Saturday, June 30, 2012

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Graham Nash has been playing with Crosby, Stills and Nash since 1968. Although he and his at-the-time new band mates ? Crosby, a former member of the Byrds; Stills of Buffalo Springfield, and Nash of the Hollies ? would become one of the biggest radio and concert sensations of the late 1960s and 1970s through today, the trio ? which would also work with Neil Young for many projects ? wasn?t quite ready for its first concert:?

The Atlantic City Pop Festival, held at the Atlantic City Race Course in Mays Landing, just before Woodstock in August 1969.?

?We didn?t play it,? says Nash, on a tour stop with CSN in Providence, Rhode Island. (The band is on the road through October and returns to the Borgata in Atlantic City on Saturday, June 30.)?

Although CSN was to debut live at the A.C. Pop Fest, with its name listed on the festival?s official posters and T-shirts, etc., Nash doesn?t quite remember the circumstances. ?

?I?m not sure to be honest,? he says. ?I?ve been asked this question twice within the last month. ? I believe that we needed more practice. Don?t forget Woodstock was only the second gig we ever played together live. ?

?I think we might have needed more rehearsal or something. Something was going on and we didn?t play that Atlantic City [date, but] there were people who swore they saw us there!??

Aside from singing and playing on such classic tunes as ?Almost Cut My Hair,? ?Teach Your Children,? ?Our House? and ?Chicago,? Nash has been interested in art and photography for decades. ?

Although he has had exhibits of his photography in the past, his paintings ? mainly acrylics ? are being unveiled for the first time beginning this Thursday (June 28) in Stone Harbor.?

While CSN plays the Borgata, Nash?s exhibit ?The Art of Graham Nash? will be on display at Ocean Galleries (9618 Third Ave., Stone Harbor) through Sept. 30. ?

However, on July 1, Nash will be at the gallery in person for a reception between 7-10pm where he will sign purchased art.?

?This exhibit has never been seen before,? says Nash. ?These paintings. I?ve been working on this [exhibit] for about a year and a half now.?

?This whole experience is fresh. It was amazing to me that when the gallery owners came out to my house in Los Angeles and saw my work it was their response that got me excited because, I mean, they?re supposed to know what they?re doing ? they?ve had an art gallery for a couple decades now and they?re this excited! It was shocking to me.? ?

So Nash decided to share his intriguing imagery with the world.?

?Why not let other people see them?? Nash says. ?You know? It?s brand new to me and it?s going to be exciting.??

Exciting for southern New Jersey folks as well, as the Ocean Galleries exhibit is the world premiere of Nash?s paintings of images and people such as Neil Young. ?

Nash says he is already working on another exhibit of different works.?

?I?ve done another exhibit of very serious work that I?ve been doing,? says Nash. ?

?Almost brutal images of things that disturb me. ... It?s hard to say what they are. They are a combination of painting and photographs and images that I made collages of ? interesting work. And there will only be seven pieces in the entire exhibit. Six of them will be four-feet-square and one image will be four-feet-high by 12-feet long.??

Aside from the images that will be on display at Ocean Galleries this summer, Nash?s Web site shows more than 40 photographs the 70-year-old multi-faceted artist has taken over the years.?

?I?ve been a photographer longer than I?ve been a musician,? says Nash. ?The first portrait that I ever took where I thought I had something was of my mother when I was 11.??

On the Web site, there is a photo of Bob Dylan playing live at Madison Garden for the George Harrison-organized Concert for Bangladesh. ?

?Oh, yes I was there. That?s Leon Russell there behind him. I was there to purely watch George pull off a piece of wonderfulness. It was a great, great concert.??

So, has Nash shown any of his subjects his paintings of them??

?No, neither David [Crosby] or Stephen [Stills] Neil [Young] or Joni [Mitchell] have seen any of these. It?s kind of wild; it would be interesting to hear their reaction.? The Neil Young image was painted from a photograph Nash took of the musician ?years ago.??

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?I really like it and I blew it up larger on canvas and painted it. There are several in there because not only are they all different colors and different interpretations, but I wrote a line from a Neil song into every painting.??

