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Flesh-eating disease concern spreads.

Local woman still critical as new cases emerge. PAGE 7

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'Are you the preacher at this church?' A Spartanburg WWII vet remembers his chance encounter with Pope Pius XII. PAGE 8

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Ixodes Affinis – a new version of an old nemesis – is marching up the East Coast, carrying with it fears about tick-borne diseases in humans, scientists say. The tick, a South American critter that first appeared in this country in the 1950s, has spread up through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and now North Carolina, scientists say. The Ixodes Affinis is so new to North America that there is no common name for it. Ixodes doesn’t bite humans, but it will bite animals. Scientists say a higher rate of disease in animals can make it easier for other ticks to transmit to humans. Public health officials say the numbers of reported cases of diseases like Lyme disease are not showing a spike from a national perspective. Clemson researchers define ticks, members of the arachnid family which also includes spiders, as external parasites that attach themselves to an animal host to take a blood meal at each of their active life stages. Blood feeding by ticks is what potentially leads to the spread of disease, researchers say. The most commonly encountered ticks in the southeastern U.S. are the American dog tick, lone star tick, blacklegged or “deer” tick and brown dog tick. While the brown dog tick is notable because of the large numbers that may proliferate indoors when dogs are present, it rarely feeds on humans. Many tick-borne diseases are successfully treated if symptoms are recognized early. When the disease is not diagnosed during the early stages of infection, treatment can be difficult and chronic symptoms may develop. The major tick-borne diseases in the Southeast include Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, STARI, ehrlichiosis and tularemia. Several other tick-borne diseases

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also occur in the U.S., but are not common locally. In addition to tick-borne diseases, a toxin can be transmitted through the salvia of a tick bite that causes progressive paralysis, a condition known as “tick paralysis.” Tick feeding also may result in mild to severe allergic reactions in some individuals. “Ticks are spreading, but usually not like wildfire,” said a spokesman for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The spread is kind of slow but sure.” Lyme disease is serious: It can cause paralysis, heart palpitations and death in extreme cases. The Gulf Coast tick, which until recently was not typically found as far north or east as the Carolinas, carries a disease similar to the bacteria that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The lone star tick carries a flu-like infection. Scientists say the main reason for its emergence in the region is a larger population of deer for it to feed upon. Federal officials have not reported a spike in tick-borne disease, but in North Carolina public health officials say Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases are up 50 percent this year. Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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SC had 13th highest rate of injury deaths in U.S. Helmet and booster seat laws and increasing domestic violence protection may save lives, study finds By JERRY SALLEY | staff

With 10 fatalities reported on South Carolina’s roads over the long Memorial Day weekend, the statistics on accidental deaths in the state keep climbing. Preventing some of those deaths was the goal of a report released last week, which ranked South Carolina 13th among all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in the rate of accidental deaths. The report, “The Facts Hurt: A Stateby-State Injury Prevention Policy Report,” released by the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), also gave the state three out of a possible 10 points on key indicators of steps states can take to prevent injuries. The report combined data from 2007 to 2009, and found that 71.7 per 100,000 people in South Carolina suffered injury fatalities, compared to a national rate of 57.9 per 100,000.

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New Mexico had the highest rate nationally, with 97.8 per 100,000; New Jersey had the lowest, with 36.1 per 100,000. The total lifetime medical costs due to fatal injury in South Carolina were $26.3 million, the report said. The report also identified 10 key steps that states can take to prevent injuries. South Carolina has taken only three of those 10 steps: instituting primary seatbelt laws; creation of an active prescription drug monitoring program to prevent accidental overdose; and the use of external cause of injury codes (E-codes) in emergency department records to help researchers track trends and develop prevention strategies. Among the measures recommended in the report that South Carolina has not advanced is requiring booster seats for children to at least the age of 8, which 33 other states and Washington, D.C., have done. South Carolina law only requires booster seats for children under 6, and then only if the child is 80 pounds or

lighter, or cannot sit with his back against the car’s seat and bend his legs over the seat edge without slouching. South Carolina also has no universal helmet law requiring helmets for all motorcycle riders, as 19 other states and the capital do. And the state does not require bicycle helmets for all children, as 21 other states and Washington, D.C., do. The Palmetto State is also one of only six states that has not extended domestic violence laws to allow unmarried people in dating relationships to get protection orders against their partners, the report said. Currently, South Carolina family courts only grant orders of protection to married or live-in couples, although a bill to change that is under consideration by the Legislature. “There are proven, evidence-based strategies that can spare millions of Americans from injuries each year,” said Jeff Levi, Ph.D., executive director of TFAH. The report also warned against a set of

emerging accident threats, including “a dramatic, fast rise in prescription drug abuse, concussions in school sports, bullying, crashes from texting while driving and an expected increase in the number of falls as the Baby Boomer generation ages.” “Seat belts, helmets, drunk driving laws and a range of other strong prevention policies and initiatives are reducing injury rates around the country,” said Amber Williams, executive director of the Safe States Alliance, who helped to research the report. “However, we could dramatically bring down rates of injuries from motor vehicles, assaults, falls, fires and a range of other risks even more if more states adopted, enforced and implemented proven policies. Lack of national capacity and funding are major barriers to states adopting these and other policies.” The report is available on TFAH’s website at www.healthyamericans.org. Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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GHS welcomes these new physicians and office sites! Geriatrics Neerja Arya, M.D. Laurie Theriot Roley, M.D. Center for Success in Aging 255 Enterprise Drive, Ste. 101 Greenville, 454-8120

Internal Medicine Diane Eugenio, M.D. Daniel Smith, M.D. Cypress IM–Greer 325 Medical Pkwy., Ste. 200 Greer, 797-9550 S. Meg Carter, M.D. Cypress IM–Maxwell Pointe 3907 S. Highway 14 Greenville, 675-1491

Joint Replacement Brandon Broome, M.D. Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas 200 Patewood Dr., Ste. C100 Greenville, 454-SHCC (7422)

Neurology Kathleen McConnell, M.D. Neuroscience Associates 200 Patewood Dr., Ste. B350 Greenville, 454-4500

Pediatrics Beverly Ellington, M.D. Pediatric Associates–Easley 800 N. A St. Easley, 855-0001 Manisha Patel, M.D. Pediatric Cardiology 200 Patewood Dr., Ste. A200 Greenville, 454-5120

New Office Location! The Children’s Clinic 890 S. Pleasantburg Dr. Greenville, 271-1450

Physical Medicine Leland Berkwits, M.D. Upstate Medical Rehabilitation 111 Doctors Drive Greenville, 797-7100

Surgery Anita Patt, M.D. UMG Breast Health Center 200 Patewood Dr., Ste. A14 Greenville, 454-2224

Urology Kelly Maloney, M.D. Charles Marguet, M.D. UMG Regional Urology– Cross Creek 11 Park Creek Dr. Greenville, 797-7450 Note: This new office combines the Memorial Court and Medical Ridge practices, which are now closed; the Easley and Parkway offices remain open.

