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'Mad Men,' A Conversation: 'Favors'
Editor's note: Every Sunday after the newest episode of "Mad Men," lawyer and Supreme Court advocate Walter Dellinger will host an online dialogue about the show. The participants include Columbia University history professor Alan Brinkley, Stanford Law Professor Pam Karlan, Columbia theater and television professor Evangeline Morphos, and Georgetown Law professor Pam Harris. This week, a younger voice, Elly Brinkley, a student at Harvard College and an avid "Mad Men" fan, has agreed to sub in for her parents, Mr. Brinkley and Ms. Morphos. Our panelists will post thoughts after the episode ends at 11 p.m or sometime the next day. Readers are invited to join in with their thoughts in the comments section.
[This post has been updated.]
Before moving on to this week's episode, I want to go back quickly to our discussion about Don Draper and Jay Gatsby. We left off with Evangeline noting a central difference between the two: Whereas we're pretty clear on Gatsby's goal — the "star that guides him," in Evangeline's words — we don't know much about what's driving Don.
I couldn't agree more with Evangeline on this: The question (whether you're thinking about Gatsby or not) is what Don Draper wants. What's Don's Daisy? We don't really know. (Which may be why he's become so unsympathetic to so many commentators; it's easier to empathize with someone — even someone with a lot of flaws — if you can see the wanting, see him reach.) I wonder whether this is partly because of the way Don's story has been presented to us. We've seen a lot of his childhood — the starting point — and then we've seen him post-transformation, once he's a successful ad man with a family in the suburbs — the finish. But what we haven't seen, apart from a few quick flashbacks to the fox-hole and to Don talking his way into that first job with Roger, is the climb. (Again, very similar to Gatsby; Fitzgerald gives us rumors about how Gatz becomes Gatsby — bootlegging! he killed a man! — but we never actually see that part of Gatsby's story.) And maybe it's that missing part of Don's arc that would have shed the most light on what Don Draper really wants. Because you don't start life dirt-poor and living in a brothel and end up Don Draper without wanting it very badly, and being willing to strain to get it.
And if you think about it that way, isn't it possible that all Don Draper wanted was not to live in a brothel — not to live an impoverished, unstable and marginal life, but instead to achieve some financial success and the ready stability and status that come with it? He certainly wouldn't be the first man, fictional or otherwise, to spend the early part of his life striving for material success only to find, once it's achieved, that it's not enough — that there's some nameless, existential need for something more. Nor would he be the first to discover that in making such a sharp and almost disjunctive climb up the class ladder, he's lost some sense of himself — an identity crisis that only can be aggravated by the absence of family, people from "before" who can help connect him to his own former self. Could it be as simple as that?
For all the discussion about Mad Men's treatment of race, there really hasn't been much about how Mad Men addresses (or doesn't address) class. But to me, it seems at least possible that class turns out to be the key to Don's story. (Once again, just as it is so central to Gatsby's.) It's easy to take Don's class status for granted; he seems so at home in his new class milieu, among the Rogers and Petes of the world, that we can forget he doesn't really belong. (A bit like Dr. Rosen, I would imagine; I always wondered whether Don was drawn to the good Jewish doctor in part because they occupy the same space, assimilated but still in some measure outsiders.) But maybe we shouldn't take Don's class status so much for granted. And maybe Don doesn't, either: Maybe Don, contrary to the opinion of at least some of his colleagues, really does care about the money. Not in a conspicuous consumption kind of way; that's not Don. But in the sense that he sure would miss it if were gone — if his class identity were to change once more, this time for the worse. I don't want to read too much into last week's business machinations by Ted and Jim. But if things play out badly at the firm, and Don loses it all, then we may finally find out what Don Draper really wants.
Mad Men Recap
Favors, genuinely intended, are taken the wrong way on several fronts this week, as the war hits home and the generation gap widens. Also on this episode, Don gets caught, in the worst possible way, and the mystery of Bob Benson appears to be solved.
