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Full article: Bosniak Classification of Cystic Renal Masses Version 2019: Proportion of Malignancy by Class and Subclass—Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Aric Berning, MD, discusses the AJR article by McGrath et al. that provides a meta-analysis of malignancy proportions for Bosniak classification version 2019, stratified by class and subclass.

Each year for the last 20 years thousands have gathered from around the world to participate in the Peace March in Bosnia and Herzegovina to honor the more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys who were massacred by the Bosnian Serb force. The three-day walk traverses the same route in the mountains in reverse that the men and boys traveled while trying to escape the troops. This year, as he has done every year since 2018, Platform for Progress president Mirsad Hadzikadic participated in the march.

Today on Immigrantly, I'm excited to welcome the incredible Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess. Amra is an Associate Professor at Columbia University, focusing on essential topics like social cohesion, the radicalization process, and how communities can hurt each other. But beyond her academic work, Amra has an incredible personal story—she survived the Bosnian war and genocide in the 1990s. She wrote a powerful book about her experience called "The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival." For those who may not know, the Bosnian Genocide happened between 1992 and 1995 and involved horrific ethnic cleansing and mass killings, especially against Bosniak Muslims. The worst of it was the Srebrenica Massacre in July 1995, where over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed. Immigrantly is a weekly podcast that celebrates the extraordinariness of immigrant life. We do this by providing our listeners with authentic, accurate insights into the immigrant identity in America. Immigrantly has garnered significant recognition and has been featured in renowned media outlets such as the Nieman Storyboard, The Guardian, The Slowdown, and CNN. Join us as we create new intellectual engagement for our audience. You can get more information at http://immigrantlypod.com. Please share the love and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify to help more people find us!  You can connect with Saadia on Twitter @swkkhan Email: saadia@immigrantlypod.com Host & Producer: Saadia Khan I Content Writer: Bobak Afshari & Saadia Khan I Editorial review: Shei Yu I Sound Designer & Editor: Haziq Ahmed Farid I Immigrantly Theme Music: Simon Hutchinson | Other Music: Epidemic Sound Immigrantly podcast is an Immigrantly Media Production. For advertising inquiries, you can contact us at info@immigrantlypod.com Don't forget to subscribe to our Apple podcast channel for insightful podcasts. Follow us on social media for updates and behind-the-scenes content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May '94: the Contact Group's Peace Plan | The reactions to the new peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina | The military coordination between Bosniak and Bosnian-Croat armed forces in Brčko

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Telkens als er een nieuw land bij de EU komt, schuift die buitengrens een stukje op. Leuk voor het land dat lid wordt, iets minder fijn voor de landen die daar net buiten vallen. Kroatië maakte tot in de jaren 90 deel uit van Joegoslavië, net als de buurlanden Bosnië en Herzegovina en Servië. De landen delen taal, geschiedenis en cultuur met elkaar en het was altijd heel normaal om in de ene deelrepubliek te wonen en in de andere te werken. Er waren immers geen grenzen. Maar, nu Kroatie lid is van de EU, is dat anders.  In deze aflevering aandacht voor problemen aan de grens met Bosnie. Daar moeten mensen vaak uren wachten bij de grensovergang. De journalist Mersad Sarajlija van het lokale radiostation Trend Radio doet verslag van deze problemen aan de grens. Hij heeft meerdere keren de overheid bevraagd: waarom sluiten jullie grensovergangen? Waarom is er maar één rijstrook open? Maar antwoorden krijgt hij niet. De Bosniërs denken dat er een politiek spel met hen wordt gespeeld en dat het misschien komt doordat in dit specifieke kanton bijna iedereen Bosniak is, terwijl in de andere kantons die grenzen aan Kroatië, veel meer Bosnische Kroaten wonen, en bovendien is daar de Bosnisch-Kroatisch-nationalistische partij HDZ aan de macht is. Een soort zusterpartij van de HDZ in Kroatië.  Of het nu een politiek spel is, of dat de lange wachttijden veroorzaakt worden door praktische factoren, dat maakt voor de mensen die hier last van hebben niet uit. Het zorgt er hoe dan ook voor dat ze gefrustreerd raken, cynisch worden.  En dat maakt deze grensovergang een symbool voor hoe de Europese Unie met de Westelijke Balkan omgaat. In het proces van EU-uitbreiding lijkt er telkens wel weer een lang te zijn dat zijn veto wil gebruiken om de boel te blokkeren. Ook Kroatie is nu al bezig met bepaalde eisen te stellen richting Bosnie en Servie. De EU-lidstaten stellen hun individuele belangen boven die van de EU en daarmee vertragen ze niet alleen het proces, maar creëren ze ook een situatie waarin het enthousiasme om lid te worden bij de kandidaten afneemt. Politicoloog Dejan Jovic benadrukt de gevaren hiervan. Want als Europa niet opschiet en deze landen laat bungelen, kan er instabiliteit in de regio (en dus in Europa) ontstaan en zullen de landen op de Westelijke Balkan hun ogen op andere delen van de wereld richten. Over de maker Marjolein Koster is freelance journalist met een focus op de Westelijke Balkan. Vanuit landen als Bosnië, Servië, Kroatië en Kosovo maakt ze verhalen over onder andere politiek, milieu en klimaat en mensenrechten voor media als het NPO Radio 1, RTL Nieuws, Nederlands Dagblad, De Groene Amsterdammer, BNR Nieuwsradio, VRT NWS en diverse magazines. Voor haar podcast De Val van Srebrenica werd ze genomineerd voor De Tegel 2020.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Telkens als er een nieuw land bij de EU komt, schuift die buitengrens een stukje op. Leuk voor het land dat lid wordt, iets minder fijn voor de landen die daar net buiten vallen. Kroatië maakte tot in de jaren 90 deel uit van Joegoslavië, net als de buurlanden Bosnië en Herzegovina en Servië. De landen delen taal, geschiedenis en cultuur met elkaar en het was altijd heel normaal om in de ene deelrepubliek te wonen en in de andere te werken. Er waren immers geen grenzen. Maar, nu Kroatie lid is van de EU, is dat anders.  In deze aflevering aandacht voor problemen aan de grens met Bosnie. Daar moeten mensen vaak uren wachten bij de grensovergang. De journalist Mersad Sarajlija van het lokale radiostation Trend Radio doet verslag van deze problemen aan de grens. Hij heeft meerdere keren de overheid bevraagd: waarom sluiten jullie grensovergangen? Waarom is er maar één rijstrook open? Maar antwoorden krijgt hij niet. De Bosniërs denken dat er een politiek spel met hen wordt gespeeld en dat het misschien komt doordat in dit specifieke kanton bijna iedereen Bosniak is, terwijl in de andere kantons die grenzen aan Kroatië, veel meer Bosnische Kroaten wonen, en bovendien is daar de Bosnisch-Kroatisch-nationalistische partij HDZ aan de macht is. Een soort zusterpartij van de HDZ in Kroatië.  Of het nu een politiek spel is, of dat de lange wachttijden veroorzaakt worden door praktische factoren, dat maakt voor de mensen die hier last van hebben niet uit. Het zorgt er hoe dan ook voor dat ze gefrustreerd raken, cynisch worden.  En dat maakt deze grensovergang een symbool voor hoe de Europese Unie met de Westelijke Balkan omgaat. In het proces van EU-uitbreiding lijkt er telkens wel weer een lang te zijn dat zijn veto wil gebruiken om de boel te blokkeren. Ook Kroatie is nu al bezig met bepaalde eisen te stellen richting Bosnie en Servie. De EU-lidstaten stellen hun individuele belangen boven die van de EU en daarmee vertragen ze niet alleen het proces, maar creëren ze ook een situatie waarin het enthousiasme om lid te worden bij de kandidaten afneemt. Politicoloog Dejan Jovic benadrukt de gevaren hiervan. Want als Europa niet opschiet en deze landen laat bungelen, kan er instabiliteit in de regio (en dus in Europa) ontstaan en zullen de landen op de Westelijke Balkan hun ogen op andere delen van de wereld richten. Over de maker Marjolein Koster is freelance journalist met een focus op de Westelijke Balkan. Vanuit landen als Bosnië, Servië, Kroatië en Kosovo maakt ze verhalen over onder andere politiek, milieu en klimaat en mensenrechten voor media als het NPO Radio 1, RTL Nieuws, Nederlands Dagblad, De Groene Amsterdammer, BNR Nieuwsradio, VRT NWS en diverse magazines. Voor haar podcast De Val van Srebrenica werd ze genomineerd voor De Tegel 2020.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over 100 million people are displaced worldwide. That's the equivalent of the 14th biggest country in the globe. The world seems to be in a refugee crisis and yet for some, like Social Impact Pioneer, Dale Buscher – there are practical pragmatic solutions, developed over decades of lived experience. Dale's professional journey reaches back to 1988. His extensive experience includes supporting refugees from Vietnam to Haiti, Bosniak refugees in Croatia, displaced Kurds in Northern Iraq, and many more. During our conversation Dale explains how situations and circumstances surrounding any one person who is forcibly displaced is complex, nuanced and dynamic. Navigating these challenges requires a deep understanding of the refugee experience itself but the experience of Dale and his colleagues means that there is support, guidance and time-tested help available. Enter the all-encompassing guide: "Building Livelihoods: A Field Manual for Practitioners in Humanitarian Settings." Dale's robust background, including advising the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and authoring the field handbook "Operational Protection in Camps and Settlements," ensures his insights are practical, steeped in lived experience, and transformative. And be ready to hear Dale share why the Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative - a joint effort by the Women's Refugee Commission – where Dale is currently Vice President of Programs and RefugePoint is a vital programme in helping promote a future where refugees regain financial independence and understand self-resilience. Whether you're a humanitarian practitioner, a supporter of refugee rights, whether you are displaced or a listener with a desire for deeper understanding, this podcast is your compass in the intricate landscape of refugee support and self-reliance. This podcast is more than a manual; it's a portal into the reality of humanitarian aid, the importance of self-reliance, and the tangible ways we can contribute to building a better future for displaced individuals. So, tune in, and let Dale Buscher guide you through the challenges and real-life experiences of supporting refugees around the globe. Links: Women's Refugee Commission; Building Livelihoods: A Field Manual for Practitioners in Humanitarian Settings; https://www.unhcr.org/media/building-livelihoods-field-manual-practioners-humanitarian-settings Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative: https://www.refugeeselfreliance.org The Women's Refugee Commission: http://www.womensrefugeecommission.org RefugePoint: https://www.refugepoint.org European Commission, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations; Forced displacement; https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/what/humanitarian-aid/forced-displacement_en And if you liked this conversation take a listen to: Financial Inclusion for Displaced People, with Micol, UNHCR and Ricardo, IFC - https://businessfightspoverty.org/financial-inclusion-for-displaced-people-with-micol-unhcr-and-ricardo-ifc/

