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The Tonawanda News
Tonawanda News — If the meteorologists are correct — a dubious assumption — spring has finally arrived to banish winter. If the number of joggers and dog-walkers on my street in Buffalo is any indication (it's gone from the wintertime trickle to the spring steady flow and will eventually lead to traffic jams in the bicycle lane on Richmond Avenue), we're in store for some better weather.
It won't be long before the distant hum of lawnmowers will be heard far and wide in Western New York. For many the smell of freshly cut grass harkens back to idilic childhood memories.
I like warm weather as much as anybody. And I'm ready to be rid of winter perhaps more than anybody.
But with the warm weather comes a price.
I have terrible allergies. To everything.
I can't vacuum a carpet without tying a handkerchief or towel around my face. The dust bunnies under my bed would induce a 30 minute sneezing fit if disturbed.
I can't mow a lawn without breaking out into hives — literally. I throw down the windows for a day after it a trimming.
I scoff at all those television commercials for Claritin or Allegra. If they have any effect it's that of a placebo. I've never found a pill that makes much of a difference save Benadryl, but it puts me almost immediately to sleep for two hours.
When I was a kid my mother took me to an allergist. They tested me for a dozen or so of the most common allergies — pollen, ragweed, dust, etc. Let's just say I aced the test.
So I read with some measure of cynicism a story in Saturday's Buffalo News, that Buffalo is ranked the 15th worst city for allergy sufferers.
Like any good Western New Yorker I am constantly on guard against lists that rank us as the worst something-or-other. We're perpetually undersampled in virtues (we get more sunshine that most places but all anyone ever thinks about is snow, for example). But some intrepid writer looking to rank America's fattest cities will make plenty of cracks at our chicken wing consumption.
But this list offered a bit of vindication. Maybe it isn't all my crazed immune system's fault after all!
As it turns out, Buffalo is a bit of a rarity. Most cities in the Northeast aren't all that bad for allergy sufferers. But Buffalo's temperate summers make a breeding ground for lots of pollen.
Generally, the deep South is the worst place to live for allergies. I'll add that to the list of reasons why I'm glad I don't live in Mississippi.
They say rain can help dampen pollen counts but I've always found the hours after a summertime shower are the worst.
All I know is the onset of warmer weather is wonderful for many reasons — but my sinuses and a decent night's sleep aren't two of them.
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After five years, Will Zalatoris is finally getting to play in a U.S. Junior Amateur in his home state of Texas � and the Plano native is ready to take things one step at a time as he attempts to bring home the title this week in the Texas summer heat.
Rory McIlroy carries a six-shot lead into Sunday's final round of the 2014 British Open at Royal Liverpool, with Rickie Fowler his closest pursuer. Follow the highlights here!
Rory McIlroy will share Sunday's final tee time at the 2014 British Open with Rickie Fowler -- see complete pairings here.
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Friday at the British Open, Rory McIlroy widened his British Open lead at Royal Liverpool from one shot to four, while Dustin Johnson gave chase -- as Tiger Woods and Adam Scott struggled. Recap the highlights here!
In the first round of the British Open at Royal Liverpool, Adam Scott told himself, �we don�t want him running away,� as he shot 68 to keep close to leader Rory McIlroy.
Tiger Woods, defending champion Phil Mickelson and World No. 1 Adam Scott must chase first-round leader Rory McIlroy at the 2014 British Open championship at Royal Liverpool. Recap the highlights here!
Rory McIlroy was a machine on Thursday, posting six birdies in a bogey-free, 6-under 66 that saw him take the lead at Royal Liverpool. Can he avoid another Friday disaster and chase his third major title?
Brooks Koepka displays incredible distance off the tee, and that proved to be key Thursday at the Open Championship as the Florida State product overpowered Royal Liverpool's par 5s en route to a 4-under 68.
Tiger Woods fired a 3-under 69 on Thursday at the Open Championship, currently sitting three shots off the lead. The round consisted of six birdies and three bogeys � including back-to-back bogeys to start the round.
Tee times and pairings for the stroke-play portion of the 66th U.S. Girls' Junior Championship to be held at Forest Highlands Golf Club (Meadow course) in Flagstaff, Ariz
Adam Scott tops our senior writers' picks to win the 2014 British Open, with Jordan Spieth and Paul Casey also earning multiple mentions as contenders at Royal Liverpool. See who else is expected to contend.
The pairings and tee times for the second round were announced on Monday morning at Royal Liverpool, and here's a look at some of the groupings that stand out.
A USGA event designed for golf�s everyman (and -woman) ends next month, but not without having left its mark.
With four bogeys and a birdie on each nine, Colin Montgomerie shot 65 to move to the first-round lead of the U.S. Senior Open on Thursday at Oak Tree National in Edmond, Okla.
Here are the second-round tee times and groupings for the 2014 Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England.
Austin Connelly defeated Davis Riley, 1 up, to earn the final point and help the West retain the Wyndham Cup on Thursday at Old Sandwich Golf Club in Plymouth, Mass.
Doug Ghim notched 1.5 points on Wednesday to help the East squad extend its lead to five points at the Wyndham Cup. Play will finish on Thursday with 20 singles matches.
Qi Wen Wong and Rinko Mitsunaga went undefeated to help the East open up an 8-7 lead Tuesday at the Wyndham Cup.
Here are the first-round tee times and groupings for the Ricoh Women's Open at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England.
Responding to how her male-counterpart Andy Gai performed yesterday at the Golfweek Program Challenge, Campbell University freshman Lisbeth Brooks shot a 4-under 67 in the second round at Caldonia Golf & Fishing Club in Pawleys Island, SC.
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When the clock strikes midnight on Sunday, July 13, thousands of relatively large companies will — poof — suddenly become small businesses.
It's not magic. It's just the federal government at work.
