pnGH0VTX6fnOZKvey2sQBYhV9jhfwo-pBLj_DTlasW3S8KXhM/s1600/_47230730_bosnia_maoca226.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbiXEdbs71iR8O5ewDn-41h_eWjWu1AHfPfLfVO2mxV_ZSWtbRy9ISnCkEfn6cWWTBDFFJjrFDVmboAZC4GcDulub85B1pnGH0VTX6fnOZKvey2sQBYhV9jhfwo-pBLj_DTlasW3S8KXhM/s320/_47230730_bosnia_maoca226.gif" width="289" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the conservative BOSNIAK Islam Iman’s website, Prof. Suljo Bahtic published an article called “Factors that have led to terrorism, violence and other deviations” in which he states that the terrorism and the call for jihad as a holy war is actually promoted and encouraged by the “western mentors”. Hence whilst the website also hosts news from SYRIA – such as ‘The most vulnerable victims of SYRIA conflict – children’, ‘Hezbollah – the devil’s party – its policy claims to discourage local religious community from joining the conflict. However, Islam Iman republished translated article from the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) website, whose latest statement calls for “<i>the Muslim nation to fulfill their duty of defending their brothers and sisters in SYRIA who are fighting one of the fiercest battles today, and are subject to an organized extermination war, in cooperation with elitist, bloody, barbaric powers</i>.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The most active propaganda on the SYRIAN civil war can be seen on the Wahhabi (Salafist) website “Put Vjernika” (The Believer’s Path), whose extremely radical attitude is condemned by Islam Iman. “Put Vjernika” daily documents and celebrates all movements by the rebel forces, especially those by Al Qaida affiliated groups and foreign mujahids. The website contains many articles condemning secular practices of a majority of BOSNIAKS, as well as conspiracy theories against Jews, Shia Muslims (regarded to be pawns of the Crusaders), and, of course, RUSSIA and WESTERN states.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BOSNIAN WAHHABI WEBSITE GLORIFYING LIFE AND IDEOLOGY OF WAHHABI LEADER JUSUF BARCIC SUPPORTED BY EMBASSY OF BOSNIA IN DENMARK </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An interesting case is represented by the website of Dzemat Sabah, a small BOSNIAK Muslim community in three DANISH towns of Ikast, Herning and Brande. Whilst the attack on the US Embassy by Mevlid Jasarevic is condemned as outrageous, such acts are commended in situations of war, wherever in the world it might be (though clearly referring to SYRIA). The website – which states that the work of the organization is supported by the embassy of BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA in DENMARK – also glorifies the life and ideology of the late Wahhabi leader, Jusuf Barcic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RADICAL GROUPS SHOW AN INCREASING ONLINE AND REAL-LIFE PRESENCE IN THE WESTERN BALKANS </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even though conservative Islam is not much appreciated among the liberal and secular BOSNIAK and ALBANIAN communities in the WESTERN BALKANS, radical groups show an increasing online and real-life presence. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Encouraged by financial support from Arab countries, and using the region’s constant economic and political crises, radical groups have become much more assertive, despite police surveillance and raids. Another factor contributing to the influx of Balkan Muslims is the extensive media coverage of SYRIA, echoing the nineties wars in BOSNIA and KOSOVO, in which Muslim BOSNIAKS and ALBANIANS were represented as victims by the WESTERN media, as it is currently the case with the rebels.</b> The question posed by the DUTCH media resonates – what will the veterans be capable of doing once they return?</span></div>

EUROPEAN JIHADISTS

BALKAN Jihad fighter in SYRIA FROM YOUTUBE TO JIHAD – BALKAN VOLUNTEERS IN SYRIA Even though conservative Islam is not much appreciated am...

