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I respect and appreciate what the members of our public education system do for our children and communities. The men and women I know are consummate professionals, dedicated to their profession.
Although my home school district is the basis of this piece, my comments are directed to every working member of the public education system.
Recently, I listened to a presentation by Tyrone Area School District Superintendent William Miller. It included No Child Left Behind and a host of state mandates that everyone must follow.
My industry has its share of mandates, so I can understand the frustration that all endure. Miller concluded the presentation with a budget report summarizing past, present and next years' budget requirements to run the Tyrone schools.
What blew me away was when he pointed out the amount of money that will need to be cut from the 2011-12 school year to cover a nearly $1.7 million drop in direct state funding and an additional $1 million in new expenses. If this is what Tyrone is facing, everyone should get used to the idea that cuts won't be limited to sports or after-school programs.
Folks, are there line items within your districts' budget that you have specific influence over and that, if acted on, would enable your district to lessen the blow of these proposed cuts. Consider a pay freeze and what you contribute toward the cost of health care.
As a parent (my children are raised and on their own) and small-business owner, I understand the financial pain and challenges of doing more with less. There is never a good time to add expenses, let alone incur a pay reduction. There may be some among you who consider taking a wage freeze as a sign of weakness.
I would suggest accepting a pay freeze shows you recognize and understand the difficult times we live in. Regarding health care, some of you pay nothing toward the fixed premium cost, while others pay very little. For those of you who take exception to this suggestion, you might consider asking neighbors or relatives working in the private sector what percentage of their fixed premium they pay. Percentages vary, but it's likely you'll encounter a number in the range of 20 percent for employee-only coverage with that number reaching 50 percent or more for those with family coverage.
Health care is not an entitlement of employment. It is a service. It costs money, and everyone should participate.
Although it's early in the negotiations process, teachers and professional staff should consider the distinct possibility the Legislature, pondering the proposed cuts, could also authorize districts the power to furlough personnel if necessary.
As already mentioned, cuts this massive are going to require more than the possible implementation of pay to play sports or offering early retirements.
The system you have built your lifestyle upon has made promises and amassed liabilities that for decades have far and away exceeded the taxpayer's ability to pay for.
I take no pleasure in making these statements, and I'm sure they're difficult for most to read and accept. I encourage teachers and professional staff to stay positive during the process and to focus on budget items that you could directly impact. I suggested two. There are likely others.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Perhaps we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief now that the election is over.
No matter who you voted for in the 1st Congressional District Special Election, the mudslinging was getting old. Tuesday, May 7 couldn't come soon enough.
Mark Sanford, former governor of South Carolina and three time seat holder of the 1st Congressional District was victorious over Elizabeth Colbert Busch, a first time political contender.
Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent.
The Moultrie News took to the street to see how people voted, and why.
The district is heavily populated with hold-firm Republicans, but rumor had it that Sanford's transgressions would have many jumping party lines.
Chris Cromer, though held firm in his support of Sanford.
"I am a gay Republican. I worry about our money and where we are going as far as the economy is concerned. We have to have a conservative in office to ensure fiscal responsibility," he said.
As for Sanford's transgressions, he said, "Clinton set the record. If we can excuse Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky, we can excuse Sanford. Clinton lied about the whole thing. Sanford didn't."
And worse, he said, "I think Lulu used her maiden name to power up her campaign. That's the only thing she had going for her. She threw mud and Sanford never put her down. She is pro-union and just wasn't qualified for the job," said Cromer.
"People around the country think South Carolinians are stupid. What would have been stupid would have been to elect Lulu to office and allow her to pull in the unions and give away the very program we've worked so hard to obtain."
Jimmy Sinkler of Mount Pleasant didn't expect Sanford to win by as much of a margin as he did. "The polls said Busch and Sanford were close. I don't know that I put too much faith in polls, though. But I am glad he won," said Sinkler.
"I was tired of her campaign slinging mud. There's nothing much more telling about someone when mud is all they've got," he said.
"She never told us what and how she was going to do anything for South Carolina."
And as far as Sanford's admission to his well and overly publicized affair, Sinkler said he certainly didn't approve of his indiscretions, but forgave Sanford.
Matthew Montgomery of Mount Pleasant felt like Sanford was a good congressman. "Sure he had a couple of faults, no doubt," he said. "But who doesn't?"
Montgomery said he was surprised Sanford's win was by so much, considering all of the money the Democrats put into Busch's campaign.
"I feel like those that listen to national news sources are not educated on the real facts. Sanford is going to bring in more jobs to our state and hopefully convince other congressmen in Washington to do the right thing for our nation," he said.
Jimmy Huber did not vote due to time constraints but he was certain Sanford would be elected. "I didn't think he would win by such a large margin because of the bad decisions he made. He was certainly at a disadvantage, but the voters ultimately made the right choice," he said.
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hnbrdummy, You must have missed the part about the US Marine Corps being furious over Reid's remarks.
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Patriot, my apologies to you and your veteran brethren. You're right. I am simply appalled at Reid's presumption of the cause while the investigation was in its infancy. So typical of politicians to bloviate before the facts are in. My thoughts and sympathies to our fallen heroes.
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Well I hate to underestimate them. However, they did misrepresented Majority Leader Reid's statement.
Really? How? The words I quoted were his. You may not like it, but it's true.
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As a retired 30 year member of the USAF, I am absolutely appalled at some of these comments. We lost 7 members of the USMC today. Your comments should be honoring them. Instead, you continue the same ole rhetoric about political parties. And you Majoritarian, should have your as# kicked. While everyones opinions should be respected, your comments have been tolerated for too long.
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Freeper alert!
Please work on the capitalization skills. They are so random I cannot even begin to understand why some letters in your posts get capitalized and others do not.
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Can Harry Reid stoop any lower?
Possibly: He could have said it's the NRA's fault.
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HARRY REID: "As I indicated, it was quite a big explosion. We'll follow this news very closely. I will do whatever I can going forward to support the United States military and the families of the fallen Marines. Mr. President, it's very important we continue training our military, so important. But one of the things in sequester is we cut back in training and maintenance."
Can this guy stoop any lower?
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5 Life Lessons from a Former Mean Girl
Have you ever woken up with the lingering remnant of a once-forgotten memory? Usually it's a repressed trauma, like an alien abduction or the knowledge that your middle name is Gaylord. In other words, they're memories that require years of therapy to forget again. One day this repressed memory phenomenon happened to me. Only instead of waking up with the memory of tattooing happy and sad theater masks to my inner thighs, I suddenly remembered that I used to be a bully. A flood of childhood incidents came back to me, each more awful than the last, all of them changing my entire view of myself.
The effect was devastating. So devastating that I immediately purged all of my guilt into a mocha-fueled confession session on my Twitter account, as the Torah requires. Still, the guilt of all those bad acts lingered. According to the one-eyed gypsy I met at the carnival the other day, unless I use my shameful past for good, the guilt of being a bully will haunt me forever. And also my ears will turn to frogs by midnight tonight. So I'm turning my shame into wisdom for all of you.
#5. Bullying Is a Symptom of Bigger, Badder Things
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My personal journey into badness started when I was about 7 years old with this incident:
Now, you might chalk up a little dirty graffiti as innocent childhood shenanigans. But you don't know me and my weird thing with swear words. I don't say them. If you go back and look at the dozens of articles I've written for Cracked, you'll only find a handful of cuss words. What you will find instead are substitutions so archaic and unnatural that I've turned down multiple offers to go back in time and write movies for the 1940s.
Okey-dokey, artichokey! Farts.
But in second grade, I was in a different state of mind. My teacher was a harda$$. She said I couldn't tie my jacket around my waist, that I had to tie it over my shoulders like some kind of baby WASP. She said I pronounced "aunt" wrong. (I didn't -- I pronounced it like white people say it.) She made me sit by her desk at all times. Oh, and I was flunking out of second grade. I can look back now, as an adult and a mom and a former teacher, and see that second grade me was overwhelmed. But when you're a little kid sitting at a little desk and the "incompletes" and "Fs" and notes home about how much you suck start piling up, it's easy to rebel. So I turned bad. Super bad.
Terrible. I'm cringing at the memory as I write this. But shame on Mrs. Dummy for giving a showoff bad girl a great setup for physical comedy at the expense of a bullied barely fat kid. Because this interaction -- the walk that I made to the poor classmate -- took about 10 freaking minutes to happen. Mrs. Uglybutt gave up on waiting and kept teaching class about cursive or whatever as I made micro-steps across the room. The whole class watched, enthralled. Every inch forward got a laugh.
