??NBC?s Tom Costello reports from the re-opened Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., which is operating with limited service, as are airports up and down the East Coast, though travelers still face a lot of waiting.
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In the wake of any major and destructive weather event, there is always confusion, misinformation, and disarray. But if you?re lucky enough to live in a place like the U.S., there is also a massive outpouring of aid.
Unfortunately, there are people out there who use both post-disaster confusion as well as the goodwill of others to grab a piece of the aid pie.
That being said, here?s a helpful list from Identity Theft 911, a group that specializes in ?identity and data risk management, resolution and education services,? detailing the top 5 best ways to avoid getting scammed by thieves looking to take advantage of Superstorm Sandy [all block quotes from Identity Theft 911]:
Protect important information and documents. Whether you?re in a shelter, staying with friends, or crashing on your family?s couch, never let these items leave your sight. They are the key to your identity ? and you will need this information to prove who you are.
Another tip: Ask the post office to hold your mail if you have to leave your home. This will keep the bad guys from finding sensitive information that may be left in your mailbox.
If you?ve experienced damage to any of your personal property, call your insurance company first.? Don?t fall for fly-by-night ?professionals? who make false guarantees about a claims check, damage appraisal, inspection or water quality testing.
Double check the legitimacy of the site you?re clicking to from your email, Facebook or elsewhere. When in doubt, check your local American Red Cross or the National FEMA site to find local help.
Watch out for scammy charitable organizations that have names similar to reputable institutions. These sites often end in .com (instead of the typical .org for nonprofits).
They?re designed to fool you into thinking you?re donating to a good cause when, in reality, you?re donating your money and personal and financial information to thieves.
This scam strikes after any type of disaster or tragedy. Thieves count on people to be hungry for news, so they infect images and video with malware.
Stick with legitimate sites, such as your local news station or newspaper for the latest information. Be wary of links on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites.
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Since I've been in a relationship for a few years, I'm used to couples?Halloween costumes. I'm most proud of our costumes from two years ago, when we went as?Katy Perry and Elmo after her whole Sesame Street-low-cut shirt scandal. Do you need a last-minute couples Halloween costume? If you're still stressing about what you and your guy are going to do, fear not! We have some awesome?? and easy?? ideas. Check out the photo gallery!
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Even as its past policies on sex-abuse prevention fuel controversy, the Boy Scouts of America is hosting an unprecedented closed-door symposium Thursday with other national youth organizations, hoping to share strategies to combat future abuse.
The 10 participating groups, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the YMCA and Big Brothers Big Sisters, will hear presentations from some of the nation's top experts on child sex-abuse prevention. They also will discuss the sensitive topic of how uncorroborated information about potentially threatening adult volunteers might be shared among youth organizations.
Planning for the one-day session in Atlanta began late last year, part of long-standing efforts by the Boy Scouts to demonstrate a commitment to preventing the abuse problems that have bedeviled it and other youth groups over the decades.
The forum takes place just two weeks after the court-ordered release of confidential files compiled by the Scouts from 1959-85 with information about 1,200 alleged abusers in the ranks of its adult leaders.
Michael Johnson, a former police detective hired by the Scouts in 2010 as national director of youth protection, has been the key organizer of the symposium, calling it a "groundbreaking opportunity" for groups serving more than 17 million youngsters to discuss their shared challenges and anti-abuse strategies.
"Crazy as it sounds, this hasn't been done before," Johnson said.
One of the symposium's sessions will deal with the type of confidential files kept by the Boy Scouts since the 1920s, containing a range of verified and unverified allegations involving thousands of adults deemed to pose a threat of abuse.
The Scouts' policy ? not always adhered to over the decades ? is to share substantive allegations with law enforcement. Thursday's symposium will include discussion of whether, and how, these types of files might also be shared among youth groups even when the allegations are unproven.
"This information is an incredible tool that might be helpful to other organizations, but where is the legislation that allows this to be shared amongst us?" said Johnson. "We want kids to be safe. We don't mean to be defensive. But it is complicated."