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John Siddens, D.O. UMG Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics 200 Patewood Dr., Ste. B480 Greenville, 454-4570

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Helping seniors at home

The calendar may say summer begins June 20. Every parent, child or individual remotely associated with public and private schools knows differently, however, for one unassailable reason: school’s out. Summer is officially here. Which brings us to the annual debate about what to do while the kids are happily humming “no more pencils, no more books…” On one side are the educators, who reliably issue their gentle reminders about “summer slide,” when children on average lose about 2.6 months of math and reading skills. On the other are their former and future students, who want nothing to do with summer learning. They refer adults to the dictionary meaning of the second word in “summer vacation” – defined by Webster as “leisure time away from work, devoted to rest or pleasure. Synonym: holiday.” Which is why this first week of June, with final exams and senior projects still a fresh and terrible memory, parents and students prefer to see the August school-start date as a shimmering oasis, too distant to even envision. Alas, this is a mirage (which, in the spirit of summer learning, is aptly defined as “an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects.”) The educators are right. Teachers spend four to eight weeks every fall reviewing old material. For many students, the effect is cumulative. Every summer a child spends wallowing deep in “summer slide” can add up to a big impact on academic achievement. But take heart: Reversing the slide doesn’t have to mean sequestering your child with math workbooks an hour a day until Aug. 20. Learning happens all the time, everywhere, whenever a child experiences something new. A little imagination will turn up opportunities everywhere, many without even leaving the house. • Got bins full of Legos? Pull them out and assign your kids or grandkids a design project. A dream house. High-rise office park. Velociraptor. Threatening monster of their own choosing. Think: spatial skills, geometry, imaginative play. • Bake cookies and practice fractions and other measuring skills. Grow the biggest zucchini in the neighborhood and learn science basics. • Or opt for a full-ﬂedged staycation and check out the abundance of family-friendly events and destinations the Upstate has to offer. • Kids can watch history come alive when the annual Chautauqua Festival arrives at the Headquarters Library June 18-21. This free festival offers an amazing journey into the past as accomplished interpreters portray famous and influential people in front of a live audience. • July 4 promises the annual Red, White and Boom at Barnet Park, with inflatables, an interactive fountain, plenty of pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs and barbecue, and patriotic music, topped off with a massive fireworks display to finish with the necessary boom. And every other day, there’s hikes to take and bicycles to ride. Summer classes at the Chapman Center. Picnics at the Hatcher Garden and Woodland Reserve. Over 80 outdoor sculptures to inspect on the SpARTanburg SculpTOUR. No complicated directions. No special equipment. Just ways to make learning fun, build family closeness, and guarantee a shallower summer slide. How’s that for summer fun?

As your new lieutenant governor, I am our state’s chief advocate for one of the fastestgrowing senior populations in the nation. South Carolina’s senior population has seen a 319 percent increase in the last 40 years, while the population aged 60 years and over is projected to increase by nearly 160 percent by the year 2030, with over 1.3 million Baby Boomers set to retire in South Carolina. Even with a growing senior population, the Lieutenant Governor’s Oﬃce on Aging only serves about 3 percent of the state’s aging population, though South Carolina ranks 4th highest for the number of seniors at risk for hunger. The Lieutenant Governor’s Office on Aging had 27,880 clients in fiscal year 2010-11 and a waiting list of over 8,522 seniors who needed our services. In addition to providing congregate and home-delivered meals, we provide transportation, homemaker services, legal assistance, adult day care services, respite and disease prevention, health promotion and physical fitness, and respite services for caregivers. Our office works with local, independently-funded organizations to supplement the services they provide, thereby eliminating any duplication of services. These services are designed to allow seniors to remain home safely and independently and to reduce the strain on nursing homes and hospitals. Home and community-based services are the most cost-effective option for caring for our seniors. To put it in perspective, we spend, on average, $1,000 per client per year on our home and community-based services, while it costs Medicaid nearly $46,000 to house a person in a nursing home, not to mention the high costs of emergency room visits. As the number of nursing home beds declines annually, the demand for home and community-based services increases since many senior adults prefer to safely “age in place” in their homes. Additionally, we provide services such as Aging and Disability Resource Centers, family caregiver support programs, and insurance counseling and referral. Our long-term care ombudsman program investigates complaints and advocates for residents’ rights in nursing homes, assisted living, and residential care facilities. Our

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IN MY OWN WORDS by GLENN F. MCCONNELL

Alzheimer’s Resource Coordination Centers is a service of particular importance to me, as I, like so many others, have experienced its effects firsthand. As Nancy Reagan said, Alzheimer’s is “the long goodbye,” and I can personally attest to how taxing it is on the victim’s family. More than 80,000 South Carolinians have Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorder. This is a 19 percent increase from 2000. In 2011, South Carolina had over 283,000 caregivers for people with Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorder. This represents 322,853,918 hours of unpaid caregiving in South Carolina alone. Our Alzheimer’s Resource Coordination Centers aid these individuals by assisting communities and organizations through funding for respite and education programs for individuals with the disease, their families, and caregivers. Offering caregivers a break from their chores is important to maintaining quality of care and to preserving a quality of life for victims and their families. At a time when state revenues have diminished, the Office on Aging has consistently met the challenge of providing services to the increasing senior population, and we will continue to advocate for and proudly serve our aging population. In these times of declining revenues, it is important to work smarter to get bigger results from available dollars. Our home-based programs make sense. We can pay less on the front end by comfortably keeping seniors in their homes, or we can pay more on the back end in terms of paying for assisted living, nursing homes and hospitalization. One way or another, we, as taxpayers, will pay the costs, but using a little creativity, the Office on Aging’s innovative and efficient programs will lessen the burden on taxpayers over the long-haul. Glenn McConnell is South Carolina’s lieutenant governor and has been in public service for nearly 32 years. Reach him at ltgovernor@scstatehouse.gov.