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When I finally got to this poor, harassed child, I acted like my arms weighed like planets as I lifted them. I'd like to think I gently whispered "I'm so sorry" as I gave the boy my horrible hug, but I was really glorying in all the attention. In fact I made a crying face and wrapped my arms around him like he was a beach ball, not actually touching him whatsoever. Hilarious. Not only were there no consequences for being a complete jerk, but I turned the whole episode into a way to get attention and avoid my work, which was what I really wanted in the first place. It was a terrible lesson.
So if you're a parent and your kid is getting picked on, of course you should do something about it. But if you're a parent and you find out your own kid is the one teasing other kids, dig deeper. There's an amazing chance they're struggling with other stuff. It's like the one thing Hollywood gets right about bullies -- there's almost always a crap stew happening in a bully's head or home or karate class.
Which brings me to my next point ...
#4. Bullying Is an Evolutionary Strategy
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We're all born bullies. Reaching up for teats that don't belong to us, pooping all over people, demanding attention at all hours of the night. Empathy and suckling avoidance are drilled into us over our toddler years, but some kids take longer than others to pick up on appropriate human interactions. That's why you see preschool kids who won't share their blocks while others stand in the corner crying, too scared to talk to anyone but their moms and their mom's boobs.
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I think a few of us deliberately subvert our social skills to get ahead or just keep up. By the time I hit third grade, I wasn't just mean, I had it in my head that I was a little tough girl who needed to pre-emptively strike everyone within my radius. You would, too, if you looked like the little boy from Pete's Dragon.
I think I modeled my whole personality on Jodie Foster's Disney years persona. Only Jodie usually stuck up for the little guy and I was all about bringing them down to my level in a triumphant headlock. Like the time I got into a fight with another girl named Christy. I think the fight was about who was the best Christy/Kristi.
There are so many things to explain here. Like that the other girl had an Amish look about her because of her religion. Long hair, long skirt, no cutting of bangs. I was probably wearing a backward cap and chewing a slug of tobacco. This might also be a good time to mention that I'm now and have always been at least a head shorter than everyone else in the room. So going forward, picture each interaction with a tiny little patched-up ragamuffin looking up at her victims. Also, this particular incident was a pinching fight. That's when you take turns pinching each other to see who cries first, a thing I'm pretty sure I invented then and there.
Over the course of one school year, I evolved from lashing out to actively picking fights with kids. I wasn't the best Kristi, that was for sure. I also moved houses twice in that year, changed schools once, and started figuring out I was poor. I stopped wearing shoes when I went outside to play and nobody noticed. Shockingly, my third grade crush/stalking victim wasn't interested when I asked around if he liked me.
What do you do when the object of your obsession rejects you? Or when you push his girlfriend onto the ground at the playground and no one even cares? Answer: Get MEANER.
That kid's mother was probably also special needs, and I know this because she threw her shoe at me, and who would do that to a tiny little 8-year-old girl? Don't answer that. The point of these stories is that hyper-aggression seemed like a reasonable way to control my environment. The very first person who actually responded to my meanness was a mother who probably wasn't right in the head herself. Everyone else let me get away with it for a while, because who wants to engage with an angry hobbit?
Anyone who's actually been in a fistfight knows that probably isn't true. I didn't know that. But I sure did tell neighborhood kids that the best fist has a knuckle sticking out. I was like a little guy in a prison pretending to have STDs so the big guys would leave him alone. But then totally doing pinch fights with the other little guys so they'd stay in their place. Survival of the fittest, baby.
#3. Chris Brown Is Mentally Unwell
Let's be very clear here. Physically beating someone up to the point where they're beat up at all is not bullying, it's being a crazy person. Pushing fragile teens so far that they're driven to suicide isn't bullying, it's being a sociopath. And we can use the word "cyberbullying" all we want, but if you're relentlessly and systematically torturing someone over and over again, you might be a "cyberpsychopath." I could make a horrible "you might be a redneck"-themed joke out of that statement but I don't think anyone would laugh because those aren't funny. Do you see what I just did there? I cyberbullied Jeff Foxworthy!
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You might be a millionaire when no-name writers mock your world-famous joke format!
Part of maturing from a kid to an adult is overcoming the cruel streak that runs through our DNA. But don't confuse snark with unrepentant abuse -- the kind that memorializes your crime with a neck tattoo. There's a difference between weird passive-aggressive behavior ...
... and actually using those shivs to stab people. I never got around to that part. In fact, I had way more fun coloring them in rainbow patterns after playing with My Little Ponies and cutting Barbie hair and wishing it would grow back.
P.S. My little weird shiv-making sessions were intermixed with plenty of healthy social interactions. I was invited to birthday parties, I always had people to eat with at lunch, and I was always picked to be top of people pyramids. By fifth grade, I was a regular on the slumber party circuit. My report card notes home weren't "Kristi is a b*tch, do something about her"; they were "Kristi talks too much and is a distraction to others." I spent a lot of time in the isolation desk, the elementary school's version of the cone of shame.
But once given a dose of my own medicine, I shut off the crazy. One Sunday school teacher took me aside and told me I was too sassy and he'd spank me if he were my dad. I cried. He quit soon after. A lot of Sunday school teachers quit after me. One pastor called me out during church for the same badness. I cried then, too. My fifth grade teacher turned the tables on my sorry self with this exchange in front of the whole class:
"Are you in the GT program?"
"Sure fooled me."
(Kristi puts her head down and cries on her desk. End scene.)
She metaphorically slapped the bully right out of me and put me in my place. After that it was over. The brattiness was done and the moody blues of junior high and crying jags over not being able to get my bangs to cascade just right were on their way. You can't say that about legitimately psychotic people. They never get over it.


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|Canadian Company Threatens El Salvador with Free Trade Lawsuit Over Mining Project
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Destroying the Environment
In 2005, hydrogeologist Robert Moran conducted a technical review of Pacific Rim's Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the El Dorado Mine Project, concluding the company's study was incomplete and lacked necessary data and testing.
"It is estimated that Pacific Rim will use 7,300 tons of cyanide in the El Dorado site in Cabañas," said a staff member of U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities, a solidarity network that has been active in supporting anti-mining advocacy. "The left over cyanide would bring illness and contamination to the people living near and down river from the mining sites. Also open pit process uses 900,000 liters of water day, which is what a family consumes in 20 years."
The Center for Research on Investment and Trade has also concluded in a study that intensive water use and contamination by the mining industry in El Salvador would devastate the country's agricultural sector and in turn threaten food security as well as the livelihoods of campesino farmers.
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Resident hopes to revive recycling services
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MARTINSBURG — As the time dwindles before the Berkeley County Council decides county organizations' budgets, one Falling Waters resident asks that council members remember the needs of the community......
Berkeley County has one of the best recycling programs in the State. Hogbin and the other volunteers work hard. People in Marlowe should be grateful considering their long term delegate has voted against recycling at every turn.
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Hey doesn't Berkeley County have land at Sportsman's Paradise? I heard that place was already a dump.
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Reduce, reuse, recycle. Nothing wrong with that. Plenty of folks do this daily. However recycling is not convenient. Nor is it very economical or profitable. If it was then one would see new recycling business popping up left and right.
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We recycle, reuse, repurpose and compost as much as possible, sure it takes a little more time but it's the right thing to do. It makes me sick when you think about places like Chick Fila and McDonalds and all of the Styrofoam and plastic that gets used for all of 10 minutes and thrown right into the trash, it makes no sense. I'm glad that Jefferson County still recycles and its great that the Potomac Metals is now open in Ranson. I think it should be mandatory to recycle as much as possible, just my .02
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Majoritarian, I am a senior citizen and have met and dealt with all kinds of people during my lifetime but you are, without a doubt, the most negative, nasty person I have ever encountered. I don't know about England but here in the USA, scrap metal was used for the materials. I often wonder why electronics aren't repaired and continued to be used as they used to be instead of throwing them in the garbage. I also wonder why you came to this country. Were you kicked out of where you came from?
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"Hey doesn't Berkeley County have land at Sportsman's Paradise? I heard that place was already a dump."
Can't build there because it lies in the floodplain. The county has already began and continues to clean up this area and have removed many vacant and dilapidated mobile homes. When completed, there'll be no buildings or otherwise. Its future use is still being discussed.
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WE need to reduce the amount of solid waste that is diverted to landfills, period. Curbside recycling programs must be extended to include a greater diversity of post-consumer waste products. Unless of course you want more stinky landfills popping up throughout the county or its neighbors. Lets ask those living next to North Mountain how they feel.
