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The BBC Announces: There Is No Terrorist Threat
by Daniel Pipes
In the precincts of the loony left, it seems, the terrorist threat is an imaginary canard. Michael Moore made this point a year ago, speaking on NBC's Today show (Oct. 7, 2003, not on the Internet ): "there is no terrorist threat. Somebody needs to just say this: There—there is not terrorist threat. Now, there are acts of terrorism."
Now the BBC2 has effectively taken this arch-stupid remark and turned it into a three-part documentary series, titled The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear. The series, as explained in the Guardian, finds that much of the currently perceived threat from international terrorism
If anything, the BBC2's own description of the first installment is even wackier:
Comment: All I can say is, I'm glad I am not British and having to pay for this junk. (October 15, 2004)
Oct. 21, 2004 update: And here is the BBC2's description of the second installment:
Nov. 1, 2004 update: The third part, to show on Nov. 3, is no improvement on the other two, at least as the BBC2 foreshadows its fare:
Nov. 6, 2004 update: Herb Greer, a playwright living in Salisbury, England, sent me a description of this series, which he watched. I present his summary of it:
Jan. 11, 2005 update: Robert Scheer, a Los Angeles Times columnist, admits to being mightily impressed with "The Power of Nightmares." In an article titled "Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?" he embarrasses himself with this analysis:
He goes on the praise the BBC series for arguing "coherently that much of what we have been told about the threat of international terrorism" is a fantasy.
June 20, 2005 update: Peter Bergen, a serious student of Al-Qaeda, endorses the documentary in The Nation, calling it a "richly rewarding film" and "arguably the most important film about the 'war on terrorism' since the events of September 11."
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Capable of mounting directly to your handlebars or fastening to your belt loop this waterproof speaker case by Sanwa may be a nice choice for those of you who like to ride your bike in the rain. If you happen to live and ride in Portland Oregon, it could be essential.
I prefer riding with earphones, but for those who want to be able to hear the 18-Wheeler coming from behind them, this is a great alternative. Your MP3 player fits inside the case and the volume controls are on the outside. I used to have a SkullCandy backpack that had speakers mounted in the shoulder straps that sounded pretty good, but I question how good this thing sounds.
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Dr. Kate Hurley suggests shelter operators learn as much about crowding as they can in order to navigate its tricky intersection with animal welfare and shelter population management.
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A day on the witness stand can make even the most gregarious animal control officer nervous, but our tips on providing effective court testimony can prepare you for the crossest of cross examinations.
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Shelters that seize animals from dogfighters or abusers often have to hold the victims for months while the cases make their way through the court system. Learn how bond and forfeiture laws can help lessen the burdens of long-term holding.
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By Bio-IT World Staff
March 13, 2013 | Nabsys has closed a $20 million Series D financing to support the commercial launch of the company's positional sequencing system. The company previewed its pre-beta instrument at AGBT last month, giving early users the chance to see the technology at work.
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Frank Pastore---1986
Throughout the ages, men have
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effort to bring meaning to their life.
Some take on the snowy, jagged
peak of Mount Everest. Others may
attempt to cross the treacherous
waters of the English Channel.
Frank Pastore--- well, he faced down
the 72-ounce steak challenge
presented by the Big Texan Steak
House--- and won!
Nestled off I-40 in Amarillo, the Big
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challenge of eating a 72-oz. Sirloin
steak, baked potato, salad, shrimp
cocktail and bread all in under and
Gluttons who accomplish the feat get
the meal for free, as well as a good
case of indigestion. Losers have to
fork over the cash ($72.00) and the
realization that it was just too much
darn meat! Thousands have manned
the fork and knife; few have
swallowed it all.
Though unable to master the
National League during the lean post-
Big Red Machine years (48-58, 4.29
in eight seasons), Pastore tackled
the Big Texan steak challenge seven
times, devouring the virtual side of
beef and the accompanying sides
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minutes back in May of 1978.
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Three Days Left to Vote on Ashoka Changemakers!
Ashoka's Changemakers, an initiative to find, fund and expand the work of social entrepreneurs worldwide, has announced the top ten finalists in the "Cultivating Innovation, Solutions for Rural Communities" competition. Entrants were asked to submit system-changing solutions, in the demonstrative phase, for agricultural and rural communities around the world. Now it is up to the public to vote (until July 8th ) and determine the three winners who will each receive an award of $5,000.
Two of the finalists we thought were standout:
• The Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) helps link urban consumers to villagers in Zambia through a business model built upon conservation and environmentally smart products. Farmers are motivated to adopt sustainable practices such as crop rotation and composting.
• In Brazil, Mandalla's Integrated Production System is developing an innovative agri-cattle production that also integrates people and the environment.