The expert recruited to facilitate the symposium, Dr. Michael Haney of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, said the question of information sharing is "a very gray area legally," raising questions with no easy answers.
"You may have enough information to know someone violated your policy, so you don't let him be a volunteer," Haney said. "How do we deal with that so that individual can't just walk around the corner and find another venue to have access to children?"
The session on information-sharing will be led by Suzanna Tiapula, director of the National District Attorneys Association's National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse.
She said the youth organizations needed to be wary of reports that appeared false or vindictive, but should be working on ways to share with other youth groups any information deemed serious enough to report to law enforcement.
"That's going to be delicate," she said. "They have a lot of issues, and they're trying to do it correctly."
She praised the steps taken by the Boy Scouts in recent years to improve their child-protection policies.
Some of those steps date back to the 1980s, while others followed the 2010 judgment by an Oregon jury ordering the Boy Scouts to pay $19.9 million in damages to Kerry Lewis, who had been abused in the 1980s by an assistant scoutmaster in Portland.
That's the case that led to the recent release of the Scouts' so-called "perversion files," prompting a pledge from the Scouts to re-examine the documents and identify instances when people within the organization knew about suspected abuse but failed to report it to authorities.
Within months of the Oregon judgment, the Scouts announced that all adult volunteers ? now numbering 1.1 million ? would be required to take child-protection training when they join the Scouts and repeat the training every two years. Last year, the Scouts stipulated that all adult staff are mandated to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement authorities and Scout leaders, even if this would not be required by state law.
Tiapula described the mandatory-reporting policy as excellent but said the Scouts needed to pursue a "massive education process" to ensure that the adult volunteers were knowledgeable about detecting potential abusers.
"There's quite a bit of work that they have to do," Tiapula said. "I think they know that."
Tiapula expressed regret that Thursday's symposium will be closed to the news media.
"It creates a sense there are things in the community that they can't be sharing," she said. "An open meeting conveys to the world they're doing the right thing."
However, Johnson and Haney said the closed-door policy was expected to encourage candid dialogue. Were the meeting to be open, Haney said, attorneys for the youth organizations might counsel participants to be cautious about discussing problems they face with youth-protection.
Symposium topics include the prevalence and prevention of child sexual abuse, the behavior of sex offenders and the growing threat of online predators.
Speakers include David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center; Victor Vieth, executive director of the National Child Protection Training Center; and Kristen Anderson, executive director of training at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The other participating youth groups are Girls Inc., USA Swimming, Camp Fire, the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, the American Youth Soccer Organization and The First Tee.
Conference organizers plan to summarize the conclusions of the meeting for a report that will be made available to other youth-serving organizations that did not participate.
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The way Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer describes it, there have been three seminal moments for the company: the release of the IBM PC, the Windows 95 launch and the recent launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The company is "all in" with Windows 8, Ballmer said during the company's Build 2012 conference keynote.?
Microsoft calls Windows 8 the "reimagined" version of Windows and it's actually quite a dramatic departure from previous iterations. One look at the touch-friendly, always-updating tile interface and you can clearly see that Microsoft is taking the tablet and mobile future seriously.?
Although it was never said, it's clear that the iPad has had a big impact on the look and feel of Windows 8. As we potentially move to a post-PC world where users just want an easy-to-use computing appliance, Microsoft has made drastic changes to its bread and butter to perform well on a new class of devices. That includes the Microsoft-made Surface tablet, as well as the traditional desktop and laptops.?
You could even say that it all started with the mobile side, as the live-tile interface first debuted with Windows Phone 7 two years ago. Microsoft recently introduced Windows Phone 8?and it shares the same base-level kernal as Windows 8.
Ballmer acknowledged that Windows Phone has been a "small-volume player" but he believes there's tremendous upside for app developers. First of all, he said it will be the best companion platform for Windows 8. If PC sales and volume remain flat, we could still be looking at 400 million Windows 8 users by the time it's all said and done.?
He also said that thanks to Microsoft's services and the just-released Windows Phone 8 SDK, developers will be able to make the best apps on Microsoft's platform. That's obviously subjective but the company has done a much-better job of creating a platform that would be appealing to app makers.?
