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Meet The Team
We believe living a life by design is better than living a life by default. My staff and I take our customer service model very seriously. Together, we are committed to providing an exceptional client experience. If you need to schedule an appointment or request any other service, please let us know.
We believe living a life by design is better than living a life by default.
My staff and I take our customer service model very seriously. Together, we are committed to providing an exceptional client experience.
If you need to schedule an appointment or request any other service, please let us know.
Tory Kurtis Dyck, MBA, RICP®
Tory joined Team Dettmann in April 2018 as an Associate Financial Advisor. His primary role is to take a client's financial plan from a vision to implementation. His analysis and consulting is key in the construction of our clients' financial roadmap. Your interaction with Tory will be in the implementation of your plan design as well during review of your ongoing plan.
Tory is from Eagan, Minnesota. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Bemidji State University and earned a Master of Business Administration from Bethel University. He lives in Woodbury with his wife, Lynette, and three daughters, Sophia, Ariana and Evelyn.
The best financial advice I ever received: Stay out of debt, live on less than you make, invest the difference.
The best part about my job is the people and the relationships. I get the opportunity to meet and collaborate with people on something that has such a significant, long term impact on their lives. When we can help someone align their financial behaviors with their values it is extremely rewarding.
Jenny Tichich
Jenny's focus is on client service and overall growth and development for Team Dettmann. She has been in the finance industry since 2011, joining Dave's practice in 2016. Jenny and her husband, Jon, live in Apple Valley. They welcomed their son Adam in November 2017 and are expecting their second child early next year. They enjoy time with the family dog, Maggie, and spend summers golfing, boating and hanging out at the family cabin. During the winter months, they enjoy going skiing up north or in Colorado and rooting for the Minnesota Wild.
My favorite part of my job is that I have a hand in connecting great people with a top advisor who can lead them in achieving both their financial and personal goals.
The best financial advice I ever received is to be organized in both your spending and saving, and to regularly review where your money is going and what it's doing for your long-term goals.
Kelly M Haley
Kelly has more than 25 years of experience working for agencies and financial representatives with Northwestern Mutual. She is currently working toward earning her CLU designation to further Team Dettmann's commitment and expertise to provide guidance and knowledge of various insurance solutions to our clients. Kelly oversees getting our clients from the point of commitment to a solution being implemented. Her knowledge of insurance copmanies and underwriting makes her an asset to our clients, not only in the implementation of insurance solutions, but also the ongoing maintenance of those solutions.
Kelly is from Minneapolis, MN. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Eagan with her husband, Dan and two children, Maddie and Jake. Her daughter is currently in her junior year at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire pursuing a degree in Graphic Design. Her son is currently in his freshman year at the U of MN – Carlson School of Management. She enjoys volunteering within the local community, traveling, gardening and cooking in her spare time as well as spending as much quality time with her family as she can.
The best financial advice I ever received is to budget your money and find a financial planner you trust and will be with you long term.
The best part about my job is being part of such a dedicated and committed team. The amount of thought, time and effort that goes into planning for every client makes me proud to be part of something that makes a difference in our clients' lives.
Rachel L Dettmann, J.D.
Rachel received a B.A. in pre-law from the University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse in 2007. She earned her J.D. with honors in 2012 from William Mitchell College of Law, where she focused on tax law and estate planning. She was active in the Estate Planning Clinic on campus and also held an externship with the Chief Counsel for the IRS in St. Paul, MN. Rachel is passionate about helping others to plan for their future as well as meet any present needs in the most efficient and effective way possible.
Rachel loves to travel, read, and spend time with her family outdoors. One of her most exciting adventures was when she and Dave lived in China for a year after getting married, teaching English at Nanchang Hangkong University and traveling as much as possible. But the greatest adventure of her life thus far was having children, starting with Adalie in 2010 while Rachel was in law school. Eliza was born three years later in 2013 and Rachel is currently attempting to convince Dave that now is the perfect time to add a dog to their family (the dog has joined the family, he is a Wheaton Terrier and his name is Buddy).
Gregg M Sainsbury, CFP®, MBA
Gregg has more than 20 years of financial planning and investment management experience and has been with Northwestern Mutual since June of 2017. As Director of Financial Planning Services, Gregg oversees a team of talented people who provide investment and financial planning support for advisor teams in the Network Office. Gregg has been a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) since 2001 and graduated with an MBA in Finance and New Venture from the University of St. Thomas in 2007. He is married with two children and enjoys spending time with them, coaching basketball, and playing golf.
The best financial advice I ever received was that Money is more important than Things, but less important than People.
The best part about my job is leveraging 2+ decades of experience to help advisors provide financial security to families in their communities.
Christopher Robert Ourada
Chris started with Northwestern Mutual as in intern in 2014 and began working with the Financial Planning Services team in January of 2017. As Team Lead of Financial Planning Services, Chris's responsibilities include creating financial plans, administering investment solutions into clients' plans and consulting with teams to ensure processes are efficient and that we are doing what is best for the client. In his free time Chris enjoys golf, spending quality time with his family, and cooking.
The best financial advice I ever received is to live within your means and start saving early.
The best part about my job is being able to help a lot of people every day.
Jacob R Flemming
Jacob started with Northwestern Mutual in January 2018. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse with Bachelor of Science degrees in Finance and Economics. As a member of the Financial Planning Services team, Jacob is responsible for working with brokerage and advisory accounts, creating financial plans, consulting with teams, and facilitating asset movements. Outside of work Jacob enjoys fishing, playing baseball, bowling, and spending time with family and friends.
The best financial advice I ever received is 'Save a little now or save a lot later'.
The best part about my job is being a part of a great team that helps people achieve their goals.
Cory T Hansen
Cory started with Northwestern Mutual in Financial Planning Services in August 2018. He received a bachelor's degree in Education with a minor in Mathematics from Bethel University. Previously, he was a math teacher in Apple Valley, MN. Cory completes the on-boarding process for brokerage accounts and builds PX plans for clients. In his spare time, Cory enjoys going on trips with his wife Lauren, sports, and coaching. He currently lives in Farmington, MN.
Best financial advice ever received: Don't spend money you don't have and start saving early in your life.
Best part of my job: Knowing that I am helping people with their short and long-term goals.


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Birchbox August 2018
Birchbox has it going on this month! If you enjoy curated samples to your specific profile all for $10 a month this one is for you. I love trying big branded items before I head in to pay full price and the deluxe samples give me just that. Added to this box of beautiful-ness Birchbox… Read More Birchbox August 2018

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We are extremely pleased to announce that Penton Hook Marina will be hosting the inaugural Thames Valley and London Boat Show from Friday 12th to Sunday 14th April.
This is a 3 day event where you can view over 20 new boat brands, marine merchandise and services including clothing brands and chandlery. There will be also drink and food available via the Big Red Bus and Mr Hobbs Henley Gin and a live band playing on Saturday 13th April. The venue and entrance for the boat show is at Gate 5 and there will be marshals to assist and help you.
Best of all the boat show is FREE to enter!!!


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Hello Ladies, I would love to introduce you to the New Clinique Cheek Pops!
These are adorable little pots of blush that come shaped as spring flowers. They're just what is needed to brighten up your morning and your make up routine.
Cheek pops come in four colours Berry Pop, Peach Pop, Plum pop & Ginger pop.
Unfortunately these pots aren't available in stores as yet and it is hard to judge the colours off the website. I ordered the peach pop as I always find that Peach is the shade that suits the most people.