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A Caution Against Too Much Faith in Digital Activism
Though people worldwide (Worldchanging included) have been getting excited about the explosion of networked activism in Iran, it's well worth remembering the limitations. Slate's Farhad Manjoo warns that the same mediums we're all cheering for can be an equally powerful tool for oppressive regimes:
The crackdown in Iran shows that, for regimes bent on survival, squashing electronic dissent isn't impossible. In many ways, modern communication tools are easier to suppress than organizing methods of the past. According to the Wall Street Journal, Iran has one of the world's most advanced surveillance networks. Using a system installed last year (and built, in part, by Nokia and Siemens), the government routes all digital traffic in the country through a single choke point. Through "deep packet inspection," the regime achieves omniscience—it has the technical capability to monitor every e-mail, tweet, blog post, and possibly even every phone call placed in Iran. Compare that with East Germany, in which the Stasi managed to tap, at most, about 100,000 phone lines—a gargantuan task that required 2,000 full-time technicians to monitor the calls. The Stasi's work force comprised 100,000 officers, and estimates put its network of citizen informants at half a million. In the digital age, Iran can monitor its citizens with a far smaller security apparatus. They can listen in on everything anyone says—and shut down anything inconvenient—with the flip of a switch.(AS)
Singularity Univeristy Launches
Worldchanging ally David Cassel alerted us this week via email:
Ray Kurzweil answered questions at the NASA Ames Research Center for the first day of Singularity University, in an "intimate conversation" where he argued the existing IT tools for disruptive change could address the problems of humanity. (Example: using nanotechnology to harness solar power or build housing in the third world.) Funded by Google and NASA, the university ultimately had 1400 students applying for just 40 spots.
Founder Peter Diamandis explained their "benign conspiracy," saying they were chosen because they were 1) smart, 2) leaders, and 3) interested in solving big issues. Kurzweil agreed, saying "What we're trying to create here is a new community that will sustain itself after it's separated physically." Also speaking: the president of the International Space University, saying "it's these teams that make the world a better place, so that we can leave our cradle."
And Kurzweil noted the wisdom of crowds harnesses innate emotional wisdom, saying the same decentralized communication that helped speed the break up of the Soviet Union is at work today in both China and Iran.
"There are 100 million blogs in China...half the farmers in China have devices they can take out of their pocket to communicate with everybody else in the world and access all of human knowledge."
(Find ongoing coverage of Singularity University at H+ Magazine)
A VERSATILE System From An Emerging Innovator
Also from Ashoka last week: 15-year-old Javier Fernandez-Han from Houston, Tex.
won the top prize in the Ashoka Lemelson Invent Your World competition with his design of The VERSATILE System. Created to serve communities at the base of the pyramid, the algae-powered system treats waste, produces methane and bio-oil as fuel, produces food for humans and livestock, sequesters greenhouse gases, and produces oxygen.
The design combines new and existing technologies (including the PlayPump generator, which we've covered here on Worldchanging) in a closed loop where waste from one system becomes nourishment for another. Fernandez-Han demonstrated not only a knack for visionary innovation but also incredibly mature insight, acknowledging that solutions for the future will need to be multifaceted and interconnected, to reflect the integrated nature of planetary systems.
See details of The VERSATILE System described in the presentation below:
Oregon "Solar Highway" Broke Its Own Record
Oregon's solar highway project, the first of its kind in the U.S., broke its own record for power generation on July 2. As The Oregonian's Matthew Preusch reported, the array of solar panels, which runs the length of two football fields at the intersection of Interstates 5 and 205, "was generating about 58 kilowatts, but at mid-day production peaked at closer to 85 kilowatts."
The solar highway, installed in December 2008, is intended to produce about 112,000 kilowatt hours per year, approximately 28 percent of the 400,000 kwh used to light the interchange. The project was produced collaboratively by the Oregon Department of Transportation, PGE, and US Bank. Learn more -- and check out its user-friendly dashboard -- at its website. (SK)
How many 'Job Tenders' might have been intercepted and details sold to contacts for large sums of money. Was your company one of those companies who missed vital contracts to remain business due to interception of details given?
It is most likely that large International Companies, are becoming increasingly aware that all of their Business Transmissions through the UK are at risk, and important contracts may well be in jeopardy due to interception. Hence Britain now becomes a non-place to do business in by, phone, e-mail.
All political Parties are to blame for allowing (by not contesting) such abuses to run out of control and jeopardizing our country's chances of economic survival.
Signed Carl Barron Chairman of agpcuk


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Three people were arrested after authorities discovered two young children, along with five adults, locked in the back of a moving truck traveling along Interstate 40 and heading to Fort Myers area.
Knox County Sheriff's Office deputies stopped the U-Haul truck just west of Watt Road about 1 p.m., shortly after E-911 received a report of two children being beaten and thrown into the back of a moving truck in the parking lot of Walmart, 8445 Walbrook Drive, in West Knoxville, according to KCSO spokeswoman Martha Dooley.