Also, don't ever say Microsoft doesn't know how to treat its developers. Everyone who attends Build 2012 will receive a free Microsoft Surface, 100GB of SkyDrive storage and a complimentary Nokia Lumia 920. You can be sure that received a lot of cheers.?
Ballmer wasn't exagerating when he said Windows 8 is a big moment for Microsoft, as it may be a major inflection point for the company. For years, Microsoft has held a near monopoly on computing and it has had the profits and clout to show for it.?
But over the last few years, the mobile space has really changed who the big players in computing are. Google's Eric Schmidt likes to describe the "Four Horsemen" of the tech world as Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon - dismissing Microsoft as a well-run company but one that doesn't innovate.?
While that's just one man's opinion, it's clear that Microsoft is not going to have the market share it once had in the computing space because how we compute is changing. We'll soon have more phones than people out there and these will all be connected to the Internet and will likely be the primary computing device for many, particularly in the fast-growing emerging markets. Throw in the proliferation of tablets and Microsoft needed to make a drastic move like Windows 8 to remain relevant.?
I'm not going to go too far, as the company is still wildly profitable and Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 and Xbox Kinnect show that it still has plenty of innovation left. Windows 8 has already seen 4 million upgrades in three days and it looks like it will be a winner with many consumers.?
I still have my doubts about Windows Phone 8 even though I'm intrigued by it. The new hardware looks fantastic, the design of the software is cool and it looks like the app ecosystem is finally rounding into shape. Still, Microsoft is playiing for third place in the mobile space behind Android and iOS and I'm not certain I see that many reasons to switch other than wanting something a little different.?
For Microsoft's sake, let's hope I'm wrong.?
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Source: http://www.knowyourcell.com/news/1657469/microsoft_all_in_with_windows_8_windows_phone_8.html
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? By studying a specific part of the male DNA, it may be possible to refine the interpretation of PSA tests. This would reduce the risk of men being treated for prostate cancer unnecessarily.
The findings have been presented in a thesis by Christel Bj?rk at Lund University, Sweden, who has carried out the study with her colleague Hannah Nenonen, supervised by researcher Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman.
A PSA test measures the level of PSA (prostate-specific antigen) in the blood, and raised PSA can signal an increased risk of cancer; however, this is not the case for everyone. The problem is that there is no good way to separate those with naturally high levels of PSA from those at increased risk of prostate cancer.
"If we know that a man has a naturally high level of PSA, this can be taken into account in a PSA test, and the patient may be able to avoid arduous treatment with a risk of side-effects," says Christel Bj?rk, a doctoral student at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University.
The present study shows how a man's genetic characteristics can affect the androgen receptor, a protein that has an important function in the male reproductive system. It regulates the effect of testosterone and controls production of prostate-specific antigen.
The researchers studied healthy men in different age groups and discovered a connection between PSA levels in the blood and DNA structure of the androgen receptor. The highest PSA levels were found in the men with the most common variant of the androgen receptor, i.e. the largest group of men.
"Both the PSA level and the genetic characteristics can be identified with a blood test," says Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman, Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University.
The study is based on samples from around 400 men from Sweden and Norway. Before the results can be implemented for PSA tests in the health service, the study must be repeated on a larger group.
"We have access to material covering around 3 200 men from seven European countries and the idea is to investigate whether our preliminary findings can be verified on this group in the near future," explains Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman.
