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San Francisco Bay Area bibliophiles are riled up that their beloved Goodreads book recommendation website will be taken over by Amazon, whom they blame for laying siege to brick-and-mortar bookstores.
Their Twitter and Facebook accounts continue to fill up with outraged comments from fellow book lovers, who are joining best-selling writers and the Authors Guild in condemning last week's announcement that Amazon will take over San Francisco-based Goodreads for an undisclosed price.
"I'm anti-Amazon in general," said Maria Roden, 53, of Orinda.
Roden loves the community of bibliophiles she's found on Goodreads and appreciates the recommendations she receives for good fiction. But Roden also gets a chill when she thinks about the possibility that Amazon will track the kinds of books she likes and push her to buy even more.
On Goodreads, Roden said, "you can talk about books without someone trying to sell you something, so I don't like the concept of Amazon buying it. I heard about it and thought, 'Here goes Amazon again.'"
Certainly, some Goodreads followers are hoping for the best.
Alana Becker, 24, of Berkeley, reads at least three books a month on her Kindle, stays active on Goodreads and expects that the upcoming Amazon/Goodreads marriage will lead her to buy even more books through Amazon.
"It's inevitable," Becker said. "Others are concerned about privacy issues or data that Amazon can exploit. But I'm excited about the acquisition. Best case scenario, I finish a book on Kindle, and Goodreads updates that I've finished reading it and I'll be able to track what I've read without having to do much effort. Hopefully it'll be good."
But such optimistic views are being countered by thechorus of protest.
"It's scary," said Ann Seaton, the manager of the independent bookseller Hicklebees, in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose. "The stranglehold that any one player gets on a community is ultimately bad for everybody."


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- Sep 17:
- Wine Tasting Itinerary: Marcia Gagliardi, the Tablehopper
- Wine Tasting Itinerary: Andrea Stark, former Ritz-Carlton concierge
- Wine Tasting Itinerary: Chef Sean Baker, Gather
- Wine Tasting Itinerary: Niki Ford, Montalvo Arts Center
- Wine Tasting Itinerary: Winemaker Nathan Castillo
- Wine Tasting Itinerary: Victor Klee, Vino Vino San Jose
It's hard to choose a wine tasting itinerary when there are more than 70 wineries and vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA. So we turned to six chefs, sommeliers and wine mavens, for help -- and we took a page from food writer Marcia Gagliardi, whose "Tablehopper's Guide to Dining and Drinking in San Francisco" (Ten Speed Press, 2010) is inspired by the concept that different occasions warrant different recommendations.
Gagliardi suggested an itinerary for a perfect day in the vineyards with a wine-loving beau or group of girlfriends, for example, while Andrea Stark offered the wine tasting itinerary she used to recommend to bridal parties when she was head concierge at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay. And 24-year-old winemaker Nathan Castillo suggested a lineup of small, quirky wineries he would visit with a pair of sommelier buddies.
With six wine day itineraries in all, there's something here to suit every taste. Salut!

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On the front page of the Devils Lake Journal for Wednesday, August 6 you will find what's "Coming in print," what's only found on our website today and a whole lot more.
Coming in print: What's happening around the Lake Region?
On the web: New blog posts from bloggers
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A familiar Kirkwood venue has been renovated and renamed.
7800 at Kirkwood will feature live music on Friday nights and DJs on Saturday nights. It also is a restaurant with breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night bar menus. The venue has had various names, probably the best known being the Tower Bar. It is the first street after the General Store and Red Cliffs Day Lodge. From the slopes, it is accessed by Chair. 1.
The new owner is former Oakland resident David Thoms.
"I've been coming to Kirkwood for four or five years as a customer," Thoms said. "I love Kirkwood, the terrain and the fact that it has more snow than anywhere else. I saw this as an opportunity and ran with it."
A grand opening at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, features DJ Keenan. The resort opens Friday.
Thoms said there will be eight beers on tap and food will be delivered throughout Kirkwood. Pete's Coffee is served.
"I think this place has a lot of potential," he said.
A press release stated there will be apres ski specials and weekly features and promotions. There is a pool table in a separate room and your favorite sporting events will be shown on three 47-inch LED video screens. The Bar came from the Bay area from the 1850s piece by piece and re-assembled.


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I like this software very much. I'm using v1.20.409 with my Panasonic GW20 using a specific config file. Results are great! Only thing I'm missing is conversion from other image file types (especially .TIF) to .JPG.
I think this is relevant for several non-PS3-renderers like Sony Bravia since they don't provide native support for .TIF files.
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'Rosie O'Donnell has revealed how her trips to trace her roots in Ireland changed the way she looked at life. She took part in an NBC series 'Who Do You Think You Are' tracing those roots and it had a profound impact, she told Irish Voice.
"Doing that show really did change my life in a huge way because I really did identify as being Irish. Both my parents are Irish. It was a huge part of my identity. We all have Claddagh rings; my mother had one as her wedding ring," she says.
O'Donnell adds that her oldest brother, Eddie, has always been very connected to all of parts of their late mother's family; she passed away from breast cancer in 1973 when Rosie was 10, which, at the time they still knew comparatively little about.
"When they asked me (to go to Ireland) I asked them if I could bring my brother? I wanted to get closer to him. We're a family that had no mom and had a dad that was stoic and typically Irish in that he was disconnected," O'Donnell says.
"The five of us were like the hands of a fist. There wasn't a lot of I love you's growing up. You know, typically Irish, right?
"I wanted to get to that with my brother and we did. When we got off the plane at Kennedy he said, 'I love you,' and I said, 'I love you too Eddie.' Those were the words that were never really heard in my house growing up, but they're heard daily with my children and myself. But with my siblings it's still difficult.
"That show really broke the ice in a lot of ways, and I'm very grateful to producer Lisa Kudrow and to all the amazing people I met in Ireland. Actually I'm going to go and spend time in the holidays there with my little kids this year."
The thing that broke her heart was how deeply the trip had resonated with her own children.
"You know what was really fascinating? My children are all adopted. And when I came home and told them the story they took it as their own.
"They were saying, 'So you mean my great, great grandfather was in the poor house?' And I was like, 'Yes honey, he was.' I got all choked up. They asked, 'Could we go and see that place Mom?' So we're going over to Ireland for the holidays this year."
"I do think that Irish part of me is very true. You call it like you see it, and in our family you were allowed to talk about things that were very emotional as long as you were funny, if you made a joke about it, but lord knows you couldn't just bring up a feeling," she laughs.
In Who Do You Think You Are?, the NBC show that traces the family roots of famous people, These days O'Donnell finds herself more interested in being a good mother or using her fame as a springboard for doing something worthwhile.
"When I was in my thirties it blew my mind that I could know people like Tom Cruise and Barbra Streisand," O'Donnell tells the Irish Voice from the Oprah Winfrey studios in Chicago, "but now I'm 50 and my perspective has completely changed."
On Monday, after an absence of almost 10 years, O'Donnell returned to television with her own show on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), and critics are expecting another massive ratings hit for the 12 time Emmy winner.
"When I started as a talk show host I was 33 years old," O'Donnell confesses. "I was fascinated by celebrity and pop culture. Just to casually know and befriend people like Barbra Streisand or Tom Cruise was intoxicating.
