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Annie escapes Oak Haven, Aidan and Ryan worry what will happen since Annie confessed, Angie and Krystal make up and Kendall makes Bianca a strange proposition.
At Oak Haven Annie imagines Greenlee and Ryan vowing their love to one another. She takes the wedding announcement and stares at it. Aidan tries to talk to her through the vent but she doesn't respond. An orderly comes in; Aidan demands to see Sinclair immediately. Aidan is shown to Sinclair's office; she says Annie admitted everything and now the D.A. will take on the case. Aidan asks about Annie's motives and Sinclair says it was because of Annie's fake pregnancy. Aidan can't believe it. Aidan tells her there is still a long way to go to convince a judge and jury that she is guilty but Sinclair has Annie's confession on tape! Aidan leaves a number where he can be reached and turns to go, but then he convinces Sinclair to let him see Annie one more time. He quickly reaches Annie's room and tells her he can't help her anymore because of her admission! He leaves. Sinclair comes in and accuses Annie of being the twisted sibling. Annie insists Richie was the evil one. Annie yells at her to leave. "I hope Richie haunts you every day of your miserable life," Sinclair says and leaves. Annie realizes the door didn't latch and leaves! Sinclair returns a while later but the room is empty.
At the penthouse Ryan and Tad go over their plans. Tad says he is bringing in a prison guard to try to figure out if Sinclair was Richie's shrink. Greenlee comes in, hears them and asks what they are going. She can't believe they are trying to help Annie; Ryan insists this is about Sinclair. The bridal consultant arrives; Ryan whispers to Tad that Greenlee doesn't need to know anything about the investigation. Greenlee is checking out the dress when Aidan walks in! He asks for Ryan but he has already left with Tad. Aidan asks about Richie's Chicago connection, worrying Greenlee. She is confused so Aidan tells her everything. She can't believe him and rages about how he and Ryan have been helping 'crazy Annie' behind her back! Ryan returns and Greenlee runs from the room because she is still wearing the dress. Aidan apologizes, saying he didn't know that Greens was in the dark; he tells Ryan about Annie's confession and says they are in trouble. Ryan tells Aidan about the guard, who told them Sinclair was Richie's therapist. Greenlee hears them talking. Aidan says he'll handle things and leaves. Ryan says he didn't want to bother Greenlee with what was going on because of her wedding hang-ups. He gives her flowers and she says flowers won't fix this. "Keeping secrets is no way to start a marriage," she says. He promises to be 100% honest in the future. Greenlee is very worried.
Erica is watching over David as he examines Kendall. With Erica distracted Kendall asks David to give her a medical excuse not to attend the wedding. Zach arrives, meeting Erica at the door. She reminds him of his toasting duties and leaves. David tells Zach that Kendall isn't well enough to travel and leaves, too. Zach asks why she put David up to it; she says she doesn't want to go. He wants details. Kendall says she just doesn't care about the weddings but tells Zach to go without her. "You're acting like a child," he says. Kendall insists she is being honest. Zach refuses to go without her.
Bianca returns to the suite as Reese is working on her wedding vows. She chases Reese around the room, trying to get her to listen to the vows but Reese won't listen. Finally Reese figures out that Bianca is reciting parts of the Constitution and they laugh. They kiss and then Reese pushes Bianca away because she has come up with an idea for her vows. Erica arrives and is upset to see that the women aren't packed. Binks says they have plenty of time. Zach arrives and says Kendall is refusing to attend the wedding; Bianca goes to talk to her and Erica takes control of the trip preparations. Alone with Reese, Zach vents his frustration at Kendall and at himself for causing all of the problems. Reese says he can't regret his actions because it gave them Gabby! Zach says the point is that she and Bianca have to get on with their life without him being part of it! Reese refuses to leave.
Natalia is ready for her first ride-along but Jesse tries to convince her to take some time off because of Rebecca's death. She refuses, saying Rebecca wouldn't want that. She leaves the apartment. Angie is worried about her, too, but says they all need to deal with the grief of Rebecca's death. Angie leaves for work. Natalia returns a few minutes later because Jesse cancelled her ride-along! Jesse tells her that she has to allow herself to grieve; Natalia insists she needs to pay tribute to Rebecca by earning her badge.
At the hospital Krystal meets David with coffee. He is very upset and tells Krystal that Angie skipped out on work today. She explains about Rebecca's death but David doesn't care. Angie arrives and thanks David for filling in. He grabs her arm and tells her she is walking a tightrope by ignoring her duties as a physician. Annoyed, Angie tells him no one is being cheated by her work ethic. David warns her to watch her step and leaves for the ER. Krystal apologizes for David but Angie won't listen. She tells Krystal to watch out or David will hurt her! She storms off. Krystal chases after Angie, begging her to be friends again. They start talking about Rebecca and Angie admits that she became good friends with Rebecca over the last few months. Krystal wishes she had Angie's strength and talks about how she's lost control of her life since Babe's death. She worries about Tad and about David. Angie says they are still friends; they hug. David watches from the hall. When Angie leaves he asks Krystal if they can talk. David closes the doors to give them privacy and then apologizes for treating Angie badly over the past few weeks. He charms her – again! Then, he gives her a ring that he says she should wear until she decides whether or not to accept his proposal. Krystal is shocked. She takes off her wedding ring and puts on David's ring!