The packaging is exquisite and the design of the blush itself is beautifully detailed.
When applied the effect of this powdered blush is much more subtle than how it appears in the pot but is buildable which I find to be much more versatile than an outright strong colour.
I would highly recommend this blush for both it's colour and it's striking design. I can't wait to try the other colours once they hit the stores at the end of this month.
Order yours now at www.clinique.co.uk Priced £16.50 each.


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You can't go wrong with shrimp. Especially when you cook them on the barbecue. Add a little sauce and you've got a recipe for a fabulous dinner.
But this is even more the case when you get pesto involved. Particularly, Cilantro Pesto. This type of pesto is now my favorite, and it's absolutely perfect for brushing on grilled or barbecued shrimp!
I put mine on skewers to make the job easy, brushed on a little pesto right after grilling and presto! Complete deliciousness!
Clean Eating Barbecued Shrimp with Cilantro Pesto
(Makes 4 servings)
- 1 pound pre-cooked shrimp, thawed if frozen
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- 1/2 cup Cilantro Pesto
- Combine the shrimp, olive oil and garlic powder in a food-safe bag and shake it around to coat the shrimp with the garlic and oil. Let sit in the fridge for at least 1 hour, more is better.
- Put your shrimp on the skewers and place on the grill. Remember, they are pre-cooked. So just a few minutes on each side is more than enough to warm them in most cases. Don't overcook them.
- Using a pot holder, transfer the skewers to a heat-safe surface, and baste the shrimp with pesto.
- Cool slightly and serve.


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Confident, savvy travellers, high profile airline marketing and increased competition in the travel sector are having one very noticeable effect – downward pressure on headline ticket prices. For those looking after airline eCommerce this is a significant challenge; shareholders demand strong profits year after year and you don't want to let the side down under your watch. However ancillary sales offer an important additional revenue stream, and mobile offers a unique platform to tap into that market.
When one door closes, another opens
It just makes sense - with the money saved from a bargain price flight, customers are much more likely to loosen the purse strings on extras that they once may have deemed extravagant...upgrades, priority boarding and travel insurance for example.
Ancillary revenue has grown by 163% since 2010 and tapping into this stream will be crucial to achieving your revenue growth goals.
Mobile simplifies ancillary sales
According to our research, airlines globally are deriving just 4% of ancillary sales from mobile apps - which means the majority are missing a major opportunity. We expect to see that figure increase to 14% over the next two years, but forward-thinking airlines can grab a greater share of the market now, particularly as 46% of sales are expected to be completed on mobile and tablets in that same period.
Mobiles are getting smarter and becoming more and more like a personal assistant. Where once they were mainly used to answer queries on the go, increasingly people are buying more and more stuff on their phones, flights included – the fact that mobile web traffic now exceeds traditional PCs by at least 10% bears this out.
Shaping the mobile experience will be crucial to increasing ancillary sales. Here are three practical areas to focus on.
- Exploit mobile simplicity
A great mobile experience makes it very easy to access key features and functions. As a result, successful mCommerce makes it as simple as possible to complete a purchase.
As your customer makes their initial purchase via a mobile app, it is vital that ancillaries are clearly displayed at checkout. The checkout process needs to be simplified to the point that a single button press is all that's needed to complete the purchase - at least 15% of eCommerce transactions are abandoned because the checkout process is too complicated (some reports suggest up to 27%). What does that equate to financially? Jumio put the figure at £2.7 billion for the travel industry.
Your app should harness the built-in capabilities of the phone wherever possible - Apple Pay and TouchID make payments as simple as scanning a fingerprint, saving time and hassle associated with keying credit card numbers into a small screen.
You also need to design the app so that these upgrade options are prominently displayed every time the user signs in, right up until they board the plane.
- Context is king
Your airline's mobile app provides travellers with useful information about their itinerary - but it needs to become much more. Using the built-in capabilities of their phone, you can begin to deliver contextually relevant information in real-time - all geared towards increasing sales of add-ons.
As their departure date approaches, you can use push messaging to advise passengers about their preparations. Reminding them to check in online pulls the traveller back into your app, and provides an additional chance to present them with upgrade options for instance.
Using GPS location technology, you can generate alerts based on the customer's position in the airport terminal too. Faced with slow, inefficient security checks that add to the stress of travelling, you can tempt them to make a last minute upgrade to priority boarding, or even a lounge upgrade through one of your partners. Juniper Research suggests that mobile location based services will be worth $43.3 billion in 2019.
The more relevant and personalised your deals, the more likely customers are to buy them.
Earning opportunities don't end at the gate either. In-flight upgrades like Wi-Fi and entertainment can be purchased and accessed direct from a phone or tablet onboard the plane. It's just a case of making those features available and visible to passengers.
- Increase urgency
Integrating third party data sources into your app, such as travel reports, provides your users with valuable updates that help them better manage their journey. This same information can also be used to subtly increase pressure on fliers.
Consider the busy exec who is in a taxi, running late for their flight. Advising them of relevant information, like traffic conditions near the airport, or current queuing times at security/passport control allows them to plan how best to navigate the terminal. By presenting relevant upgrade options alongside that information - security fast track passes for instance - the exec has a chance to get back on schedule.
For frequent flyers you can leverage travel history to further tailor deals to suit their preferences. Using the travel dates, destinations and known personal details, it becomes possible to provide one-click, last minute insurance policy sales or airport transfers at their end point. And using lockscreen notifications you can bring these ancillary offers to the flyer's attention without the user necessarily logged into the app directly. This targeted mobile push messaging can increase ancillary revenue by 55%-100% and helps to "own" the traveller by preventing them from buying from your competitors.
mCommerce context is not just about making relevant offers to your customers, but making them at the right time and place so they become irresistible.
A trend that cannot be ignored
If ancillary sales are central to boosting profits, airlines need to take every opportunity to offer them to customers. There's a very good chance that your website is already set-up to process these add-ons, but is your mobile platform?
At a time when travellers are swapping PCs for mobile for almost every task, an unengaging mobile app with basic functionality is unlikely to impress. Ancillary sales can be increased with a fully-featured mobile app that delivers personalised, context-aware offers and promotions to your customer's phone. When backed by a suitable analytics program, your mobile app will go from strength-to-strength as you test, tweak and optimise those offerings to increase relevance - and sales.
To learn more about how to drive ancillary sales via mobile, and to see some real-world examples, download your free copy of 'The Evolution of Mobile' eGuide now.


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Millwright Jobs in Buffalo / Machine Mechanic
We have a three person Machine Maintenance team but really need a fourth to round out our workload.
HELP WANTED: Millwright Jobs Buffalo / Machine Mechanic
The person we'd like to hire will absolutely have a natural mechanical ability, however we are not all that particular about how much experience.
In a perfect world we would hire an experienced millwright however we would seriously consider most backyard mechanics with only a minimal amount of work experience, or certainly someone who calls himself a machine mechanic.
The skills we are looking for include a combination of welding, hydraulic, and electric.
Our machine mechanics work all three of our shifts and therefore require a certain amount of flexibility with their schedule. In exchange we'll offer a certain amount of scheduling flexibility back to you.
Offered is:
- A competitive wage
- Personal days and vacation
- 401k with a match up to 6%
- A tool allowance
- A discretionary safety and attendance bonus.
