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WASHINGTON — Senate officials lifted some restrictions on their side of the U.S. Capitol complex Monday while authorities searched for a potential second suspect in the Navy Yard shootings.
Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer restricted people from leaving or entering Senate buildings for part of the day. By late afternoon, he said people would be allowed to leave the buildings but only senators and staff would be allowed to enter before Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, Gainer said he had no information to suggest the Senate, its members or staff were in danger but restricted access and exits to the buildings out of an abundance of caution.
"We have too little information on the possibility of additional shooters," Gainer said in an email. In a memo to Senate personnel, Gainer said the policy would remain in effect "until we deem the situation safe in the neighboring community."
The House side of the Capitol complex, which is closer to the Navy Yard, remained open.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced that the shootings a little over a mile south of the Capitol had prompted him to adjourn the Senate and postpone votes until Tuesday.
Authorities said as many as two gunmen opened fire Monday morning inside the nearby Washington Navy Yard, killing at least 12 people in an attack on office workers at the heavily secured military installation in the nation's capital. One gunman was dead and police hunted for a second possible attacker.
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An increase in the value of farmland is driving an overall increase in Marion County assessed property values, County Appraiser Cindy Magill told the County Commission on Thursday.
The assessed value of farmland in the county went up about 7 percent, while the total assessed value for the county went up 3.5 percent before the appeals process, Magill said after the meeting.
Farmland is valued differently than other classes of property, using an eight year average of productivity, depending on soil type. The formula also takes commodity prices into account.
"I think the farmers should be prepared for it, because they know they had some good years in there," Magill said.
She expects farmland values to remain elevated for at least a couple of years. Commercial property and newer home values are up a bit, but older home values fell. Valuation notices were scheduled to be mailed Friday, she said.
If property owners disagree with their appraisals, now is the time to appeal, Magill said. If they wait until they receive a tax bill, they will have to pay 50 percent of the bill before an appeal is heard.
Sales tax receipts dip
Sales tax receipts dipped about 1.2 percent in February compared to February 2012. The county received $49,904, down from $50,494.
Sales tax receipts for the first two months of 2013 remain more than double 2012, though, because of a triple-sized receipt in January when a business made an annual payment, County Treasurer Jeannine Bateman said after the meeting. Sales tax received for the first two months was $215,890, a 107.2 percent increase.
Sales tax for repayment of bonds for the new jail was $43,884, bringing the year-to-date total to $191,089.
In other business:
- County Attorney Susan Robson said she would model a resolution fining ranchers whose livestock are frequently loose on one Dickinson County uses. For a first offense, ranchers would receive a warning, but after that there would be escalating fines based on the number of animals loose.
- The Health Department will rent storage space for a shipment of car seats rather than buying a second storage pod.
- Dispatch will cease equipping a backup dispatch center in Hillsboro, instead relying on one of two mobile communications trailers in case dispatch is out of service. The change will save $200 to $300 per month, Sheriff Rob Craft said.
- A dispatcher will have until the end of March to use vacation that wouldn't carry over. The past few months have been a difficult time for dispatchers to take time off, Craft said.
- Craft met with the commission in closed session for 15 minutes to discuss personnel. No action was taken on return to open session.
- Robson met with the commission in closed session for 10 minutes to discuss personnel compensation and for another 10 minutes to discuss matters protected by attorney-client privilege. No action was taken on return to open session.
- The commission met in closed session for eight minutes to discuss personnel at the request of Commission Chairman Randy Dallke. No action was taken on return to open session.
- Cooperative Grain & Supply of Hillsboro will supply 6,550 gallons of fuel to Road and Bridge Department for $20,883. Cardie Oil Inc. of Tampa bid $21,150. Cardie Oil will supply 8,000 gallons of fuel for $26,330; Cooperative Grain & Supply bid $26,354.
- Markley Service of Marion will supply 1,860 gallons of 2,4-D Amine and 20 gallons of 2,4-D Lo Vol herbicides to Noxious Weed Department for $27,090; Ag Service of Hillsboro bid $27,557, and Cooperative Grain & Supply bid $27,615.
- Cooperative Grain & Supply will supply 60 gallons of Tordon 22K, 10 gallons of Triclopyr Remedy, and 100 gallons of Dicamba for $8,348; Markley Service bid $9,366.
- Cooperative Grain & Supply will supply 256 ounces of metsulfuron methyl, 24 gallons of Milestone, 40 containers of Sahara DG, and 48 containers of Krovar I DF for $9,181; Markley Service bid $9,627, and Ag Service bid $9,953.
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It's no wonder that actress and Good Deeds star Thandie Newton is the new face of the Olay Total Effects skincare line: When we sat down with her yesterday morning, the first thing that struck us was the incandescence of her flawless skin— even at 9AM! We asked the sweet, down-to-earth star to share the secrets to that enviable glow, as well as her must-have foods and workouts for on-the-go.
FITNESS: What's the one beauty product that never leaves your bag?
Thandie Newton: When I was a little girl, my mother, who's from Zimbabwe but has lived in England for a long time, had to deal with the change from the warm climate to the very cold coast of England, so would never wear makeup. We were working-class and didn't have money for frivolous stuff, so the only thing she used to used was Oil of Olay, as it was called then. I just remember the little pink bottle up on the shelf of the bathroom. You watch your mom as you grow older, and that really became the symbol of the most glamorous woman. So I've used Olay for a long time and I was still using the original one when they got in touch with me. I think I mentioned it in an article or something, and then when they approached me I was incredibly personally touched by it because it was really authentic. I don't carry it in my bag all the time partly because it's such an affordable product, so no matter where I travel, I can just go to a pharmacy and it's there. I do always carry a great lip balm, though: My favorite is from Neal's Yard Remedies— it's practically edible!
FITNESS: You're so busy traveling for work. Is there a routine you try to keep in terms of your makeup, skincare and your hair? Or does it change depending on where you are?
Thandie: I try not to wear makeup if I don't need to. Just undereye concealer, a little bit of rouge and lip balm. I'll use those moisturizers with a little color in them, like Olay Total Effects Tone-Correcting UV Moisturizer SPF 15, then I'll add a few drops of turmeric powder, which is naturally anti-inflammatory and gives a slight sun-kissed look. I have really curly hair so I need a good moisturizer for it. I like John Masters Organics, because it has no harmful chemicals.
FITNESS: You're always getting your picture taken and jetting from place to place. What are your secrets for looking great on the go?
Thandie: I always make sure I have at least a tinted moisturizer on. There are really great pot rouges by Julie Hewett that come in amazing colors, which I can literally dab on with my eyes closed. Or I'll pinch my cheeks: l love those old-fashioned little tricks. Apart from that, I just try to remember to smile!
FITNESS: How do to stay active and in shape no matter where you are?
Thandie: Jivamukti Yoga is my absolute go-to temple of wellness. Not only is it a wonderful, energetic, active workout, but it's also incredibly soothing and relaxing. I've tried a lot of different yoga practices and that one was a bit of a life-changer for me.
FITNESS: What types of foods and snacks do you gravitate toward to stay healthy?