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Paper to the Anthropology Department, Oslo University
21 November 2012
John Postill
RMIT University, Melbourne
Abstract
The wave of protests that struck the world in 2011 have generated a great deal of polarised debate, particularly in connection with the historical novelty (or otherwise) of the protests and with the role played by social media such as Facebook or Twitter. In this paper I put aside such controversies and critically review the existing evidence on a range of digital media. Drawing from anthropological fieldwork in Barcelona (Spain) and from secondary research, I explore the digital dimensions of the Indignados and Occupy movements. First I argue that these movements exhibit four main characteristics, namely: they (a) propagated through viralised media ecologies in which political reality is now routinely ?shared? by media professionals, amateurs and ordinary citizens via social media (an age of ?viral reality?, Postill forthcoming), (b) recruited widely from a middle-class precariat that includes students, teachers, artists, social workers and other knowledge ?cultural workers? (Teknokultura 2012) eking out a living in post-2008 neoliberal democracies, (c) were informed by the recent mainstreaming of ?nerd politics? (pace Doctorow 2012, e.g. Wikileaks, Anonymous, #NoLesVotes) and (d) were inspired and sustained in their occupation of digitised public spaces by the ?spirit? of Tahrir Square. I then suggest that despite their similarities and common global ambitions, the new protest movements are profoundly shaped by the distinct techno-political cultures of the nation-states where they have taken hold. This is revealed by a field-theoretical comparison of Spain and the United States in which I show that the movements are best characterised as both culturally-specific ?protest fields? (Crossley 2002) and as fields of cultural production in their own right that expand and contract and migrate far more dramatically than the fields of cultural production studied in France by Bourdieu and his associates (Postill 2011).
References
Crossley, N. 2002. `Global Anti-Corporate Struggle: A Preliminary Analysis?, British Journal of Sociology 53(4): 667?91.
Doctorow, C. 2012 The problem with nerd politics, The Guardian, 14 May 2012.
Postill, J. 2011. Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. See draft Introduction.
Postill, J. forthcoming 2012. Democracy in the age of viral reality: a media epidemiography of Spain?s indignados movement Ethnography journal, Special Issue on Media Ethnography and the Public Sphere, revised version submitted July 2012.
Teknokultura 2012. Call for Papers: Trabajadores culturales: mediaciones y movimientos socioculturales Vol.9 N.2. (December 2012)
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Change Management deals with the implementation of change within an organisation in a systematic and plotted manner. The main objective of Change Management is to: reduce the probability of change implementation failure; reduce resistance to change; and obtain maximum benefit from the implementation.
To know Change Management it is essential to know the concept of change. ?We must always change, renew, and rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden,? said Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. And change applies not only to individuals but to organisations as well. Change is inevitable and is imperative for the success of a firm. An organisation needs to change constantly, adapting to changing external circumstances, otherwise they risk becoming obsolete.
But, the introduction of changes is not a laughing matter. It is human psychology to resist change. There can be several reasons for resistance to change in an organisation: the uncertainty involved; inefficient communication of the changes needed; lack of courage; lack of the necessary skills; lack of communication of the purpose of the change; lack of support and motivation on the part of the management. This is one of the areas where Change Management plays a significant role.
According to Wikipedia, Change Management is ?a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organisations from a current state to a desired future state.? Individual and organisational Change Management refers to the process of understanding and implementing changes at the level of singular staff members and groups of individuals respectively.
Individual Change Management and organisational Change Management are the two major aspects of the processes of Change Management. Experts have come up with several models for Change Management at both these levels. Lewin developed a 3-stage model for individual Change Management, called the Unfreeze-Change-Re-freeze model. In the first stage, Unfreezing, an attempt is made to unfreeze or question existing beliefs, policies and procedures, and realising the need for change. In the second stage, Change, the necessary changes are implemented. The third stage, Re-freezing, attempts to re-freeze or make acceptance for the recently incorporated changes, to replace the ancient beliefs with new ones.
Hughes also uses a similar 3-stage approach in his model for individual Change Management. The 3 stages developed by him are Exit, Transit and Entry. According to Judson, the implementation of change includes 5 major steps: analysis of the existing situation and determining the changes to be made; providing information about the required changes; motivation and making awareness and acceptance for the changes; actual implementation of the changes; evaluation of the changed situation, making modifications wherever necessary, and replacing the ancient system with the new one.
Similarly, the Change Management formula developed by Prosci, known as the ADKAR Model, also uses 5 steps. As per this model, the steps in Change Management are: Awareness of the necessity for change; making Desire for the changes needed; sharing Knowledge on how the changes would be implemented; making Ability for changes to be implemented; and Reinforcement for maintaining the changes in the long run.