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Flesh-eating disease victim still critical More cases surface of rare, difficult-todiagnose condition By april a. morris | staff

As doctors in Augusta, Ga., fight to contain a flesh-eating infection that has cost 24-year-old Aimee Copeland her right foot, left leg and both hands, 36-year-old EMT Lana Kuykendall remains in critical condition at Greenville Memorial Hospital after developing necrotizing fasciitis days after giving birth to twins on May 7. Despite the attention given to Copeland, Kuykendall and the new case of a 32-yearold Georgia man, this infection that destroys tissue and spreads rapidly through the body remains rare, says Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine. “It’s not a catching infection; it can’t spread (from person to person).” In order to infect, the bacteria has to be introduced into the body in some way, ei-

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ther by the skin being pierced or at a site of blunt trauma like a bruise, Schaffner said. The bacteria that cause some necrotizing fasciitis infections are common, like group A streptococcus, the cause of strep throat infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control. If not introduced through an opening in the skin, the bacteria sometimes set up an infection in a damaged area like a bruise, Schaffner said. Usually, bacteria that enter the bloodstream is filtered out by the immune system – but sometimes it encounters the damaged spot and stays, he said. Schaffner said this could be the way Kuykendall contracted the infection after the birth of her twins, though the exact cause is not known. Her case was diagnosed early because it produced visible symptoms near the skin’s surface, he said. However, because of the depth a necrotizing fasciitis infection can reach, the attack can be missed and allowed to spread before caught. Aimee Copeland was infected through a gash in her leg after falling from a zip line into the Little Tallapoosa River. She was treated, but after complaining of persistent pain, doctors discovered she had

a necrotizing fasciitis infection caused by Aeromonas hydrophila, a bacteria found in lake and river water. Pain is one of the signs of this type of infection, Schaffner said. Some patients report a fever, he added. “Patients can misapprehend it as a bruise or badly sprained muscle.” Treatment includes antibiotics and the surgical removal of the infected tissue. “The surgeon has to get out ahead of the infection because it moves very fast,” said Schaffner. Repeated surgeries may be required to ensure that the infection is gone, he said, and the fatality rate can be 20 percent or more. “It can be an absolute ghastly infection.” Despite the concentration of cases in the neighboring states of South Carolina and Georgia, Schaffner says the number of necrotizing fasciitis cases is not increasing and there is no way people can anticipate the rare infection. “This is an unfortunate and a bit of a weird coincidence,” he said. There’s no way to predict when necrotizing fasciitis will strike, but as with preventing any infection, people can help safeguard themselves by washing their hands and

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maintaining good hygiene. And if you have a penetrating injury to your skin, “make sure it’s well taken care of,” he said. If you have persistent pain following the injury, ask your doctor to check for fever, he said. “U.S. doctors are very good at wound care,” Schaffner said. “We probably prevent hundreds of cases of necrotizing fasciitis every day. We just hear about the few unfortunate cases.” As of press time, Lana Kuykendall was listed in critical but stable condition, but hospital officials said she has improved slightly. She remained sedated, intubated and on a respirator and had undergone 11 surgeries. The community has expressed support for the young mother with a prayer vigil, fundraisers and a blood drive. Last week, family members created a website, www.faithhopelana.com, to keep friends and family informed of her progress. In addition, donations can be made to the GHS Federal Credit Union, 211 Patewood Drive, Greenville, SC, 29615, 864-455-7112. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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QuitWell This four-week tobacco cessation program kicks off Thurs., July 5, 6:30 p.m., at the GHS Life Center. Fee: $40. To register, call 455-WELL (9355).

Go.Hunt.Scan This community digital scavenger hunt takes place over 100 days at 100 sites. Grand prize is a two-year lease on a Chevy® Sonic from Bradshaw in Greer! Find out more at gohuntscan.com.

Inside GHS Blog

Visit insideGHSblog.com for a look at what’s happening at GHS, plus gain access to the latest health information from our medical experts.

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Special Delivery With Greenville Midwifery Care Bring your baby into the world in the way that’s right for you and safe for your baby. At Greenville Midwifery Care, our certified nurse-midwives will give you handson support throughout labor and a healthy delivery. Call 455-1600 or visit greenvillemidwiferycare.com.

Support GHS Children’s Hospital Shop at your local Walmart® and Sam’s Club® to support the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Campaign benefiting GHS Children’s Hospital through June 15!

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A social networking site for expectant mothers, care partners and their families is now available at ghsfamilybeginningsonline.org.

Struggling With Infertility? Did you know that nearly 25% of couples struggling with infertility already are parents? Secondary infertility is more common than you think. For help with infertility, contact GHS Fertility Center of the Carolinas at 455-1600 or visit fertilitycenterofthecarolinas.org. 120412

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A chance encounter in Rome Two Spartanburg artillerymen wandered into the Vatican in 1944 and became the first allied troops to meet Pope Pius XII after Rome fell

Photo Exhibit: Boys & Girls Clubs The Boys & Girls Clubs of Upstate South Carolina is currently showing its annual photography exhibit at the Chapman Cultural Center. It is free to the public and open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. until July 1.

Pottery & Ceramic Exhibit Emerging Works/Ancient Roots by Upstate artist Mike Vatalaro is on display in the Spartanburg Art Museum at the Chapman Cultural Center through June 2, TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fine Furniture Exhibit Michael McDunn, master woodworking craftsman presents Function & Awe—a blend of heirloom and modern fine furniture—May 22-August 4, TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., in the Spartanburg Art Museum at the Chapman Cultural Center. 1st Saturday: Walnut Grove Plantation Reenactors and experts will lead visitors through indepth explorations of Upstate South Carolina history, Saturday, June 2, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The day will include children’s activities, as well as tours of historic buildings. Presented by the Spartanburg County Historical Association. Guild Art Exhibit Two local artists—Peggy Demarest and Lynne Tanner— will share the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg’s gallery at the Chapman Cultural Center during June, presenting their respective exhibits, Fragments and Marsh Visitations. Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and free.