Thandie: I just try to eat well. Anything that makes you feel bad is actually aging for your body. I also love juicing. Because I have a very busy schedule, I'll have a juice with ginger and lemon in the morning and a green juice in the afternoon. Within 20 minutes you feel the difference; it has a direct impact on your system. I'm not a snacker— I just don't graze. I think three meals a day is plenty, and then I have the juices in between.
FITNESS: In terms of beauty indulgences, is there anything you splurge on?
Thandie: I think a good massage is really beneficial. I really like a hot stone massage, but as with anything it has to be in combination with other things, like if I've done a yoga class and I want to feel soothed afterward. I feel like every little thing that I do, whether it's taking care of my skin or eating well, is a gift to myself.
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Thandie: I was complaining about my hair being really dry and the ends were ratty because I've been relaxing it since I was a teenager, when a friend suggested I grow the relaxer out. It occurred to me that these are incredibly harmful chemicals, so I grew my hair out, and I'm so thrilled that I have. It's healthier and more lustrous than it's ever been.


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In this video Fr. Robert Barron comments on Bob Dylan. I pulled this video up as the result of reading an article he wrote in the current issue of America magazine, entitled YouTube Heresies. In his recent interview Dylan somewhat confirms what Barron contends in his piece, at least as much as Dylan confirms any question asked to him directly, that the Bible has been influential for him. He also talks about, among others, Chuck Barry, Carl Sandburg, Woody Guthrie, and Jack Kerouac. About Kerouac's On the Road, Dylan says it "speeds by like freight train...It's all movement and words and lusty instincts that come alive like you're riding on a train...No ambiguity." I remember reading On the Road as a senior in college on my own. I started about eight o' clock in the evening and finished it about one or two the next morning, then reread it.
Douglas Brinkley, who interviewed Dylan for Rolling Stone, writes: "I decide to push him on the importance of Christian Scripture in his life. 'Well, sure' he says, 'that and those other first books I read were really biblical stuff. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben Hur. Those were the books I remembered reading and finding religion in. Later on, I started reading over and over again Plutarch and his Roman Lives. And the writers Cicero, Tacitus and Marcus Aurelius...I like the morality thing'." Here is where Dylan says something so wise and concise you might miss it: "People talk about [morality] all the time. Some say you can't legislate morality. Well, maybe not. But morality has gotten kind of a bad rap. In Roman thought, morality is broken down into basically four things. Wisdom, Justice, Moderation and Courage. All of these are the elements that would make up the depth of a person's morality. And then dictate the types of behavior patterns you'd use to respond in any given situation. I don't look at morality as a religious thing."
The fact that he does not see morality as necessarily "a religious thing" is not an affront to religion, far from it. Our Catholic faith is in synch with this view. Dylan is absolutely correct, the fundamental source of morality is not revelation (i.e., the Bible), it is reason. Indeed, the four elements that make up what he sees as Roman moral thought are the cardinal virtues: Prudence, Justice, Restraint (i.e., Temperance/Moderation), Courage. Cardinal comes from the Latin word cardo, meaning hinge. Hence, these virtues are so called because the door of the moral life swings on them.
Brinkley's interview with Dylan, at least the first part before it goes to a page in the back of the magazine, is followed by an article entitled Mike Tyson Repents, which, in turn, is followed by a profile of porn actress Sasha Grey: The Dirtiest Girl in the World. Grey wants "to tell young women that sex is OK." She also wants to let them know that "[i]t's OK to be a slut." Then she latches on to this tired old discourse: "If I am working out any issues through porn, it's anger at society for not being open about sex." This from a young woman who describes catching "gonorrhea twice and chlamydia once" as "getting the common cold." She says, "When you're in the industry, and your body is what you sell" catching a STD "makes you feel like shit." I think catching a STD probably has that effect whether you're in the industry or not- Utah has one of the highest chlamydia rates in the U.S. I recently saw this on the side of a UTA bus: is it alright to play marco polo with someone who has chlamydia? According Sasha, she now has "a good enough reputation" that she can "demand tests from" those who perform with her. What about those young women who follow her advice and whose reputations, so to speak, are not that good? All of this apart from the fact that it is completely dualistic to think you can sell your body and not your soul.
Prescinding from reason to faith, not that they are knowledge of different species, that, too, is dualistic, let's look at what the apostle wrote to the church at Corinth: "The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ" (1 Cor. 6:13b-15)?
When discussing art with Dylan, Brinkley mentions Andy Warhol, which makes Dylan glare at him while saying that he regards Warhol as "Only a cultural figure...Not as an artist." Whereas, Sasha Grey has Philosophy of Andy Warhol (notice the all too chic absent definite article The before Philosophy in the title) on her bookshelf next to some of her films, like Apprentass, to name only one work in her increasing ouvre.
Since this post has miscellania in the title, I point you to an article that appears in this morning's Salt Lake Tribune about a good friend of mine, Brian Diggs, a Methodist minister who recently left the pastorate of his church to run the United Methodist Committee on Relief depot here in Salt Lake City. Brian earned his M.Div at Duke, studying with Stanley Hauerwas.
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NewsMakeup.com is billing itself as a fact-based satire website where people can come on both to laugh but also to learn information.
While it's still in transformative stages, the site is aiming to toe the line between The Daily Show's fact-based comedy and The Onion's on-target satire.
The project is ambitious and seeks to partner with nonprofits moving forward to bring issues to the forefront.
It's the brainchild of Adam Gassman and looks to be much more than a mere Onion-clone.
"We lace real statistics and facts into satirical content that not only engages the viewer, but also prompts them to think critically about the issues," Gassman told Business Insider.
Articles like "CIA Employee Mistakes Drone Operation For "Call Of Duty," Kills Pakistani Family" are designed to both entertain and also bring an underreported story — the drone war in Pakistan — to the forefront of people's minds.
Gassman left behind a number of different lucrative opportunities to start the business.
He worked for a Democratic congressman in D.C. as a legal fellow, crafting policy and working on bills. He worked on Andrew Cuomo's campaign for Governor. He was approached by lobbyists trying to recruit in D.C. He recently passed the New York Bar exam and can practice law.
Still, he turned away all of those opportunities. Instead, he wants to start his own business.
"There's too many lawyers anyway," he said.
He got worried in law school when he, a news hound, saw his friends spouting verbatim arguments from cable news and touting it as an original opinion. That scared him. He wanted to do something good.
Gassman thought that there was still room in the market for informed, catchy satire. Even more, he found a whole group of ambitious people willing to write for free in exchange for equity because they also believed in the project.
"It has a lot to do with the recession. I think we need to have a generation of people who create their own jobs, create their own way."
And with the recession, he feels that millennials have the opportunity to make a major dent in the market and to create meaningful, fulfilling work.
"It's riskier, but the reward is a lot higher. I get to put out content that I think is important."
What's also interesting is how he worked out the startup process. He's a lawyer, so he had the training to carry out the paperwork. Even better, Gassman had the money needed for funding, won from an unlikely source.
"My original startup idea was to grow medical marijuana. I made a decent amount of money buying and selling medical marijuana stocks."