Regarding organisational Change Management, the theory of Donald Sch?n is quite well known. He said organisations usually have the tendency of being closed to change, and do not accept change easily. But, if firms develop themselves as learning organisations all staff would be constantly learning, changing and growing and thus change would be simpler to implement.
In conclusion, Change Management benefits both businesses and individuals alike. The process takes time and effort but the results are beneficial for every one involved. Change Management is an on-going process and the effectiveness of the process can be increased when individual and organisational methods are used in conjunction with each other.
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Many job seekers are overlooking the importance of online networking skills during their job search. Networking isn?t just about clicking the ?follow? or ?connect? button. A beneficial networking relationship is born out of a strong interest in gaining valuable information and feedback from someone you consider to be important in your industry.
It is important to look at online networking as a special tool to engage with individuals that you might not have been able to be in contact with at one point. Here are five ways to improve your online networking capabilities:
1. Be Confident
While this sounds like a no-brainer, there are many individuals who lack the necessary level of confidence that generates a clear connection during online networking. Many individuals subconsciously overlook the importance of a positive confident attitude when it comes to networking. Confidence isn?t just necessary for the face-to-face networking that takes place at conferences and seminars, it?s also imperative for successful online marketing.?
To put it plainly, your online brand depends on your confidence. Knowing who you are and what you want professionally will allow both clarity and confidence in the way you interact with others. Building your knowledge and passion for your field is one simple step to gain more self-confidence. This will express to others that you?re invested and articulate.
2. Utilize Social Networking Sites Properly
Just because you have a LinkedIn or Twitter account doesn?t necessarily mean you?re utilizing it to effectively build a professional social network worth bragging about. While 61 percent of individuals use LinkedIn as their primary professional networking site, only 42 percent of users update their profile information regularly. How are you supposed to communicate your experiences and skills to those you?re looking to connect with if your profile isn?t updated? Fluidity can be generated by aligning your personal brand both on and offline.
As for getting the most out of the social networking sites of your choosing, when was the last time you used any of their features to actually connect with someone new or reconnect with a long lost contact? If you can?t answer this question, it might be time to update yourself on the latest features offered on the platform. Staying up-to-date on the latest features will allow you to interact properly while building online relationships.?
3. Learn How To Stalk Professionally
While this does sound a little creepy, one of the most beneficial parts of networking online is the ability to learn more about the people you are interested in connecting with. Some call this stalking, others call it researching. Get to know the people you?re connecting with online, and use the information you gain to fuel the building blocks of the professional relationship you?re attempting to create. You might find out that a person you?re connecting with has previously worked with one of your close contacts?create a warm-up conversation based on this knowledge! The ability to research online connections will also benefit you in face-to-face networking situations where you will be prepared to communicate knowledge based on the intersection of your interests.
4. Increase Online Interactions
Don?t just be a profile picture. If you?re less than satisfied with the success of your online networking, it might be helpful to look for new ways to interact with others while attempting to build networking connections.?
Try setting new personal goals for the amount of people you attempt to make connections within a period of time. If your interaction strategy of comments, retweets, and/or replies isn?t driving the level of feedback you were hoping for, mix it up. Trying something new, like commenting on industry-specific blogs, might gain a level of interaction that drives networking connections. Also, don?t forget to give props to others?this is a sure-fire way to gain the appropriate attention of others.
5. Transfer Online Connections To Offline Connections
While it might not be physically possible to take all of your online networking connections out for coffee, it certainly is possible to attempt to meet the majority of them in-person. The power of face-to-face networking is unmatched and something that will hopefully never go out of style.
Reach out to your online networking connections when you know that either of you will be in the same area for any kind of reason. This could mean meeting up at conference, seminars, or even while on a work-related trip. A face-to-face connection will take a networking relationship to the next level.?
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2012) ? Commercial medical tapes on the market today are great at keeping medical devices attached to the skin, but often can do damage -- such as skin tissue tearing -- once it's time to remove them.