The Small Business Administration has announced plans to update the size standards used to determine which firms are eligible for the federal government's small-business lending and contracting programs. Coming on the heels of series of tweaks to individual industries over the past few years, this will be the first broad update based on inflation the department has made since 2008.
In some industries, the cutoff is measured in total number of employees. In others, it is measured in terms of a company's total assets or annual revenue. In this case, the updates will apply to nearly 500 sectors for which sales or assets are the standard.
Under the new caps, which take effect July 14, the agency estimates that roughly 8,500 additional companies will be considered a small business by the federal government.
Others might not consider them that way.
For example, after the update, a travel agency or a locksmith would qualify as small if they have annual revenues of less than $20.5 million, up from $19 million. A family clothing store or software publisher, meanwhile, could soon bring in up to $38.5 million a year and still apply for small business support.
This sweeping update comes after the agency has made a number of smaller changes to various sectors; namely those for which the department instead uses employee count to determine eligibility. As a result, certain sectors, like telecommunications and air travel, now have a small-business threshold of 1,500 workers.
In a recent column, Chuck Blakerman, an author and entrepreneur, called those size limits "absurd" and described the past five years as "the largest expansion of the definition of 'small' in the 61-year history of the SBA."
"Their small isn't our small," he added.
Members of Congress have taken similar issue with the agency's perceived expansion of the type and size of business the agency supports. In multiple hearings before the House Small Business Committee, the agency has been criticized for what some lawmakers worry is a shift away from helping mom-and-pop businesses to instead support mid-sized firms.
But the agency hasn't backed down, insisting, in part, that companies in certain sectors have to compete with multibillion-dollar corporations. In that case, a company with merely tens of millions of dollars in sales warrants small-business support.
In addition, SBA officials argue in the text of the rule that the changes will allow some firms that have lost access to contract set-asides or loan programs due to inflation to regain their status. Others that are about to eclipse the limit for their industry will also be able continue taking advantage of those programs.
Moreover, the agency added, "federal agencies will have a larger pool of small businesses from which to draw for their small business procurement programs." Heightened competition, they say, will help drive down prices and lead to a better return for taxpayers.
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U.S. Army Gen. George S. Patton delivered what has been called a "miracle-working" Christmas prayer in 1944 before the Battle of the Bulge, when he asked God for four days of clear weather during one of the worst blizzards in European history.
The weather unexpectedly cleared up, prompting Patton's chief of chaplains, Col. (Monsignor) James H. O'Neill to say, "General Patton prayed for fair weather for battle. He got it."
Some of that history is on the back of the 6th Cavalry Museum Patton Christmas card. The Fort Oglethorpe museum introduced the Patton card three years ago as an annual fundraiser that pays homage to the World War II general under whom the 6th served.
"We only had 500 printed the first time," museum Executive Director Chris McKeever said. "They all sold that first day."
This year, the museum printed 4,000 cards and officials hope to raise several thousand dollars from their sale. The price starts at $5 for one card with the per-card price decreasing for larger quantities.
"It's a very patriotic feeling to do the card every year and have so many people come back [to buy them]," McKeever said.
This front of this year's card features an oil portrait of a stern-faced Patton praying for his "Christmas miracle" in a battle-damaged European church. Painted by the late Tom Lovell, an artist known for Western art and illustrations for magazines such as "The Saturday Evening Post," the Patton portrait was featured in a 1947 issue of "True" magazine.
The Patton prayer on an Army poster at the museum runs 12 paragraphs long, and has the general saying that his chaplains tell him World War II was a "religious war."
"They insist we are here to annihilate the German Army and the godless Hitler so that religious freedom may return to Europe," the prayer reads.
Tim Omarzu covers Catoosa and Walker counties for the Times Free Press. Omarzu is a longtime journalist who has worked as a reporter and editor at daily and weekly newspapers in Michigan, Nevada and California. Stories he's covered include crime in blighted parts of metro Detroit and Reno, Nev.; environmental activists tree-sitting in California's Sierra Nevada foothills; attempts by the Michigan Militia to take over a township¹s government in northern Michigan. A native of Michigan, ...


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In response to the filing of a Complaint on March 29, 2012, by the Department of Enforcement of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), Respondent Richard H. Wurz submitted an Offer of Settlement dated July 18, 2012, which the regulator accepted. Under the terms of the Offer of Settlement, without admitting or denying the allegations in the Complaint, Respondent Wurz consented to the entry of findings and violations and to the imposition of the sanctions. FINRA Department of Enforcement, Complainant, vs Richard H. Wurz, Respondent (Offer of Settlement, 2011027621701, August 2, 2012).
Wurz first became registered in April 1985 as an Investment Company and Variable Contracts Products Representative. From June 2004 to the present, he has been registered in that capacity through member firm Fortune Financial Services. Inc.
During the relevant time period from at least January 1, 2010, through April 19, 2011, Fortune Financial Services's internal written policies required all securities representatives to use their firm-assigned e-mail address for all business-related e-mails. Personal e-mail accounts and addresses were prohibited for any business-related communications. Fortune retained a vendor to maintain and preserve the firm's business related e-mails, and, accordingly, this vendor archived and preserved associated person's e-mails that were sent and received through their assigned firm e-mail addresses.
On or about April 19, 2011, two FINRA examiners arrived at Wurz's Holland, OH office (where he worked alone) in order to conduct a branch office examination. Wurz used a computer that he owned for conducting his securities business and for other purposes. On the day of the examiners's visit and prior, Wurz maintained an AOL e-mail account, and one of the examiners asked to review the e-mails contained in his personal AOL account.
The review occurred in a conference room located in Wurz's office and using his computer, which he controlled and operated during the examiner's review of the AOL e-mails. Throughout the relevant time period. Wurz had been assigned and provided with a Fortune Financial e-mail address for the receipt and transmission of business-related emails, but this AOL account was not a company-assigned or approved e-mail address.