You can buy stock in pot?
"Yeah, you can buy a lot of it. If you go to MarijuanaStocks.com there's a list. Fusion Farms is the most legitimate one, it's the most stable. That's based in Colorado with the legalization."
It turns out that when medical marijuana growers, distributors and dispensaries need to raise capital for their now-legal operations, they can tap into a large, distributed investor base through online trading.
With the needed capital and the paperwork in hand, Gassman got the ball rolling. He paid for the development of the site and got to recruiting content producers.
The site started with around 15 writers, a lot of whom have moved up to editorial work and gained equity in the company as they worked. By November, the team was breaking 30,000 hits a month and rising with only two months in the bank.
For revenue, the team is working with some affiliate marketing — Snorg Tees and others — but is looking to move directly into sponsored content for advocacy groups.
In the end, he's focused on building a team and developing a voice and business model. He's one of many millennial-aged entrepreneurs looking at the existing career prospects and turning them down in unconventional ways.


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Polycom Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Sentri, Inc. to Expand Portfolio of Advanced Services
Sentri to bring advanced services expertise in UC&C, including Microsoft® Lync™, providing new opportunities in North America market for Polycom and its partners
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Jan. 30, 2013 – Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C), today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sentri, Inc., a leading provider of advanced services with expertise in Microsoft technologies (such as Microsoft® Lync™, SharePoint and Office 365), UC&C, video collaboration, cloud services and networking. Sentri's deep expertise integrating Microsoft Lync with Polycom solutions is a key element of the acquisition, as Polycom has a portfolio of more than 40 video and voice products that interoperate with Lync, and the majority of customers choose Polycom and Microsoft over other vendors for a complete UC&C solution.
"Sentri provides Polycom and our partners with needed advanced services capabilities to consult, design and implement UC&C solutions, and Sentri's expertise in providing specific Microsoft Lync services is a key skill-set as Lync adoption continues to increase," said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President of Products and Services, Polycom. "Delivering a robust services portfolio provides Polycom and our partners with the opportunity to not only grow revenues, but also to increase the strategic value we bring to customers by serving as trusted advisors to help them solve their communications objectives as their businesses grow."
The global market for video collaboration advanced services is $1.6 billion in 2013, growing to $1.94 billion in 2016 according to the Gartner Market Trends: Videoconferencing, Worldwide, 2012 report, published August, 2012.
"The acquisition of UC integrator and managed services provider Sentri is a wise move for Polycom," said Ira M. Weinstein, senior analyst and partner at Wainhouse Research. "As enterprises seek to expand their video and UC footprint, they will need support from qualified partners with real-world experience installing and managing Microsoft Lync deployments. By adding Sentri's capabilities to its service organization, Polycom can empower its channel partners with the skills they need to plan, sell, and support joint Microsoft and Polycom installations. This is both a differentiator for Polycom and a value-add for its partners and end-user customers."
Polycom plans to also set up a Services Center of Excellence, which will provide Polycom and partners in North America with the opportunity to benefit from the skill-set and expertise of the Sentri advanced services team. As part of the Services Center of Excellence, Polycom plans to develop training and certification programs with channels organization to be rolled out in the second half of 2013.
Sentri has experience in all areas of UC&C and, in addition to Microsoft and Polycom expertise, service professionals are skilled on various other vendor solutions in the areas of networking, VoIP and security. Sentri is Gold certified by Microsoft in communications, messaging, portals and collaboration, and desktop technology; Microsoft Premier Support for LyncTM Partners (PSLP) certified; and has two Microsoft Certified Master engineers. Sentri has been recognized as a leading partner by Microsoft the last several years, including overall East Region Partner of the Year (2012), Lync Partner of the Year for New York Metro region (2011), and Northeast Partner of the Year for three years running.
Sentri leadership will report into Navin Mehta, SVP, Polycom Global Services, as well as to North America sales leadership, and will work closely with the North America partner teams. Sentri will continue to offer services to their existing customer-base, and expand to Polycom customers after the acquisition closes.
This transaction, which is valued at less than $10 million, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013.
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This past week, I had the honor to be part of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, the oldest outreach program hosted by the Secretary of Defense. Together with 38 other civilian leaders, including
a former U.S. Attorney General, Deans and Presidents of Universities, Mayors of large cities and heads
of large foundations, businesses, associations, and healthcare institutions, we spent every waking hour
for five days immersed in the rigors and experiences of the men and women of the United States Marine
Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
Harry S. Truman once said, "America was built on courage and an unbeatable determination to do the
job at hand." This statement profoundly describes the spirit of every one of the men and uniform we met this past week, from Generals and Admirals to Privates and Seamen.
We began our journey at a dinner in Alexandria, Virginia, on the evening of Sunday, May 1. An Army
Colonel told us about a young Lieutenant who put himself in harm's way on the battlefield by replacing
the position of the Colonel in formation after gaining intelligence that the enemy had learned of the
Colonel's location. His loyalty to his Colonel and his Country cost the young Lieutenant his life, the
victim of an enemy sniper's bullet. His wife and children now continue to pay the price of the ultimate
sacrifice. The Colonel finished his story by telling us proudly and with as much sincerity as have ever
witnessed, "I am a United States soldier, and I will die for you." As I prepared to retire for the evening,
still thinking about the young Lieutenant, I turned on the television and learned that Osama Bin Laden
was dead.
Over the course of the next five days, we spent from 0530 to 2230 learning about our military. We met
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at the Pentagon. We traveled to
Quantico, Virginia where we met the men and women of the United States Marine Corps and observed
and participated in the training of the Marines. We attended the Memorial at the Pentagon for the
victims of 9/11. We traveled to Fort Bragg, North Carolina and met with the Army Rangers and took part
in war-game simulation and training. We consumed MREs (Meals-Ready-to-Eat) for lunch with the
soldiers. We traveled to Joint Base McGuire-Dix, Lakehurst, New Jersey and learned about the Air Force
Expeditionary Center and the Air Force Ravens. We went to the Naval Submarine Base in New London,
Connecticut and learned about submarine warfare training. And we went to Coast Guard Sector Boston,
Massachusetts, and took part in Coast Guard rescue operations and search and seizure procedures.
We fired multiple types of weapons and participated in training exercises. We traveled on Air Force
planes and Marine helicopters, and we toured nuclear submarines and rode in Anti-Mine Vehicle Protection System (AMVPS) and amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) convoys. But most importantly, and certainly most impressively, we met and spent significant time with the men and women who have dedicated themselves so selflessly to service in the Marines, the Army, the Navy, the Air Free, and the Coast Guard. We learned about their way of life and why they serve. We heard their stories of courage, valor, and honor; and of hardship, loss, and sacrifice.
We heard stories about continuous and ubiquitous courage and valor that you could only imagine to
exist in Hollywood scripts; of young men in their early twenties willingly and without hesitation sacrificing their lives to save the lives of their fellow soldiers on the battlefield. We heard stories about soldiers and Marines losing limbs from Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The first words out of their mouths to their comrades while lying on the ground with an arm or leg missing was always, "I'm sorry." Some of them have returned to battle to be with their fellow warriors and fight for their country; wearing prosthetic limbs. We heard stories about the proliferation of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and how one soldier's son told his Dad, "I haven't seen you smile in two years."
