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Thanksgiving must have been a little different this year at the Bailey household, considering that father and son were a day away from squaring off for the District 6 Class AA championship.
Brandon Bailey's undefeated and top-seeded Richland team topped his father's Forest Hills club, 27-0, Friday at Mansion Park for the Rams' first-ever district title.
"It feels great. I think the kids were feeling some of the pressure of the high expectations. You could see the sense of relief on their faces in the fourth quarter when they knew we were going to win it," Brandon Bailey said.
Though when asked about winning the championship at the expense of his father's team, his excitement tempered a bit.
"It's bittersweet. I feel bad for him and his kids. I know how hard they worked to get here," Brandon Bailey said. "I'm sure he's proud of me and what our kids have done here. We just had lunch [Friday], and there was a little awkward silence at times."
Richland entered the game averaging 40 points per game, but it was the Rams' defense that took center stage in the championship game.
With no score midway through the second quarter, the Rams defense stuffed Forest Hills on a 4th-and-1 play from their own 3 to keep the Rangers off the scoreboard.
The offense proceeded to drive the length of the field for a 6-0 with 3:21 left in the first half.
Tanner Solarczyk got Richland out of the shadow of its own goal post with a 33-yard run, and Matt Shaffer connected with Elijah Metzgar for 20 more yards on the next play.
Shaffer capped the drive with a 1-yard quarterback sneak.
"That was a big turning point, not getting the first down or the touchdown, and then they drove 97 yards for a touchdown," Don Bailey said. "They were simply better than us. If we had to lose to anybody, I'm glad it was to Brandon."
The defense made another big play on the Rangers' ensuing possession, forcing and recovering a fumble at the Forest Hills 26. Jacob Urban stripped Jared Shope, and Nico Pecora jumped on the loose ball.
Four plays later, Shaffer had Richland in end zone, hitting Linnie Joy over the middle for a 13-yard score with 16 seconds left in the half.
After a 2-for-7 start, Shaffer finished 11-of-18 passing for 171 yards and three touchdown passes.
He combined with Kyle Flick for a 32-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter, then sealed the win with a 12-yard scoring pass to Pecora.
The Rams defense stuffed Forest Hills running game and hounded quarterback Joe Donoughe the entire game. The Rangers managed just 11 yards rushing and 111 yards overall.
"They were using a 4-3 and a 5-2, and bringing the monster off the edge. Joe had to throw the ball before he wanted a lot," Don Bailey said. "They were too big and strong up front. When you shutout a team, 27-0, in the championship game, you have a pretty good team."
Richland advances to the PIAA quarterfinals for a meeting with the winner of today's Hickory-Wilmington contest. Forest Hills season ended at 9-4.
"I'm extremely proud of this group of kids," Don Bailey said. "We were 2-3 at one point and ended up in the district finals. With the kids we have coming back and the kids Brandon has coming back, we might make it back again. You never know what'll happen."
Score by quarters
Forest Hills0 0 0 0 - 0
Richland0 12 0 15 - 27
Second quarter
R-Shaffer 1 run (pass failed), 3:21.
R-Joy 13 pass from Shaffer (pass failed), :16.
Fourth quarter
R-Flick 32 pass from Shaffer (Metzgar from Shaffer), 11:19
R-Pecora 12 pass from Shaffer (Colvin kick), 2:15
Individual Statistics
Rushing: Forest Hills-Dell 4-0, Donoughe 14-(-12), Krug 2-5, Wieczorek 1-(-1), Shope 2-19, Shima 1-4, Team 1-(-4). Richland-Solarczyk 13-96, Shaffer 13-37, Hoover 4-19, Shertzer 1-(-1), Pecora 1-6, Farina 2-6, Fesko 1-5, Snopko 1-3.
Passing: Forest Hills-Donoughe 12-18-1-100, Shope 0-1-0-0. Richland-Shaffer 11-18-0-171, Pecora 4-6-0-23.
Receiving: Forest Hills-Shope 9-65, Snedden 3-35. Richland-Flick 5-71, Shertzer 3-50, Metzgar 1-20, Rizzo 2-9, Joy 2-24, Farina 1-8, Pecora 1-12.
Interceptions: Richland-Flick.
Team StatisticsFHR
First downs186
Yards rushing25-1136-171
Passing (cmp.-att.-int.)12-19-115-24-0
Yards passing100194
Total yards111365


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We're not going anywhere this post season (if we even make it) no need for Bert to push really hard to make it back and maybe injure something permanently. He's had a long history of back problems and with his age and the fact that it spread to his legs it may be life altering if he continues to push it and something goes wrong.
Rest up and get ready for next year Bert and Helmer.
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DUNCANSVILLE - The orange sign on the door of the Alleghenies United Cerebral Palsy Building stood out on this bright wintry Saturday morning in January.
It said simply, "Sale: 100 percent of the proceeds go to feeding the needy."
Inside the building people were milling around, slowly moving from table to table, examining diverse items such as baby seats, automobile floor mats, cosmetics, picture frames, photo albums, children's toys and air mattresses - all at bargain prices.
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Virginia "Ginny" Helsel stands with some items in her garage in Hollidaysburg. She helps needy families find food, furniture and clothes and helps shelters by giving them extra food.
Jeff Snyder of Hollidaysburg is one of those who regularly attends the monthly sales of a group known as the Mobile Hope Unit of Pennsylvania, a subdivision of God's Connection Transition from Gaithersburg, Md.
"They got a lot of good deals," Snyder said. "It's worth coming in. They have good prices, and it's for a good cause."
The names Mobile Hope Unit or God's Connection belie what is really happening in the building.
It is not a corporate or religious thing as much as a group of people who have found joy in helping others, and that's what makes it unique.
The people who sponsor the sale are working to help the needy in Blair, Cambria and Bedford County.
Led by Ginny Helsel, a registered nurse who lives in Hollidaysburg, the fledgling group has been providing meals for hundreds of needy families, helping to put together trailer loads of goods for victims of Hurricane Sandy, aiding individual families in need of not only food, but furniture, clothes and any other items, and supplying local shelters with leftover food.
Recently Helsel, who works in the Recovery and Holding Room at Altoona Regional Health Systems, got together with a few of her helpers. There was her niece Tammy Rhoades, a social worker with Alleghenies United Cerebral Palsy, Lynn Plowman, an employee of the Van Zandt Veterans Hospital, and Susan Shaw, an employee in the Office of the Blair County Prothonotary.
Helsel has been a nurse for 26 years, but when her sister, Mary Motchenbaugh of Loretto, died in March 2009, Helsel took stock of her life.
She and her husband, Bill, had raised three boys and had a good life on Garber Street in Hollidaysburg, a pleasant neighborhood, yet as she went to her sister's funeral and saw all the people there she realized what a special person her sister was.
"I felt like I wasn't doing anything in my life," she said.
Helsel said there was an empty feeling there, and she made a commitment to become more involved in helping others.