Binks storms into Kendall's home and demands that she attend the wedding. Kendall says she can't go to the wedding because of Gabrielle. "What I'm feeling is not pretty," Kendall says, accusing Binks of lying to her for months. Hurt, Binks says she can't get married without her sister there. Kendall says the only thing she can do to make things right – and have Kendall at the wedding - is to leave town afterward! "Go back to France and leave me in peace," Kendall says. Bianca can't believe what she is hearing. Hurt, Binks pulls away from Kendall and accepts the deal.
Angie returns home to find Jesse and Natalia bonding over one of Rebecca's special dishes. Natalia talks a little about her mom. Jesse hugs both of them.
Annie gets to the Oak Haven exit and runs!
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Ms. Nierman came to ArtCenter Manatee in 2007 starting at the reception desk and quickly moved up to develop and manage ACM's widely popular Artist Gift Market. In recent years Carla has served as the Special Events Director taking on the successful Art at the Ranch Event as well as the Jazzy Ladies Fashion Show and many Opening Night receptions, including the National and American Watercolor Society Traveling Shows.
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"Yummy, highly seasoned steak nuggets, deep fried and served with Ranch dressing -- just like in the fast food joints in Idaho in the '70's! I missed these so much that I kept playing with the ingredients until I finally came up with this perfect re-creation of the real thing. A taste of the old times when we didn't know how bad deep frying was for us! Serve with ranch dressing, or your favorite bbq sauce, steak sauce, or blue cheese dressing!"
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grill seasoning, such as McCormick Montreal Steak Seasoning
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I've been craving these ever since I moved out of Idaho. This recipe comes really, really close to the ones I remember getting there, and I will definitely make it again.
Freezing them helps keep the batter on - not a totally necessary step, but it does help a lot.
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Loved the McCormick Montreal Steak Seasoning in the buttermilk batter. I've always just used salt, pepper, and a little bit of garlic powder but the seasoning mix adds more flavor. I added a tsp of baking powder to the flour mixture; it makes the brown crust a bit lighter.
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Our shower at Perla del Mar drops little more than a cold, cold trickle this morning. I soap up, hold my breath, and duck under to dribble the suds off. My arms are goosebumped when I step out into our air-conditioned room.
We dress in long pants, and spray our exposed skin with bug repellent: Cultural Event Number One this morning will be the Botanic Garden outside Cienfuegos, and we have been warned against mosquitos bearing Dengue Fever.
Ariadna gives us a lecture on Cuba 101 as we zip along on the Great Bus of China.
Cuba divides its timeline into three periods, she declares:
• The Colonial Period dates from the 1500s to 1868, and ends in a ten-year war for freedom from Spain, led by Jose Marti, tailing into a second anti-Spanish war, tailing into the US Spanish-American war, which starts after the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in 1898. She tells us that the Maine's sailors came bearing Coca Cola; Cubans added rum: y tenemos el Cuba Libre.
• The US left in 1902, and the Republican Period began. It covered many successive presidents, the last of whom—Batista—declared himself president-for-life and ended free elections.
• Castro's revolution overthrew Batista in 1959, and the Revolutionary Period began. And continues today, with Ariadna's caveat: "I think of the Revolutionary Period as two periods: The Soviet Time, and Everything that came after."
After 1965, the Soviet Union supplied 80 percent of the goods in Cuba, including the island's oil. It was the major importer of sugar from the island. The Union fell apart in 1991—and what came after was a spectacular economic depression that the Cuban government called "The Special Period."
Ariadna was 10. Her mother was a dentist and her father worked in a factory; they were not rich, but the family lived well. "I had never known 'want,'" she says.
Suddenly, it was as if "the roof collapsed on my house. Survival was the important thing at that time. We only could think of food, of something to eat. We went to bed at night and thought of what we would eat in the morning." Crime exploded in the cities: theft and prostitution became common; respectable people begged. Families that she knew left, sometimes on rickety boats.
Her family had lived in her grandparents' house in town, and her other grandparents owned a house and some land in the country. "My father decided he would become a farmer. 'Let's survive by working,' he told us."
They moved, and her father tilled, planted and sowed, jobs that had once, like his former factory work, been streamlined by oil—which ran the machinery and provided fertilizer and insecticides. Animal feed was next to impossible to find, because it had also come from the USSR. Her mother made coconut candies, and Ariadna sold them from a table in front of the house in the mornings before she went to school.
Thinner, hungrier, and more self-sufficient, the family survived.
The US initially permitted NGOs to send food and medicine, but as the 90s progressed, we tightened our embargo to a virtual stranglehold, ultimately punishing allies that dealt with Cuba economically. In time, the island forged alliances with powers that were not our friends—notably China and, with the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, which sends oil in exchange for labor and the services of doctors. We've passed billboards in the Great Bus of China that show Chavez's smiling face, and announce, Venezuela: our best friend!
What will happen to Cuba now that Chavez is dead remains to be seen.
What also helps the island's economy now is that US shadow aid that I've mentioned before. Ariadna claims that 95 percent of Cubans have family in the US; their support is vital.
In 2006, Fidel Castro became sick. Ariadne says, "Everybody was afraid of Raul" because, of the two, he seemed more severe. But so far, under his aegis, the country seems to be lurching slowly and awkwardly toward change.
For example, Cuba now has digital TV.
What it doesn't have is universal Internet access. "We closed our doors to technology in the 70s," Ariadna tells us, "and opened them in the 90s." The government discovered the Internet in the 80s, but kept it to itself; then, in the 90s, it opened access to include students and those whose jobs depended on the connection. She says the Internet is now legal for Cubans in their homes, but—she shrugs—it's too expensive, so nobody has it.