"But now at 50 I've lived in show business for more than half my life and I have a different take on it. I have a different perspective on what's important and what I value and what I'd like to show to the American public, and also what the American public is hungry for."
With the advent of the Internet, O'Donnell thinks we're oversaturated with celebrities now. She still enjoys interviewing them, but she wants to offer alternatives too.
"I think we want some more of the gritty underbelly rather than the polished veneer, and that's what we're going for with this show. It'll be in the style of Dick Cavett or Charlie Rose with humor rather than just slapstick. I did that once and I'm ready for something else," she says.
The timing was fortuitous because just as O'Donnell was getting ready jump back into broadcasting, the woman whose career rewrote the book on chat show hosting was concluding hers -- Oprah Winfrey.
When Winfrey heard that O'Donnell was contemplating a return to television she did what any smart CEO would do -- she made a pitch herself.
"She flew to my house and we had a four hour conversation, and at the end of it she asked, 'Why is it you would rather do The Rosie Show for me?' than for the network I was about to sign on with.
"And I replied, 'Because you're you.' I think she doesn't quite get the effect she had on most of the country.


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I think you have a great program here and I'm really wanting to use it but I'm having issues with A/V getting out of sync as a play a video. About 30 minutes into the video it starts to get noticeably out of sync.
I've read on here that unchecking the "A/V Sync Alternative Method" can fix some sync issues, however when I do this mencoder immediately crashes and reports a "tried to divide by zero" error. Rechecking the box is the only way to get mencoder/mencoder_ts to stop crashing.
I'm running on a new Macbook Pro 2.53Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix these sync issues please let me know. If I should include a log file that's fine too but I don't know how much help it could possibly provide.


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March 29, 2013
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A killing 300 miles away doesn't usually reverberate in the Bay Area. But when the victim was a priest as convivial -- and still as local -- as Father Eric Freed, the news hit hard.
Freed was a Japanese scholar, a die-hard USC fan who said Mass for Stanford's Catholic football players, a translator of haiku, a cleric who preached with film, and most of all, a kind man.
None of his friends knows exactly what happened on New Year's Day at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Eureka, the church Freed served. The cops arrested Gary Lee Bullock, 43, in the killing.
Freed, 56, was beaten to death in the rectory of the church. Police said there were signs of a struggle and forced entry. Picked up earlier on New Year's Eve day on public intoxication charges, Bullock had been seen around the church that night.
When word filtered back to the Bay Area, the shock spread wide. From 2003 to 2006, Freed taught religion and served as the chaplain at St. Francis High School in Mountain View. He said Masses for the Japanese community.
"As a priest, he was remarkably available and accessible," said Patricia Tennant, the St. Francis principal. "He was very, very popular on campus."
Spoke Italian
A Southern California native who attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Freed went on to study in Italy, where he learned to speak Italian.
A member of the order of Salesians of Don Bosco, he spent two decades in Japan, where he taught high school and developed a deep kinship with the Japanese culture.
More than a decade ago, he met Hiroshi Takanashi, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. He helped her translate her book of haiku, "The Experience of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima in Poem."
"He loved the Japanese people," said Tennant. "He felt that there was a story to be told, one that hadn't been told."
It went further: Freed taught his students at St. Francis the Japanese custom of standing up when a visiting teacher entered the room. His phone answered first in Japanese and then in English.
Kept up ties
Trying to get back into diocesan work, Freed taught at St. Vincent de Paul High School in Petaluma, and then, beginning in 2007, at Humboldt State University. He returned to St. Francis regularly to help with the school's retreat. Last October, he even taught a class in calligraphy, a favorite topic.
So what happened? Why did such a well-liked man become a victim of such an ugly and brutal crime?
Deputies say they had arrested Bullock in Garberville, 70 miles south of Eureka, earlier on Dec. 31. After wrestling with deputies at the hospital, he was booked into jail and -- no longer drunk -- discharged at 12:43 a.m.
A couple of hours later, he was spotted near the church, and police referred him to a homeless shelter. Still later, a guard at Freed's church told a man matching Bullock's description to leave the premises.
An autopsy was scheduled for Saturday. But if you examine people who knew Freed, you'd find the results are already in. And they're unmistakable: a transection of grief.
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Frankie is still missing in Savannah. He was last seen in the downtown area not far from Forsyth Park. His leash & collar was still on him.
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First set starts off with a strange My Sweet One with a long intro suggesting there were sound or monitor problems, or some type of last second adjustments. I think that's what prompted the language signals. Reba is really nice. ATR is pretty good right into a rocking Sloth. Not sure what they are trying to tease/learn during the Possum intro. It's Ice has a blown last chorus, sounded like Trey got anxious going into the final change. Dinner sounded pretty good until it got cut off before the ohh and ahh middle part. Tape flip maybe? Bouncing is completely cut. We pick it up again in Buried Alive. Uncle Pen sounds a little unsure at times. Sounds like a false Bowie intro before Horn. Horn is ok. Not sure again what they are teasing in the Bowie intro. Pretty good Bowie closer.
Second set is surprisingly a clearer soundboard mix starting off with Misty Mountain Hop teases from Trey and Mike. Page says something about a hand blown glass Phish bowl? Pretty good Gin although Mike has some sloppy moments. The begining of YEM has some sloppy Trey moments. Maybe they did confirm their Summer Tour with Santana as Trey teases Oye Como Va again. The YEM vocal jam contained weird phrases like "God damn Pearl Jam!" Guelah is pretty good. Chalkdust is good until it also gets cut off. Second tape flip? Pick it up during Cold as Ice into a good Terrapin. Fish uses the vacuum to sing the last verse, and then his segment ends with, what is becoming a trend, a HYHU. Rocking back end with Poor Heart, Llama and a good Cavern closer.
Not sure if they paused longer or not but, the bootleg has Trey saying thanks right away and going into an ok Jim encore.
Just a really average show for me. Nothing too special, a little too loose.


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As near as retired Army Gen. Ron Lowe can figure it, his work ethic took root on his grandparents' Missouri farm.
"Missouri farm families were hardworking families," said Lowe, 70, who was born in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri, grew up in Santa Cruz and now lives in Danville. "Even though we moved away when I was 3, I spent most of my summers when I was young back on their farm. I was involved in baling hay, tending to livestock. They made their own soap. Sunup, sundown, working in the fields."
Lowe is currently involved with five organizations, including East Bay Stand Down, a four-day biannual event that assists homeless veterans and will take place in September. Lowe is its new executive board chairman, replacing Denver Mills, who founded East Bay Stand Down in 1999.
"It's very fulfilling to be involved in all those things," said Lowe, who has three sons, two of whom live out of state. "It's not so overwhelming that I can't have a life and enjoy my retirement."
Lowe's affinity for diligent and meaningful work has served him, his country, his employers and his communities well.
He was captain of his high school football team, an all-conference guard at 180 pounds. He attended San Jose State, where he joined the ROTC program. He earned a business degree, then headed for Fort Benning, Ga., and U.S. Army basic training.
Within a year, he was a company commander responsible for a 3-kilometer stretch of the border between East and West Germany at the height of the Cold War.
"I remember wondering how in the world with my 27 vehicles and 200 guys I was going to keep the hordes of East Germans and Russians from invading West Germany," he said, laughing. His next assignment was as an adviser in Vietnam, where "they needed captains. So after two years in the Army, I was a captain."
