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Fans of the Charleston RiverDogs simply do not like to lose. However, in this case, the biggest losers were the biggest winners.
Partnering with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), the RiverDogs joined in the local Lighten Up Charleston Healthy Lifestyles campaign to eat smarter and healthier while combating obesity.
Fans registered with the initial weigh-in and after everyone tipped the scales for the final time, Greg Shore of North Charleston won by losing 22.6 pounds with an 8.6 percent total body weight loss.
For his loss, Shore wins a pair of 2014 RiverDogs season tickets and a free round of golf and cart for four at the City of Charleston's Municipal Course.
"Even though I struggle with my weight, I tend to not pay as much attention to the way I eat during the summer," said Shore. "I thought this would be a good way to challenge myself.
Second place went to Alan Cabading of Charleston, who dropped 9.6 pounds with a 4.7 percent total weight loss. For his loss, Cabading receives three personal-training sessions at the MUSC Wellness Center and a body composition test at the Wellness Center along with four tickets to the Old Slave Mart Museum in downtown Charleston.
Third place was awarded to Bobby Stephens of West Ashley, who lost 6.2 pounds with a 3.46 percent total weight loss. For his effort, he receives fresh vegetables and herbs from MUSC's Urban Garden, as well as healthy cooking tips and recipes. In addition, Stephens won a complimentary tour of the farm and an education lesson (up to 20 people) and four tickets to downtown's Old Exchange Building.
"I am so proud of the participants who took part in the RiverDogs Healthy Challenge and committed to eat healthier and be more active," said Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. "The challenge is a successful example of our community coming together to support and encourage each other to be healthy. I commend the RiverDogs for partnering with Lighten Up Charleston, MUSC Wellness Center and the MUSC Urban Farm to sponsor the challenge and inspiring their fans to live healthy lives." Starting in April and continuing throughout the RiverDogs season, the club promoted MUSC Healthy Challenge Tuesdays and the all-important eating healthy lifestyle through multiple on-field promotions and informative video board messages.
Concessions also got into the act by introducing healthy items from the MUSC Urban Farm that included the popular veggie taco.
"We are thrilled to be partnering with the RiverDogs to promote healthy eating," said Dr. Susan Johnson, Director of MUSC's Office of Health Promotion. "The new veggie taco made with fresh vegetables and herbs grown in the MUSC Urban Farm provided fans a healthy, delicious ballpark treat and were a perfect complement to the RiverDogs Healthy Challenge. We are proud to be a part of this initiative and look forward to future collaboration with the RiverDogs, Lighten Up Charleston and the MUSC Wellness Center with the goal of making Charleston a healthier city."
"MUSC Wellness Center is proud to partner with the RiverDogs and promote healthy family fun at the RiverDogs games," said Janis Newton, Wellness Center Director. "It was a perfect collaboration for the MUSC Wellness Center, MUSC Urban Farm, Lighten Up Charleston and the RiverDogs to implement the first RiverDogs Healthy Challenge. We are excited to join together and help Charleston become a healthier city and look forward to future joint efforts."
"In addition to a great partnership with MUSC, this has been a fun and worthy promotion," said RiverDogs General Manager Dave Echols. "Many people won by losing and we congratulate them as they attempted to reach their individual goals."
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Though unglamorous, sample prep is widely regarded as the most critical step in performing robust mass spectrometry.
Any number of problems—contamination, incomplete digestion, unwanted side reactions, technician error, etc.—may arise during sample prep to undermine a mass spec run. Recently, advances in reagents, protocols, and automation are helping mitigate sample-prep problems, speeding throughput, and improving reproducibility.
Detergent removal is a case-in-point. Used to isolate proteins from various sample types, detergents (e.g., SDS, CHAPS, Triton X-100, NP-40) are notoriously incompatible with mass spec (MS) analysis. Successful removal of detergents with good protein or peptide recovery, especially for low-abundance proteins, is critical for accurate MS analysis.
Earlier this year, at the ASMS conference in Vancouver, Thermo Fisher Scientific presented a new approach for detergent removal.
"Our goal was to identify a resin or workflow that would allow removal of detergents that would be detergent independent so it wouldn't just work with anionic detergent, for instance, but would also be compatible with any sample type," said John Rogers, Ph.D., manager R&D, mass spec reagents.
Thermo identified a resin with a strongly hydrophobic pocket; detergents bind within the pocket but the pocket is small enough that it excludes proteins or peptides.
"What's unique about this product is it works with either protein or peptide samples. The advantage is you can perform a digestion with a complex sample in the presence of detergents and then easily remove the detergent," added Babu Antharavally, Ph.D., senior scientist.
Thermo reports the method successfully removed >95% of nonionic, ionic, and zwitterionic detergents from 0.5−1% solutions, with high recovery of proteins or peptides. Tandem mass spectrometric analysis of 2.5−10 micrograms of BSA enzymatic digests at 25−100 microgram/mL—prepared in the presence of detergents and processed to remove detergent—revealed sequence coverage and MASCOT scores as good as or better than control BSA samples processed without detergent.
Trypsin digestion is a common step in protein sample prep, but there are few standardized methods for determining trypsin efficiency. JPT Peptide Technologies has developed a kit to monitor trypsin efficiency and showed supporting work at ASMS.
"When you do a trypsin cleavage there's always an efficiency question. How much do you add? At what temperature should the reaction run and for how long? What are the buffers," said Ulf Reimer, Ph.D., head, R&D. "Some people do it overnight in the cold room. Others do it at 37º. But there's no easy way to measure trypsin cleavage efficiency."
JPT is one of few peptide providers using a paper-based spot synthesis instead of beads, noted Dr. Reimer. Part of JPT's manufacturing process involves putting a trypsin cleavage tag on peptides enabling JPT to accurately quantify production. The same principle is used in the kit.
"To quantify the completion of the trypsin, you would put the peptides in this kit —several different target peptides (different lengths and sequences) with different tags on the N-terminus—in with your sample. On the basis of recovery of the cleaved controlled peptides you can determine the efficiency of the trypsin in your prep process," said Dr. Reimer.
He cites the kit's advantages as accurate in situ determination of trypsin cleavage efficiency and reproducibility; compatibility with routine sample digestion workflows; analysis using standard LC-MS protocols; and absolute quantification of cleavage products in the samples using heavily labeled tags. Kit availability is planned before the end of the year.
Automating sample prep in modest scale settings has proved difficult because of cost (equipment) and skill (automation expertise) requirements. Agilent Technologies presented an approach it calls "Rapid, Automated Sample Preparation for Peptide Mapping," based on the company's AssayMAP Bravo platform. The result, said Agilent, is improved reproducibility, robustness, and increased throughput.