One of the Neil Young images is called ?Neil Young ? Hurricane,? which is a line from his song, ?Like a Hurricane.? There is also Neil Young ? Old Man, with, along his shoulder line, I?ve written a line from his song ?Old Man.? Just pushing it all forward.?

Like fellow musician Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones, who also has a southern New Jersey art exhibit (at the Golden Nugget Atlantic City through July, see images here), Nash prefers acrylic paint to oils. ?

?Right now, I?m loving acrylic,? says Nash. ?I don?t do [work] in oil. I?m too impatient. It takes too long to dry. It takes days to dry. It drives me crazy.??

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Miranda + Mike // A California Honeymoon

We had such a fun time walking around San Clemente with Miranda & Mike!? Miranda is a photographer in Canada & wanted to do a photo shoot while they were honeymooning in California. It turned out to be quite a windy day, but they both looked so happy and in love! It was such a pleasure to work with you guys and capture some beach side honeymoon memories :)

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Japan in military pact with S Korea

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Japan has signed its first military pact with South Korea since the Second World War

Japan has signed its first military pact with South Korea since the Second World War

Japan and South Korea have agreed to share intelligence in their first joint military pact since the Second World War.

Japan's cabinet approved the pact on Friday. It will allow sharing intelligence in such areas as missile defence, North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and other regional security matters.

It has already been approved by South Korea and is to be signed in Tokyo later in the day.

The pact reflects mutual concerns that more co-operation is needed to enhance security readiness, and is seen as a breakthrough in ties between the two neighbours.

Japan ruled Korea as a colony for several decades until the end of the Second World War in 1945, and Seoul has often been wary of Japan's post-war military development.


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Friday, June 29, 2012

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Welsh baritone Terfel: Working up to a great Wotan

(Reuters) - Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel got a big kick out of hobnobbing on stage last year at New York's Beacon Theater with glitterati of the pop world for Sting's 60th birthday.

"I was between (Lady) Gaga and Billy Joel, rubbing shoulders with Stevie Wonder," Terfel said, his eyes still radiating the thrill more than half a year later.

Little did those rock and pop stars know that at the wave of a spear, Terfel could have put them into eternal sleep on a craggy mountaintop, surrounded by a ring of fire, as he does to his headstrong daughter Brunnhilde in Richard Wagner's epic "Ring" cycle.

Terfel, 46 and the son of a sheep farmer from north Wales, is perhaps the most sought after singer in the world to incarnate one of the most demanding roles in opera, that of Wagner's wandering chief of the Gods Wotan.

His scheming and philandering bring about the downfall of the gods, and their palace Valhalla, in the 16-hour opera cycle's fiery conclusion.

He'll be doing it again, in October, at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, on the eve of the 2013 bicentenary celebration of Wagner's birth.

Terfel, who first sang the role at Covent Garden in 2007 but had to pull out of part of it due to a family emergency, and who has since sung Wotan for cheering audiences at New York's Metropolitan Opera, says this time London is going to get a performance worthy of the gods.

"I cannot wait to go on stage to do this 'Ring' in Covent Garden because I felt more comfortable in New York," he told Reuters in an interview.

"I think you can feel that I'm still working out the process, and I think this production here could be my kind of opening of the door, the lights will maybe come on ... The ingredients are there, it's just a matter of molding and enjoying it."

In the meantime, Terfel's fans, who are legion, and anyone else looking for a heady program of everything from Broadway showtunes to Verdi and Puccini arias can have an earful during a four-day "Brynfest" beginning on July 4 at London's Southbank Centre, as part of the music complex's Festival of the World with Mastercard celebration.

BEST OF WELSH

The festival, a celebration of all things musical, also affords an opportunity to hear the best of what the Welsh music world has to offer without ever leaving London.

While Terfel will sing Broadway showtunes with West End musical stars on the opening night, and an array of opera classics with supporting soloists the next, he will be getting a big assist from the orchestra and chorus of the Welsh National Opera.