Boris examines the activities of post-war Bosniak collaborationists going from the Levant and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war to the SS clerics behind one of Chicago's oldest mosques. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

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More than two weeks after the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 2 October, the country's political future remains uncertain. While reformist and moderate candidates have seen success in the run for the country's presidency – a position that is shared between members of the Bosniak, Croat and Serb entities – many of Bosnia's underlying political divisions persist. Causing further dispute was the announcement of significant changes to Bosnia's constitution and electoral system on the night of the election by the country's high representative, Christian Schmidt, which were particularly ill-received by some members of the Bosniak community. Meanwhile, Serb leader Milorad Dodik has faced allegations of vote-rigging in the run for president of the semi-autonomous Republika Srpska leading to a recount of ballots in the region. In this episode of War & Peace, Olga Oliker and Elissa Jobson speak with Marko Prelec, Crisis Group's senior consulting analyst for the Balkans, about what happened at the Bosnian elections, the main dispute between Bosnia's political entities and where the country is headed. They talk about Bosnia's highly complicated election system and why it has been the cause of much friction between members of the Bosniak, Croat and Serb communities in the country. They address the intervention by the high representative on election night and whether this move had any merit despite being highly controversial. They also talk about the impact of the war in Ukraine on Bosnia and how it has affected its prospects for European Union accession. Finally, they assess whether the political divisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina are surmountable and how a potential return to violence in the country can be prevented. For more about the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, make sure to check out Crisis Group's Bosnia and Herzegovina country page and our briefing Bosnia and Herzegovina's Hot Summer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this podcast episode we'll take a closer look at the relationship between the different ethnic groups in Mostar after the Balkan wars. What influences the resilience of different population groups to radicalization and violent extremism? One of the case study areas in the EU-funded PREVEX project is the Balkans. In this episode of the NUPI podcast The World Stage, we are zooming in on Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The famous bridge in Mostar represents a symbolic background for the social fabric that has suffered from the war in the 1990'ies. In 1993 the bridge was destroyed in the civil war that raged in the former Yugoslavia. On one side of the bridge, the Bosniak community was predominant, on the other side, the majority were Croats. The bridge was later rebuilt, but how are the relations between people in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Mostar today, nearly three decades after the war ended? Do people from the different ethnic groups mix, socially, at school or at work? How is this different from before the war? What are the lessons to be learnt and what are the main challenges today? And with the recent general elections in the country, is there any hope for change? Listen in as Senior Research Fellow at NUPI, Kari Osland, discusses this with Professor Edina Becirevic (Security Studies at UNSA and co-founder of Atlantic Initiative) and politician Lana Prlic (Representative in the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Vice President for SDP BiH). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 105: Renal Cell Carcinoma. Manpreet and Jon-Ade explain how to diagnose renal cell carcinoma. Introduction about age and kidney transplant by Dr. Arreaza and Dr. Yomi. Introduction: Too old for a new kidney?By Hector Arreaza, MD. Discussed with  Timiiye Yomi, MD.Today we will be talking about the kidneys, those precious bean-shaped organs that detoxify your blood 24/7. Amazingly, we can live normal lives with one kidney, but when the kidney function is not good enough to meet the body's demands, patients need to start kidney replacement therapy. Modern medicine has made a lot of advances with dialysis, but the perfection of a kidney has not been outperformed by any machine yet. That's why kidney transplant is the hope for many of our patients with end-stage kidney disease.The need for a kidney transplant is growing, likely due to increasing chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, and also because of an increase in elderly population. About 22% of patients on the kidney transplant waiting list are over age 65. A cut-off age to receive kidney transplant has not been established across the globe. Different countries use different criteria for the maximum age for transplant. The American Society of Transplantation's guidelines states “There should be no absolute upper age limit for excluding patients whose overall health and life situation suggest that transplantation will be beneficial.” So, if your patient is older than 65 and needs a kidney, they may qualify for a transplant, and age should not be an absolute contraindication to receive it. Actually, older patients may have lower risk of rejection due to a theoretically weaker immune system. A live donor is likely to be a better option for elderly patients. A condition that would make your elderly patient a poor candidate for kidney transplant would be frailty. Common contraindications to kidney transplant include active infections or malignancy, uncontrolled mental illness, ongoing addiction to substances, reversible kidney failure, and documented active and ongoing treatment nonadherence.So, remember to take these factors into consideration when deciding if you need to refer your elderly patients for a kidney transplant, there is no such thing as being too old for a new kidney if your patient meets all the criteria for a transplant.This is Rio Bravo qWeek Podcast, your weekly dose of knowledge brought to you by the Rio Bravo Family Medicine Residency Program from Bakersfield, California. Our program is affiliated with UCLA, and it's sponsored by Clinica Sierra Vista, Let Us Be Your Healthcare Home. This podcast was created for educational purposes only. Visit your primary care physician for additional medical advice. Renal Cell Carcinoma. By Manpreet Singh, MS3, Ross University School of Medicine, and Jon-Ade Holter, MS3 Ross University School of Medicine. Moderated by Hector Arreaza, MD. Definition:Renal cell carcinoma is a primary neoplasm arising form the renal cortex. 80-85 percent of renal tumors are renal cell carcinomas followed closely by transitional cell renal cancer and Wilms tumor.  Epidemiology: In 2022, 79,000 new cases of kidney cancer were diagnosed with almost 14,000 mortalities. There is a 2:1 male to female ratio and the average age is 64 and normally 65-74. African Americans and American Indians have a higher prevalence rate compared to other racial groups. The lifetime risk for developing kidney cancer in men is about 1 in 46 (2.02%) and 1 in 80 (1.03%) in women.  Risk Factors associated with RCC: Anything that causes assault to the kidneys and affects its function would cause increased demand, injury, and inflammation. This assault can lead to cell derangement and lead to cancer. The risk factors that have been associated with RCC are smoking, obesity, HTN, family history of kidney cancer, Trichloroethylene (a metal degreaser used in large manufacturing factories), acetaminophen, and patients with advanced kidney disease needing dialysis. Patients with syndromes that cause multiple types of tumors: VHL (von Hippel-Lindau) deficiency, a tumor suppressor, gives rise to clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Familial inheritance of VHL deficiency is mostly found in patients that have RCC at a very young age, before 40 y/o. Other tumors can be found in the eye, brain, spinal cord, pancreas, and pheochromocytomas.Hereditary leiomyoma-renal cell carcinoma due to FH gene mutations causing women who have leiomyomas to have a higher risk of developing papillary RCC.Birt-Hogg-Dube (BHD) syndrome mutation in FLCN gene who develop various skin and renal tumors.Cowden syndrome is a mutation in the PTEN gene giving rise to cancers associated with breast, thyroid , and kidney cancers.Tuberous sclerosis causes benign tumors of the skin, brain, lungs, eyes, kidneys, and heart. Although kidney tumors are most often benign, occasionally they can be clear cell RCC. Screening For RCC:Screening is unnecessary because of the low prevalence of this cancer in the general population, though certain groups require annual repeat imaging via US, CT, or MRI. Inherited conditions that are associated with RCC such as VHL syndrome or Tuberous SclerosisESRD patients who have been on dialysis for 3-5 yearsFamily history of RCCPrior kidney irradiation Clinical Picture: Most patients with RCC are asymptomatic until cancer grows large enough to cause disruption of local organs, such as the kidney, bladder, or renal vein, and dysregulates other organs via metastasis. Therefore, it's important to look at other signs and symptoms caused by RCC.  The patient most likely will be an older male who presents with the classic triad of: Flank pain: caused by rapid expansion and stretching of the renal capsule.Hematuria: occurs from the invasion of the neoplasm into the collecting duct.Palpable abdominal mass: mass tends to be homogenous and mobile with respirations. Though this presents only in 9% of patients during the presentation, having physical symptoms is a sign of advanced disease and 25% of patients with these signs tend to have distant metastasis.  Anemia: normally associated with anemia of chronic disease. It precedes the disease by at least 8 months to 1 year. Males can develop varicoceles because of decreased emptying due to neoplasm obstruction. Patients normally develop varicoceles on the left due to the spermatic vein emptying in the higher resistance left renal vein, which causes backup of the blood in the pemphigus plexus. Though a right-sided varicocele should raise a higher suspicion of obstruction due to the spermatic vein draining directly into the IVC which is lower in resistance. A right-sided varicocele is seen in approximately 11 percent of patients. The paraneoplastic syndrome can also arise from RCCEpo: Erythrocytosis with symptoms of weakness, fatigue, headache, and joint pain.PTHrP: PTH-related peptide acts like PTH which gives rise to hypercalcemia with the prevalent symptoms of arthritis, osteolytic lesions, confusions, tetany, ventricular tachycardia, shortened QTc, and nausea and vomiting.Renin: overproduction from the juxtaglomerular cells can cause disarrangement of the RAAS system causing hypertension.Others also like ACTH and beta-HCG. Other disorders present include hepatic dysfunction, cachexia, secondary amyloidosis, and thrombocytosis. Workup If a patient comes in with painless hematuria, then the first test should be abdominal CT or abdominal ultrasound. A CT is more sensitive than the US but it can quickly indicate if the abdominal mass felt can be a cyst or a solid tumor.  US of kidneys should show if it's a simple cyst:-The cyst is round and sharply demarcated with smooth walls- It's anechoic – appears solid black-There is a strong posterior wall echo-Use the Bosniak classification to classify mass  Bosniak I: benign simple cyst with thin wall less than equal to 2mm, no septa or calcifications. No future workup is needed. Bosniak II: benign cyst, 3 cm diameter, requires f/u with US/CT/MRI at 6 months, 12 months, and annually for the next 5 years. Chance of malignancy: 5%.  Bosniak III: indeterminate cystic mass with thick, irregular or smooth walls. This requires nephrectomy or radiofrequency ablation. Chance of malignancy: 55%  Bosniak IV: Clearly a malignancy its grade III with enhancing soft tissue components that its independent from the wall or septum. Requires total or partial nephrectomy. Chance of malignancy 100%.  CT of the kidneys for a neoplasm should show:-Thickened irregular walls or septa -Enhancement after contrast injection are suggestive of malignancy-CT can also help detect invasion in local tissue areas such as renal vein and perinephric organs  MRI is used if the patient cannot use contrast or kidney function is poor. MRI can also evaluate the growth of the cancer. Other imaging studies:Other imaging studies that may be useful for assessing for distant metastases include bone scan, CT of the chest, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET)/CT. Treatment and staging Nephrectomy, partial or total, will be used as the initial tissue collection for pathology. If the patient is not a surgical candidate, you can also obtain a percutaneous biopsy. The nephrectomy is preferred because first, it serves as a definitive treatment option, but also it allows for definitive staging of the cancer with tumor and nodal staging. Regardless of the size, any solid mass may indicate malignancy and point towards RCC, requiring resection.   TNM staging Stage I: Tumor is 7cm across or smaller and only in the kidney with no lymph nodes or distant mets. T1N0M0 Stage IIa: Tumor size is larger than 7cm but still in the kidney but no invasion of lymph node or mets. T2N0M0 Stage IIb: Tumor is growing into the renal vein or IVC, but not into neighboring organs such as adrenals or Gerota's fascia and still lacks lymph node invasion and mets. T3N0M0.  Stage III: Tumor can be any size but has not invaded outside structures such as adrenals, though nearby lymph node invasion is present but not distant. There is no distant mets. T3N1M0. Stage IV:  The main tumor is beyond the Gerota's fascia and may grow into the adrenal gland . It may or may not spread to the lymph nodes or may not have distant mets. Stage IV also consists of any cancer that has any number of distant mets. T4 Adjuvant therapy can be done with immune therapy. Conclusion: Now we conclude our episode number 105 “Renal cell carcinoma.” This type of cancer may be asymptomatic until it is large enough to cause symptoms. Keep it on your list of differentials on patients with hematuria, flank pain, weight loss, and abnormal imaging. Keep in mind the features of simple kidney cysts vs complex cysts when assessing kidney ultrasounds. Your patient will be grateful for an early diagnosis of RCC and a prompt treatment. Even without trying, every night you go to bed being a little wiser.This week we thank Hector Arreaza, Timiiye Yomi, Manpreet Singh, Jon-Ade Holter. Thanks for listening to Rio Bravo qWeek Podcast. If you have any feedback, contact us by email at RioBravoqWeek@clinicasierravista.org, or visit our website riobravofmrp.org/qweek. Audio edition: Suraj Amrutia. 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It has been an agonizing last few weeks for Mirsad Hadžkadić, as ongoing circumstances had him questioning where he should remain a candidate for the Bosniak presidential council seat. In the end, he came to the decision that he would remain a candidate and continue to push forth the agenda of the Platform for Progress. A vision he feels is best for Bosnia and Herzegovina and its future. We spoke at length about what ultimately led to his decision and his current whirlwind tour throughout Europe, meeting with Diaspora, and sharing his vision for the future of the country.