Peggy's still in her West Side apartment, sans Abe, plus a great looking haircut with a little flip, and a rat. At SC and partners, Roger juggles oranges sent by Sunkist.
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Pete took Bob's advice: his mother arrives with Manolo/Manuel to the office. Mother's out of it and talks to Peggy about how happy she is they've reunited, for the good of the child. Peggy's stunned, but then mother calls her Trudy. Mother crows about physical love with Manolo.
Children are problems for the Francis Family and the Drapers: Betty's annoyed that there will be only one other girl at the Model U.N., while Sally gets ready to stay at Don's. At the Draper residence, Mitchell, Sylvia and Arnold's long-haired son (who has dropped out of school and is 1-A) is visiting Megan, who might help him run to Canada. Arnold later shows up to apologize. He and Don go out for a drink. "What would you do?" he asks Don. Blow someone up by accident, and take his identity? All Don can say is that it was different, because he wanted to go. The war is wrong, Don says.
Ted is happy at the camaraderie at a casual dinner about Ocean Spray with him, Pete and Peggy. And when Ted goes to the bathroom, Pete says that he knows Peggy's into him, and says that Ted's into him too.
At Ted's home, his wife is mad that he missed dinner with the family. She's jealous of work, which will no doubt encourage him want to come home more.
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Don calls Pete in to ask about the Department of Defense—Pete naturally thinks it's about Don's past, but actually, Don wants to help out Arnold's son. Pete crankily suggests maybe someone at GM could assist. And in the hall there's a hilarious outburst when Pete mentions Ocean Spray and Roger says, "What about Sunkist?" Ted comes out of his office and he's surprised, and Jim pops out of his office. Ted and Jim have been working on Ocean Spray, and hate that Roger has ignored all the memos about it. Ted lies petulantly on his couch, saying, "I don't want his juice, I want my juice."
Mitchell meets Sally and her friend in the lobby. Later at the sleepover they play a little girl game, with "Things I like about Mitchell." Megan tells them to quiet down. Sally's friend calls her "Mrs. Draper" to bug her.
Pete and Manolo show up at Pete's, although he was supposed to meet them at La Grenouille. He dismisses Manolo, and eyes him suspiciously when the nurse kisses her hand. When Pete says he will have to let him go, mother says he was a sour little boy and he's a sour little man. "You've always been unlovable," she says, leaves.
The dinner with the GM bigwigs seems to be going well, with Don, Roger, Ted and Jim, and GM folks. Don finds his angle to bring up a friend's son who is A-1 when the GM exec talks about fishing with his kid. The next day Ted confronts Don about being negative with the client, but backs off when he realizes Don was trying to help a real person. He says his flight teacher is a Brigadier-General in the National Guard, who is always looking for pilots.
When Don calls to tell Arnold, supposedly at home sick, he gets Sylvia, who cries in relief, and they have a kind of reconciliation—ironic, since Don was not seeking that.
In a less cozy night at Peggy's, she sees blood droplets from a mortally wounded rat and calls Stan, before realizing he's not alone.
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Pete accuses Bob of sending over a rapist. When Bob says Manolo's interests go another way, Pete snarks, "So he's a degenerate." Bob looks sad, and later touches Pete's knee when talking about love—Bob apparently is a homosexual. Pete might have relented but the knee touch seems to push him to tell Bob that Manolo will get a month's pay.
In the cab, Sally's friend reveals she put their letter under Mitchell's door. Sally rushes home and gets the ring of keys from the doorman. She goes in the backdoor of the Rosen residence and sees the letter on the counter but is stopped by sighing in the next room: Don and Sylvia. Don sees her and shouts, "Sally!" In the lobby, the doorman tells him that Sally just hopped in a cab.
That night, Peggy watches television—with her new orange cat. Ted watches TV with his two boys, while Mom's asleep, maybe inspired by Don's story.