He credits the company with providing the platform for what he considers the pinnacle of his career, his performance as Hans Sachs in a 2010 production of Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg".

"It was the pinnacle, yes, where a company is concerned. We were all working not individually but for the company, everything was company driven. And it was the first time I could walk into an opera house and speak Welsh with 60 percent of the cast," he said.

What is it about Wales, which in some ways never recovered from the closure of its coalmines and steel factories and has pockets of some of the most severe poverty in Great Britain, that produces great singers?

The usual answer is that colliery choirs were a fertile breeding and testing ground for young voices, but in Terfel's case it may be that his childhood mania for sports drove him to win singing competition after singing competition, to use the prize money to buy sports gear.

"It's like Dylan Thomas said, thank God we're a musical nation. I carry a certain ambassadorial role, which is quite interesting in a way because I've been given the Commander of the British Empire, I've been given the queen's medal for music, and I'm thinking, 'Look, I'm a farmer's son from north Wales, this doesn't fit into the grand scheme of how I planned out my life.'

"My life was going to be very simple, I was going to be either a sports commentator or a fireman."

Recognition at an early age that Terfel had an exceptional voice channeled him instead to London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he graduated in 1989, and within three years he had made his Royal Opera House debut as Masetto in Mozart's "Don Giovanni".

By his own admission, Terfel, possibly in keeping with the rebellious Welsh character, was headstrong and even a bit of a know-it-all, but he learned quickly.

"I was horribly naive in the beginning and would quarrel at the drop of a hat just to get my points over, whereas a year or two later, having seen these wonderful people like Sir Thomas Allen, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Thomas Hampson, Placido Domingo, I said to myself, 'Hey, calm down, think about what you're going to say, think about what you're going to do and just be very grateful for the very fortunate bucket that somebody's dropped over your head'."

("Brynfest" runs at Southbank Centre July 4-7 www.southbankcentre.co.uk)

(Editing by Mike Collett-White)

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Staycations ? some pros and cons | Family Holidays

Posted on 29 June 2012.

One effect of this wet spring and summer in the UK is that tourism is suffering quite badly. The combination of bad weather and economic worries has resulted in many people who would normally holiday either in the UK or abroad electing to spend their holidays at home; the tourist industry has termed these types of breaks ?staycations?, as in a stay at home vacation, though sometimes the word is interpreted as meaning holidays taken in the UK rather than abroad.

One effect of this is that holiday providers have been forced to reduce their prices and the result is that, for those who are still looking for holidays away or weekend breaks, there are many cheap hotels to be found often in excellent locations.

Around 20 percent of households who would normally take an annual holiday either abroad or in the UK have decided that in 2012 they will either spend their holiday at home, or will combine a holiday at home with some days out or short breaks, depending on the weather. Whatever their decision, what has become even more important is both cost and value for money; finding a good deal is crucial.

In terms of the number of people who have simply cut back on holidays abroad and, in their place, intend to take a holiday away in the UK, it is expected that 2012 will be a record year. It seems that 6 percent more families will take this type of holiday in 2012 than did in 2011 and the total holiday spend on UK holidays in 2012 is expected to reach ?8.7 billion. The UK holiday destinations that will benefit from this the most are Cornwall, Edinburgh and the Lake District.

The UK government is also encouraging people to holiday in the UK this year rather than abroad, and it has launched a campaign in an attempt to persuade them to do so. The campaign is headed by a number of celebrities including Rupert Grint (of Harry Potter fame); Michelle Docker (from Downton Abbey), Julie Walters and the inimitable Stephen Fry.

However will staycations really save families money? There is a body of thought that believes holidaying in the UK is potentially more expensive than holidaying abroad. Currently the UK is quite expensive when compared to many popular overseas holiday destinations, and the high value of the pound means that exchange rates are much more favourable than they were last year. For instance, comparing a week in London to a week in Alicante during the high summer season, a holiday in London is around 60 percent more expensive.