She had another sister in Gaithersburg, Md., Theresa Harvey.
Harvey and her husband, Arnold, a couple years before had launched a group called God's Connection Transition Inc., a nonprofit group that developed a new model for raising money to provide food and just about every other type of item for the poor.
The Harveys would obtain products from the giant wholesale company, Costco, and would sell the items to raise money for food and other products to the needy.
Helsel decided to get involved in the program and in the past couple of years has developed a Blair County version.
Costco donates the products. The products that go to God's Connection and now to Helsel's small Pennsylvania group, Mobile Hope Unit, have been returned or have been pulled from the company's shelves.
Helsel began with a small U-Haul, getting someone to bring items back from Maryland. They were stored in her three-car garage, awaiting the next sale.
Sales are scheduled around Helsel's work schedule - on days she is not on call at the hospital.
The money she obtained was used to provide dinners for needy families at Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
While Helsel was carrying out her new mission in life of giving to others, a whole lot of other people caught her enthusiasm.
Shaw resides in Helsel's neighborhood and was curious about the U-Haul and the small sales Helsel was conducting out of her garage.
Helsel asked Shaw if she needed anything from the garage, and the two began talking.
Shaw said she wanted to help.
Volunteer after volunteer has joined the effort, which includes unloading the truck from Maryland each month, transporting the goods to the location of the sale - the latest being in the United Cerebral Palsy Building, which has a large heated, well-lit and comfortable garage-type building.
As Easter approaches, food must be purchased, and then the dinners placed in boxes and distributed to a list of needy families that Helsel has comprised through word-of-mouth.
The news of the sales are typically spread person-to-person, although Shaw has been given the responsibility of calling a list of potential customers just before each sale.
Some people tell Helsel what they need and she puts their names on a list. If a person needs an air mattress, for instance, and the load of goods from Costco's includes an air mattress, that person is informed.
Shaw said she has five pages of names to call before the Feb. 23 sale scheduled for the United Cerebral Palsy Building.
She called what is happening "amazing" because of all the volunteers who have come forth, possibly as many as 40.
"We all work full-time," Shaw said. "This is our side thing."
Shaw also calls Helsel "amazing" because of all the work she puts in after a long shift at the hospital.
"She's a very good-hearted woman," Shaw said. "This is in her heart - a heart of gold."
Rhoades, Helsel's niece, got involved in the effort because she is a social worker and this for her was just one more way she could help people in need, and she makes no bones about it: There is a lot of need in this area.
"The need never stops," she said.
Helsel tells of the family that had only an empty trailer but nothing inside. Helsel was determined to find items for the trailer and particularly a bed for the little boy in the family. She was successful.
Plowman became a volunteer when she attended one of Helsel's sales.
The recent destruction by Hurricane Sandy showed that, like Helsel and her group, there are others in this area who, as volunteers, give a great deal of their time just helping people. They don't seek publicity, but they are always willing to help if it's for the needy.
Sherry Clawson, who manages the Ace Hardware Store in Ebensburg, said she knows Helsel, and she said she put out signs that the store was collecting goods to take to the stricken East Coast following Sandy. She also put out a collection box in her store.
That effort was started by Vincent Terrizzi of the Starfire Corp. in Ebensburg. As retired teacher Stan Ambroe of Dunlo told the story, Terrizzi, who had a friend in Long Island, said last Nov. 7, "We need to do something."
What the group did was establish collection centers at churches and places like Ace Hardware, and within days, the items filled two trucks.
Helsel took loads of items to Ace Hardware and the trucks went to Lindenhurst, Long Island, an area where the people were in need of aid.


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THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 2014 – Go to the Portland State University campus on a Saturday in winter and the Park Blocks might look a little empty.
That's because the city's beloved tradition, the Saturday Farmers Market, has moved north to Shemanski Park.
Dubbed The Winter Market, the stalls are open each Saturday in January and February in Shemanski Park, Southwest Park Avenue and Salmon street. The usual vendors will be there: all the farmers and food artisans offering everything from fruits, vegetables, seafood, pastured meats, eggs, artisan baked goods, charcuterie, cheeses, honey, pickles, preserves, hot food and more.
The Winter Market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Saturday through Feb. 22.
Go online to the Market's website to find its links to Twitter, Facebook Flickr and the Portland Farmers Market blog.
The Farmers Market at Portland State University will reopen March 15.
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The Tampa Bay Lightning lost a weird game Thursday night to the Washington Capitals 4-3.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? Eric Fehr had two goals, including a tiebreaking redirection with 51.5 seconds left in the third period, as the Washington Capitals beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Thursday night.
Fehr was positioned in close when he tipped Mike Green's shot past Anders Lindback, helping the Capitals improve to 2-3-3 over their last eight games.
Tampa Bay had pulled even at 3 on Ondrej Palat's nifty tip-in of Matt Carle's shot at 14:30 of the third. Martin St. Louis also assisted on the goal to move past Rick Tocchet into sole possession of 89th place on the NHL's career list with 953 points.
Washington also got goals from Mikhail Grabovski and Marcus Johansson.
Tyler Johnson and B.J. Crombeen had the other goals for the Lightning.
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Venture capital interest in funding gene therapies, and the companies that develop them, has dramatically increased, judging by a recent spurt of activity, a lot of due diligence, a few deals announced, and a few more in the works and expected to be announced soon.
Most of the new money in the field has come through VC investment. AGCT on November 19, 2012, announced it secured $37.5 million in a series B round allowing the company to continue its Phase II program in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1) and initiate full development of potential treatments for two orphan ophthalmology indications, Achromatopsia (ACHM) and X-Linked Rentinoschisis (XLRS).
Earlier that month, uniQure won the Western world's first regulatory approval for a gene therapy when the European Commission signed off on Glybera® (alipogene tiparvovec) for patients with lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD or familial hyperchylomicronemia) suffering from recurring acute pancreatitis.
In July, bluebird bio secured a $60 million Series D financing round to advance clinical programs in childhood cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CCALD), beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease. This year, bluebird bio plans to initiate a Phase II/III clinical study in CCALD in both the U.S. and Europe, as well as a second U.S.-based Phase I/II study in betathalassemia. And in February 2012, Celladon completed a $43 million equity financing to advance clinical development of its lead drug candidate MYDICAR for heart failure.
What does all that activity mean? First, there's enough clinical data out there to validate the concept of gene therapy. The more speculative venture capital investors, rather than the pharmaceutical industry, are realizing the potential of this, and are getting into the game.
Indeed there are very few, if any, gene-therapy programs being developed by the pharma industry's biggest players. The most advanced such programs have been overseen by Sanofi's Genzyme subsidiary. Its pipeline as of June included the Parkinson's disease application AAV-hAADC in Phase II, the age-related macular degeneration application AAV-sFLT in Phase I, and other preclinical products. More than a year after Genzyme's acquisition, the future of the gene therapy programs remain unclear, though Sanofi has insisted otherwise.