Strawberry Fair

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<span style="font-size: large;">Fun day at the Strawberry Fair at the Strawberry Fair, Dublin!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: large;">The Blanchardstown Brass Band played some super modern tunes including ABBA!!</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibx4o6x83XU8ugtxeZ6L_YmZzJxrimXKVNTCCjnJnBmtq_Uta8TnhHFznRhcnG3ACdBu-DfxBYIlMjNliUodb35B6EFhFiVQOoCxD0Jz27EPHcMhRU2psAutOUxAbWwZhc918Jp8fT9RTl/s640/blogger-image-1860934040.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibx4o6x83XU8ugtxeZ6L_YmZzJxrimXKVNTCCjnJnBmtq_Uta8TnhHFznRhcnG3ACdBu-DfxBYIlMjNliUodb35B6EFhFiVQOoCxD0Jz27EPHcMhRU2psAutOUxAbWwZhc918Jp8fT9RTl/s640/blogger-image-1860934040.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Strawberries & cream - one of the best desserts ever!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qMmqGJNqLHhDFJ3-iQHtLSFSW0vD2xszOqDaV_lE7Oq3b6-GZZG08WjBGRG_8j0NDKhW46mwLYK1c4eJAAwGOrcZvlSFTngLSWxTW7bfksyUAXF6v7eBV1r6q9JKdM609PRaAZ0CuO4l/s640/blogger-image--615835450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qMmqGJNqLHhDFJ3-iQHtLSFSW0vD2xszOqDaV_lE7Oq3b6-GZZG08WjBGRG_8j0NDKhW46mwLYK1c4eJAAwGOrcZvlSFTngLSWxTW7bfksyUAXF6v7eBV1r6q9JKdM609PRaAZ0CuO4l/s640/blogger-image--615835450.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bones found a pal ;-) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVFPEd209ueJ5vAq6Z4TvO3656YIpHvWn7FnStLrrkM-sDmB_njaufOp9qfs4sWgTyvywKzUCtFzDGK05rMWP5sqfXlguI9YcFTS56cd3lxTVSa0H5IijN85fULuCCBPG6lTf5kpS7fZiK/s640/blogger-image-206508931.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVFPEd209ueJ5vAq6Z4TvO3656YIpHvWn7FnStLrrkM-sDmB_njaufOp9qfs4sWgTyvywKzUCtFzDGK05rMWP5sqfXlguI9YcFTS56cd3lxTVSa0H5IijN85fULuCCBPG6lTf5kpS7fZiK/s640/blogger-image-206508931.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dairy Cottage - how cute!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmhcbkwLqybNnW04u8V2KSnshcOt9xzTp1JEvgMyflSzqIR0kG8tNDbr-HmuGlPfV_iRZtA7IVZpe15tUAmRdEvZergkniZX3Bv3YWnc8Mn6xdcXAP9sgYusjIa7pdXBBYMrG49Ks4235M/s640/blogger-image-1574785591.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmhcbkwLqybNnW04u8V2KSnshcOt9xzTp1JEvgMyflSzqIR0kG8tNDbr-HmuGlPfV_iRZtA7IVZpe15tUAmRdEvZergkniZX3Bv3YWnc8Mn6xdcXAP9sgYusjIa7pdXBBYMrG49Ks4235M/s640/blogger-image-1574785591.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Old metal bridge</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqcV5GESc97T9p2MgkEr2VFbWQz3kLErA5ktc2SQRjL3WS_kYkk9HKBcM8zDykD2aiAX5DBgAJiL4QxIluqE5m0Qn1VTp4nDzz41C3EWjhvTUBRjrtHtVGsY62NsjhHWOy-tfwd90XA4tf/s640/blogger-image--507965252.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqcV5GESc97T9p2MgkEr2VFbWQz3kLErA5ktc2SQRjL3WS_kYkk9HKBcM8zDykD2aiAX5DBgAJiL4QxIluqE5m0Qn1VTp4nDzz41C3EWjhvTUBRjrtHtVGsY62NsjhHWOy-tfwd90XA4tf/s640/blogger-image--507965252.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The road between the Angler's Rest and the Strawberry Hall Pub was closed off.  Such a nice walk between the two. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">After the fair we called in to the Angler's and had a drink in the sun (glass of wine for moi) and a little snack (wings & pate). </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">My sister volunteered at this event and wrote a really great blog post about the day, have a look <a href="http://amydublinia.blogspot.ie/2013/07/blog-post_22.html">here</a>.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>

Strawberry Fair

Fun day at the Strawberry Fair at the Strawberry Fair, Dublin! The Blanchardstown Brass Band played some super modern tunes including ABBA!!...