Location: Buffalo-Niagara RegionJob No. 14467-15672Date Printed: Jan 23, 2020Apply for a similar job
Squarefoot Tradesmen
327 Niagara Street
Buffalo, NY 14222
(716) 855-8100
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Generally you have two choices when it comes to renovating a living room or bedroom wall: paint or wallpaper. Does it really have to be one or the other though? There's no rule saying you can't combine the best of both worlds. A paint/wallpaper combination design can really create a unique look. Here are some approaches if you think this is a design scheme that may work well for your home.
Paint and Wallpaper Design Ideas
For the Bedroom
Residential painting projects for the bedroom can benefit from this type of renovation. You can designate an accent wall and use a decorative wallpaper while using a neutral paint color for the remaining walls. You can also do the opposite and choose a bold color for the accent wall while using simple wallpaper for the other three sides.
The wall against the head of the bed should be the accent wall. This will accentuate the main furniture and other secondary furniture lined against it.
For the Living Room
We especially recommend paint and wallpaper for living room walls that have chair rail moldings. The molding and everything below it can be painted while wallpaper can be applied above it. If the living room does not have chair rail moldings, then you can use the same strategy described for the bedroom. In this case, the wall with a mantel or entertainment center will be the accent wall.
For offices
Our commercial painters have tackled workplace offices using a similar concept. This may include a neutral paint for two sides, wallpaper for one side, and idea paint for the wall closest to the desk.
We'll Handle the Paint Part of the Wall
Contact Suburban Painting Services if you're keen on this idea. Paint and wallpaper really can create a cohesibely fresh and welcoming appearance.
Edited by Justin Vorhees
Interior Painting for One or all Four Walls
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Stephanie Mackler, Associate Professor in the Education Department, had an article published in the journal Educational Studies.
Tag Archives: Education
Spencer's Book Showcased in Main Line Today
Main Line Today newspaper features as a staff pick "In the Crossfire, Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform," a book by Associate Professor of education John P. Spencer. Foster, a school reformer in Philadelphia and eventually Superintendent of Oakland, Calif., school, was assassinated 40 years ago, Nov. 6, 1973. The article was written by Ursinus alumnus J.F. Pirro.
Education Student Spotlight: Shannon Hansell 2014
Shannon spent last summer as a teacher and the Math Department Chair for Lehigh Valley Summerbridge, a rigorous six-week educational program for 7th and 8th grade inner-city students taught entirely by college students at Moravian Academy in Bethlehem, PA. Read More
Education Student Spotlight: Brianna Kramer 2013
In the summer of 2011, Brianna participated in a 5 week, intensive TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Course in Quito, Ecuador. Through this participation, Brianna became certified in TESOL, and is now able to teach English as a second language in any foreign country. Read More
Education Student Spotlight: Samantha Lowes 2013
Samantha has been a mathematics tutor for middle school, high school, and Ursinus college students for the past three years. Read More
Prof. Spencer's Book on Foster Reviewed at philly.com
A review of In The Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform (Penn Press) by Associate Professor of Education John P. Spencer, appeared recently on www. philly.com. Read More
STILT, Making an Impact with Middle School Students
Timothy Jordan wanted to make a difference in the lives of young students who might not have college on their radar. Read More
Book Sets Life of Marcus Foster in Context of School Reform Debates
The legacy of dynamic urban school reformer Marcus Foster has been somewhat lost in history. Foster, superintendent of the Oakland, Calif., schools in the early 1970s, and a product of Philadelphia schools as a student, teacher, principal, and administrator, was assassinated Nov. 6, 1973 by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Read More
Kristin Hanratty wins Pre-Teaching Award
Senior Kristin Hanratty has always loved math, but it wasn't until her freshman year of college that she decided she wanted to take on a career teaching middle school students. "I want to change students' perspective on a subject that is typically disliked by using creative skills to help them understand and prove that math can be fun," Hanratty says. Read More
Two Students Accepted into Teach for America Program
The influential Teach for America has accepted Ursinus students Robyn Clarke and Alexandra Wilson into its program which works to close the achievement gap in schools for students living in low-income communities. Read More


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I've recently returned to the game after a lengthy absence and have to say I'm loving this build. Fits my playstyle and needs very well. I enjoy group content but also end up running a fair amount of quests solo. In a group yesterday someone made the comment "pretty good trap skills for a Paladin".
I'm wondering if anything has changed in the game since this build was posted that "newish" players like me should be aware of going forward? Or can I continue to stick to it as a template?


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Still looking for the best presents to give this holiday season? Toy Insider Mom Laurie Schacht stopped by Good Day Chicago to show off some of the hottest toys of the year. For more on the products featured in this segment, check out the notes below, and for a full rundown of the best toys of the year, check out our complete holiday toy guide.
Rubik's Race (University Games)
Shake it, slide it, solve it!
- Shake the Scrambler to create a new Rubik's pattern. Slide the tiles to match the pattern on your board to the pattern in the Scrambler. Then, solve it!
- It's the ultimate two-player Rubik's challenge.
- The first player to complete the match and slam down the center frame wins.
- Contains game base and center frame, 48 colored tiles, Scrambler, nine colored mini cubes, and instructions.
- Ages: 7+
- Available: Amazon, Toys "R" Us, Barnes & Noble
- Tighten your bond with your beloved Pikachu friend.
- Hug this feature plush Pikachu to make its ears move, cheeks light up and activate cute sounds.
- Hot on the heels of Pokemon Go, now every kid can catch the coveted Pikachu!
- Super soft plush makes Pikachu extra huggable.
- Ages: 3+
- Available: Amazon, Toys "R" Us
Pokémon Throw N Pop Poké Balls (TOMY)
- Get ready to try your hand as a Pokémon trainer!
- Throw the Poké Ball, and it pops open upon impact to reveal a 2" figure.
- A unique scoring system enables you to extend the game play and battle your friends!
- Choose from Pikachu & Poké Ball, Chespin & Premier Ball, Fennekin & Great Ball, and Froakie & Ultra Ball.
- Ages: 4+
- MSRP: $12.99 each
- Available: Amazon, Walmart, Toys "R" Us
Little Live Pets Snuggles My Dream Puppy (Moose Toys)
- Snuggles, My Dream Puppy joins Little Live Pets and moves and feels just like a real puppy.
- Kids can hold him in his arms and give him a hug. They won't be able to resist his big brown expressive eyes. They can feed him with his bottle and he'll fall asleep in their arms, dreaming about them!
- Snuggles even comes with an adoption certificate for kids to fill in make him their own! He is the no mess pup who loves to be loved!
- With a pat of the head or a rub of the tummy, Snuggles will close his eyes and make adorable puppy sounds. Kids can even watch him breathe. Snuggles moves, feels and responds just like a real puppy!
- Ages: 5+
- Available: Target, Toys R Us, Walmart
Super Wings World Airport Playset (Auldey)
- The iconic World Airport from the popular Super Wings TV series sets the stage for this ultimate playset for preschool boys and girls.
- Its large 35-inch scale delivers loads of fun, with electronic sounds and lights plus tons of activities for kids to recreate their favorite Super Wings scenes with mini-transforming characters Jett and Donnie.
- Attach them to the fly-around balance bar and spin them to circle the World Airport before they come in for a landing. Load Jett into the elevator and lift him up to the Control Tower, then launch him down the ramp.
- Flip open the base compartments to reveal a rotating luggage carousel and a cargo scale.
- Press the button to hear commands from the Control Tower. Transform Jett and Donnie from their plane mode to bot mode in 3 easy steps. The World Airport Playset will deliver hours of fun to Super Wings fans!