We heard stories about being gone for six months at a time, away from families and children. We heard stories of soldiers who have missed most of their kids' childhood; and children and spouses who go without a parent or spouse for long periods of time. We heard stories of married couples going a year or more without seeing each other because they are both on multiple deployments to different places. And we heard stories of those who didn't return from deployment; of the sacrifice of life itself and the impact it has on all of those left behind.
I read a political cartoon in the USA Today two days after Bin Laden was killed. It was a picture of two
soldiers, one reading about Bin Laden's death and commenting to the other, "Does this mean we get to
go home now?" After having spent the day with the Marine Corps Special Forces, it immediately occurred to me how unfortunately out of touch the cartoonist and Editor must be and how absurd the cartoon really was. In spite of their hardship and in spite of the multiple sacrifices they make, not one of the servicemen or women we met ever complained about anything. Not one of them had any hint of entitlement, martyrdom, self-pity, or fatigue. Every single person we met demonstrated pride, commitment, loyalty, honor, and respect for their command, their Country, their duty, and for each other. I
John F. Kennedy once said, "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any
price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assume the survival and success of Liberty." The one percent of Americans who serve in the Armed Forces are living Kennedy's promise. They live it so that we can experience nearly ten years since 9/11 without a successful terrorist attack on our soil. They live it so that we can go to Little League games, and love and
laugh and play in peace. They live it so we can educate ourselves, worship as we choose, say what we
want out loud, and realize our dreams in a free society; whatever those dreams may be.
Relative to some other times in American history, citizens are supporting our troops with vigor. But the
ninety-nine percent of us who do not serve can always do more for those who do. There are multiple
organizations for us to give our time or money to who support our troops and their families who make
so many sacrifices. You can go to http://www.ourmilitary.mil/ to learn more about organizations that support ,
our military. I encourage you to do something to actively support them - do it today. !
If you do nothing else, the next time you see a man or woman in uniform, simply walk up and say "thank
Tom Garfinkel
President and Chief Operating Officer
San Diego Padres Baseball Club
May 8, 2011


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In this era where you can do the chores on the click of a button, everything has become easier in its advanced virtual form. And so home technology is also smarter than ever. The ultra-rich who can afford a more convenient lifestyle with the help of technology prefer to live in a home that offers all such advantages. Smart Homes can comprehensively perform all functions of the house integrated to a common interface device which may be a laptop, tablet or even a smartphone. The demand for smart homes is rapidly rising in the market given the conveniently modern lifestyle they offer.
A survey was conducted by AZ Research Partners, Bangalore on behalf of Schneider Electrics India among the buyers as well as builders of premium residential complexes starting from 50 Lakh to 5 Crore and above. The research concluded that the smart homes market in India is going to double in revenue every three years. A year-on-year growth of 30% is expected in the market. The high level of awareness among the people of metros and upper-end segments of tier II cities has led to such tremendous growth in the sector. [Read more…]


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Mims Chapel United Methodist Church
13714 FM 729; Avinger, Texas 75630 903/755-2513 / Pastor Dr. Gail Harrelson
Welcome to the Mims Chapel United Methodist Church blog! We hope you will enjoy reading about what is happening at Mims Chapel. Check back often for pictures and posts!
History of our Church
The first religious gathering place of the original pioneer families of the community is said to have been at the site of a sunken boulder, next to which the first crude log meeting house was constructed. Because of this boulder, the first structure was know as the "Old Rock Church".
About 1871, a larger one-room frame building replaced the log structure and the name was changed to Mims Chapel, after two brothers who were instrumental in procuring the six-acre tract of land. This white painted, one-room church remained in use until 1936, when a bad list to the structure necessitated its being torn down. The new church was built from the same material, except for necessary additions.
In January 1969, the old wooden building was torn down and replaced by a modern brick structure.
Mims Chapel maintains its strong historical background , while striving ever-forward to help spread God's glory and kingdom. Praise God in the highest! May Mims Chapel forever be the "Old Rock Church".
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These days, it seems as if the collective voice of moviegoers echoes the Taylor Swift lament "Why you gotta be so mean?"
And for once they're not talking about me or my fellow critics.
The discontent and, in some cases, the disdain is directed at some of our most delightful actors, beloved ones such as Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Cate Blanchett and Leonardo DiCaprio to start. Many more of the acclaimed — John Goodman, Jonah Hill, Carey Mulligan, Michael Fassbender, Bruce Dern and Sarah Paulson among them — have been implicated. Even Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson and Judi Dench are getting their share of the recriminations.
None of which comes close to the mess poor Oscar Isaac finds himself in. What should have been a breakout turn as the star of the latest Coen brothers' film, "Inside Llewyn Davis," has turned into a nasty — and uncalled for — public rebuke. Most critics love the work. Audiences by and large do not, some coming to that conclusion merely from seeing the trailer. A pity.
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The directors — Martin Scorsese, Joel and Ethan Coen, Alexander Payne, John Wells and others — are feeling the heat too. But the director's chair is not so clearly in the line of ire. Scorsese, at least, has been trying to make the most of the controversy about the ill-mannered "Wolf of Wall Street," confronting it to spark a conversation and drawing a bigger and more forgiving audience as a result.
It's not the actors and filmmakers themselves fanning the flames but the characters — a royal rash of unlikables appearing in edgy stories that have a dark heart and dark humor. Whether it will become an age or an era — or just a spiking fever — is yet to be seen, though Angelina Jolie is already promising pure evil in May's "Maleficent," a remake of "Sleeping Beauty."
I am hopeful the pique persists. For inside the most irritating and irascible characters that Hollywood's top-flight talent has undertaken to portray is also some of the finest work we've seen on screen in years. Instead of irritation, the idea that films are doing such an excellent job of exposing so many baser qualities should be applauded. I take heart that so many made it onto the Academy Awards short list.
The unlikables were not always such anomalies. Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles certainly felt no need to soften their blows. A few decades later, uncomfortably defining work was being done in films such as "Midnight Cowboy," with Dustin Hoffman's gritty, needy lowlife Ratso, Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver," and Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in "The Godfather."
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Meanwhile, TV has not simply embraced but become entrenched with antiheroics — "The Sopranos," "Breaking Bad," "The Following," "The Blacklist," "House of Cards" and on and on. Movie storytelling, on the other hand, settled into the notion of success. Triumph against the odds – from sports to love and life — have ruled, overruled. Occasionally a disruptor would blow through — "There Will Be Blood" and "No Country for Old Men" come to mind. What distinguishes the recent trend is the way filmmakers and actors are breaking out of the rut en masse.
The changing mood represents risk — real creative and career risk. Taken by the established, the entrenched and the rising alike, it could well be a game-changer if we allow it. For years, the grumble has been that Hollywood and filmmakers in general should take more chances. So why not redirect the outrage at the mediocre — there are plenty of choices on that front — and back the risk-takers even when it's uncomfortable?
Let me take a moment to distinguish between a villain and a dislikable.