For the Platform for Progress president, Mirsad Hadžikadić, it has been a long and grueling two weeks. He and the Platform vice president, have been traveling around Bosnia and Herzegovina, meeting with citizens, and collecting the signatures needed for his hame to appear on the October ballot as the presidential candidate for The Country coalition. During this time he also learned of the news that three major opposition parties have announced plans to back a single candidate to run for the Bosniak presidential council seat as well. News that has Hadžikadić contemplating his future plans.

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For Mirsad Hadźikadić, media coverage by state run outlets during his 2018 presidential campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was virtually non-existent. However, with his recent announcement that he will run for the Bosniak presidential council seat once again in 2022, that blockade seems to have eased, at least for the time being. Recently, he was asked to sit down for an interview at the only state run TV station that is broadcast across the entire country. We spoke about the interview, and the heightened awareness of the newly formed political coalition, The Country.

As an official candidate for the Bosniak presidential council seat in 2022, Mirsad Hadžikadić, has already begun the long and grueling days of reaching out to as many of the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina as possible. During our recent conversation, Hadžikadić, spoke about two recent town hall meetings in the regions of Sava and Una. We also spoke about the tasks at hand following the formation of the coalition party, The Country.

On Thursday, December 9th, Mirsad Hadžikadić announced that he will once again seek the Bosniak presidential council seat in the 2022 general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Only this time it will not be as an independent candidate. During today's press conference, he also announced the formation of a coalition party, “The Country”, which will bring together other parties from around the country in a unified effort to unseat the current nationalist leadership. Following the press conference, Hadžikadić spoke to me about the strategy behind the formation of the coalition, and his decision to run once again. 

V slovenskom reprezentačnom tíme figuruje dva mesiace pred začiatkom domácich ME aj zopár Slovákov, ktorí sa narodili v zahraničí. Jedným z nich je stredná spojka Nového Veselí Anur Burnazovič, ktorému covid dvakrát zahatal cestu na reprezentačný zraz. V najnovšom podcaste SZH tento sympatický, pôvodom Bosniak, prezradil, prečo mu Záhoráčtina pripomína materinský jazyk a prečo obdobie v Malackách považuje za najkrajšie v kariére, aké postavenie má hádzaná v Bosne a Hercegovine a prečo sú na Balkáne v tope najmä futbal a basketbal, ako mu práve basketbal pomohol pri hádzanej, ako zareagoval jeho otec na správu, že bude z neho Slovák a prečo chce, aby bol jeho syn na neho hrdý, prečo je rád, že sa vrátil do Nového Veselí a prečo by uvítal spoločnú slovensko - českú súťaž, ako mu pomohol tréner Václav Straka v obrane, prečo radšej prihráva, než dáva góly, že zo zápasu so Srbmi sa musíme poučiť, a prečo je jedinou cestou, ako dosiahnuť spoločný cieľ v podobe postupu zo skupiny ME, bojovať jeden za druhého.

In 2016, a cantonal government decided that, in one of the secondary schools in Jajce, which was following a Croatian curriculum for all the students, a separate school would be established on the premises for Bosniak students with a parallel Bosniak curriculum. The students in the integrated school rebelled and mounted a campaign to prevent their school from being segregated. After two years, the students prevailed and pressured the government into halting their school's division into two.Fifty-six schools in 28 Bosnian towns and cities operate under a two schools under one roof system. Why do segregated schools exist in Bosnia and Herzegovina? How did the students in Jajce win the fight against school segregation? And how can the problem be resolved, if it can be resolved at all? With Samir Beharić, Téa Hadžiristić, and Valery Perry.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month.Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Two-Schools-Under-One-Roof/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW ›Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/rememberingyugoslavia)

October 23rd marked the 28th anniversary of the Stupni Do massacre. It was on that date in 1993 that members of the Croat Army massacred over 40 Bosniak civilians in the village of Stupni Do, during the Croat-Bosniak war. Homes were looted and burned. Women were raped before being killed. The president of the Platform for Progress, Mirsad Hadžikadić, attended this year's memorial service. A somber movement, that once again cast an ugly light on man's inhumanity to man.

Boris leads TENE through the rise of the Bosniak national idea in the 19th and early 20th centuries to Muslim collaboration in the Second World War. Despite a multiplicity of identities and politics among Musilms in Bosnia, shifting imperial borders and modernizing land reforms spur a nationalist turn among Bosnian Muslim landowners. Enter Mehmed Spaho who attempts to create a single national identity through his Muslim Yugoslav Organization, leaving the project to Džafer-beg Kulenović after his death who will eventually become vice president of the fascist Independent State of Croatia. Boris discusses the on-again, off-again relationship between Ustashas and Muslim collaborationists leading both to the formation of the SS Handschar Division and, believe it or not, Muslim Chetniks. Fritz briefly narrates the Villefranche-de-Rouergue Mutiny of '43 of Muslim SS trainees and Boris recounts the nutty tale of independent warlord Husein "Huska" Miljković who went from the Commies to Fascists and back again. To top it all off, Rey discusses Husein Đozo, SS major, imam and buddy of Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini and Boris discusses the slow momentum of Muslim involvement in the Partizan movement. Also, Fritz fails to differentiate 'đ' and 'dž', Muslim Goths, Rey re-considers serfdom, and hot cadastral stats! This is The Empire Never Ended, the Antifascist Amerikanski-Balkan podcast about (neo) fascist terror, the (deep) state and the alienation, nihilism and desperation produced by the capitalist system. And how to get rid of all that. Something like that... Subscribe to our Patreon for weekly premium episodes! And check out our social media for updates and whatnot: Twitter + Facebook + Instagram + YouTube

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.21.25796  Giuseppe V. Toia, MD reviews a retrospective study which compares CT and MRI cystic renal mass characterization using the Bosniak 2019 and 2005 versions. This study concludes that version 2019 demonstrated decreased sensitivity, but increased specificity for detecting malignancy.

Wende Gibbs discusses Radiographics articles important for all radiologists:  skull base fractures- the new, improved Bosniak classification of renal masses and lean management principles that increase efficiency and improve patient flow in the ER. 00:00-00:32 - Introduction by Wende Gibbs, MD 00:33-07:22 -  Bosniak Classification of Cystic Renal Masses, Version 2019: A Pictorial Guide to Clinical Use. Schieda et al. RadioGraphics 2021; 41:814–828. 07:23-15:38 -  Decreasing CT Acquisition Time in the Emergency Department through Lean Management Principles. Rachh et al . RadioGraphics 2021; 41:E81–E89. 15:39-15:56 - Conclusion

Covering the war in Bosnia, I found American diplomats ready to rat out the local Mafias behind Serb aggression.  They were much less forthcoming about the Mafiosi fighting on the Bosniak and Croatian sides and how criminal connections among all 3 groups kept the war profitably going. Harvard scholar Danilo Mandic's new book Gangsters and Other Statesmen says this wasn't just a Balkan phenomenon. Mobsters can start and stop wars everywhere from Mali to Georgia and from Libya to Kosovo.

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A conversation with the author of 'The Universal Enemy' Dr Darryl Li and witnesses of the Bosniak jihad, discussing the role of volunteer supporters and fighters in overseas conflict zones. Chair: Dr Asim Qureshi Guests: Dr Darryl Li Babar Ahmad Moazzam Begg Date of recording: Friday 6 November 2020