- Ages: 3+
- Available: Toys "R" Us
Lion Guard Training Lair Playset (Just Play)
- Recreate the adventures of Disney Junior's The Lion Guard with this 3-foot tall play set, full of lights, sounds and secret surprise features, including a pop-out cross bow, light-up waterfall, and break-away doors.
- The play set comes with a rock climbing area, a bungee launcher, a race track, and a telescoping look-out perch.
- A real-working zip line, rock lift, and boulder drop round out the action.
- The set also comes with two exclusive figures, Kion and Janja, to play out the Lion Guard adventures.
- Ages: 3+
- Available: Toys "R" Us
- The BOSEbuild Speaker Cube uses high-quality parts and materials for durability. It's easy to build, too. Its instructions involve discovery and education – from how a simple magnet and coil make sound, to how a speaker reproduces music.
- The coaching is delivered through a free companion app that combines step-by-step guidance with hands-on interaction, confirming success along the way until the Speaker Cube is fully assembled.
- Kids can add colored LED lights and silhouette covers, for a completely customized speaker.
- The Speaker Cube pairs to any smartphone or tablet, so kids can stream their favorite songs in an instant.
- Ages: 8+
- Available: Amazon, build.bose.com
Dreamworks Trolls Selfie Star Video Recording Microphone (eKids)
- Create the ultimate music video with this Dreamworks Trolls Selfie Star Video Recording Microphone!
- Connect your MP3 player or other audio device to record up to 4 songs at a time, then use the included App and Selfie Stick to make videos as you rock out with your friends!
- Includes the built-in song "Get Back Up Again"
- Decorate your selfies with stickers, troll hair, and more
- Ages: 8+
- Get ready to be doubled over with laughter with this ridiculous mouthpiece challenge game!
- The Speak Out game brings friends and family together for laugh-out-loud fun as players try to say different phrases while wearing a mouthpiece that won't let them shut their mouth.
- The laughter continues as players try to decipher what in the world their teammate is trying to say, and must correctly guess the phrase in order to earn the card.
- The team with the most cards at the end of the game wins.
- Ages: 16+
- Available: Amazon, Target, Toys "R" Us
Trolls Light-Up Super Coupe (Dynacraft)
- This 6V vehicle is hot pink with glitter graphics and features a Poppy hood ornament with Troll hair.
- It has a working horn with racing sounds, working multicolor headlights, and easy-to-use pedal acceleration.
- With an MP3 input and loudspeakers, this vehicle can drive up to 2.5 mph.
- Ages: 3+
- Available: Amazon, Toys "R" Us


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The CAI President's Club was created in 1984 as a special fundraising organization of dedicated volunteer leaders within Community Associations Institute. Members of the President's Club take great pride in those accomplishments directly attributable to their efforts and generosity.
The Club, whose members pay an initiation fee and an annual maintenance fee, reviews and approves applications to fund worthy CAI projects.
The mission of the President's Club is to:
View President's Club Members
Each and every member of the President's Club will gladly welcome your questions and your ideas concerning worthwhile ventures or your expressions of interest. Contact Jennifer Flynn at (888) 224-4321.


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Buying carpets online simply means variety to choose and saving time.From handmade carpets to shaggy carpets almost all variety carpets are available online in India.Purchasing carpets online is very easy and we recommend you to look through the online carpet specialty website and locate the kind of carpet you intend to buy. Today's advance technology helped the online customers to check the quality and texture of carpet almost like physical shopping like buying carpet store in Bazaar.
Understanding the making of carpet and different quality type helps online customers, what's the pile height?Density of carpet?How does it feel and are you getting value of money spend are the few question, which always bother to the online customer. To ensure that your carpet is handmade you must see the back of carpet. "When you flip the carpet, it must look most identical to the front. That's the easiest way to tell that it has been handmade". This is suggestion of http://www.carpetmantra.com for all online carpet buyers in India.
Now getting ready for the actual online shopping of carpets in India, so now you have many choices, decide on the configuration of your furniture and the on numbers of carpets and size of carpets required. A large carpet can create a cozy, intimate feel in ROOM.As a rule of thumb leave at least one foot around the perimeter of the room to create contrast between the floor and carpet.
Carpet specialty online store in India like http://www.carpetmantra.com show you a range of carpets at various price point. Picking wool, polyester and viscose blend over real silk will mitigate cost without sabotaging style. Consider a handmade carpet online in India over machine made and bring home a hand woven masterpiece. Good quality handmade carpets made to last lifetime so buy the best possible quality available online. And whether you love geometric, oriental or floral pattern, keeping in mind that your carpet do not have to be same color as your upholstery or curtains.If your window treatments are light blue, for instance your carpet doesn't have to be exactly same.The most important thing to keep in mind is that there are no rules and you can opt the carpet you live the best.
You should buy the best carpet, which you can afford. Look for the quality natural material like wool.A high -quality wool carpet will wear well and even look better over time."Wool has the capacity to develop its own patina through exposure to light and air feet walking on it. The most important consideration in buying a carpet is finding something that "has a beating heart and going to please you every time you are looking at it.
Looking for high -quality handmade carpets with unique design online in India? http://www.carpetmantra.comis just place for you. We provide wide range of designs, which suits your decorating needs. Find your favorite color and choose a pattern from our huge collection of design and enjoy that unique experience of indulging your artistic inclination.We also provide online consultation to our customer to help them achieve the perfect balance of function and elegance for their homes and offices.


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When they approached the 18th hole during a charity game Golf Tournament at King Valley Golf Club in King City last summer, participants did a double take. A helicopter was parked on the fairway back tee deck of a par 3. Its owner, NovaJet, was offering a trip to NYC for any golfer who could sink a hole-in-one.
That promotion was a great opportunity for the Toronto-based company, which provides private jet charter, management, and acquisition services, says its president and chief executive officer, Philip Babbitt. "It gave us the opportunity to help raise money for KRG Children's Charitable Foundation and, at the same time, raise awareness of our brand."
Babbitt views golf as an effective business tool in many regards. "Playing golf is a great way to decompress throughout the week," says Babbitt, an avid golfer who is a member of Rattlesnake Point Golf Club in Milton which, like King Valley Golf Club, is owned by ClubLink. "On a professional level, my colleagues and I use golf to build relationships with existing and potential clients and vendors."
Babbitt is not alone.
In an American study examining the relationship between golf and business, 93 per cent of executives surveyed believed playing golf with a business associate was a good way to establish a closer relationship. More than 30 per cent of executives reported that some of their biggest deals had been made on the golf course.
Participants spend just a small portion of an afternoon golf game actually hitting the ball, so they have a lot of time to talk shop. Says Babbitt: "In what other circumstance do you have a captive audience for five full hours such a sustained amount of time?"
Babbitt also sees golf as a great team-building exercise for his employees. Applauding the good shots and laughing about the bad ones is a great bonding experience.
Handicap system allows everyone to compete
Almost half of the 401 executives surveyed in the American study agreed that "the way a person plays golf is very similar to how he or she conducts business affairs." Many executives believe that, during a golf game, you can see how well a person is able to cope with pressure and think strategically.
Some even view golf as a test of character.
"In a short period of time, you can find out more about the integrity and focus of an individual than in any kind of interview setting," an executive from Hyatt Hotels Corporation, which sponsored the study, told The New York Times. Needless to say, a golfer who moves the ball to get a better lie or fails to count a missed tap-in won't impress his associates.