Also last June, Baxter International agreed to develop and commercialize potential hemophilia B treatments using gene therapy technology that I developed, and licensed to Chatham Therapeutics, an affiliate of Asklepios BioPharmaceutical (AskBio). Baxter agreed to pay $25 million up front, and additional payments tied to development and commercial milestones, in return for investigating Chatham Biological Nano Particles™, an advanced rAAV-based gene therapy technology that showed potential therapeutic benefit in a Phase I/II study sponsored by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, conducted by UCL, and involving six patients using Chatham technology.
In that study, published December 22, 2011, in The New England Journal of Medicine, the six were treated (via peripheral-vein infusion) with an AAV vector carrying a proprietary (codon-optimized) human factor IX (FIX) transgene. The treatment resulted in FIX transgene expression at levels sufficient to improve the bleeding phenotype, with few side effects, all easily treatable.
Some of the patients were able to discontinue prophylactic treatment with FIX. AskBio] is now recruiting patients for a follow-up Phase I/Phase II trial designed to evaluate the safety of single ascending IV doses of FIX genes delivered by an AAV8 vector in up to 16 adults with Hemophilia B.
Pharma is attracted to low-lying fruit such as the orphan diseases accounting for most early indications in gene therapy, and will step up to the plate when there's compelling clinical data relevant to a product. But pharma is much more market sensitive than biotech or VC, which is willing to invest based more on the broader implications of that positive clinical data, the concept of platform validation.
Unlike in pharma, VC and biotech investors are much more driven by unmet need. An unmet need translates to them in terms of an easier regulatory approval process, and even more flexibility in pricing. It's an easier to develop a drug under those circumstances.
While the criteria pharma uses for selecting a disease indication are much more formulaic than VC and biotech, once you start applying very rigorous, thorough, standard criteria for investment in disease indications, gene therapy has some question marks—primarily, its business model and lingering concerns about technical risk.
We have developed a very structured way in which we think about whether to invest in a gene therapy product:
Clinical evaluation should be further broken down into two areas. First, are there biomarkers or other indicators that you can evaluate in a Phase I or Phase I/II study to answer the questions: Did the vector get in? Did it deliver the gene? Is the gene being expressed? And is it functional? When you put a gene into the liver in a hemophiliac, you know the gene is expressing because you can assay for the protein in the blood. That's exactly the kind of program you want.
Second, what would the clinical trial look like? What would be the endpoints for registration? In gene therapy, it's hard to do placebo-controlled double-blinded studies, because you have to inject vector into the heart or into the brain. You're not going to do that with just saline. Or if you do a bone marrow transplant, you're not going to do that without the gene.
You also have to think about what are going to be the endpoints. And this isn't specific for gene therapy. But it is important, because of the constraints on the clinical trials, and the fact that we are dealing with orphan diseases in smaller patient populations.
James M. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., is professor and director of the gene therapy program in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine, and professor in the department of internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
James M. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., is professor and director of the gene therapy program in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine, and professor in the department of internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Ann Hampton Callaway presents The Streisand Songbooksinger-songwriter and Tony Award-nominee Ann Hampton Callaway performs The Streisand Songbook, featuring timeless classics from Streisand's extraordinary career. Callaway crafts a loving musical portrait of the legendary performer, while putting a unique pop/jazz spin on unforgettable songs from Streisand's Broadway years to her film and pop album works. PSO Assistant Conductor Fawzi Haimor will conduct.11/14/2013 - 11/17/201311/14 - 7:30 pm11/15 - 8:00 pm11/16 - 8:00 pm11/17 - 2:30 pmHeinz Hall, 601 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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Acoustic AlchemyFor nearly 25 years, Acoustic Alchemy has pushed the limits of the acoustic guitar's potential by embracing a spectrum of musical styles ranging from straight-ahead jazz to folk to rock to world music and beyond. Despite a tragic setback in the late 1990s, they've sustained a vast and loyal following well beyond their U.K. origins.11/14/201311/14 - 7:00 pm11/14 - 9:30 pm1815 Metropolitan St, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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WARREN -The Potters rolled past the Cardinals.
The East Liverpool girls' bowling team put forth a strong showing en route to a victory Monday night over Bloomfield at Champion Lanes.
The Potters finished match play with a total of 1312, and East Liverpool bowled a 124, 104 and 98 in the bakers matches for a total of 1638. The Cardinals finished match play with 882, and Bloomfield bowled a 105, 96 and 82 in the bakers matches to finish with a total of 1165.
Becky Brewer bowled games of 208 and 167 with a series of 305 to lead the way for the Potters.
Also for East Liverpool, Leighanna Frantz bowled a high game of 159, and Nicole Linkous and Mya Messenger each bowled high games of 130.
"The day was excellent," East Liverpool head coach Erik Adkins aid. "Becky bowled another 200 game. It is the third-straight match she has reached that total. In the second game, she didn't drop below 150. she has been struggling with that, so it was nice to see her to be able to turn it around as we are getting closer and closer to sectionals."
East Liverpool is now 3-4 on the season.
"Our record would be a little bit better if our leader had two good games back to back like she has had the past three matches," Adkins said. "She is stepping up, and all of the other girls are seeing her step up.
"Leighanna Frantz bowled her high game of the season. That was nice to see. She is the type of bowler who can stay in that vicinity if she puts her mind to it.
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Wooing California dairies while they're vulnerable
Wooing California dairies while they're vulnerable
Billboards encourage them to move to South Dakota and leave production caps behind.
by Hoard's Dairyman staff
For decades, other states have flirted with California dairies like they're the prettiest girls at the dance. There have been many suitors, too; a dozen from as far away as Wisconsin come to mind.
South Dakota isn't new to the list, but the strategy being used is: nine billboards in Tulare County, the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, that remind producers about a sore spot which was recently re-aggravated by one of the local co-ops – production caps.
Over a photo background of grazing cows, a huge headline says, "No Base, No Quota." Below it is, "Milk your cows in South Dakota." In the bottom right corner is a big phone number: (605) 785-3683.
South Dakota isn't making the pitch; it's merely the destination. Instead, the billboards are the work of Davisco Foods International, a family-owned, progressive, and savvy processing firm that makes 370 million pounds of cheese per year and is the largest producer of whey protein isolates in the world. The telephone number on the billboards belongs to the Davisco cheese plant in Lake Norden, S.D.
Davisco CEO Jon Davis really knows how to get dairy producers' attention. Interviewed by phone for a story about the billboards by a Fresno, Calif., TV station, Davis took a jab at production quotas that were recently re-instituted by Land O'Lakes when he said, "In South Dakota, they won't be penalized for overproduction; we will encourage it."
Nicely played, sir.
While the billboards are new and fun, they are unlikely to inspire any dairies to move during these cold financial times. But they may plant a seed. And in an industry where unbridled ability to expand production is as basic a business tool as Holsteins, don't be surprised if they sprout into opportunities for some producers when things warm up.