Two World War II artillerymen from Spartanburg were the first allied troops to meet with Pope Pius XII after German and Italian troops abandoned the city in face of Gen. Mark Clark’s powerful assault on June 4, 1944. The encounter came quite by accident 68 years ago, when retired Spartanburg businessman J.D. Edwards and his driver, Gus Cantrell, were scouting for a place to site their massive 240-millimeter howitzers. Just two months shy of his 95th birthday, Edwards, who was a master sergeant on one of the gun crews, remembers the war years well. Cantrell, his driver through much of the Italian campaign, was from Fairforest, while Edwards has always lived within 1.5 miles of his current home, off Warren H. Abernathy Highway on Woodridge Drive. “The Germans and the Italians had abandoned Rome and my driver, Gus, and I were

scouting around on the north side of the city,” Edwards said. “I saw this big church and I told the driver I wanted to ride up there and see it. “We rode up there and parked the jeep, and then we walked down some steps. We had our guns – a pistol and a little old (Thompson) machine gun. A couple of guys come running out of a little house. I didn’t know who they were at the time, but they were Swiss guards – they had these funny looking hats on and they were about a head taller than my driver and I. “One came running up with a rifle in his hands. Cantrell, my driver, slapped it out of his hands, laid it on the ground, and kicked him in the pants. They run off and we left the rifle lying in the courtyard of the church.” As they passed through the massive doors of St. Peter’s Basilica, it struck Edwards they just might be paying a visit to the Vatican and he stopped Cantrell from washing up in a basin of holy water.

Music Sandwiched In Catch a free lunchtime concert at the downtown library headquarters, Wednesday, June 6, 12:15-1 p.m. The Reedy River Brass trio will play light classical. Bring your lunch or buy one there. Presented by the Music Foundation of Spartanburg. Free Museums Through generous donations, both the Spartanburg Art Museum and the Spartanburg Regional History Museum are free the first weekend—Thursday, Friday, Saturday— of each month. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Chapman Cultural Center. Summer Camps The Chapman Cultural Center is offering more than 60 summer camps for kids. Something for everyone.

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World War II veteran J.D. Edwards has this framed photo of Winston Churchill visiting Edwards’ 240-mm howitzer battery in Italy on the wall of his Spartanburg home. Churchill stands facing the camera right of center smoking a cigar; Edwards is the first soldier on the left with his back to the camera. Edwards said Churchill wanted to fire the big gun and the American troops obliged him. Churchill’s shot was a direct hit on a cave where German soldiers were hiding.

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Children’s Art: Colors Colors, an outreach program by the Spartanburg Art Museum for inner-city kids, is exhibiting children’s artwork at the Chapman Cultural Center, through August 1, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. It is open and free to the public.

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World War II veteran J.D. Edwards was one of the first soldiers to meet with Pope Pius XII after the Germans abandoned Rome.

They had free run of the largest church in the world for about a half hour, wandering through some of the most venerated rooms in the Catholic world all by themselves. As they entered the courtyard the pair noticed a group of men approaching. “One of them was dressed in white and about six of the other ones were in black. I guess they were the cardinals or something like that,” Edwards said. The group approached and the man in white – “It was Pope Pius,” Edwards said – held out his hands and the procession stopped. “Gus asked him, ‘Are you the preacher at this church?’” Edwards said. “He didn’t even answer him. He (the pope) pulled out a card and handed it to us, but that didn’t impress Gus.” The pope told Edwards and Cantrell they weren’t supposed to have firearms at the Vatican. “We were the first persons to walk through that church with firearms, the pope told us,” Edwards said. Gus, supremely unimpressed with the pope, said, “We’re looking for Germans. You got any Germans hiding around here?” Again the pontiff refused to answer. The pair returned to their biv-

ouac and told their tale. An Italian soldier from the New York area was supremely impressed that Edwards and Cantrell had met the pontiff. He asked to borrow Edwards’ jeep. Edwards said OK and the Italian-American tore out to visit the Vatican. He returned shortly, wideeyed. “There’s a world of MPs guarding that place. I didn’t want any part of that.” Later in the Italian campaign, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited the unit to get a firsthand look at the 240 mm guns. At 9.4 inches in muzzle diameter and firing a 360-pound projectile as far as 14 miles, they were the largest caliber guns in the American arsenal. The guns were noted for their accuracy and the devastating effect they had on fixed and hardened positions. “While the prime minister was there, a fire mission was called in and the gun sergeant asked Churchill if he’d like to pull the lanyard,” Edwards said. Churchill was delighted, being an old artilleryman, Edwards said, and walked toward the gun – which was being loaded with bag gunpowder. “The sergeant said, ‘Put that cigar (Churchill’s trademark) down – see all this powder; do you want to blow us to kingdom come?’ ” The minister sheepishly complied. Churchill fired the cannon, which had already been sighted in, Edwards said. “He scored a direct hit. We found out later about 75 Germans had been killed with that one round,” Edwards said. The concussion of the massive gun blew the prime minister’s hat about 200 feet and his aides had to scramble to fetch it back, Edwards said. Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@ thespartanburgjournal.com.

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Resident questions County Council’s commitment to transparency By CHARLES SOWELL | staff

Jean Caton, mother of fired Spartanburg County Recreation Department Director Jeff Caton, has launched a campaign to point out the failings of County Council on transparency issues. At the May county council meeting, Caton raised these issues: Council only gives 24-hour notice of meetings to the local daily paper, Caton said. It is what the law requires, but notice of the meeting agenda is not the paper’s responsibility to print. She recommended a paid ad listing what is to be discussed. Special meetings are not listed on the county’s website and sometimes are not advertised. This causes many citizens to miss important special meetings like the budget meeting of May 9 and the livability meeting of May 15, she said. Special meeting agendas and minutes are not on the website. Consequently, the public never knows what business transpired during those very important meetings. Minutes of special meeting minutes have not been on the county website

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since the year 2000, she said. Other counties, specifically Anderson, are far more transparent about county business, Caton said, while Spartanburg council guidelines discourage citizen participation. The opportunity for county residents to speak at meetings has been strongly discouraged by the Council’s guidelines, she said. Citizens are required to sign up to speak 14 days before a meeting, while the agenda is only finalized 24 hours before the meeting. This makes it difficult to address an issue in a timely way, Caton said. She recommended more notice on agenda items to allow citizens an option to speak. In Greenville County, residents can sign up to speak on agenda items just prior to the council meeting. Agendas are available online and at the door of council chambers. Citizens are also allowed to speak on any subject of their choice, subject to a two-minute time limit. Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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New fishing limits for Upstate anglers in July By CHarles Sowell | staff