Ariadna used the Internet in college. She continued to use it during her three years' public service as a French translator. "It changed my life," she says, her tone wistful, almost reverent. Her current tourism job doesn't require the Internet, so she was paying a journalist 5 CUC an hour so she could email. "I had the money, and he needed CUC," she says. The rate, while high, still beat access at tourist hotels at 10 CUC per hour.
The government recently made the journalist account for every site he visited. He had to justify her Yahoo address—which, of course, he couldn't. So she's been off the Internet for the past three months.
After the Garden—massive stands of bamboo, Brazil Nut, Ebony; clouds of swallows swooping to gobble those infamous Dengue mosquitoes; pink-flowered bushes, all sprouting from soil once owned by a US sugar baron named Atkins—we stop for lunch at a defunct sugar plantation.
We run a gantlet of women, and a few men, to get to the Big House. They ply us with hand-embroidered white tablecloths, seed necklaces, and dolls that, with a flip of the skirt, switch from a blonde white girl in gingham to a turbaned black woman in satin. I'm not sure if these are a take on master-and-servant, or a facet of Santeria, the Afro-Cuban religion that's very big in Cuba. They make me uneasy—but not as uneasy as the press of bodies insisting that, when I come out again, I "remember me, Senora!"
It's a government-owned restaurant, of course. We eat on the open balcony, at a long table, each place marked by a carved black female servant figure. The meal is rustic—a decent soup with root vegetables; indifferent rice and beans, bland boiled yucca, pork for the carnivores—with entertainment provided by a good band whose spokesman plays an instrument that resembles an oversized thumb piano. The usual Welcome Cocktail: a choice of weak mojito or weak Cuba Libre.
Paul overdosed on pork the night before, and has an upset stomach, so he excuses himself to hang out at the bar and drink un-spiked Mexican Coke.
The band hawks CDs and takes up its collection. Paul, who's still a bit green, opts to stay at the bar, and I leave to climb the tower.
The tower is a block away. It has a legend, told to us on the Great Bus of China by the intrepid Ariadna: two sons of the plantation's master, Pedro and Allejo, fall in love with the same woman. She sets them a challenge: Pedro has to build a tower, and Allejo, to dig a well. Whichever turns out the longest (highest, deepest) structure wins her hand.
Pedro's high tower trumps poor Allejo's well, and he wins the maiden.
"It's a lie," Ariadna added. In truth, the tower was probably built by the master of the plantation to keep track of his slaves.
It's incredibly high. I pay the lady at the table below two CUC, and climb and climb the creaky wooden stairs until I hit the top. Green countryside stretches below me: mountains in the distance; farms, the restaurant Big House, a sprinkling of bony horses cropping grass; plowed fields and tangled jungle. And, too, I see the gantlet of venders below, re-assembling to assault me anew when I come down.
And they do. Ultimately, I buy one of the un-PC white-to-black dolls, a small pair of marimbas, and five seed necklaces. I'd brought pencils and some kids' stickers to give away, and the vendors clean me out. Do you have soap? Toothpaste? they beg. Madam, I have a baby—you have something for the skin? Senora, see my belly? I have two babies at home—give me a CUC.
Heidi rescues me before they tear me apart for loot I don't have, and hustles me off to the Great Bus of China, which is departing for the next Cultural Event.
I settle next to Paul, and we pull away. I watch the vendors attack the next busload of tourists. It reminds me of our trip to Viet Nam in 1999, this desperate poverty.
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The Importance of the Right Question
To get to this point you've had to endure an endless sequence of measurements of your knowledge, in the form of tests. You've taken IQ tests and standardized tests. The faculty here have examined you repeatedly to determine what fraction of the material they hoped you would learn that you actually did learn. And you're not done. If you've not seen them already, many of you will in the future confront things called the GRE, MCAT, LSAT and GMAT.
In all of these, your examiners defined the questions and you provided the answers. Most of the academic world operates as if we believe that the critical skill society needs of us is to know the right answers. Too often, as a result, we overlook an obvious fact: finding the right answer is impossible unless we have asked the right question.
A turning point in my intellectual life occurred while I was an M.B.A. student at the Harvard Business School, discussing a case study about a peanut butter company. I was taking notes about what the management of the company should have done differently, when I put down the pen with a troubling realization: I was not going to work for a peanut butter company – and even if I did, the problems I'd see most likely would be very different than this one. So why am I taking notes about what the managers should have done 10 years earlier? Just then, a woman in the class made a brilliant comment. Rather than write down the answer she gave to the instructor's question, however, I wondered, "What question did she ask when she was preparing for the discussion that led her to such a great insight?" So I wrote that question down. A bit later another classmate made a similarly insightful comment. Again, I asked, "What question did he ask that led to that answer?" I then wrote that question down.
That afternoon when I was preparing for the next day's discussion, I put those two questions on the table while I read, and asked those questions of the case. They helped me get insights that I otherwise would have missed. From that time on, as I participated in the class discussions I would keep noting what questions led to the important insights. I would add them to my list and use them to prepare the next day's case. Sometimes I'd find that a question that had been useful for a specific case rarely was useful on others, so I'd cross it off my list. Over the course of the semester I iterated towards my custom method for thinking through each category of problem. The valuable skill, I realized, was to ask the right question. That done, getting the right answer was typically quite straightforward.
Unfortunately, most of us are so eager to formulate the right answer and then begin implementing it that we often forget to think about whether the right question has been asked. Let me illustrate this by exploring two institutions, democracy and capitalism, which Americans broadly believe to be the right and enduring answers, seemingly without having asked the salient question.