Golf is also a great business tool because people of all ages and fitness levels can take part. "Tennis can be fun but if the 65-year-old boss of the company you're trying to sell widgets to dies of a heart attack running for your power serve, it probably won't help your business. Boxing is even worse," The Economist's business editor wrote in 2011.
Another bonus is that the handicap system enables participants of varying skill levels to compete against each other.
Even those who have never swung a golf club before can get in on the action — almost all clubs offer lessons for beginners — and statistics suggest they should.
A study conducted by economists at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona in 2010 determined that chief executive officers who played golf well earned 17 per cent more on average than those who played poorly or not at all.
For those who want to get ahead at work, it's time to tee up.
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He's Baaaaaaack!
Today I'm thankful that I know I've made the right decision. It's been over a month now that Aidan has been off of his seizure meds. He's back and ready to party. While I knew the meds made him a zombie, I didn't realize how much I felt like they stole him from me until I had him back. Aidan is so much more alert and his giggle is in full swing. He doesn't particularly like to sit still anymore as anytime he sees me he reaches out his hands to say, "Let's walk somewhere, mom." This kid wants to move, see, do and I love it.
I feel like I'm back as well. Aidan still has frequent seizures but I'm not counting them so they're not constantly on my mind. While I know things may get worse in the future, I fully intend to enjoy the present while I can. It's less stressful all around.


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Recently, Producer G. K. Reddy, father of actor Vishal had announced that his son will soon get married to Anisha from Hyerabad. Whether it is an arranged or a love marriage is still a highly debated question in Kollywood.
Vishal has reacted on twitter to the false reports that were made on his marriage by tweeting, "Wondering how certain articles can carry wrong news and wrong details about my marriage.pls rectify. Not fair. This is my personal life and will be more than happy to announce all details about my marriage officially and happily Soooooon. God bless".
Since the construction works of the Nadigar Sangam building is almost done, we could soon expect good news from actor Vishal 'officially'.


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MSS News: Week of 11/14/16
Submit it on November 14th or 15th
The MSS Talent Show Art Gallery will display student drawings, paintings, collages, and sculptures in the main hallway.
DUE DATE: Bring your best work of art to the MSS auditorium at 8:40am on Monday, November 14 or Tuesday, November 15
RULES: Drawings, paintings, collages must be no bigger than 18 x 24 inches; sculptures no bigger than 9 x 12 x 12 inches.
ALL SUBMISSIONS WILL BE DISPLAYED! The MSS Talent Show Art Gallery will display your work in the main hallway November 17 - November 22.
Please fill out the following information NEATLY, and return it when you drop off your artwork (MSS auditorium at 8:40am on Monday November 14 or Tuesday November 15):
The Talent Show Art Gallery will be on display from November 17th through November 22nd in the MSS main hallway.
Art Gallery questions, contact Rob Firpo-Cappiello at email@example.com
The Talent Show is on Thursday November 17th at 7pm. Come enjoy the show and celebrate our talented students. Note there will be a combined 4th/5th grade show. Tickets on sale now!
Ticket sale questions contact Dympna Kenny at email@example.com.
Talent show questions, contact Jen Williams at email@example.com or Andy Perrone at email@example.com.
Paul Klee
In its 13th year in the Irvington School District, the PTSA's Eyes on Art Program is excited to present in November, German Abstract Artist Paul Klee and in February, American Realist Painter Edward Hopper.
The parent volunteers in this program are trained to provide biographical and historical information, instruct the children about the elements of art and analyze with the children how artists use these elements of art in their paintings to convey a message.
In conjunction with the presentation, the children also do an art project inspired by the particular artist. The children are given a bookmark with images of the paintings they analyze.
Please visit: http://www.irvingtonnyptsa.org/eyes-on-art.html so you can share biographical information on the artist and a word search with your children. Also provided is a list of current art exhibitions in the New York Metro area.
For more information about this program, you may contact Robin Price Powell, Director, Eyes on Art at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wednesday, November 16th
Join us on Wednesday November 16th, 7pm-9pm at MSS for the Parent-Child Book Club.
Read a book with your child and join our book club discussion groups. Books available for purchase from the MSS librarian, please contact Jackie Richardson with questions: email@example.com
Friday, November 18th
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Saturday, December 3
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The houses are for the signature event at the Irvington Winter Festival. We look forward to seeing you at MSS on Saturday, December 3 from 12-3!
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Kirsty Lang ... described the shortlisting process as "arbitrary". "Once you've whittled the books down and got rid of the obvious crap it becomes a question of taste, and books affect people differently ... there are books on this list that some judges hated."
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Test or Taste?
6 comments:
- Frances said...
Its rather depressing when even the judges are making comments like that.Aren't they supposed to at least feign enthusiasm?
- 6:56 pm
- Elizabeth Baines said...
Personally, I think it's best if they're honest and admit that their choices can only ever be a matter of personal taste. I congratulate Lang for saying this.
- 9:15 pm
I agree with you Elizabeth--but how they could have left out Pat Barker's new book is beyond me--No accounting for taste I guess. :-)
Beau in Seattle
- 7:20 pm
- nmj said...
I find her honesty refreshing too. We have all, at one time, wanted to throw a prize-winning book across the room, and say, Why the hell did this win?
- 5:29 pm
- Elizabeth Baines said...
Exactly, Nasim
- 9:41 pm
- Vanessa Gebbie said...
This topic deserves a bigger space.
But she is reflecting exactly what both judges said last year at Bridport.
That the last few pieces will all be technically strong, and any could win. But rather like being faced with a bowl of perfect fruit... you eat today what appeals today, and tomorrow what appeals tomorrow. Today I fancy a banana. Tomorrow I may want grapes.
So it IS taste, but the fruit bowl contains excellent specimens of grapes, bananas, oranges, Kiwifruit, apples, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries...
and you can only eat one.
- 7:48 am


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The premiere episode of season six of Mad Men opens with a man being resuscitated. A woman – Megan, it turns out – screams in the background as CPR is performed. We see this from the point-of-view of the one being ministered to. Who is dying? Is it Don, we wonder as the season opens.
Cut to a shot of Don on a beach in Hawaii, reading Dante's Inferno. A voiceover of Don reading connects the opening of this season to the conclusion of season five:
"Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and awoke to find myself alone in a dark wood…"
Inferno – literally Hell – is a curious book to read in a paradise like Hawaii, but this is Mad Men, and so it is that we find Don reading a book about the acknowledgement of and turning away from sin.
At the end of last season, Don gave Megan what she wanted – a leg up in her acting career – perhaps to assuage any guilt that may accompany his future actions, and as he wanders into a bar and orders his customary Old Fashioned, he is propositioned by a pretty young woman – "Are you alone?" he is asked.
But Don is not literally alone. Megan is with him on the beach, and as she chats him up, he notices that his watch has stopped working. Has time stopped? Is Don dead? Is time running out?
Aside from the voiceover, Don says almost nothing for the first few scenes of the episode. Hawaii seems surreal and strange, and Don seems off kilter. He and Megan smoke pot. They go to a touristy luau. Megan is now a recognizable TV star, having landed a spot on a soap opera called To Have and to Hold – she signs an autograph for an elderly fan as Don watches.