With an eye toward preserving South Carolina’s dwindling freshwater fishery, state Department of Natural Resources officers will start enforcing more restrictive rules and regulations on anglers from the mountains to the salt water line starting July 1, said Dan Rankin, fisheries biologist for the Upstate region. The change that will likely affect the most fishermen deals with crappie. The popular and tasty fish’s catch limit will be cut from 10 to five fish, Rankin said, and the size of fish kept must be larger than eight inches. “This change is the result of an overall decline in the fishery statewide,” he said. “Our surveys have found that the numbers of fish caught has been exceeding the (natural) mortality rate for some time now. “It is a much-needed change, especially in our lakes.” The hope is the new regulations will not adversely affect the quality of the fishing experience, he said. But state of-

ficials saw this as a much-needed change in the state’s hodge-podge of fishing rules and regulations. There will also be changes on certain rigging that is used, particularly on Lake Greenwood, to catch large numbers of crappie, Rankin said. “There is something called spider rigging, which sort of looks like a porcupine, where fishermen put multiple rods out and just drift along. It is a particularly effective method for crappie.” Most anglers report few of the fish they take are smaller than the soon-to-be-implemented eight-inch limit, Rankin said. “The eight-inch limit on Lake Greenwood, for instance, means you’re dealing with a two-year-old fish. Eight-inch fish will get to spawn once before they’re caught.” Changes are coming for bass fishermen point that the native species has almost too, Rankin said. “A lot of these changes vanished,” he said. are lake-specific, except for creel limits.” The size limit on black bass will be set The black bass creel limit is being cut at 12 inches, he said, except on Jocassee, from 10 to five fish daily, as is the limit Greenwood and Blalock, where the limit for red-eye bass, a native specie, Rankin will be 14 inches. said. Limits for spotted bass, an invasive “Those lakes are what we call low-denspecies, will be 15 fish. sity, high-forage lakes that support larger B:10” “In lakes like Keowee, the spotted bass bass,” Rankin said. “A lake like Jocassee, has cross-bred with red-eye bass to theT:10”where the main forage fish is the blue-

back herring, tends to have larger bass than other lakes.” Perhaps the biggest howl in the Upstate is likely to come from trout fishermen, who will see the creel limit cut from 10 to five fish. “This is purely a matter of fishing pressure versus the amount of fish we can manage to stock in any given year,” Rankin said. “Our surveys have found that the numbers of fishermen trout fishing has grown from about 10,000 per year to more than 100,000,” Rankin said. “Our ability to produce catchable stocking fish has remained steady at around 300,000 trout per year.” On the plus side, the state is adding delayed harvest water on the Chauga River and Howard Creek this year, Rankin said. “The delayed harvest program on Chattooga has been one of our most popular,” Rankin said. “It brings a different kind of fisherman, one who’s not just interested in catching fish for the frying pan.” Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@thespartanburgJournal.com.

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Before there were settler families like the Moores, who built Walnut Grove Plantation outside of Roebuck, the Upstate could be a dark and bloody place. On Saturday, visitors to Walnut Grove Plantation can learn about life in the Upstate in the program “The Backcountry Before the Moores” from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Throughout the day, visitors can browse an exhibit and artifacts from the region’s Native American history. Children can become fur traders and go “hunting” for pelts. Other hands-on activities will investigate bison and wolves, the wildlife that called the region home before settlers arrived. Historian Dr. Marvin Cann will speak at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. about the Anglo-Cherokee War of 1758-1761, which helped open up the Backcountry to settlement by British colonists. Tours of the Moore family home, kitchen, and the Rocky Spring Academy schoolhouse will occur hourly. Cost for “The Backcountry Before the Moores” is $6 for adults, $4 for ages 5-17, and free for ages 4 and under. Walnut Grove is located at 1200 Otts Shoals Road in Roebuck. Charles and Mary Moore established Walnut Grove Plantation on a 550-acre land grant about 1765. They were among the first European settlers in the region. The Scots-Irish immigrants raised 10 children in the house they built and lived in for 40 years. During the American Revolution, the Moore family, including eldest daughter Kate Moore Barry, actively supported the Patriot cause and the militia even mustered at the plantation prior to the Battle of Cowpens. Loyalist William “Bloody Bill” Cunningham killed three Patriot soldiers sheltered at Walnut Grove in late 1781. For more information, email walnutgrove@spartanburghistory.org or call 864-576-6546. Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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Animal welfare advocates praise plan to phase out gestation crates The last time you sat down for a Moons Over My Hammy omelet or a Sausage Slam at Denny’s, there’s a good chance that the food came from a pig born of a sow that had been confined, for most of her adult life, to a crate about the size of the booth you were sitting in. But the Spartanburg-based restaurant chain hopes to change that soon. In May, Denny’s announced that it will work with its suppliers to eliminate the practice of confining pregnant sows in gestation crates (also called sow stalls), according to a statement issued by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Gestation crates are a common part of large-scale, intensive pig production in industrialized agriculture (“factory farms” to their detractors). Between 60 and 70 percent of the breeding sows in this country are confined to gestation crates, according to an HSUS study. “Denny’s takes its role as a responsible corporate citizen seriously, which is why we have adopted a strong position on animal welfare,” said Greg Linford, Denny’s vice president of procurement and distribution, in the announcement. “We will endeavor to purchase

products from companies that provide gestation crate-free pork and are committed to influencing our suppliers to share in a gestation crate-free vision for the future. Working to eliminate gestation crates is best for our company, our guests, and our continued work to improve animal welfare.” Gestation crates have come under increased scrutiny in recent years by animal-welfare groups such as HSUS, Farm Sanctuary and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, as well as consumers concerned about where their food comes from. The crates typically measure about 2 by 7 feet, barely larger than the sow’s body, which prevents her from turning around, according to an HSUS report. In most facilities, the individual crates are arranged in rows of about 20, with around 100 sows per shed. Sows are typically inseminated artificially, often as early as seven months of age. The sow is kept in the gestation crate for almost all of her fourmonth pregnancy. Just before the sow gives birth, she is moved into a slightly larger farrowing crate, which allows her to lie down and nurse her piglets. After the piglets are weaned, the sow is re-impregnated and moved

Charter Communications says its multi-year effort to improve customer service is paying off in the Upstate. Customer satisfaction for new customers is 35 percent higher than for tenured customers, thanks in part to the company’s “customer experience transformation,” a three-pronged effort to improve service for new Charter customers, quick technical issue resolution and equipment management to make sure the company always has the right equipment in stock. “We’re doing more things right from the beginning now,” said Kristina B. Hill, the company’s senior communications manager for the Southeast region. “Our ultimate goal is to change perception for past mistakes.” Charter’s customer service in the Upstate has come under fire in the past.