During FINRA's on-site examination, the examiner preliminarily reviewed e-mails in the AOL account's Inbox and found a few e-mails that appeared business-related, and the examiner asked Wurz to print those out, which was done– thereupon, the examiner went to retrieve them from the remote printer, which was located in a separate room. The Offer of Settlement alleges that while the examiner was out of the conference room, Wurz deleted all of the Inbox e-mails.
Upon returning to the conference room, the FINRA examiner discovered that all of the Inbox e-mails that were displayed on the screen before he went to the printer room were missing from that box and asked Wurz for an explanation. The AWC alleges that Wurz claimed to not know what had happened and offered no explanation.
Uh huh. Yup. Okay. I mean, you know, at this point, we all sort of know that this isn't exactly going to end well for Wurz, right?
Undaunted, the FINRA examiner asked Wurz to open the Deleted AOL folder, where the emails that had formerly been in the Inbox were now displayed.
Gee, what a shock, the Inbox messages suddenly, miraculously, inexplicably wound up in the Deleted folder. Talk about Deus Ex Machina. Hmmm . . . y'all wondering how the files in the Inbox got into the Deleted folder? Maybe it's one of those computer glitches that seems to be going around from NASDAQ to Knight and maybe to Wurz?
At that point, the intrepid FINRA examiner continued to review Wurz's AOL email and discovered additional messages that appeared business-related and again asked Wurz about them. Once again the examiner left the conference room to retrieve the new crop of emails from the remote printer, and, once again, upon his return he discovered that the contents of the Deleted AOL folder had been deleted — as in sent to trash. And, yet again, Wurz claimed no knowledge as to what had happened.
Oh, for godsakes, really??? Ya gotta be kiddin' me. No? Wow.
FINRA alleged that Wurz had purposely deleted the e-mails from his AOL Inbox and then purposely deleted them from the Deleted folder. Such conduct was deemed to have interfered with FINRA's review of the subject e-mails and inhibited the staff's ability to conduct its investigation. Further, the e-mails contained in Wurz's personal AOL account were allegedly business related, and Wurz was using that account without his firm's knowledge or consent. Similarly, those e-mails were business records that the firm was required to maintain and preserve under '34 Act Rule 17a-4 and NASD Conduct Rule 3110, which Wurz's conduct prevented. By intentionally deleting e-mails from his personal AOL account, thereby impeding FINRA's branch office examination and regulatory oversight of his business activities, FINRA alleged that Wurz violated FINRA Rule 2010. Also, his conduct short-circuited Fortune Financial's ability to review the subject correspondence as required by NASD Conduct Rule 3010(d)(2).
In accordance with the terms of the Offer of Settlement, FINRA imposed upon Wurz a $5,000 fine and a two-month suspension from association with any FINRA member in any capacity.
Is it just me? Or doesn't the sanction in this case seem a bit light? The $5,000 fine is okay but only a two-month suspension? What the hell does a broker have to do these days in order to really get hit with some vacation time — lie to FINRA, hide records, delete records? Oh, wait, that sort of happened here, right? Whatever the explanation, I'm unable to reconcile the misconduct with the sanctions. Perhaps Wurz was represented by a superb lawyer or FINRA has somewhat overstated the facts. Regardless, the facts are fairly stark and I was anticipating a heavier hand from FINRA.
Whether or not the sanctions meet the violations, the FINRA examiner in this case should be commended for staying on top of things during the on-site examination. Although I often criticize FINRA (and my discomfort with the sanctions imposed is but one example), I found this AWC to be very well written because it offered sufficient detail about the underlying events. Similarly, the level of detail offered by the regulator in the settlement document serves to educate the industry as to how these things actually happen, how they are detected, the silly self-help measures that registered persons should avoid, and the cascade of regulatory consequence that may result from seemingly innocuous efforts to avoid a regulator's detection. In Wurz. FINRA makes its case forcibly.
With smartphones, portable tablets, and all sorts of wireless devices becoming prevalent in our daily lives, the issues raised in Wurz are going to become far more common concerns for Wall Street's regulators and industry compliance professionals. The mandatory use of firm-approved platforms and email addresses is easily diverted by the iPhone held under the desk or the iPad used at the local lunch spot. Similarly, while an employer may prohibit all unauthorized access and impose a number of online blocks, it requires little more effort than logging on to Facebook or Twitter to circumvent many of the best intentions of an employer's online supervision.
"On or about April 19, 2011, two FINRA examiners arrived at Wurz's Holland, OH office (where he worked alone) in order to conduct a branch office examination. "
So when one examiner left the room to get a printout, where was the other one?
And by the 2nd trip to the printer room, couldn't any moron think to call his companion away from the donut shop to keep an eye on the subject with the fast fingers and poor memory?
I had a situation similar to this where a remote rep was using an e-mail account other than the one that was assigned to him by the firm. I sent him a memo reminding him that all business communications had to take place in the firm's e-mail and that any deviation from this practice would result in his immediate termination. I didn't have a problem from that point on.
I was surprised that the FINRA Examiners didn't work on this issue together given the fact that you had to go to a different room to retrieve copies. I understand the fact that you worked on separate things but sometimes, the situation calls for collaboration.
Based on my own experiences, I had FINRA examiners, from the district 9 office, use information obtained through emails to slander and disrupt the operations of an individual contractor with whom the finra member was doing business with.
What I took away from the experience was to include regulatory risk in all my calculations.
Ok, lets get this straight. FINRA had to waste it's time and resources on this matter from 4/19/11 through 7/18/12?
Somethings wrong with this picture!
Why did it take the FINRA examiners to discover this in the first place?