Movie villains will not only always be with us, frankly we can't do without them. Where would the tension and conflict come from? Would the good guys even matter without the bad? A Batman without a Joker? A Valjean without a Javert? A 007 without, well, you get the point.
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So not villains in the traditional sense. Consider something more in the vein of DiCaprio's audaciously awful Wall Street fleecer in "Wolf." Baroquely amplifying the already tawdry tale, his Jordan Belfort wallows in money and depravity, the normally sweet Jonah Hill going dark right alongside him as his depraved partner, Donnie Azoff. If anything, DiCaprio is creating an excellent body of work out of bad. Last year, it was "Django Unchained."
Consider the caustic matriarch Streep plays in "August: Osage County," with her hellcat daughter in Roberts' hands. Neither actress has been so biting, ever. Nor has director John Wells, whom I used to associate with "ER" but now tie to "August" and Showtime's "Shameless," cut from the same cloth.
Take Blanchett's wonderfully insufferable turn in "Blue Jasmine." Rarely has she or director Woody Allen been darker, laying bare the escalating emotional cost of Jasmine's compromised marriage to the ultimate treachery it spawns. Dench's "Philomena" is a bit of a pushy prig, as is Thompson's PL Travers, and even Hanks can't make Walt Disney all that likable. Meanwhile, "American Hustle's" Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper are so outrageous they make Amy Adams and Christian Bale's con artists look like heroes. Like "Wolf," they are playing it for laughs — and succeeding grandly.
Irritants all. Exceptional also.
If you seek the merits and set aside expectations, it might help diffuse the distress. Watching Fassbender and Paulson as a sadistic slave owner and his vengefully jealous wife conjure up evil and hate in luridly brutal ways in "12 Years A Slave" is horrific, yet they also make the unimaginable imaginable.
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Less onerous but still prickly are Bruce Dern and June Squibb in Payne's "Nebraska." In these antagonistic spouses, so skillfully drawn by writer Bob Nelson, the film makes a statement about aging uncomfortably. Dern's Woody is a cantankerous old coot, while Squibb's Kate is a grating, emasculating harpy. While Woody remains dour, the sharp-tongued Kate is hysterically funny as she maligns the locals and herself in the process. In all the dissonance you also see resistance, one last grand stand against long years of failure, of misbegotten dreams, and who is without a few of those?
Let's return to the film that has borne the brunt of the burn — "Inside Llewyn Davis." It carries the double burden of being deemed by many moviegoers as a depressing tale as well as having an ungrateful, egomaniacal leading man. They seem to miss that Llewyn Davis is also a charming and obsessive artist, his brusqueness a barricade against deep emotional wounds.
Greenwich Village in the '60s was not an easy place. For aspiring singer-songwriters it was a caldron of disappointment. Yet a generation was defined by the failures like Davis as much as the successes, like Dylan. The Coens' have rendered the time beautifully, Isaac has realized it remarkably, an acutely incisive performance of a man stumbling through his wasted ambition.
Are these protagonists likable? Not always. But these artists are reaching for greatness. It's a risk. They are taking it. Shouldn't we?


text: More than 90% of CD and DVD duplication provider Bison Disc's customers are generated online, so search has always been a big part of the company's marketing strategy. However, by 2010 the company's paid-search efforts were stagnant, said John Cleeveley, the company's CFO who also handles search marketing. Campaign ROI was poor and, as a result, Cleeveley cut his monthly search budget from $20,000 to $5,000. Still, this wasn't optimal, so Bison Disc hired search company Page Zero Media at the end of 2010 to handle its paid-search efforts. The first order of business, said Andrew Goodman, president of Page Zero Media, was cutting broader search terms on both Bing and Google, the two search engines on which Bison Disc runs ads. "We cut out all the scary waste," he said. For instance, the term "CD copying" skewed very consumer. There were many other similar terms that did not have enough of a targeted focus, Goodman said. "Many of [Bison Disc's] search terms were very open-ended, and there wasn't enough differentiation between other closely related terms," he said. For instance, "CD replication" was a much better business term than "CD copying," Goodman said. Bison Disc also added additional keywords to the mix. To ensure the right terms were being used, Page Zero Media analyzed the company's product line to figure out new takes on its existing products. The company also spent time looking at past conversions and analytics to determine which terms converted and how people were finding the site organically. While that may seem basic, it's a step many companies skip when starting or expanding a paid-search campaign, Goodman said. "You've got to be constantly adding keywords and evaluating the ones you're already using," he said. "It's also important to compare data on keywords that get people clicking through and the ones that actually get people to take action and fill out a lead-gen form." Once the keywords were selected, Page Zero Media did an analysis of the company's landing pages. It discovered that many of the paid-search terms led right to Bison Disc's home page. "We were just sending everyone to the home page or slight variations of the home page, [so] we developed landing pages specific to keywords," Cleeveley said. It is a strategy that everyone should use, Goodman added. "A prospect shouldn't have to think for a second about what they were looking for," he said. "The search term they clicked on should be carried through to the landing page—the headline of the landing page." Existing landing pages were tweaked as well, Cleeveley said. "On one page, we had a rotating image. The prospect saw an offer for 100 of a product for $199 and 1,000 for $790. The offer changed in and out," he said. Those offers should be static, they were told, since people clicking through might not stay long enough to see both. Finally, Page Zero Media implemented constant testing so poorly performing keywords or landing pages could be lopped from campaigns immediately, saving Bison Disc time and money. It's working, Cleeveley said. "Since implementing the new strategies, requests for quotes increased by 450% between 2010 over what we're projecting through 2012. Cost per RFQ dropped by 35% to date," he said. Just as important: New online customers increased by 80% between 2010 and 2011. This year, that stat is expected to rise again. "New online customers in 2012 as projected over 2011 should increase by 62%," Cleeveley said.


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Davíd Carrasco Named Alumnus of the Year 2014
Professor Carrasco delivered the 2014 Alumnus of the Year address, "From Axis Mundi to Mappa Mundi: Great Temples and Sacred Bundles in Aztec Society," on Thursday, April 24, 2014, at 4:30 p.m. in Swift Lecture Hall with a reception to follow. He also delivered, at noon that same day, the Spring Quarter Dean's Craft of Teaching Seminar.
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Dean Margaret M. Mitchell has announced that, upon recommendation from the Divinity School's Alumni Council, the Board of Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union has named Davíd Carrasco (ThM 1970, MA 1974, PhD in the History of Religions area, 1977) as the Divinity School's Alumnus of the Year for 2014.
Carrasco is the Neil Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Divinity School. A famed scholar, lecturer, writer, filmmaker, and expert on Mexican and Mesoamerican art and culture, he is a historian of religions with a particular interest in religious dimensions in human experience.
Of the award, Dean Mitchell said "Davíd Carrasco is known for his field-defining scholarship on Meso-American religions. His dexterity with a range of literary, historical, visual, geographical, cartographic, archaeological and other sources, combined with an integration of methodological perspectives, makes him a wonderful exemplar of interdisciplinary work in the history of religions."