Riverdance World Record

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<span style="font-size: large;">Over 1,600 dancers lined out in Dublin today to break the World Record for the longest line of Irish dancers.  It all took place on the banks of the Liffey and it was quite spectacular!</span><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Z3oPnLikP1vtgHyXi6P5J0hRcxvXmHDatFbPoS7J2qm1tutwVdpEoLHPmArtOVoWTwRCG-LGV0j2Ui6jjuEITJ9qfhwr2hAvD6D_UIT33LC9hDVz44D2V6HNoGcqc8NebvUerwJ4_vnW/s640/blogger-image-2099579246.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Z3oPnLikP1vtgHyXi6P5J0hRcxvXmHDatFbPoS7J2qm1tutwVdpEoLHPmArtOVoWTwRCG-LGV0j2Ui6jjuEITJ9qfhwr2hAvD6D_UIT33LC9hDVz44D2V6HNoGcqc8NebvUerwJ4_vnW/s640/blogger-image-2099579246.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The dancers had to keep their hands linked and dance for a full 5 minutes in order to break the record.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgml6-hQrUN70uX5szxxkrYdI8qxpHLA4b2wPKdZ6XUYOwho0YJ8jfx-9YzMP8VEWkLP0DH24LOsAZ_23SIz1B_ewTyOfb3KUMYBXFs9X1g7Hujk8kVVCcu3KMX3-noco-6FEksFKtAnSK1/s640/blogger-image--617618851.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgml6-hQrUN70uX5szxxkrYdI8qxpHLA4b2wPKdZ6XUYOwho0YJ8jfx-9YzMP8VEWkLP0DH24LOsAZ_23SIz1B_ewTyOfb3KUMYBXFs9X1g7Hujk8kVVCcu3KMX3-noco-6FEksFKtAnSK1/s640/blogger-image--617618851.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The dancers were mainly made up of girls - but there were boys too among the  dancers, including Padraic Moyles, the current male lead in Riverdance.  Padraic led the line in the rehearsal and seemed like a genuinely all round good guy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfXcw8jgR-gnlR0lQjnU4Z2VHsuAykuxdwFCnfJPaMP4-q0RpJwGRHlqlngBsisaqUlX0IeXi5E2HXHjlvGz_VERd4flzwSLFChULcpDJFoCer-jqLw3p6DPKaY0hQg5-hj-W6XFU51vH/s640/blogger-image-1937401327.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfXcw8jgR-gnlR0lQjnU4Z2VHsuAykuxdwFCnfJPaMP4-q0RpJwGRHlqlngBsisaqUlX0IeXi5E2HXHjlvGz_VERd4flzwSLFChULcpDJFoCer-jqLw3p6DPKaY0hQg5-hj-W6XFU51vH/s640/blogger-image-1937401327.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The most famous Riverdancer was there - Ms. Jean Butler (that's her in the shades at the water)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1uSAfsaGnhCZ4KzoOiXbWcDpkh1aJW5MqKl8ACro9YiLWMymfOuZsSUoUKd8pC43BWegI31-7JHFNAb-0SGH5kqM5yxAwxxXOEx1a3MLSzAyck4KcebcRfwrMiWt3zU7vMjjhvbo12z-/s640/blogger-image--1452978741.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1uSAfsaGnhCZ4KzoOiXbWcDpkh1aJW5MqKl8ACro9YiLWMymfOuZsSUoUKd8pC43BWegI31-7JHFNAb-0SGH5kqM5yxAwxxXOEx1a3MLSzAyck4KcebcRfwrMiWt3zU7vMjjhvbo12z-/s640/blogger-image--1452978741.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">For more information about this event, check out <a href="http://www.thegatheringireland.com/">The Gathering website.</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Events like this make me very proud to be Irish!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8LpvUgDOHryUij9E4XkqFnNetBY9e-9YHd9Vftb33Qvi8MeaRv-WQhfcbvmAfgH0xzu2WoaMel5aUoghsyx4jIlu5Z7VlGavOC_MK01JP2pCuwAODWcMfD6aN_yBUui_1DodL9-5pcMRd/s640/blogger-image--586461208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8LpvUgDOHryUij9E4XkqFnNetBY9e-9YHd9Vftb33Qvi8MeaRv-WQhfcbvmAfgH0xzu2WoaMel5aUoghsyx4jIlu5Z7VlGavOC_MK01JP2pCuwAODWcMfD6aN_yBUui_1DodL9-5pcMRd/s640/blogger-image--586461208.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Feel free to share this blog post or any of the photos that I took at the record breaking event.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>