In the days after the fall of Srebrenica, when the Bosnian Serb army was in total control of the lives of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslim refugees, more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed in mass executions. In this episode, women and children remember the story of these days. For more information and resources visit: https://www.srebrenica.org.uk/podcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DOBRO DOŠLI U MOSTAR Igen tager jeg med bus til min næste destination her i Balkan regionen, nordpå fra Kotor i Montenegro til Mostar i den sydlige del af Bosnien og Hercegovina. Grunden til at det lige blev Mostar og dette vandrehjem er en engelsk fyr ved navn Edward… en af de andre gæster, jeg mødte i Kosovo. Det var ham, der anbefalede mig at tage til Mostar og bo på det hyggelige vandrehjem Rooms Deny. Det er en af ​​fordelene ved at bo på vandrerhjem, hvor du snakker med andre rejsende og får gode råd. Der er en flod, der løber gennem Mostar fra nord til syd og deler byen i to meget separate dele. Floden havde stor betydning under krigen DENY ER DEN PERFEKTE TURGUIDE Min vært på ​​vandrerhjemmet, som han har opkaldt det efter sig selv hedder Deny Kadric. Han hentede mig på busstationen, og selvom vandrehjemmet ligger på samme side af floden skal vi køre en omvej ind i den vestlige del af byen, da vi ikke kan køre gennem den gamle bydel. Det gav ham rig mulighed for at lege turguide, mens vi kører gennem byen. Han er en ung mand, som både er snakkesalig, åben og har en enorm viden om sit land og sin by. Da vi ser den ikoniske Stari Most Bro for første gang, spørger han mig, hvad jeg ved om Mostar – udover naturligvis broen. Men jeg må indrømme, at jeg ikke engang vidste noget om broen. Og da det er den mest ikoniske ting ved Mostar, vidste jeg ikke meget. Ikke mere end hvad Edward havde fortalte mig. At det er en smuk lille by med en masse historie. Det med broen og hvorfor den er så vigtig, er noget vi kommer tilbage til senere. Deny er lidt af en type... ikke som de fleste. Og heldigvis. LILLE LAND MED TO NAVNE Der bor 3,8 millioner mennesker i Bosnien-Hercegovina – og det er vigtigt at du siger både Bosnien og Hercegovina, og ikke blot Bosnien. Faktisk er vi slet ikke i Bosnien, som er i den nordlige del af landet. Mostar ligger i den sydlige Hercegovina region og har en befolkning på 113.000. Mostar er Bosnien-Hercegovinas mest splittede by. Begge sider har deres eget nationale teater, posthus og andre separate offentlige kontorer. Bosniske kroater bor på den vestlige side af Neretva-floden og bosniakker bor på den østlige side. Sådan var det under den bosniske krig og sådan er det for det meste også i dag – mere end 25 år efter krigen. Det er sjældent at dem på den ene side har så meget at gøre med dem på den anden side. Deny fortæller mig, at han dog har venner på begge sider, men han er undtagelsen end reglen. MAN SER STADIG AR FRA KRIGEN I MOSTAR Da jeg ankommer til vandrehjemmet, anbefaler Deny, at jeg ser en dokumentarfilm inden jeg hår ud i byen. Dokumentarfilmen Unfinished Business fra BBC blev filmet i 1993 i og omkring Mostar, hvor​ den bosniske krig var på sit højeste. Jeg tager hans råd, og allerede et minut inde i filmen ser vi nogle mænd komme løbende med en trillebør for at hente en gammel mand, der lige var blevet skudt. En trillebør er den bedste måde at få ham til hospitalet i en fart. Den gamle mand var blot gået ud af sit hus for at hente noget vand, da det skete. På hospitalet giver en læge ham hjertemassage i et forsøg på at genoplive ham. Men det var forgæves og det er hjerteskærende, at se hvordan hans kone bryder sammen. Disse første par minutter af dokumentaren sætter på den måde tonen for resten af ​​den. Det er ikke rart at se, men jeg anbefaler, at du ser den. Vi bør alle se en dokumentar som denne og lære af den. Du finder det på RadioVagabond.dk. Bagefter er det surrealistisk at gå rundt i byen, som jeg lige har set som en krigszone. Og jeg kan stadig se ar fra krigen. Mange bygninger er stadig ruiner og der er skudhuller i væggene overalt. STARI MOST BROEN ØDELAGT Belejringen af ​​Mostar blev udkæmpet under den bosniske krig først i 1992 og derefter igen senere i 93-94. Under den første belejring flygtede omkring 90.000 indbyggere fra Mostar ... og mange religiøse bygninger, kulturinstitutioner og broer blev beskadiget eller ødelagt. Mellem juni 93 og april 94, var det Bosniak-koncentrerede Øst-Mostar belejret, hvilket resulterede i mange civile dødsfald, en afskæring af humanitær hjælp, beskadigelse eller ødelæggelse af ti moskeer, og sprængningen af ​​den historiske Stari Most-bro den 9. november 1993. Den kroatiske general Slobodan Praljak blev anset for at være hovedansvarlig for ødelæggelsen af ​​broen og dømt til tyve år bag tremmer. Stari Most (som bogstaveligt talt betyder 'Den Gamle Bro') er også kendt som Mostar Bridge og forbinder de to dele af byen. Det var en smuk osmannisk bro fra det 16. århundrede og den stod i 427 år, indtil den famøse dag i 93. Efter krigen blev et projekt sat i gang for at få den rekonstrueret. Den genopbyggede bro, der ser ud som den gamle, åbnede den 23. juli 2004. Det er nu byens mest ikonisk turistattraktion, fra toppen er der 20 meter ned til floden, og ofte kan du se folk hoppe ned i vandet fra den. MUSEUM OM KRIG OG FOLKEMORD Jeg besluttede mig for at bruge et par timer i 'Museum of War and Genocide Victims'. Det er et lille, men interessant og meget bevægende museum om begivenhederne, der førte til opløsningen af ​​det tidligere Jugoslavien. Den måde, krigens historie forklares på, er ekstremt rørende og ikke for sarte sjæle. Det, som befolkningen i Bosnien- Hercegovinas og især her i Mostar var igennem under krigen, er uhyrligt. De personlige historier er som altid de mest bevægende. Og dem er der masser af. Det er en vigtig del af Bosnien-Hercegovinas og Mostars historie, og enhver, der besøger Mostar, bør besøge museet, for at lære noget og af respekt for ofrene og lokalbefolkningen. Der vises nogle meget chokerende fotos. Der er tre skærme, der hver viser forskellige historier om krigen og koncentrationslejrene. Der er også en hel del at læse, da hver skærm og billede har en historie bag sig. Bevæger du dig ned i underetage kommer du til at se det værste, så hvis har let til tårer – eller hvis du har børn med, vil jeg måske overveje at springe denne del over. Alt i alt er det forfærdeligt at se, hvad der skete, men jeg føler, at det er vigtigt at besøge sådan et museum for at få et klarere overblik over, hvad der skete, og hvorfor det aldrig må ske igen. Der er en del af museet, der taler om krigsforbrydelser – med der er mange billeder af mennesker, der gør noget der stred imod Haag- og Genève-konventionerne. Og det er det, der chokerer mig mest. Hvordan kunne dette ske - med Anden Verdenskrig i frisk erindring? Hvorfor lærte vi ikke noget? Som det står på væggen i museet: “The terror of forgetting is greater than the terror of having too much to remember” Derfor føler jeg, det er vigtigt at besøge The ‘Museum of War and Genocide Victims 1992-1995’, selvom det bestemt ikke er en opløftende oplevelse. 7 FUN FACTS OM BOSNIEN HERZEGOVINA Bosnien-Hercegovina har tilnavnet det "hjerteformede land" fordi landet med lidt go’ vilje har form som et hjerte. Og når du tjekker det på et kort, ville du tro, at Bosnien-Hercegovina er landfast, men hvis du ser lidt nærmere, vil du bemærke, at de har en lille bitte del af landet ud til Adriaterhavet. De har kun cirka 25 kilometers kyststrækning. En af Europas sidste jungler kan findes her. Den ligger på grænsen til Montenegro, hedder Perućica og en af ​​de to resterende jungleskove i Europa. Nogle af træerne her er 300 år gamle, og den uforstyrrede skov er mere end 20.000 år gammel. Bosnien-Hercegovinas har tre officielle sprog: bosnisk, kroatisk og serbisk. De er ret ens, og de forstår allesammen hinanden. Lidt som dansk norsk og svensk ... eller amerikansk, irsk og australsk ... tror jeg. Navnet "Bosnien" kommer fra ordet Bosana, som betyder vand. Hercegovina stammer fra det serbokroatiske udtryk lånt fra tysk, et land regeret af en Herzog – det tyske udtryk for en hertug. De er vilde med kaffe her. Bosnien-Hercegovina har det tiende højeste kaffeforbrug pr. indbygger i verden. Og endelig Mostar har en venskabsby i Danmark: Vejle. HERCEGOVINA TOUR SYD FOR MOSTAR Sammen med en håndfuld af de andre gæster fra vandrehjemmet, tager jeg på en Hercegovina-dagstur med Deny som guide. Han os med med omkring 30 kilometer syd for Mostar. Efter en meget lokal morgenmad tager vi på en vandretur i fantastisk smukke landskaber ned til vandfaldene i Kravica og derefter til Počitelj – en historiske landsby og et friluftsmuseum med en fæstning i bjergene. I middelalderen var det regionens administrative centrum, regeringsby og regionens vestligste punkt, som gav den stor strategisk betydning. Det anslås, at byen og dens bymure blev bygget i 1383. Og den er helt klart et besøg værd. BRUCE LEE STATUE IN MOSTAR Af en eller anden grund er der her i Mostar en statue af kong fu-eksperten Bruce Lee. Statuen var det første offentlige monument med Bruce Lee noget sted i verden og blev afsløret i november 2005. ”Hvorfor” kan man spørge: Ja, ideen kom fra en ungdomsgruppe kaldet Mostar Urban Movement, og de så statuen som "et symbol på loyalitet, dygtighed, venskab og retfærdighed". I en by, der var revet midt over i krig af etniske modsætninger, ser de karate-filmstjerne som en del af deres idé om universel retfærdighed – at de gode altid vinder. De føler, at Bruce Lee repræsenterede en ting, der kunne bygge bro over skelene mellem Mostar-beboerne: "En ting, vi alle har tilfælles, er Bruce Lee", sagde de. Kort efter den blev rejst blev skulpturen vandaliseret, fjernet til reparation og bragt tilbage i slutningen af ​​maj 2013. Både bosniere og kroater havde klaget over, at statuen var en provokation, fordi de troede, at den pegede mod deres område i en kampposition, så da den kom tilbage, drejede de statuen i en neutral retning. HIT THE ROAD JACK Tilbage i Mostar går vi i samlet flok over den gamle bro til vest-siden, til middag og drinks på den ikoniske Black Dog Pub, og synger alle sammen med Hit the Road Jack. Og så er jeg skal jeg ellers selv til at ”hitte the road” igen... og mit næste stop er Kroatien. Jeg hedder Palle Bo, og jeg skal videre.   JEG VIL GERNE HØRE FRA DIG Jeg meget gerne vil høre fra dig, og nu har jeg fået en ny og enkel måde for dig at sende mig en talebesked på. Det er en sej lille webbaseret app, der hedder Tellbee, og alt hvad du skal gøre, er at klikke på banneret hvor der står ’SIG NOGET’på RadioVagabond.dk og så bare snakke. Fortæl mig, hvor du er, og hvad du laver, mens du lytter til denne podcast. Det er superenkelt, og en af ​​de seje ting er, at du kan lytte til det, du har indtalt, og gøre det om, hvis du ikke er tilfreds med det - inden du klikker på send. Jeg får en lille lydbid, som jeg kan spille her i programmet, og det er altid skønt at høre fra dig, der sidder ude på den anden side. Du kan naturligvis også bare udfylde formularen under kontakt på hjemmesiden. SPONSOR Denne episode er delvist sponsoreret af Hotels25.dk, hvor du altid kan finde de bedste priser på hoteller, pensionater og vandrerhjem - som f.eks. Rooms Deny, som jeg boede på her i Mostar.