Unhappy with the way Vietnam veterans were treated on their return to the United States, Lowe separated from the Army in 1970. He accepted a job at what was then Pacific Telephone. But after a couple of years, he missed the military. So he joined an Army Reserve unit and for the next quarter-century pursued dual careers -- at the phone company and in the Army Reserves.
"To be successful in the Reserves, you need two things," said Lowe, who received assignments to the Pentagon and South Korea and became accustomed to working weekends and taking red-eye flights in order to serve both careers. "If you've got a spouse, you need a supportive spouse. You also need a supportive employer. I had a very supportive wife."
It was at the phone company that Michael Slattengren met Lowe.
"He was one of the best managers I worked for," said Slattengren, also a Vietnam veteran. "I've never been in Ron's house, but I'd like to see how he has his desk organized. He's got a lot of things on his plate and does everything well."
Lowe retired from the phone company in 2000, about the time the Army placed him back on active duty and sent him to Hawaii. There, he was chief of staff for the United States Pacific Command, which is responsible for all U.S. forces in the Pacific theater. He and his wife, Lindsay, returned to Danville for good in 2004. If you didn't ask him, you'd never know he rose to the rank of two-star general.
"He's just a very humble person," Slattengren said.
After returning home, Lowe began volunteering for every veterans-related cause he could find.
Mike Conklin, founder and CEO of Sentinels of Freedom, a San Ramon-based nonprofit that helps severely wounded combat veterans, was the first to stoke Lowe's passion for volunteerism.
"We had an opportunity to go national," said Conklin, who needed to assemble a board of directors. "He's the first guy I thought about."
Conklin quickly discovered that Lowe "pretty much knows everybody everywhere. He said, 'Let me make some calls.' The next thing I know we're at Walter Reed Hospital, and the doors are flying open. They realized we were for real."
Lowe didn't stop there. He asked his contacts at the phone company to interview Manuel Mendoza, the first soldier helped by Sentinels of Freedom. Mendoza lost both legs in an IED explosion in Iraq. He had no college degree. He was hired and has been on the job for eight years.
"I don't think there is one person in our community or maybe in the state who is involved in so many things on a local basis to support the military and our veterans," Conklin said of Lowe.
He's also a stickler. While he was chief financial officer of Sentinels of Freedom, Lowe was in charge of verifying receipts. One day Conklin went to Office Depot and bought several hundred dollars of office supplies.
"Ron walks in and says, 'This Office Depot receipt, there's a $1.57 charge for a candy bar. We don't buy candy bars. I need $1.57.' I said, 'OK, here's two bucks.' He said, 'No, we don't do cash. You have to write a check.' That's how thorough and detailed he is. I had to stand back and say, 'He's right.' "
Contact Gary Peterson at 925-952-5053. Follow him at Twitter.com/garyscribe.


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Contributed middleware
See the middleware documentation on how to enable and write your own middleware. This page collects middleware written by people in the community.
Advanced Locale from URL middleware by Jonathan Schemoul
Replace the standard locale middleware with this one (or just use the two at the same time) to be able to set the language from the url. For example /fr/article/... shows you the article in French, and /en/article/... shows it in English. This version of the Locale from URL Middleware also sets a cookie and a request var whenever you go to a webpage that has a language set in it's url, so that it serves you the correct version when you go to a page that doesn't have any language code in it's url.
BlockingMiddleware by Joe Heck
Another take on blocking a site, developed to display a splash page and only provide access to those with a passcode, registered users or not (specifically for a beta - where we wanted to enable authenticated users)
ClosedSiteMiddleware by rezzrovv
Closes a site to only authenticated users.
CsrfMiddleware by Luke Plant
Plug-in protection against Cross Site Request Forgery attacks. Note: CsrfMiddleware was added to trunk in [2868] (see #510) and now has official documentation.
MultiHost Middleware by Fredrik Lundh
Lets you serve multiple distinct host names from a single Django instance, by switching between different URL configurations on the fly.
Page Stats Middleware by David Avraamides
Display performance metrics measured during the generation of a page. Allows you to display total time, python time, database time, and number of queries for the rendered page.
StripWhitespaceMiddleware by Doug Van Horn
Removes extra whitespace from response content. It's kind of nice for removing extra line breaks, but it also removes leading spaces. Probably not too important for most of us, but for the bandwidth conscious it might be helpful. If you would like to keep your indentions intact, then use '\s*\n+' as the regular expression string instead of '\s*\n+\s*'.
Unfortunately, if you are returning any kind of binary, they get stripped too. So, to account for that scenario Nebojša Đorđević suggested the following:
if 'text/html' not in response.headers.get('Content-Type', '').lower(): return response
Placed at the beginning of process_response, this will shortcut the middleware for anything not HTML.
Other problems may occur when using this Middleware, such as stripping off meaningful whitespace from Javascript and meaningful whitespace from pre-tags (courtesy of Ian Holsman). So, this middleware should be considered experimental at best.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to edit or remove the attached file, otherwise I might've just done that and slinked away in shame. :-)
SignedCookiesMiddleware by Marty Alchin
Transparently signs, validates and unsigns cookies, ensuring a higher level of cookie security.
TemplateDirsHacker by Sune Kirkeby
Munges settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS for each request. Useful if you want the admin-pages on the same virtual-host as your main site, and you have template-names which clash with the admin-templates. (This is no longer needed, since the admin-templates now live in a namespace of their own).
URL Middleware by Stefano J. Attardi
Cleans up urls by adding/removing trailing slashes, adding/removing the www. prefix, and allowing the language to be set from the url.
If APPEND_SLASH is set to False, trailing slashes are removed from the urls, except for urls which have an explicit trailing slash in urls.py, in which case a trailing slash is added.
If REMOVE_WWW is set to True, the www. prefix is removed.
Finally, ?lang=xx can be appended to any url to override the default language setting. This override is remembered for the following requests. For example, /article?lang=it would show the article in Italian regardless of brower settings or cookies, and any following request to the site would be shown in Italian by default.
Require Login Middleware by Jared Kuolt
(url broken for this middleware ?)
Require Login middleware. If enabled, each Django-powered page will require authentication. If an anonymous user requests a page, he/she is redirected to the login page set by REQUIRE_LOGIN_PATH or /accounts/login/ by default.
SSL Middleware by Antonio Cavedoni
Introduces a new setting, HTTPS_PATHS, which is a tuple of paths that should be treated as HTTPS-only. The middleware will redirect HTTP requests for paths starting with these values to their HTTPS counterpart. On the other hand, all HTTPS requests with paths starting with strings not in that tuple will be redirected back to their HTTP counterpart.
SSL Middleware by Stephen Zabel
Addresses the same SSL issue as (and is inspired by) Antonio's SSL Middleware. However, this package is invoked through adding a 'SSL':True to the view_kwargs in a urls.py file. This approach allows you to secure admin and generic views without needing to wrap or modify them, adheres to the DRY principal and allows you to control the security at the application level rather than at project level.
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Marietta resident Barb Moberg, 61, has always known she did not want a traditional funeral.
"I'm not a big believer in big, huge, fancy caskets. I'm kind of a naturalist," she said.
So it seemed like a fitting decision that Moberg and her husband, Jack, 65, made the decision about five years ago to donate their bodies to the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine for the furtherance of science.