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Long tube fluorescent bulbs are not acceptable at Grapevine Rd. Anyone know what to do with these or should I just send them to the dump.
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Okay, perhaps this is a dumb idea, but why are they not using more of the mobile multi compartment recycling trailers that they used to have? They were cheap, so many could be placed in numerous areas around the county, making recycling easier and more popular with the citizens. They don't require attendants, and there should be a number posted for citizens to call when the trailer gets full. Perhaps I'm missing some logistical nightmare associated with them, but I thought they were a good solution for expanding accessibility with as little cost as possible.
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Ask anyone in personal finance about financial planners and the first few words out of their mouth better be "go with fee only, watch out for those commissioned guys." The only people who don't say that are the commissioned planners! 🙂
That said, I've never actually met with a financial planner before. I don't count the one time I met for lunch with a guy who wanted to sell me his company's mutual funds (he was a commissioned planner) where we just talked generally about my plans, about retirement, and about insurance. He was a nice enough guy and lunch was pleasant (though I did pay for myself, so it wasn't a date), but it wasn't really a "meet" with a financial planner.
I also found it funny that the GAO issued a report [3] that said the status quo on regulations for financial advisers (financial adviser, broker, and wealth advisers) was adequate and that, basically, they're not pros. The article is interesting in that it's draws parallels between a financial planner and a mechanic. I think both are important, though I've gone to a mechanic far more than a planner. 🙂
I wanted to know if you used a financial planner and what you thought of your experience?


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Consumers will pay more when corporate taxes rise
Remember when President Obama promised "no tax increases on middle-class families"? Well, here is a message for all you single moms working in minimum-wage jobs. Obama's liberal Democrats, like Sen. Charles Schumer, want to raise taxes on oil and gas companies and on corporations doing business overseas.
Do you really believe these companies are going to pay these tax increases? No, you are, because these companies will only pass those tax increases down to you by raising their prices. You will pay more for the gas in your car, higher utility bills and for those basic needs you purchase at stores that sell products made by the businesses that make items overseas, like Walmart.
Wake up and see that Obama and his fellow Democrats are not watching out for you. It's too late to change your vote, but at the next election, don't fall for the line, "I am not going to raise taxes on the middle class. I am only going to raise taxes on those nasty corporations."
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BASCOM - It's been a tough season up to this point for Hopewell-Loudon. But a lot of the frustrations that have built up were taken out Thursday on Vanlue. The Chieftains struck early and often, posting 11 runs in the first inning and cruising to a 19-9 victory.
The win ups H-L's mark to 2-11 on the year.
Emma Kirby was the only one in the Chieftain lineup not to get two hits. That's because she singled in her only official at-bat and drew three walks.
Kelsey Coppus had a pair of doubles and a single for Hopewell-Loudon, driving in two runs. Shelbi Sauber had a pair of triples and drove in three. Michelle Welly also knocked in three runs while Abby Park drove home two. Gabby Gregg and Keely Hoover also picked up RBIs and Makayla Wilson had a pair of doubles. Kassie Welly scored three runs.
Alaina Goshe picked up the win in the circle.
No let up for Warriors against 2-loss Arlington
ARLINGTON - A day removed from a big Midland Athletic League victory over New Riegel, one had to wonder if Mohawk would have something of a hiccup Wednesday against non-conference Arlington, especially since the Red Devils came in 10-2.
Yeah, right.
Mohawk lined four extra base hits, got solid pitching from Kasey Adelsperger, and run ruled the Red Devils in six innings, 11-0.
Adelsperger also had a big day at the plate, with three hits, three RBIs and two runs. Cambria Kohlenberg scored and drove in two runs.
Taylor McClain doubled and tripled for the Warriors, scoring twice and driving in two runs. Charlotte Moes scored twice.
Adelsperger improved to 5-1 in the circle.
Rams shut out TC
UPPER SANDUSKY - Justeen Searfoss tripled and scored three runs, and Kyla Cusac and Sara Gier combined to throw a shutout as Upper Sandusky run-ruled Columbian, 10-0.
Gier and Cusic added two hits each for the Rams, who banged out 12 hits - 11 singles - overall.
Upper Sandusky jumped all over the Tornadoes early with five runs in the first inning, and finished things off after five innings.
"We played well tonight against a good Tiffin Columbian squad," Upper Sandusky coach David Young said. "Our defense and pitching worked well together tonight with a shutout by the pitchers and (no) errors by the defense."
Roni Daughenbaugh had two hits for Columbian, but coach Tom Artino said TC struggled defensively.
"It's just the middle part of the game the kids have not grasped," he said. " [There were] plays that should have been made. Hopefully it will all fall together. They've got to be tired of getting runs ruled. They're better than that."
Have no fear, Nicole Fretz is here
Calvert saw a three-run lead evaporate Thursday when Buckeye Central tallied three runs in the top of the sixth. But Calvert fought back with four of its own in the bottom of the frame, highlighted by a two-run triple off the bat of Nicole Fretz.
The Bucks got two back, but it wasn't enough in a 9-7 Calvert win.
Fretz had two hits and the two RBIs. Nicole Bickley and Mikayla Dariano each had three-hit days and each drove in a run. Bickley's day also included a double, and the win in the circle.
Taylor Ritzler and Allison Huss also drove in runs for Calvert (6-3).
Buckeye Central got three hits and an RBI from Morgan Wurm, a double and two RBIs from Britney Keiser and RBIs from Sierra Hanes, Hailey Hildebrand and Maddie Fagan.
Second loss in a row for NR
NEW RIEGEL - New Riegel lost its second game in as many days Thursday, falling 4-2 to Oak Harbor.
The Rockets (9-4) took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first and added three in the fourth.
In each inning, Oak Harbor's leadoff batter reached on an error, and all of its runs scored with two outs.
Justine Webb and Emma Vidal each went 2 for 3 with a run and RBI, with Webb doubling.
Emma Bergman went the distance for the win.
Taylor Kirian (11-3) suffered the loss, allowing no earned runs. She also went 2 for 3 with a double and RBI.
Kara Scherger tripled and scored and Lauren Zoeller ended 2 for 3 with an RBI.
Unearned runs doom Mohawks
FOSTORIA - Riverdale pushed across an unearned run in the top of the 10th and allowed just one baserunner in the bottom of the frame Thursday to beat St. Wendelin 8-7.
St. Wendelin led 7-0 after the second inning, but the Falcons plated six in the third and another in the fourth to tie it up.
Meanwhile, Riverdale's defense didn't allow a St. Wendelin (4-7) runner to reach third base after the second inning.
Taylor Farmer got the complete-game win despite allowing seven earned runs.
Julia Naus doubled twice, scored and knocked in a run for the Falcons (8-7) and Farmer knocked in three runs and singled.
Meghan Reiter suffered the loss, allowing only two earned runs while striking out seven. She also scored twice, doubled and singled.
Cortney Babb drove in three runs and singled twice, Edy Mowrey had two RBIs and a single and Krystal Krout scored twice and singled.
Royals rally past Raiders
KANSAS - Elmwood plated four runs in the top of the fifth Thursday to beat Lakota 5-3.
Lakota scored all of its runs in the bottom of the second, but couldn't bring a runner around after that.
Madison Arnold and Chelsie Schmitz each drove in two runs with two singles for Elmwood.
Rebecca Harvey added a triple and single for the Royals and winning pitcher Miranda Benschoter singled twice.
Morgan Gangwer suffered the loss, but went 2 for 3.
Sam Miller belted a three-run homer for the Raiders.
11-run third turns things around for Tigers
ATTICA - It started OK for Old Fort.
The Stockaders, led by Allison Adelsperger's three RBIs, scored four runs in the first and added a run in the second. They led 5-0 over host Seneca East and appeared to have the momentum.
Seneca East came back with a pair of runs in the second.
And then, in the third, the game changed.
The Tigers scored 11 runs in the third inning, scored two more in the fourth and run-ruled Old Fort, 15-5.
Kayleen England led the Seneca East attack. She had two hits, one of which was a double, scored twice and drove in four runs. Rachel Bauman singled twice and scored twice, and also picked up the win in the circle.
Seneca East improved to 9-5, 3-1 in the Midland Athletic League, while Old Fort slipped to 7-6, 2-2.


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Susan Tekulve's "In the Garden of Stone," published by Hub City Press in Spartanburg and released officially this week, won the biennial South Carolina First Novel Competition, administered by Hub City Press and the South Carolina Arts Commission.