America seems to have played a role in the ouster of rulers with names like Batista, Duvalier, Marcos, Allende, Ortega, Suharto and others, so that we could help the people in those nations experience the blessings of democracy and free markets. We have spent trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives trying to bring the freedoms of democratic governments to Lebanon, the Balkans, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Rwanda, Pakistan and many more countries. We anguish that democracy is giving way to dictatorship in Russia. Trying to make trial-by-jury work in Iraq and Afghanistan is like climbing a mudslide: People are committing heinous crimes at a much faster rate than a legal system grounded in democratic principles can handle.
All of these efforts have been built upon an assumption that in every situation, democracy is the best form of government. An important question to have asked, however, is, "Is there a situation where democracy is the wrong solution?"
I learned the importance of this question in a conversation 12 years ago with a Marxist economist from China who was nearing the end of a fellowship in Boston, where he had come to study two topics that were foreign to him: democracy and capitalism. I asked my friend if he had learned here anything on these topics that was surprising or unexpected. His response was immediate and, to me, quite profound: "I had no idea how critical religion is to the functioning of democracy and capitalism." Though de Toqueville also had observed this, I had never made this association between religion, democracy and capitalism in my mind. But it was like this guy parachuted in from Mars – and this is what he saw. He continued,
"In your past, most Americans attended a church or synagogue every week. These are institutions that people respected. When you were there, from your youngest years, you were taught that you should voluntarily obey the law; that you should respect other people's property, and not steal it. You were taught never to lie. Americans followed these rules because they had come to believe that even if the police didn't catch them when they broke a law, God would catch them. Democracy works because most people most of the time voluntarily obey your laws.
"You can say the same for capitalism," my friend continued. "It works because Americans have been taught in their churches that they should keep their promises and not tell lies. An advanced economy cannot function if people cannot expect that when they sign contracts, the other people will voluntarily uphold their obligations. Capitalism works because most people voluntarily keep their promises."
My friend then invited me to look around the world at those countries where, in his words, "America had snapped its fingers at the country and demanded, 'We want democracy here, and we want it now!'" Unless there was already a strong religious foundation in those countries, he asserted, democracy has failed miserably. There are religions in every country, of course. But he made clear that democracy-enabling religions are those that support the sanctity of life, the equality of people, the importance of respecting others' property, and of personal honesty and integrity. Those religions also had to be strong enough that they held power over the behavior of the population. People had to believe that God would punish them even if the police and court system did not. He then gave some examples.
In Russia, for instance, there are religions – but few people are influenced by them. As a result many people avoid taxes, and the government cannot collect them. Murder, bribery and stealing are a part of everyday life. He noted that American foreign policy has been naïve in Haiti and the nations of Africa that have been torn by such brutal civil strife. "You just think that because democracy works for you that it will work everywhere. It only works where there is a strong foundation of religion." In the course of researching the issue my friend posed I happened upon an elegant summary of what he was trying to teach me, penned by Lord John Fletcher Moulton, the great English jurist, who wrote that the probability that democracy and free markets will flourish in a nation is proportional to "the extent of obedience to the unenforceable."
My Chinese friend heightened a vague but nagging concern I've harbored – that as religion loses its power over the lives of Americans, what will happen to our democracy? Our prosperity? We are living on momentum. The ethic of obedience to the unenforceable was established by vibrant religions, and some of these teachings have become a part of our culture. As a result, today there are many Americans who are not religious, who still voluntarily obey the law, comply with contracts, value honesty and integrity and respect other people's rights and property. This is because certain religious teachings have become embedded in our culture. But is culture a stalwart protector of democracy's enabling values? I don't think so.
Those who seek to minimize the role that religions can play in the public stage are making two very serious mistakes. First, they are seeking to minimize the very institutions that have given us our civil liberties in the first place. And second, the debate swirling in judicial discourse about the separation of church and state is a false dichotomy. There are two classes of religions, if we broadly define as philosophical traditions: theistic religions and atheistic ones. Zealots of atheistic religions who assert that theistic religions must be swept off the democratic stage, even as they knit the doctrines of their religions into our legal and regulatory fabric, are asking the wrong question, and therefore giving us an answer that may well prove to be toxic to democracy.
My Chinese friend's insight has helped me understand what the valuable question really is: "Because democracy is possible only when most people most of the time voluntarily obey the laws, what institutions can we rely upon to inculcate this instinct amongst the American people? And how can we strengthen those institutions, so that they do this better?"
When the instinct of even a minority of people in a society is to steal what belongs to others, lie when it suits their selfish purposes, evade taxes, demand bribes and disregard the rights of others, then capitalism won't work, either. Just look at our current economic crisis. It didn't take many Americans whose instinct was to take what belongs to others and to stretch rather than obey the rules, to cause capitalism to very nearly collapse.
When the extent of disobedience to the unenforceable grows, not just democracy, but prosperity becomes in jeopardy. We treasure democracy because it gives us freedoms of speech and the press. But democracy without near-universal obedience to the unenforceable strips from us other crucial freedoms, which include the freedom from want, and the freedom to be employed. I again ask what I believe is a crucial question for America: Because capitalism and the prosperity it brings are possible only when most people most of the time voluntarily obey the laws, what institutions can we rely upon to inculcate this instinct amongst the people, before they arrive in our executive suites and on Wall Street? And how can we strengthen the institutions that teach these things, so that they do it better?
When a nation lacks the requisite foundation of extensive obedience to the unenforceable, what form of government will work?