Big deal, the firm has it in writing that outside emails aren't alowed and they have a system in place to monitor, maintanin & preserve business emails.
Does that mean that the firm has absolutely no obligation to conduct an in house compliance examination? My gosh, the man was unsupervised.
Also, what happened after the FINRA folks left the building?
AH FINRA, who cares! Go GET EM TIGER!
What is really disconcerting is that his choice for a private email address was AOL. This is almost as disturbing than when we found out that Mitt Romney uses Hotmail, and Sarah Palin has a Yahoo! account. Have none of these people heard of Gmail?


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Andover High School seniors earned a perfect ending to their high school careers and the whole girls basketball team captured a perfect season on Saturday by winning another state championship.
Members of the Andover High School girls basketball team earned a "three-peat,' their third straight state title. They beat Holyoke 61-45 during the MIAA D1 State Tournament Final at the DCU Center in Worcester.
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The last 20 minutes of our June flight into Bhutan's only airport was a surprising lesson in the maneuverability of a large, passenger jet aircraft. As our Airbus A139 made its descent, we entered a series of valleys, banking steeply this way and that, hemmed in increasingly tightly by mountains on either side, until, at an elevation of no more than a couple of hundred feet, the aircraft turned hard to the left, rounded a spur and quickly leveled out.
The airstrip lay just beneath us, but suddenly, without warning, we pulled steeply up and ascended at a rapid rate: The plane had come in too fast to land. After flying some distance and looping back around, one pair of the only eight pilots in the world trained and certified to land at the Paro International Airport (and who, incidentally, have a 100-percent safety record), successfully negotiated the twisting route this time, and we touched down on one of the world's highest and shortest jet runways and took in our first glimpse of this tiny Himalayan nation. Most of us on the plane, including myself, my wife, Amy Allocco of Elon University, and Profs. Rachel Scott and Rosalind Hackett of the University of Tennessee's Department of Religious Studies, had come to Bhutan to present research at the 4th Conference of the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion, sponsored by the International Association of the History of Religion and hosted by the Royal University of Bhutan. With 230 scholars specializing in religions of mountainous regions planning to attend, this was the largest international gathering ever permitted into Bhutan, a country that has long sought to protect its way of life, its environment and its astonishing biodiversity by keeping the rest of the world at bay. It has, for centuries, remained inaccessible by both geography and design.
In 2008, however, its young king, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk, declared Bhutan a democracy and thereby abdicated most of his actual authority, although he remains head of state and a much revered figure, probably more so for this bold and selfless move on behalf of the Bhutanese people. Since then, this deeply Buddhist society has slowly been experimenting with how to engage the rest of the rapidly globalizing world while safeguarding its cherished traditions.
Bhutan continues, however, to maintain strict control over its borders, an outgrowth of the decree of the king that the preservation of culture and tradition was one of four primary national objectives whose overall purpose is the promotion of the happiness of the Bhutanese people. What the king coined "Gross National Happiness" has become the measure by which all national policy is judged. Its name is intended to strike a contrast between Bhutan's course for improving the quality of life of its people and those measures guided by such narrow and purely economic measures as Gross Domestic Product. GNH, as it is widely known, is determined by specific indicators intended to gauge the overall well-being of the people. These indicators include good governance, environmental protection, financial security, time use (work-life balance), psychological well-being, cultural preservation, health and education. Gross National Happiness is now a global concern, with the 5th international conference dedicated to the idea just concluded in Brazil.
As a specialist in Hindu religious traditions, I have traveled throughout South Asia and spent substantial amounts of time in India, but Bhutan was culturally unlike anyplace I had ever been. We spent eight days in Thimpu, the nation's capital and, at roughly 80,000 people, Asia's smallest. We found the people immensely proud of their national heritage, its Buddhist values, and their careful, calculated entry into the modern world. The distinctive national dress, consisting of a robe with a belt called a gho for men and an ankle-length dress called a kira for women, made of finely woven cotton or wool, is still widely worn. While there is a construction boom underway in Thimphu, all buildings must conform to traditional architectural styles, producing a bustling city of exclusively pagoda-like structures. We counted ourselves terribly fortunate not only to be welcomed to observe and discuss the changes underway there, but to be honored by the Bhutanese government's decision to waive the tariff of $200 per day assessed of foreign visitors designed to prevent the environmental damage and unwelcome cultural influences that massive tourism has introduced in places like neighboring Nepal. As we came to learn, the young Bhutanese parliament had debated our conference's request to come to Thimphu and determined that this opportunity for the professors and students at Bhutan's Royal University to work with some of the world's best known experts on religion fostered GNH's goal of furthering education in Bhutan and granted us the visa waivers.
My emerging sense of who the Bhutanese are was finally fully cemented by a simple and unself-conscious act near the end of our stay. One of the many student volunteers assisting our group had taken to helping one elderly conference participant from India, who walked only with difficulty, in and out of busses and up and down the long, difficult staircases that lead to temples. When my wife said to him, "You have been very kind to that man," he shrugged and dismissed our attempt to thank him for his service, saying only, "that's Buddhism."
There are many ways in which I will now have to revise some of the courses I offer most frequently at Maryville College. Although I have long taught and written about religion in the modern world, my experience in Bhutan will, I hope, allow me to present to my students (many of whom go on to work in such fields as law, public policy, non-profit administration and ministry), an emerging consensus from the developing world that religious or ethical values and economic development can complement one another in ways that benefit society as a whole.
My courses on the politics and culture of South Asia and World Religions will now have to reflect the presence and potential importance of this very distinctive place. I will make it clear to them that the outcome of Bhutan's experiment with how to be a part of the modern world while preserving the best of one's heritage remains to be seen. What is clear at this moment, however, is the people of this tiny nation fully intend to show the rest of the planet that it can be done.