Carrasco's studies with Mircea Eliade, Charles H. Long, Jonathan Z. Smith and Paul Wheatley at the University of Chicago inspired him to work on the history of sacred cities, on the challenges of postcolonial ethnography and theory, and on ritual violence in comparative perspective. His work has included a special emphasis on the religious dimensions of the Latino borderlands, cultural and racial mixture or mestizaje, the myth of Aztlan and La Virgen de Guadalupe.
Working with Mexican archaeologists, Carrasco has carried out more than thirty years of research in the excavations and archives associated with the sites of Teotihuacan and Mexico-Tenochtitlan. His research has resulted in publications on ritual violence and sacred cities; religion and the Great Aztec Temple; and the history of religions in Mesoamerica. He co-founded with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project which today is housed at the Peabody Museum of Ethnology and Archaeology at Harvard University.
Carrasco is the author of numerous books, including Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire, Religions of Mesoamerica, Breaking Through Mexico's Past: Digging the Aztecs With Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2, gold winner of the 2008 PubWest Book Design Award, featured in The New York Review of Books. He has also served as the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. Carrasco was the executive co-producer of the award winning film Alambrista: The Director's Cut which put a human face on the ordeal of undocumented workers from Mexico.
A 2004 recipient of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest decoration that Mexico awards to foreign nationals, Prof. Carrasco was also the recipient, in 2006, of the Mircea Eliade Jubilee medal for contributions in the study of history of religion. Carrasco is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2011 he was elected as a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia, Correspondiente de La Real de Madrid.


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The Father Lopez girls basketball team defeated Miami Country Day 44-40 on Thursday in the Class 3A state final.
LAKELAND — Somehow Father Lopez found a way to win.
Miami Country Day was controlling the tempo and the boards and held a 34-29 lead with 5:34 left when Danielle Minott hit a lay-up, the Spartans' 15th point off turnovers.
But Simone Brown nailed a 3-pointer 30 seconds later and the Green Wave battled back for a 44-40 win in the Class 3A state championship game at The Lakeland Center.
"It's amazing," center Ashley Folsom said of the Green Wave's second state title. (They also won in 2005.) "Basically, I can't think of a single word to describe it. So, it's amazing."
Folsom had a team-high 18 points and 10 rebounds, Brown added 17 and the Green Wave (27-5) finished 15-of-17 from the foul line.
Minott led all scorers with 20 points for the Spartans (28-2), who forced 21 turnovers and had 18 steals.
This was a battle between the top two Class 3A teams, according to Source Hoops, and it lived up to its billing. Neither team led by more than seven points, though the Spartans were in front most of the way.
The Green Wave finally took a 36-34 lead with 2:54 left on Folsom's press-breaking pass to Brown for a lay-up, their first lead since the 5:14 mark of the first quarter, and they would never trail again.
Minott hit a lay-up to tie it at 36 with 2:44 left, but the Spartans started sending the Green Wave to the line and that proved their undoing. The Green Wave would make 8-of-8 free throws in the last 2:12 to secure the win.
Shannon Cranshaw, who had been relatively quiet up to that point, sank two free throws to make it 38-36. Then, after Stephanie MacKenzie knotted the score at 38 with an offensive rebound stick back, Brown gave the Green Wave the lead for good at 40-38, sinking two more free throws with 1:28 left.
Chanel Coco swiped the ball away on the Spartans' next possession and the Green Wave starting running the clock. The Spartans finally fouled Cranshaw with 22.9 seconds left, and the senior guard swished both free throws for 42-38.
The Spartans pulled within 42-40 with 11.3 seconds left on two nikaO Swaby free throws, but Brown hit two more freebies with 5.2 seconds left for the final margin.
"I looked up and it was 42-40, and I knew I had to make both of those," Brown said.
"She must have ice water in her veins," Father Lopez coach Brad Ridenour said of Brown. "She steps up and makes four free throws (in the last 1:28)."
Cranshaw said it came down to experience.
"We play one of the toughest schedules in Florida of any class," she said. "We have six seniors on the team and five seniors on the floor."


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Comcast has announced the winners of its first-ever On Demand Awards, which honors the most-watched content from the cable powerhouses VOD service. Perhaps to no one's surprise, the Top 3 indie movies come from Magnolia Pictures and IFC Films. From an indieWIRE report on the awards:
Of the top three VOD indie titles, two were Magnolia's: "All Good Things" and "Centurion."
Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles says he wasn't surprised.
"I'm incredibly presumptuous," he told indieWIRE. "I expected [the win]."
He's got a point. Although Andrew Jarackei's "All Good Things" only earned $367,000 in domestic ticket sales last year, Bowles said it earned $4 million from VOD and that Neil Marshall's "Centurion" was similarly successful. (Xfinity declines to release the revenue or download numbers behind the winning films.)
Magnolia's strategy calls for releasing all titles on VOD before going theatrical. So far, Bowles says, the method's paid off.
"This year, we've already had enormous success with 'Black Death' and '13 Assassins, he said. "[VOD] takes a lot of risk out of distributing theatrically. In fact, the VOD revenue gives us the chance to theatrically release the films. But the theatrical component plays a very important part. Our films are viewed as films that are of theatrical quality. That's vital."
The other indie title in the list, is The Killer Inside Me, from IFC Films. Click here for winners in other film and television categories.
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The U.S. House of Representatives today passed, by voice vote, H.R. 1957, the Taxpayer First Act of 2019.
The bill was approved by the Ways and Means Committee on April 2, 2019. Read TaxNewsFlash
Among the tax provisions in the bill (according to a summary of the bill from the Ways and Means Committee) are measures that would:
The U.S. Senate would need to pass the bill next, and if or when the Senate would consider the bill is uncertain.
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Stained glass windows from Georgia. A baptismal font with 24 soaring jets of water. Padded chairs in the sanctuary, complete with cup holders.
Few details were left to chance as a San Diego County megachurch prepares to open a mega-addition — a $12 million worship center at Skyline Church that its pastor says was 27 years and many prayers in the making.
"It's a thrill after what we've been through," said Jim Garlow. "Every building has a story and certainly this one does too."
The Rancho San Diego complex opens for Sunday services March 4 at 9 a.m. It includes a 2,000-seat sanctuary, an atrium with high-tech lighting and a chapel with antique pews purchased from a Baptist church in Georgia.
Garlow said the goal was to mix the old and the new, to make the 60,000-square-foot building feel relevant to younger generations, while also drawing a connection to the church's historic and spiritual roots.
Hence the cup holders and LED lights, not far from the old, walnut-wood cross that looms over the chapel.
Symbolism is enshrined into the design, too. There's a cluster of 33 lights in the atrium — one for each year of Jesus's life, said Garlow. The height of the entryway columns match those in Solomon's Temple, as cited in the Bible.
"To us, it's not just brick and mortar, it's not just concrete and steel," he said.
With close to 4,000 members, Skyline is one of the largest churches in East County, if not the San Diego region. Garlow has long been a prominent figure in the evangelical movement and is frequently interviewed by the local and national media in light of his vocal opposition to same-sex marriage.
Skyline set out to build a new church in the early 1980s, after it outgrew its sanctuary in Lemon Grove.