Three men, including the driver, were seated in the front of the truck. A 6-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy, four men and a woman were locked in the back.
"The truck was filled with furniture, with people sitting on dressers and tables," Dooley said. "There was no ventilation."
The children's parents were traveling in a second vehicle and pulled over when deputies stopped the truck.
Despite some "conflicting stories," said Dooley, all of the people claimed to be related and in the process of moving from Steubenville, Ohio to Fort Myers.
The U-Haul's driver, Rocky Ewing, 25, was arrested on seven counts of reckless endangerment, Dooley said.
The children's parents, Joshua Jackson, 44, and Mary Jackson, 42, were arrested on two counts each of child endangerment.
The children were released into the custody of their grandmother, who also had been locked in the back of the truck. The state Department of Children's Services was notified as well, Dooley said.
"The truck was towed because, out of all the people who weren't arrested, only the grandmother had a valid driver's license," said Dooley. "And she didn't want to drive the truck."
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Another entry in a series of Sunday morning posts called Art & Pancakes. Here are some art finds of interest for your Sunday morning enjoyment…hopefully over a fine breakfast. Enjoy…and Happy Easter. ~b
Good reads Deputy editor of Art Info, Ben Davis talks about Glenn Ligon and Post-Civil Rights America in his weekly column "Interventions": http://bit.ly/fDzHS5
Top 10 Reasons to Support the Arts (from Arts Watch via Arts blog) http://blog.artsusa.org/2011/04/20/the-top-10-reasons-to-support-the-arts/ (note: It would be curious to see what top 10 reasons artists come up with to support the arts.)
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LA MOCA "Art in the Streets" exhibition, opinions from the art world vs police http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/us/23graffiti.html
I hope the hiatus is short Art Lies, Contemporary Art Journal, will cease production and publication of their printed journal and website content as the "organization enters a period of hiatus and reflection beginning in May 2011." Order their latest (possibly last??) issue No. 68, "Architecture Is Not Art" at their website: http://www.artlies.org/


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Yellowfin tuna are found in tropical and subtropical oceans around the world. They're highly migratory, capable of swimming across an entire ocean (and across international boundaries). Unlike non-migratory species that are only found off U.S. coasts, we're not the only ones fishing for highly-migratory species such as yellowfin tuna. Fisheries for these species require both strong domestic management and international cooperation to ensure the resource is abundant and global harvests are sustainable. The United States is an active member of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and negotiates with other member nations to enhance international management of yellowfin tuna (along with other tunas, billfish, and sharks).
Yellowfin tuna are the top tropical tuna harvested by U.S. fishermen in the Atlantic. More than half of this catch comes from our longline fisheries, which operate in the northwest Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean. Longlines are often negatively portrayed for their potential to unintentionally catch sea turtles and marine mammals. However, in U.S. longline fisheries, fishermen abide by a number of measures that reduce the fisheries' impacts on other species. These measures include mandatory use of special hooks and baits to reduce bycatch of depleted bluefin tuna, billfish, and sea turtles. When fishermen do accidentally hook a protected species, they carry gear and are trained in handling techniques to dehook species and safely return them to the water. Scientists and managers regularly monitor bycatch in these fisheries and review data for appropriate action as necessary, ensuring U.S. fishermen continue to responsibly harvest yellowfin tuna. U.S. fishermen also harvest yellowfin tuna in similarly highly regulated fisheries in the Pacific (see Pacific yellowfin tuna).
Yellowfin tuna are found near the surface of tropical and subtropical oceans around the world. They are highly migratory and can swim across an entire ocean. Juvenile yellowfin tuna travel in schools with skipjack and juvenile bigeye tuna.
Yellowfin tuna grow fairly fast, up to 400 pounds, and have a somewhat short life span of about 7 years. Most yellowfin tuna are able to reproduce when they reach age 2 or 3. In the western Atlantic, they spawn from May to August in the Gulf of Mexico and from July to November in the southeastern Caribbean. In the eastern Atlantic Ocean, they spawn from October to March in the Gulf of Guinea and from April to June off Senegal. Females spawn about once every 3 days during the spawning season. They produce an average of 1 million to 4 million eggs each time they spawn.
Yellowfin tuna feed near the top of the food chain on fish, squid, and crustaceans. They are also prey for top predators such as sharks and large fish.
Yellowfin tuna are a torpedo-shaped fish. They're metallic dark blue on the back and upper sides, and change from yellow to silver on the belly. True to their name, their dorsal and anal fins and finlets are bright yellow.
Different species of tunas can be difficult to distinguish – they're similar in shape and are often caught together. Yellowfin tuna can be distinguished from other tunas by its long, bright-yellow dorsal fin and a yellow strip down its side. It's also more slender than bluefin tuna.