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Lisa Meadows of Bristol, Tenn., is taking over leadership of the Rock Hill/ York County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Meadows was selected by the bureaus Board of Commissioners from a field of 40 applicants to replace Bennish Brown, who left in May to become president and CEO for the Tacoma, Wash., Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau.
She starts as bureau president on Oct. 15.
Meadows experience and her reputation for building collaborative relationships were factors in her hiring, said Gene Roper and Jason LaBarge, the chairman and vice chairman of the bureaus board.
Meadows worked for Bristol Chamber of Commerce/Convention and Visitors Bureau for 18 years, the last 11 years as its chief executive officer. The chamber and visitors bureau serves a community that straddles the Virginia-Tennessee line. Before that she worked in the banking field for 20 years.
She left the Bristol bureau in April to care for her daughter, Lacey, during a difficult pregnancy. Meadows now has a 4-month-old granddaughter, Laken.
LaBarge said the 53-year-old Meadows stood out because of her ability to build strong relationships with local county and state governments, her grant-writing experience and her quest to seek more education with each promotion. It shows she wouldnt stand pat with what she was doing, that she drives for success, he said.
Building relationships was one of the key search criteria, LaBarge said. Before leaving for Tacoma, Brown advised the board to focus on all the municipalities in York County, getting them more involved in tourism efforts.
LaBarge served on the search committee and is the area vice president for HP-Hotels which operates the Rock Hills Hilton Garden Inn.
After the birth of her granddaughter Meadows said she set out to find what the second life will be for me.
She said she looked for jobs in places that had a hometown feel, but were close to larger metro areas. She said she was also interested in working in a progressive community.
Meadows said visits to Rock Hill confirmed that she had found what she was wanted. The variety of amenities showed her that leaders not only had a strategic plan, but were implementing it. That sold me on the idea of working here, she said.
The signs directing people to various attractions also impressed her.
It showed me this community is proud of what its got and it wants people to find it, she said.
Meadows assembled a 2-inch thick binder of facts and figures about York County to prepare for her interview.
After the interview, Meadows said she and her husband, Rick, dined at a Lake Wylie restaurant and drove around the area.
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AWESOME TREATS!! I changed the pumpkin amount from 1/2 cup to 1 full heaping cup and it did the trick! My dough was PERFECT! I kept the cinnamon (I FEEL IT IS IMPORTANT) I made smaller cookies so I left them in for only 15 minutes. They came out golden brown and smelling YUMMY! My dogs ate them up!
My Patterdale Terrier only plays with treats that he loves the most (throwing them around, hiding them, and most oddly, running around whining with them in his mouth). These definitely passed that test. I found one under my pillow! I increased the pumpkin to 1 cup and used about 3 heaping tablespoons of peanut butter. Also threw in about 3/4 cup of rolled oats to give them some depth. I rolled them about to about 1/2 inch thickness and cut them out using dog bone and various mini christmas cookie cutters. Baked them for about 35 minutes. Awesome recipe, will make again and again. EDIT: I've been making these for 4 years now and they are loved by my dogs, as well as neighborhood hounds, family members; dogs, and friends' pooches!
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"Jeopardy!" wouldn't be "Jeopardy!" without Alex Trebek, but the legendary host could be hanging it up in the next few years.
The 71-year-old, who has hosted the game show for 28 years, told Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday that he's mulling calling it quits in two years or so, once he's hit the 30-year mark.
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NORMAN — The lodging industry is about as competitive as they come these days. National and local hoteliers compete for room nights against each other and jointly against other cities for larger events.
They look like they are in collective agreement on the city council's proposal to raise the guest room tax from 4 percent to 5 percent.
A plan to raise the rate a few years ago was met with disapproval and didn't move forward. Norman is somewhere near the middle of room tax rates. Oklahoma City's rate is 5.5 percent. The tax on the city's 2,831 rooms generates more than $1 million a year.
After the city takes its 3 percent administrative fee, half of the remaining funds go to the city's convention and visitors bureau. The remainder is split between the arts and the city parks department.
The head of the city's convention and tourism bureau and the general manager of the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center appeared before the council Tuesday night in support of the increase.
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At this time of year, spring seems here one day, gone the next. One week, it seems like tomato time; another week, the weather kicks us back indoors to contemplate houseplants. Yet it is certain that soon the Piedmont will settle into that long, flower-filled time called spring.
Will you be ready?
Fortunately, here in the 21st century, there is a lot of help for beginning and experienced gardeners. These resources include a wealth of seed and plant catalogs, websites that both sell and instruct, and a legion books on every aspect of gardening.
A huge number are out there, but Ive narrowed it down to some of my reliable favorites.
Catalogs/websites for seeds and plants
• Burpee: This famous seed company offers a catalog a new tomato named Super Sauce glows on the cover with a huge range of choices for flowers, vegetable and herb seeds, as well as a smaller range of plants. The website, www.burpee.com, has the seeds and plants as well as advice, how-to videos and a growing calendar.
• The Cooks Garden: The catalog and website, www.cooksgarden.com, emphasize seeds and plants that are more unusual and may appeal to gourmet cooks. Instead of the common chive, it offers Cha-Cha chive. To color up your green bean collection, there is a red-podded asparagus bean, the pods 12 inches long. The website neatly divides its offerings into helpful categories of heirlooms, organics, flowers, vegetables and herbs.
• Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds: Specializing in nonhybrid heirloom flowers, herbs and vegetables that have been grown for generations, Baker Creek presents a just-folks image, but its catalog contains excellent close-up photography along with descriptions that are specific and to-the-point. And if you think you have tried everything, consider the purple artichoke called Violetta Precoce, newly arrived from Italy, where they say it has been grown for hundreds of years. The website is www.rareseeds.com. It features a magazine, blog and forums as well as the seed listings.