Megan greets Don, and says "wow," at the smell of alcohol. Arnold and Mitchell come over to thank him. After they leave, Megan gives Don a big kiss before Sally shouts, "You make me sick," and runs away. Don tells her through the door that he was comforting Mrs. Rosen, and that it's complicated. She says, "O.K," but then cries. As he closes his bedroom door, he looks shocked, and remorseful.
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Near the beginning of Episode 5.1, we see Sally leave her bedroom in the new apartment and walk down the hall in a dreamlike state to Don's bedroom, where she knocked on the door. When he opened it, she peered past and saw Megan's back, naked on the bed. How far things have fallen from that seemingly idyllic state by the end of this episode, when Don leaves Sally's bedroom door and walks back into that room alone in a drunken stupor. And for all that Don was raised in a whorehouse and Sally in wealth, she's now seen a fair amount of disturbing sex too, between Roger Sterling and her step-grandmother and now between her father and Sylvia.
But really, as Ted Chaough says, this is an episode about the war coming home. Mitchell has the prospect of joining the Air National Guard through the intervention of a "friend of a friend." Does Ted's directive that Don write a letter expressing Mitchell's lifelong dream of being a pilot remind you of anything? How about this: "I have applied for pilot training with the goal of making flying a lifetime pursuit and I believe I can best accomplish this to my own satisfaction by serving as a member of the Air National Guard as long as possible." Written by George W. Bush, in 1968.
The Vietnam War was the beginning of the end of a draft army. To go back to Pam Harris's leadoff post about Mad Men and class …. This is the beginning of military service having the kind of class bias that now produces a military force in which virtually no member of Congress's children serve. My colleague David Kennedy has written eloquently about some of the consequences. See this article for more.
Yes, the war come home, indeed. Walter, just last week you were lamenting Mad Men's failure to grapple with the real effects of the war. But, as always, what a difference a week can make. And I agree with Pam; it's hard not to think about the class dimensions of what we saw last night. It's not boys like Mitchell, after all, who bore the brunt — he's wealthy enough that but for his showy protest, he'd be safe at college for at least a few more years; and now, if all goes well, he'll get the kind of happy ending available only to those with the right connections. But by 1968, even doctors' sons were at risk. And so finally we get at least a sliver, a compelling if narrow look at how it must have felt: Sylvia and Arnold's anguish, their sense of being caught by forces beyond their control (rats in a trap, you might say), and, hanging so low you can feel it, that suffocating fear.
Which leads, of course, to Don's favor — one of the many "favors" that give this episode its title. As always, Don's motives are a bit opaque, and probably decidedly mixed. But some part of it seems to have come from genuine concern and empathy. Because Don hates war: He knows what it's like, he knows what it does to people, and he hates it. And that revulsion has left him haunted — literally, in the last episode — by the boys he sees marching off now. And can Don Draper get at least a little credit for this? It's so easy to take a bad, even awful, experience from the past and mythologize it, turn it into an obstacle triumphantly overcome or a character-building exercise. But Don never does that. He may have been scarred by his past, but at least he has the fortitude to see it plainly, and the compassion to care about what it could do to a boy like Mitchell.
I'll leave the rest of the favors to others. But I can't help noting my favorite, which was really the favor undone: Peggy's fruitless plea for help with her rat problem. I was so delighted to see that it was Stan on the other end of the phone; at least those two crazy kids are back on terms that allow for middle of the night phone calls. And even more delighted that the two of them continue to have the warmest and most charming conversations on all of Mad Men. It seems as though even the tempo is different when the two of them talk — quicker, sharper, taking advantage of the short cuts that real closeness brings. If Mad Men is ever going to give us a happy, functional couple, then my betting is still on Peggy and Stan.
And here's my favor, in the form of some free advice: Everyone on Mad Men needs to stop whatever they're doing and board up their back doors immediately. Maybe, as Roger insists, "not all surprises are bad." But the ones that come through the back door? Nothing but bad news there.