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A technician is still required for some steps. The platform is "not hugely expensive but it has some limited deck space, and in between the digestion and purification steps you might need to go in and spend two minutes putting different plates on the deck and moving a couple of things around," according to Fulton.
Binding is quantitative, he continued, producing a high product yield from a small volume. He said the approach is aimed at applications such as biomarker validation efforts "where you need to run something on the order a thousand patient samples to do a study and you really want to do that campaign in a week or two."
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CLYDE - For the first five innings of Mohawk's Division III district semifinal against New London, Warrior pitcher Julie Adelsperger was unhittable. But, New London softball coach Peter Motolik said after the game that hitting is contagious. It may have taken six innings, but his team finally had an outbreak.
Motolik's Wildcats entered the sixth inning with no hits off Adelsperger and trailing the Warriors 3-0. Ashley Parr led off the inning by finally getting one to sneak through the left side of Mohawk's infield. The next three hitters all did the same, producing grounders that found holes on the way to the outfield.
Two runs had scored and two remained on base as Adelsperger got the next two hitters out on fielder's choices, giving her team a chance to end the inning with its lead still intact.
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New London Alyssa Hartman slides into second base as Mohawk's Ally Weinandy awaits the throw in a Division III district semifinal in Clyde.
Mohawk's Taylor McClain connects for a single to start a three-run rally in the fourth inning Wednesday in Clyde
But Taylor Parrott stepped up and delivered the game's biggest hit, a two-run double to put her team up 4-3. Pitcher Alex Bowers made it hold up in the final two innings and the Wildcats brought an end to the Warriors' season, moving on to Friday's district final.
New London will meet Bucyrus 5 p.m. Friday.
"Keys to our winning was a lot of heart, a lot of confidence, a lot of belief in one another," Motolik said. "This is a team through and through. ... And when somebody was down, somebody picked them up with a hit or a bunt or we ran the bases. This is a team that I'm happy to be bringing back on Friday."
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|At Clyde
|New London 4, Mohawk 3
|New London (19-5): Kaitlyn Spiecher 4-1-1-0; Riley Haswell 3-0-1-2; Taylor Moody 2-1-1-0; Alex Bowers 3-0-0-0; Alyssa Hartman 1-0-0-0; Elise Chaffins 3-1-0-0; Taylor Parrott 3-0-1-2; Cierra Hudson 0-0-0-0; Kelly Norrod 3-0-0-0; Breanna Wilson 2-0-0-0; Ashley Parr 3-1-1-0. Totals: 27-4-5-4.
|Mohawk (19-5): Taylor McClain 3-1-1-0; Cambria Kohlenberg 3-0-0-0; MacKenzie Sowers 3-0-0-0; Clara Adelsperger 3-1-1-0; Hannah Kieffer 3-1-0-0; Kasey Adelsperger 3-0-1-1; Julie Adelsperger 3-0-1-0; Brooke Weinandy 2-0-0-0; Charlotte Moes 1-0-0-0; Allison Price 3-0-0-0; Ally Weinandy 0-0-0-0. Totals: 27-3-4-1.
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|WP — Bowers. LP — J. Adelsperger
|2B — Parrott (NL)
Much like New London, Mohawk found it hard to get anything of Bowers early in the game. Mohawk didn't get its first baserunner until Taylor McClain ripped a single to lead off the fourth inning. After a pair of strikeouts, Clara Adelsperger singled, then Hannah Kieffer reached on an error to score McClain and Adelsperger. Kasey Adelsperger followed with an RBI single to bring in Kieffer.
But the rest of the day, Mohawk only managed to have two more reach base off Bowers, both in the seventh inning, and both were left on base when the game's final out was recorded.
"I thought once we started hitting and we had three runs I thought we'd relax more at the plate and pound it a little bit better than what we did or what we usually do, and it didn't," Mohawk coach Jenny Weinandy said. "My girls are strong enough that when they score one run, two runs, we're used to having pressure. And we've been in games where it's extra innings and we've been in these situations before and unfortunately it didn't work our our way this time."
Weinandy thought her team would be able to get more off Bowers, saying the Warriors had experience against similar pitchers throughout the season.
"Nothing anything special than what we've seen before," Weinandy said when asked what made Bowers so effective. "That's why I wasn't too worried about it. Our bats just didn't come through for us like it generally does. That's the bottom line."
Bowers gave up just the four hits and struck out 12.
Despite some great individual moments, Motolik preferred to praise the team effort rather than single out a handful of individuals.
"Outfield did a good job. Our hitters 1-9, I brought some JV players up and I got to take my hat off and give them some credit," he said. "Alex, she gets a lot of credit on the mound, but the courtesy runner, (Alyssa) Hartman, my pinch runner (Cierra) Hudson, it's a team. They did their job. To single anybody out would be a dis-justice to somebody. Because I've been preaching team all year long and we're playing in the district finals."
Julie Adelsperger kept the Wildcats hitless until the sixth when when New London finally got its bats going. For Motolik, it was a pair of freshman getting things going, with Parr starting things off and Kaitlyn Spiecher following.
"She doesn't realize why she's batting ninth, but she's my second leadoff hitter," Motolik said of Parr. "And she got the job done. And she's a freshman. Then we followed up with our leadoff hitter who's a freshman, Katie Spiecher, that came through with another hit. So two freshmen started this off. And it's so contagious. Hitting's contagious; winning's contagious. I really don't know what to say. I'm just happy for the girls. I'm happy for New London, the community, the school. The parents are supportive. It's great. It's a great thing. I love it."
Despite the loss, Mohawk's season isn't over. The Warriors are scheduled to play today at Hopewell-Loudon where they're looking to finish off an undefeated run through the Midland Athletic League, and the outright league title.


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HOUSTON - The teenage boys were about to come to blows in the hallway at Yates High School over $10 one had purloined from the other's pocket - as a prank, he protested.
Willie Demby Jr. - all 6-foot-2, 235 pounds of him - quickly cooled down the dispute.
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I don't trust financial advisers. I'm not entirely sure why but I inherently do not trust experts in any non-science field and I have my fraud radar on red alert if it has anything to do with money.
I separate financial advisers into two categories – those that help you plan and those that help you invest. I see some value in the ones that help you plan for the future. You sit down with the planner, list your financial goals, and come up with a financial plan that helps you achieve those goals. They provide another perspective on your situation and can give advice as to what has worked for others and what has not. While I'm sure that's a simplification, that's the basic idea.