Websites for learning
• Clemson University: The website, www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic, comprises the Clemson Cooperative Extension Services Home and Garden Information Service. Listings offer guidance on many topics, including landscape plants, lawns, vegetables, fruits, nuts, insects and diseases. Got a problem with something eating your tomato? Click on Insects, diseases & Other Problems. Then click your way through to the tomato fruit worm, which was photographed feeding on someone elses tomato.
• N.C State University: The N.C. Cooperative Extension Service and N.C. State produce an Urban Horticulture site, www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/index.html, aimed at home gardeners. It contains enormous listings of plant profiles on many popular ornamental plants, listed by both scientific and common name. The best guide to home vegetable gardening is a long and detailed one on a different site: www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/ag-06.html. It includes diagrams, calendars, problems, recommended varieties and even the distinctive differences between three kinds of hoes.
• National Gardening Association: A nonprofit that has promoted gardening for four decades, the associations website, www.garden.org, covers many topics with a modern flair. The site excels in staying current. For example, there is a regional report with reminders of tasks for the Piedmont Carolinas, how-to videos on sowing seeds, and directions on pruning grape vines. The site also emphasizes gardening for children, with good ideas and activities for them.
Help from the plant societies
• Daffodils: The American Daffodil Society, www.daffodilusa.org, offers the complete course on one of Americas favorite flowers. This includes identification, planting and tending. A good list of FAQs offers guidance on such problem areas as growing in the shade, the effect of ground covers on bulb growth, how they multiply and the always-asked What is the difference between daffodils and narcissus?
• Daylilies: The American Hemerocallis Societys site, www.daylilies.org, offers almost an encyclopedia of information about this popular perennial. It includes a regional guide to activities, a database with descriptions of many, many varieties and a video filled with daylilies so lush you may want to dig up everything else and just plant them.
• Irises: The American Iris Society, www.irises.org, will inspire gardeners to try more than the popular tall bearded types. This site should expand your horizons, with an enormous database of descriptions, good planting and growing instructions and clear distinctions for the many types of irises, such as Siberians, Japanese and Louisiana.
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• Starting Seeds, by Barbara Ellis (Storey Publishing, 121 pages; $8.95): A nice little guide for the beginner who yearns to grow flowers and vegetables from seeds. A step-by-step guide with simple but descriptive drawings, Starting Seeds should help the gardener from the moment the seed envelope is ripped open to setting out the young plants.
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Charitable organizations know that people give more in the last three months of the year than at any other time.
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Streatham-Croydon returned to winning ways to keep in touch with the pace-setters in Surrey Divison Two, after a 22-15 victory at bottom club Worth Old Boys.
Streatham were three tries up at half time and scored a fourth, through influential number eight Simon Hampton, within the first 15 minutes of the second half, to secure the bonus try point.
Streatham opened their account in the first half following good continuity down the right-hand side of the pitch, neat interchanging of passing saw captain Garvin Toussaint punching his way over from close range.
This was followed by a second try from Vinnie Auguiste following a beautifully timed pass from flanker Maika Daveta, which saw the expedient winger touch down in the corner.
The third try before half time, scored by full back George Shaw, again owed much to Auguiste whose tenacious tackling following a kick forced the Old Boy winger into a moment of absentmindedness, thus allowing Shaw to intercept and run untouched to the try line.
Next week, Streatham-Croydon host Chipstead (kick off 3pm), the league's only unbeaten side.
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Putting on the Brave Face
Coaching tee ball is hard. And not just because it's like herding a pack of wet cats. Or because five-year-olds generally prefer digging in the dirt to fielding grounders. Or because twenty minutes in, the main thing on half of the kids' minds is the juice box after the game.
For me, coaching tee ball is hard because of the painful sweetness of the memories that are conjured on the…Continue Reading
When Envy Turns Deadly
Holy Week is a wonderful time for meditation and reflection. In addition to prayerfully considering the actions of Jesus in his triumphal entry and his temple cleansing and cursing, it's worth reflecting on the actions of some of the other key players in the climax of God's redemptive drama. When we consider the motives and deeds of the Jewish leaders, not only do we see the unfathomable wisdom of God…Continue Reading
When Laughter Is An Act of Defiance
When you finally get the news, you hope you'll be ready. You never know until the moment arrives, until you're finally confronted with the long-awaited reality.
A few weeks ago, my mom called to tell me that my father's long fight with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's was coming to an end. Seven years of fading memories, of weight loss, of slow death. Seven years of decline, then plateau, then sharp decline…Continue Reading
Be the Smile of God to Your Children
He's a squirmy one, he is. If I don't watch him, he'll wriggle off the bed. But he doesn't want to. He's enjoying the tickle fight too much. I can't blame him. Those giggles make this father's heart want to leap out of my chest. I wonder how long this laugh will last.
Reflect on the tickle fight with me. See the layers of reality at work.
Triune Joy in… Continue Reading
Recovering the Lost Art of Chivalry
They say that chivalry is dead, that the medieval ideal of the humble knight is laid low in the dust. They were saying the same in C.S. Lewis's day. And Lewis, rather than lamenting the loss of chivalry, sought to do something about it.
Lewis loved chivalry, at one point even referring to it as "the one hope of the world." Lewis deeply appreciated the double demand that the chivalric…Continue Reading
Envy Hunts in a Pack
Picture your bathroom. Now picture your toilet. Now, you know that space behind the toilet, the disgusting place where nobody goes? The place that, if you should happen to drop your toothbrush, it means that you'll just have to buy a new one? Okay, that place is like your heart. Or at least the sinful parts of your heart. All kinds of junk lives back there: lying, back-biting, lust, pride,…Continue Reading
Why Envy Is a Danger for the YRR
And behold, I saw a white horse. Its rider's name was Success, and Envy followed him.