Many episodes this season have been about the world breaking apart. 1968 is relentless in its upheavals, so much so that it has felt, at times, that the characters have never settled into the season. Many scenes have featured televisions blaring the news (hours of television uninterrupted by the commercials that sustain Don and his partners). The problems of the world are becoming bigger and harder to ignore. This might be the first episode this season in which the problems of the times actually have a direct impact on the main storyline. Until now, Don's relationship with the turbulence of the sixties has primarily been about him reconciling his past with the changing times. Don invented himself at a particular moment, so his identity can't really change with the times. But in this episode he has to figure out how Don Draper is going to deal with a very contemporaneous issue.
I was surprised by how little Don's past in the Korean War came up in this episode. It came out in his conversation with Arnold a little bit, but it has not been made clear when he talked to Private Dinkins in Hawaii, or when he tried to give Suzanne Farrell's brother a chance at a new start. In those cases, his empathy lay with the young men. With Mitchell, it seems to truly lie with Arnold.
Ted says to Don, "I'm guessing you don't have a lot of friends, Don, so I'm going to assume this is important to you." He's right. Don doesn't have a lot of friends, and despite his relationship with Sylvia, I do get the sense that he cares about Arnold. Don doing this favor for Arnold might be one of the purest realizations of his identity as Don Draper.
Who did Dick Whitman want Don Draper to be? Almost certainly not the Don Draper he became. The cool and mysterious aesthetics of his personal relationships come from the tension he feels in maintaining a façade. I would think that Dick's idea of who he wanted to become was something like the person he was when he told Anna that he was going to marry Betty. Moving up into the world, starting a family with a beautiful woman he describes as "so beautiful and friendly." There's a hopeful expression we see on the face of the young Don Draper that we have seen very rarely on the Don Draper of the show. Most of all, he wanted to be happy. In that way, Don Draper has been a spectacular failure. What Dick seemed to want for Don was normalcy. I think that's what Megan represented to him—the chance to start over with a fresh, healthy relationship. What could be more "normal" than taking the kids to Disneyland and dealing with their spilt milkshakes?
Helping Mitchell is something that Dick would envision Don doing—helping someone, motivated by friendship and his own fatherly instincts. Don is using his influence to help a friend, but not out of any personal desperation. In stark contrast to his other personal crises throughout the series, he remains cool and calm throughout the whole episode.
But that motivation doesn't last long. Don tells Sylvia that he helps Mitchell because he has children of his own, to which she replies, "I know that's not why you're doing it." I'm not sure that's what he thought until she said that.
At first, their conversation carries a sexual-emotional charge only on her end. But when he hears her crying, he recognizes the power of what he's done. He gets Sylvia back not through the kind of suave maneuvering he usually uses on women. She falls into his lap, and when she does, his whole demeanor changes. But he can't sustain that success with women anymore, nor can he sustain that control. The fate of his marriage is now in the hands of his fifteen year old daughter, one of the only people in his life who still respected him.


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Audi S8 review
The Audi S8 is the performance flagship version of the classy, understated and hi-tech A8 executive saloon
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The Audi S8 is a bonkers executive limo with increbile pace and scarcely believable traction. It's based on the standard A8 and sits at the top of the Audi model range – above the A4 and A6 saloons. It remains a niche option, but for some it's the ultimate example of understated wealth.
A Mercedes S-Class is a more modern, better resolved car, while the BMW 7 Series is arguably more fun to drive. That said, the Audi's twin-turbo V8 is a gem, making it hard to ignore the S8's brutish, muscle car charm.
Like all other Audi S and RS models, the S8 represents the fastest and most exclusive version available. Using the standard A8 saloon as its base, the S8 adds a twin-turbocharged V8 engine with more than 500bhp, as well as aggressive styling tweaks to the exterior and interior. Those wanting even more performance can opt for the 'Plus' version, sending power rocketing to almost 600bhp.
Unlike many of its rivals from Mercedes, BMW and Jaguar, the all S8s feature quattro four-wheel drive to help cope with the added power – and as a result it also provides superb grip even in wet and wintry conditions.
Despite the muscular performance, the S8 is still a quiet and comfortable limousine, with a luxurious and stylish cabin. However, while it is incredibly capable, all models are expensive and lack the engaging dynamics of its rear-wheel-drive rivals.