The novel recounts the lives of Sicilian immigrants in the mountains of Appalachia, and it is at once a departure for Tekulve and a famaliar condensation of the sort of fiction she loves to write: stories about purposeful people idefined by geography and circumstance.
Tekulve lives in Spartanburg and teaches writing at Converse College. On the occasion of her debut novel, The Post and Courier asked her a few questions about her writing.
Q: Your award-winning novel "In the Garden of Stone" is redolent with a sense of place. At any given moment it seems that both action and character are wholly informed by geography. So place must be high up on your writer's priority list. Is that how you devise your stories? Do you always begin with the setting?
A: When one of my favorite writers, Norman Maclean, first attempted to publish his collection of short stories that contains his now-famous novella, "A River Runs Through It," one publisher who rejected the manuscript included a note that read, "These stories have trees in them!" Maclean joked about this response in the prologue of his book, calling the "trees" in his writing "my literary handicap." Fortunately, he was intrepid enough not to let this rejection-letter comment shake his confidence in his book, which is decidedly about so much more than trees. In fact, Maclean uses the geography of his youth to great effect, creating a story about a lost brother, human mortality and the consciousness of beauty. His descriptions of place, especially his details about the natural landscapes that formed his emotional landscape, are fundamental to all aspects of his story telling.
When I wrote "In the Garden of Stone," I studied the work of writers like Norman Maclean, Willa Cather and Sarah Orne Jewett. These writers all use place as more than just a backdrop for their narratives. Their descriptions of the natural landscapes shape their characters, create conflict, establish rhythm and structure within their stories, and communicate their central themes. My own novel is set in the coal country of West Virginia and Virginia, and my characters are immigrant Sicilian coal miners or people indigenous to the Southern Highlands. This is an area of tremendous natural beauty and harsh economic strife, and so I had to create primary characters who know everything about staying alive on the remote side of a mountain, or in a deep hollow. These characters are formed by this wild, isolated landscape. They have to know how to make moonshine, which would have been the only form of medicine available to them, (other than turpentine), in the early 20th century. They know about snake lore, and they know how to plant by "the signs." They know how to cook and make nostrums from the herbs and flowers they pick in the woods around their houses.
While writing this book, I had to keep in mind that the emotional identities of these characters are rooted in the natural landscape, and that their lives are shaped by the seasons and the weather, rather than by our modern sense of time. Early in the novel, a lot of the conflict occurs when someone, or something, invades the natural landscape. There is obvious tension caused by the coal and timbering companies that decimate the land. Ultimately, though, I tried to concentrate on the less-obvious, intimate stories about the women, children and immigrants who scratch out a living here, and survive. The novel is, at its heart, about endurance, but the children narrators keep the story balanced and hopeful because they still have such a firm sense of identity and place. Like most kids, they intuit the grim forces acting upon them, but they are still pretty open to the natural beauty of this place, and they are resilient.
Q: You are half Sicilian and half German, a Cincinnati native, and a former Peace Corps volunteer who spent a year in Poland in the early 1990s. How does your own international identity inform your writing?
A: My mother's family is Sicilian, so I grew up listening to the stories of her family's emigration to America. Her grandmother and grandfather, Josephina and Giuseppe Macaluso, met and fell in love on the boat coming over from Palermo. They married when they got to Ellis Island, and somehow settled in the river bottoms of Cincinnati. Then, they had 21 children. My grandfather was one of the middle children, and because he married late and only had one child, his brothers were always called my "uncles," or just "the uncles."
These men never spoke Italian to me, and they rarely spoke about their pasts, or about what it was like to grow up in a cold water flat above the Ohio River. I imagine that they didn't consider this part of their lives romantic or interesting at all. They were stoics who probably just wanted to forget about the "miseria" that their parents had escaped in Sicily, which was the poorest country in Europe around the time they emigrated. I know for certain that my grandfather didn't want to speak of how, at 15, he lied about his age so that he could drive a truck for a fruit vendor. At some point, he also went to work as a hired hand at a Catholic rectory. I had to find all of this information out from my mother, who must have been told these stories by an aunt or by her own mother.
As adults, "the uncles" were trainmen and printers who were more concerned with playing poker and "passing" as Americans. Whenever I asked my grandfather about what it was like for his parents in Sicily, or what it was like to grow up in the river bottoms, he'd say, "C'era una volta. Una volta. Una volta." I always thought he was saying, "I don't wanna. I don't wanna." When I started taking Italian language classes as an adult, I discovered that he'd actually been saying, "Once upon a time." This was his favorite joke. However, as an adult fiction writer I began to see these words as part of my family's mythos. There is a pattern of basic cultural and generational values and attitudes my grandfather implied when he told this joke: You don't talk about your hardscrabble past to your grandchildren, and if you do you, you tell the stories as if they were distant fairy tales.
When I began to use these family stories as the basis for the novel, my most challenging task was finding out what stories were left unspoken. I had to find a way to flesh out the more realistic details behind my family's mythology so that I could turn those archetypal stories of immigration and life in the early 20th century America into realistic fiction. Fortunately, the women in my family are much more effusive storytellers. I had one great aunt who sent to me a series of audio- taped family stories. I believe I received one tape a month, for an entire year. They were finely detailed stories that began with the family's emigration to America in 1904 and ended with my mother's birth in 1940. She labeled all of these taped anecdotes "stuff your mother never knew about your grandparents." So the descriptions of the Sicilians in the novel ended up being a distillation of my family's almost mythic tales of immigration, my own memories of what these people were like, and the detailed stories that this one great aunt told me about what "really happened."
Q: Mostly you have produced short stories, right? "In the Garden of Stone" is your first novel. Was the writing process different? How do you approach the task of creating short fiction versus long fiction?
A: Yes, before this novel I wrote mostly short stories, essays, book reviews, news and feature stories. I would say that writing a novel is decidedly different from any of these shorter forms because the novel requires a longer amount of time, and enormous amounts of emotional energy. When I sit down to write a short story, I think, "Who is my character? What does she want? What does she do to get what she wants?" I am very detail oriented, so I repeat these questions like a mantra as I write a short story. This keeps me from straying too far away from the story's central action. It helps to keep a story's plot a little more streamlined.
Sometimes I'll work on a single story for three months, expanding it and carving it back down, until I get it to a point where I feel that I have a draft that is ready to show. And then there are those rare moments when a story will come to me very quickly, in two or three days. These stories are blessings because they come out whole, and fairly unified. There's a kind of energy to them that I can't replicate consciously. A friend of mine calls this kind of quickly-composed story "the sneeze story." Perhaps this is not the most literary term, but it is a fitting description of a story that comes suddenly and reflexively, typically when I am working on something else entirely.
Novels, on the other hand, require longer spaces of time, peace and quiet. You have to know where your novel begins, and you need to have a general idea of where that novel will end. You may not know exactly how your characters arrive at their final destination, but you must have a destination in mind. Otherwise, you'll get completely lost inside your novel and never come out. You need to have a firmer sense of your novel's setting; if you are writing about a place and a people who are seemingly different from your own experience, you have to memorize the researched details of that setting until they become a part of who you already are so that you aren't just "information dumping" into your novel, and so that the researched details remain in service to the story that you are telling.
Q: Back to the novel: It's a multi-generational saga that spans 44 years in a little over 300 pages. And yet you are very specific in your descriptions and dialogue. How do you cover so much time present so many characters without compromising the narrative?
A: Originally, I wrote an extremely long and anecdotal short story set in Virginia and West Virginia. This story was set later in the lives of most of the characters who inhabit the published version of In the Garden of Stone. As you may guess, in this early draft each character had a rather large back story, so the short story was rather loose and baggy. One of my reading-partners read this draft and said, "You know, I really like this material, but it is too long to be a short story." So I put this piece away for a while because I didn't know what to do with it. About a year later, I wrote another short story that expanded upon a single incident involving one of the primary characters from that early short story. At this point, I knew that I had enough material for a novel, so I used this story as the opening chapter of the book. Then I started culling the rest of the chapters of the novel from the anecdotes in that original long short story.