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas' (ICCAT) scientific committee assesses the abundance of Atlantic yellowfin tuna and evaluates the sustainability of current and proposed harvest practices. Managers use the scientific information from these assessments to make management recommendations. They last assessed yellowfin tuna in 2011.
Based on the latest stock assessment (2011), Atlantic yellowfin tuna are not overfished. Scientists believe the stock is about 15 percent below the target level. The stock is considered overfished based on the ICCAT definition because ICCAT does not set different levels for the target population level and the overfished level. This means that stocks that are not at the target population level are also regarded as overfished by ICCAT. NOAA Fisheries sets the overfished level at 70 percent of the population level, so according to their definition, the stock is not overfished. Based on the latest stock assessment (2011), Atlantic yellowfin tuna are not subject to overfishing.
NOAA Fisheries scientists continue to research ways to improve the methods used to assess the yellowfin population. They're working with researchers at Texas A&M University to tag yellowfin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico to evaluate the species' habitat use. In addition, NOAA Fisheries scientists will work with ICCAT in its upcoming large-scale tagging project to learn more about the lifecycle and migration patterns of Atlantic yellowfin and other Atlantic tropical tunas.
Harvesting Yellowfin Tuna
U.S. commercial fishermen primarily use longline, rod and reel, and handline gear to harvest Atlantic yellowfin tuna. Pelagic longline gear and handgear (handline and rod and reel) used to catch yellowfin tuna have no impact on habitat because they're used in the water column and don't come into contact with the ocean floor. Handgear is very selective so bycatch is minimal, but pelagic longlines can incidentally catch other fish and protected species such as marine mammals and sea turtles. U.S. pelagic longline fishermen follow a number of regulations to prevent bycatch (see Current Domestic Management for details).
Several other nations also harvest yellowfin tuna in the Atlantic, primarily using purse seine and bait boat gear in waters off West Africa. Juvenile yellowfin tuna school with skipjack and juvenile bigeye tuna, mainly in surface waters. These schools are strongly attracted to floating objects or fish aggregating devices (FADs), increasing their vulnerability to surface fishing gears. FADs are natural floating or man-made objects that are found or placed on or near the ocean surface and used to attract schooling fish underneath. Unlike yellowfin tuna in the eastern Pacific, schools of Atlantic yellowfin tuna are not typically found in association with marine mammals.
Who's in charge? With highly migratory species such as yellowfin tuna, management is complicated because these species migrate thousands of miles across oceans and international boundaries and are fished by many nations. Effective conservation and management requires international cooperation as well as strong domestic management. With Atlantic yellowfin tuna, NOAA Fisheries' Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division sets regulations for the U.S. fishery based on conservation and management recommendations from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and consistent with applicable U.S. laws.
Current management:
International: The United States has implemented several management measures consistent with ICCAT recommendations to limit fishing effort and prevent overfishing. In 1999, NOAA Fisheries created a limited access program for the pelagic longline fishery for Atlantic tunas and limited the amount of yellowfin that recreational fishermen can keep. The United States has also maintained its minimum size limit for yellowfin of 27 inches, which is greater than the minimum size formerly recommended by ICCAT (before the organization repealed their recommendation). This minimum size limit helps prevent harvest of juvenile yellowfin. In 2011, ICCAT set an annual "Total Allowable Catch" of 110,000 metric tons of yellowfin tuna for 2012 and subsequent years. This catch limit will continue to be in place unless scientific advice indicates a change is necessary. If the total yellowfin catch in any year exceeds the limit, ICCAT will review the relevant conservation and management measures. ICCAT also expanded a time/area closure in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa to protect young bigeye and yellowfin tunas and to strengthen monitoring and control measures in the fishery, including those using FADs. This helps protect U.S. fishermen because, if allowed to survive, juvenile yellowfin in the Gulf of Guinea will have the opportunity to swim across the Atlantic and be caught in U.S. fisheries as adults.
Domestic: Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan
Measures taken by NOAA Fisheries to sustainably manage this fishery include:
- Fishermen must have a permit to harvest yellowfin tuna. Atlantic tunas may be sold only by fishermen permitted for commercial fisheries and only to permitted dealers.
- Gear restrictions and seasonal/area closures are used to reduce bycatch.
- Yellowfin tuna must be a minimum of 27 inches long to be harvested in both commercial and recreational fisheries.
- Federal management for Atlantic tunas applies to state waters as well, except in Maine, Connecticut, and Mississippi. NOAA Fisheries periodically reviews these states' regulations to make sure they're consistent with federal regulations.
NOAA Fisheries has taken the following additional measures to prevent bycatch and sustainably manage this fishery. Fishermen are:
- Required to use large circle hooks and certain types of bait that limit gear interactions with sea turtles. Circle hooks are specifically designed to minimize the damage caused by hooking, giving animals that are captured and released a better chance at survival.