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In the cadaver lab at Washington State Community College Friday, Laboratory Health and Safety Coordinator Paula Johnson preps one of the cadavers for students who will soon be using it as a learning tool. Donating their body to science is an option that several local residents have chosen, citing the educational and financial benefits of the process.
Full body donation is a choice many local residents are making for reasons ranging from wanting to benefit others to financial advantages. Seven different collegiate facilities in Ohio and the Cleveland Clinic accept body donations, which are then used for medical research and student education throughout the state, including locally at Marietta College and Washington State Community College.
When Marjorie Becker's husband passed away in December, the plans had long been in place for his body to be donated to OU-HCOM.
"He made out his papers nine years ago. He wasn't in the best of health," said Becker, 68, of Marietta.
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At first Becker, used to the traditions that go hand in hand with a funeral service, was not in favor of the decision. However, the more she thought about it, the more she became convinced that it was the best decision he could have made.
"He was in the military and he kind of had a rough time there for a while. I guess he just thinks if can help someone, that's what he wanted to do," said Becker.
Becker's reservations are not uncommon. Some typical arguments against body donations include that it's disrespectful to the body, that family members may not agree or cooperate and that it robs loved ones of traditional mourning and closure.
The donated bodies are an invaluable tool to students, said Paula Johnson, laboratory and health and safety coordinator at Washington State.
"We consider it one of our greatest benefits here for students," said Johnson, who oversees the college's cadaver lab, which has been in existence for 10 years.
Students in the college's nursing, respiratory therapy, physical therapy assistant, radiology and massage therapy programs all use the bodies as learning tools.
"I always say that you can't massage a muscle you don't know and you can't x-ray a bone you don't know," Johnson added.
WSCC typically keeps two bodies, one male and one female, on hand. The bodies are leased through the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine's Anatomical Gift Program, and are typically used for a year before being returned, said Johnson.
"This is realistic preparation for the field. They learn so much about what happens to the body through the aging process," she said.
Along with helping students learn, donated bodies have led to advances in research in the areas of heart disease, diabetes, HIV, joint replacements, cancer, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's and more.
Requirements and procedures for body donation programs differ.
At OU-HCOM, as in most programs, they can not accept people who are known to have an infectious disease such as hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, or syphilis. There is also a body mass index requirement, said Don Kincaid, director of the program.
Kincaid declined to elaborate on the specifics of OU-HCOM's BMI requirement.
"What we encourage people to do if they are interested is to contact my office. And we go over all of the specifics with them," he said.
The Cleveland Clinic's Body Donation Program does not accept bodies with a BMI above 40, according to its website.
For example, a person who is five feet, six inches tall and weights 248 pounds has a body mass index of 40.
Interest in the Ohio University program has been steadily increasing, with OU-HCOM averaging about 20 people a month signing up to be a whole body donor over the past year.
"We get a lot of inquiries from the Marietta area as well," said Kincaid, citing the OU-HCOM's proximity as a likely reason.
Many programs, such as OU-HCOM's, the Ohio State College of Medicine's and Wright State's, generally do not accept body donations from individuals who also choose to be organ donors, said Johnson.
However, the Cleveland Clinic's program does accept bodies whose organs have been donated elsewhere or bodies who have undergone an autopsy.
Some programs, such as OSU's, charge a fee whether for the transportation of the body or for the embalming process.
OC-HCOM's program does not charge a fee. In fact, they retrieve the body within hours of notification of the death, cover the cost of embalming the body, and after the body has been used a medical tool, they pay to have the body cremated and returned to the family, said Kincaid.
OU is also one of the few programs to allow family members to embalm the body locally and hold a memorial service with the body present before they retrieve it.
Marietta resident Linda McKenzie, 59, went through the process with both of her parents. When her mother passed away 10 years ago, OC-HCOM handled the situation so professionally that Linda, and her husband Bryan, also decided to become donors.
"It was easy. Actually I think the hospice nurse took care of it," said Bryan.
The main reason the McKenzies chose body donation was in hopes that something can be learned from their donations.
"You never know what they may find, using your body as a learning tool," said Bryan.
Additionally, OC-HCOM's program does away with any financial burden on your family, he added.
That same positive experience with OC-HCOM's Body Donor Program also left an impact on the Mobergs. Both of Jack's parents donated their body to the college.
"It went very smoothly and respectfully," said Jack Moberg, who added that both times the bodies were retrieved by the college within an hour and a half of notification.
If Jack does have one small regret, it is that they did not have a local service when his mother passed away in 2009.
However, it was a memorial service later that year at OU that finally struck Barb with the impact of what her donation would mean.
At the end of each school year, OU-HCOM holds a memorial service to express their gratitude for those individuals who had passed away within the previous year and donated their bodies to the Ohio University Body Donor Program, she said.
"What struck me, it was very reverent," said Barb.
Many of the medical students from Ohio University were in attendance, dressed in their white lab coats.
"The medical students talked to us afterward. There was a young man from Marietta there, and he just said 'Thank you so much.' They were very thankful that family members had donated bodies," she said.


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Partners Launch Patio850, A New Take on a Familiar Lakeland Wine Bar Location
Published: Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 11:59 p.m.
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LAKELAND | Several principals in Lakeland's La Porta Rossa restaurant will soon debut Patio850, a wine bar with food, song and bottles of grape to go.
Bruce Lyon and the chef, Patrick Rene Schaefer, have spruced up the former Red Door Wine Market at 850 S. Tennessee Ave., situated in the South Lake Morton neighborhood. Plans call for a grand opening within a week or so.
"This is all about building a sense of community, having a drink, getting some food and socializing," Lyon said.
He, Schaefer and other partners opened La Porta Rossa, the former Mario's Italian Restaurant on Edgewood Drive, 18 months ago. The name of their establishment is Italian for "red door."
Richard DeAngelis, a former partner who helped open La Porta Rossa, left the group to concentrate on his own enterprise, The Red Door. DeAngelis closed his wine bar Oct. 15 and plans to relocate to 733 E. Palmetto St..
Patio850 adds yet another wine-centric venue to Lakeland's growing restaurant scene.
Tony Guinn, a former general manager and wine steward at the old Mario's Italian Restaurant, plans to open a loft-style, upscale wine bar with beer and limited food menu next door to Bay Street Bistro.
And Fresco's downtown has enjoyed success with the addition of wine, small-plate fare and a vast selection of craft beer.
In addition to wine and beer, Patio850 will offer free Wi-Fi and upscale snacks like salmon mousse, pates, cured meats, cheeses and candied bacon popcorn. A breakfast and lunch menu is in the works.
The chef, Frank Tyler, an alum of Armani's at Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, like Schaefer, will oversee the kitchen at Patio850, which has an expanded bar that seats 12. Gone are the stacks of wine, freeing up space for more tables.
"You'll actually have a place to sit and eat and not have your food in your lap," Schaefer said.
An adjacent house fronting South Tennessee Avenue will double as a retail store for wine and beer. The property also houses Lyon's business, Swan Development Advisors.
Can Lakeland sustain so many new wine establishments? Lyon believes it can.
"It's a metro area of 300,000 people," he said. "It can afford a few wine bars."
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Police and dogs searched Northwest Junior High School Wednesday in an unannounced check for drugs. Dr. Sam Thompson, head of security for the school system, said students were kept in the halls while the search was underway.