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Where one person might see an old, dilapidated building in a rundown part of town, Larry Breidenbach sees hidden treasure.
The next step on his list of plans for Tiffin's historical buildings is under way.
He has purchased an apartment building on North Monroe Street in the Fort Ball area across from Tiffin Train Depot, and he's restoring the building to its original storefront look from the early 1900s when it was home to various businesses.
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This is an apartment building on North Monroe Street in the Fort Ball area that is undergoing renovation.
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"Plural," he said. "There was more than one."
At the same time, he's creating three upscale apartments inside, which are to be ready to rent in about a year.
"This is a hidden treasure down here," he said. "It's unique."
The apartments' first floors are to have an open living design, while the second floors will be devoted to bedrooms.
"These won't be white, vanilla rooms. They will be exotic apartments," he said. "Two of the apartments will have balconies."
Those balconies overlook The Depot across the street, Breidenbach's original renovation project.
From the balconies, residents will be able hear frogs in the ponds and birds singing in the trees across the street.
"There's all kinds of wildlife down here because we put those ponds in," he said. "One night, I got here and found a crane standing there eating my goldfish. ... You never know what you're going to find. It's a little wildlife sanctuary in the heart of the city."
Even the proximity to railroad tracks is a positive, according to Breidenbach, because it adds to the area's historical flavor.
"It's just neat to see the trains go by," he said. "It's neat to sit up there and watch them. They're how the infrastructure of America rolls, literally."
He looks back in his mind's historical eye and sees vibrancy and life.
"The heart of the city was right here," he said. "Lots of businesses started right here."
His Breidenbach Painting business has been one of the occupants.
"One quarter of that building was the first building I ever bought," he said. "I always said, 'someday, I'm going to make it beautiful.' ... It took 24 years for me to get the whole building."
But he didn't wait until he owned the building to make an improvement. His first step was to paint the outside of the building.
"I knew the other owners would gladly let me paint it for free," he said. "They bought the paint and I painted it."
Now that he owns it, the building is getting new plumbing, wiring, windows and carpets.
The building was "remuddled," as Breidenbach says, into 16 apartments in the 1960s and '70s. It was divided into sections and drop ceilings were added.
However, the tin ceilings remain, as well as other architectural features he plans to uncover.
"The original ceilings will be shown and painted," he said. "The tinwork is gorgeous. ... The coolest thing is going to be making that front original. It has architectural features. They're still there, just covered up."
As he looks across the street, Breidenbach notices a young man sitting on a rock he placed along the walking trail next to The Depot.
He said that young person is a good example of the reason he works hard.
He has a personal refrain he returns to often.
"It's positive for the community," he said. "It's good for Tiffin, for the community's future. ... We have two universities here. There are a lot of people who come here from out of town."
He said the universities have rented The Depot for various events and he enjoys educating the students about the building and its historical significance to Tiffin.
"The trains left back in '72 when Conrail took over," he said. "Now, the trains are making a resurgence, which makes this even more important."
The restored depot is one of six that originally stood in the same vicinity, serving three railroad lines.
"That's why this is a treasure," he said. "It's the only one left."
Breidenbach bought the depot in April 2001 and has spent 13 years working on it - so far.
After the first three years, he started renting it and hosting events. His annual event is a community Christmas party with a band and food.
"Admission charge is to bring a gift for a kid," he said.
Gifts are donated to local organizations to pass along to children in need.
"It boggles my mind how this Christmas party does," he said. "The acoustics in there are fabulous. I set the bands in the old freight room."
The outside landscaping was a project new to him when he started.
"I looked at magazines," he said. "The only thing I understood at first is you have to have rock to build, so I went out and got rock. ... All the stone was donated by farmers."
He simply put an ad in the newspaper making a request for field stone that would not be for resale.
"It's all local stone," he said.
He fashioned those rocks into ponds and walkways, and now he enjoys sitting by water features listening to water splashing.
"When I was restoring this, I went and found the coolest shrubs and conifers," he said. "I wanted this neighborhood to look so neat. ... I've had nothing but positive remarks about this down here, from city leaders to the different groups of people who come here," he said.
"We've had several weddings here," he said. "A city councilman got married here."
The depot is next to a bike path where an old rail line used to run.
He invites people who are using the trail to stop for a rest in the parklike setting.
"That's why it's so good for the community," he said. "It doesn't matter what station you are in life, you can appreciate this. The little kids who come down here are just amazing. There's always people here because it's just fun down here."
The setting fits in with plans to connect the walking trails in Tiffin and Seneca County to provide residents with an alternate form of transportation and recreation. He's proud to have created a picnic spot along the way.
But local people aren't the only ones noticing.
Breidenbach said The Depot has been a tourist attraction since he started renovations. People find it online when searching Ohio train stations and historical markers.
"My biggest dream is to get this thing on Home and Garden TV, or something like that," he said. "Can you imagine how much attention that would bring to Tiffin?"
Breidenbach, a Tiffin native, admits he has invested lots of money into The Depot, but doesn't get much back out.
His other renovation projects and his future apartment rentals will help recoup some of the money he has spent.
"We created something that was a negative and turned it into a positive," he said. "Only a private investor would do this."
Why does he do it?
"One, it's fun," he said. "Two, it's what I do.
"I've been thinking about this for a long time. I just want to share this with the community. ... Why not make our community a little bit better, especially since I'm blessed with the ability to do it. You can get lost in a quagmire of negativity. I'm Mr. Positivity. I've learned to persevere my whole life."
Breidenbach attributes his work ethic to his parents, now ages 95 and 91.
"I own a painting company, Breidenbach Painting," he said. "But while I was growing up, they said you have to have two jobs. You have to work."
It was while doing that work his revitalization dreams emerged.
"One-third of that same building is what got me down here," he said.
As he worked in that building painting shutters or countless other tasks, he would gaze across the street to a dilapidated train depot, and a plan began to form in his mind.
He wanted to restore the depot and make it beautiful.
"I just started buying buildings," he said. "And I started with that one."
One of his greatest joys is knowing his parents have gotten to see his progress, he said.
He proudly shows copies of a brochure from the visitors bureau and a past cover of the A-T's Seasonal Guides of Ohio showing pictures of The Depot and the historical marker in front.
"Just look at the positive things this does for our community," he said.
Among his keepsakes, he finds news and feature stories written about his progress through the years in the A-T. Among them are newspapers dated Nov. 2, 2004, Nov. 12, 2006, and Dec. 5, 2011.
One of them recounts his purchase and renovation of The Depot.
Another tells of his purchase and plans for The Berlin at 36 Hudson St., which was built and run as a brothel in the early 1900s before it closed in 1921.
That was the 12th building rehab project he had accomplished.
His latest project isn't the end of Breidenbach's plans for Tiffin's historic buildings.
"I just bought another one at the junction of Rock Creek and the Sandusky River," he said. "I'll call it the 1871 Shoe Factory."