On the other hand, if you want to holiday in the UK and save some money then there are plenty of ways of doing so. Forget the expensive restaurants or even fish and chip shops; bring back the old fashioned British picnic; not only is it much cheaper it is more fun and far healthier; many museums and galleries in London and other cities have free entry; and instead of taking the kids to a theme park take them for a hike or a bike ride in the countryside; they may complain at first but they will benefit more from it in the end.

Source: http://familyholidaysabroad.org.uk/staycations-some-pros-and-cons/

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

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JAMES' BLOG: Change Management Issues

JAMES' BLOG: Change Management Issues

Change Management Issues

At the moment the company is researching change management issues and have discovered a lot of mistakes that caused failure. We noted five common mistakes:

Mistake #1:?Not envolving the employees?- leaders must actively involve the people most affected by the change in its implementation. This will help ensure employees at all levels of the organization embrace the proposed changes.?

Mistake #2:?Not enough leadership?- several leaders focus too much on management and too little on leadership.

Mistake #3:?Ignoring current corporate culture?- when people in an organization realize and recognize that their current organizational culture needs to transform to support the organization?s success and progress, Mistake 3change can occur.

Mistake #4:? Lack of communication?- change management communications need to be targeted to each segment of the workforce. It should be delivered in a two-way fashion that allows people to make sense of the change subjectively.??

Mistake #5:?Lack of skills and resources?- change does not happen through goals and exhortation alone. Like any business operation, It also calls for the right skills and resources, Organizations often simply fail to commit the necessary time, people, and resources to making change work. Paradoxically, successful behavior change often demands the very skills the change Is trying to create.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Budget travel in Australia

I?ve recently been wondering if?Budget Travel in Australia?is possible. I hear so much about it being so expensive and I am wondering just how easy it is to do on a budget. I think that staying in hostels will help to eliminate some of the costs but from what I can tell they are still pretty expensive. Perhaps I should buy a campervan, sleep in it for the entire time and then sell it when i finish my trip, hopefully saving money in the process! Australia is a big country so I?d need to make sure I had enough for petrol!

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Actress Hilary Swank helps Bucharest stray dogs

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Bahrain: 3 police face murder charges in shootings

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Subway work unearths ancient road in Greece

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IK Multimedia iRig MIX review: a mobile mixer built for iDevices

IK Multimedia iRig MIX review

Accessories, iOS has them. Not many devices can boast the same rich and dazzling array of add-ons that the iPhone or iPad enjoy -- from keyboards to docks, arcade cabinets to battery packs. Today's offering? A mobile mixer. The iRig MIX from IK Multimedia, to be precise. It's essentially a mini DJ tool, designed to work with such iGadgets, and brought to you by the same serial audio-accessorizers behind the iRig MIC Cast and AmpliTube. If you think you've seen this fella before, then you likely have, as this got its first glimpse of sunlight back at CES. Now it's here for real, auditioning for your affections as if it were on "American Idol."

While it's easy to dismiss some of the more ambitious accessories as as trying to push the limits of iPad / iPhone functionality to the extreme, it's also worth remembering that accessory X isn't always about replacing object Y. No one ever bought a USB webcam thinking it'd turn them into Spielberg, now did they? But, they might have gotten one thinking it would give their PC some skills it never had before. So it's with this short, preemptive missive in mind that we turn on the iRig MIX, plug in and rock out. Hopefully.

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Newest Members Of The Nashville Branch | IT Staffing Atlanta | IT ...

IDR is proud to announce the additions of Katie Bruegger, Travis Hampton, and Travis Howell to the team! These three new recruiters will definitely play huge roles as our company continues to grow. They are fresh and eager to succeed. We can?t wait to see the positive impact you all will make!

Katie Bruegger, a Texas native, just graduated from Vanderbilt University. Though she?s only been in the office a few days, Katie has already proven to be a perfect culture fit. We look forward to the energy she will bring to the team.

Travis Hampton joined us from Knoxville where he just received his diploma from the University of Tennessee. Eager to be out of his comfort zone and to grow personally and professionally, Travis is going to be a great asset to the office.