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back into a gestation crate. Gestation crates are designed to minimize competitive behavior, aggression and competition for resources among the sows, according to a study on sow housing by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV), published by the National Pork Board on pork.org. They also allow individual feeding and provide for worker safety, said the study. Disadvantages include restriction of movement and exercise and limited social interaction, the study continued. An HSUS study warned of other animal welfare concerns, including elevated risk of urinary tract infection, weakened bones, overgrown hooves and lameness. As an alternative to gestation crates, Smithfield Foods, the largest pork supplier in the U.S, and other pork suppliers are planning to move pregnant sows into group housing systems. Group housing varies widely; however, some producers group more than 100 sows together at a time in large indoor pens, allowing them freedom to move and socialize normally. Sows housed in group pens require different animal husbandry skills and train-

ing to prevent aggressive behavior in the group. Smithfield currently has 30 percent of its sows on company-owned farms in group gestation facilities, the company said, and expects the total cost of the conversion to exceed $300 million. With more than 1,650 locations across the U.S., Denny’s is the latest in a list of major pork purchasers turning against the use of gestation crates. In February, 2012, McDonald’s, buyers of around 1 percent of all pork produced in this country, announced its pledge to eliminate the crates from its supply chain; Wendy’s followed in March, and Burger King made a similar announcement in April. However, Domino’s Pizza rejected a ban on gestation crates at a stockholder meeting in April. In May, Safeway Stores became the first large grocery chain to announce its plan to “eventually” phase out buying pork from suppliers who use gestation crates. Whole Foods Market has prohibited the use of gestation and farrowing crates by their suppliers since 2003. Bi-Lo is “working with each of its suppliers to encourage them to review how to best remedy this issue, whether it be through research or phasing out gestation crates altogether,” said Stacey Couch, senior director of meat and seafood marketing for the Mauldin-based supermar-

ket chain. Smithfield is one of Bi-Lo’s primary pork suppliers, said Couch. Smithfield has vowed to eliminate the crates at their facilities by 2017, as has Hormel, the makers of Spam. Eight states, starting with Florida in 2002, have already banned the practice, with bills pending in five others, the HSUS noted. The U.K. and Sweden have already banned the crates, and by 2013 the European Union plans to mandate that sows be removed from crates after four months of pregnancy. The movement has not pleased many in the pork industry. R.C. Hunt, a pork producer from Wilson, N.C., and president of the National Pork Producers Council, claimed that “similar actions taken by governments – or other restaurant or grocery chains – have increased production costs and consumer prices. These actions have forced some hog farmers out of business or caused them to reduce operations, with no demonstrable health benefits to sows.” Hunt characterized the HSUS as “an animal rights group whose ultimate goal is the elimination of foodanimal production.” The alternative to gestation crates, group housing, is no better or worse, say pork industry supporters, who cite the veterinarians’ associations’ conclusions that “both types of housing have advantages and disadvantages.” Group housing can lead to aggression and injury, uneven body conditions, and the inability to forage, said the AVMA/AASV study. Nonetheless, Denny’s has made its commitment to ending gestation crate pig confinement. “We’ve got a very good relationship with Denny’s, and the company is serious about dealing with farm animal welfare issues in a meaningful way,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the HSUS. “We welcome the news that Denny’s will move its supply chain to a gestation crate-free future.” Contact Jerry Salley at jsalley@ thespartanburgjournal.com.

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When franchise agreements were between cable companies and local governments, the city of Greenville had fined Charter repeatedly for not meeting federal customer service standards. Now, franchise agreements are handled on the state level and cable companies don’t have to negotiate franchise agreements with each municipality they want to serve. Charter has scored dead last among companies in the subscription television industry in a national ranking of customer satisfaction by the University of Michigan 11 years in a row. The latest results were released on May 15. The company is now offering an “All-In Customer Guarantee” which carries a 30-day money back guarantee, a $20 credit if a service technician doesn’t arrive during a scheduled appointment and complete the service call on the first visit and a $20 credit upon request if customers are without service for more than 24 hours. In addition, Charter will add 27 new high-definition channels in the Spartanburg and Greenville area on June 6. In conjunction with the HD channels, nine channels will be digitized in the Spartanburg area and eight channels digitized in the Greenville area on that day. Digitized channels provide higher-quality audio and video and make room for more HD channels and other video, Internet and phone enhancements on Charter’s lines, Hill said. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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Provident Community Bank of Rock Hill reported a net loss to common shareholders of $202,000, or minus 11 cents per share. In the comparable period a year ago, Provident had a net loss of $6,000. In the last quarter of 2011, it reported a loss of $428,000. The bank said assets decreased $1.3 million to $375.4 million “due primarily to a significant reduction in loan demand as a result of economic conditions currently present in South Carolina and more stringent underwriting standards.” Net loans decreased to $145.8 million from $156 million at the end of the year. Non-performing loans increased by $1.7 million to $35.9 million or 9.6 percent of total loan assets. Provident is under a consent order of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to strengthen its capital to heightened levels because of higher risk. Because it has not achieved the higher level, it cannot be considered well capitalized. Provident has offices in Union, Rock Hill, Jonesville, Winnsboro, Laurens and Simpsonville.