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Intellectual Property (IP) is the raw material for the creation of biotech companies. Without an invention covered by a robust patent portfolio, venture funding can be very difficult. Since the beginning of the "genomic age" in the late nineties the patenting of genetic materials and methods have gone through a minefield of lawsuits and opinions but in the end have significantly protected companies with well designed IP. However patents on human genes have always been a gray area.
Yesterday the District Court for the Southern District of New York riled against Myriad Genetics (MYGN) and granted a motion for the plaintiffs,the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others concluding that isolated DNA compositions are not patent eligible subject matter and invalidating the Myriad patents BRCA1 and BRCA2 used in their breast cancer diagnostic tests. In their motion for summary judgement the plaintiffs alleged that the patents were invalid because human genes are products of nature. The decision by District Court Judge Robert Sweet determined that the purification of a product of nature,without more, cannot transform the product into patentable subject matter.Rather the purified product must possess "markedly different characteristics" in order to be considered eligible subject matter.
An Alert filed by the well known Boston Law firm Brown Rudnick commented that the "decision will most likely be appealed; however this decision may have a significant impact on the biotechnology industry. The decision concludes that the discovery of new genes, gene variants, and proteins are not patentable when isolated from human cells and used as the basis of a diagnostic or therapeutic without proof of some 'markedly different characteristics' of those compounds from their natural form."
Many biotech stocks hit an 8 year high last week supported by promising clinical data,sales growth, M&A activity and a buzz that positioned biologicals and genomics as the future with medical breakthroughs. The impact on the Myriad news today was well contained with the following diagnostic stocks up: Abaxis (ABAX), GenProbe (GPRO), Genomic Health (GXDX), Quidel (QDEL) and Sequenom (SQNM) which was up a big 7% without apparent news. As of late day trading our Mid-Cap biotech index of 34 stocks was down slightly and major ETF's - FBT, IBB, PBE and XBI - were down less than 0.5%. The Myriad CEO Peter Meldrum says he believes the final ruling will have no effect on the company's operations.
The industry fallout from this gene patent ruling remains to be seen. The public sector has absorbed it well so for now we can say it has affected only a narrow segment of companies and markets. Look for detailed analysis coming from this ruling especially from BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
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CLEMSON — The unfortunate crime of the offseason is competitors can only make statements with their mouths.
Who: South Carolina State at Clemson
When: Saturday, 12:30 p.m. Where: Memorial Stadium, Clemson
TV: ACC Network
As many times as Clemson football players and coaches could be asked about the mammoth possibilities laying before them, they kept pooh-poohing the outside hype.
If you were patient, you'd occasionally hear head coach Dabo Swinney or quarterback Tajh Boyd or some other supporting cast member make the simple counterargument: nobody's expectations for the Tigers were higher than those of the Tigers themselves.
Finally, mercifully, delightfully, after months of anticipation, No. 5 Georgia stood across the field from No. 8 Clemson. One of those put-up-or-shut-up pop quizzes, which in college football is as rare in August as a final exam in fall semester.
Five touchdowns later, Boyd's hyperbole was understated. But the significance of Saturday's 38-35 triumph – making Clemson (1-0) the first non-SEC member in college football history to knock off top-ten SEC foes in consecutive cracks – wasn't lost on the bona fide Heisman Trophy candidate.
"I think it was a good win," Boyd said. "Nothing that we didn't expect as a program, but I think it turned a lot of heads in the college football world. Very monumental win for this university, for this program, for the conference in general."
So monumental the turbo-charged assembly of 83,830 orange-clad fans sang the "A-C-C!" chant to resound through Death Valley.
"From the time we got off the bus to the time we went out into the stadium, it was electric," Swinney said. "It was a magical night in the Valley."
Of course, Clemson's goals are even higher than winning its conference, now that the Tigers have the highest-quality of wins to boast into September.
"Our guys were ready to go, that's the bottom line," Swinney said. "They were prepared, knew it was going to be a complete slugfest the whole way.
"I thought the character and toughness of our team was special. Just special."
It was every bit as difficult as expected to end a five-game losing streak to historial rival Georgia (0-1), which gets no more time than the 70-mile bus ride back to Athens to lick wounds and prepare for SEC East nemesis South Carolina.
Tied at seven. Tied at fourteen. Tied at twenty-one. Tied at twenty-eight.
As tight as the Bulldogs and Tigers were perceived to be on paper, they were even closer in reality. The teams were never separated by two scores for the first 52-plus minutes, until Stanton Seckinger snuck in the corner pylon for a 9-yard score, accounting for Boyd's fifth touchdown of the night, with 7:40 to play and a 38-28 lead.
Initially, the play was diagnosed a 7-yard gain, as the side judge ruled Seckinger stepped out of bounds. But when video review clearly showed the sophomore tight end's right cleat never kissed white paint, it marked an eerie coincidence to bless one of the biggest nights in Clemson history.
See, before the game, former head coach Danny Ford was inducted into Clemson's Ring of Honor. Ford oversaw the only national championship in school history in 1981.
Seckinger wears No. 81. It was his second career touchdown.
"I remember catching the ball, looking down and seeing the sideline, putting my foot down," Seckinger said. "I was able to keep the ball inside the pylon, and when they called me out, I thought there's no way. Luckily I was able to keep it in and they were able to review it."
Ultimately, the three-point margin was due to a big-time gaffe by Georgia's special teams late in the third quarter.
After Clemson cornerback Bashaud Breeland saved a touchdown with a horse-collar tackle of Chris Conley (which was flagged), Georgia had three goal-to-go chances to punch it in and take a 35-31 lead.
Rushing attempts by Keith Marshall, Todd Gurley and Quayvon Hicks were stonewalled. Forced to settle for three (and a tie), holder Adam Erickson couldn't handle a slightly high snap, falling on the loose ball and surrendering all possible points.
"Momentum is a big thing, and that was a huge momentum play," Swinney said. "Big boost for our guys. That turned out to be on of the deciding plays of the game, obviously."
In the end, it came down to which star shone brighter in the spotlight. Whereas Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray was just okay (but his running back was near-unstoppable), Boyd unleashed a resounding statement as one of the nation's elite. Boyd completed 18-of-30 passes (including 10 in a row) for 270 yards and three touchdowns, while rushing for 42 yards and two more scores.
Of course, Boyd cares much less about winning individual trophies in December than he does team trophies in January. And with his effort, Clemson cleared a huge hurdle Saturday night in its quest for national championship contention.
"It puts us in a situation where we're in the driver's seat," Boyd said. "This is a long season, it's only the first one … but I'd much rather us be in the national championship race than me be a Heisman contender."
The Tigers, planning on a committee of running backs, may have themselves a starter – even if he still refuses to admit it. Fifth-year senior Roderick McDowell busted out for 132 yards (previous career best: 86) on 22 carries, showing a penchant for tough runs between the tackles – a desperate need on a squad built for the perimeter.
"I don't. I do not accept myself as the starting running back any day," McDowell said.