"Basically it was a drill for the drug dogs. We do this periodically," said Thompson. "As a matter of fact we do random searches with dogs but this morning was just a drill for the drug dogs. We were not actually looking for anything this morning. It was just drilling the dogs. Find anything? We did not."
Thompson described Wednesday's search as routine. Meridian police officers said the dogs indicated a presence of narcotics, but no actual drugs, other than tobacco. There were no arrests.
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Grew up playing on this course, so I thought I would give a quick course description.
Know as the Green Bridge course (because part of the park is located under a metal green bridge that runs over the river)
The course is 9 holes with two tee pads for each hole.
The amature tee pads are all around the 200-250 ft range and the pro holes are almost all at 350ft, with a couple of longer holes. The course is next to the river, so it does flood in the spring time. The course is well designed for the space avaliable, not a woods course but plenty of well placed trees. All the tee pads are cement and the park is maintained by the city. There are elevation changes and the river can come in to play on atleast a couple of the holes. Overall not a difficult course but one that can require a variety of shots.
If any one is near the area I would suggest checking it out (this course is much better that the Wartburg course that is also in town). If you need help finding it just ask someone how to find the green bridge.
This is still one of my favorite courses... although I guess I might be biased.


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More than 80 years ago, Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for best actress for her performances in three films, including "Street Angel," in which she played a prostitute.
In the years since, many actresses–including Helen Hayes, Donna Reed and Elizabeth Taylor–have followed in her footsteps, winning Oscars for playing prostitutes, or as the Hollywood production code dictated, women with loose morals.
This year the tradition continues: two actresses are up for awards for playing roles in the sex trade. Anne Hathaway is up for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Fantine in "Les Miserables," a mother forced into prostitution. And Helen Hunt is up for the same category for her portrayal of Cheryl, a sex surrogate who is hired by a polio survivor to help him lose his virginity, in "The Sessions."
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Hi. getting down to my last month of training before my second ever HM, and just when I thought my injuries were pretty much conquered... I am starting to feel really tired on my runs. I even had to walk the other day, I gave up at 7 miles, walked about 10 minutes and could only run one more mile.I had planned on 10 or 11!!! It was unseasonly HOT out that day , so I will factor that in, but man it was discouraging! Maybe I am panicking trying to get those few long runs in . (I have done 2 10-milers so far). My legs felt dead. Any advice or has this happened to anyone? Maybe i need more rest in between? shorter runs in between? I have 5 weeks i feel old and fat.
alohadreamer Stop being so hard on yourself. We ALL have runs like that.MORE THAN ONCE However they are the ones that make you mentally stronger. It could of been the heat, lack of hydration, the speed you were running, lack of proper fuel prior, etc etc. Don't sweat it. You already know that after completing one HM and having two 10 milers under your belt during this training your already ready to go. I would suggest on your next long run. Rest the day prior if possible. Be sure your fuel supply is good (whatever you have been doing) Use a Hammer gel pack, GU, Singer etc 15 minutes prior to your start. Instead of worrying about your speed. Concerate on covering the mileage. Run slow and hold back. If your not telling yourself your going to slow. THAN YOUR GOING TO FAST. Break your run in thirds. Ok I'll run 3.5 miles than I'm walking for 20 seconds (just like walking thru a water stop) repeat as needed. Remember your long runs are building your slow twitch muscles. It doesn't matter how fast your going. It's time on your feet that you need. Try to stay around 70% max HR. You can use your last two weeks to work on your pace as your mileage decreases.
In regards to feeling fat & old. Someone fitting that description passed me in Jan at the Disney HM at mile10 as I was on my way to a PR. Remember it's also a head game.
2012 Races: Tony from Florida
Jan.7,2012 Walt Disney World Half Marathon Orlando FL 02:09:14 PR
Oct 7 2012 Chicago Marathon Chicago Illinois 05:17:43
Feb 10, 2012 Rock N Roll Half Marathon St Petersburg FL
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Oct 31,2011 Fl Halloween Halfathron 02:18:22
Sept 4, 2011 Dodge Rock 'n' Roll Virgina Beach Half Marathon 02:28:20
April 30,2011 Country Music Half Marathon Nashville TN 02:56:02
I agree with Webpro, take a extra day of rest if you need. You are in the doldrums of your plan it will get better.
It is probably the heat. When it gets over 80 degrees things change. Run during the hottest time of the day and get used to it before it realy gets hot.
Thanks for the responses.I had a better run on a cooler day and generally better but still i am feeling so tired. could be mental I think. plus I am starting to psych myself out because I keep thinking how 3 more miles is alot when I can barely finish 10!!!!!!. I think I am in "the doldrums" of my training. But how does one escape them??/(I'm serious! Running has always been my anti-depressant!)..it is so much harder this time around. I definitely AM older and fatter and slower...but I think I am letting that get to me.I'm sucha head case!!!! Maybe I am making myself tired by all my doubts.I trained well up until this point despite setbacks, but my confidence seems to be fading.Thanks for the advice.
Not sure about how long you have been running, your gender or age, but I am a physical therapist with a teenage daughter who runs cross country and distance events in track and a few additional non-school events over the summer. This began happening to her during her 3rd cross country season with difficult recovery after each race and struggling through practices and races to maintain her same times from the seaon prior, even though she had worked much harder over the summer. This was worse during warmer weather. She continued to get more discouraged until I came across an article on iron deficiency, which is a precursor to anemia. This is not uncommon in endurance athletes, and especially females. It might be worth having yours checked out if this continues. They need to check your serum ferritin levels, not just hemoglobin levels. My daughter told me if this had continued all season she would not have wanted to run anymore. 5 weeks after starting her course of iron supplementation she ran her 4K PR of 15:04. Good luck.
Alohadreamer; Sounds like you have been training for this particular race a while. Have you tapered your long runs yet? And hydration is a very important part of your run. We live in Texas and last year we had many days over 100, the low being in the 80's when we were training for a HM. I learned quickly about hydrating, no matter what temp., you need to stay hydrated. Also, as far as feeling old and fat; I'm not fat, but I did my first Full Marathon, the Disney World Marathon, at age...60! I am not fast, my husband who is two years older is relatively fast, he is my coach and running partner. Never start feeling old and fat, you are out there doing it. If you feel the need the walk, that is your body telling you that you may need to recover, if only for a minute or less. I'm not an authority, I just do what works for me, and you will find what works for you. Good Luck on your Half.
Maybe it might not hurt to take a break. Let your body rest and recharge for a few days. See how you feel after taking 3-4 days off. It does wonders for me sometimes. Good luck in the HM!
It is ok alohadreamer, don't be too hard on yourself. I would suggest that on your next long run, have longer rest the day prior if possible. You are just too tired since you haven't got so much rest in the past days that triggered that feelinf. It's not bad to take a break sometimes.