Basically, I used that long short story as "an exploratory" draft for the whole novel. That draft allowed me to "test" the original material to see if it had enough heft for a novel, but since the story also spanned 44 years and had the arc of a novel, I used it as a general outline for the whole book as I concentrated on writing the individual chapters. So that I wouldn't feel intimidated by this novel's girth, I didn't call it a "multi-generational novel," though I knew that it was, in fact, a novel. I just called it "a book-length work of fiction that I was writing one piece at a time." That is probably the biggest reason why the dialogue and descriptions remain specific; I literally wrote one chapter at a time, focusing solely on the single chapters as I wrote them. I wrote the novel slowly, over a course of eight years. Often, while I was working on one chapter, another character with another too-long back story would appear on the periphery of the chapter I was concentrating on at the moment. I would cut and paste that periphery character and her/his story into a separate file, save it, and eventually that anecdote would give rise to another chapter. It was a pretty organic process. When I'd finished all the chapters and put them together, I saw that I had a 360-page manuscript. That was a revelation.
Q: You teach writing at Converse College in Spartanburg. What do you tell a student who wants to write a novel? And what is the best advice you have received from your teachers and mentors?
A: Aside from teaching the basic elements of narrative, I have some very simple rules about composition that I try to communicate to my students. 1) Keep the plot simple, but allow your characters' motivations to become complex. 2) Always give your protagonist a "job." In other words, if you know what your character does for a living, you'll know how that character thinks, and how she typically behaves. You'll also know when she is acting in ways that are out of character. If your protagonist is a Sicilian woman baker who lived on the island in the early 20th century, this woman most likely will remember being hungry all the time as a child, and therefore food will be her central preoccupation. This woman will work without a measuring cup, using her hands or fists to measure ingredients. She'll most likely have all of her basic recipes memorized, and, if she takes a liking to you, she'll want to show you how to make something, rather than simply giving you the written recipe. Even if she is widowed and living on a fixed income, she'll miraculously produce a bowl of pistachios, or a couple of blood oranges that she's managed to grow on the sunny side of her back yard, in the middle of winter. There's a whole history that you can learn about this woman if you let her boss you, gently, around her kitchen. If you listen to how she makes sweets you'll gain an understanding of how she perceives the people and places she encounters. 3) Never turn away from your story. As I said earlier, I tend to be detail oriented, and I love to linger over the sounds of words, so when I work on a story, or a novel, I continually force myself to follow these simple rules so that the plot doesn't become too bogged down with details.
Q: Describe your writing routine. Are you a morning person or a late-night writer? Do you insist on producing a minimum number of words or pages each day, or do you go with the flow?
A: When I have a longer stretch of time to write, I try to create a work regime by repeating certain habits. Usually, I wake up before the sun rises, and go downstairs to make a pot of coffee. I return to my office and read something, usually poetry, until I feel like writing. I'll write for 4-6 uninterrupted hours, knowing that one of those hours will be spent immersing myself into whatever project I'm working on, and one of those hours will be spent coming back out of that project. When I've finished writing for the day, I'll take notes about where I'll begin the next day. I think it's really important to know what your next day's work will be at the time you quit working for the day. Then, I'll take a long walk or lift weights, eat lunch, nap, read. By about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, I'll take more notes with a pencil on a lined legal pad. I'll read some more before I fall asleep. Then, I wake up and start all over again.
Like most people, I can't always abide by that ideal schedule because I work full time, and I have a family. When I don't have a long stretch of time for my writing, the main thing I try to do is read a lot, take a lot of notes, and carve out smaller moments to write. I have learned to defend those moments pretty fiercely. Most of the year, I am carving out time and space in my daily life to write, and I try to go to it as regularly as possible. I am always reading, which is an essential part of the writing process. If you establish what Flannery O'Connor calls "the habit of art," then the very act of writing every day will get you through times when you have a heavy load at your day job, when it is next to impossible to concentrate on writing fiction. If you are writing something, anything, on a regular basis you'll remain in practice and ready for when the idea for the next big book project occurs to you.
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I am wading into a novel project set entirely in Sicily, in the early part of the 20th century. The story centers on one of the periphery characters who appears throughout "In the Garden of Stone." This character is an elderly aunt named Maria. The new project is about Maria's younger life, when, at the age of 12, she's given to a convent in her village and trained by the nuns to make the abbey sweets. (Traditionally, nuns made and sold most of the fancy pastries in Sicily. They made these abbey sweets for the hundreds of religious holidays celebrated on the island, but this was also how they sustained their way of life in the convents.) I'm still in the research phase of this novel, so that's all I'm able to say about the book at this moment. Suffice it to say that I am reading a lot of Sicilian history books and cookbooks. I'm learning how to make Sicilian pastries. I took a trip through all the bakeries of Little Italy in Boston about a month ago. My poor family and friends have to eat a lot of cannoli and almond pastries whenever they see me these days.
Editor's Note: A shortened version of this interview appeared in print.


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HUNTINGTON - To some, it might've seen a little odd the way a group of five Eastern Panhandle wrestlers from three different teams were gathered Thursday night shortly before they were to compete in the first night of the wrestling tournament just chewing the fat.
"That's the way they always are," said Tommy Spinks, the father of Musselman's Cody Spinks.
Cody Spinks was among the group that included teammate Kody Kernan, Washington's Tyler Cross and Hedgesville's Steve Hite and Mike Cicchino.
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Journal photos by Rick Kozlowski
From left: Hedgesville's Mike Cicchino, right, wrestles Winfield's Isaac Reed, formerly of Berkeley Springs, at 145 pounds during the Class AAA state wrestling tournament. Right, Musselman coach Dennis Burlingame instructs one of his wrestlers.
"They all really get along," Tommy Spinks said.
To them, it's the brotherhood of the Eastern Panhandle.
"The Eastern Panhandle, we try to stay together," Cross said. "When we get down here, it's a pretty hostile environment."
It's a fraternity of sorts, too.
"If I see these guys 20 years from down the road, I'll do anything for them," Cicchino said. "If you've ever wrestled with me, I'll help you out.
"It's a real tight-knit community."
Cody Spinks added, "The whole Eastern Panhandle, we're all buddies."
As evidence, they could be seen celebrating wins by wrestlers from other schools and consoling their rivals in losses
"We're all good friends away from the mats," Kernan said. "When we get on the mats, we're not friends."
No, they are there to win, no matter who the opponent might be.
"We're enemies when we get out on the mats," Cross said.
Cross, who wrestled at 132 pounds, finished his season with a third-place finish after a 1-0 win over Jordan Quiocho of Parkersburg South Saturday afternoon.
Hite also wrestled at 132 and finished sixth in the state after suffering a pin by University's Scott Lopez in the fifth-and-sixth match.
Both wrestlers families watched the match one row apart in the seating around of the Big Sandy Superstore Arena.
Cheers rang out from Row 1 when Hite nearly had a takedown, but the wrestlers were out of the circle.
Later, the cheers came from the row behind when Lopez gained control.
After Lopez pinned Hite at 1:59 and the athletes exchanged handshakes, so did the two families.
Senior Bonefacio Garcia of Martinsburg finished his first and only season of wrestling in sixth place after dropping the 5-6 match to Washington's Asby Heath.
Garcia could not have been prouder - not only because he earned an award but because he got to wrestle.
"All four years of high school, I've always been working so I haven't been able to play a sport," Garcia said.
"I tried out for soccer, but I got cut because I missed too many practices.'
"My friend, Joey Fernandez, made me try out. He's helped me, trained me. My two coaches have worked a lot to improve me.
"I have good coaches and a good friend who believed in me."
Fernandez wrestled for the Bulldogs.
Prior to his performance in the state tourney, Garcia moved into the state rankings issued by WVMat.com, another signal of his huge rise in the sport.
"It's amazing really," Martinsburg coach Steve Britner said. "He's just a tough kid who's got a lot of heart. He loves to battle. Plus, he's a hard worker in practice; he never takes a break. He always wants to get after it."
Garcia's family is close to him always, too.
He has the name of his sister, Elena, who died when she was 1, tattooed across his chest. His mother's name is tattooed on his arm.
Now that his season has ended, it's back to working at King's Pizza for Bonefacio.
He got off the mat a little slowly, a bit sore after his match with Heath.
In keeping with the theme Eastern Panhandle wrestlers talked about, Heath helped Garcia up off the mat, hugged him, put his arm around him and helped him to the side.
Cody Spinks wanted to wrestle Saturday. He had done so, winning championships in 2011 and 2012.
This time it just wasn't the same as Spinks lost his 152 semifinal Friday night.
"I didn't want to wrestle anymore (here)," Spinks said. "I'm not going to lie."
He was disappointed, no question. He came back to get third place, scoring an escape point to defeat Paden Christian of Huntington in the third-fourth match.
"You get disappointed, but you got to rally back," Spinks said. "You can't end it on those terms."
He didn't seem particularly inspired in his consolation semifinal, a 13-0 major decision over Jake Alexander of Parkersburg South.