It moved to a 138-acre parcel in Rancho San Diego, south of El Cajon, in 2000 and hoped to start building its main worship hall that same year.
But a string of complications with the hillside property delayed construction, so the church built a multipurpose building on the site and held services there. Part of it will now be converted into an indoor skate park for the congregation's youth.
The massive addition includes a prayer wall inspired by the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Churchgoers will be able to write prayers for themselves and others and tuck them into the mortar-less wall of stacked stones.
The wall will be dedicated to Garlow's wife, Carol, who has been battling advanced-stage cancer for several years. She is the longtime leader of Skyline's prayer ministry, which works closely with families in crisis.
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The second Neuse River fish kill in a month was reported Sunday on the south shore in the area between Flanners Beach and Slocum Creek. Strong early Monday morning thunderstorms and winds washed away all but small traces of the kill by daylight.
The second Neuse River fish kill in a month was reported Sunday on the south shore in the area between Flanners Beach and Slocum Creek. Strong early Monday morning thunderstorms and winds washed away all but small traces of the kill by daylight.
Rick Dove, president of the Coastal Carolina River Watch and a nearby resident, said thousands of fish were seen Sunday morning.
�I would call this a small to moderate fish kill,� he said. �The kill shows clear evidence of being caused by low dissolved oxygen. There were no sores on the fish that I could find. It involved multiple species including croakers, flounder and menhaden. The dead fish were stacked along the shore and presented a very bad odor of rotting fish.�
On July 10, a similar kill was reported in the same area.
The last major fish kill on the Neuse was last October, lasting about a month and resulting in an estimated 200 million dead fish.
Dove said that while Sunday�s kill could be termed small, each fish kill shows further evidence of an unhealthy river and that the kills contribute to the problem of nutrients in the water.
Dove notified the Washington office of the state Division of Water Quality, which said Monday that the matter would be investigated.
Dove said Neuse River fish kills are now common in the summer months. He said a number of factors work in concert to produce low oxygen, resulting in fish kills.
�The water is hot and that has an impact,� he said. �And then we get the salt wedge that comes in from the ocean and that helps lower oxygen levels, especially on the bottom. The third thing that is working here is the nutrient pollution in the river. It deprives the water of oxygen and the fish die.�
He said that such fish kills are often labeled as natural occurrences, but he noted that has not always been the case.
�When the river was healthy more than 20 or 30 years ago, we didn�t see these kinds of large fish kill events in the main body of the Neuse River,� he said. �We would see them back in the creeks, where the water didn�t move, but it was rare to see them in the river.�
He said dead fish with sores are often spotted around September, when menhaden begin migrating from creeks to the ocean.
�They hang around New Bern for a couple of weeks and are supposed to migrate to the ocean,� he said. �That is typically when we see disease hit these fish.�
He said the problems are all rooted in pollution, adding that the dead menhaden add to the problem since they are essentially one of the solutions to excess nutrients.
�The menhaden are a very valuable fish because they help export nutrients out of our waters,� he said.
The larvae are laid in the ocean and wash into the estuaries through the tides and winds.
�These little fish then begin to eat algae, which is where all the nutrients are stored,� he said.
The young menhaden are laden with nutrient-rich body weight and when massive numbers die, the nutrients are recycled back into the river.
�We don�t get the exportation of the nutrients out of the system as nature had intended,� he said. �The more fish kills, the worse the river gets with nutrients because we are losing one of nature�s ways of cleaning itself.�
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Rhabdomyosarcoma in a terrestrial tortoise (Geochelone nigra) in Nigeria: A case report
Oghenemega D. EyarefeI; Richard E. AntiaII; Cecilia O. OguntoyeI; Olusoji O. AbiolaIII; Olugbenga O. AlakaII; John. O. OgunsolaII
IDepartment of Veterinary Surgery and Reproduction, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
IIDepartment of Veterinary Pathology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
IIIDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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A skeletal muscle tumour (rhabdomyosarcoma) was diagnosed in a 4-year-old captive female terrestrial tortoise (Geochelone nigra) weighing 7 kg presented at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. The tumour was located at the anterior right portion of the body and ventral to the carapace. The location of the tumour prevented the tortoise from extending its head from the body. The tumour was a sessile, smooth white mass, with a soft myxomatous consistency. The histological features that were diagnostic of rhabdomyosarcoma included a sparse population of haphazardly arranged spindle-shaped cells within a homogenous matrix (anisocytosis), occasional tumour giant and binucleate cells, and some well differentiated myofibrils with cross striations within the cytoplasm. The paucity of information on tumours in the land tortoise was the reason for this report, which appears to be the first report of rhabdomyosarcoma in the tortoise.
There are several species of giant tortoises. The giant tortoises are amongst the approximately 290 species of freshwater terrapins, marine turtles and terrestrial tortoises existing today in diverse habitats in mostly tropical and subtropical regions globally (Raphael 2003). They are listed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), as one of the 166 chelonian species in danger of extinction because of habitat degradation, human encroachment, predation and diseases (Hatt 2008). The most predominant species of giant tortoises are Galapagos tortoises (Geochelone nigra), with an estimated population of 12 000-15 000 (Schramm 1998) and Seychelles tortoises (Aldabrachelys hololissa), numbering approximately 100 000 (Bourn et al. 1999).
Reports of established disease conditions in tortoises remain quite scarce (Hatt 2008; McArthur 2004). Common diseases in captive tortoises are associated with husbandry, nutrition and infectious agents, and include bite trauma (Donoghue 2006), respiratory infections of viral, bacterial, mycotic and parasitic origin (Murray 1996; O'Malley 2005), and non-infectious metabolic diseases of nutritional and renal origin that are predominant in growing giant tortoises and manifest in stages from hypomineralisation to fibrous osteodystrophy of bones and pyramiding of the carapace (Hauser, Mettler & Honegger 1977).
Tumours are rare in chelonians, with most of the cases reported in turtles rather than tortoises. In a study based on nearly a decade of research, the occurrence of tumours in chelonians had a frequency of 2.7%, with tortoises having only 1.4%, whilst the frequency of occurrence in fresh water turtles was as high as 3.2% (Garner, Hernandez-Divers & Raymond 2004). In another study encompassing a much longer period and derived from 490 cases, the frequency of tumour occurrence in chelonians was 1.2% with all the neoplasms seen in turtles (Sykes & Trupkiewicz 2006). Apart from the documented incidence of fibropapillomatosis in the green turtle and some other turtle species across the globe (Balazs et al. 2000; Herbst 1994) and a case of mast cell tumour reported in a land tortoise (Santoro et al. 2008), neoplastic conditions have rarely been documented in tortoises. In this paper a case of rhabdomyosarcoma in a captive tortoise in Nigeria is reported, which to the knowledge of the authors is the first documentation of this tumour in a tortoise.]]>
Case report
A 4-year-old female land tortoise (G. nigra) weighing 7 kg was presented at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, with a complaint of a swelling on the cranio-ventral aspect of the carapace which prevented the tortoise from extending its head from the body to feed or drink (Figure 1). Physical examination revealed a mass, 5 cm in diameter, located at the right cranio-ventral aspect of the carapace, and covering the head orifice, with a small space remaining for breathing. A fine needle aspiration biopsy of the growth was poorly cellular and therefore not sufficiently diagnostic. A survey radiograph showed increased radio- opacity in the area of the tumour but the mass could not be delineated from the carapace due to a summation effect (Figure 2).