Then there are those who help you invest. They can recommend a basket of investments to help you achieve your goals or they directly manage your money. The advantages of using an adviser like this is that you can stay hands off while they invest your money on your behalf. They can do the research, buy a diversified portfolio, and help you an area you may be weak in. Whether they're fee only and provide only direction or commission, where they earn a percentage of assets, the end result is that you've outsourced the work.
So why do I not trust them? First, I don't think I need someone to help me plan our financial future. While I'm certainly not an expert on the subject, I feel that sitting down and setting a plan with an "expert" isn't going to be any better than if I sat down with a book on financial planning. As for giving my money to someone or taking the advice of an adviser for investing, I don't see how that beats going with a mutual fund. Since they don't have a crystal ball, are their recommendations going to beat a mutual fund managers? If I go safe with an index fund and opt for a lazy portfolio, will I really be that far behind? If the majority of actively managed mutual funds, staffed with the best and the brightest working on this 24/7, can't beat the index… can an adviser?
Let me know what you think, hopefully I haven't kicked over a hornet's nest! (or maybe it's good if I do, I don't know what I don't know so I'd love to hear another perspective)
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Marcie Alberts came up to the press table and took a seat right right behind me.
I was typing up my game story - a loss last year by HU's women's team to Muskingum that shouldn't have been a loss.
As typed, I could feel Alberts looking over my shoulder. I stopped in the middle of a sentence. Something about a coach reading my story as I wrote it came across as a weird dynamic.
"What comes after that?" Alberts asked.
I told her that Muskingum's coach said she was confident her team could come back.
"Well," Alberts said briskly, "you can put in your story that we will beat them next year."
The comment was filed away.
After Heidelberg's 78-75 win over the Muskies Saturday, I asked Alberts if she remembered the conversation.
She did.
"I remember being ticked off after we lost," Alberts said.
So, getting a win Saturday was special. For Alberts. For her players. For Heidelberg.
It's been a rough season for the Student Princes, record-wise. The win over Muskingum made them only 6-17, 2-14 in the Ohio Athletic Conference.
But the record doesn't tell the whole story.
Heidelberg lost to Wilmington in the final seconds, and played the No. 5 team in the country, Ohio Northern, tight until the final five minutes.
But aside from a win at home over Marietta in December, it's been a year of frustration in the OAC for Heidelberg.
Until Saturday.
As usual, Kathleen Phillips was the leading scorer. Phillips, a junior from Sandusky St. Mary who has started since her freshman year, went over 1,000 points this season. But in this game, just about everyone contributed.
It was HU's first win of any kind in 2013.
"We could have folded a couple of times but we didn't, to see the jubilation on the (the players') faces," Alberts said. "I want them to be able to enjoy this."
And yet, it wasn't just a feel-good win; it was a crucial one. With the win, Heidelberg tied Muskingum at 2-14. With Baldwin Wallace in a self-imposed postseason ban this season, every OAC team but one will make the eight-team postseason tournament. That makes HU's final games this season - a home game with BW and a road contest at Otterbein - huge.
"That's why you never quit playing," Alberts said. "I firmly believe if we get in the tournament, anything can happen."
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Not one voter cast a ballot in one Minneapolis precinct on Election Day. That's because the only living species in Ward 10, Precinct 3B, is of the aquatic variety....
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Jan. 24, 1923 – Jan. 26, 2013
Charlotte Smallwood-Cook, of Castile, the first woman elected as a district attorney in New York State, died Jan. 26 of lung cancer in Crossroads House, Batavia. She was 90.
Born Charlotte Licht in Union Springs, she was a 1940 graduate of Trumansburg High School. She graduated from Cornell University in 1944 and Columbia University in 1946, then moved to Warsaw – the hometown of her first husband, Edward "Ned" Smallwood. The couple practiced law as partners.
She was 26 when she was elected Wyoming County district attorney in 1949, having defeated the county Republican Committee's candidate of choice in the primary and winning the general election by a landslide. During her three-year term, she also became the first female district attorney to prosecute a murderer in a death penalty case.
After her husband's death in 1952, she returned to private practice.
In 1962, she bought the Augustus Frank House on North Main Street in Warsaw, where she built her practice.
"She was a country lawyer. She started out doing everything," said her daughter, Susan V. "Suki" Grossman.
As she grew older, Mrs. Cook stopped practicing criminal law and then dropped matrimonial law, focusing largely on personal injury.
Mrs. Cook retired last September. "She loved being a lawyer," her daughter said. "She really didn't want to retire."
In 1989, Mrs. Cook was unanimously appointed chairwoman of the Wyoming County Republican Committee, even though she hadn't been serving as a committeewoman. At the time, she became one of five women holding Republican County leadership posts statewide.
As a member of a New York State Bar Association committee studying restructuring the state's court system, she opposed selecting judges by appointment rather than election.
She served on the association's House of Delegates and had been a member of the Committees on Character and Fitness.
Mrs. Cook was among the first female fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
She also was a member of the Western New York Trial Lawyers Association, the American and New York State bar foundations and a past president of the Wyoming County Bar Association.
Her recent honors included a lifetime achievement award by the New York State District Attorneys Association.
Last Oct. 9 was proclaimed "Charlotte Smallwood-Cook Day" in Wyoming County, where a plaque honoring her now hangs in the courthouse.
Mrs. Cook's other interests included painting; she started painting at age 65 and favored landscapes in oils. She also loved antiques.
"Growing up, she would take me to auctions almost every weekend," her daughter said. "I used to hate them, but she had such a great time."
Travel was another interest that took Mrs. Cook to Russia, China, Greece and her favorite place – France. On one occasion, she took everyone in her law firm to Europe, and she and her family traveled to Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Her second husband, Frederick S. Cook, died in 1987.
Along with her daughter, survivors include a son, Edward C. "Chris" Smallwood; three stepdaughters, Cheryl Kelly, Suzanne Guesno and Jane Garrett; and a stepson, John Cook.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Castile United Church of Christ, North Main and Washington streets.


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Thanks for this screencast. Whilst the summary indicates the separation of UI from business rules as a benefit, the demo hasn't taken advantage of it. Perhaps a demo where the rules engine interacts with an object which is bound to the UI would be a better scenario. This could better demonstrate the separation of business logic from the UI. Additionally, the Rules could be applied to an object in a web app, web service or windows UI perhaps solving the issue: I need to apply the same business/validation rules in the UI and in the middle teir.