- Trained to use special techniques to safely dehook and release any incidentally caught turtles.
- Required to stop fishing and move 1 nautical mile if they encounter a protected species.
- Required to protect pilot whales and Risso's dolphins, when fishing in the Mid-Atlantic Bight by limiting the length of their lines to 20 nautical miles and posting marine mammal handling/release guidelines on their vessels. In addition, if fishing in the Cape Hatteras Special Research Area, pelagic longliners must contact NOAA Fisheries at least 48 hours prior to a trip and carry observers if requested.
- Required to use weak hooks in the Gulf of Mexico to reduce incidental catch of bluefin tuna and are prohibited from using live bait to reduce bycatch of billfish.
- Restricted from areas of the Gulf of Mexico to reduce bycatch of all species.
- Required to carry vessel monitoring systems (satellite technology) onboard their boats to enforce these closures.
- Required to carry at-sea fisheries observers upon request. NOAA Fisheries reviews observer data to monitor protected species interactions and takes appropriate action as necessary.
Annual Harvest
Yellowfin tuna is the principal species of tropical tuna landed by U.S. fisheries in the western North Atlantic. Total estimated U.S. landings increased to 4,109 metric tons in 2012, from the 2011 landings estimate of 3,010 metric tons. A high proportion of these landings are rod and reel catches by recreational anglers. The majority of U.S. commercial landings come from the longline fleet operating in the northwest Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean.
U.S. landings of Atlantic yellowfin tuna represent a small percentage of the total international landings of Atlantic yellowfin tuna. In 2012, the United States contributed about 4 percent of the total Atlantic yellowfin tuna landings.
The average ex-vessel prices (the price fishermen receive for their catch) for yellowfin tuna increased in 2012 in all regions except for the Gulf of Mexico region, which slightly decreased. From 2005 to 2012, the average ex-vessel price of yellowfin tuna increased 56 percent. The ex-vessel price depends on a number of factors, including the quality of the fish (e.g., freshness, fat content, method of storage), the weight of the fish, the supply of fish, and consumer demand. In 2012, annual ex-vessel revenues for the fishery totaled more than $18 million.
Recreational fishing for highly migratory species such as yellowfin tuna provides significant economic benefits to coastal communities through individual angler expenditures, recreational charters, tournaments, and the shoreside businesses that support those activities. Recreational fishermen enjoy catching yellowfin tuna because they're large (up to 400 pounds), they fight hard, and they are delicious. Recreational fishermen must have a permit to catch yellowfin tuna. They may only keep three yellowfin tuna larger than 27 inches per person per day. However, catch, tag and release is allowed.
Yellowfin tuna has a mild, meaty flavor. It's more flavorful than albacore, but leaner than bluefin. The meat is bright red when raw but turns brown to grayish-tan when cooked. The meat is firm and moist, with large flakes.
Yellowfin tuna can be found fresh, frozen, or canned as light-meat tuna (often blended with skipjack tuna). Yellowfin tuna is often served raw as sashimi and in sushi.
Yellowfin is low in saturated fat and sodium and is a very good source of protein, thiamin, selenium, and vitamin B6.
|Serving Weight
|100 g (raw)
|24.4 g
|Fat, total
|0.49 g
|Saturated fatty acids, total
|0.172 g
|0 g
|Sugars, total
|0 g
|Fiber, total dietary
|0 g
|39 mg
|36.5 mcg
|45 mg
Atlantic Yellowfin Tuna Table of Nutrition
Related Links
Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan
NOAA Fisheries Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
2013 Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation Report for Atlantic Highly Migratory Species


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Interfaith Evangelism: The goal of interfaith evangelism training is to teach believers how to intentionally and effectively share the Gospel with those of other faiths, including Mormons, Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses and those who practice Judaism. This training will equip the believer to understand and respond biblically to the background, books and beliefs of other faiths while building relational bridges to share the good news of Jesus Christ.
Apologetics Training: The goal of apologetics training is to edify believers by helping them understand the reasons for their faith while equipping them to better evangelize others. Training is available on a variety of topics such as the "The Trustworthiness of the Bible," "Reconciling Evil with a Good God," "The Resurrection," "The Existence of God" and others as requested.
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In a state as large as Texas, the needs of people vary drastically. The Evangelism Department of the SBTC strives to take the gospel to all people. The Deaf Evangelism Conference targets deaf and hard of hearing believers and their families across the state of Texas and has the same purpose and design as the Empower Evangelism Conference. This conference is offered annually and has a statewide appeal.
Texas continues to become a melting pot of many cultures from the around the world. One of the cultures that has made Texas its home is Korean. The Korean Evangelism Conference targets the Korean believers across the state of Texas and has the same purpose and design as the Empower Evangelism Conference. This conference is offered annually and has a statewide appeal.