Travis Howell recently graduated from Western Kentucky University and already has the spirit of an IDR team member. His goal is to have a successful career while having fun at the same time. We know Travis will thrive and accomplish great things here with us.

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Most commonly mutated gene in cancer may have a role in stroke

ScienceDaily (June 22, 2012) ? The gene p53 is the most commonly mutated gene in cancer. p53 is dubbed the "guardian of the genome" because it blocks cells with damaged DNA from propagating and eventually becoming cancerous. However, new research led by Ute M. Moll, M.D., Professor of Pathology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and colleagues, uncovers a novel role for p53 beyond cancer in the development of ischemic stroke. The research team identified an unexpected critical function of p53 in activating necrosis, an irreversible form of tissue death, triggered during oxidative stress and ischemia.

The findings are detailed online in Cell.

Ischemia-associated oxidative damage leads to irreversible necrosis which is a major cause of catastrophic tissue loss. Elucidating its signaling mechanism is of paramount importance. p53 is a central cellular stress sensor that responds to multiple insults including oxidative stress and is known to orchestrate apoptotic and autophagic types of cell death. However, it was previously unknown whether p53 can also activate oxidative stress-induced necrosis, a regulated form of cell death that depends on the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (PTP) pore.

"We identified an unexpected and critical function of p53 in activating necrosis: In response to oxidative stress in normal healthy cells, p53 accumulates in the mitochondrial matrix and triggers the opening of the PTP pore at the inner mitochondrial membrane, leading to collapse of the electrochemical gradient and cell necrosis," explains Dr. Moll. "p53 acts via physical interaction with the critical PTP regulator Cyclophylin D (CypD). This p53 action occurs in cultured cells and in ischemic stroke in mice. "

Of note, they found in their model that when the destructive p53-CypD complex is blocked from forming by using Cyclosporine-A type inhibitors, the brain tissue is strongly protected from necrosis and stroke is prevented.

"The findings fundamentally expand our understanding of p53-mediated cell death networks," says Dr. Moll. "The data also suggest that acute temporary blockade of the destructive p53-CypD complex with clinically well-tolerated Cyclosporine A-type inhibitors may lead to a therapeutic strategy to limit the extent of an ischemic stroke in patients."

"p53 is one of the most important genes in cancer and by far the most studied," says Yusuf A. Hannun, M.D., Director of the Stony Brook University Cancer Center, Vice Dean for Cancer Medicine, and the Joel Kenny Professor of Medicine at Stony Brook. "Therefore, this discovery by Dr. Moll and her colleagues in defining the mechanism of a new p53 function and its importance in necrotic injury and stoke is truly spectacular."

Dr. Moll has studied p53 for 20 years in her Stony Brook laboratory. Her research has led to numerous discoveries about the function of p53 and two related genes. For example, previous to this latest finding regarding p53 and stroke, Dr. Moll identified that p73, a cousin to p53, steps in as a tumor suppressor gene when p53 is lost and can stabilize the genome. She found that p73 plays a major developmental role in maintaining the neural stem cell pool during brain formation and adult learning. Her work also helped to identify that another p53 cousin, called p63, has a critical surveillance function in the male germ line and likely contributed to the evolution of humans and great apes, enabling their long reproductive periods.

Dr. Moll's Cell study coauthors include: Angelina V. Vaseva and Natalie D. Marchenko, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine; Kyungmin Ji and Stella E. Tsirka, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University School of Medicine; and Sonja Holzmann, Department of Molecular Oncology, University of Gottingen in Germany.

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  1. Angelina?V. Vaseva, Natalie?D. Marchenko, Kyungmin Ji, Stella?E. Tsirka, Sonja Holzmann, Ute?M. Moll. p53 Opens the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore to Trigger Necrosis. Cell, 2012; 149 (7): 1536 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.05.014

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Inside Upwest Labs, The Startup Accelerator That Brings Israel To Silicon Valley [TCTV]

Screen Shot 2012-06-24 at 12.52.30 PMThere is certainly no shortage of startup incubators and accelerators these days, but Silicon Valley's Upwest Labs is doing something especially unique. Upwest, which got off the ground in January, focuses on entrepreneurs with Israeli roots -- it brings them to Palo Alto, California for three months where they work around the clock to amp up their existing startups to Silicon Valley speed. Earlier this month Upwest held the demo day for its second-ever batch of companies, so we stopped by its office in the days after to get a firsthand feel for the program and see some of the companies that are now graduating out of the second class. In the video embedded above, you can watch our interview with Upwest Labs' co-founder Shuly Galili, and after the jump you can watch our video interviews with a handful of Upwest startups.