PS. Perhaps I should not criticise and do it myself
Hi, christianlott,
I am glad you like WF and the demo and thanks for the feedback. Please note that the sample is for demonstration purposes only to show you how you can leverage WF rules to drive the business logic of a windows form application. WF recommends that you model your application to fit your business needs and if hardcoding the items' prices doesn't meet your needs then you can pursue other options. One option is to create or reuse an internal structure and the rules can lookup values from this structure and manipulate the UI controls accordingly. Hope this helps.
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A central Iowa fruit and vegetable distributor is recalling several lots of cherry tomatoes after the grower notified the distributor that Salmonella was found in random sample testing by the Food and Drug Administration.
Capital City Fruit Inc., of Norwalk, said the recalled cherry tomatoes from Rio Queen Citrus are packaged in one-pint containers as Capital Brand Clamshell Cherry Tomatoes.
They were shipped to retail stores from Nov. 14 to Nov.18 and sold in stores in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
No illnesses have been reported. Capital City Fruit on Wednesday says it asked retailers to remove the product from their store shelves.
Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.


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As we as a community prepare to celebrate the life and work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., under the theme, "The Beloved Community," I am mindful of the ways in which the Scriptures inspired his life and his work. I am mindful of God's invitation to each of us to live toward the fullness of the beloved community. I am mindful of God's call to let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.
In this spirit, I would like to share with you an Affirmation of Faith, Based on the Writings of Dr. King (Presbyterian Church, USA):
"I refuse to believe that we are unable to influence the events which surround us.
I refuse to believe that we are so bound to racism and war, that peace, brotherhood and sisterhood are not possible.
I believe there is an urgent need for people to overcome oppression and violence, without resorting to violence and oppression.
I believe that we need to discover a way to live together in peace, a way which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of this way is love.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
I believe that right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
I believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
I believe that what self-centered people have torn down, other-centered people can build up.
By the goodness of God at work within people, I believe that brokenness can be healed. 'And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together, and everyone will sit under their own vine and fig tree, and none shall be afraid.'"
This affirmation hangs on my office wall. Perhaps, it can hang on yours as well.
I encourage you to participate in as many of the MLK week events as you can. I encourage you to discern in your own life how you can tear down walls and build one another up. I encourage you to – in your words and in your deeds – work toward the fulfillment of the beloved community today.
God Bless Your Daily Living into Being, God's Vision for the World --
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Rev. James A. Wetzstein and Rev. Charlene M. Rachuy Cox serve as university pastors at Valpo and take turns writing weekly reflections.


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ATTICA - Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.
It certainly was a fiery halftime.
The Seneca East marching band played the Jerry Lee Lewis classic.
The majorettes twirled fire.
And coach Ed Phillips' Tiger team got fired up to enough to erase what was once a 26-0 deficit and take a 27-26 fourth-quarter lead.
However, when the smoke cleared, it was Fremont St. Joe's Zack Yeckley hitting Marcus Kerr on a 12-yard touchdown pass with 1:03 to play, for what was the winning score in a 34-27 Streak victory in the Midland Athletic League opener for both teams.
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Fremont St. Joe 34, Seneca East 27
Fremont St. Joe26008 - 34
Seneca East06147 - 27
First Quarter
SJ - Jordan Sessler 4 pass from Zack Yeckley (Corey Durbin kick), 6:16
SJ - Marcus Kerr 26 pass from Yeckley (kick failed), 6:01
SJ - Luke Stierwalt 46 pass from Yeckley (Durbin kick), 2:24
SJ - Sessler 3 pass from Yeckley (kick failed), :17
Second Quarter
SE - Kevin Moore 47 pass from Ethan Caudill (kick failed), 9:03
Third Quarter
SE - Mason McWilliams 6 pass from Caudill (kick failed), 9:50
SE - Moore 43 pass from Caudill (Adam Hall pass from Caudill), 3:01
Fourth Quarter
SE - Caudill 2 run (Isaac Phillips kick), 8:30
SJ - Kerr 12 pass from Yeckley (Sessler pass to Yeckley), 1:03
First Downs2013
Passing yards264214
Individual Statistics
RUSHING: Fremont St. Joe - Marcus Kerr 24-100; Zack Yeckley 6-25; Luke Stierwalt 1-1; TEAM 3-(minus 17). Seneca East - Jared Walker 14-43; Ethan Caudill 7-(minus 14); Jordan Phillips 3-19; Adam Bauman 3-13; Adam Hall 2-5.
PASSING: Fremont St. Joe - Zack Yeckley 20-39-264. Seneca East - Ethan Caudill 14-25-214; Jordan Phillips 0-1-0.
RECEIVING: Fremont St. Joe - Luke Stierwalt 9-120; Marcus Kerr 4-49; Jordan Sessler 4-37; Alex Veleba 2-48; Jake Yeckley 1-10. Seneca East - Kevin Moore 5-118; Mason McWilliams 3-37; Adam Hall 2-21; Adam Bauman 2-16; Jared Walker 1-15; Ben Hahler 1-7.
Yeckley's arm won his team the game, but his feet made the winning play happen. The quarterback scrambled out of pressure, and bought enough time for Kerr to get open in the back of the end zone.
"We were sprinting out right. I saw nothing; I did my reverse pivot. I looked around, I just kept my head downfield as much as I could. Then I saw this little buddy open," Yeckley said while patting Kerr on the shoulder pads. "I saw him wide open ... he goes up and catches it. That was great. That was great. That was something I'll never forget, it was awesome."
"I didn't know what to do," Kerr admitted. "I just saw the Seneca East DB, he just bailed and all I could do was wave my arms up in the air and just scream for the ball. I've never been so nervous in my life, but it worked out."
The winning pass came a few plays after the Streaks responded in a do-or-die situation. Facing fourth-and-18 on their own side of the field, Yeckley hit Luke Stierwalt for a 32-yard pass to keep the drive alive.
"Fourth-and-18, who am I going to? I'm going to my No. 1 target Luke Stierwalt," Yeckley said. "He's been there. Everybody knows we've been working. That's our 1-2 punch we got, him and Jordan Sessler. I went to him. I had all the faith in the world in him and we connected once again."
A few hours earlier it seemed like such a dramatic finish wouldn't be necessary for St. Joe. The Streaks took advantage of four first quarter Seneca East turnovers to build their 26-0 lead on four Yeckley touchdown passes (two to Sessler and one each to Stierwalt and Kerr).
At the end of the first frame, the Tigers had more turnovers (4) than offensive yards (1).
Then things started to turn.
"The bottom line when it's all said and done is, they took advantage of some opportunities that we gave them," Phillips said. "The story of the game is, we were down 26-0 and I told the kids, 'It's a new day. We're going to score one at a time; we're going to make this a game.' We have a theme every week and our theme was believe. And we came back because we believe in each other."