"Yeah, when you're hot, you're hot. They keep feeding you. But I've got to have somebody else pushing me. All those boys push me 24/7."
McDowell's backup, Zac Brooks, did have a nifty 31-yard touchdown grab on a wheel route.
Wide receiver Sammy Watkins' 77-yard catch-and-run touchdown – trucking Georgia cornerback Damian Swann en route – was the first gain of 70 yards or more in the All-American career of Boyd and Watkins.
Although Watkins finished with 127 receiving yards, his cough-up on a fair catch attempt was the Tigers' lone turnover on the night.
While four drops were attributed to Clemson receivers Watkins, Charone Peake and Martavis Bryant (two), they each helped in some way. Peake's 58 yards were a career standard, and Bryant easily hauled in Georgia's last-minute onside kick to seal victory.
For all of Clemson's explosiveness on offense, its defense cannot be forgotten. That maddeningly, delightfully inconsistent defense.
Try this on for size. Georgia's first four drives: 267 yards, three touchdowns. Georgia's next six drives: negative-eight yards, two turnovers.
"As a coach, you wish they could have nine drives in a row, but that's not living in reality," defensive coordinator Brent Venables said. "It wasn't East Popcorn State we just played. That's Georgia. You gotta have perspective. But six drives in a row? That's pretty good. That's pretty good.
"Not that anybody's tooting our horn – we've got a lot to be better at – but it says a lot about the character of our guys. It's toughness, and focus, and resolve."
To be fair, most of Georgia's nasty second-quarter sequence was with sophomore tailback Todd Gurley nursing a strained quad on the sideline. As soon as he returned, so did Georgia's rhythm.
Gurley, he of the 6.2-yards-per-carry freshman season, had a gorilla-like 154 yards and a pair of touchdowns (including a 75-yarder to open the Bulldogs' scoring) on just 12 carries.
"I thought Gurley played a great game and ran the ball hard," Georgia coach Mark Richt said. "Unfortunately, he strained his quad and he wasn't as effective as he was at the beginning of the game."
Clemson's pass rush was nonexistent in the first quarter, and Murray barely sweat in the pocket with room and time to operate. Fullback Quayvon Hicks scored from 1 yard out to give Georgia a 21-14 lead exactly 17 minutes into the contest, the Bulldogs' third consecutive touchdown drive of longer than 70 yards.
Then, the Tigers' played out of their skulls the next six drives, on which Georgia's offense combined for negative-eight yards. Suddenly, Murray was harassed by a slew of linemen (Vic Beasley, Corey Crawford, Grady Jarrett) and blitzers (Stephone Anthony, Tavaris Barnes), and forced into two momentum-swaying turnovers – a fumble recovered by Spencer Shuey and a Crawford interception.
"The playmakers gotta make plays," Crawford said. "We all got together, and we said, 'let's blow up and get it done.'"
Florida State visits Death Valley Oct. 19. Clemson goes to rival South Carolina Nov. 30. The sky is suddenly the limit.
"Don't crown us. Don't bring the trophy around, because all we've done is won one game," Swinney protested. "It's a great win, it's Clemson-Georgia, but … all we are is a 1-0 team, and in November, we'll know a lot more."
Clemson's Vic Bealsey, left center, and Corey Crawford sack Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray in the third quarter of their NCAA college football game Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013 in Clemson, S.C.(AP Photo/Anderson Independent-Mail, Mark Crammer)×


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - If anybody can find humor in the Bible it might be Mark Twain. About a street in Damascus he encountered in 1867 he had this to say in The Innocents Abroad: "The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow. St. Luke is careful not to commit himself; he does not say it is the street which is straight, but the 'street which is called Straight.' It is a fine piece of irony; it is the only facetious remark in the Bible, I believe."
And yet in his very next book, Twain alludes to another instance of humor in the Bible, though he leaves us hanging, and requires us to do a little research of our own.
In Roughing It, Twain refers to an anecdote that is told so many times over and over again that it becomes a moldy old chestnut of such magnitude that it freezes the faces of its victims...
"Horace Greeley went over this road once. When he was leaving Carson City he told the driver, Hank Monk, that he had an engagement to lecture at Placerville and was very anxious to go through quick. Hank Monk cracked his whip and started off at an awful pace. The coach bounced up and down in such a terrific way that it jolted the buttons all off of Horace's coat, and finally shot his head clean through the roof of the stage, and then he yelled at Hank Monk and begged him to go easier - said he warn't in as much of a hurry as he was awhile ago. But Hank Monk said, 'Keep your seat, Horace, and I'll get you there on time' - and you bet you he did, too, what was left of him!"
Twain suggests in a footnote, that an extravagant punishment should be meted out to the man who would contrive such a flat anecdote.
[Footnote 1: ...If I were to suggest what ought to be done to him, I should be called extravagant - but what does the sixteenth chapter of Daniel say? Aha!]
This reference to the sixteenth chapter of Daniel remained a conundrum to me as there are only twelve chapters of Daniel. I wondered if he might have meant to cite verse sixteen of chapter one: "And so the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead."
Aha! There it is! This is the extravagant punishment to be meted out to the man who contrives a flat joke; take away his choice food and wine, and make him eat vegetables!
So there we have it from Mark Twain. Yes, there is humor in the Bible, and too, it might be safe to conclude, as Mark Twain tells us in an Extract from Adam's Diary, "The original forbidden fruit was not apples, it was chestnuts."
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Republican 1st Congressional District candidate John Kuhn served in office before, as a state senator from Charleston in 2001-04 and he is running partly on his record in Columbia.
Kuhn cites his 2003 last-minute filibuster against a multimillion-dollar bond bill as proof that he is both independent and fiscally responsible.
"We couldn't afford it," he says now of the bond bill, the demise of which made Kuhn enemies among others in the Charleston delegation and likely played a role in his 2004 primary loss to Chip Campsen.
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"I managed to fight and block it (the bond bill), and what that tells the voter is I have the courage to stand up, even against the leadership of my own party, if necessary," he adds.
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But Kuhn, 50, also indicates he has mellowed during the past eight years when he has worked as an estate lawyer, outside the public spotlight.
"I have a personality that gets along with everybody," he says. "I should have used that more in the Statehouse, and when I go to Washington, I will use that more."
"There are 435 congressmen, and you have to work with them to get somewhere," he said.
As with many Republicans in the race, Kuhn cites the nation's budget deficit as the top issue and rejects the idea of raising taxes. While campaigning, he points out the nation spends $3.8 trillion but takes in only $2.4 trillion.
"If we can balance the budget, a lot of things will solve themselves right away," he says.
Kuhn has no detailed plan for trimming $1.4 trillion in spending but says, for example, the U.S. Department of Education should be closed down.
He says one thing that shouldn't be touched is Social Security, particularly for those older than 50 who are relying on it. "Social Security, in my book, is sacrosanct," he adds.
Kuhn says his business experience makes him unique, including five years that he spent building an export business and the boutique law firm that he built with his wife, Shea.