See pictures here. DOBRO DOŠLI U MOSTAR Again, I go by bus to my next Balkan destination. This time north from Kotor in Montenegro to Mostar in the southern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was one of the other guests at the hostel in Kosovo – an English guy called Edward, that recommended Mostar and Rooms Deny to me. There's a river that runs through Mostar from the north to the south and cuts the city in two halves. Deny, the owner of ‘Rooms Deny', the hostel I'd booked, came to pick me up at the bus station, and even though both the bus station and the hostel are on the eastern side, we're taking a bit of a detour into the western side because cars are not allowed in the old town. That gives Deny time to do his ‘tour guide introduction' to Mostar. DENY IS THE PERFECT TOUR GUIDE My host Deny Kadric is a very open young man and has an impressive knowledge about his country and especially Mostar. As we see the iconic Stari Most Bridge (the Old Bridge) for the first time, Deny asks me what I know about Mostar other than the bridge. But no, I didn't even know about the bridge, and since that's the most iconic thing about Mostar, I didn't know much. Or anything – other than what Edward told me. That it's a quaint little city with a lot of history. We'll get back to this bridge and why it's so important later on in this episode. SMALL COUNTRY WITH TWO NAMES Bosnia and Herzegovina is home to 3.8 million people – and it's important that you say both names. Basically, it's too regions with Bosnia in the north and Herzegovina in the south. In fact, I'm not even in Bosnia. Mostar is in Herzegovina and has a population of 113,000 and is Bosnia and Herzegovina's most divided city. Nowhere is this more evident than in Mostar, where Bosnian Croatians live on the western side of the Neretva River, and Bosniaks on the eastern side. Even to this day, more than 25 years after the war, this is still the case. They rarely go to the other side and interact with the people on the other side. Both sides have their own national theatre, post office, and other separate public services. Deny tells me that he does have friends on both sides, but he's more the exception to the rule. THE SCARS OF THE WAR IN MOSTAR Deny recommended that I took 45 minutes to see a documentary called Unfinished Business in Mostar before I walked out to explore. It's a BBC documentary presented by Jeremy Bowen, filmed in 1993 in and around Mostar at the height of the Bosniak-Croat conflict during the Bosnian War. And I did, and already one minute in we see some guys come running with a wheelbarrow to get an old man that had just been shot. They wanted to rush him to the hospital. He'd just stepped out of his house to get some water when it happened. At the hospital, a doctor gives him CPR in an attempt to revive him. But there was nothing he could do – he was dead on arrival and his old wife breaks down. These first few minutes of the documentary sets the tone for the rest of it. It's heartbreaking but I suggest you see it. We should all see it and learn from it. It's surreal to walk around in the streets of Mostar after seeing them as a war zone. You can still see the scars of the war. Many of the buildings are still in ruins and you see bullet-holes on the walls everywhere. STARI MOST BRIDGE WAS DESTROYED The Siege of Mostar was fought during the Bosnian War first in 1992 and then again later in 93-94. As a result of the first siege around 90,000 residents of Mostar fled … and many religious buildings, cultural institutions, and bridges were damaged or destroyed. Between June 93 and April 94, the besieged Bosniak-concentrated East Mostar, resulting in the deaths of many civilians, a cut off of humanitarian aid, damage or destruction of ten mosques, and then the blowing up of the historic Stari Most bridge on November 9, 1993. Croatian general Slobodan Praljak was deemed the main responsible for the destruction of the bridge and sentenced to twenty years. He was the one who declared that "those stones" (meaning the bridge) had no value. Stari Most Bridge, also known as The Old Bridge and Mostar Bridge, connects the two parts of the city. It was a 16th-century Ottoman bridge and stood for 427 years, until that day in ‘93. After the war, a project was set in motion to reconstruct it; the rebuilt bridge – that looks like the old one opened on 23 July 2004. It's now an iconic tourist attraction. It stands 20 meters over the river and often you can see people jumping of it into the water. MUSEUM OF WAR AND GENOCIDE VICTIMS I decide to spend a few hours at the ‘Museum of War and Genocide Victims 1992-1995'. It's a small but interesting and very moving museum about the events leading up to the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.  The way the history of the war is explained is very moving and extremely touching. What the people of Bosnia and especially Mostar have been through is unimaginable. The personal stories of those who lived through these times are as always, the most moving.  It's an important part of the history of Bosnia Herzegovina and Mostar and anyone visiting it must go to the Museum out of respect for the victims and locals who suffered through this. There are some very graphic shocking photos on display. Also, three TVs each showing different stories about the war and the concentration camps. There is quite a bit to read as each display and picture has a story behind it. On the lower floor this is where the more graphic photos are displayed so if your easily upset – or if you're bringing your kids, I would skip this part.  All in all, it's horrific to see what happened, but I feel it's an important visit to get a clearer view of what happened and why it should never happen again. There's a part of the museum talking about war crimes – with so many pictures of people doing something against the Hague and Geneva Conventions. And that's what bothers me the most. How could this happen – with the second World War in recent memory. Didn't we learn anything? As it says on the wall in the museum: “The terror of forgetting is greater than the terror of having too much to remember” That's why I feel it's important to visit places like this, even though it's not an upbeat uplifting experience. 6 FUN FACTS ABOUT BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA Bosnia Herzegovina is nicknamed the “Heart-Shaped Land” due to the country's slight heart shape. When you look at a map, you would think that Bosnia Herzegovina is landlocked but if you look very closely you will notice that they have the smallest little panhandle which touches the Adriatic Sea for only about 25 kilometres or 15 miles. One of Europe's last jungles can be found here. Situated on the border of Montenegro, Perućica is one of two remaining jungles forests in Europe. Some of the trees here are 300 years old, and the undisturbed forest vintage dates back 20,000 years.  Bosnia has three official languages: Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. They are pretty similar and they all understand each other. Kinda like Danish Norwegian and Swedish… or American, Irish and Australian… I think. The name “Bosnia” comes from an Indo-European word Bosana, which means water. Herzegovina stems from the Serbo-Croatian term borrowed from German, Hercegovina, a land ruled by a Herzog – the German term for a duke. They like coffee here… Bosnia Herzegovina has the tenth highest coffee consumption per capita in the world.   HERZEGOVINA TOUR SOUTH OF MOSTAR With a group of other guests from the hostel, I go on a day-trip in beautiful Herzegovina with Deny as the tour guide. He takes us about 30 kilometers (19 mi) south of Mostar. After a local breakfast, we go on a hike in some astonishing landscapes to the waterfalls in Kravica and then to Počitelj – the historic village and an open-air museum with a fortress in the mountains. In the middle ages, it was the administrative center and center of governance of the county, and its westernmost point, which gave it major strategic importance. It is supposed that the fortified walled town was built in 1383 and well worth a visit. BRUCE LEE STATUE IN MOSTAR For some reason here in Mostar there's a statue of kong-fu expert Bruce Lee. The statue was the first public monument to Bruce Lee anywhere in the world and was unveiled in November 2005. Why you may ask: The idea came from a youth group called Mostar Urban Movement, and they saw the statue as “a symbol of "loyalty, skill, friendship and justice." In a city that had been torn in war by ethnic divisions, they see the dynamic movie star as a part of their idea of universal justice – that the good guys can win. They feel that Bruce Lee represented one thing that could bridge the divides between Mostar residents: "One thing we all have in common is Bruce Lee" they said. Shortly afterwards the sculpture was vandalized, removed for repairs and brought back at the end of May 2013. Both Bosnians and Croats had complained that the statue was a provocation because they thought it was pointed towards their area in a fighting stance, so its creators rotated the statue to face a neutral direction.   HIT THE ROAD JACK Back in Mostar we go walk across the Old Bridge to the west side, for dinner and drinks at the iconic Black Dog Pub, and we all sing along to Hit the Road Jack. And then it's time for me to hit the road myself, and my next stop is Croatia. My name is Palle Bo and I gotta keep moving.     I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU First, I want to mention that I would love to hear from you and now there's a new and simple way for you to send me a voice message. It's a cool little web-based app called Tellbee and all you have to do is here: TALK TO ME and talk. Tell me where you are and what you're doing when you listen to this. It's super simple and one of the cool things is that you can listen to it and redo it if you're not happy with it – before you click send. I get a small soundbite I can play on the show and it's always wonderful to hear from you guys. You can off course also just fill out the form under contact on the website. SPONSOR This episode is supported in part by Hotels25.com where you always can find the best prices on hotels, guesthouses and hostels – like Rooms Deny, that I stayed at here in Mostar.

Kanta Bosniak is an author, artist, and interfaith minister. She is the author/illustrator of numerous books and author/narrator of several personal growth audiobooks. Her newest book, ICONS: Twenty Two & You will be released in late autumn this of year. She was twice Artist-in-Residence at Omega Institute. Her art has appeared in numerous magazines, including the international journal of visionary, outsider, and contemporary folk art, RAW VISION.  Her speaking and workshop resume includes venues such as Columbia, Yale, Radford, and Kutztown Universities, Virginia Tech, UNCW, The Association for Research and Enlightenment, Omega Institute, Midway Center for US Marines at Camp LeJeune, and churches throughout the country. www.KantaBosniak.com ________________________________ Awakenings With Michele Meiche is Your place for tips and insight to live a more fulfilling life, and your relationships. Learn how to attract healthy relationships, and how to create a life you really love. Awakenings broadcasts live every Wed. 12pm -1:30 pm PT   Call in for Intuitive Readings #347-539-5122 Michele answers questions about Awakening, Spirituality, Metaphysics and Self/Soul Development. Michele also answers listener questions from email, twitter and facebook On Air.

Article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.23656  In this episode, David Ballard, MD summarizes Bosniak version 2019 (v2019) and Tse et al.'s imaging cohort with study radiologists applying Bosniak v2019.