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Morsi goes from prisoner to president

In a reversal of fortunes unthinkable a year and a half ago, an Islamist jailed by Hosni Mubarak has succeeded him as president of the biggest Arab nation in a victory at the ballot box which has historic consequences for Egypt and the Middle East.

The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi will not enjoy the extent of modern, pharaonic powers exercised by Mubarak: those have been curtailed by a military establishment that will decide just how much he will be able to do in government.

Still, the U.S.-trained engineer's victory in the country's first free presidential election breaks a tradition of domination by men from the armed forces, which have provided every Egyptian leader since the overthrow of the monarchy 60 years ago, and installs in office a group that drew on 84 years of grassroots activism to catapult Morsi into the presidency.

He has promised a moderate, modern Islamist agenda to steer Egypt into a new democratic era where autocracy will be replaced by transparent government that respects human rights and revives the fortunes of a powerful Arab state long in decline. Morsi is promising an "Egyptian renaissance with an Islamic foundation".

Yet the stocky, bespectacled 60-year old, appears something of an accidental president: he was only flung into the race at the last moment by the disqualification on a technicality of Khairat al-Shater, by far the group's preferred choice.

With a stiff and formal style, Morsi, who has a doctorate from the University of Southern California, cast himself as a reluctant late comer to the race, who cited religious fear of judgement day as one of his reasons for running. He struggled to shake off his label as the Brotherhood's "spare tire."

Questions remain over the extent to which Morsi will operate independently of other Brotherhood leaders once in office: his manifesto was drawn up by the group's policymakers. The role Shater might play has been one focus of debate in Egypt.

"I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people," Morsi said at his campaign headquarters in Cairo shortly after polling ended, a week before his victory was confirmed by the Mubarak-era body overseeing the vote.

But many Egyptians, not least the Christian minority, remain suspicious of Morsi and even more so of the group he represents. Anti-Brotherhood sentiment, fuelled by both a hostile media and some of the group's policies, has soared in recent weeks.

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Ahmed Shafiq, the former general he defeated, won nearly as many votes as Morsi, signalling that Egypt is a nation that is anything but united around the idea of Brotherhood rule. Morsi won a little less than a quarter of the first-round vote in May.

That a man who served as Mubarak's last prime minister was so close to victory has been seen as one sign of failure by the Brotherhood - which has described itself as the victim of a vicious campaign orchestrated by its enemies.

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At first, Morsi pitched himself as a conservative Islamist - the only one in the field, he said. He repeatedly promised to implement Islamic law in speeches peppered with references to God, the Prophet Mohammad and the Koran.

"It was for the sake of the Islamic sharia that men were ... thrown into prison. Their blood and existence rests on our shoulders now," Morsi said in one of his early campaign rallies.

Muslim Brotherhood's Morsi wins Egypt election

Though not one of those jailed for years, he was held on more than one occasion by Mubarak's feared state security men.

But he has seldom spelled out what precisely his call to implement sharia, or Islamic law, would mean for Egypt, where piety runs deep and the constitution already defines the principles of the sharia as the main source of legislation.

Morsi has said Brotherhood rule would not mean that Egypt will be a theocracy, adding that there is little difference between the phrase "the principles of the sharia" - the term found in the current constitution - and the sharia itself.

Pushed by one TV interviewer to clarify what Islamist rule might mean for bikinis on Red Sea beaches - and so for Egypt's vital tourist industry - Morsi did not give a clear answer.

He described such issues as "very marginal, very superficial and affecting a very limited number of places", adding that sector specialists must be consulted on all draft laws.