Unfortunately democracy and capitalism won't. It requires the rule of someone who can define good laws and then wield the power required to compel obedience. Living proofs of this hypothesis cover the globe. Just run this experiment. The next time you're in a taxi with a Haitian cab driver, just ask whether things are better now under democracy than they were under the corrupt rule of the Duvaliers. I guarantee that every one of them pines for the day when there was an iron-fisted ruler who had the instinct and ability to stomp his heel into the chest of those who didn't follow the rules.
It's not a coincidence that the countries that have transitioned from poverty to prosperity in the last 40 years – including Korea, Chile, Taiwan, Singapore, Portugal and the Dominican Republic – all were led by relatively honest but iron-fisted dictators, who had the instinct and ability to wield power quite ruthlessly, in some instances, to break the vested interests of those that profited from the corruption that had trapped those nations in poverty. Impoverished countries with democratic governments such as the Philippines and India, in contrast, struggle to prosper because imposition of democracy has simply democratized corruption to the point that capitalism won't work: The investments that would stimulate economic growth simply cannot be made, because you can't bribe enough people to make anything happen.
Those who assume that the atheistic religions of secularism are a better backbone for freedom and prosperity than the theistic ones that they are trying to push under the back seat, have a huge burden of proof which they've not had the intellectual fortitude to discuss, let alone bring forward.
I offer this view of democracy and capitalism simply to illustrate how important it is to ask the right question. Normally, graduation is the occasion on which we pronounce the education of the graduates to be complete. I cannot do that, because I fear that many of you, like most Americans, have yet to be schooled in the art of asking the right questions. I hope that as you leave to seek success in your chosen professions, however, that learning to ask the right questions becomes your intellectual compass.
Could I suggest that you take time tomorrow to ask some questions of yourself that are awfully important? The first is, "What is the purpose of my life?" Another would be, "Does my behavior reflect the instincts of honesty, integrity, respect and consideration for others that must be my contributions to our nation? If not, what changes must I resolve to make?" And a third might be the one that President LeBlanc asked you to ask: "How can I do for others the things that bring me enduring happiness?"
As a member of the board of trustees I am grateful to say that your leader, Paul LeBlanc, more than anyone else I know in American higher education, is a man who has a remarkable instinct for asking the right questions as they relate to the future of higher education. We don't yet know all of the answers, but because he's asking the right questions I am confident, rather than fearful, for the future of SNHU. I hope that his instinct for asking the right questions increasingly becomes the point of academic distinction at Southern New Hampshire University as well.
Again, graduates, I give you my warmest wishes and congratulations. May God be with and bless each of you and your families.


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It's become a cliché since it first entered the language as a classic example of baseball great Yogi Berra's ability to mangle the language.
It's déjà vu, all over again.
That's what the tussle over towing is beginning to look like in Chapel Hill. Just weeks after the N. C. Court of Appeals affirmed the town's right to limit practices by towing companies that infuriated residents, the new towing ordinance is on hold again.
George's Towing and Recovery, which has spearheaded the fight against the ordinance and, in a somewhat related crusade, the town's even more controversial ban on cellphone use behind the wheel, has filed notice it will appeal the towing ruling to the Supreme Court.
And last week, a day after the town finally began to enforce the ordinance that initially went into effect in January, the high court stayed enforcement pending the outcome of George's appeal.
The stay was not unusual – courts normally side with postponing prospective damage from a lower-court ruling while they sort out the issues involved in the appeal. And George's is only pursuing its rights to have its case heard by to the highest court in the state.
Still, it's unfortunate that residents – and perhaps even more important, unwitting visitors – will have to wait months longer before the town can reign in towing practices that many found onerous and unnecessary.
It's hard to imagine that the towing company is winning any friends and prospective voluntary customers – as opposed to those customers thrust into its orbit by the aggressive towing of cars parked beyond the limit in public spaces or without authorization in private lots that dot the town.
It's no surprise that parking restrictions would lead to conflict and stress in a town famously under-provided with space for the cars that town policy sometimes seems to wish would just go away in favor of hordes of mass-transit riders.
But the seeming over-the-top policies that towers sometimes pursued became too much for the council, which voted to cap the maximum fee at $150 for towing a car from a private lot and capped other fees much lower than what companies often charged.
Towing company officials argue that the fees as capped would make it impossible to stay in business.
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Bethel, Vermont – May 23, 2013
GW Plastics, a leading global contract manufacturer to the healthcare, automotive safety, and consumer/industrial markets, today announced that it has been named the 2013 Deane C. Davis Outstanding Vermont Business of the Year. The winner of Vermont's most prestigious business award was announced by Governor Peter Shumlin at the kickoff of the 29th annual Vermont Chamber Business & Industry EXPO in Burlington.
Named for the former Governor of Vermont, the Deane C. Davis Outstanding Business of the Year Award was created in 1990 by Vermont Business Magazine and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce to recognize and honor Vermont's outstanding companies. Award criteria include:
- Growth in sales or employment
- Commitment of company resources for participation in community projects
- Encouragement of employees to be involved in community events.
- Recognition of the importance of the environment to the state as a natural and economic resource.
- Addressing employee concerns/needs to create a positive work environment for all employees.
- Nominated businesses must have been based in Vermont for at least 10 years
Accepting the award on behalf of GW Plastics' 300 Vermont associates and 900 associates worldwide, Brenan Riehl, President and CEO, expressed how closely the company's mission and values mirror the award criteria. "We are honored to receive the 2013 Deane C. Davis Award. I thank Governor Shumlin, the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, and Vermont Business Magazine for recognizing GW. This award is a reflection of our steadfast commitment to our core values, our talented workforce, and the trust our customers have placed in us over the years."