The names of the candidates who will appear on the ballots for the November 15th local elections have been officially submitted to the Electoral Commission.  In total, 322 candidates will vie for local city council seats and mayorships across the country.  In my most recent conversation with Mirsad Hadzikadič, we spoke about this historic moment for the Platform as this is the first time it will take part in the local elections.  It was just two years ago that Hadzikadič himself was canvassing the country as a candidate for the Bosniak presidential council seat.  Preko 300 kandidata Platforme za progres će se pojaviti na glasačkim listićima na novembarskim izborima Imena kandidata koji će se naći na glasačkim listićima za lokalne izbore 15. novembra zvanično su dostavljena Izbornoj komisiji. Ukupno će se 322 kandidata nadmetati za pozicije u gradskim vijećima i za gradonačelnike širom države. U posljednjem razgovoru sa Mirsadom Hadžikadićem, razgovarali smo o ovom historijskom trenutku za Platformu jer je ovo prvi put da će Platforma učestvovati na lokalnim izborima. Prije samo dvije godine, Hadžikadić je prikupljao političku podršku kao kandidat za bošnjačkog člana Predsjedništva. 20.08.2020. Kliknite ovdje da pročitate intervju sa Mirsadom Hadžikadićem na službenim jezicima Bosne i Hercegovine

Son of a Croatian mother and Muslim Bosnian (or Bosniak) father, A conversation with Demir Mahmutcehajic, a prominent Bosniak human rights activist Demir Mahmutcehajic (44) is a prominent Bosniak (or Muslim Bosnian) human rights activist and politician based in the old town of Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a teenager in 1992, he and his family fled hthe Serbian-controlled Bosnia to his mother’s Croatian hometown named Vela Luka. From Croatia they had to leave in a year for safety first in Kuwait and subsequently to Slovenia when Croatian troops began their attacks on Bosnia and Herzegovina. After drifting as a refugee in Kuwait, Slovenia and later Italy for several years, Demir was resettled in UK where he resumed his high school education, and completed BSc in internet engineering at Southbank University in London. In UK, he began his human rights activism and went on to become a founding member of the Islamic Human Rights Commission. In 2005, with a group of other human rights-minded Bosniaks. He started a civil rights movement DOSTA! (Enough) in Bosnia, and Demir and his family returned to Stolac in 2011. He has been active in local electoral politics in Stolac, campaigning against corruption and electoral frauds and conducts genocide educational programs in Srebrenica, Prijedor, and other places of mass killings. The conversation covers: - The dangerous myth of racial and ethnic purity - The historical dynamics among ethnic and religious communities in the former Yugoslavia, founded as an anti-Fascist bloc of six different ethnic nations in the Balkans - The International Court of Justice ruling in 2007 that the State of Serbia did not commit genocide, and that only the mass-killing of nearly 8000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica constituted an act of genocide - The phenomenon of formerly persecuted ethnic and religious groups turning murderous towards other minorities in their midst - Some lessons for Rohingya people

Adis Ziga was born in Yugoslavia in the municipality Rogatica on April 21, 1983.  He grew up in the village of Žepa, which is located in Rogatica, and also became one of three Bosniak enclaves in eastern Bosnia that were surround by the Army of the Republic Srpska during the war. Adis has come forward to share his story and vivid memories of the war, the atrocities that he witnessed and his flight to freedom with his mother, sister and niece, while his father sought refuge in the hillsides surrounding Zepa and Rogatica, as had many other men and boys, in order escape the realities of the ongoing ethnic cleansing.  The following is the first of two interviews we have conducted with Adis.

Mostar is the sixth largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is a focal point for the Platform for Progress because of its rich cultural diversity, which includes large populations of Bosniak and Croat citizens.  The Platform will announce a plan on March 6 that will hopefully restore local elections that have been void there for over 8 years, with the hope that it will serve as a model across the country for other cities, towns and municipalities.  This as the Platform continues its message of inclusivity for all as it seeks to show the path to democracy.  Mirsad and I spoke about the intricacies of dealing with human behavior in order for the process to succeed, as well as a recent trip Geneva Switzerland for an address at the University of Geneva. Prijedlog ključne politike za Grad Mostar trebao bi biti objavljen 6. marta Mostar je šesti grad po veličini u Bosni i Hercegovini i žarišna je tačka Platforme za progres zbog svoje bogate kulturne raznolikosti koja uključuje mnogobrojno bošnjačko i hrvatsko stanovništvo. Platforma će 6. marta objaviti plan kojim će, kako se nada, ponovo uspostaviti lokalne izbore koji su tu poništeni već više od osam godina, uz nadu da će on poslužiti kao model ostalim gradovima i opštinama širom zemlje. Ovo se dešava dok Platforma nastavlja svoju poruku inkluzivnosti za sve, nastojeći pokazati put ka demokratiji. Mirsad i ja smo razgovarali o komplikovanosti bavljenja ljudskim ponašanjem kako bi ovaj proces uspio, kao i o njegovom nedavnom putovanju u Ženevu u Švicarskoj zbog jednog obraćanja na Univerzitetu u Ženevi.  02.03.2020. Kliknite ovdje da pročitate intervju sa Mirsadom Hadžikadićem na službenim jezicima Bosne i Hercegovine

Introduction From the Spanish Inquisition, and before, to today, True Believers have been attacking people, cancelling people is the new term. Cancelled physically by killing, or psychologically and financially by insults, false accusations and specious accusations of, well, simply not being pure enough, of not having always shown 100% consistency with current hard and fast true beliefs. No matter how often current orthodoxy may change, those who are True Believers in the orthodoxy preached by their chosen group are all in to the point where nothing else is at all acceptable. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode.  Continuing The entire “You are with me or you are against me.” thought process is invading virtually every part of our lives. And dividing our country and our friends and families.  Here’s how to fix all of that. Start with a search for common goals. Do not start with a statement of how right you are.  Let’s take a look at some of our history and see if there are any lessons for today. WWI was a horrific affair, with tens of millions of dead, maimed and ruined lives. Often people ask how any war started, and sometimes there is a clear--if unsatisfactory--answer. WWII started in Europe when Germany attacked Poland, and later attacked Russia. Attacks led by True Believer Adolph Hitler and his Believer followers. It started in the Pacific when Japan attacked the US. Japan was led by True Believer General Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister during the war, and his Believer followers. The Allies, mainly the US, Russia, France and Britain, had clear and well justified reasons to fight the Axis; Germany, Italy and Japan. The Korean War started when the North attacked the South. The justification, to save South Korea and to contain communism, was less universally acclaimed, but still justified. The Korean and Chinese True Believers lit this fire.  Vietnam, also justified as necessary to contain communism, was simply an exercise in futility, and a monument to ambition and ignorance. But the “think tank” in Washington, to me exemplified by the lead “numbers man”  Robert McNamara, a senior American business executive and Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. McNamara was dead (pun intended) wrong about the war, and 58,000 Anericans paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Ah, but he was a True Believer. He Truly Believed in supporting a corrupt Catholic government in Buddhist South Vietnam. He Truly Believed that by observing the greater numbers of the enemy killed vs the number of Americans killed, that we were willing. He seems to have forgotten that you win wars by taking--and holding--ground. But he was a numbers man. And a True Believer. Now to WWI. Most of us learned that it started when Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated. A young Serbia Muslim, Gavrilo Princip, participated, along with 4 other Serbs and a Bosniak, in assassinating the heir-apparent to the Austrio-Hungarian empire. A series of threats, demands and insults created a clash of egos that exploded into WWI. It is not unlike a bar fight, where no one really knows how it started, but there is blood and bodies everywhere. Princip was a True Believer. Kaiser Wilhem, II of Germany, a major player, was a True Believer. As were many of the young men from both sides who were taught that God was on their side. Despite the death and destruction, despite new weapons of war; airplanes, gas and machine guns, virtually nothing was decided. But enough True Believers were left from both sides to help trigger WWII. (In a telling twist, Muslim Serbia sees Princip as a hero, Christian Bosnia sees him as a traitor.) Communism, a far greater killer than Nazism, is fueled and expanded by True Believers. How else could any political/economic system, that has never worked anywhere, get away with killing 40 million people in Stalin’s Russia and 80 million in Mao’s China,

Mirsad Hadzikadic continues to take pause from time to time when he sees just how much has been accomplished since he announced his plans in January of 2018 to run for the Bosniak presidential council seat.  He witnesses these accomplishments on almost a daily basis as he travels throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina as he speaks with people from all walks of life, sharing the message of the Platform for Progress movement, that together they can make a difference and a better tomorrow for their country.  We spoke  about his most recent travels, which for Hadzikadic proved to be very gratifying, emotional, and heightened even more his awareness of the impact the message is having across the country. Razmatranje dokle je pokret Platforma za progres stigao za tako kratko vrijeme  Mirsad Hadžikadić povremeno odmori kada vidi koliko toga se postiglo od kada je u januaru 2018. godine objavio svoje polanove da se kandiduje za bošnjačkog člana Predsjedništva. Svakodnevno je svjedok ovih dostignuća dok utuje širom Bosne i Hercegovine i razgovara sa ljudima iz svih sfera života, dijeleći poruku Platforme za progres da se zajedno mogu donijeti promjene i donijeti bolje sutra svojoj državi. Razgovarali smo o njegovim najnovijim putovanjima, koja su za Hadžikadića bila vrlo prijatna, emotivna, te su još više povećala njegovu svijest o učinku koji poruka ima širom zemlje. 19.09.2019. Kliknite ovdje da pročitate intervju sa Mirsadom Hadžikadićem na službenim jezicime Bosne i Hercegovine  

The ruling presidential council in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is made up of a Bosniak, Serb and Croat representative, recently came to an agreement indicating the country will not seek membership in NATO or the Europen Union.  Membership that Mirsad Hadzikadic and the Platform for Progress Movement have advocated from the start.  I spoke with Mirsad about this recent development and what he feels this means for the country and the Platform for Progress Movement going forward. Trenutna politička klima u Bosni i Hercegovini donosi pojačan osjećaj hitnosti za pokret Platforma za progres Vladajuće predsjedničko vijeće u Bosni i Hercegovini, koje je sačinjeno od bošnjačkog, srpskog i hrvatskog predstavnika, nedavno je sačinilo sporazum prema kojem ova zemlja neće tražiti članstvo u NATO-u ili Evropskoj uniji. To je članstvo koje Mirsad Hadžikadić i Platforma za progres zagovaraju od samog početka. Razgovarao sam sa Mirsadom o ovim skorijim događanjima i o tome šta on misli da to znači za zemlju i za napredovanje Platforme za progres.  16.08.2019. Kliknite ovdje da pročitate intervju sa Mirsadom Hadžikadićem na službenim jezicime Bosne i Hercegovine

Time moves everything including ourselves, whether we like it or not. But change brings us hope, new energy, and opens new doors in our lives. Our spiritual journeys fly above our lives like birds. Some birds fly high, and some fly low. My spiritual journey is similar to that of a Falcon because he insists on fly high in the sky above many other varieties of birds; he enjoys freedom instead of being enslaved; he knows where to go and finds food without anybody’s help. Speaker Bio Imam Abdulah Polovina was born in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Before the war In Bosnia and Herzegovina he attended the Gazi Husrevbegova madrasa to be Imam, Khatib and Muallim. He completed and graduated the madrasa in 1992. After the war he was appointed by the Islamic Community to work as an Imam in one mosque in Sarajevo. Here he stayed for the next five years, when he moved to the United States, to the City of Seattle, the State of Washington, where he worked as an Imam for 12 years at the local Islamic Community and the congregation of Bosniaks. Imam Abdulah got a BA in Islamic Studies at the Cloverdale College in Indiana, and BA in Comparative Religions at the University George Washington in Seattle, WA. He earned a masters degree at Seattle University’s School of Theology and Ministry in transformational leadership. Imam Abdulah got a BA in Islamic Studies at the Cloverdale College in Indiana, and BA in Comparative Religions at the University George Washington in Seattle, WA. He earned a masters degree at Seattle University’s School of Theology and Ministry in transformational leadership. Currently, Abdulah is the Imam of the Bosniak congregation and organization in Portland, Oregon.