The Seneca East comeback began with an eight play, 78-yard drive that was punctuated by a 47-yard touchdown pass from Ethan Caudill to Kevin Moore.
Then it was the defense's turn to step up.
The Tigers kept St. Joe out of the end zone on two last second quarter drives that ended with failed fourth down attempts from the 11 and 7-yard lines, as the teams went into the locker room with St. Joe up 26-6.
"The avalanche was going the wrong way in the first quarter," Phillips said. "Then we kind of steadied in the second quarter, then we started pushing the snow downhill at them."
Mason McWilliams ran the second half kickoff back to the St. Joe 32. Five plays later, Caudill hit McWilliams from six yards out to get Seneca East within 26-12.
Alex Scheiber picked off Yeckley on St. Joe's next series, and the Tigers kept the momentum in their favor with Caudill and Moore connecting for another score, this time from 43 yards out. A two-point conversion brought the score to 26-20 heading into the fourth quarter.
Caudill finished the night 14-of-25 passing for 214 yards. Moore caught five passes for 118 yards and the two scores.
"The biggest adjustment we made is in the momentum ... When you're out there and everything's falling your way, you're king of the world. And we just had to change that momentum, and we did," Phillips said. "It's one thing to change it and get a score or two and make it respectable. It's another thing to change it and put yourself in a position where you woulda, coulda, shoulda won the game."
Caudill finally drew his team even with 8:30 to play on a two-yard touchdown run. Isaac Phillips knocked through the extra point to put Seneca East ahead 27-26.
"The amazing thing is that we have all those turnovers and we give them the short field and we come back and we have an opportunity to win," Phillips said, "and I'm going to say this right now, we come back, we get ahead in that last drive, they had to come back and win it, that's outstanding on their part too. I'm not going to take any credit away from them. At the end of the night, they won the ball game."
Seneca East got the ball back off another Scheiber interception and got in position to ice the game. With just over three-and-a-half minutes to play, Seneca East faced a fourth down on St. Joe's 30. A pass that would've been a first down was dropped, giving St. Joe new life.
"Couple things happen at the end of the game when they happened in my head I'm thinking 'Against a good football team, when you got them down, you can't let them get up,'" Phillips said. "You can't give them that second chance."
St. Joe took that second chance and made the most of it. Two minutes of gametime later, the Streaks were back in front. This time for good.
"We got together and we said 'boys, we got to do this. There's no looking back now,'" Yeckley said. "'We're 2-1, we got to get this first win in the league. This is going to be one of the tougher teams in the MAL.' But we got together and we were like 'this is the time, we got to do it. All the offseason work comes down to right here.' We did it."
"I'm just very happy for these kids, especially these seniors," St. Joe coach Scott Knisely said. "It's their first league game and to respond like we did tonight, we had our ups and we had our downs, but in football, a win's a win. And were very happy with the way our kids played."
Now sitting at 3-1, 0-1 MAL, Phillips said his team is on a mission.
"The other underlying thing we want to take out of this is that we still believe in each other and this team's on a mission now. ... They're on a mission like they weren't before," he said. "They're going to come out starting tomorrow morning and they're going to do what they have to do to take care of the things that cost us the game tonight."


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Values have been updated for landowners in Seneca County, and while this could mean decreases for many residents, some commercial farmers may experience significant increases.
Seneca County Auditor Julie Adkins provided information on the revaluation which occurs every three years according to Ohio Revised Code during the third annual Seneca Regional Planning Commission Zoning Meeting.
Adkins said in the last three years, Ohio's Department of Taxation revamped formulas used for valuing agricultural land enrolled in the Current Agriculture Use Value program. As a result, taxable values have increased for most soils in the program.
For people enrolled in the CAUV program, the increase could be up to 400 percent of valuation as determined in 2008.
Information on increases in taxation are based on individual property, however a meeting has been scheduled for 7-9 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Department of Job and Family Services conference room, 3362 S. TR 151, with Larry Gearhart, director of local government affairs for Ohio Farm Bureau.
"Larry will explain the changes and tell you that CAUV is still the best thing for you (if you are in commercial agriculture)," Adkins said.
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Valuation meeting
A CAUV land valuation workshop is set for 7-9 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Department of Job and Family Services conference room, 3362 S. TR 151.
For most residents and agricultural producers not enrolled in the CAUV program, total market value went down 2 percent, although Adkins said there may not be any changes in taxes owed due to levies.
Employees of the auditor's office have been out throughout the year investigating properties for the revaluation, the values of which are to be listed by the weekend on the auditor's website, www.senecacountyauditor.org.
Residents who believe their valuation is incorrect can contact the auditor's office and have their case reviewed by the Board of Revision, a quasi-judicial body which hears property owners' complaints. The board is made up of the auditor, the treasurer and a county commissioner.
David Claus, Seneca County assistant prosecutor, has sat in on meetings since he started working with the county and said the board is professional and works with complainants to solve issues before having to go to a formal hearing.
"The board really does a good job of reviewing every case," he said. "They take it very seriously and review every case individually."
Any changes in taxes due to the new land values are to be included in 2011 taxes payable in 2012.
For more information, call the auditor's office at (419) 447-0692.
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on February 9, 2013 - 11:08 PM
, updated February 9, 2013 at 11:09 PM
LOCKPORT – The two things law enforcers often find about identity theft is that they can come in bunches, and they are often connected.
In Lockport, police are dealing with the first, but still aren't sure about the second.
Over the past month, police have received more than a dozen complaints of identity fraud but have been unable to find any common links.
Unlike cases in the Town of Tonawanda, which appear linked to a single restaurant or a single bank, Lockport Police Chief Lawrence Eggert said this does not appear to be the case in Lockport.
"It's across the board. There's really no rhyme or reason," he said.
Eggert said police handled 17 to 18 cases in the past month, but said the issue was underlined a few weeks ago when officers started getting one or more reports each day. He said the number has slowed since then.
"We get reports like this all the time, but for us to get so many at one time, it really is unusual," he said.
Reports from the Lockport Police Department show customers from M&T Bank, Key-Bank, Barclay's Bank, Summit Federal Credit Union, First Niagara Bank, Citi Bank and Woodforest Bank all have reported unauthorized charges with debit and/or credit cards. In some cases, a stolen identity was used to open various store credit cards and even utility services. These fraudulent purchases were made online, across the country and also in Canada, according to police.