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The human brain doesn't stop developing at adolescence, but continues well into our 20s, demonstrates recent research from the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta.
It has been a long-held belief in medical communities that the human brain stopped developing in adolescence. But now there is evidence that this is in fact not the case, thanks to medical research conducted in the Department of Biomedical Engineering by researcher Christian Beaulieu, an Alberta Innovates Health Solutions scientist, and by his PhD student at the time, Catherine Lebel. Lebel recently moved to the United States to work at UCLA, where she is a post-doctoral fellow working with an expert in brain-imaging research.
"This is the first long-range study, using a type of imaging that looks at brain wiring, to show that in the white matter there are still structural changes happening during young adulthood," says Lebel. "The white matter is the wiring of the brain; it connects different regions to facilitate cognitive abilities. So the connections are strengthening as we age in young adulthood."
The duo recently published their findings in the Journal of Neuroscience. For their research they used magnetic resonance imaging or MRIs to scan the brains of 103 healthy people between the ages of five and 32. Each study subject was scanned at least twice, with a total of 221 scans being conducted overall. The study demonstrated that parts of the brain continue to develop post-adolescence within individual subjects.
The research results revealed that young adult brains were continuing to develop wiring to the frontal lobe; tracts responsible for complex cognitive tasks such as inhibition, high-level functioning and attention. The researchers speculated in their article that this may be due to a plethora of life experiences in young adulthood such as pursing post-secondary education, starting a career, independence and developing new soci
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"If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space." says Reverend Michael Beckwith. After spending time at the Agape Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, I was inspired.
So often we have a dream or a desire to accomplish something, to do something, or to create something, but we often stop before we start because we are paralyzed by the fear of failure or fear of discomfort. Instead of facing that fear, or going through the discomfort, we give up on our dream.
He goes on to explain that "Permanent happiness is guaranteed when you lose yourself to something larger, and at that moment, you are involved with the evolution of your soul and you are becoming more not less than yourself."
We are encoded for success and within every desire is the seed of its fulfillment. Just like within an apple, its seed has all it needs to become a great tree and bear fruit. Just as all its needs are provided by nature, we are also provided for when we devote ourselves beyond just wanting to feel comfortable, or avoiding pain, disappointment and failure. When we are devoted to the growth and the development of our soul, we will experience the happiness that we are longing for.
When the seed is planted, it will grow as long as the environment is right. When we live on the edge, we choose love over fear, and we create the right environment within ourselves to grow, develop, and unfold to fulfill our highest potential. When we do this, we break new ground just like the seed breaks through the ground once it has taken root.
I recently broke my own new ground by introducing intenSati to hundreds of people at the different Equinox locations across Southern California. I also trained nine new intenSati leaders who inspired me and made it through an extremely challenging week, as well as our first West Coast Warrior Challenge.
This month, you have the opportunity to take a look at where you can break some new ground and grow and develop yourself. Ask yourself what it is you really want to be doing. What is in the way of you doing it? Are you willing to be the person you have to be to create the right environment for your growth and development? Can you choose love over fear? Remember, no one is born a warrior just like no one is born an average man. We make ourselves that way by the accumulation of steps we take towards one or the other. Will you be breaking new ground this month?


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A female patient is suing Washington Hospital in Washington, PA, the hospital lab, her gynecologists and at least one pathologist, claiming, among other things, her Pap smears were misread for five consecutive years.
The article jumps around a little, and there are several pieces of critical information not yet available, but I will do my best to put it all together.
Jennifer Beiswenger, 30, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in May 2011, two months after giving birth to her son. She found this to be strange, as she had had normal Pap smears for the previous five years. At some point she hired Deborah Maliver, an internist turned attorney, to look into her case.
Dr. Richard Pataki, 74, a pathologist and the laboratory director at Washington Hospital for 37 years, is named in the suit as being the pathologist who misread the woman's Pap smears.
When Dr. Pataki learned of the diagnosis, he and two other pathologists in his practice reviewed her Paps from 2006-2010; in retrospect, they felt several were actually AGUS.
Dr. Maliver sent the same Paps to her experts, who said the Paps showed "a clear progression from pre-cancerous cells to an invasive carcinoma."
At this point, Dr. Maliver became concerned that the Paps from other women at Washington Hospital also could have been misread. In her opinion, five straight years of "misses" may indicate a "potential public health risk." So, she sent letters to various entities, informing them of her client's situation.
Now, CMS, the Pennsylvania Department of State, The Joint Commission, CAP and the American Society of Cytotechnology are all conducting investigations into Washington Hospital.
For its part, Washington Hospital voluntarily submitted 500 Pap smears (including Ms. Beiswenger's) to Magee-Womens Hospital at UPMC for review.