Jasmin ef Bekric, sent best wishes to people celebrating the end of Ramadan and the eve of the Eid al-Fitr - Jasmin ef Bekrić, muftija islamske zajednice Bošnjaka u Australiji sem upućenih čestitki za kraj mjeseca Ramazana objašnjava i kako se određuje prvi dan Ramazanskog bajrama.

This podcast is my personal open-ended conversation centered around a question I commonly get from patients, friends, and family, “Why Urology?”  In this podcast episode, I will be talking about renal or kidney cysts. I will also introduce the Bosniak classification of renal or kidney cysts which helps doctors differentiate simple and complex renal cysts with regard to the risk that the cyst might be cancerous. Kidney cysts are common.The incidence increases as people age. An estimated 50 percent of people will have kidney cysts by age 50. Fortunately, most kidney cysts are what we call “simple” cysts. A simple cyst is like a water balloon, thin walled and round, with a water density fluid filling it. Here are four basic things you need to remember about kidney cysts: Simple kidney cysts usually do not cause symptoms or reduce kidney function. Most all simple kidney cysts are found during imaging tests done for other reasons. Treatment is not needed for simple kidney cysts that do not cause any symptoms. The chance that a simple kidney cyst leads to cancer is very low. The thing about most things in medicine, and about renal cysts as well, is that things are not always simple. The Bosniak Classification of a renal cyst helps doctors determine which cysts need close follow-up or surgery.

Kanta Bosniak is an author, artist, and interfaith minister with over 45 years’ experience as an educator in Spiritual Growth and Guided Meditation. She is the author/illustrator of numerous books. Collectors of her art include a Nobel Prize Winner, a popular television actress, several authors, a U.S. National champion athlete and people of all walks of life. She was twice Artist-in-Residence at Omega Institute. Her art has appeared in numerous magazines, including Sagewoman, Magical Blend, Tidewater Women, andthe international journal of visionary, outsider, and contemporary folk art, RAW VISION.  http://KantaBosniak.com ________________________________________________________ Awakenings With Michele Meiche is Your place for tips and insight to live a more fulfilling life, and your relationships. Learn how to attract healthy relationships, and how to create a life you really love. Awakenings broadcasts live every Wed. 12pm -1:30 pm PT   Call in for Intuitive Readings #347-539-5122 Michele answers questions about Awakening, Spirituality, Metaphysics and Self/Soul Development. Michele also answers listener questions from email, twitter and facebook On Air. Email awakeningspodcast@gmail.com to have your questions answered or to share your insights On Air.

Kanta Bosniak is an author, artist, and interfaith minister with over 45 years’ experience as an educator in Spiritual Growth and Guided Meditation. Collectors of her art include a Nobel Prize Winner, a popular television actress, several authors, a U.S. National champion athlete and people of all walks of life. She is a frequent speaker on radio, at churches, universities, holistic education centers, and conferences throughout the US. She is an award-winning member of the National Guild of Hypnotists and listed in Who’s Who in America. Kanta lives in Southwestern Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she has a museum of her art and a folk art-themed wedding venue. For more information, visit KantaBosniak.com.  ________________________ Awakenings With Michele Meiche is Your place for tips and insight to live a more fulfilling life, and your relationships. Learn how to attract healthy relationships, and how to create a life you really love. Awakenings broadcasts live every Wed. 12pm -1:30 pm PT   Call in for Intuitive Readings #347-539-5122 Michele answers questions about Awakening, Spirituality, Metaphysics and Self/Soul Development. Michele also answers listener questions from email, twitter and facebook On Air.

Kanta Bosniak is an author, artist, and interfaith minister with over 45 years’ experience as an educator in Spiritual Growth and Guided Meditation. Collectors of her art include a Nobel Prize Winner, a popular television actress, several authors, a U.S. National champion athlete and people of all walks of life. She is a frequent speaker on radio, at churches, universities, holistic education centers, and conferences throughout the US. She is an award-winning member of the National Guild of Hypnotists and listed in Who’s Who in America. Kanta lives in Southwestern Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she has a museum of her art and a folk art-themed wedding venue. For more information, visit KantaBosniak.com.  ________________________ Awakenings With Michele Meiche is Your place for tips and insight to live a more fulfilling life, and your relationships. Learn how to attract healthy relationships, and how to create a life you really love. Awakenings broadcasts live every Wed. 12pm -1:30 pm PT   Call in for Intuitive Readings #347-539-5122 Michele answers questions about Awakening, Spirituality, Metaphysics and Self/Soul Development. Michele also answers listener questions from email, twitter and facebook On Air. Email awakeningspodcast@gmail.com to have your questions answered or to share your insights On Air.    

Only four episodes in and we've worked "ass" in to the title twice.   The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip. Princip was one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) coordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian Serb and a member of the Black Hand secret society. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. The assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war, triggering actions leading to war between most European states. In charge of these Serbian military conspirators was Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrijević, his right-hand man Major Vojislav Tankosić, and the spy Rade Malobabić. Tankosić armed the assassins with bombs and pistols and trained them. The assassins were given access to the same clandestine network of safe-houses and agents that Malobabić used for the infiltration of weapons and operatives into Austria-Hungary. The assassins, the key members of the clandestine network, and the key Serbian military conspirators who were still alive were arrested, tried, convicted and punished. Those who were arrested in Bosnia were tried in Sarajevo in October 1914. The other conspirators were arrested and tried before a Serbian court on the French-controlled Salonika Front in 1916–1917 on unrelated false charges; Serbia executed three of the top military conspirators. Much of what is known about the assassinations comes from these two trials and related records. From wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria

Only four episodes in and we've worked "ass" in to the title twice.   The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip. Princip was one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) coordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian Serb and a member of the Black Hand secret society. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. The assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war, triggering actions leading to war between most European states. In charge of these Serbian military conspirators was Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrijević, his right-hand man Major Vojislav Tankosić, and the spy Rade Malobabić. Tankosić armed the assassins with bombs and pistols and trained them. The assassins were given access to the same clandestine network of safe-houses and agents that Malobabić used for the infiltration of weapons and operatives into Austria-Hungary. The assassins, the key members of the clandestine network, and the key Serbian military conspirators who were still alive were arrested, tried, convicted and punished. Those who were arrested in Bosnia were tried in Sarajevo in October 1914. The other conspirators were arrested and tried before a Serbian court on the French-controlled Salonika Front in 1916–1917 on unrelated false charges; Serbia executed three of the top military conspirators. Much of what is known about the assassinations comes from these two trials and related records. From wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria

Our next guest on This Writing Life podcast is the journalist and novelist Kevin Sullivan. His latest novel, The Longest Winter, is set during the siege of Sarajevo, which began almost twenty-five-years ago to the day in April 1992. Sullivan covered the conflict as a journalist, and almost lost his life in the nearby town of Gornji Vakuf, when the Land Rover he was travelling in hit a landmine. Sullivan began The Longest Winter shortly after, whilst recuperating in Glasgow, but it would take many more years for the final story to be completed. ----more----In Part 1 of our conversation, Sullivan describes the liberal, tolerant Sarajevo that existed before the conflict broke out: '[It] has had a long tradition of creative co-existence among different cultures. Bosnia was in many ways a model for the rest of Europe. They were practicing multi-culturalism long before the rest of Europe.' From here, we moved between The Longest Winter and the political back-drop to the Bosnian war - how Serbian, Croat and Bosniak politicians exploited nationalism to create emnities  Sullivan begins by discussing his work for the International Commission for Missing Persons, that has worked tirelessly to find the thousands murdered during the Srebrenica genocide, for example. Read more about their work: https://www.icmp.int/ Part 2 to follow.

A mosque that was demolished by Serb forces in Bosnia's civil war has been re-opened in Banja Luka. Banja Luka's historical Ferhadija Mosque has been re-built and re-consecrated. Serb forces had demolished the house of worship in 1993 during Bosnia's civil war. Kemal Gunić spent years lobbying for the reconstruction, collecting donations and helping to organize the construction work. Again and again, Serb nationalists opposed to the mosque staged protests that often turned violent. When the cornerstone was laid in 2001, Kemal Gunić witnessed the stoning of a fellow Bosniak. He was determined that there be no rioting at the mosque's re-opening. A peaceful ceremony would send a vital signal to, among others, all those Muslims who still don't trust the peace process between Serbs and Bosniaks.

We may feel lacking when we get swept up in the I ‘heart' Valentine's Day mentality, but most of us want more than that anyway. Tziporah Kingsbury, penned "Love Guru" by The Bachelor TV show, which airs February 2 (tonight), shares how we can combine love and intimacy with spirituality, sexuality, and sensuality—a healthy and happy combination! Kanta Bosniak joins us with her series of poetry and art books that gives a sense of intimacy on a worldly and spiritual level.

Kanta Bosniak is an author, artist, coach and interfaith minister with over 40 years experience as an educator in Spiritual Growth and Guided Meditation. She illustrates her publications with playful drawings and vibrant, color-rich cover art, so that readers and listeners can enjoy owning her work. Collectors of her art include a Nobel Prize Winner, an Emmy-winning producer, a popular television actress, several authors, a U.S. National champion athlete and people of all walks of life. She is a frequent speaker at New Thought churches, universities, holistic education centers, and conferences throughout the US. For more information, visit http://KantaBosniak.com. ________________________ The Awakenings Radio Show is Your place for tips and insight to live a more fulfilling life, and your relationships. Learn how to attract healthy relationships, and how to create a life you really love. Awakenings broadcasts live every Wed. 12pm -1:30 pm PT   Call in for Intuitive Readings #347-539-5122 Michele answers questions about Awakening, Spirituality, Metaphysics and Self/Soul Development. Michele also answers listener questions from email, twitter and facebook On Air. Email awakeningsradio@gmail.com to have your questions answered or to share your insights On Air. 