A research team from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has invented a quick-release tape that has the strong adhesion properties of commercial medical tape, but without the ouch factor upon removal.
The team was led by Jeffrey Karp, PhD, BWH Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, senior study author in collaboration with The Institute for Pediatric Innovation which defined the need and requirements for a new neonatal adhesive based on national surveys of neonatal clinicians.
The study detailing the tape design will be electronically published on October 29, 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research was conducted in collaboration with Robert Langer, PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The tape which achieves strong adhesion when securing medical devices to skin, but could also easily peel off safely, utilizes a three-layer design approach that sets a new paradigm for quick-release medical tapes.
"Current adhesive tapes that contain backing and adhesive layers are tailored to fracture at the adhesive-skin interface. With adults the adhesive fails leaving small remnants of adhesive on the skin while with fragile neonate skin, the fracture is more likely to occur in the skin causing significant damage," said Karp. "Our approach transitions the fracture zone away from the skin to the adhesive-backing interface thus completely preventing any harm during removal."
The approach incorporates an anisotropic adhesive interface between the backing and adhesive layers. The anisotropic properties of this middle layer means that it has different physical properties dependent on direction. For instance, take wood, which is stronger along the grain than across it.
The researchers employed laser etching and a release liner to create the anisotropic interface resulting in a medical tape with high shear strength (for strong adhesion) and low peel force (for safe, quick removal). Once the backing is peeled off, any remaining adhesive left on the skin can safely be rolled off with a finger using a "push and roll" technique.
"This is one of the biggest problems faced in the neonate units, where the patients are helpless and repeatedly wrapped in medical tapes designed for adult skin," said Bryan Laulicht, PhD, BWH Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, lead study author.
There are more than 1.5 million injuries each year in the United States caused by medical tape removal. Such injuries in babies and the elderly -- populations with fragile skin -- can range from skin irritation to permanent scarring.
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Double knockouts are already uncommon in MMA, but one happened in Poland over the weekend that is even more rare. Marcin Mencel and Mateusz Zawadzki headbutted each other, and their fight ended in a technical draw.
In case you weren't sure, that's why headbutts aren't allowed in MMA.
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Saudi police officers monitor screens connected to cameras set up to monitor the huge crowds pilgrims at holy places in Mina in the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Saudi police officers monitor screens connected to cameras set up to monitor the huge crowds pilgrims at holy places in Mina in the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
This aerial image made from a helicopter shows tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims moving around the Kaaba, the black cube seen at center, inside the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj in the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Muslim pilgrims cast stones at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan, in a ritual called "Jamarat," a rite of the annual hajj, in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Muslim pilgrims cast stones at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan, in a ritual called "Jamarat," the last rite of the annual hajj, in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A crowd of Muslim pilgrims make their way to throw stones at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan, in a ritual called "Jamarat," a rite of the annual hajj, in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) ? Now that she has finished the hajj and is returning home to Egypt, Magda Bagnied says her family will no doubt try to convince her to put on the headscarf to demonstrate her religiosity after a pilgrimage meant to cleanse her of sin and bring her closer to God.
She fully expects that from her parents. But she doesn't want that kind of pressure from her government or leaders.
"Leave religion to the people," said Bagnied, a media professor at Ahram Canadian University, in Cairo's suburbs.
The annual pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites offers Muslims a chance to reaffirm their faith and root themselves more firmly in their beliefs. It comes at a time when several Arab nations are facing a similar issue on a political level after uprisings that toppled longtime leaders and brought Islamists to greater power: The question of how much a government should be rooted in Islam.
Egypt in particular is struggling with that question. Elections since the fall last year of Hosni Mubarak elevated Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, to president. The Brotherhood was vaulted to become the country's strongest political force, along with even more conservative Islamists known as Salafis, who follow a strict Saudi-style interpretation of Islam.
As pilgrims were making their way around the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure in Mecca that observant Muslims pray toward five times a day, and performing an elaborate set of rituals in Saudi Arabia over the past week, Egypt was in a bitter struggle over the writing of the new constitution.