Riverdance World Record

Over 1,600 dancers lined out in Dublin today to break the World Record for the longest line of Irish dancers. It all took place on the bank...

A Review Of The Ice Cream Diet - Can You Really Lose Weight While Eating Ice Cream?

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<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Ron Stucky</div><br /><br />  <div class='uawarticle'>This diet, the Ice Cream Diet, is a strategy that says you can shed the weight without giving up something like ice cream every day. Imagine that. This is a little hard to believe, as we've all been taught that desserts like ice cream are fattening and will make us gain weight. In order to resolve this question, we have taken a close look at the Ice Cream Diet to find out if you can really lose weight while eating ice cream.<br />  <br />  We were a bit taken back when we read that the approach with the Ice Cream Diet is one of low caloric intake each day. Aside from your daily allotment of ice cream, you have to stick to mainly fruits, vegetables, lean meats and other high quality protein. What the ice cream represents is a built-in reward system for being disciplined about your diet. There are components of ice cream that contain something of value to the human body. Milk products are a good source of protein, as well as calcium. Therefore, that added dairy component adds more nutrition than you will have if you adhered to other more strict low calorie diets. This can help you to stick with it long enough to get results.<br />  <br />  Many people assume that the only way to stomach this diet is to add the icecream to less desirable ingredients. Calcium content may be what you need to lose weight. Studies incdicate that calcuim is essential for weight loss. Fat is burned more efficiently when you consume calcium. Calcium supplements are always an option, but calcium rich foods are better for you. The Ice Cream Diet recommends that you do regular exercise.<br />  <br />  We do feel that the name, Ice Cream Diet, can put all manner of unusual ideas and initial thoughts in someone's head. Right? While it allows you to eat a small portion of ice cream every day, it is still a low calorie diet. It's possible people will see the title and incorrectly think they can lose weight while stuffing themselves full of ice cream.<br />  <br />  As you may already have figured out, it doesn't matter if you include ice cream in this diet or not. With this diet, men are not allowed to eat more than 2,000 calories per day, and women 1,500. Plus, it's important that you engage frequent and meaningful exercise. The small portion of ice cream you are permitted must fit into this regime. So when you think about it; when you do the exercise and restrict your calories like that; then it really doesn't matter about the ice cream, or chocolate, etc. So you can see that the ice cream in the Ice Cream Diet is purely for marketing reasons.<br />  <br />  You can lose weight with the Ice Cream Diet, and you'll have to do your part just like with any other diet. Also, should you decide to "cheat" on the amount of daily ice cream, then don't be surprised if you gain weight or don't lose it. This diet allows you to lose weight, get healthier, and give yourself a daily treat along the way. Cool, we think.<br />  <br />  </div><br />  <div class='uawresource'><br />  	<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br />  		About the Author:<br />  	</div><br />  	<div class='uawlinks'>Ron Stucky is a well-known author, he has been writing different blogs on different topics like health,nutrition,supplements etc. Checkout his article on <a href="http://askmarcbarrett.com/mlm-success/mlm-success-the-truth-the-illusion-of-network-marketing">MLM Success</a> and on <a href="http://askmarcbarrett.com/mlm-reviews/nuskin-success-review-how-to-succeed-in-nu-skin">Nuskin</a></div><br />  </div><br />

A Review Of The Ice Cream Diet - Can You Really Lose Weight While Eating Ice Cream?