Engines, performance and drive
The Audi S8 feels much like an old-school muscle car. The V8 engine is a brute, and the four-wheel drive powertrain ensures limitless traction in any weather.
It doesn't offer the last word in driver involvement – you'll need to look to the Mercedes S-Class or BMW 7 Series for that – but there's still plenty of feedback through the wheel, giving you confidence in any situation. It's nicely refined too – as you'd expect from a luxury limousine – making high speed motorway driving a doddle. The gearbox is slick and easy to use, especially if you leave it to its own devices. In fact, despite having more power than five Ford Fiestas, the S8 is incredibly straightforward to drive.
There are two cars to choose from; the standard 513bhp S8, and the bonkers 597bhp S8 Plus. To be honest, the lesser car will suffice for most, but the lure of a two-tonne saloon car with 600bhp is hard to ignore.
Although the Audi S8 uses the same 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 as the lesser S6 and S7 models, the engine's power output has been increased to an incredible 513bhp and 650Nm of torque. This makes it blisteringly quick in a straight line, but thanks to the standard-fit quattro four-wheel drive system and adjustable air suspension, it also offers up plenty of grip in the corners.
That said, there's no escaping the fact that this a two-tonne car and at times it feels like too much weight for the brakes and steering to cope with. Plus, as the S8 comes with a very clever active noise cancellation system that makes it virtually silent at cruising speed, it means the S8 isn't as engaging as an AMG-badged Mercedes S-Class and its not as comfortable either.
Those wanting even more from their executive Audi, can opt for the bonkers S8 Plus version. It uses an uprated version of the standard car's twin-turbo V8 engine – producing a scarcely believable 597bhp and 750Nm of torque. It'll do 0-62mph in just 3.8 seconds and hit 189mph with the Dynamic Package fitted. That makes it faster than an entry-level Porsche 911.
MPG, CO2 and running costs
Running a powerful and expensive car like the S8 will require very deep pockets. Although the new twin-turbo V8 engine does use cylinder-deactivation technology to maximise efficiency, drive it hard and the S8 will struggle to return more than 20mpg (despite Audi claiming 30.1mpg), while CO2 emissions of 216g/km put it in one of the top brackets for road tax. The higher-powered S8 Plus is even thirstier, returning even fewer miles per gallon and 231g/km of CO2.
Other consumables like tyres and brakes will also need replacing more regularly than with the standard A8 and repairs at an Audi approved dealer will be very costly.
Insurance groups
As you'd expect, both the S8 and S8 Plus fall into the top group for insurance, meaning no matter which model you go for, you'll be forced to pay big premiums. That's no different to its biggest rivals though, so the Audi's slightly cheaper list price may be enough to seal the deal for potential customers.
Big luxury saloons also struggle to hold onto their value so despite its premium image, the S8 will drop considerably in value after only a few thousand miles. Official figures say the S8 will retain between 30 and 35 per cent of its value after three years, meaning big drops if you buy new. For comparison, a Mercedes AMG-S63 will keep up to 46 per cent of its value, making it a better bet long-term.
Interior, design and technology
The standard A8 has often been criticised for its bland styling but the S8 helps to address this problem by adding enormous 20-inch alloy wheels, a more aggressive single-frame chrome grille and a subtle body kit. At the back, a set of quad-exhaust pipes and special 'S' badging are the only clues to its performance potential. A facelift late in 2013 sharpened up the bumpers and added a new set of headlights.
The S8 Plus is distinguishable by its high-gloss detailing and darkened rear light clusters but is otherwise identical to its lesser-powered sibling.
Standard equipment across the S8 range is very generous, too, with hi-tech kit like sat-nav, BOSE surround sound and climate control all fitted as standard. However even with these tweaks, the A8 fails to standout like the Jaguar XJ Supersports or even its smaller and cheaper sibling, the Audi S7 Sportback.