Salafis are pressing for the document to explicitly root Egypt's laws in Shariah. That has raised liberals' fears that it will bring stricter implementation of Islamic law and empower Muslim clerics in a political role, limiting women's rights and freedoms of worship and expression. The assembly writing the constitution is dominated by the Brotherhood and Salafis.
The Egyptians who performed the pilgrimage this year may be united in the importance they give to their faith in their lives. But it doesn't mean they all agree on the mix of religion and politics. More than 90,000 Egyptians were on the pilgrimage, which largely wrapped up on Monday. They hailed from all segments of Egyptian society, the rich and the poor, and from all corners of the Arab world's most populous nation.
Wearing the seamless terrycloth garments worn by male pilgrims to symbolize equality and unity during hajj, Sayid Zeid said Egypt's constitution should represent all Egyptians ? and, he added, it must be based on the Quran.
How can it be both, given the large Christian minority and the sector of liberal Muslims?
"Shariah will be applied by God ... It should be applied as it came down from God," said Zeid, who is a reporter with Egypt's state TV, though he was performing the hajj, not covering it.
For some, it seemed only natural that Islamic law would benefit a Muslim-majority nation, putting aside questions of who would interpret it or implement it.
Making his way to midday prayers at Mecca's Grand Mosque, which houses the Kaaba, Abdel-Muntalib el-Fikky said there is no reason to fear Shariah or the Islamists.
"Why are we all here? We are all here for God," he said of the pilgrims. "Our constitution, God willing, will be good. It will move us forward."
Anwar Saad, a 32 year-old teacher from Egypt's Beheira province, stood on Jabal al-Rahma in Mount Arafat, in the desert outside Mecca during a rite of prayer on Thursday that many feel is the pinnacle moment of hajj.
"The Brotherhood have moderate views. They are not conservative like the Salafis. We hope they will apply a moderate form of Shariah for Egypt," he said. "We want God to help Morsi succeed ... There were 30 years of corruption and this will not be fixed in 100 days. Be patient with the president."
Notably, hajj itself shows the variety in interpretations of Islamic rules. For example, in most of the Muslim world, men and women are segregated during prayers. But in the Grand Mosque, the two sexes pray side by side. For most of the hajj rites, women are not allowed to wear the veil that covers the entire face, even though ultraconservative Muslims insist a woman's face should be hidden from males not related to her.
Bagnied, the media professor, said she does not fear Shariah but those who would try to interpret and apply it.
"What kind of Islam do they want to apply? Afghanistan, Iran or Saudi Arabia?" she said. Bagnied, who does not wear the headscarf that many Egyptian Muslim women don to cover their hair, said she can resist her family's urging her to start wearing it. But she worries that an Islamist government will start to apply political pressure as well on such personal choices.
She said many people voted for Morsi hoping that because he is a pious Muslim and will apply "God's law" that their lives will improve.
"I think many Egyptians don't know the content of the constitution," she said. "Egypt is full of people talking about politics, but there is a large amount of ignorance in the country and you can convince people (by using Islam) that they have to obey their leaders, who are sheiks and politicians."
Ihab Abdel-Aal, 47, is among those who voted for the former Mubarak regime-era official who ran against Morsi in the past summer's presidential race. Morsi won by just over half the vote. Abdel-Aal has performed the hajj more than 25 times, since he's a tour operator bringing other Egyptians on the pilgrimage.
He fears Egypt is turning to a theocracy.
"Democracy and freedom are new to Egypt," he said. "There should be no religion in politics and no politics in religion."
Abdel-Aal, like many who work in Egypt's vital tourism industry that was hard-hit due to political turmoil over the past year, said he believes Shariah cannot be applied in all aspects of life.
"This will tank the economy and other sectors and just won't work."
Mohamed Abdel-Aziz, who runs a Cairo tourism company, says he has performed hajj more than 30 times. He said the number of Egyptians wanting to perform hajj and umrah, the smaller pilgrimage to Mecca, increased this year.
"In any crisis, the first thing a person does is pray to God," he said. "We are in a crisis."
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