During the last two decades, the company has expanded four times in Vermont, investing millions in equipment, facilities, and training, and doubling its Vermont employment. In 2012, GW Plastics reaffirmed its commitment to Vermont with a $3,500,000, 15,000 square foot state-of-the art addition to its GW Silicones division in Royalton. GW Plastics expects this expansion, as well as the launch several innovative, multi-million dollar medical device programs in its Bethel and Royalton locations, to result in high-tech job opportunities for Vermonters..
GW Plastics also takes its commitment to environmental sustainability seriously. Intrinsic benefits, as well as real financial savings, have led GW to embrace sound environmental stewardship in all of its locations. GW Plastics has completed a number of successful sustainability initiatives in the areas of Energy Reduction, Water Use Reduction and Waste Reduction and is a member of the Green Suppliers Network, a federally funded program to facilitate the establishment and implementation of "Lean and Clean" manufacturing techniques for manufacturers.
Riehl adds that GW is proud to play a significant role in helping to strengthen Vermont's economy while being a responsible steward of its environment. "Our committed Vermont-based ownership, supported by an experienced and highly engaged workforce, has proven to be a winning combination for our company, state and environment."
About GW Plastics:
Since its foundation in 1955, GW Plastics has earned a reputation as a top contract manufacturer serving the world's most successful companies in the healthcare, automotive safety, and consumer/industrial markets. Specializing in complex injection molded thermoplastic and silicone solutions, GW Plastics excels at close-tolerance mold building, precision injection molding, and contract assembly. Core competencies include product development, in-house precision tooling, scientific molding, and automated assembly. With leading-edge technologies, a Six Sigma quality commitment, and a relentless pursuit of innovation, GW Plastics continues to attract and delight industry-leading customers who seek consistency of ownership, financial stability, a professional leadership team, and a workforce with the experience to deliver on-time and within budget. Headquartered in Bethel, Vermont, the company's standardized ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001, ISO/TS 16949 and FDA-registered manufacturing facilities are located in Bethel and Royalton, Vermont; San Antonio, Texas; Tucson, Arizona; Querétaro, Mexico; and Dongguan, China.
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Bethel, VT 05032
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You've met the world's largest, most powerful public companies, but how much do you know about their bottom line?
Last week, FORBES published the Global 2000, a comprehensive list of the world's biggest, most powerful public companies. Through calculating a composite score of sales, profits, assets, and market value, our list answers one simple question: what are the world's largest companies?
For investors, understanding the size of a company is just a start. While global corporations with enormous size offer the advantage of scale, profitability is what matters at the end of the day. To take a deeper look at the Global 2000′s bottom line, FORBES analyzes the net profit margin — a key ratio to measure how much a company actually keeps in earnings out of every dollar of sales – of the top 10 Global 2000 members in five different industries.
With an astounding 42% profit margin, Pfizer Pfizer (No. 45) leads the top 10 drug companies which have an average of 19% profit margin — the highest of all five industries. Its $106 billion take-over target, British drug maker AstraZeneca AstraZeneca (No. 183), has the lowest profit margin with just above 10%. While the prospect of the deal remains uncertain, the sharp contrast between the two companies' profit margin seems to provide a supporting evidence for Pfizer.
The world's ten biggest banks also have a good year, with an average of 19% profit margin. China's ICBC ICBC, which tops the Global 2000 for a second year in a row, holds the crown of the most profitable bank as measured by profit margin (29%). France's largest bank BNP Paribas BNP Paribas (5.2% of profit margin) falls behind its top 10 peers by a wide gap, as it set aside $1.1 billion amid a probe by U.S. regulators into transactions that may be subject to U.S. sanctions.
Compared to the stellar performance of top banks and drug companies, the ten largest auto companies have only 6% of average profit margin. General Motors General Motors has the lowest profit margin (3%) among the top 10 auto companies, despite high expectation for Mary Barra's turnaround. Another U.S. maker, Ford Motor Ford Motor, also has relatively low profit margin (5%) compared to its international competitors. The highest profit margin goes to South Korea's Hyundai Motor Hyundai Motor (10%), which climbs up to two slots to No. 87 this year.
Interestingly, profit margins for the top 10 oil & gas companies vary drastically. Russia's Gazprom Gazprom takes a wide lead with 24% profit margin, despite ongoing turmoil in Ukraine and competition from shale gas in the European market. China's state-controlled Sinopec has the lowest profit margin (2%), as the government is now reforming the structures of state-owned enterprises and allowing the market to play a bigger role.
This year, the U.S. is home to 9 out of the top 10 largest Global 2000 media companies. Despite being only the ninth largest media company on the Global 2000 list, powerhouse Viacom has 18% profit margin as TV ratings gain. Twenty-First Century Fox comes second among the top 10 with profit margin of 15%, thanks to its spin-off of its former publishing arm News Corp News Corp.


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Pingus | Ribera del Duero
While other Spanish wines have achieved international recognition, Pingus is one of the very few that has joined the ranks of the world's most coveted wines. Like Coche-Dury's Corton-Charlemagne, Guigal's single-vineyard Côte-Rôties, or Giacomo Conterno's Monfortino, Pingus is known and admired wherever great wine is discussed.
Like those other esteemed names, Pingus has a quality that is often lacking in today's "modern" wines-a sense of utter individuality. There is no other wine in the world, let alone Spain, that is quite like Pingus, and that singularity is one of the fundamental requirements for great wine.