It should be noted the patient's Pap history does not contain all normals. In 2003, she had an AGUS and in 2006, she had an ASCUS with a positive HPV. According to Dr. Pataki, "…nothing was done [clinically]."
I am presuming that is why her gynecologists are also named in the suit.
It is because of these abnormal Paps that Dr. Pataki says he showed her Paps during the five year period in question to other pathologists before he signed them out; all apparently agreed they were normal.
The results of the Magee-Womens slide review and the investigations from the various organizations are not yet available, but Dr. Pataki said the lab "…did very well" in the CMS review.
This is an interesting case, and at this point, it appears as though multiple issues are at play here. Until the review from Magee-Womens is made available, it will be difficult to determine the culpability of the pathologist involved. This despite the fact he and two of his colleagues retrospectively changed at least a few of the diagnoses to AGUS from normal. Hindsight is always 20/20.
If Dr. Pataki did show the Pap smears to his colleagues at the time (and documented it contemporaneously), then he has a good chance of demonstrating at trial he met or exceeded the standard of care. I know personally of a pathologist who, along with a colleague, called adenocarcinoma on a stomach biopsy. The patient had a gastrectomy, and no carcinoma was found. The patient sued, and the original pathologist was not found to have committed malpractice at trial, simply because he exceeded the standard of care by showing the case to a colleague.
Furthermore, it is important for lay people (and even some physicians) to understand the Pap smear is notoriously unreliable for glandular pathology, and, to my knowledge, was only conceived to assess squamous pathology.
In addition, if her gynecologists indeed did not do further testing in 2003 and 2006 when she had an AGUS and ASCUS with + HPV, respectively, then that is likely a problem. I believe the guidelines on how to work-up atypical Paps are quite clear, at least today. I don't know what they said in 2003 and 2006 about following up atypical Pap findings.
Source: Washington Hospital reviewing hundreds of Pap tests after lawsuit-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Washington Hospital is reviewing at least 500 Pap smear slides analyzed by its laboratory after a woman claimed in a lawsuit that one of the hospital's pathologists misread her tests for five consecutive years before she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, according to the attorney who filed the case.
While refusing to answer specific questions about the case, the hospital said in an emailed statement that it takes "these allegations very seriously."
"Immediately upon learning of this complaint, the hospital consulted with independent experts to evaluate the claims at issue, and is working diligently to identify any patient safety concerns," the hospital in Washington, Pa., also said. "The Hospital is also cooperating with independent agencies to evaluate the quality of pathology services, and preliminary results have not identified any widespread deficiencies in PAP smear interpretation. In the event that patient safety concerns are identified or verified, the Hospital is prepared to follow up with individual patients and their physicians."
Among the groups investigating the allegation are the Pennsylvania Department of State, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and accrediting organizations such as The Joint Commission and the College of American Pathology.
None of those agencies has completed its investigation, although the hospital's pathologist accused of misreading the five Pap smear slides, Richard Pataki, said Thursday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has conducted its onsite review.
"I was concerned" about the review, said Dr. Pataki, 74, who has worked at The Washington Hospital for nearly 50 years and has been the lab's medical director since 1975. "But we did very well" in the review, he said.
Lorraine Ryan, spokeswoman for the centers, said in an email that the centers asked the American Society of Cytotechnology to do a "survey to rule out potential harm due to lack of quality practices in cytology," but it was not yet completed.
The reviews were initiated after Jennifer Beiswenger, 30, of Canonsburg, filed a medical malpractice lawsuit Oct. 1 against the hospital, the hospital's pathology lab and eight doctors, including her obstetrics and gynecological doctors, and Dr. Pataki.
She was diagnosed with cervical cancer in late May 2011, two months after giving birth. Ms. Beiswenger responded well to treatment and was found free of cancer by November 2011. A follow-up test Wednesday found that she remains cancer free.
"It was very good news," said Ms. Beiswenger, an online math tutor.
Concerned that her case might not be the only one in which Pap smears were misread, Ms. Beiswenger's attorney, Deborah Maliver, sent letters to various government and accrediting organizations telling them what happened to her client.
"It can't be random that her tests were misread for five straight years," said Dr. Maliver, a former physician now practicing law. "There's a potential public health risk here."
It is not known how many other women had their slides reviewed by The Washington Hospital's laboratory.
But Dr. Maliver said she was told by a hospital official that the hospital turned over 500 slides — a sampling of potentially thousands of tests — from other women from the past five years to the pathology laboratory at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC for an outside review. Ms. Beiswinger's five slides also were sent there.
Magee's cytopathology department includes R. Marshall Austin, one of the leading experts on Pap smears and cervical cancer screening. Dr. Austin said Thursday he could not comment on the case.