Sat-nav, stereo and infotainment
On the inside, the A8's already high-class interior has been given a range of sporty upgrades, including grey-back dials, carbon-fibre trim and quilted leather and Alcantara on the seats and dashboard. Unfortunately, the S8 misses out on the TT, A4 and R8's brilliant Virtual Cockpit display, feeling a little dated as a result. But that's not to say it's an unpleasant place to be – it's still a high quality design that feels only marginally less special than its key rivals.
Practicality, comfort and boot space
The S8 offers the same generous level of space as the standard A8, which means a 520-litre boot. It also comes with an electric tailgate and an opening that's wide and flat, making it easy to load even the bulkiest of items. Rear seat passengers are well catered for, too, with enough head and legroom for three adults in the back and plenty of handy cubby holes.
Up front, there's a huge range of adjustment for both driver and passenger and despite its dimensions, visibility is good so the S8 is fairly easy to park. It also features a massive 90-litre fuel tank to help improve its cruising range on the motorway.
The S8 is only available as a standard wheelbase car, with no S8 L option. Compared to its two biggest rivals – the Mercedes S-Class and BMW 7 Series – the S8 is both the longest and the heaviest. At more than five metres long, it's not a small car, while at almost two tonnes, it's 130kg more than the latest BMW limo.
Leg room, head room & passenger space
Despite the S8 only being available as a short-wheelbase car, there's plenty of room in the back to stretch out. Based on the standard A8, it sits above the A4 and A6 in Audi's extensive model range. There's decent head room and legroom will be more than sufficient for all but those with the longest limbs.
The S8 pips its main rivals for outright bootspace. With a well-shaped 520-litre load area, there's five litres less in a BMW 7 Series and 10 litres fewer in a Mercedes S-Class. That means there's more than enough room for a few suitcases (essential for all those airport business trips), while an electric tailgate means you needn't get your hands mucky either.
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While the S8 uses a new engine, the gearbox and four-wheel-drive system are both used in the standard car – so should prove dependable in the long term. There's a wide variety of complicated electronics on board, too, but Audi has a well-earned reputation for reliability that rivals like Jaguar can't really compete with.
That said, despite this strong tradition the brand only returns average scores in the annual Driver Power survey and finished 13th – behind Mercedes but ahead of BMW in the overall standings in 2015. Safety should not be a concern in the S8, though, as its aluminium space frame chassis is very strong and technology, like two-stage traction control and a pre-sense system that prepares the car for a collision by tightening the seat belts and closing the windows, are included as standard. Options like a night-vision camera and radar-guided cruise control are also available.
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Audi's fixed-price servicing makes it easy to budget for maintenance. Buyers pay around £350 to cover dealer servicing of A8 and S8 models for the first three years, which isn't actually too bad. Of course, you'll pay more for tyres and other consumables due to the power and ferocity of the V8 engine.
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On September 11, 2001, the area known as "Ground Zero" was sealed from the public eye. Sonnenfeld, however, was given unrestricted access enabling him to document for the investigation (that never took place) and provide some "sanitized" pool video to virtually every news network in the world. The tapes that reveal some of the anomalies which he discovered at Ground Zero are still in his possession.
Accused of a crime that did not occur in a manifest frame-up scenario, Kurt Sonnenfeld has been persecuted across continents. After several years of fear, injustice and isolation, he has decided to take a public stand against the Government's official story and is prepared to submit his material to the close scrutiny of reliable experts.
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At the highest levels in Washington, DC, someone knew what was going to happen. They wanted a war so badly that they at least let it happen and most likely even helped it happen.
Sometimes it seems to me that the "nuts" are those who hold to what they've been told with an almost religious fervor despite all of the evidence to the contrary — the ones who won't even consider that there was a conspiracy. There are so many anomalies to the "official" investigation that you can't blame it on oversight or incompetence. I am familiar with the scientists and qualified professionals to whom you refer, and their findings are convincing, credible, and presented according to scientific protocol — in stark contrast to the findings of the "official" investigation. In addition, numerous intelligence agents and government officials have now come forward with their very informed opinions that the 911 Commission was a farce at best or a cover-up at worst. My experience at Ground Zero is but one more piece of the puzzle.