It was typical of the vagueness that has fuelled concerns among those Egyptians whose fears were also exacerbated by other elements of the Morsi campaign, including his early efforts to court the ultraorthodox Salafi Islamist movement.

In a gesture to Gama'a al-Islamiya, one such group, Morsi pledged to work for the release of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, a militant preacher imprisoned in the United States for planning the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Another cleric, the independent Safwat el-Hegazi, added a radical flavour to Morsi's early campaign, taking to the stage at his events to call for a Muslim super-state across the Middle East with Jerusalem as its capital - a direct challenge to Israel with whom Mubarak maintained a 33-year-old peace treaty.

Morsi subsequently distanced himself from such statements, but not before the Shafiq campaign had used them to great effect to paint the Brotherhood's man as a dangerous radical.

Asked about Hegazy's remarks, Morsi later spoke of European Union-style integration for the Arab world and an Arab common market. "Jerusalem is in our hearts and vision," he said. "But Cairo is Egypt's capital."

As he readied himself for the run-off against Shafiq, Morsi switched to a more inclusive message and portrayed himself as defender of the "Jan. 25 revolution" that toppled Mubarak - an uprising initially led not by the wary Brotherhood but by mainly secular, liberal groups among Egypt's urban youth.

The Brotherhood has long been at the heart of the movement for democratic reform in Egypt, but he was a hard sell to many of those youth activists, who said his group was slow to join the anti-Mubarak uprising and who subsequently accused the Brotherhood of cosying up to the generals who then took over.

Morsi won few open endorsements from politicians and parties beyond the various Islamist factions, though the "April 6 movement" - one of the protest groups that ignited the anti-Mubarak revolt - was a notable exception.

"We face a decisive moment in our history, we must halt the farce of the former regime," Morsi said in one of his last television interviews before the run-off. "We face a new era and we cannot allow the return of the former regime."

Morsi worked to address some of the criticisms faced by his group. In the last week of his campaign, he put in writing his promises of an inclusive administration, to protect media freedoms and those of minorities, including Christians whose fear of the Islamists drove many of them to vote for Shafiq.

He also sought to reassure the generals about his group's intentions. In a June 14 interview, he said the Brotherhood would seek agreement with the military over the next defence minister. The army, he said, would also remain "protector of the interior" for up to two years while the Interior Ministry - a largely unreformed vestige of Mubarak's rule - was restructured.

In any case, the army enacted a court order that same day to dissolve the Brotherhood-led parliament and, as polling ended, issued a decree taking legislative power for itself, among measures that will sharply constrain the presidency.

Morsi travelled across the country, promoting the Brotherhood's "renaissance project" - an 80-page manifesto based on what it terms its "centrist understanding" of Islam.

The son of a peasant farmer, Morsi has spoken of a simple childhood in a village in the Nile Delta province of Sharqia, recalling how his mother taught him prayer and the Koran. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Southern California in 1982 after earlier studying at Cairo University.

Following his studies in the United States, he returned to Egypt in 1985. Two of his five children hold U.S. citizenship.

Head of the Freedom and Justice Party, which the Brotherhood established last year to promote its aims in the new party political system, Morsi has been described as an apparatchik.

His daughter is married to the son of another Brotherhood leader and he has described his wife, who wears a long, cape-like headscarf, as a Brotherhood activist.

The Brotherhood's "renaissance" programme sketches out the group's vision on everything from fighting inflation to remaking ties with the United States as a partnership of equals. It envisions deeper ties with Turkey - a Muslim state which Brotherhood leaders often cite as a model of success.

On Israel, Morsi's views reflect those of the Brotherhood. He has called for a review of Cairo's 1979 peace treaty with its Jewish neighbour, saying Egypt's neighbour has not respected the accord. But the group has said it will not renege on the deal.

Morsi has cited fear of judgment day as one reason for seeking the top office. He said: "We are worried that God will ask us, on the day of reckoning: 'What did you do when you saw that the nation was in need of sacrifice and effort?'"

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