Surgical management
Palliative surgery was performed to reduce the tumour mass and to enable the tortoise to project the head out of the carapace to eat and drink, as well as to obtain a biopsy sample (Figure 3) for histopathology. The procedure was done under local anaesthesia with 2% lidocaine (Mighty Pharma, India) by local infiltration. Surgery was successful, as the animal was able to extend its head from the carapace to eat after the intervention (Figure 4).
The growth was non-encapsulated and poorly demarcated (Figure 5). The ground substance was generally fibrillar and basophilic (myxoid matrix), (Figures 5 and 6) but with the areas of rhabdomyocytic differentiation appearing eosinophilic (Figures 7 and 8). The degree of cellularity varied in different parts of the tumour, being highest in the less differentiated areas. Isolated and interlacing bundles of muscle fibres exhibiting distinct cross striations were visible (Figure 8). The neoplastic cells were round to oval or spindle-shaped, and showed marked pleomorphism. The cytoplasm of these cells was uniformly eosinophilic, or contained eosinophilic material (Figures 9 and 10). Each cell contained a single, eccentric, round to elongated, hyperchromatic nucleus (Figure 9) with one or two fairly distinct nucleoli. There was remarkable anisokaryosis. Some mitotic cells were visible. A few binucleate and multinucleated giant cells were occasionally encountered (Figure 7). There were scattered inflammatory foci consisting of mononuclear cell infiltration. Some tissue necrosis was present, but haemorrhages were not observed. On the basis of these histopathological features, a diagnosis of rhabdomyosarcoma was made.
The anaesthetic protocol adopted for the management of this case was determined by the condition of the animal. The tortoise's head was trapped by the tumour mass within the head orifice with only a small opening available for breathing (Figure 1). This precluded the need for sedation, or use of general anaesthesia, which would have precipitated life threatening hypoxia due to the low oxygen tension within the head orifice and the expected reduced ability of the animal to inhale an adequate amount of atmospheric oxygen under sedation or general anaesthesia (Hall, Clark & Trim 2001). The lignocaine local infiltration provided adequate intra-operative and immediate postoperative analgesia. The tortoise had an uneventful recovery, evidenced by the extension of its head to eat and drink following surgery (Figure 2).
Tortoises form part of the collections of most wildlife parks and zoological gardens. Maintenance of wild animals in captivity tends to be associated with many disease problems. Most of the reported disease conditions, especially tumours in reptiles, have been observed to occur in those animals in captivity (Cooper, Jackson & Harshbarger 1983; Cowan 1968). The relocation of the animals from their natural habitat to urban parks often encourages their continuous exposure to environmental pollutants, some of which are carcinogens. Inbreeding amongst animals in captivity also encourages the expression of lethal cancer genes in the offspring (Buckley, Hulse & Keep 1980).]]> Neoplasia is extremely rare in reptiles, especially in land tortoises (Sykes & Trupkiewicz 2006). Striated muscle tumours are quite infrequent in any animal species (Pulley & Stannard 1990). As far as the authors could determine, only one case of rhabdomyoma has been reported previously, in a male pine snake (Ball 1945).
Rhabdomyosarcomas are malignant tumours of striated muscle, and are thought to arise from embryonic mesenchyme (Cooper & Valentine 2002). They are commonly associated with a viral or chemical aetiology (Glaister 1981). The present tumour appeared to be an isolated and spontaneous case, as there were other tortoises of the same species but different ages living in the same environment. Besides, review of the management history of the tortoise did not implicate exposure of the animals to any known carcinogens in the captive environment.
Although the majority of neoplasms are seen in older animals, rhabdomyosarcomas occur most often in children (Ellison & Parham 2006) and younger animals (Van Vleet & Valentine 2006). Since tortoises only reach sexual maturity between 15 and 20 years of age (Raphael 2003), this 4-year-old tortoise is undoubtedly a juvenile. Moreover, its small size confirms that it is a young tortoise.
Rhabdomyosarcomas (RMS) in humans are often classified, based on histopathological features, as embryonal RMS (with botryoid RMS as a variant), alveolar RMS, and pleomorphic RMS. Embryonal rhabdomyosarcomas occur mostly in the head and neck regions of young animals, and the histological features include primitive cells that may be round, myoblastic, or myotubular ('strap cells'), with bi- or multinucleation; the tumour can, however, be composed of all these different cell types (Van Vleet & Valentine 2006). The age-old criterion for confirmation of a diagnosis is the identification of cross striations in tumour cells. Nevertheless, many confirmed rhabdomyosarcomas lack demonstrable cross striations (Cooper & Valentine 2002).
Tumours are rare in tortoises. This is a case of rhabdomyosarcoma, whose confirmatory diagnosis was based on the presence of cross striations, which to the knowledge of the authors is the first documentation of the tumour in a tortoise.
Competing interests]]> The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationship(s) which may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this paper.
Authors' contributions
O.D.E. (University of Ibadan) was the surgeon, R.E.A. (University of Ibadan) was the chief pathologist who interpreted the slides from the processed tumour tissue, C.O.O. (University of Ibadan) was the anaesthetist; O.O.A. (Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ibadan) was the referring clinician, O.O.A. (Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Ibadan) and J.O.O. (University of Ibadan) were the supporting pathologists who processed the tumour tissues, O.D.E. (University of Ibadan) wrote the manuscript and C.O.O. (University of Ibadan) is the corresponding author.
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Correspondence to:
Cecilia Oguntoye
Department of Veterinary Surgery and Reproduction
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Received: 15 May 2012
Accepted: 13 Oct. 2012
Published: 30 Nov. 2012


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My mother is currently in recovery and my sister has taken over caring for her. I will not be missing any work days this week.
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2008 Modern Drummer Festival With Web Coverage
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Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has spoken candidly about his battle to piece his life back together in the aftermath of his drug addiction, admitting, "I lost everything."
The singer has endured numerous stints in rehab over the years, and most recently sought treatment in 2009 to address his dependence on painkillers.
Tyler has now opened up about his struggles in a new interview on "The Dr. Oz Show," insisting drugs ruined his life.
He says, "My sobriety cost me nothing less than everything. I lost everything. It's serious. It's serious when you lose your kids, your children, your wife, your band, your job and you'll never understand why because you're an addict. You can't figure that out…
"Two of them (my children) never saw me high until about seven years ago. I had a bunch of operations and simply didn't follow my program, and I kept the drugs by the side of my bed so I just did more instead of doing what was prescribed. Remember I'm a very good drug addict because I've done it for so many years."
Tyler's last battle with drugs was triggered by a stage fall in 2009, which prompted the band to cancel a number of tour dates, and his future with Aerosmith was subsequently cast into doubt as he briefly walked away from group.