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Mijares is Confident He Can "Knock Nonito Donaire Out"
By Alfredo Jaime Gomez, notifight.com
Former champion Cristian Mijares (45-6-2, 21KOs) looked very strong last Saturday night in Morelia, as he knocked out Eddy Julio in four rounds.
The victory may have secured a huge opportunity in July, against WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (28-1, 18KOs).
Mijares, once regarded as a pound-for-pound boxer, suffered several defeats between 2008 and 2009, but now he's put together a seven fight win streak - and won two new titles.
"I hoped more opposition [in my last fight], but I felt powerful. I will rest for ten days and I will prepare for two and a half months in the city of Mexico for [the fight with] Donaire, a dangerous boxer - however, no one is invincible," Mijares said.
"I'll be ready for twelve rounds, but I feel that with my strength I can knock him out. The fight will be very hard, because the Filipino is left-handed, has a good hook and he's a counter-puncher. [I have my] experience, intelligence and my boxing ability and I will deliver."
mijares is making a boost of himself because he knew very well that donaire is hard to beat let alone knocked out...watching darchinyan making a foolish punching bag out of mijares made me lol...donaire will not only flatten mijares but…Comment by thuggery on 04-24-2012
Donaire's left hook is kicking ass and taking namesComment by craybac on 04-24-2012
he won't knock out donaire, if donaire will fight him he will be in the knocked out list of donaire. he is just looking for a fame again.Comment by Mars Volta on 04-23-2012
no you won't....... donaire should fight rigo, wtfComment by TOBYLEE1 on 04-23-2012
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BTW, two things, Walsh once said, you can mask a lack of talent on O with good schemes, but on D you need talent to make it work. Plus not only the niners, but the league has shown you can more often get good wr's in the middle of middle of the draft than at the later end of the first. Rice was the best, then maybe Crabtree that the niners got in the modern era. All the rest-went boom bust on us - JJ, Rahuan etc.
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Birch Communication Birch Comm is a fraud company. Never trust them!!! Macon, Georgia
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Leading Edge H?erbalsc/o 149 Old Gray Station Rd Gray, Tennessee United States of America
Leading Edge H?erbals Leading Edge Marketing GENF20 is a scam and they DO NOT support the product Gray, Tennessee
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I contacted Leading Edge Herbals (the supplier) and they told me that the product did have a 3 - 3.5 year shelf life and it would be fine to consume, however there is no expirery date on any of the packaging.
I sent a photo of the spoilt product to confirm that it would be ok to use and they responded that NO it has turned bad and do not use it.
After this comment I requested that they replace the 6 months and they refused and sent back the 60 guarantee and said these are the terms, which is completely useless as the tablets turned bad well after that time.
So after being told that the tablets will last 3 - 3.5 years, a 12 month supply turning bad well under 12 months and then having them refuse to replace it, I am warning who ever i can so they can't get caught in the same trap by this dodgy supplier.
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LEBANON, N.H. (AP) � The obstetrics department at New Hampshire's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is getting a $10,000 grant to implement a model designed to decrease the rate of premature deliveries.
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How many jews does it take to change a light bulb?
Comments On This Anti Joke
- Obviously this doesnt make much sense because any sane jew would buy the long lasting energy efficient bulb, which saves them money in the long run, and requires fewer light bulb changes.
- OR, it was just an f'ing joke!
- None they just get a goy. They pay later when the riots hit. ya know... it not about human rights its jewish rights.
- What about a light bulb that is in a lamp that is on the ground?
- 6 million.
- it actually takes three. one do screw it in. one to hold the later. and one to complain about it
- I'm offensive and I find this very Jewish.
- This joke is not even close to sexist, because it's not even a joke in the first place!!
- I love how proper these are!
- This is a joke, it's a comment about jew's persecution complex.