Hi AlohaDreamer I don't know your running schedule or medical condition, and I don't want to sound alarmist or anything BUT it sounds like your body is telling you something. Its call heart disease. I had exactly the same symptoms, completely spent and fatugued, then I would recover. and then the same thing would happen again. Please, please go to your doctor and have a complete cardio tread mill test done, along with a complete medical check up before your next marathon. One in four has heart disease, even runners. Many times ther are no symptoms at all. I was lucky and am still running. Daytona Runner
wow "Linda", you are my hero!... I don't know if I would ever be able to commit to the training of a full marathon but if it takes me until 60 I would be thrilled to do one!!! (right now I will be lucky to make it thru the 1/2 !)I am ashamed to say I am 43 and i have this bad of an attitude!!! I do know from reading articles and also other runners that I have known that age "is just a number"; I am so impressed with people much older than me doing amazing things all the time. I just start psyching myself out easily thinking i am all washed up lol!!!! You are right I just need to keep going. 100 degrees??? lord I can't even conceive of that though! I was dying at 80! I have been having better runs but only 6-7 milers. a bit scared to tackle the 10-11. not sure if I will make the 12-13's.(going fora 9-10 tomorrow) I have exactly one month now and one week at least will be taper(not sure what the plan says).. I just have to HYDRATE better, REST more, and STOP THINKING NEGATIVELY! eventually the pounds should decrease but I think I better make sure I eat the right foods now and not worry about dieting until after! Thanks to all that have commented. I always appreciate it. I wish I wasn't sucha downer, it's my nature! makes me just want to plop on the couch and eat ice cream instead!!!!
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There were 59 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Sunday. At that time, there were 1,393 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Robbery: Police are looking for three males who robbed a 59-year-old man who had just left a bar at San Joaquin and Channel streets and was walking home early Sunday. The robbers stole a brown leather wallet, cash, identification and a blue mountain bike.
Robbery: Police arrested a male juvenile who they say punched and robbed a 13-year-old boy about 1:25 p.m. Sunday as he walked at Don Avenue and Saratoga Way.
Weapons arrest: Responding to a call, officers said they found the occupants of a car drinking and smoking marijuana at 10th and Phelps streets about 3:35 p.m. Saturday. A search revealed a loaded, concealed and stolen handgun, police said. Chris Spivey, 31, was arrested on weapons charges and is being held at the San Joaquin County Jail on $405,000 bail.
Shooting into a dwelling: A 49-year-old man was awakened just after midnight Sunday by the sound of gunfire and glass breaking. Officers found shell casings in the street in the 2200 block of East Lafayette Street, but they have no suspects or witnesses.
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Lawmakers Dispute Parts of Benghazi Article
Key members of the House intelligence committee said Sunday that classified documents show links between Al Qaeda and the militants involved in the 2012 attack on the diplomatic complex in Benghazi, Libya.
The New York Times this weekend published a lengthy article on the Benghazi attack that questioned the involvement of Al Qaeda in the incident, and said the violence was fueled "in large part by anger at" an anti-Islamic video, contrary to the claims of some members of Congress. "Months of investigation…turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault," in which four Americans died, the article said.
But Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich.), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, criticized the newspaper report on "Fox News Sunday," saying the Times reporters didn't have access to classified documents.
"There was some level of preplanning. We know that. There was aspiration to conduct an attack by Al Qaeda and their affiliates in Libya. We know that," Mr. Rogers said. "The individuals on the ground talked about a planned tactical movement on the compound even — this is the compound before they went to the annex."
Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the New York Times reached Sunday, said the newspaper "completely" stands by its report.
"Our story is based on extensive first-hand, on-the-ground reporting," she said.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), who also serves on the intelligence committee, was less critical of the New York Times report. Also appearing on Fox, he said while he agreed some of the militants were motivated by the anti-Islamic video, the intelligence indicates Al Qaeda was involved.
He said the intelligence included reports based on covert listening to conversations among people who said they were involved in the attack, though he acknowledged that some of those reports could be misleading because people "boast of things that they were not involved in for various purposes."
"I don't think it's either accurate to characterize this as a long-time preplanned core Al Qaeda operation or something completely unaffiliated," he said.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," also took issue with parts of the New York Times report, saying that the Al Qaeda affiliates involved in the Benghazi attack did take inspiration from the terror group's senior leadership.
"There is a group that was involved that claims an affiliation with Al Qaeda," said Mr. Issa, who leads the house government oversight committee. "Now, Al Qaeda's not a central command-and-control. It was, in fact, a loose group that could take general statements and act on them."
Mr. Issa also said there was no evidence the anti-Islamic video was "widely seen in Benghazi." The video, a movie trailer made in the U.S. and uploaded to YouTube, was widely seen as denigrating the prophet Muhammad and was initially cited by the Obama administration as a cause of violence in Egypt and Libya on Sept. 11, 2012.
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SAN JOSE -- He was considered too small. So was his high school. Even when Travis Johnson was named defensive line MVP at a summer camp for high school prospects, the big-time schools weren't interested in a 6-foot-1, 215-pound defensive end.
But San Jose State saw something in Johnson, and he delivered. Everyone else missed out on a player who:
Johnson achieved all that while helping to lead the Spartans to a 10-2 regular season -- their best record in 25 years.
"Places like this make a living on doing a good job of evaluating players, coaching them, making them bigger, faster, stronger," said Kent Baer, SJSU's defensive coordinator and acting head coach for Thursday's Military Bowl at Washington, D.C., against Bowling Green.
"Those kids can end up being better than a lot of those five-star players," Baer said. "He can play for anybody -- that's how good he is."
These are great days for Travis Johnson, 21-year-old San Jose native. He will marry his high school sweetheart, Hannah Denecour, on April 13. He is on schedule to graduate with a degree in kinesiology a month later. In the meantime, he hopes his name will be called in the NFL draft, April 25-27.
"Just give me a try," he said.
That's what Johnson wanted from college recruiters four years ago, but few came calling. At The King's Academy, a private school in Sunnyvale with 600 high school students, Johnson dominated.
"He had a crazy amount of sacks, an absurd number," recalled Brent Brennan, then SJSU's recruiting coordinator and now an assistant coach at Oregon State.
The total was 38 over his final two seasons.
But only San Jose State, UC Davis and Sacramento State made offers. "It was his size," said Ron Kellner, TKA's football coach at the time. "It was hard for them to understand ... 'Are you sure you're a defensive end?' "
What the Spartans saw was a smart, driven, versatile player whose potential exceeded his measurables. Asked what he would have told the recruiters who overlooked him, Johnson said: "That I would do anything they asked me to do. That I'm a worker."
He could already bench press 385 pounds and run a six-minute mile, Kellner said. And he played running back, rushing for more than 600 yards. "He had the ability to change direction -- that's really what it was for us," Brennan said. "It's awesome to see what a great player he's become."
Johnson grew to 6-2, 245 pounds and improved each season.
He talks about sacking a quarterback the way a power hitter describes hitting a home run. "It's the best feeling you can ever have," said Johnson, whose 12 sacks this season are just one fewer than the national leader.
Baer said Johnson has meshed natural ability with a willingness to learn his craft. "He's got a feel for it ... a knack," Baer said. "Understands leverage. Great get-off first step. Uses his hands extremely well."
He's also benefited from being coached by two former NFL stars -- in 2010 by ex-49er Bryant Young and the past two seasons by former Dallas Cowboy Jim Jeffcoat. In 29 NFL seasons, those two combined for 192 sacks.
Jeffcoat said Johnson is an underrated athlete with a great understanding of the game. He believes Johnson can once more overcome the doubters and play in the NFL, perhaps as an outside linebacker.
His best attribute as a pass rusher?