"I figured I'm going to win that, I might as well go for third and end it," Spinks said. "I did it."
Spinks will wrestle at Alderson-Broaddus after he graduates high school.
Among other Eastern Panhandle wrestlers in the consolation rounds, Washington's Tyler Sigler finished third at 120 after a 7-1 decision over Guy Fisher of Point Pleasant, and Bradley DeRito of Musselman wound up fifth in the same weight class. He won 4-2 over Braidon Knotts of Parkersburg South.
Sigler defeated DeRito earlier Saturday 6-4 in a consolation semifinal.
Billy Wilson of Berkeley Springs finished sixth at 126 in Class AA/A, and teammate Kyle Shambaugh was fifth at 192.
Hedgesville coach Bill Whittington couldn't have been more pleased by how his team's season turned out.
Of course, Whittington won his 500th dual meet during the season and became Class AAA's winningest coach.
It wasn't that, though.
"Of the 14 starting wrestlers we had this year, 11 of them never wrestled before high school, and one of the 11 came out as a sophomore.
"Out of that bunch, we got six kids to the state tournament. We were ecstatic; it was incredible.
"The beginning of the season, I would've thought two, maybe three. Last week in the regionals, we got six in and five others needed one more match (to win) to get in."
Dennis Burlingame of Musselman is surely among the most animated coaches who were on display at matside mentoring their underlings during competition.
While many sit, though sometimes rise, Burlingame always seems to be on his feet.
When the clock failed to start during an injury timeout with Danny Arndt winning a match late Thursday, Burlingame was up so fast, he could've pressed the start button on the mechanism.
"I get into it," Burlingame said, breaking into a sly smile. "I got to get my exercise somehow.
"I spend a lot of time with the kids, so obviously you get invested in them."
When Isaac Reed's father accepted a position with the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, it meant moving to the Charleston area, settling in Winfield and leaving Berkeley Springs behind.
Reed had wrestled for the Indians as a freshman.
It eased the burden of following in his state-champion brother Bradley's footsteps in Morgan County, at least.
Not in his own home, though, as the older brother rode Isaac pretty hard.
"He was kicking my butt all over the place," Isaac said. "Now he loves and supports me and tells me what to be doing during the matches."
The older Reed won his state championship at 119 pounds, while little brother wrestles at 145.
Reed wrestled an epic match with Hedgesville's Mike Cicchino in the quarterfinals, finally managing a pin in the third overtime. The match consumed 7 minutes, 51 seconds.
"That's one of the best matches I've ever had," Reed said. "That kid was strong. He was so strong, it was hard to get a takedown.
"(At the end), I knew how tired he was, so I thought I could pull something off."
After coming off the mats, one of the first people to greet Reed was Matt Parkinson of Berkeley Springs.
"We've been friends since I can remember," Reed said. "I remember when he was a short, chubby, fat kid. Now he's all grown up and pretty big."
Reed finished third overall.
Cicchino, totally spent after his quarterfinal loss, fell in his first consolation match and was eliminated.
"It was a little rough for me," he said. "Out of four days of wrestling, it was a couple of days of a career.
"I got over it pretty quickly."
While a disappointing end to his career, he overcame much to get where he was, though.
Cicchino couldn't wrestle at the end of last season because of an arm injury. He also suffers from Crohn's Disease.
"All his doctors can't believe he does this sport," said his mother, Kim. "For him to make it this far is amazing to all of us."
The disease is just part of his makeup; he doesn't let him shut him down, though.
"I'm so lucky just to be able to come here and do sports," he said. "Having it has made me so much stronger in the sport. I try not to use it as an excuse, because I know how lucky I am to be on the mats."
In the wrestler's eye, the sport has meant so much to him that he'd like to go "the rest of my life and if I can have an impact on kids the way the sport has on me, I've done my job.
"I plan to give so much back to the sport."
Eastern Panhandle wrestlers officials Ken Haislip, the father of former state wrestler of the year, Dustin from Musselman, and Greg Stains represented the Eastern Panhandle Officials Association in refereeing the action.
Twelve officials called 812 matches in all.


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In an article appearing in the May 8 edition of Science Translational Medicine, Spencer Phillips Hey, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University, and Jonathan Kimmelman, Ph.D., of the Studies for Translation, Ethics, and Medicine Group (STREAM), Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University point out the potential ethical and social trade-offs resulting from clinical trial reforms aimed at boosting Phase II positive predictivity.
The scientists say that many trial reforms being considered to raise Phase II positive predictibility (reduction of late-phase attrition) have repercussions for human subjects, as well as the capacity of the research enterprise to "execute its social mission."
As about two thirds of therapeutic interventions that enter Phase III fail to reproduce success observed in Phase II trials. The high rate of negative confirmatory trials, they say, have prompted innovations in Phase II design including the use of more predictive biomarkers, tiered approaches to outcome assessment, patient enrichment, seamless Phase II/III designs, larger trials, use of clinical endpoints, real-time pharmacokinetic analysis, randomization (for areas such as oncology, in which Phase II studies use historical controls), variations in statistical error rates, and adaptive designs.
Reducing false-positives in Phase II trials, the authors say, is ethically attractive because, for example, it reduces the occurrence of failure in Phase III, and can limit the number of patient-volunteers exposed to unsafe and ineffective drugs. Given that the number of patients in Phase III studies is typically 10-fold greater than in Phase II, these reductions in subject burden can be substantial.
But, they say, some of the gains in subject welfare described above are offset by greater burdens on patients participating in trials. Introducing randomization in Phase II studies, for example, roughly doubles the number of patients in trials because the trials now require comparator arms. Using enrichment designs, pharmacodynamics, or real-time pharmacokinetics all entail more frequent (and often invasive) tissue collection from volunteers. In areas of vaccine development, the quest for predictive Phase II designs has kindled interest in Phase II "challenge studies," which deliberately infect healthy volunteers with a manageable form of disease.
These and other extra "burdens" in Phase II trials, the ethicists say, are not morally equivalent to those found in Phase III trials because risks of drug administration in confirmatory trials are ethically justified by clinical "equipoise", or a state of collective uncertainty about whether experimental treatment is preferable to standard care, and therefore plausibly claim therapeutic value for subjects.
In contrast, the case for clinical equipoise is far weaker in initial tests of efficacy because evidence of clinical utility is lacking at the outset, and base rates for discovering a useful intervention low. The risk of more intensive tissue collection or disease challenge are morally justified by ends that are predominantly external to the volunteer.
For these and other reasons, the authors suggest four considerations for achieving equipoise in Phase II. These include establishing the upper and lower bounds on evidence needed to initiate Phase III studies, limiting nontherapeutic risks for trial patient-subjects, and consideration of the potential knowledge-value of decisively negative Phase III results.
Dr. Kimmelman directs the Group for Studies of Clinical Translation (G-SCT), which studies scientific, policy, and ethical challenges encountered in transforming laboratory discoveries into medical applications.
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If Suter drops first he is coming to the good guys IMO.
I think this might be the case too. Some report said Wild offered $100 million to Parise & $80 to Suter. Parise probably trying to entice Suter to join him in Minny and Suter likes Detroit option better.
Any which way, Kenny & Co. have made a damn good offer and that's all we as fans can ask. If it is enough great. If not good luck. If he want's to waste away in Minny seems kinda odd, but so be it. If they don't go as a package would Parise really sign with the Wild by himself?


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LaHair Ball Day at Fitch Park
Bryan LaHair singled, doubled, and tripled, scored two runs, and knocked-in two more, and Nate Samson had two hits, drove-in three runs and scored another, but it wasn't anywhere near enough, as the Arkansas Travelers (Los Angeles Angels AA affiliate) took advantage of six errors to defeat the Tennessee Smokies 7-3 on Field #2, and the Salt Lake Bees (Angels AAA affiliate) outlasted the Iowa Cubs 13-8 on Field #3, in Cactus League Minor League game action this afternoon at Fitch Park in Mesa, AZ.
Cubs first-baseman Bryan LaHair (hitting .188 with only one XBH and 11 K in 33 PA in Cactus League games through this past weekend) was assigned to Fitch Park today, and was apparently advised to get as many Plate Appearances as possible in as short a time as possible, because he was inserted into both the Tennessee and Iowa lineups (usually batting 2nd in the inning) at every opportunity. In total, he batted seven times, had three hits (a single, a double, and a triple), grounded out twice, flied out once, and struck out (swinging) in his final AB (he was probably tired). On two occasions he no sooner had scored a run for the I-Cubs on Field #3 than he ran through the gates separating the fields to take an AB for the Smokies on Field #2.