Charm Altman, president of the S.C. Federation of Republican Women, recalled the enemies Kuhn made during his years in the Statehouse but was very impressed recently hearing him talk about his experience in business and trade. "He's not as dumb as everybody thinks he is," she said. "He's a very sharp young man."
He says the Lowcountry needs a congressman with experience in trade, adding, "I'm going to be a huge supporter of the port of Charleston and dredging." As a senator, he helped redirect the Port of Charleston's planned expansion from Daniel Island to the former Charleston Naval Base.
He notes his law firm has offices in both Charleston and Bluffton — at both ends of the newly drawn congressional district. "I'm the only one in the race earning a living in the other part of the district."
Kuhn faces 15 other GOP challengers in the March 19 primary. The special election to fill the seat vacated by Sen. Tim Scott will be May 7.
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Editor's Note: Due to when we received our Pokémon review code, we're waiting until early next week to publish our full review and additional articles. This is to give us ample time to play the game.
In the meantime, here's our initial impressions.
I'm nearly 10 hours into Pokemon Y. In that relatively brief time I've chosen my starter Pokémon – Chespin, duh – taken down my first gym leader and explored a few towns. This isn't a full review, but there's still a fair amount of stuff to talk about.
It's a beautiful world, despite some frame rate issues that occur during battle. The game runs without a hitch outside of combat, but the problems are noticeable enough within it that you might find yourself forgoing 3D entirely. Also disappointing is the lack of 3D when exploring the world, where everything is strictly 2D. Still gorgeously presented, mind, but it's definitely a shame.
Pokemon Y starts swiftly; you're not long off the loading screen and you've chosen your starter 'Mon and been sent on your way. At this stage I've met over 50 different types and battled a huge variety of Trainer variants, visited a handful of different locations and only covered a fairly small portion of the map. It's definitely a big game, and the speedy beginning inspires confidence: it's as if the devs can't wait to get you out among it.
There's little challenge at this stage – I died once, because I forgot to heal my squad of little beasties before heading into a gym battle – but other than that I'm trudging along without much trouble. This should change soon if other Pokémon games are anything to go by, and I hope the difficulty steps up a notch, if only to give me reason to start experimenting with my different Pokémon buddies.
It's hard to judge how much new content there really is, but I'm being teased with the intriguing prospect of mega evolutions. Standard evolution is enough to get excited about in the meantime, at least until I'm a couple of gyms in.
So far, so Pokémon, then, but a promising beginning.


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MTV is taking its live music initiative World Stage into cinemas across Europe next month, with a gig from Green Day.
MTV World Stage: Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown will be screened in more than 150 cinemas across 10 countries, including the UK and Ireland, from November 15.
The 80-minute concert film captures the band live at the Olympia Halle in Munich. More details are available from greenday.mtv.com, including full screening times.
Screening live gigs in cinemas has become increasingly popular over recent years, with Bon Jovi and Metallica among the bands who have experimented
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After moving to the Charleston area more than two years ago, it didn't take long for Betsy Burch – the national poster child for the March of Dimes in 1980 – to figure out what she wanted to do.
Run, not walk, the Cooper River Bridge Run.
Yet Burch, who is now 40 and a registered nurse at East Cooper Medical Center, had never run more than 100 yards. She is an amputee and did not have the appropriate prosthetic limb for such a task.
Burch was born without a tibia in her right leg and with malformed hands. She had 20 surgeries, including an amputation of her right foot that enabled her to get a prosthetic and walk.
Pursuing athletic endeavors is not new for Burch. She competed on the national swim team in her mid-20s, but didn't qualify for the Paralympics.
"I've always been very active and very independent, sometimes to a fault," said Burch, adding that her experiences with March of Dimes, which included meeting people such as Robert Redford and Jimmy Carter, helped give her confidence and determination.
"I think even though I was very young at the time, 6, I think it (representing March of Dimes) provided me the opportunity to get out there and not be ashamed or afraid of who I was. … Through the rest of my life, I was determined to do anything."
Outside of the spotlights of the March of Dimes and the U.S. swim team, Burch also was bold enough to teach aerobics, in part to inspire others.
"I figured if I could do that maybe other people who think they can't do it will see they can do it," says Burch.
Last August, she and her boyfriend, Eric Stinnett, a Sullivan's Island firefighter and former UNC-Chapel Hill wrestler, started running with the goal of finishing the Bridge Run.
"I figured we'd just go step by step, starting with 100-yard runs, then quarter mile runs, then half mile runs," Stinnett said. "We just kept stepping it up. Once we hit the mile mark, I knew she could do it."
Their first race was the Knights of Columbus Turkey Day Run on Thanksgiving Day. She ran with her "everyday" prosthetic limb, but it was as far as she could go with it. She needed a blade, or J-leg, to go farther.
After she told her prosthetist Steven Kramer, practice manager at Carolina Orthotics and Prosthetics, what she wanted to do, he got to work on getting her a blade, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
"Betsy has been a joy to work with and when she told us what she wanted to do, we had to do all we could to make it happen," Kramer said.
He said everyday prosthetic legs were not meant for running much beyond two miles and that most insurance plans only pay for a new one, whether an everyday or a running-only blade, every three years.
The practice donated the socket and a manufacturer, Ossur, donated the blade. In all, the prosthetic is valued at about $10,000.
The blade made all the difference. Burch and Stinnett have worked up to five miles and ran on the bridge for the first time last week.
"I have no problems or issues within this (the blade). In fact, my real leg hurts more than this one. It is awesome because it springs you forward. Still, it's challenging to run, but it's great."
Despite her confidence, Burch admits to still struggling with reactions she gets from people.
"I think the hardest part is just getting out there and not being afraid. Of course, you have the stares, the looks and I think that has been, to be honest, the toughest thing," Burch said.
"Some people label amputees or people who look different as disabled and I think that's not the correct term. People can be physically challenged, but I think disability is a state of mind and you don't have to be disabled. It's a choice. If you have physical challenges, there are ways to overcome and adapt."
As for the expense of getting a blade, Burch says it's a matter determination.
"There are programs that can help you get the supplies you need," she said. "It's out there. It's just a matter of finding the right prosthetic and the right prosthetist."
Beyond the Bridge Run, Burch said her next challenge is stand-up paddleboarding, which Kramer also helped by creating a new prosthetic from the parts of her older ones so that she doesn't risk getting her everyday leg wet.
Stinnett admires Burch for wanting to do something so challenging.
" It's good to see her with that kind of strength. I'm glad to be a part of it and to help provide her some motivation," said Stinnett, adding that she has demonstrated what his high school wrestling coach called "The Three D's: desire, dedication and determination."