By Ron Stucky This diet, the Ice Cream Diet, is a strategy that says you can shed the weight without giving up something like ice cream ...

Summer Break

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Summer Break

Posts will be light to non-existent for the next two weeks as I head out of town, taking a little summer break. Happy Summer!

Dissent Over a Device to Help Find Melanoma - NYTimes.com

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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div class="articleBody" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><nyt_text><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">TO the casual observer's eye, the small brownish <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/birthmarks-pigmented/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Birthmarks - pigmented." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">mole</a> on Tanna Oppel's upper left arm looks like an insignificant, ovoid blotch. But on the screen of MelaFind, a new computer vision system for imaging skin lesions, a jagged blue line shows the actual border of the mole, revealing an irregular lesion roughly the shape of Texas.</div></nyt_text></div><div class="articleBody" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Ms. Oppel is a medical assistant in Manhattan in the office of Dr. Doris Day, one of the first dermatologists to buy the machine. Developed by <a title="The company s site." href="http://www.melasciences.com/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Mela Sciences</a> of Irvington, N.Y., the system uses pattern-recognition algorithms to help a dermatologist who has picked out a suspicious pigmented spot to decide whether to perform a <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/test/biopsy/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Biopsy." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">biopsy</a>. The device may find an audience among sun-seekers worried about developing an aggressive <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/skin-cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Skin Cancer." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">skin cancer</a>: <a title="Melanoma statistics." href="http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/melan.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">the National Cancer Institute</a> estimates that about 9,500 Americans this year will die of <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/melanoma/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Melanoma." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">melanoma</a> of the skin.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Yet the device is polarizing the field of skin-cancer detection.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">For decades, dermatologists have used their eyes, along with a magnifier called a dermatoscope, to try to distinguish abnormal but benign lesions from potential melanoma in order to avoid unneeded biopsies. Some dermatologists argue that these low-tech tools are still the most useful and worry that their colleagues are falling for expensive, cool-looking gadgets that may simply offer extraneous, and perhaps incorrect, data.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"This technology should still be considered to be in the developmental stage," said <a title="Information about Dr. Lucas." href="http://fsmweb.northwestern.edu/faculty/FacultyProfile.cfm?xid=17406" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Dr. Roberta Lucas, an instructor</a> of clinical dermatology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. "We are better off when the system supports doctors who are thorough and unhurried; who examine and listen carefully and who empower patients to practice good surveillance and sun protection."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">In fact, some members of an expert medical panel asked to review MelaFind a few years ago for the Food and Drug Administration warned that the device had the potential to give doctors and patients a false sense of security. While MelaFind can analyze small pigmented spots identified by dermatologists as having signs of melanoma, it is not designed to evaluate other problems: large melanomas, colorless melanomas or two other types of skin cancer — basal and squamous cell carcinoma.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a title="Dr. Newburger s site." href="http://www.dcwderm.com/amy.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Dr. Amy E. Newburger</a>, a dermatologist in Scarsdale, N.Y., who was a member of that F.D.A. panel, told me that she was concerned that a doctor could inadvertently use MelaFind on a non-melanoma skin cancer, receive a score indicating that the spot was not irregular, and erroneously decide not to biopsy it. She voted against recommending the device for F.D.A. approval.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Some biostatisticians are also critical of MelaFind, saying the device can recognize a high percentage of melanomas correctly because it also falsely scores as positive so many non-melanomas — potentially prompting doctors to perform unnecessary biopsies.