- i would say 2. one to screw it in , and one to create the lampshade.
- 2 .. .. one to change the bulb and the other to burn in hell for killing jesus


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Tires PlusThornton Road Lithia Spring, Georgia U.S.A.
Tire Plus Total Car Care The bad gasket Lithia Spring Georgia
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After seeing quarter-size leaks in my driveway, I had my wife take the car to Tires Plus. She told the shop the car had a bad 'head gasket'. I had told my wife about leaking gaskets. When asked what was wrong with the car, she said 'the head gasket was bad'. Making a flash-inspection, they had a good laugh that it wasn't the head gasket, but the problem was another expensive (valve cover) gasket leak. In order to repair this $109.00 valve cover gasket, a number of other things must be repaired including another $132.00 upper intake gasket, ignition wires and $132.00 worth of spark tube/seals. Six hours later the total repair costed $664.00
For six hours, off-and-on I watched the worker hop between 3-4 other jobs like a rabit. He would work 10-15 minutes on each car then move on to another never finishing neither. In between cars, the poor man snacked and caught up on a little chit-chat.
Nevertheless, the car still leaked next day. At first, I figured it was fluid running off from where the repairs took place. I was wrong. Couple of days later my driveway had more leaks (plate-size now) than before the repairs.
Going back to the shop, I gave the person in charge a good tongue lashing only to have his shop-buddies to mean-ball me. Before leaving, I told him that Tires Plus have lost my business. Now the shop wants to make it right. Had they fixed the right leak the first time then there wouldn't have been a second.
After making another flash-inspection, the shop concluded that it was the transmission pan leaking. They would fix it free. I offered to pay, but it would be my last visit. The part costed less than $100.00 according to the report. I asked why didn't they do the $100.00 job first. They could not answer, but I know why: Silly rabit, tricks are for kids!
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A Party Ride - Brentwood NY13-11 Jackson Ave Long Island City, New York United States of America
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The first incident 2 years ago, my daughter was simply a prom date of a friend. At about 2 a.m. the bus driver (who was hired and paid until 4 a.m.) got sick of the loud music and dancing kids and pulled over on the side of a highway and threw them all off the bus and pulled away. I believe I filed a report here and the parent who ordered the bus handled it from a payment standpoint.
Then last year my daughter's friend's mom was asked by her daughter to use this company ... I told her what had happened and that I had read all these reports and that the company had an "F" rating from the BBB. She was very forceful in the booking. Told them she had read all the horror stories and she would not pay them up front, a small deposit. When the bus arrived in good condition with a/c and bathroom working she'd call in her cc for the balance AND the driver would only be tipped at the end of the evening and she would assure that the parent at the drop off spot had the money to tip appropriately ... driver would not be ripped off ... if the kids paid him extra to allow them to drink ... well at 17/18 that was out of our control ... they certainly weren't loading cases of beer onto the bus and only had small purses. All went well, I'm sure b/c the booking parent threatened a law suit.
This year, it was left to a kid to book, and of course, since last year went well she booked the same company. Now they are 18/19. She didn't 'lay down the law' like the mom from the year prior and low and behold the bus was to pick them up at 6:30 pm and after many panicked phone calls from lots of kids/parents (most not answered) ... they were finally told that their bus had problems and a bus was being send from a local spot where it had dropped a group off and another bus would be there to pick them up for the rest of the night. The bus did arrive at 7:40. The kids were dripping with sweat from waiting so long out in the heat and they missed the entire 'cocktail party' portion of the prom (obviously not cocktails ... but that type of food). I got on the bus and told the driver that the 12-hour ride NOW began at 7:40, correct? He said yes he'd pass that on to the other driver. I then told him I felt that the company owed them another hour on the house for the inconvenience. He agreed. Guess what? The kids were dropped off at 6:40 because the driver claimed not to know anything about any arrangement.
Look, I think the picture here is clear. This is not an upstanding company that anyone would want to do business with. Between these reports and the "F" rating, I'd recommend taking your prom, and other business elsewhere.
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