The Early Years
Pingus is produced by the visionary Danish winemaker Peter Sisseck. Peter arrived in Spain in 1993 to manage a new project, Hacienda Monasterio. While planting and developing Monasterio, he began to dream about the old vines he saw dotted around the Ribera del Duero landscape. By the 1995 vintage, Peter had found several ancient vineyards that inspired him to make his own wine. He called it "Pingus," after his childhood nickname.
One can only imagine what the reactions were like when Peter showed up in Bordeaux at the March 1996 en primeur tastings. Yet, by the end of the week, Pingus was perhaps the greatest story of that season's futures campaign. Robert Parker announced the wine on the back cover of his Wine Advocate, bestowing an unheard of 96-100 point score. The world took notice, and Pingus was on its way.
Pushing the Limits
From the beginning, Peter's vision was to push old-vine Tempranillo to its upper limits. He spent the first few years pruning his vines back to a healthy balance-the trunks were straightened, lowered, and canes were pruned back to 1-2 buds per stump. Yields have typically been under one ton per acre.
Pingus is fermented in large wooden vats and, once in cask, is mostly left alone. It is largely raised in new barriques, though the flavors of the oak vanish into the enormous concentration. Pingus is indeed a wine that is magical in the way that it balances otherworldly richness with a rare sense of elegance.
Peter's winery work has been widely imitated, and many wines can mimic the exotic textures that Pingus possesses. Yet, while they might approach Pingus' style, none of these newcomers has the substance that defines Pingus.
Over the past decade, Peter has continually refined his original vision. Since 2001, he has employed biodynamic viticulture to capture a healthier balance in his vineyards. In the winery, he has made subtle, but important, changes aimed at taming the region's natural power, and giving more delineation and depth to the Pingus voice.


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NEW YORK (AP) - R. Kelly is nominated for two awards at this year's Soul Train Awards, making him the most nominated act ever at the awards show.
Kelly is up for the Ashford & Simpson songwriter's award and album of the year, bringing his career total to 21 nominations.
Usher leads this year's awards with five nominations. Estelle, Nas, Trey Songz and John Legend are also multiple nominees.
Whitney Houston is nominated for best gospel inspirational performance and Amy Winehouse is nominated for best international performance. New Edition will receive a lifetime achievement award.
The Soul Train Awards, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, will be taped Nov. 8 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. The show will air Nov. 25 on BET and Centric.
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Holly Wiley's noontime exercise classes have achieved a cult-like following on the MSU campus."
Many people in her aerobics and hardcore yoga classes have been sweating with her since she began leading classes close to a quarter century ago.
For the instructor in the department of kinesiology, the classes are more than improving physical health. They feel like gatherings where everyone wants to improve together. "Family" is the word longtime devotees to Wiley's classes use to describe them.
One participant's 80-year-old parents attend the class each time they visit Mississippi.
The class meets each weekday in the Sanderson Center with a mix of faculty, staff and students. While each person has different characteristics, they all have things in common, especially this: they leave negativity somewhere else.
"Great form; you're looking strong," Wiley often says during the yoga class. "If your arms feel fatigued, join the club."
Encouragement and positivity, or the lack of it, have roots in Wiley's lifelong pursuit of good health.
"When I was fifteen, somebody called me frail," she said. "That's all it took. I like to be considered strong."
A few years after the "frail" comment, Wiley began teaching aerobics classes and never stopped. Even as a faculty member, she has always made time for the class.
"It's become my stress release," she said. "And I can't live without these people."
Dedication runs deep on both sides of this teacher and student relationship. Vivian Miller, a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics, has attended the classes for 20 years.
Miller said the atmosphere in the classes is based on people improving together. She and others in the class say they're all friends, even family, and appreciate the nurturing environment Wiley creates.
"We're very supportive of one another," Miller said. "People come to be near her sunshine."
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Exeter Chiefs keen to avoid a slip-up at London Welsh
Posted: September 12, 2012|
Exeter Chiefs hooker Chris Whitehead views next Sunday's match against Aviva Premiership newcomers London Welsh at the Kassam Stadium as an awkward test for the Devon outfit.
The 26-year-old spent a season on loan at Welsh from London Wasps during Exeter's Championship promotion campaign in 2009-10.
He was part of a Welsh team that beat Exeter in the play-offs that term, but now he will be hoping to help his side make it three straight losses for the Exiles since their move into the top flight.
"It is another massive, tough fixture for us against the Premiership's new guys," said Derby-born Whitehead. "They are the banana skin for everyone this season, and they will see our visit as a game they can take something away from.
"I presume we will be going into that game as massive favourites, and it is all about how we deal with that pressure, but if we produce a good, solid performance, I am sure we will be fine."
Exeter followed up their opening-day bonus-point win at home to Sale by gaining a losing bonus point in their 24-21 defeat at Northampton Saints last Sunday, but the Chiefs wanted more from the contest.
"We were at Franklin's Gardens two years ago in our first season in the Premiership, and it felt like we had almost won the World Cup, coming away with a losing bonus point at Northampton that day, but it was very much a different feeling on Sunday," explained Whitehead.
"I think we were there or thereabouts in areas of the game, but great teams like Northampton are always up there near the top of the table because they will punish your mistakes, and they did that on Sunday."
One area where Northampton proved very effective was with their driving maul, and Whitehead added: "People have started to work out what we do.
"We unfortunately have not got the luxury any more of being the underdogs in every game, and people certainly know an awful lot about us as players and our style of play, and people are obviously working us out."
Exeter trailed 12-0 after 27 minutes and a long afternoon looked on the cards, but they came storming back to lead 13-12 at the interval.
"We are not a team who start panicking or worrying too much when we go a few points down," said Whitehead.