In one case, a Lockport woman said police in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., contacted her when a suspicious woman had used her personal information to open a line of credit at Kay Jewelers. When an employee called the police, the woman left the store and was not caught, but the victim said she has received thousands of dollars in bills after six store credit cards were opened in her name. She said her existing Kohl's card had been used without her permission.
Several victims noted the use of duplicated credit cards.
An Akron Street woman told police Jan. 21 that she used her Citi/Mastercard at a Rite Aid in Lockport and, a few minutes later, someone in Michigan used her card fraudulently, charging $543.
An Allen Street woman said she opened her mail and found an electric bill for a Texas utility account that was opened in her name, from August to December, with an unpaid balance of nearly $1,000. The victim said she has never been to Texas.
Eggert said police are not immune to this problem, noting that an officer in his department was the victim of a Craigslist scam and had his own identity scammed when someone was able to hack into his online cell-phone account and buy $1,000 worth of phones.
Eggert said police are hoping for a national response to the problem. He said that, on a local level, these cases are almost impossible to investigate because the victim is in one part of the country and the suspect, who committed the crime, is somewhere else. The cost of transporting victims to testify makes it prohibitive.
"It becomes easier for the banks just to shut down credit card accounts, issue a new one," said Eggert. "It's very difficult to follow up."
Drawing an analogy with home security, Eggert said people think nothing of purchasing a dead bolt door lock or setting a timer so their lights go on. He said consumers should think of their accounts and identities the same way.
• Check your own and your family members' credit ratings and run a credit check on your name to watch for unauthorized accounts.
• Change passwords frequently.
• Secure credit/debit cards in sleeves that don't allow card information to be scanned by readers that access magnetic strips.
• Watch for people who have access to your card that may use skimmers to illegally access information that then can be sold to a third-party.
Eggert said people should also be aware if they receive any notices of changes of passwords without their authorization.
He said victims should immediately contact their banks and then report fraudulent activity to the police, who will help walk you through the steps you need to do to protect yourself in the future.
"Mostly, just be careful," Eggert said. "It's a different world out there, but if you stay vigilant and act immediately, that usually diffuses it."
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Nurse Anesthesia
Is a Career as a Certified Registered
Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) right for you?
Nurses were the first professional group to provide anesthesia services in the United States. Established in the late 1800s, nurse anesthesia has since become recognized as the first clinical nursing specialty. The discipline of nurse anesthesia developed in response to requests from surgeons seeking a solution to the high morbidity and mortality rates attributed to anesthesia at that time. Surgeons saw nurses as a cadre of professionals who could give their undivided attention to patient care during surgical procedures, as well as in the refinement of anesthesia techniques and equipment.
CRNAs are anesthesia specialists, who administer approximately 65% of all the anesthetics given to patients in the United States each year. A nurse attends an accredited nurse anesthesia education program to receive extensive education in anesthesia. Upon graduation, the nurse must pass a national certification exam to become a CRNA.
CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered; traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery rooms; critical access hospitals; ambulatory surgical centers; the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, and plastic surgeons, and U.S. Military, Public Health Services and Veterans Administration healthcare facilities. They practice on a solo basis, in groups and collaboratively. Some CRNAs have independent contracting arrangements with physicians or hospitals.
CRNAs are in demand and therefore have many opportunities for general or specialty practice throughout the United States. A CRNA takes care of a patient's anesthesia needs before, during and after surgery or the delivery of a baby by:
Anesthesia is a recognized specialty in both medicine and nursing. Approximately 80% of CRNAs work as partners in care with anesthesiologists, while the remaining 20% function as sole anesthesia providers working and collaborating with surgeons and other licensed physicians. The American Association of Nurse Anesthetist (AANA---www.aana.com) supports both practice models and believes that quality outcomes are excellent in both.


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Beta points and badge system | Opensource.com
Beta points and badge system
Today you might have noticed a few new things on opensource.com, like badges appearing under users in the comments. We're launching a points and badge system (in beta) for the site. We're still ironing out some bugs, but here's a little more about the system and why we're doing it.
Meritocracy is at the heart of every open source project, including this one. The people who work the hardest and care the most end up running the show. Our new badge and points system will highlight the various ways that each of us participates on opensource.com.
Every day people visit the site, rate content, add comments, and share their favorite posts across social media. And they do it because they care about the ideas and information they find on opensource.com.
But some people care just a little big more, and we want to recognize and build on their contributions.
We started having a conversation on our mailing list about the benefits, risks, advantages, and disadvantages of creating a points/rewards system on opensource.com. The conversation ended with a question that is central to all discussions about the open source way: What are the incentives to participation in open, collaborative communities?
I think the answer can be found somewhere around the notion that people who know they are doing something good, something important, and collaborating in large, open communities enjoy being recognized for their contributions. It just feels good to know where you stand and that you are appreciated. If you earn merit, you should get to enjoy it.
And that is what we intend to do with the new badge and point system: reward merit.
How you can earns points
Registered users will earn points by doing the things they've already been doing on the site:
- 1 point: rating an article, voting in a poll, or thumbing comments up or down
- 5 points: leave a comment
- 15 points: Writing a poll (and having it published)
- 30 points: Writing an article (and having it published)
There are a few restrictions, but that's about it. If you want to know more, you can read more details about the points system.
Badges for points
Now that you can earn points, we decided to associate four different roles with the number of points earned. New users who register with the site will be assigned the Newbie role. Once you've earned 10 or more points, you become a Community Member.
The next role is Open Enthusiast, which you achieve after earning 30 or more points. Finally, the highest level we have for the beta period is a Rock Star, which takes 100 or more points. It's doable--you'll just need to warm up your vocals.
Again, this is explained in more detail and a pretty table in our participation section.
Note: Users who are not registered or not logged in won't earn points. So don't forget to log in.
Special badges
You'll also notice that some users will have extra badges appear in their profiles. Some of these badges will help identify certain community members' roles on the site. Examples would be Admin, Moderator, Comment Gardener, and Author. You'll also see others that are reserved for specific uses. For example, the winner of the 2010 People's Choice Award will be awarded a special badge. And all users who register with the site before January 25 (our one-year anniversary) will have a Founding Member badge.
As our community continues to grow and as we better understand the types of achievements our users value and would like to be recognized for, we'll look to add more badges. (Feel free to suggest your ideas.) We might also change the names into something that sounds less (or more, if the community likes) hierarchical. The last thing we want to do is diminish the importance of every contribution members of our community make.
We also need to figure out more tangible rewards for our members who earn merit. Swag is nice, but maybe there are more substantial ways we can make this system do what it's intended to do.