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">To help me visualize that issue, Jason Connor, <a title="The company s site." href="http://www.berryconsultants.com/about-us/who-we-are/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">a biostatistician at Berry Consultants</a>, a biostatistics consulting firm, compared the accuracy of MelaFind in distinguishing non-melanomas to a hypothetical <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/test/hcg-blood-test-quantitative/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about HCG blood test - quantitative." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">pregnancy test</a> which, used on 100 nonpregnant women, would mistakenly conclude that 90 of them were pregnant.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"My concern with MelaFind is that it just says everything is positive," Mr. Connor said. A member of the F.D.A. panel, he abstained on a vote about whether the device's intended uses outweighed the risks.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"I don't think this helps an aggressive doctor," Mr. Connor told me, "and unaggressive doctors could do just as well if they were more diligent without the device."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">To develop MelaFind's current algorithm, researchers trained the system on digital images of more than 10,000 pigmented lesions, programming it to recognize irregularities like asymmetry, color variability and cellular disorganization characteristic of melanomas. Company executives said Mela Sciences deliberately calibrated the machine to catch as many melanomas as possible, understanding that such a high setting could lead doctors to biopsy normal tissue.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"It will err on the side of caution," said Claudia Beqaj, director of commercialization at Mela Sciences. "We wanted to set the system to have such a high sensitivity that we didn't miss any melanomas."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">(In a company-financed study submitted to the F.D.A., the device missed two out of 127 evaluable melanomas. <a title="F.D.A. review of MelaFind." href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/MedicalDevices/MedicalDevicesAdvisoryCommittee/GeneralandPlasticSurgeryDevicesPanel/UCM263807.pdf" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">One F.D.A. reviewer concluded</a>: "There is inadequate data to determine any true value added for MelaFind for use by a dermatologist or other provider.")</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Ms. Beqaj emphasized that MelaFind was intended as a supplementary test that provided extra information about a mole, not as a substitute for a dermatologist's own expertise.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"If they blindly followed MelaFind, they would be biopsying more," Ms. Beqaj said. "The doctor has to make their own clinical judgment."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Dr. Day finds the system quite informative. Last week, she gave me a demonstration <a title="Dr. Day s site." href="http://www.myclearskin.com/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">in her office</a> on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Dr. Day picked out what she called an "ugly duckling" mole on the left arm of Ms. Oppel, who had kindly agreed to play the role of patient. Another medical assistant removed a hand-held scanner from the MelaFind console and pressed it against the mole.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The device uses 10 different wavelengths of light to see up to 2.5 millimeters deep into the skin and capture images of its different layers. Within a minute, the machine displayed a numerical score, indicating that Ms. Oppel's mole was irregular, but not highly likely to be a melanoma. Since the images on the screen indicated that the darkest part of the mole was concentrated around a hair follicle, an expected pigmentation pattern, Dr. Day concluded there was no immediate need for a biopsy.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"It helps me see what I cannot see with my eye," Dr. Day said. "I have great comfort that I am not missing a melanoma."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">(Dr. Day has been a paid device investigator and speaker for Mela Sciences; she appears in<a title="A video." href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsZG7Xd4bZU#at=111" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">promotional videos</a> on the MelaFind Web site).</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">In late 2011, the <a title="F.D.A. information on the device." href="http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/DeviceApprovalsandClearances/Recently-ApprovedDevices/ucm280864.htm" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">F.D.A. approved MelaFind</a> for sale in the United States. But, given the concerns that general physicians not trained as skin experts might miss a skin cancer, the agency restricted the use of the device to dermatologists — and then only after the doctors had successfully completed a MelaFind training program. So far, Ms. Beqaj says, the company had sold about 150 of the devices, which cost about $10,000, in the United States and Germany.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Since <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about health insurance and managed care." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">health insurance</a> does not currently cover the service, patients are paying $25 to $175 for the first mole evaluation and around $25 for subsequent moles, doctors say.