"His flexibility. When you're rushing quarterbacks, you're always on angles," Jeffcoat said. "It's leverage. It's not size, it's not speed. Pass rushers come in different sizes and different shapes, but the effective ones have the same flexibility and can turn corners, and he does a tremendous job of that."
Johnson said he's not surprised by his achievements because he expected to work harder than the next guy. But he knows he wasn't a sure thing, so success is satisfying.
"It's exciting," he said, "that the unknown was able to be achieved."
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A look at some of Travis Johnson's achievements this season:
Capital One Academic All-American
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Chile's miners have been called heroes. But with designer sunglasses, sexy love triangles, and vows to booze it up as soon as they go free, they may be the world's biggest badasses. Six badass moments from the rescue so far.
Mario Sepulveda: 'I'm Going to Drink A Lot'
Rescued miner #2, Mario Sepulveda ("Super Mario") gave Chile's president a bear hug and brought back rocks as souvenirs. Then he said, "I was with God and I was with the Devil, but God won. I'm very emotional. I'm going to have a drink. I'm going to drink a lot with my son Francisco, with my wife, and with my beautiful daughter who I love a lot." He then asked the world not to think of him as a celebrity, but to "continue treating me like Mario Sepulveda, worker, miner."
$450 Designer Sunglasses
As each miner emerges, blinking, back into the light of day, he must rock $450 Oakley sunglasses: After 68-69 days underground, the sunglasses are necessary to shield their eyes from UV rays. Oakley donated them—and is getting the equivalent of $41 million in advertising time, according to CNBC.
Yonni Barrios: A Mistress' Warm Embrace
The 21st rescued miner was Yonni Barrios, the group's de facto doctor. While awaiting rescue, his wife Marta Salinas overheard Susana Valenzuela "crying out her husband's name at a prayer vigil," prompting the revelation that Yonni had a mistress—and that he wanted her there when he came back above ground. Marta boycotted the rescue, and Yonni fell into Susana's warm embrace instead. This is really more jackass than badass, but we're glad someone stepped up to turn this into the soap opera the world so desperately craved. [Video via Gawker.TV]
Mustache Makeovers
To prepare them for their return to the surface, rescuers sent shaving cream and razors down in the supply capsule with the miners' daily rations. They knew they were going to be on TV, so most of the miners gave themselves clean shaves—but at least one miner got a little creative and gave himself a new mustache, which his sister thought very "handsome." [Image via AP]
Edison Pena: Going to Graceland
Miner #12, Edison Pena, led his fellow miners in Elvis Presley sing-a-longs to pass the time and keep morale high while awaiting rescue. A spokesman for Elvis Presley Enterprises has now invited Pena to "escape" to Graceland in Memphis to celebrate his escape from a mine 2000 feet underground. They've offered to put him up in a fancy hotel in downtown Memphis "whenever he feels up to it." [Image via AP]
Omar Reygadas: The Ultimate Sports Fan
A professional soccer player is still underground, but miner #17, Omar Reygadas, is the biggest soccer fan. He emerged from the mine with two things in his hands: the Bible and the flag of his favorite soccer team, which he waved triumphantly from his stretcher. [Image via AP]


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VIENNA - An event was held at Jackson Memorial Park Tuesday evening for community members to be introduced to the city's mayoral, recorder and council candidates.
The League of Women Voters of Wood County held a "Meet the Candidates" night at 7 p.m. at the Vienna Community Building. It was designed to introduce local voters to people running for office in the city of Vienna on Nov. 6.
The meeting was co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Wood County, the Mid-Ohio Valley Chapter of AARP and the Vienna Senior Citizens.
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Kathy Stoltz of the League of Women Voters speaks prior to the beginning of Vienna's 'Meet the Candidates" night at the Vienna Community Building.
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Vienna mayoral candidates Randy Rapp, left, and Jack Roush, right, listen to city council candidates during Tuesday's 'Meet the Candidates Night' at the Vienna Community Building. Council candidates Paul Thornton, back left, and Steve Stephens, back center, make notes prior to their turns to speak.
Vienna mayoral candidates are running as nonpartisan and did not go through a primary election.
City recorder Randy Rapp is running for mayor. Rapp said in his last eight years as recorder he has learned the responsibilities expected in the office of mayor. Rapp said he is looking forward to the election.
"Vienna's a great town," he said. "The parks are the nicest in the state. Vienna is the pride of the valley."
Rapp mentioned his work with the sewer project that will have a 20-year lifespan and pay for itself in 10 years.
Mayoral candidate Jack Roush, a businessman, explained why he wanted to run for mayor.
"It's time to give back for what everybody's given me," he said. "I'm your guy."
Roush said he was reading a book by Ohio Gov. John Kasich titled "Every Other Monday." He said the book talks about open doors and opportunities, which led to his decision to not only run for mayor but become a deacon at a Catholic church.
Cathy Smith is running for city recorder unopposed. She said she is proud to represent women on the council, where she is outnumbered by male participants.
"I'm looking forward to moving forward for the city of Vienna," she said.
Council candidates were Roger Conley, Roger Bibbee, Jim Asbury, Jack Heater, Paul Thornton, Steve Stephens, Dave Cyrus, Larry Godfrey, Jim Sims, Bruce Rogers, Mike Elam and Jim Miracle. Matthew Whited was unable to attend due to a work conflict.
Conley discussed his ideas about developing the small "industry park" Vienna has become. Conley discussed how he would focus on bringing in business, jobs and expansion.
There are five council seats and 13 people running for them. Four of the candidates are running for re-election. Bibbee, Thornton, Rogers and Miracle are all running to serve another four years as council members.
Asbury, a member of the Mid-Ohio Valley Transit Authority, said he is proud of the small community atmosphere in Vienna.
Heater said he is running with experience as a manager of an ambulance service. Heater said he would be accessible to voters if picked as a council candidate.
Former Vienna police Chief Steve Stephens said he is proud of the city's hard-working employees who have proven their loyalty to the city. He said he is running to help the city do an even better job.
Kathy Stoltz, with the League of Women Voters, said she was pleased with the turnout for the event.
"I'm really pleased," she said. "It's the biggest crowd we've had in years."
Stoltz said the 13 candidates running for the five seats may have gotten the voters curious. She said it is good for people to realize how important city council meetings and the council members are.
"I never knew governing could be this accessible," she said. "Anybody can stand up and voice a concern; go to your city council meeting."


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Faced with a digital challenger, toys need to change. The G.I. Joes and Barbies of yesteryear no longer capture children's imaginations the way an iPad or Xbox 360 do. For action figures and dolls to survive, they have to evolve.
Activision's "Skylanders" series pointed the way for that transition. The developer, Toys for Bob, concocted a title that wove the concept of figurines and gameplay together. The heroes in the game were the toys in players' hands, and kids could switch out characters by moving a figure off a portal and replacing it with another.
It's a brilliant concept that generated more than a billion dollars, but that just scratched the surface. Disney Interactive has blown the idea wide open with its latest game, "Disney Infinity." It's a project that gives players toys based on franchises such as "The Incredibles," "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Monsters University," and lets gamers interact with them in any way they see fit.
The first half of game is conventional. It requires a special play set piece that unlocks a four- to six-hour campaign based in a franchise's universe. For "The Incredibles," players can be a member of the superhero family, and they can fend off Syndrome's plot to take over the city.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" is more elaborate and features an enormous region to sail around. "Monsters University" offers a condensed open-world set between Fear Tech and Sulley and Mike's alma mater. The campaigns have their own personalities and play styles. "Pirates" is heavy on the swashbuckling and high-seas adventure, while "Monsters" is open-ended and reminiscent of Rockstar's "Bully."