The Pap smear, a test named for its inventor, George Papanicolaou, involves taking a sampling of cells from the cervix and analyzing those cells on a slide under a microscope. In the 75 years since it was first used, the death rate from cervical cancer has dropped by 80 to 90 percent for women who undergo regular Pap smears, medical experts say.
Over the past decade, the analysis of those slides has increasingly been aided by computers, which identify questionable Pap smears for closer examination and confirmation by cytotechnologists and then a pathologist. It is not known if The Washington Hospital uses a computer to aid in the analysis of its Pap smears.
The Washington Hospital asked for the review of its Pap smear slides because, among other missteps by her doctors, Ms. Beiswenger charges in the lawsuit that for at least five years — 2006 to 2010 — Dr. Pataki misread her Pap smear slides.
Instead of concluding that the slides showed abnormal cells, which would have required further testing, and then a growing cancer, Dr. Pataki found the tests were either normal or that no endocervical cells were present, according to the lawsuit.
Multiple pathology experts hired by Ms. Beiswenger's attorney reviewed those same Pap smear slides and, according to the lawsuit, concluded that those five years of tests showed a clear progression from pre-cancerous cells to an invasive carcinoma.
That was the same conclusion Dr. Pataki and two of his colleagues came to on May 26, 2011, when, after learning that Ms. Beiswenger was diagnosed with cervical cancer, they reviewed the five years of her Pap smear slides that they had in their possession, according to the lawsuit.
According to hospital records obtained by Ms. Beiswenger, they wrote in part in their review: "We reviewed the Pap smears from 2006 to 2010 and we had multiple AGUS …," an acronym for a finding of "atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance."
Such a finding "should have been a red flag for a biopsy or other additional testing," Dr. Maliver said.
But at least in the last four years of that period, Ms. Beiswenger never had additional testing that would have confirmed what the diagnostic Pap smear test seemed to find: that cervical cancer was growing inside her.
In 2006, she also was tested for human papillomavirus, or HPV, and it came back positive. Some strains of HPV can lead to cervical cancer. That same year Dr. Pataki found that her Pap smear was abnormal, showing "atypical squamous cells of uncertain significance" — a finding known as ASCUS.
Those two findings in 2006 — as well as a finding in 2003 of AGUS in her Pap smear by a different pathologist — also should have resulted in additional testing by her obstetrics and gynecological doctors when they were given those results, the lawsuit charges.
Those test results were seized Thursday by Dr. Pataki, who noted: "Earlier we did say she had AGUS and ASCUS and nothing was done."
Asked if he was attempting to place blame on Ms. Beiswenger's ob-gyns — who are also named in the lawsuit — Dr. Pataki said: "I'm not dumping on anyone."
Dr. Pataki said because his practice was aware of those prior findings, "We had quite a few people look at [the slides in 2007 to 2010], and we just didn't think [a finding of abnormal cells] was there."
As for the experts Dr. Maliver hired to look at the slides who found a clear indication of a growing cancer in Ms. Beiswenger's slides from 2006 to 2010, Dr. Pataki didn't put much credence in their review.
"You can always look back and find something once you know the result," he said.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/health/pennsylvania-hospital-reviewing-hundreds-of-pap-tests-after-lawsuit-662347/#ixzz2CPrQ4pGf


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Published: Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 9:58 a.m.
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Hendersonville utilities officials have lifted a boil water advisory for customers in the Fletcher area north of Interstate 26.
"Based on the fact that water system pressure was never compromised ... we hereby issue this notice releasing this area from the previous notification," the notice states.
Water customers with questions may call 828-697-3073.
The advisory issued Wednesday was only for Hendersonville water customers located north of I-26.
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Hesston College invites you to campus for Thanksgiving Weekend, Nov. 26 to 28. This weekend is designed for everyone, with activities for the whole family to enjoy.
Registration Center and Tickets
When you arrive, visit the Registration Center to pick up your schedule and tickets for pre-registered events. Registration Center is in Erb Hall from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday and in the Admissions Office (second floor of Alliman Administration Center) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday.
Questions in advance of the event? Call the Special Events Office at 866-437-7866 or the Admissions Office at 800-995-2757. During the weekend, contact the Registration Center at 620-327-8162.
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Located in Erb Hall, the Bookstore is a great place to do early Christmas shopping. Stock up on Hesston College apparel including Under Armour clothing, sweatshirts, T-shirts, sweatpants, hats, etc. Other specialty items such as mugs, sport bottles and Christmas ornaments are also available. Want something special for your student? Try Lark Bucks or take advantage of our Lark Gift Express to remember your student when you aren't here. Don't forget to stop by the Bookstore late Friday to take advantage of special discounts.
Hours: Thursday – 1 to 5 p.m., Friday – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 9 to 10:30 p.m., Saturday – 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.