Envy is a movement killer. And if you ask me, it is probably the fundamental danger facing the modest movement called Young, Restless Reformed (YRR) in the years ahead. Envy is a movement-killing sin precisely because it combines such deadly opposites. Envy is a gaping maw, a roaring lion seeking to devour, the relentless…Continue Reading
'Les Misérables' and the Law of God
Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is again a topic of conversation, and for good reason.
Christians, in particular, have rightly celebrated the portrayal of the beauty of mercy and grace in this moving 150-year-old tale. Most of the theological analyses have contrasted Javert, the law-obsessed Inspector, with Valjean, the grace-transformed thief.
And while much of this analysis has been spot-on, it's important that a central biblical and theological reality not get…Continue Reading
The Story-Teller Who Entered In
God is an Author. This world is his story. We are his characters.
I first heard of the analogy sitting in a college philosophy class, and I've used it ever since. I find it personally fruitful and pastorally helpful in addressing everything from God's sovereignty and human freedom to the two wills of God to the problem of evil. It's what you might call a potent metaphor.
And a biblically…Continue Reading
So Where Was God?
The question is always the same. Where was God?
After the initial shock and horror subsides, after the news crews go home, we're always left with the same question: So where was he?
Did he know ahead of time what was going to happen one week ago today? Was he aware of the shooter's plans? Does he have foreknowledge, foresight, the ability to peer into what for us is the…Continue Reading
Psalm 111: Delighting in the Works of God
Psalm 111:2 reminds us of a fundamental principle: Delight leads to study. A Lover can recall every feature of his Beloved's face. A mother knows every dimple, hair, and birthmark on her baby's body. When we recognize something as full of splendor and majesty, careful attention is no chore. When we are fascinated, when we marvel at some wonder, when our hearts rise with delight in some reality, the natural…Continue Reading
To See the World As It Really Is: C. S. Lewis on Education
Having examined the form of education that Lewis rejects, we turn now to a brief summation of his own view. The following tenets are not the whole of Lewis's educational paradigm, but instead form some of the nonnegotiables that Lewis felt were under particular attack in his day.
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Genuine education embraces the Tao. For Lewis, the Tao appears to be a combination of the absoluteness of reality…Continue Reading
Where Do We Find Jesus in the Old Testament?
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[Typology is] the idea that persons (e.g., Moses), events (e.g., the exodus), and institutions (e.g., the temple) can — in the plan of God — prefigure a later stage in that plan and provide the conceptuality necessary for understanding the divine intent (e.g., the coming of Christ to be the new Moses, to…
C. S. Lewis vs. Modern Education (Part 2)
We've seen, in Part 1, that Lewis's critique of modern education begins by highlighting the marginalization of value statements, the separation of fact and value, and the creation of men without chests. However, Lewis is not merely lamenting the loss of virtues like courage, fidelity, and sacrifice. For he knows that nature abhors a vacuum, and in the absence of these virtues, men will turn elsewhere to find meaning…Continue Reading
C. S. Lewis vs. Modern Education (Part 1)
Part of my goal in writing these posts is to commend the Narnian stories as a component of Christian discipleship. In doing so, I'm not merely contending that we can read them profitably as Christians, but that C. S. Lewis intended these stories to inculcate Christian values, habits, and truth.
We've already seen that he intended these stories to "steal past the watchful dragons" that hindered true affections…Continue Reading
What Is the River of History?
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God's providence may not unfitly be compared to a large and long river, having innumerable branches beginning in different regions, and at a great distance one from another, and all conspiring to one common issue. After their very diverse and contrary courses which they hold for a while, yet all gathering more and more together the nearer they come to their common end, and all at length discharging…
Narnia Helps Us Live Better Here
Many Christian readers, upon discovering additional layers of meaning in the Narnian stories, immediately jump to the conclusion that the Chronicles are allegories. These same readers would be surprised to learn that C. S. Lewis denied multiple times that the stories are allegories.
The Narnian Stories Are Not Allegories
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But it is not, as some people think, an allegory ("Letter to Sophia Storr," in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis…
Two Tensions in Edwards's View of History
One of the great challenges for those of us who love and embrace "the supremacy of God in all things" is to push this glorious truth into the corners. We must get specific. The supremacy of God in science. The supremacy of God in technology. The supremacy of God in literature. And, in light of our reflections on Jonathan Edwards's "A History of the Work of Redemption," the supremacy…Continue Reading
Three Objections to Fairy Tales and C. S. Lewis's Response
C.S. Lewis loved fairy stories. He thoroughly believed that "sometimes fairy stories say best what needs to be said" (the title of one of his essays). And, as we've seen, Lewis rejected the modern association of fairy tales with children. Adults can and should enjoy fairy stories.
But Lewis was aware that many regarded fairy stories as unsuitable even for children. In "On Three Ways of Writing for…Continue Reading
Five Purposes of God in the Work of Redemption
The final portion of Jonathan Edwards' first sermon on "A History of the Work of Redemption" relates five designs of God in the great work that he carries on from the fall to the end of the world.
- According to 1 Corinthians 15:25 and 1 John 3:8, "one great design of God in the affair of redemption was to reduce and subdue those enemies of God till they should all…
Are Fairy Tales Just for Children?
The central thrust of this recurring column is that learning to live like a Narnian is something worth pursuing. Indeed, I want to commend it as a crucial component of Christian discipleship. In other words, I want to make a case for Narnian discipleship, not merely as a coincidental byproduct of reading the Narnian stories, but as one of Lewis's (and God's!) chief goals in the Narniad itself.
Beware of… Continue Reading
All of History Is Redemptive History
In a previous post, I lamented the fact that Jonathan Edwards died prior to writing his unfinished masterwork, a God-centered biblical theology and world history, integrated by Christ's work of redemption. But God, despite removing Edwards from this world, did not leave us without a witness.