While LaHair was being omnipresent, the other players just confined themselves to playing in one game or the other.
Cubs #1 pitching prospect RHP Trey McNutt got the start for Tennessee, and allowed two runs on three hits (two doubles and single) plus a walk and a HBP in two innings of work. He struggled with his command (51 pitches – only 30 strikes), but he had good velocity and struck out three (two swinging).
22-year old LHP Eric Jokisch (who led all Cubs minor leaguers in wins last season, with 10 combined between Peoria and Tennessee) threw the next two innings, and allowed a run on two hits (a single and a triple) and a walk. He did not rack-up any strikeouts.
One-time Venezuelan bonus baby Larry Suarez (all 6'4 270 of him) was the third Tennessee pitcher to take the hill, and he struggled with his control. The 22-year old right-hander allowed two runs on three hits and two walks, and was pulled out of the game prior to completing his second inning of work.
24-year old Cuban defector RHP Juan Yasser Serrano threw a hitless 9th.
Meanwhile over on Field #3, RHRP Brian Schlitter saw his first game action since 2010, needing only six pitches to get through his one inning. Schlitter missed the 2011 season with an elbow injury that kept him on the 60-day DL for the entire season, a "pre-existing" injury that resulted in two waiver claims being voided, with the Cubs having to refund the waiver payment and pay Schiltter his major league split salary ($417K) while he spent the year at Fitch Park. He was outrighted to AAA after the season. Some of you may remember Schlitter as the PTBNL acquired by the Cubs from the Phillies in exchange for veteran LHRP Scott Eyre in August 2008, and he made his MLB debut (with the Cubs) in August 2010.
RHP Ty'Relle Harris (acquired from Atlanta in 2010 in the Derrek Lee trade) saw his first game action since being seriously injured after being hit by a drunk driver outside a nightclub in Knoxville last June. He appeared to be throwing the ball very well today.
The rest of the pitchers who took the hill at Fitch Park this afternoon were moved up (just for the day) from the Daytona, Peoria, or Boise/Mesa squads, and (generally) it showed. The one exception was Daytona RHRP P. J. Francescon (Cubs 2011 40th round draft pick out of Trevecca Nazarene U), who threw two shutout innings and struck out five. He was really dealin' today. Francescon put up a 1.20 WHIP with 8/44 BB/K in 38 IP at three stops after signing last Summer, finishing up his pro debut at Hi-A Daytona.
Most of the roster movement at Minor League Camp is downward (as players cut from the MLB squad are sent to Fitch Park, a cascade of other roster moves result as another player gets moved down from the Iowa squad to Tennessee, and then another goes from the Tennessee squad to Daytona, etc), but every now & then someone manages to swim upstream. A performance like Francescon's today (a Daytona pitcher throwing "light's out" in a AAA game) could open some eyes and cause one of those reverse movements.
As usual, several of the player assigned to the Boise/Mesa squad served as late-inning replacements. (Boise/Mesa does not play games until it becomes the Cubs Extended Spring Training squad next month).
Here are the abridged box scores from the two games played today at Fitch Park (Cubs players only)
NOTE: Bryan LaHair batted 3rd in the 1st inning, and 2nd in the 5th.
X. Bryan LaHair, DH #1: 0-2 (F-7, 3-U)
1a. Zeke DeVoss, 2B: 1-3 (K, K, 1B, SB)
1b. Pierre LePage, 2B: 1-1: (1B, RBI)
2a. Logan Watkins, SS: 0-1 (6-3, BB, BB, SB)
2b. Brad Zapenas, SS: 0-1 (6-4-3 DP)
3a. Matt Cerda, 3B: 0-2 (BB, 4-3, 6-4-3 DP, R)
3b. Jeimer Candelario, 3B: 0-1 (K)
4. Justin Bour, 1B-DH: 1-4 (1B, L-5, 4-3, 3-1, R)
5a. Richard Jones, DH-1B: 0-3 (F-9, F-8, F-7)
5b. Justin Marra, PH: 0-1 (K)
6a. Nelson Perez, RF: 1-1 (BB, 2B)
6b. Dong-Yub Kim, RF: 0-1 (5-3)
7a. John Andreoli, LF: 1-2 (1B, 5-3, RBI)
7b. Delbis Arcila, LF: 0-0 (BB)
8a. Rafael Lopez, C: 1-2 (1B, 5-3, RBI, PO)
8b. Chad Noble, C: 0-1 (K)
9. Taiwan Easterling, CF: 0-1 (K, HBP, HBP, R, 2 SB)
10. Luis Flores, DH #3: 0-3 (K, 3-U, F-9)
1. Trey McNutt: 2.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R (2 ER), 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HBP, 1 WP, 51 pitches (30 strikes), 3/0 GO/FO
2. Eric Jokisch: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 0 K, 25 pitches (17 strikes), 3/2 GO/FO
3. Larry Suarez: 1.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R (1 ER), 2 BB, 2 K, 40 pitches (24 strikes), 2/1 GO/FO
4. Scott Weismann: 2.1 IP, 3 H, 2 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 2 K, 1 GIDP, 29 pitches (23 strikes), 4/1 GO/FO
5. Juan Serrano: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 14 pitches (12 strikes), 0/1 O/FO
1. C Rafael Lopez - E2 (errant throw allowed runner on 1st base to advance to 2nd base)
2. 3B Matt Cerda - E5 (overthrow to 1st base on infield single allowed batter to advance to 2nd base)
3. 3B Jeimer Candelario - E5 (fielding error allowed batter to reach base safely)
4. P Scott Weismann - E1 (fielding error allowed batter to reach base safely)
5. P Juan Serrano - E1 (errant throw allowed batter to reach base
6. SS Brad Zapenas - E6 (fielding error allowed batter to reach base safely)
Rafael Lopez: 1-1 CS, 1 E (see above)
NOTE: Bryan LaHair batted 2nd in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 6th innings, and he led-off the 3rd inning.
X. Bryan LaHair, DH #1: 3-5 (3B, 4-3, 2B, 1B, K, 2 R, 2 RBI)
1. Nate Samson, 2B: 2-3 (1B, F-7 SF, F-9, 2B, R, 3 RBI)
2. Ty Wright, LF: 2-4 (1B, 1B, K, K, 2 RBI, CS)
3. Jae-Hoon Ha, CF: 1-3 (BB, 3B, 6-3, K, R)
4. Rebel Ridling, DH #2: 1-4 (K, 1B, F-7, K)
5a. Michael Burgess, RF: 0-2 (K, K)
5b. Abner Abreu, RF: 0-1 (K)
6a. Jason Jaramillo, C: 0-2 (F-8, 6-4-3 DP)
6b. Juan Apodaca, C: 0-1 (F-8)
7a. Marquez Smith, 3B: 0-2 (6-3, K)
7b. Jake Opitz, 3B: : 0-1 (F-7)
8a. Jonathon Mota, SS: 1-2 (6-3, 2B)
8b. Carlos Penalver, SS: 1-1 (1B, R, SB)
9. Greg Rohan, 1B: 0-1 (BB, 6-3, BB, 2 R)
10. Leugim Barroso, DH #3: 1-3 (K, 2-3, 1B, R, RBI)
1. Brian Schlitter: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 6 pitches (4 strikes), 0/3 GO/FO
2. Ty'Relle Harris: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K, 30 pitches (16 strikes), 1/3 GO/FO
3. Bryce Shafer: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 3 R (3 ER), 3 BB, 1 K, 4 WP, 24 pitches (9 strikes), 2/0 GO/FO
4. Eduardo Figueroa: 0.2 IP, 5 H, 5 R (5 ER), 1 BB, 0 K, 26 pitches (11 strikes), 0/2 GO/FO
5. P. J. Francescon: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K, 30 pitches (20 strikes), 1/0 GO/FO
6. Ramon Garcia: 1.1 IP, 3 H, 5 R (5 ER), 1 BB, 0 K, 1 HBP, 1 WP, 25 pitches (13 strikes), 2/1 GO/FO
7. Austin Reed: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 WP, 19 pitches (8 strikes), 0/1 GO/FO
1. C Jason Jaramillo – E2 (overthrow at 2nd base on stolen base attempt allowed runner to advance to 3rd base)
2. 2B Nate Samson - E4 (errant throw on rundown between 2nd & 3rd allowed runner to score)
Jason Jaramillo: 0-1 CS, 1 E (see above)
Juan Apodaca: 0-2 CS
WEATHER: Mostly cloudy, cool, and VERY breezy, with temperatures in the 50's
AzPhil - Thoughts on Francescon? Seems like a nice sleeper candidate who gets dropped to the side in discussions about the system. Still can't believe we got him for that cheap. Are we looking at more of a Matt Loosen-esque (albeit, shorter and smaller) type of righty starter, 91-93 on the fastball, decent breaking ball (slider?), solid change, or do you think he has the potential to be a bit more? Or might he be better off in the pen? Seems like he could move fast as a pen arm, but I haven't gotten the feeling that he would really jump as a pen arm and be a possible late inning Derek Lowe-type. Would really prefer to see him stay as a starter, and it would seem like Daytona would be an ideal place for him to start this year - Tennessee would seem like an awfully hard push from the get-go.