Later, Don can't sleep and goes down to the hotel bar, where he is befriended by a drunken GI who is about to get married (the kid looks a lot like a young Roger Sterling). Don tries to blow the kid off, especially when the GI asks him to give the bride away. The GI – PFC Dinkins – tells Don, "I believe in what goes around comes around. One day I'm going to be a veteran in paradise. I'm going to be the man who can't sleep and talks to strangers." This does something do Don, and he agrees to give away the bride, whose family is back in San Diego.
A few hours later, Megan wakes-up alone, and ends up finding Don with Dinkins, the bride, the best man, and a minister.
Meanwhile, back in New York on the upper Hudson River, Betty and her mother-in-law Pauline, and Sally and a girlfriend named Sandy attend a performance of The Nutcracker. It's Christmas 1968.
Later, back at the stately Francis home, Sally lets everyone know that Sandy, a gifted 15-year-old violinist, will be starting Julliard in the coming spring semester. The family encourages Sandy to play, and as she does, Betty notices that everyone, including snotty little Bobby, is transfixed by the beauty of the music.
As Betty and Henry get ready for bed, they talk about Sandy. Betty suggests that Henry go into her room and rape her, reminding him that he's been wanting to spice things up. She says she'll even hold her arms down. Henry's shocked response causes Betty to offer to take Sally and leave, if her presence might ruin the mood for him. "You can stick a rag in her mouth, and you won't wake the boys." she says.
It's such a weird thing to say for many reasons, the least of which is that it's totally out of character for Betty to joke around like this. What's going on with Betty? Is she finally going off the deep end?
Later, Betty comes down to the kitchen, presumably to get a late-night snack, and finds Sandy there alone. Betty comments on her efforts to slim down, and Sandy encourages to be happy with the way she is. "You're beautiful," she tells Betty, who likes the flattery.
Betty tries to connect with Sandy through the fact they are both motherless, telling Sandy she's happy to include her in the Francis family. Sandy confides in Betty, telling her that she didn't get accepted to Julliard, but hasn't told Sally. Behaving like the teenage girl she is – and sounding not unlike Betty – Sandy laments the ruination of her life, letting Betty know that at 15, she's old for a prodigy.
Betty tries to cheer her up by telling her that there are other colleges. "Sure," Sandy says. "You go to college. You meet a boy. You drop out. You get married, struggle for a year in New York while he learns to tie a tie. Then you move out to the country and start the disaster all over." It's a ten second summation of Betty's life, and she asks Sandy why she keeps insulting her.
Sandy shifts gears and talks about Greenwich Village, and how the people there are different. This is just after the Summer of Love, and she references articles she's read, as well as a visit she made to the Village alone. She tries to pull Betty into her idyll by letting her know that Sally has told her about Betty's experience as a model, living in the Village herself. "It was different back then," Betty says, the generation gap opening up. "People are naturally democratic if you give them the chance," Sandy says, opening Betty up for the best joke of the episode. "Are you on dope?"
This exchange fuels a strange connection between Betty and Sandy, and though Betty is old enough to be Sandy's mother, and behaves like one, there's more of a peer-to-peer feeling about them.
Don and Megan arrive home from Hawaii, and we learn that the man being resuscitated at the beginning of the episode may have been Jonesy, the doorman at Don's building. As they enter the building, there's a flashback to Jonesy having a heart attack at their feet just before the holidays. A neighbor, Dr. Arnold Rosen, happens upon the scene and saves Jonesy's life. Don does next to nothing, and watches the scene in shock.
The flashback over, Jonesy presents himself as a good-natured, gregarious man, familiar with the tenants' private lives. He hands Megan an envelope containing a new script for her TV show. Megan gripes about only being included in one scene, as Don grouses about the way the apartment has been kept by the maid in their absence. Rather than coming home from paradise relaxed, these two are agitated and restless.
Next, we catch up with Peggy. As Don and Megan arrive home from Hawaii, Peggy and Abe arrive home from a night out at vegetarian restaurant, which sends Abe running to the bathroom with the runs.
The phone rings. It's Bert Peterson, a co-worker at the agency informing Peggy that a client – Koss Headphones – is worried about a set a comedian performed on The Tonight Show. Peggy wrote an ad that plays on the Shakespeare line from Julius Caesar, "…lend me your ears." As this campaign is building steam, a controversy in Vietnam erupts over an American soldier making a necklace of the ears of killed North Vietnamese soldiers. The client is terrified of the connection between the ad and the scandal, and wants something done about it.
The conversation ends with Bert urging Peggy to reach out to Ted, the head of the agency, who is on a religious retreat in Colorado with his wife.
This conflict puts Peggy in the spotlight where her progress is contrasted against Don, who will have troubles of his own. Ted is unreachable, and Peggy will have to call the shots on how to solve the problem with the client.
The next morning, Don runs into the doctor – Arnold Rosen – who saved Jonesy. They are neighbors, and we quickly get the sense that they are friendly acquaintances when Don invites Arnie over to the office to pick up a free Leica camera.
A fourth storyline involves Roger's mortality. We find him on a couch in his psychologist's office, mid-conversation, discussing a woman who is not a natural blonde. The first thing that struck me about the scene was that it was over-acted. Was this on purpose? Was it meant to show that Roger is performing for his doctor, or was it just a rare misstep by John Slattery? I'll go with the former, since there are some delightful exchanges between the two men, with Roger's doctor reminding him that he can't laugh at all his jokes. It's a wonderful picture of how humor is often a defense against pain – in this case, Roger's frustration with the way his life is going.
"What are the events of life?" Roger asks. "You see a door, and the first time you come to it you say, 'Oh, what's on the other side?' You open a few and say, 'I'm going to go over a bridge. I'm tired of doors.' Finally, you come out the other side and you realize that's all there is – doors and windows and bridges and gates. And they all open the same way. And they all close behind you. Look, life is supposed to be a path, and you go along and thee things happen and they are supposed to change you. Change your direction. But it turns out it's not true. It turns out the experiences are nothing. They're just some pennies you pick off the floor and put them in your pocket, and you're going in a straight line to you-know-where." This marvelous confession reads like the book of Ecclesisates – that life without God/higher purpose – i.e. Roger's hedonistic way of living – is meaningless. The doctor asks Roger what he's afraid of, but Roger won't cop to any fear – only that he's numb and can feel nothing. He hates where he's ended up, and there's a sense that what he calls numbness is really emptiness.
Don has another elevator encounter, this time with a new character – Bob Benson. With Pete and Ken and Harry ten years into their careers, Bob is the new them. He's fresh out of the Wharton School of Business and as ambitious as Lucifer – a better looking Pete Campbell. He follows Don off the elevator, schmoozing and butt-kissing all the way into the writer's room where Stan and Ginsberg and a couple new copywriters are already at work. After he's ignored, Bob slinks off to wherever he came from, leaving Don to face the teasing and well wishes of his admiring team.
Stan is bearded now and looks like Zach Galifianakis. Ginsberg has longer hair and a hideous moustache that reminds me of Schnieder on One Day At A Time. The other copywriters, a man and a woman, are on familiar terms with Don. In the background, a man in a blue sweater vest sleeps on a couch. It seems like the work-loving Don has stuck around, having won the Jaguar account, and his team seems motivated and close-knit in the way that hard work and success will make unlikely friendships possible.
Stan asks Don if he has anything for him that he can use for the Sheraton pitch, which is coming up later in the week. Don has nothing substantive. "I had an experience," Don tells him. "I don't know how to put it into words."