Almost 20 years before his death, Edwards preached a 30-part sermon series on A History of the Work of Redemption, which was…Continue Reading
Learning to Breathe Narnian Air
In 1956, after completing the last book in The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis wrote a short article in the New York Times Book Review explaining how a childless professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature came to write fairy tales.
Dismissing the idea that he had some master plan to "say something about Christianity to children" which led him to choose the fairy tale genre, researched the reading habits…Continue Reading
Three Points on Edwards's History of Redemption
Historical counterfactuals fascinate me. What if the British had won the Revolutionary War? What if Constantine had lost the Battle of Milan? What if Hitler had never been born?
As an amateur scholar of Jonathan Edwards, one of the most intriguing counterfactuals to me centers around Edwards's untimely death in 1758. After accepting the position of president of the College of New Jersey, Edwards died of a small pox vaccination.…Continue Reading
Abortion Is About God
They say that nothing is certain except death and taxes. In America, at least, we can add one more thing to the list: Every four years politicians and pundits will wax eloquent about the "difficult" and "controversial" issue of abortion.
Debates about "a woman's right to choose" and "a baby's right to life" will quickly degenerate into shouting matches that obscure rather than clarify the issues.
As Christians, we don't…Continue Reading


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How do you spot a sociopath?
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Have you ever suspected that someone at the top is cheating?
If so, you may actually be dealing with a sociopath, a person who literally has no conscience, who loves to make people jump just for the fun of it-- a person who can do anything at all without the slightest twinge of guilt.
Four percent of Americans are sociopaths, meaning that they have no conscience, and this statistic probably gets larger as one goes up the ladder of success. At the top echelons of success in big business, sociopaths are probably even more plentiful. Most sociopaths in business are not physically violent, and they don't look like Charles Manson. They look like we do.
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More Workers Take 401(k) Early Withdrawals
These early distributions can come with significant financial penalties.
Workers are increasingly tapping their retirement accounts early to prevent foreclosure or eviction, pay for college, and purchase a home. The percentage of 401(k) participants taking loans and hardship withdrawals has jumped significantly over the past year.
Some 11 percent of 401(k) account owners initiated a loan over the past 12 months, up from 9 percent a year ago, according to an analysis of nearly 17,000 Fidelity retirement accounts with 11 million participants released today. And 22 percent of 401(k) participants currently have a loan outstanding. The average initial loan amount is $8,650, which is to be repaid with interest over three and half years.
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"The current economy has forced some workers to borrow from their 401(k) accounts in order to pay for critical living expenses, ultimately jeopardizing their future retirement," says James MacDonald, president of workplace investing at Fidelity Investments. "For some, taking a loan or a hardship withdrawal from their 401(k) may be their only option because it's their only form of savings."
401(k) participants are generally allowed to take a loan of up to 50 percent of the vested account balance or $50,000, whichever is less. If the loan is not paid back with interest it is considered a 401(k) withdrawal and may become subject to taxes and penalties. If you are laid off or leave your job before paying back the loan, the balance becomes due. Some employers also require the loan recipient to pay origination and maintenance fees for the loan.
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Hardship withdrawals, while less common than 401(k) loans, are also increasing. During the second quarter of this year, 62,000 participants initiated a hardship withdrawal, up from 45,000 early withdrawals in the first quarter, Fidelity found. Almost half (45 percent) of retirement savers who took a hardship withdrawal a year ago also took another one this year.
To qualify for a hardship withdrawal employees must demonstrate an immediate and heavy financial need for the money, according to the IRS. Expenses that may qualify include medical costs, the purchase of a primary residence, the prevention of eviction or foreclosure, the repair of home damage, college costs, and burial or funeral expenses. Other sources of savings usually must be exhausted before you qualify.
[See Tapping Retirement Accounts to Cope with Unemployment.]
Early 401(k) withdrawals can be costly. Those who withdraw money from their workplace retirement account before age 59 ½ (or age 55 if they leave their job) must pay a 10 percent early withdrawal penalty and regular income tax on the amount withdrawn. Most workers who take a hardship withdrawal are between 35 and 55 years old and, therefore, must pay the resulting penalties, Fidelity found. Employees are also generally prohibited from making new contributions to the 401(k) plan for at least 6 months after the distribution.
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Editor's Note: Patch is running bios on the candidates for Hennepin County 6th District Commissioner seats. These races will be decided during the General Election on Nov. 6. Today, we look at challenger Dave Wahlstedt. On Friday, we'll look at Jan Callison, the incumbent in this race.
Dave Wahlstedt
District: Hennepin County 6th District
Political Experience: None himself, but he worked on Ron Paul's campaign. Wahlstedt's campaign kick-off is July 4 at Excelsior fireworks.
Occupation: An engineer for 25 years and has owned and operated for 10 years.
Education: University of Minnesota
Home: Excelsior, moved from Minneapolis in September 2011.
Age: 46
Family: A wife and two children, ages 7 and 5.
Campaign Points/Goals:
- Wahlstedt is concerned about the county purchasing a big office building that he says is twice the expected value and "clearly big enough that it signals their intent to grow Hennepin County government."
- He said he's looking for government to decrease. "We should head back the other way and start to roll back the easiest things and not take on new things," he said.
- Wahlstedt said he'd bring his people skills, analysis and problem-solving to the table as a county commissioner.
- According to Wahlstedt, one huge problem with Hennepin County government is that nearly two-thirds of the budget is not at the discretion of the board to change. "I really feel like it's a fairly complex interaction between state, federal and county funds," he said. "It's not something commissioners can just change, but it's an important issue to advocate for."
- He said the county board needs to cut the $1.65 bilion dollar budget, starting with commissioner pay which has grown to be one of the highest of all elected officials in Minnesota.