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">WHETHER or not MelaFind eventually gains traction among dermatologists, the device is nevertheless significant, said <a title="Information about Dr. Tsao." href="http://www.massgeneral.org/dermatology/doctors/doctor.aspx?id=17035" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">Dr. Hensin Tsao, the director</a> of the melanoma and pigmented lesion center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, because it introduces the idea of artificial intelligence in dermatology.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Unlike an <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/test/x-ray-skeleton/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about X-ray - skeleton." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">X-ray</a> or <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/test/mammography/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Mammography." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">mammography</a> device that requires a medical professional to read the images and identify abnormalities, Dr. Tsao said, MelaFind both captures images and analyzes the likelihood of melanoma. That extra intelligence, its accuracy notwithstanding, is bound to change doctors' interactions with patients.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Dr. Tsao's clinic is participating in a post-marketing study of MelaFind, financed by Mela Sciences. And he said he and his colleagues were thinking hard about how to develop a role for such new devices in informing physicians and patients.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"Until now, you trusted the doctor to make the decision," Dr.  Tsao said. "Now you've got a three-way interaction. 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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Google introduced new tablet Nexus-7 with 7-inch (1280-by-800 high resolution) display, long life battery and many new features. It have 32 GB of internal storage and 2 GB of RAM and also have option to add mobile data through which you can take your favorite content from Google. Nexus 7 can operate on more than 200 GSM providers worldwide. Nexus 7 gives you access to the world’s largest collection of eBooks over 4 million titles, 7 lac apps & games, thousands of movies & TV shows.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rwr9FrUCMvA/UevQ30MkEiI/AAAAAAAAADg/XmoNjYdQC7w/s1600/logo-n7.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pENFsKYy-5A/UevRTECNOQI/AAAAAAAAADo/UXoDFTuSDr0/s1600/n7-product-hero.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pENFsKYy-5A/UevRTECNOQI/AAAAAAAAADo/UXoDFTuSDr0/s1600/n7-product-hero.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pENFsKYy-5A/UevRTECNOQI/AAAAAAAAADo/UXoDFTuSDr0/s400/n7-product-hero.png" width="288" /></a><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit;">Processor and performance</span></h4><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nexus 7 is powered by ASUS and comes with a NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor by which movements are faster and load pages quickly. When you need processing power, Patented 4-plus-1 design provides and save battery efficiency when you don’t need.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M2fZYcvaTx4/UevRymySJBI/AAAAAAAAADw/ZvtIVIIRbN0/s1600/n7-speed-performance.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="211" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M2fZYcvaTx4/UevRymySJBI/AAAAAAAAADw/ZvtIVIIRbN0/s320/n7-speed-performance.png" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Source : Nvidia</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit;">Battery life.</span></h4><span style="font-family: inherit;">In terms of power we can say less charging more doing, because battery gives you 8 hrs of HD video playback, 10 hrs of web browsing and 300 hrs of standby time.</span><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zIQDz_y6HrM/UevSEkcMDPI/AAAAAAAAAD4/X-CJ-x5PoCI/s1600/n7-android-icon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zIQDz_y6HrM/UevSEkcMDPI/AAAAAAAAAD4/X-CJ-x5PoCI/s1600/n7-android-icon.png" /></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Android 4.2 jelly bean, the latest version of mobile platform is used</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">in nexus 7.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qcQjUp_Kgsw/UevSsfewOzI/AAAAAAAAAEA/hRMbxZHRWlk/s1600/n7-gesture.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qcQjUp_Kgsw/UevSsfewOzI/AAAAAAAAAEA/hRMbxZHRWlk/s320/n7-gesture.png" width="229" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">For writing messages and mails, a smarter key board with gesture typing is there in the tablet. The keyboard can predict the next word. This type of keyboard is best for English.</span><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit;"><b>Browsing.</b></span></h4><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nexus 7 comes with built in Google Chrome. It is fully connected to Google’s cloud services so your images, music, movies, Gmail, contacts, calendar and books are backed up in cloud.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/100638775997274345522" rel="author">Anil Swami</a></div></div>

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