Oh, how did Austin Reed look? Was never as high as others were on him 2 years ago, but seems like he gets a bit over-looked now. Can really pound out the grounders, and I would love to see him as a piggyback option in Peoria, but it seems he's slated for XST. Can he swim upstream?
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The way you make him sound, perhaps partly due to the Wuertz comparison (seemed odd at first due to slider vs. changeup, but it makes sense, a guy with a superb secondary pitch and with enough giddyup on the fastball), seems to suggest that you think he's better off in the pen. If the Cubs decide to put him in the pen, I don't see any issue with pushing him up to Tennessee to see if he can survive. Still would like to see him developed as a starter first, preferably, and see if he can put up either a sinker or improve his breaking ball.
As a side note, unrelated to anyone on the docket today, but I don't recall what your take on Loosen was/is. The reports I recall on Loosen are vaguely along the lines of 90-92 fastball, above average slider, solid-average curve, decent change? Is there hope for his secondary stuff to get better? Physically, always got the feeling that he could probably jack up the fastball a bit out of the pen. Tyler Clippard-ish type of talent?
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The only one on the above list that I would really regret losing is Kuyler Burke.
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I'd like to keep Wang, Watkins, and Burke around. Wang has a shot to be a starter, I think. Watkins is likely to be at least a relatively useful bench player. And Burke obviously has a high ceiling, though it might be difficult to keep him around until he's ready (if he's ever ready).
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Update on Kyler Burke for what it's worth--
I think they've played away both days so Phil hasn't been able to report on it, but here is what I gather from my sources that have been at both games.
Kyler pitched 2 innings Friday and 2 1/3 innings Monday. He has retired all 13 batters faced with no walks or hits. Here's a summary:
Inning 1: K, K, FO
Inning 2: GO, FO, FO
Inning 3: GO to 1B, GO to P, Popout to 3B
Inning 4: FO to LF, GO to 2B, FO to RF
Inning 5: K
I would assume he was pulled in the 3rd inning Monday because of pitch count.
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Hey chatt, do you get a sense if Kyler feels like he'll be given a shot to start?
That said, a strong spring could really put him on the Padres radar.
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Well, I haven't personally spoken to him about that specific subject, in fact my info above did not come from him either. With that said, I think the idea is for him to be a reliever at first. Much of it depends on whether he can successfully develop a fourth pitch. He currently throws a fastball changeup and 12 to 6 curveball, but has been working on developing a slider. I think in the minors he will either start or have some piggyback outings like he did last year to ensure he gets an adequate amount of innings.
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Doug Padilla (works with Bruce Levine) at ESPN 1000 has an article on the 25 man roster, quotes from Sveum on man-love for Joe Mather and a mention of DeWitt in trade rumors. Says the final bench otherwise would be: Mather, Reed Johnson, Blake DeWitt, Jeff Baker and a backup catcher (either Steve Clevenger or Welington Castillo). Looks like Sappelt and Campana should get tickets to Iowa.
"I'd be lying if I said it was real close," Sveum said when asked where Mather stood in the backup outfield spot battle. "The guy's doing everything he possibly can. He can play so many positions, he can hit the ball out of the ballpark. He's hit all kinds of pitching so far. He's hit velocity, he's hit side-arm right-handers. He played a heck of a center field [over the weekend] in Vegas. He can steal you a base."
DeWitt's name has come up in recent trade rumors, and if he was dealt it could open a spot for a player such as Adrian Cardenas or Alfredo Amezaga to become a backup middle infielder.
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So it looks like Cubs are worried about project LaHair.
If he still struggles, this Spring what is back up plan or is he opening day at first no matter what?
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Certainly I have no inside knowledge, but I would guess with (1) his performance last year during the season, (2) our goal of developing Rizzo at AAA, (3) our lack of other options in the system, and (4) our overall limited outlook for 2012, that LaHair will get at least until June as starting 1B, regardless of his performance this spring. If LaHair struggles, we might see some Jeff Baker at 1B more often, but I doubt we look outside the system or rush Rizzo or any other project.
Sure would be good to have McGehee (ok...just joking based on the long discussion in the previous thread!)
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I get the feeling that they want Rizzo to get time in Iowa no matter what. I imagine LaHair will start the year. If he struggles, and they don't think Rizzo is ready/should be called up, then I'd imagine Baker, with a slim darkhorse look at Rebel Ridling if he hits well in AAA.
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Similar Wittenmeyer article in the Sun-Times on the 25 man roster. More Mather-love and some mention of Wells or Rod Lopez gets the swingman role in the bullpen. Sveum said he expect final decisions to be made early by 3-28, next monday.
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Heading out there this weekend through Wednesday. Can you tell me what the typical schedule is around Fitch, as well as some of the other complexes? Finding game info is easy for the MLB teams, but not for practices or the minor leaguers.
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Thanks a lot! How do you determine which players who are no longer with the MLB team and are now in MLB camp? Lake and Rizzo, for example, have already been sent down, but are still playing with the MLB team?
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ian stewart returns.
also, audio feeds "free" on cubs.com with a mlb.com login (free).
The Odd Path Of Jeff Samardzija
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rodrigo lopez continues his oddly good spring...
5ip 3h 1er 1bb 4k
12ip 9h 3er 1bb 9k so far
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guess who's injured?
carlos marmol? yeah, him.
neat...supposedly hand/wrist at least.
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Pat Boyle @CSNBoyle
Marmol says hand cramp in pitching hand.. Going for precautionary MRI now.. He said he is not concerned
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Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.


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Lenore Skomal: No patience for hospital life
No stranger to caring for those with long-term illnesses, I've logged plenty of hours inside hospitals. Maybe I'm a freak of nature, but I like them -- as long as I'm not the one in the bed. But then again, I like going to the dentist, too.
Thankfully, the six days I spent there recently had nothing to do with illness. I merely played the role of companion and nightstand during my husband's rehabilitation from double knee replacement.
Mind you, it's been years since I've pulled 12-hour shifts in a hospital, and while much is exactly the same, one major aspect has changed. It appears that they've undergone the same shift in behavior expectation as libraries. Both institutions have loosened up a lot, almost abandoning their rule of hushed quietude.
The medical staff makes no pretense that life inside those vanilla and mint walls mirrors the cloistered halls of monks. With that pretense dropped, you might worry as I did, "Uh-oh." Gone are the days when you had to whisper, churchlike, upon entering a patient's room. Bellicose greetings seem the norm: the louder, the better.
I spent a lot of time sitting in my pale blue Naugahyde chair as my husband snored in a drug-induced sleep, interrupted every 45 minutes by a nurse to check vitals. No need to eavesdrop on the robust discussions of other visitors and patients. I could hear them clear as glass. I even got some much-needed guidance when the local priest encouraged someone right outside my door. The best was the off-key Clint Black wannabe serenading his sweetie with his acoustic guitar across the hall.
My marathon viewing of "Downton Abbey" was interrupted without fail every 60 seconds by the painful siren of an oxygen monitor attached to my husband to ensure he didn't stop breathing. He never did, but I did every time it went off.
By the time he was transferred to the rehabilitation facility, he was exhausted. Disconnected from the machinery and weaned off most of his meds, he'd finally be able to get some shut-eye. But after a fitful night listening to the woman across the hall wail to be taken home, he changed his plan and decided to nap most of the daylight hours to catch up.
Think again, Kemosabe. As the charge nurse told him cheerfully at 4:30 the next morning while she got him dressed, "You're not here to rest. You're here to work."
So given all of this, I ask you: What exactly is the point behind a "hospital zone"?
LENORE SKOMAL writes every Thursday. If you enjoy this column, you can order her book with a collection of them at www.lenoreskomal.com. You can read her blog at www.goerie.com/blogs/gutcheck.


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