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Like her previous novels that put her on the New York Times best-seller list, Dorothea Benton Frank’s newest novel, “Porch Lights,” has a healthy dose of South Carolina’s Lowcountry with a bit of history thrown in. But the book that will be released on June 12 is not like anything she’s ever written before, the author said. “I think it’s much more emotional than anything I’ve written in a long time,” Frank said during a telephone interview. “It digs a little deeper.” Frank will be in the Upstate on June 14. At noon, she’ll be the featured author in Fiction Addiction’s “Book Your Lunch” author series at Thornblade. At 7 p.m., she’ll appear at The Showroom at HubBub in Spartanburg. Tickets for both events included a signed hardcover book. After her firefighter husband tragically dies in the line of duty, Frank’s protagonist, Jackie McMullen – herself recently back in New York from a tour of duty as a nurse in Afghanistan – decides to return to her childhood home on

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Marvin Hamlisch, one of the world’s greatest living composers, will perform at Spartanburg’s Chapman Cultural Center on Tuesday, June 26, at 8 p.m. as a benefit for The Spartanburg Little Theatre. As a composer, Hamlisch has won three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe awards. He has written music for Broadway shows like “A Chorus Line,” “They’re Playing Our Song,” and “The Goodbye Girl” in addition to motion picture scores. Tickets are $40 ($30 for Little Theatre season members), and a complete sellout of the 500 seats is expected. Call 864542-ARTS or visit www.chapmanculturalcenter.org for information or tickets.

navy because they were so passionate about being free,” Frank said. “It teaches that being passionate about something is the key to having a life you enjoy.” There’s a place in the Dorothea Benton novel for Edgar Allan Frank, author of Poe, one of Sullivan’s “Porch Lights” Island’s most famous residents, a man whose life was marked by loss after loss, Frank said. “I think it’s a richer read than some of my other books,” she said. “It’s deeper.” Sullivan’s Island played a big part in Frank’s becoming a writer. After her mother died, Frank asked her New York investment banker husband to buy her mother’s house on the island – the house Frank had grown up in – to keep it in the family. He said no.

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“I learned the lesson that every woman should have their own money,” said Frank, who had given up a career in the garment industry because the globe-hopping it required would have interfered with raising the couple’s two children. “I had lost my place in the world and now I was going to lose Momma’s house.” She was taking a creative writing course and decided to try to write a book to earn enough money to buy the house. Her loosely autobiographical novel, “Sullivan’s Island,” was published two years later. The novel sold more than a million copies and launched a lucrative writing career. The New York Times best-selling author and her husband now split their time between homes in Montclair, N.J. and Sullivan’s Island. “Porch Lights” is her 13th novel. “One of the reasons I started writing is because I felt no one was listening to me,” she said. At her book signings, she suddenly had droves of women telling her they could relate. “People listen when you put something down on paper. Suddenly, somebody was listening to me. It was a profound surprise,” she said.

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Sullivan’s Island as a last-ditch effort to save her devastated 10-year-old son. “It’s about healing, renewal, how to pick your life up and put it back together,” Frank said. The story also looks at relationships between mothers and daughters. In “Porch Lights,” the main character doesn’t get along with her mother but decides to move back home for her son. “My daughters and I are seamlessly close,” Frank said. “In ‘Porch Lights,’ the mother and daughter don’t get along and I wondered what that would be like.” The book also looks at aging, Frank said. Jackie’s mother is a 58-year-old woman who has been separated from her husband for 11 years and won’t admit she’s lonely and aging. She falls in love with the next-door neighbor – as does her recently widowed daughter. “There’s a ginormous question as women age,” Frank said. “When men get older, they buy a sports car and put the top down. If women do that, people ask, ‘What’s that old broad doing?’ Women are acutely aware of our own shelf life.” Interwoven into the story is the lore of Sullivan’s Island. “The grandfather teaches Charlie (the 10-year-old boy) about how 700 American patriots beat 3,000 in the British

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People are at the core of every business. A company’s personnel are typically the most valuable assets and budget line. Building the right team can LEE YARBOROUGH take years with lots of setbacks. There are coaches, tests and services to help you choose your staff, train them and spread the team mentality. But as all managers know, sometimes it is just luck to get the right person at the right seat who can work with the rest of the staff cohesively. Once you are lucky enough to find the right employee, then you have to make sure the processes are in place so that the entire staff can work together. Cross training must be in place so if one person is out, the whole operation does not suffer. One person in your organization should never be irreplaceable and too valuable to take a vacation. When one member takes time off, it allows the company to adequately review how the team works as whole. Customers should not be able to feel a negative effect if one employee is out for a time period.

Numerous Upstate students were named National Merit Scholars and awarded scholarships: Spartanburg students included Matthew T. DeAngelis of Spartanburg, Dorman High School, Clemson University Scholarship and Tucker T. Meyers of Spartanburg, Spartanburg Christian Academy, University of Alabama Scholarship. Fire Chief Marion F. Blackwell of the Spartanburg Public Safety Department has successfully completed the process that awards him the professional designation of Chief Fire Officer (CFO). Blackwell is one of only 845 CFOs worldwide. The Chief Fire Officer designation program is a voluntary program designed to recognize individuals who demonstrate Blackwell their excellence in seven measured components including: experience, education, professional development, professional contributions, association membership, community involvement, and technical competencies. Blackwell has been Fire Chief of the SPSD since 2010. Cohens Closeouts and Shred 360 Document Solutions are hosting a free shred day event on June 22 from 12 to 3 p.m. in honor of Cohens 11th anniversary. The event will be held at Cohens Closeouts, 307 West Main St. For the fourth straight year, Carolina Alliance Bank has been named the March of Dimes’ Small Business of the Year.

In addition, this year, the bank also was presented with the Top Financial Institution Award. The Small Business Award, reflects the bank’s organizational commitment to the March of Dimes and March for Babies in the Spartanburg community. Carolina Alliance Bank received the Top Financial Institution Award as its staff of 39 raised $13,291.86. Spartanburg Community College recently honored five individuals for their distinguished service and contributions to the college during the 2012 Wall of Fame Induction Ceremony. To be considered for the Wall of Fame, individuals must have served the college for 10 or more years and either have been a member of the Spartanburg County Commission for Technical and Community Education, SCC Foundation Board, SCC advisory committee or a retired employee. Honorees included Danny T. Phillips, member of the Spartanburg County Commission for Technical and Higher Education for the past 16 years; Dr. Charles M. Fogarty, SCC’s respiratory program’s medical director and on the program’s advisory board since 1988; Margaret Green, former dean of learning resources and the college’s library director; William Reeder, inducted posthumously and the department chair for welding for 17 years; and Regina Eaker, who served the college for 42 years, working as personnel director and director of administrative services. Submit entries to: Spartanburg Journal, Community Briefs, 148 River St., Suite 120, Greenville, SC 29601 or spartanburgcommunity@thespartanburgjournal.com.

