The Beacon board, employees and management want to cooperate fully and the door is wide open.

There are still some practical concerns. We don't want to violate federal laws on disclosing employees' medical records but once that practical discussion occurs we can go forward from there.

Work is going on as usual and all 250 employees have been kept up-to-date.

We're not going to hide from this.

It's been a couple of bumpy weeks here, but it was a straightforward, standard board meeting about the functioning of Beacon Mutual from a strict business perspective.

I told our guys about four games ago that the bottom half of our lineup needs to start doing some stuff. Ever since then, they've stepped up and got on base.