Remember, it's a beta, so don't hesitate to share your ideas. Give us your feedback on what's working and what's not. We'll be evaluating the points and badge system over the next few weeks. If we make any changes or tweak something, we'll let you know what those changes are and how things will be moving forward.
What are your initial thoughts on implementing a points and badges system here on opensource.com?
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Nice way to get some activity around the sites content!
I believe I wrote one of the first articles... do I qualify? :)
She's asking about Founding Member, though, which she should have since she's been registered.
Rebecca--there are still some bugs being worked out. :-)
Today I don't see badges at all on the comments, but when I click through my own profile, I'm both Newbie and Founding Member, I've been awarded "Comment Gardener" (is that for reporting spam?), and whatever one-level-up-from-Newbie badge I had yesterday was removed.
Temperamental little buggers.
I already see a founding member badge under your name.... as a matter of fact I see 4 badges under your name, and now that I look at my post I see one under my name as well.
She does now but didn't earlier. What shows up on a given person has been changing through the day as we iron out some kinks. :-)
Looks like you've got one! :)
Since I was someone who was a bit skeptical of point systems in the first place, and had my thinking changed somewhat during our on-list discussions about it, I thought some transparency in to that discussion would help any others who are interested in the various "why do it" thinking:
Is this node a good place to report bugs in the current badging?
For example, the badges appear a bit pixelated and distorted to me. (I can provide a screenshot if the trouble is on my side?)
I see "Founding Member" & "Community Member" people with a "Newbie" badge - it's a confusion that may not going away soon for people who are slower to comment and get the "Newbie" badge put away.
For myself, I have only a "Newbie" badge although I'm fairly sure I've authored articles, made comments, been here since before the site went live, and may even have some moderator rights in a few channels. But I hesitate to encourage everyone to pile bugs on here unless there is no other way? Mailing list is a possibility, but then I reckon some will go unreported.
Any hints when "soon" will be? Despite having contributed a couple of pages of articles I still don't even have a "founding member" badge...
Interestingly it showed up just after I posted that comment for some reason (and no, I wasn't logged in so it wasn't points from that!)
Thanks, Jason. I'll watch out for those things to happen. I'm pretty sure I logged in before today, though, so there may be some bugs still lurking in the system that need running to ground.
If I get 5 points from posting a comment, i'll just keeping posting comments. How about adjusting it to be 5 ± the rating of the comment? Then users will be encouraged to vote down spam and the problem will potentially deal with itself.
Ignoring the obvious systemgamers.
Erm. Another issue is that I can Upvote my own comments.
(Also, my hyphen from system gamers was eaten. Don't play with peoples' unicode!)
I guess it depends on how many comments you want per day. :)
I really dig the idea of awarding/losing points based upon votes up or down. I was thinking earlier that we needed a way to involve members in the process, given that it's merit-based...
The points & badges idea is super cool.
What drupal modules did you use?
An affiliates progam may be something to consider later and it would also help to get the word out about opensource.com
http://drupal.org/project/affiliates (maintainer)
Have you considered putting the code for opensource.com up on github ? we could then use their bug tracking tools & wiki
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That's a good idea, at least for the source - although I'll suggest gitorious because the source code for it is free and open (unlike github currently).
However, I think we'll hear about only 1/10th (or less!) of the problems if we make people leave this site to report issues. Using the comments field is unwieldy, though. Perhaps when a comment is actually a bug, it can be filed and a new comment linking to that bug report?
I love seeing these badges on my profile. It gives incentive to participation. I like the implementation you have chosen so far.
hi folks, have you considered the Mozilla initiative openbadges.org? It provides an open infrastructure to collect badges from different places in a badge backpack, with permissions etc. They are going to roll it out in Jan 2012. Have a look.
I do know about them, but I had thought of them as primarily being for more educational achievements that really showed you accomplished something. It does sound like our badges might qualify though. We'll check back in January when they're accepting issuers. Thanks for the suggestion!
you are welcome :) I certainly think you qualify, badges can represent anything, and I suppose the ability to write consistent, relevant, and good articles about open source is a quality to show (off).
The documentation page is a bit more explicit: openbadges.org/infrastructure-tech-docs/ and 2 other pages I find very interesting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/FAQs and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/p2pu/Assessment_and_Accreditation/Webc...
If you only earned points for writing, I would definitely see it. But since you can earn points just for rating articles or leaving short comments, it didn't seem like as much of an achievement. They do give StackOverflow's version of karma as an example though, so I think that's probably similar enough that we'd count.


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Wichita State is the first team to enter the NCAA Tournament undefeated in 23 years, but skeptics point to a soft schedule.
"People want us to apologize for whom we played," sophomore point guard Fred Van Vleet, who led Auburn to a third-place finish in state two years ago, said at the team's NCAA news conference Sunday. "So our mindset is that we do belong here and now is the time to prove it."
The Shockers (34-0), who open today at 6:10 p.m. against Cal-Poly (14-19), may have a better chance to prove themselves than any team in the 68-team tournament. Not only do the No. 1 seeds in the Midwest Regional have more doubters, but they also have the toughest road — by far — of any No. 1 seed.
The two teams that most web sites have listed as the most underseeded teams — preseason No. 1 Kentucky at a No. 8 and defending NCAA champion Lousville at a No. 4 — are Wichita State's possible second- and third-round opponents.
"My teammates and I have something to prove and there's no better way to do that than by having a challenge out there by those big names we can take on," said Cleanthony Early, Wichita State's leading scorer and rebounder.
People who doubted Wichita State before saw those doubts climb far higher after the brackets were announced. One ESPN commentator said Kentucky had more future NBA players on its bench than Wichita State had in its entire conference.
"I'm not the type of guy to worry about what other people think" Van Vleet said. "It's not in my nature. I'm confident enough in myself and in my own skin.
"As far as fans and people who live, eat and breathe WSA basketball, when they hear bad things, it gets them fired up. Our coaches are the same way. When somebody tries to disrespect the work you do, you can take it personally, but you can't let it affect how you play the game or what you do every day. Just keep grinding and they'll either change their mind or they won't."
The Shockers don't have a big problem with media critics who doubt them even after their run to the Final Four a year ago that included building a 12-point second-half lead in an eventual four-point loss to eventual champion Louisville.
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An Erie County parks worker who says he was denied a promotion because he has vision in only one eye will be offered the job, along with $22,000 in back pay and interest, under a settlement announced by the U.S. Justice Department.
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We had a chance to sit down and talk to Microsoft board member Dina Dublon recently. Dina was the chief financial officer of JPMorgan Chase from 1998 until her retirement at the end of 2004. She was responsible for global financial management and reporting, related technology and operations, strategy and acquisitions, corporate treasury, investor relations and tax. She has been a member of the Microsoft board of directors since 2005.