As the national poster child for March of Dimes, Betsy Burch met President Jimmy Carter in 1980 when she was 6.×
Betsy Burch with Robert Redford in 1980.×
Betsy Burch is a former March of Dimes poster child and amputee who is running the Cooper River Bridge Run for the first time. David Quick/postandcourier.com×


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A tempting Thanksgiving goose is a family tradition I've kept up. Paired with moist, lightly sweet apple-raisin stuffing, it's a special main dish that makes us count our blessings. -Denise Goedeken, Platte Center, Nebraska
- 1 domestic goose (10 to 12 pounds)
- 1-1/4 teaspoons salt, divided
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 cups chopped peeled apples
- 2 cups raisins
- 8 cups cubed day-old white bread
- 2 to 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup apple cider
- 1/2 cup water
- Sprinkle the inside of the goose with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Prick skin well. In a skillet, saute celery and onion in butter; transfer to a bowl. Add the apples, raisins, bread, sugar and remaining salt.
- In a small bowl, beat eggs, cider and water. Pour over bread mixture and toss lightly. Stuff into the goose. Place with breast side up on a rack in a large shallow roasting pan.
- Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 3 to 3-1/2 hours or until a meat thermometer reads 180°. Drain fat from pan as it accumulates. Remove stuffing before carving goose. Yield: 10 servings.
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The Chicago Bears football practice was delayed nearly two hours today after a player reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on the practice field.
After a complete analysis, FBI forensic experts determined that the white substance unknown to players was the GOAL LINE.
Practice resumed after special agents decided the team was unlikely to encounter the substance again this season.


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All six Democratic candidates for state Senate District 42 took one last chance to jab at each other Tuesday night before next week's primary vote.
And they took turns from the start.
All the candidates battling for the seat previously held by Robert Ford generally support Medicaid expansion, doing more to help public schools and creating jobs. So they strove for ways to set themselves apart by highlighting their own story — or an opponent's soft spot.
North Charleston businesswoman Margaret Rush took a subtle poke at Charleston lawyer Marlon Kimpson, a Columbia native who has been backed by state Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston.
"I'm a native Charlestonian" she said. "I don't need an escort guiding me through this district."
Kimpson didn't respond directly but later noted President Barack Obama caught flak for being born in Hawaii, adding, "But the people of Illinois chose him as their state senator and the people of the country chose him as president."
Emmanuel Ferguson, who at age 28 is the youngest candidate in the race, also drew a parallel with Obama, who won overwhelmingly last November in this predominantly black Senate district.
"When they told President Obama that he was too young to be president, he showed them that they were wrong," he said. "I hope to show anyone who thinks I'm too young to be Senator that they're wrong."
Ferguson and Rush also ganged up on Kimpson, as both promised to introduce a bill to prevent a lawmaker like Gilliard from endorsing and getting a paycheck from a candidate.
Kimpson said there was nothing wrong with that and accused his opponents of "political grandstanding."
"There are many small businesses that use their business to consult with campaigns," he said. "We really ought to be introducing bills to ban (Gov.) Nikki Haley from siphoning money from the public schools to the private schools."
Former Charleston City Councilman Maurice Washington noted he has public officials endorsing him but they aren't receiving money from his campaign. "All of them are supporting me based on my past record as a public official and a public servant," he said.
Herbert S. Fielding, a retired jobs counselor and a son of former District 42 Sen. Herbert U. Fielding, said what sets him apart is his work experience in one of the area's most critical issues: helping residents find good jobs.
"I'm most proud of that fact I've helped several veterans get jobs in this area," he said, adding that education is key to raising up the black community, which has a higher level of unemployment. "There are good jobs in Charleston," he said, "but our children are not qualified for them because they can't pass the work key exam."
Fielding mostly stayed out of the fray but at one point joked, "It's getting warm in here."
Kimpson also jabbed at Ferguson, who works for 9th Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, saying, "Too many of your young men are pleading guilty to these crimes because the Solicitor's Office is talking them into it, and they're marred for the rest of their lives."
Washington sat out the first NAACP-sponsored debate because of concerns that it wasn't a level playing field, but he showed up Tuesday, even though the county's Democratic chair has spoken out against him.
Washington also spoke out the most strongly against the current single-member districts gerrymandered to concentrate black voters into a few districts. "I believe single member districts are a detriment not only to minorities but also to the citizenry of South Carolina," he said. "It creates polarization, deadlocks. It pits whites against blacks."
Bob Thompson drew laughs with his simple, folksy answers, beginning with a case of butterflies right after he talked about serving in Jimmy Carter's "Peanut Brigade." "Forgive me," he said. "I'm not used to this much pressure."
He also drew laughs when he voiced support for the State Ethics Commission: "They're doing the job they have to do, making sure we don't steal nothing." At another point, he talked about Columbia's learning curve. "Even though we answer these questions, we don't know what we're going to do when we get there," he said.
All candidates vowed to support President Barack Obama's agenda, including the Medicaid expansion that south Carolina Republicans have refused to accept. They also said they wouldn't support vouchers where tax dollars are used to help families attend private schools.
Ford resigned in May amid ethics and health problems, triggering a special election. On Aug. 13, Democratic voters in the district, from West Ashley to downtown Charleston to North Charleston, will go to the polls. If no one gets more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two candidates will be in an Aug. 27 runoff.
Libertarian candidates Alex Thornton and Rodney Travis and Republican Billy Shuman also seek the District 42 seat.
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Rather than low prices, a top cheese maker believes the reason is the system itself.
by Dennis Halladay, Hoard's Dairyman Western Editor
Not since the dairy farmer revolt in the mid-1960s that led to creation of the Gonsalves Milk Pooling Act and a statewide pricing formula in 1969, has there been such deep producer pricing anger in California as this year and last.
What is literally a revolution is underway to change or scrap the system before, producers say, it bleeds them to death financially.
For decades, debate has fallen strongly along producer versus processor lines. Producers say they need higher prices just to survive. Processors say without low prices they can't continue building plant capacity and competing in the marketplace.
Price hike petitions made by producers to the California Department of Food and Agriculture have historically been few, far between and small . . . if at all.
The April issue of Hoard's WEST, the Western edition of Hoard's Dairyman, featured a long interview with Geoffrey Vanden Heuvel, an outspoken advocate for higher producer prices, entitled "California's pricing system is killing its dairies."
In addition to igniting discussion, it prompted a leading California cheese maker, John Jeter, president and CEO of Hilmar Cheese Company (pictured here), to offer his perspectives on the issue. His interview appears in the June issue of Hoard's WEST.
Many producers may be surprised to learn that Jeter agrees with Vanden Heuvel that California's pricing system IS killing its dairies.
But he doesn't think the prices it generates are the reason. Instead, he believes the existence of any state-run pricing system is a bigger problem. Jeter says it is killing California's dairies because it doesn't inspire the new product investment, innovation and marketing that increases the value of producers' milk.
Jeter's interview is a fascinating read that not only illustrates why California producers and processors need each other, but also why they may not be too far apart.
The author has served large Western dairy readers for the past 36 years and manages Hoard's WEST, a publication written specifically for Western herds. He is a graduate of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, majored in journalism and is known as a Western dairying specialist.
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