The games in the Starter Pack are solid and have a consistent level of polish. They're comparable to the Lego titles by TT Games, the gold standard for family releases. But the play sets one-up their rivals in one aspect: Points and toy prizes earned during the campaign carry over to the Toy Box mode, which is where "Disney Infinity" and players' imaginations take off.
This is the core mode that lets the toys be toys. Players can team up Sulley with Mr. Incredible or Tonto with Capt. Jack Sparrow. It's in this sandbox where players can build their own levels or take the heroes on impromptu adventures. Thankfully, that's easy to do with the tools Avalanche Software provided.
Building stages is almost like putting together Legos with pieces that snap together and an interface that's clear and simple. Going beyond that, the more complicated features aren't difficult to learn. In five minutes, players can even build soccer fields with working goals that shoot fireworks. They can build enormous castles with ease or try to replicate Disneyland with earned pieces such as the Haunted Mansion. They can even use Power Discs (sold in packs) to give power-ups or new vehicles to characters.
It's just fun to build a world, explore it and experiment with the tools that players amass in the play sets. In other words, "Disney Infinity" takes the experience an older generation had of building forts for Optimus Prime or battling evil with He-Man and turns it into a cleaner, more familiar playground for a younger set. It still lets them use their imagination, but the tools at hand make the experience richer and more vivid.
And it's just the tip of the ice berg. Disney has decades of characters to offer and play sets to introduce. There's enough quality content to keep a generation of new fans at play.
Contact Gieson Cacho at 510-735-7076 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him at twitter.com/gcacho
'Disney Infinity'
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Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, PC
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Veliparib for Subjects With Solid Tumors
A Phase 1 Study to Evaluate the Safety, Pharmacokinetics and Oral Bioavailability of Veliparib in Subjects With Solid Tumors
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BRCA Mutated Breast Cancer
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This is a 3 part phase 1 study to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetic and oral bioavailability of veliparib in subjects with solid tumors.
Eligibility Criteria (must meet the following to participate in this study)
- Part 1 and 2: Histologically or cytologically confirmed malignancy that is metastatic or unresectable and for which standard curative measures or other therapy that may provide clinical benefit do not exist or are no longer effective. Subjects must also 1) have a documented BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation that is considered to be deleterious by the investigator, OR 2) have high grade serous ovarian, fallopian tube, or peritoneal cancer. Part 3: Histologically or cytologically confirmed breast or ovarian cancer that is metastatic or unresectable and for which standard curative measures or other therapy that may provide clinical benefit do not exist or are no longer effective. Platinum-resistant ovarian cancer is not permitted. Subjects must also 1) have a documented BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation that is considered to be deleterious by the investigator and 2) have received 3 or fewer regimens of cytotoxic chemotherapy in the metastatic setting.
- Subject must be at least 18 years of age.
- Completion of last anti-cancer therapy must be at least 28 days prior to study drug administration.
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance score of 0 to 2.
- Subject must have adequate hematologic, renal and hepatic function as follows:
- Bone Marrow: Absolute neutrophil count ANC ≥ 1,500/mm3 (1.5 × 109/L); Platelets ≥ 100,000/mm3 (100 × 109/L); Hemoglobin ≥ 9.5 g/dL (1.4 mmol/L). Subjects with hemoglobin ≥ 9.5 g/dL (1.4 mmol/L) following transfusion are eligible;
- Renal function: A calculated creatinine clearance value of ≥ 50 mL/min as determined by the Cockcroft Gault formula or a creatinine clearance value of ≥ 50 mL/min based on a 24-hour urine collection;
- Hepatic function: AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 × the upper normal limit of institution's normal range. For subjects with liver metastases, AST and ALT ≤ 5 × the upper normal limit of institution's normal range;
- Bilirubin: → 1.5 × the upper normal limit of institution's normal range.
- Women of childbearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception prior to the study entry, for the duration of study participation and up to 3 months following completion of therapy. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within 7 days prior to initiation of treatment and/or post menopausal women must be amenorrheic for at least 12 months to be considered of non-childbearing potential.
- total abstinence from sexual intercourse as the preferred life style of the subject; periodic abstinence is not acceptable;
- vasectomized partner(s);
- hormonal contraceptives (oral, parenteral or transdermal) for at least 3 months prior to study drug administration;
- intrauterine device (IUD);
- Male subjects (including those who are vasectomized) whose partners are pregnant or might be pregnant must agree to use condoms for the duration of the study and for 90 days following completion if therapy.
- Subject must be capable of understanding and complying with parameters as outlined in the protocol and able to sign informed consent, approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to the initiation of any screening or study specific procedures.
- Must voluntarily sign and date each informed consent, approved by an Independent Ethics Committee (IEC)/Institutional Review Board (IRB), prior to the initiation of any screening or study-specific procedures.
Exclusions (conditions that would prevent participation in this study)
- The subject must not have received anti-tumor radiotherapy, biologic therapy, chemotherapy, or immunotherapy within 28 days of the start of Day 1. The subject must not have received hormonal therapy for anti-tumor purposes within 1 week prior to the start of Cycle 1 Day 1.
- Subject must not have known untreated brain or meningeal metastases. CT scans are not required to rule out brain or meningeal metastases unless there is a clinical suspicion of central nervous system disease. Subjects with treated brain metastases that are radiographically or clinically stable for at least 4 weeks after therapy and have no evidence of cavitation or hemorrhage in the brain lesion(s) are eligible, provided that they are asymptomatic and do not require corticosteroids (must have discontinued steroids at least one week prior to study drug administration).
- Clinically significant and uncontrolled major medical condition(s) including but not limited to:
- Uncontrolled nausea/vomiting/diarrhea;
- Active uncontrolled infection;
- Symptomatic congestive heart failure;
- Unstable angina pectoris or cardiac arrhythmia;
- Psychiatric illness/social situation that would limit compliance with study requirements;
- Focal or generalized seizure within the last 12 months.
- Any medical condition, which in the opinion of the study investigator, places the subject at an unacceptably high risk for toxicities;
- Subject is pregnant or lactating.
- Subjects that have previously been treated with a veliparib.
- For Part 3, subject has ovarian cancer that was previously treated with platinum based chemotherapy resulting in progression free survival for < 6 months from the completion of treatment.
- For Part 3, subject has received 4 or more prior lines of cytotoxic chemotherapy for systemic disease.
- Subject who requires parenteral nutrition, tube feeding or has evidence of partial bowel obstruction or perforation within 28 days prior to study drug administration.
- The subject has had another active malignancy within the past 3 years except for any cancer in situ that the Principal Investigator considers to be cured. Questions regarding the inclusion of individual subject should be directed to the Medical Monitor.
- History of gastric surgery, vagotomy, bowel resection or any surgical procedure that might interfere with gastrointestinal motility, pH or absorption.
- Receipt of any investigational product within 6 weeks prior to study drug administration or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer.
- Current enrollment in another clinical study.
- Consideration by the investigator, for any reason, that the subject is an unsuitable candidate to receive veliparib.
Last UpdatedFebruary 23, 2015
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