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look who’s in the journal this week Keysie Maddox, executive director of the Music Foundation of Spartanburg, introduces the featured artist, jazz guitarist Mark Guest, for “Music Sandwiched In” at the Spartanburg County Headquarters Library in the Barrett Community Room. “Music Sandwiched In” is a free concert series presented by the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra. The concerts are held on selected Wednesdays from 12:15 to 1 p.m.

Stephanie Winterrowd and her daughter Lauren, 3, look over Lauren’s photo from the “When I Grow Up” station at the PNC Mobile Learning Adventure tent at the Chapman Cultural Center. The Mobile Learning Adventure is an interactive traveling exhibit that provides an opportunity for parents and caregivers to learn about the importance of early childhood education. The hands-on exhibit offers educational games for children to do with their parents on two touch-screen kiosks. Activities include the “When I Grow Up” station, where kids dress up as different professionals and have their picture superimposed on an appropriate background.

Jazz Guitarist Mark Guest performs at the Spartanburg County Headquarters Library.

Jon Shackleford shows his daughter Clancy Shackleford, 2, her photo from the “When I Grow Up” station. Clancy was a zookeeper for the photo.

Benny Sanders, 4, looks in a mirror to see how he looks as a fireman in the “When I Grow Up” station at the PNC Mobile Learning Adventure tent.

Philip Brooks, 7, decided to have his photo made as an astronaut in the “When I Grow Up” station at the PNC Mobile Learning Adventure tent. The PNC Mobile Learning Adventure is presented by the PNC Foundation, which receives its principal funding from The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

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Across 1 Tip off 5 Symbols of thinness 10 Name of four Holy Roman emperors 14 Cost for classified info 19 Rod on a rig 20 Tennyson work 21 Club for a chip 22 Back biter? 23 “Let’s leave __ that” 24 Olive Oyl’s creator 25 Penitent period 26 Univ. VIPs 27 Packrat’s moving need? 29 Scan on a bulb? 31 How Hawaiian shirts are worn 32 Wears a long face 33 Cartoon dog 34 Multi-vol. references 35 Bungles 36 Like Handel’s music 40 Big, in Variety 43 Stretched to the max 44 Holiday landing site 45 Writer Santha Rama __ 46 Stripper’s scrapbook item? 51 Gullible sort 52 Annapolis inst. 54 It might consist of sandbags 55 Cry of exasperation 56 Not neg. 57 Uncompromising

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bance 113 Bop on the bean 114 Rivera of Broadway’s “West Side Story” 115 Hamlet, for one 116 Go easy? 117 Court cover-up 118 Comfy-cozy 119 City north of Pittsburgh 120 Works on a muffler 121 Legal postponement 122 Impressionists 123 Mail-routing abbr.

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Life after 60 By Peggy Henderson

Procrastination is in the eye of the beholder Lately I have begun to worry that I am a bona fide procrastinator. A habitual schemer who postpones writing this column until hours before the deadline. It’s strange, because in my daily life I’m anything but a put-offer. To the contrary, I’m a list-driven taskmaster who wishes to loosen up a bit and relax like a contented, lazy cat snoozing in my shade garden. It just so happens that I’ve just completed a self-help book, “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg, that landed on the New York Times bestseller list. Duhigg explains how to turn a negative habit into a positive one by introducing his “habit loop.” Running the risk of sounding evangelistic, I admit that I am flagrantly spreading the news regarding Duhigg’s habit loop. It’s a keeper for my reference shelf. The loop uses three factors: cue, routine and reward. For example: I want to stop eating ice cream before I go to bed at night (bad habit description). To manage this, I must recognize the cue, routine and reward involved, which are as follows: Cue: the craving begins when I wash my face before going to bed. Routine: eat ice cream and turn off downstairs lights. Reward: sweet ending of an OK or not OK day. The secret is to recognize the brain cue and change the routine action with an equally satisfying reward. The cues and rewards stay the same. It’s up to the gamechanger to play by the new routine rules. Obviously in this ice cream escapism, the deal is to replace the downstairs delight with something as rewarding upstairs. The choice remains with the escapist. Duhigg emphasizes that the “cue, routine, reward” loop has been clinically proven by neuroscientists. Our brains can be reprogrammed. Habit-reversal therapy includes a questionnaire that asks the willing client/patient: What is the reward you’re seeking to satisfy? Your hunger, anger, depression? Perhaps it’s a controlling nature or just plain boredom. Besides being an obstinate procrastinator, I am impatient. I want my wishes wrapped up with no loose ends by nightfall. Out of curiosity, I Googled

the “21 Days To Form a Habit” website. I know from experience that it takes more than 21 days to break a darker habit than vanilla ice cream dipping, but the principle is the equivalent. The gist of the 21-day plan is to change or create a new habit. It is as follows. 1. Commitment 2. “I want,” not “I might”. 3. Write and post the challenge and the reason for the change. The first two weeks into the new routine (don’t forget to reward yourself), the new activity starts to tickle your brain neuron pathways. Your perception becomes attuned with the newborn routine. A fresh feeling of change and accomplishment lightens your steps. In 21 days and after, if you aren’t successful, you’re still a winner. You know the routine and the rewards; just begin again and believe in yourself. As for this player of the waiting game, I now understand what propels me to knowingly delay my writing task. Many authors have written about writer’s block, fear of failure, rationalizations of time issues, and of course the curse of all curses, no motivation. This week I have experienced an epiphany. The reason I subconsciously – and now consciously – wait until the day before my deadline is that I clear the decks for just me and my tool of hyperfocus. I close my office door and the rest of the world disappears. It’s the spark that lights up the right side of my brain. I crave (cue) the race to put sentences together, the (routine) of hovering over the keyboard and the reward of clicking the “send” key. I relish living on the edge. I dare myself not to fail and savor the rush of success. Facing a blank screen is the same thing as an artist staring at an empty canvas. Creation is the ultimate in private drama. Good wishes. Carry your good and bad habits with you in optimistic faith and go float your own boat. Sink or swim, but do the rowing your own way. Contact Peggy Henderson at peg4745@aol.com.

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