Don leaves the team to their work, and as he approaches the desk of Ms. Chambers, his secretary, we notice the staircase to the upper floor, another symbol of the success of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Additionally, a photographer is taking publicity shots of the executive team, with Pete Campbell posing mid-way up the staircase. Pete is sideburned, and his hairline has receded, giving him an older, more mature look. A mini-skirted secretary completes the picture, letting us know that we are far removed from the 1950's feel that accompanied the premiere of the show. Even Roger has a slightly shaggier appearance, leaving Don and Joan stuck in their old-school uniforms.
Don catches up with bunch. Pete whines, Joan flirts, and Roger gets in his quips, referring to Don as Don Ho. Harry arrives in the middle of this exchange, modish and crabby, and climbs the stairs to his office, bitching and complaining.
Don moves on to his office, where he's irritated by an impromptu rearrangement of his office furniture by the photographer. Despite everything going like gangbusters, Don is ill at ease, and as he stares out his office window, we get a clue to where his mind is when we hear the sound of waves crashing.
Peggy meets with Bert Peterson and the executive from Koss. She tries to dance around the controversy, hoping to stay the course, but the client won't be swayed. He wants a new ad that won't remind prospects of the Vietnam controversy. It's a tense meeting, but the client likes Peggy and the work the agency has done, and gives her time to come up with a solution.
Bert again urges Peggy to do whatever she has to do to get Ted involved. We can feel Peggy's pressure, and when she does try to get through to Ted, it calls back other times when Don was there to solve her problems for her. Ted's absence forces Peggy to go it alone, to do what she's been trained by Don to do.
Back at SCDP, Don is immersed in a meeting with his team, reviewing work they've done in his absence. Ever the stern taskmaster, Don applies his high standards unsentimentally, ripping the substandard work to shreds.
Side Note: The difference between Don and Peggy, at this point, is that Don's hectoring comes across as tough love, where Peggy's is detached and impersonal, alienating her from her team. She still has a long way to go.
Arnie Rosen shows up in the middle of Don lecturing the team and hangs back to watch him work. It's Don being Don, and Rosen seems to relish the moment he's stumbled upon. When Don notices Rosen, he concludes his meeting and shows Rosen around the office, obviously trying to impress. "Welcome to my hospital," he tells him. Rose is impressed, too, telling Don, "If I talked like you and looked like that, I wouldn't have had to go to medical school." Don shrugs off the compliment, but Rosen goes on, confessing that he had hoped that Don didn't have brains to go along with his good looks. It's a mutual admiration society – a rare instance where Don is vulnerable with another man, a guy who could be a friend, something we haven't really seen with Don.
Don gives Rosen the promised Leica, and they discuss upcoming New Year's Eve plans their wives are making. Don invites Rosen to lunch, but Rosen has surgery that afternoon. Rosen parts, thanking Don for the toy.
Roger's morning (and a phone call to one of his girl friends) is blown apart by an interruption from Caroline, his secretary, who bursts in to tell him that his mother has passed away. Upon delivering this news, Caroline falls to pieces, leaving Roger to console her, explaining that at 91 years old, it was hardly a shock. "For 20 years she's been saying it's her last Christmas," he tells her. When she asks him what to do, he tells her to take it to Joan, who will know what to do about the arrangements. Caroline takes a drink that Roger has poured for her and drinks it in one gulp before drying her tears and returning to her desk. Once she's gone, Roger raises his glass, looks heavenward, and says "Cheers."
Finally, it's time for Don's photo. The photographer, enamored with Don, decides to abandon his usual approach and go for an action-oriented shot. He has Don leave his sleeves rolled up and tells him to be himself, which for Don Draper is always a loaded remark. Don lights a cigarette, and as he snaps the lighter shut, he looks down and notices that the lighter isn't his, but PFC Dinkins's, the soldier he met in Hawaii. An inscription on it reads, "In life we often have to do things that just aren't our bag." This discovery catches Don off guard and sends him into a tailspin. While this is happening, the photographer tells Don to be himself. Don's having picked up another soldier's lighter is an echo of Don having assumed another soldier's identity and then building another new identity on top of that, so that when Don is urged to be himself, it's a complicated matter.
The following day, Betty finds Sally eating in the kitchen, and when she reminds her that Sandy is coming for lunch, Sally informs Betty that Sandy won't be coming. She's left early for Julliard. Kiernan Shipka continues to deliver wonderful performances as the put-upon Sally Draper, making you want to wring her neck at her over-dramatic responses to every comment uttered by her family.
This news sends Betty into a tailspin, and she goes to Sally's room, takes a photo of Sally and Sandy, and leaves to go looking for her – a journey that takes her to the East Village.
Betty on St. Mark's Place is a study in contrasts. The neighborhood is bombed out and populated by scruffy young people. She looks every bit the suburban housewife, and sticks out like a sore thumb. She asks passersby if they've seen Sandy, but no one will talk to her.
Finally, a couple of guys stop and look at the photo, but deny having seen Sandy. They enter an abandoned building. When Betty asks if she can come in, they tell her the door is always open.
Betty is shocked at the squalor of the living conditions of the flophouse, but over time, offers to help the boys cook goulash with pilfered groceries. Again, even though Betty could be their mother, it's as if she, like Sandy, is the fresh-faced kid, experiencing something wondrous and new.
Finally, the leader of this band of dropouts – Zow – shows up with Sandy's violin case, and when Betty confronts him, he attacks her middle-class values, accusing her of casting kids like him and Sandy off, treating them like garbage. This angers Betty, and she fights back, telling Zow that what he doesn't understand is that she's on a reclamation mission. She wants Sandy.
Unswayed, Zow lands a solid punch when he calls Betty a bottled blonde and tells her he doesn't like her life any more than she does. This said, Betty takes the violin case and leaves, except that just before she walks out of the house, she puts the case down, abandoning it.
Back home, Betty attempts to talk to Sally, who is on the phone and shuts her bedroom door to get some privacy. She then goes to Henry, who is in bed and curious about where she's been. She keeps her adventure a secret.
On the day of Roger's mother's funeral, Don sleeps in. Megan wakes him to let him know she's leaving for the studio. After she is gone, Don sits up and sees the lighter on his nightstand. He picks it up, then walks over and drops it in a wastebasket.
At the funeral, held in Roger's mother's house, Roger is fawned over by friends of his mother and relatives – spectral old women not far from the grave themselves. Ex-wives Mona and Jane show up. Roger welcomes Jane warmly, rejecting her offer to return his mother's wedding ring. Mona's arrival is marred by the presence of a new man, whom Roger doesn't like.
SCDP is represented by Pete, Ken, and Harry…and Bob Benson. Benson's presence is announced by caterers, who show up with a big spread that is accompanied by a card of condolence by the scheming newcomer. The card is read aloud, and not knowing who Benson is, Roger tells the caterers to take the food to the kitchen.
Ken attempts to break the tension with small talk, asking Pete and Harry if their mothers are still alive. It's in the middle of this conversation that Don shows up drunk. Pete, already annoyed at Harry's horniness, chastises Don by asking him how many funerals he's already been to that day. Ken, ever the peace-maker, asks Don about whether his mother is still alive. This unwelcome reminder of who he really is causes Don to retreat to the other side of the room to watch the proceedings.
Before Roger can begin the service, a friend of his mother's butts-in and demands to speak. She reads a prepared statement that testifies to the love Roger's mother had for him, how he was the center of her universe. Right on cue, Don throws up in the corner, disrupting the eulogy. Pete and Ken and Harry whisk Don away, but the spell has been broken and Roger uses the incident as an excuse to behave like the spoiled little boy he really is and berate Mona for daring to bring this rival to "my funeral."