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Last night at the Drive-In Gray sat in my lap. He looked back at me, then noticed the stars. He said when he grows up he wants to be an astronaut so that he can go to the stars, and some day he'll take me there. Oh, honey, you already have.
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Michael Sally, who works in the real estate business, went on a road trip in May.
Program primer
The National Flood Insurance Program was created by Congress in 1968. It is part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
A maximum of $250,000 of coverage is available for single-family residential buildings and $250,000 per unit for residential condominiums. The limit for contents coverage on all residential buildings is $100,000, which is also available to renters.
Commercial structures can be insured to a limit of $500,000 for the building and $500,000 for contents. The maximum insurance limit may not exceed the insurable value of the property.
Source: FEMA
His destination: Washington, D.C.
What: The Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2012 removes subsidies for second homes, rentals and businesses, as well as dwellings that have had repeated flood losses. Rates also can increase on primary residences if a property is sold or policy lapses.
Why: Helps the National Flood Insurance Program repay debts incurred from past natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina.
Issue: Housing advocates are urging federal lawmakers to delay the reforms because of their impact on how much affected homeowners will have to pay. There's legislation proposing a one-year halt making its way through Congress.
The purpose: to hear first-hand how the Federal Emergency Management Agency intends to implement reforms to its flood insurance program.
Sally's interest and concern centers on the prediction that monthly premiums will rise sharply for millions of property owners across the country, including many in the Lowcountry.
The broker-in-charge of the Charleston real estate firm Pathway Real Estate Group described some unease after hearing the plan.
"This will be a tremendous blow to our communities," Sally said. "We have to press Congress to delay implementing this until we can see how to keep it affordable."
He and others describe a double-whammy for homeowners who are already reeling from overall increases in property insurance premiums, which are a separate expense from the federal flood program.
"You've got to think about retired people and others on a fixed income. This will have a major impact on their monthly expenses," said Andrew Muller, a property and liability insurance adviser at Neace Lukens.
Local real estate professionals aren't alone in urging federal lawmakers to halt the massive reform to the debt-laden National Flood Insurance Program. Similar efforts are taking place throughout the nation.
Low-lying parts of South Carolina, Florida and other states could be hit hard by new government land surveys, which could trigger flood insurance premium increases so big that property owners in those areas might no longer be able to afford the coverage.
At issue are homeowners whose flood premiums historically have been "grandfathered" at lower rates if they followed the rules in place at the time they bought or built their home.
Under last year's bipartisan overhaul, many of these people would face higher premiums when the new flood maps are issued next year.
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a one-year delay on the rate increase as part of a $39 billion spending bill funding the Department of Homeland Security. The delay already has passed the House as part of its version of the spending bill, and now its fate is up to a future Senate vote.
U.S. Sens. Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham, both S.C. Republicans, could not be reached for comment. U.S. House members who voted in favor of the year delay include Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., and Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C.
Clyburn said there is a need to make the flood insurance self-sustainable, but "we have not addressed the affordability component for homeowners who could see their rates quadruple."
"We need to delay the rate increases to give us time to find a more equitable solution," he said.
Sanford echoed similar thoughts, asking for FEMA to provide more details.
"Everybody knows rates are going up, but I think it is important to explain for what reasons, and that's a basic if you're going to charge more," he said.
The overhaul
The name of the overhaul is the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2012. It passed last year with sweeping bipartisan support.
The government's flood insurance initiative has required more than $24 billion in bailouts since being established in 1968, with billions of dollars in additional costs from Superstorm Sandy still being tallied. Most of the losses came because of subsidized rates and losses from repeat claims on homes and businesses that get flooded every few years.
The federal program subsidizes rates for about 20 percent of the 5.6 million dwellings it insures, FEMA officials have said.
Subsidies are applied to "pre-firm" structures, describing those that predate the first flood insurance rate maps in the 1960s. The assistance was made available to help people afford coverage even though their dwellings weren't constructed with flood protection in mind.
Some reforms are going ahead, such as requiring higher rates for second homes. In October, premiums on businesses in flood zones and homes that have been severely or repeatedly flooded will climb 25 percent a year until the rates represent the "true risk" of flooding. And subsidized rates will lapse when a home is sold or flooded repeatedly.
The delay would provide relief to people whose older homes were built to the flood code in previous years or decades ago but would be judged to be at greater risk under new flood maps. Higher rates on these grandfathered homeowners would otherwise start taking effect late next year, and some homeowners face multi-fold premium increases that could make their payments unaffordable.
Local lobbying
The Charleston Trident Association of Realtors is orchestrating efforts to understand the impact of rising flood rates on the region. That includes gathering survey information from its members and homeowners as it works with state and national counterparts to determine if the reform needs to be evaluated.
Ryan Castle, the association's government affairs director, said there's been limited feedback so far, largely because of uncertainty about the rate increases.
Owen Tyler, 2013 president of the association, said he expects an outpouring once rates start to hit property owners in the pocketbook.
"I expect when 'assumable' flood policies go away and rate increases start, our membership and anyone with a flood policy or needing a flood policy will have something a good bit more to say," he said.
For now, the uncertainty has already grown some fears that the rate increases could stem the recovery in the local housing market.
Interest rates already are edging higher. If flood premiums jump, it could push potential buyers from the market, some coastal Realtors say.
"The biggest concern is the uncertainty," said Andy Twisdale, a real estate agent on Hilton Head Island. "It seems like nobody has a handle on what the results will be."
Sally said the uncertainty could have buyers halting a home purchase.
"Flood insurance has always been a factor when people look at purchasing a home, and now we have a scary unknown when we talk about the future of those rates," he said.
Supporters of last year's flood insurance changes say delaying the premium increases means people whose homes are at lower risk of being flooded will have to pay higher premiums to subsidize those living in flood zones.
"Delaying risk-based flood insurance rates doesn't delay homeowners' vulnerability or delay the insolvency of the program," said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group. "Lower-risk homeowners will see their rates increase disproportionately to offset the revenue lost from delayed rate increases on higher-risk properties."
Reach Tyrone Richardson at 937-5550 and follow him on Twitter @tyrichardsonPC.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
The federal flood program is deep in debt and has not yet tallied all of the costs from Superstorm Sandy, which barreled through the Jersey Shore's Seaside Heights community last year.×
The federal flood program is deep in debt and has not yet tallied all of the costs from Superstorm Sandy, which barreled through Atlantic City in New Jersey last fall. (AP/The Press of Atlantic City/Michael Ein)×


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