"There are different targets to go for throughout a game, with bonus points on offer, and there was still an awful lot of time to play on the clock, and we have a lot of belief in the team."
That was once again demonstrated against the Saints, with the Chiefs snatching a losing bonus point with a try by Matt Jess in the 79th minute, after great work by big Fijian replacement Sireli Naqelevuki.
"It is great to have the calibre of someone like Sireli to come off the bench and really make an impact," said Whitehead, who was unfortunate to miss out on selection for England's tour of South Africa during the summer after a very impressive 2011-12 season.
"We have got a fantastic squad at the club and the boys are really vying for places.
"It is a tough environment to be in, but that is where you want to be as a rugby player, certainly at a club like Exeter, with a hard-working bunch of lads but with an awful lot of talent.
"We are scoring some great tries and hopefully people will start to see that."


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Monthly Archive for August, 2010
SURVIVING THE CUT: the Intense World of Special Forces Training
Thanks to Discovery and others, we are able to highlight what our team feels is not only educational information but also insight into what it takes to keep our country safe. [Read More]
Don't Ask, Don't Tell – Dr. Schwartz Says Not for Majority to Decide
Dr. Schwartz is a well-respected expert in the field of relationships – she holds different views than I do, but hey, that doesn't make a person right or wrong. But in the case of her latest blog, her thinking is a bit scary – if not the majority, who? The minority? [Read More]
With each passing war there are those that have strong opinions on how well or how not-so-well our VA takes care of our veterans. SEC Shinseki has made it very public his commitment to all veterans – this month marks a renewed commitment to those who served 20 years ago. The following is SEC. Shinseki's letter to Gulf War Veterans: [Read More]
Stop Loss Deadline Nearing – File Now
The deadline for submitting your Stop Loss claim for special benefits is nearing its end. The final day to submit and be considered is October 21, 2010. By law, there is no authorization to make payments on claims that are submitted after Oct. 21, 2010. [Read More]


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FRANKFORT, Ky. – Attorney General Jack Conway and his Keep Kentucky Kids Safe partners today alerted students in Jessamine and Clark counties to the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. The programs come amid clear signs that
"The non-medical use of prescription pain relievers among all age groups in
General Conway reminded students at
"These are some of the most addictive substances on the planet," General Conway said. "If taken in the wrong combination, or with other substances, they can kill you."
General Conway launched the Keep Kentucky Kids Safe initiative in 2010 with the Kentucky Justice Cabinet and its Office of Drug Control Policy, Kentucky Pharmacists Association, National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators (NADDI), Operation UNITE and concerned parents like Dr. Karen Shay, a Morehead dentist whose daughter, Sarah, died of a prescription drug overdose in 2006.
"The grief that prescription drug abuse has caused my family is unimaginable," Shay said. "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about Sarah. By sharing her story with others, I hope I can prevent this heartache for other families."
Since 2010, General Conway and his Keep Kentucky Kids Safe partners have alerted nearly 20,000 students in more than two dozen
"The Keep Kentucky Kids Safe program partners are providing a valuable service to the children and families of the Commonwealth by raising awareness about the dangers of prescription drug abuse," said Lu S. Young, Jessamine Schools Superintendent. "The health and safety of our students is a top priority for our district and we are appreciative that Attorney General Conway is bringing this important message to


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A splashy split-level downtown steakhouse on the edge of the bay, Epic does everything big, with a 14 oz prime rib for $39 and a 1/2-pound burger for $20. The indulgent dinner menu is available no matter where you sit. In the upstairs Quiver Bar, a clubby space with up-close views of the Bay Bridge, you can also pick more human-size options like barbeque pork sliders ($5) or grilled steak and mushroom skewers with sauce Bordelaise ($5).
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By Andy Choi
This energy-efficient lighting, besides attracting the tourists along the River Walk, adds up 20 times more lights to the region, consuming a reduced amount of energy nearly half of conventional incandescent lighting aiding prolonged sustainability.
In the beginning of this year, the City of San Antonio changed about 85,000 incandescent lights to 100% LED lights in view of the current River Walk Holiday Lights festivity. By employing over 1.76 million LED mini-bulbs almost 33,000 kWh of energy can be conserved. This lighting is long-lasting and has a life time of about 10 years, compared to that of incandescent bulbs which needed annual substitution.
Besides using minibulbs, the environment-friendly lights give a mixture of colorful festive lighting effect on the entire 22 street bridges at the River Walk. The lights would adorn almost 170 trees of 60 feet height, which line the river. To improve the festive mood, 26 iconic trees will have the up-lighting feature.
The improved LED lighting plan is similar to Mayor Julian Castro's inaugural Light Up Downtown Holiday Lighting Contest, which displays artistic holiday LED lightings at the street level. Both these initiatives are aimed at attracting visitors to downtown San Antonio this festive season and also at promoting sustainable lighting.
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Also known as a rosary. A pearl necklace given by a priest of a catholic church, usually given to a young alter boy unsuspectingly.
I was jerking off my priest and he gave me a rosary (or pearl necklace) as a parting gift.
από Brent C 3 Ιούλιος 2006
see tittie fucking
από joce 8 Νοέμβριος 2002
when someone releases a ginormous jizzload on somebody elses neck.
it is of Afghani origin.
it is of Afghani origin.
1. my bro fogey be poppin a pearl necklace on bari's asshole...
2. i gave pliskins younger sister a pearl necklace.
2. i gave pliskins younger sister a pearl necklace.
από blattmoney 26 Νοέμβριος 2004
a woman wraps a pearl necklace around her hand and then proceeds with a well balanced hand job
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