Kanta Bosniak is an artist, writer and minister with 44 years' experience an educator in personal growth and the arts. She is a frequent radio guest and presenter at universities and professional conferences throughout the US. Kanta was twice Artist-in-Residence at Omega Institute. Kanta is the author and illustrator of 22 books and audiobooks. She is listed in Who's Who in American Women and will be listed in the upcoming edition of Who's Who in America. Web:http://KantaBosniak.com email art4spirit@yahoo.com ________________________ The Awakenings Radio Show is Your place for insight, tools and the 411 to track & navigate the Path of Awakening, Soul Alignment,  Healing, Self Development, Spirituality, the Planetary Shift and Ascension. Awakenings broadcasts live every Wed. 12pm -1:30 pm PT   Call in for Psychic Channeled Guidance, with your questions and to share.  #347-539-5122      Michele gives a talk every week and answers listener's questions; as well as does readings  for callers from 12 pm – 12:45 pm  Through Awakenings you can get the support and tools to make the changes to live more fulfilled, authentic, Soul connected and prosperous Email awakenings@selfinlight.com to get your questions answered on air; or for guest and topic suggestions.

Kanta Bosniak is an author, artist, coach and interfaith minister with over 40 years' experience as an educator in Spiritual Growth and Guided Meditation.  She is a frequent speaker at New Thought churches, universities, holistic education centers, and conferences throughout the US. She is listed in Who's Who in American Women. Kanta lives in The Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia, where she has an international practice of coaching and Guided Imagery and officiates personalized and meaningful weddings. She is available for consultations in person, by telephone, and Skype. For more information, visit KantaBosniak.com. ________________________ The Awakenings Radio Show is Your place for insight, tools and the 411 to track & navigate the Path of Awakening, Soul Alignment,  Healing, Self Development, Spirituality, the Planetary Shift and Ascension. Awakenings broadcasts live every Wed. 12pm -1:30 pm PT   Call in for Psychic Channeled Guidance, with your questions and to share.  #347-539-5122      Michele gives a talk every week and answers listener's questions; as well as does readings  for callers from 12 pm – 12:45 pm  Through Awakenings you can get the support and tools to make the changes to live more fulfilled, authentic, Soul connected and prosperous Email awakenings@selfinlight.com to get your questions answered on air; or for guest and topic suggestions.  

Please join Melissa Studdard and Tiferet Journal on 12/16/13 at 7 PM EST for an interview with poet, author, artist, coach and interfaith minister, Kanta Bosniak. Bosniak is a nationally recognized expert on what she calls  “Abundance Triggers,” the practice of using art, interior design and other anchors to enhance positive focus. She has a private practice of coaching and guided imagery in Southwestern Virginia. Bosniak’s books includeAbundance Triggers,Twin Flames,and the Becoming Process. As well, Bosniak has been featured in magazines such as Studies in Education, Raw Vision, SageWoman, Tidewater Women, Point of Light, and Oracle 20/20 and was twice Artist-in-Residence at Omega Institute. In addition, Bosniak is an award-winning member of the National Guild of Hypnotists and holds Master Level certifications in hypnosis, spiritual coaching and Reiki. Of Abundance Triggers Rev. Nancy J. Oristaglio says, “Kanta Bosniak is a soulful voice for finding within ourselves what has really never been lost: ourSelves. In her groundbreaking new book Abundance Triggers, she offers unique and self-affirming tools that we can use to ‘trigger’ the knowledge of our essential nature and living our lives more abundantly.” To buy The Tiferet Talk Interviews book, a collection from our first year, Click Here.

This week our guest is Kanta Bosniak is an author, artist, coach and interfaith minister with over 40 years experience as an educator in Spiritual Growth and Guided Meditation. She illustrates her publications with playful drawings and vibrant, color-rich cover art, so that readers and listeners can enjoy owning her work. Collectors of her art include a Nobel Prize Winner, an Emmy-winning producer, a popular television actress, several authors, a U.S. National champion athlete and people of all walks of life. She is available for appointments in person, by telephone, and Skype. For more information, visit http://KantaBosniak.com. ______________________________________________ The Awakenings Radio Show is Your place for insight, tools and the 411 to track & navigate the Path of Awakening, Soul Alignment,  Healing, Self Development, Spirituality, the Planetary Shift and Ascension. Awakenings broadcasts live every Wed. 12pm -1:30 pm PT   Call in for Psychic Channeled Guidance, with your questions and to share.  #347-539-5122      Michele gives a talk every week and answers listener's questions; as well as does readings  for callers from 12 pm – 12:45 pm  Through Awakenings you can get the support and tools to make the changes to live more fulfilled, authentic, Soul connected and prosperous Email awakenings@selfinlight.com to get your questions answered on air; or for guest and topic suggestions.    

Our good friend Kanta Bosniak returns for a visit! Kanta is an author, artist, coach and interfaith minister with over 40 years experience as a spiritual growth teacher and a nationally recognized expert on “Abundance Triggers.” She uses art, interior design and other anchors to enhance positive focus. She has had solo shows in PBS and NPR radio galleries, at UNCW, Omega Institute and Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. Her books include Surviving Cancer and Other Tough Stuff, Lose Weight in Alpha State, Abundance Triggers, The Becoming Process: A New Paradigm for Life Change, and Love Poems. Audios include Guided Meditation CDs and Audio books Surviving Cancer: A Sacred Journey for Women, Lose Weight in Theta State, Abundance Triggers: A Journey of Self- Discovery, Surviving Cancer: A Sacred Journey for Men, Sweet Dreams! Guided Imagery for Peaceful Sleep, and Sweet Dreams for Kids! Guided Imagery for Peaceful Sleep, all with music by her son, Joshua Bosniak. More information can be found at kantabosniak.com

What if you had a set of action steps and a toolbox of tools to activate your greatest life possible and you could start to implement it immediately? Well, the time is now and the toolbox is "Abundance Triggers," just one of many books written by our very special guest, Kanta Bosniak. Kanta is an author, artist, coach and interfaith minister with over 40 years experience as a spiritual growth teacher. She's a nationally recognized expert on what she calls  “Abundance Triggers,”  using art, interior design and other anchors to enhance positive focus. She has had solo shows in PBS and NPR radio galleries, at UNCW, Omega Institute and Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. Group shows have included both the Perspectives and Armory Galleries at Virginia Tech, liturgical art shows, churches,  and galleries throughout the East Coast. Other books by Kanta include Surviving Cancer and Other Tough Stuff, Lose Weight in Alpha State, The Becoming Process: A New Paradigm for Life Change, and Love Poems. Guided Meditation CDs Surviving Cancer: A Sacred Journey for Women, Lose Weight in Theta State,and Abundance Triggers: A Journey of Self- Discovery, all with music by her son, Joshua Bosniak. Kanta's books and CDs are available HERE through Amazon and other book sellers. More information is available, visit kantabosniak.com and facebook.com/kanta.bosniak.

Activating the Power of YES through her art and writing, Kanta Bosniak shares how she has made it through some tough times by creating something better, first in her mind, and then in her life. She reminds us that, “Every challenge we have is our soul's call to change.” She also shares how being a hypnotist helps her to open the door for her clients to release their old ideas to bring in the new.  Kanta also leads us in her own version of an affirmative prayer. For more about Kanta and her book, Abundance Triggers, go to www.kantabosniak.com.

  12pm PST ---  Host MICHELE MEICHE shares her weekly Soul Insights, Meditations, Healing, Activation and Acceleration work for Soul Alignment.  Call in for channeled guidance readings, and psychic mediumship readings. Michele is the author author of the DailyOM course to Learn how to align to your Soul's Purpose and create from your Soul Blueprint  2012:  Navigate Through Your Greatest Soul Shift http://bit.ly/izvzS1 Call in and share your path of awakening and Soul Alignment. You may also email your questions to be covered on air at awakenings@selfinlight.com. The second portion of the show is Conversations with Awakened Guests. Michele dialogues with spiritual teachers, healers, conscious experts, visionaries, awakened leaders, authors, conscious beings and people of all walks of life that are focused on living consciously. This week's conversation is with Kanta Bosniak author, artist, coach and interfaith minister with over 40 years experience as an educator in Spiritual Growth and Guided Meditation. She illustrates her publications with playful drawings and vibrant, color-rich cover art, so that readers and listeners can enjoy owning her work. She is a frequent speaker at New Thought churches, universities, holistic education centers, and conferences throughout the US. She is listed in Who's Who in American Women. Kanta lives in Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she has an international practice of coaching and Guided Imagery. She is available for appointments in person, by telephone, and Skype.  Visit http://KantaBosniak.com.

12pm PST --- "One on One with Michele." Host MICHELE MEICHE shares her weekly Soul Insights, Ascension Information; as well as 2012 & beyond updates. She answers your questions, and does channeled readings. What is your Soul's Purpose & how can you actualize this? What is your role, your path, and what are the signs in your life and in the world telling you? How do you acclimate to the New Energies of the New Emerging Consciousness? Call in or email your questions to be covered on air at awakenings@selfinlight.com. In the second portion of the show, Michele welcomes our Awakened Guest of the week. Michele dialogues with spiritual teachers, healers, conscious experts, visionaries, awakened leaders, authors, conscious beings and people of all walks of life that live consciously. Kanta Bosniak is an author, artist, coach and interfaith minister with over 40 years experience an educator in spiritual growth and guided meditation. She is available for coaching/guided imagery. She is a frequent speaker at New Thought churches, universities & Holistic Education centers & conferences throughout the US & listed in Who's Who in American Women.http://KantaBosniak.com or call (540) 577-8854.

Kanta Bosniak, writer, artist, hypnotherapist and life coach joins Michele Meiche in a discussion about "Becoming Process." How "problems" is our soul's call to change.  How a step by step process from contemplation to joy can help people move through whatever issue they're facing and come out feeling better, lighter, happier. Kanta is the author of the book Surviving Cancer and Other Tough Stuff:  An Illustrated Journal and Workbook for Healthy and Abundant Life and Becoming Who You Really Are. Her Guided Imagery CDs include “Surviving Cancer: A Sacred Journey for Women” and “Lose Weight in Theta State.” She has facilitated workshops in spirituality, art and Guided Imagery since 1970. She lives in Berks County, PA, where she has an international in-office and telephone practice of Life Coaching and Guided Imagery. http://kantabosniak.com

Legacies of War During wartime, the U.S. public is barraged with images and information about the current military offensive. But how much do we know about the effects that conflict has on war-torn regions years after the violence has ended? In many cases, countries recovering from war suffer from extremely high unemployment, environmental illness, limited access to resources and an absence of democracy. On this edition of Making Contact, we'll take a look at the Legacies of War – the aftermath of military conflicts, which take a toll on people worldwide. Featuring: Vietnamese villagers, Toong, Tien Tam and Tuan; Mike MacGuire, Australian Vietnam War Veteran; Lee Soo Man, Head of the Vietnam Agent Orange Korean Veterans Association; Dzavit Azari, Bosniak; Emrus Huduti, Recane's Local Community Chief; Merlit Milicevic, Teacher at Recane Primary School; Mustafa Balje, Bosniak Language Bi-monthly Alem; Roma women: Bease Selimi and Miradije Ibeciri; Rustem Ibisi, Milke Community Leader; and Nusret Hasani, Vraniste villager. The post Making Contact – February 27, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.