That said, Roger tells everyone the party is over and demands that they all leave immediately. When no one makes a move to do so, he runs out of the parlor and upstairs to his old room.
Later, Mona comes to Roger, who is feeling sorry for himself, and tries to comfort him, assuring him that everyone there loved him and worried about how he felt about them. This cheers him up, and he makes a pass, which Mona brushes aside. She encourages him to spend more time with their daughter Margaret.
Later, Roger goes back downstairs to find Margaret sitting alone in the parlor. He sits with her, and they have a good talk. Roger shows her a jar containing water from the River Jordan, which his father brought home from one of his trips. Roger was baptized with this water, as was Margaret. He's feeling nostalgic. Sensing an opportunity, Margaret makes a pitch for Roger to invest in a company that her husband Brooks is backing. The company has made an advancement in refrigeration technology, making it possible to ship produce cross-country so that folks on the east coast can have fresh fruit and vegetables from the west coast. Roger agrees to take a look, provided Brooks can put something in writing for him. Margaret happily agrees, and gives him a big, happy kiss. Once again, Roger is buying happiness. He can't help himself.
Pete and Ken and Harry get Don back to his building, where they meet Jonesy, who asks if Don is okay. Don asks Jonesy about the day he nearly died, wanting to know if he saw anything. Jonesy's cheerful mask melts away, and he tries to avoid Don's line of questioning, telling Don that the doctor said he wasn't really dead. "I saw it," Don says. "You were dead. What did you see?"
"I don't like to think about it," Jonesy says.
"You must've seen something."
"I don't know…there was a light."
"Was it hot, tropical sunshine?"
"I don't know."
"Did you hear the ocean?"
Finally, the guys get him into an elevator and apologize to a bewildered Jonesy, who has probably never seen Mr. Draper out of control.
Later, Megan returns to find Don as she left him, except for the suit and shoes which are strewn all over the bedroom floor. She tells him that they have expanded her role on the soap opera, except that she'll be playing a villain. Don congratulates her. "So, you'll love me if I'm a lying, cheatin, whore?" she asks.
As she gets up to get something to eat, she hands Don the lighter, which the maid found in the garbage. This lighter has become like a ghost – a reminder of what? His inauthenticity? His paradise lost in Hawaii?
Peggy works late, as usual, and Abe shows up with food. When he asks what she's working on, she explains that it's a trick Don taught her – she's writing a letter to a fictitious friend, telling her how good the Koss headphones are. Her writers bring her some new ideas, and after she dresses them down for bringing her work that "looks like cowardice," Abe calls her out for being mean. When he puts on the headphones and starts rocking out to whatever music he hears, Peggy is inspired by an idea.
At the office the next day, Pete reminds Don of the Sheraton pitch, and when Don tries to postpone it, Pete won't let him. Don then finds Ms. Chambers and asks her to locate PFC Dinkins and send him the lighter. When she asks if she should send a note, he tells her not to, that it was something he found and wants to return to its rightful owner. Nothing more.
Roger returns to his shrink, and complains about Mona and Margaret, that all they do is guilt him and take his money. But that's not his real gripe. He explains to his doctor that "all I'm going to be doing from here on is losing everything." His doctor tells him he feels lost. "I don't feel anything," Roger says. "Life will eventually end, and someone else'll get the bill." It's a bleak outlook.
As Ken shows up at the office, he notices Bob Benson sitting on a couch at the receptionist's desk. At first, Ken ignores him, and he thinks better of it. He turns to Bob, who immediately goes into suck-up mode. Ken asks him how his catering business is going. When Bob expresses confusion, Ken calls him out on his stunt with the funeral – sending the food. "It was too much," Ken tells him. "Almost like you were invited. You weren't." He does Bob a favor by telling him exactly what he's doing wrong. It'll be interesting to see if Bob takes the advice.
It's interesting to see Pete and Harry and Ken as they assume more senior roles within the company. Pete looks older. Harry seems curmudgeonly, despite the trendy looks. And Ken seems to be taking his career more seriously. Is he still writing? What about Corning? Is he over that? Gone are the frat-house antics. These guys are approaching 30, and are dealing with the pressures of family, homeownership, and fighting off a younger generation of hungry upstarts like Bob Benson. As Mad Men is primarily about identity, it will be interesting to see how these guys adjust to this new phase of their lives and careers.
At the Sheraton pitch, there are two representatives from Sheraton. From SCDP it's Don, Roger, Pete, and Stan. Don leads the pitch, as usual, and he begins by describing the feeling that has stayed with him since returning from Hawaii. It's vague, and he tells the Sheraton guys they aren't selling a location, but an experience. An experience that makes you glad to be away from home. That doesn't cause you to be the least bit homesick. He nails it with the tagline – "Hawaii, the jumping off point."
Stan reveals the artwork – a suit and tie and shoes lying on the beach; a pair of bare footprints trailing off to the water. He goes on to explain that Hawaiian legend has it that the soul can enter and leave the body, but that it usually happens from a leeward point into the waves.
This confuses the clients, who want to know where the man went, did he commit suicide, and why there aren't any photos of the hotel or Diamond Head in the ad. It's a rare whiff by Don, and perhaps the reason has to do with how he's been affected by the trip, by PFC Dinkins, and what it reminds him of. This ad seems to be more about Don that it does Sheraton.
The more Don tries to justify the ad, the worse the situation gets until Pete whisks the clients away with promises to make a second try at getting it right.
After Pete and the clients leave, Roger gets in a zinger on Don. "What's the matter? You didn't get all your vomiting done at my mother's funeral?" Don apologizes again for the gaffe, and Roger waves him off, telling him he didn't miss anything.
Don turns to Stand and asks him if the ad reminds him of suicide. "Of course," Stan tells him. "That's what's so great about it."
"You know, we sold actual death with Lucky Strike for 25 years," Roger says. "You know how we did it? We ignored it." It's a statement that applies to their lives as well as Lucky Strike.
Sally complains to Henry that she wants to go somewhere for New Year's Eve. As Henry is punting on a decision, Betty enters, a newly minted brunette. Henry gasps. Sally laughs. Bobby tells her he hates it and that she's ugly. Henry collects himself, and hugs her and asks Elizabeth Taylor what she's done with his wife. The bottled blonde comment by Zow must have really hit home. But where is Betty going with this change? Is she giving up on being Princess Grace, or is she truly going au natural and strive to be the real Betty, whoever that is?
Roger receives one more bit of bad news from Caroline. It turns out that Giorgio, the shoeshine guy Roger was looking for on the day of the photo shoot, has died. His family sent Giorgio's shoeshine kit to Roger because he was the only person to ask about him. Caroline hands him the shoeshine kit, and he takes it to his office. Alone, he opens the kit and looks at the meager possessions – the tools of one man's trade that are all that is left behind in the wake of his death. Something about them breaks through that numb façade Roger's been hiding behind, and he breaks down in tears.
On New Year's Eve, Peggy and her team work as though it's any other night. Peggy and Stan are on the phone, having their usual late-night chats while each burns the midnight oil at their respective offices. They gossip and bitch, and in the middle of this conversation, Ted walks in, dressed for a party. Peggy sets the receiver down on her desk without hanging up, allowing Stan to hear the conversation that follows.
Ted says that since he heard four people were working on New Year's Eve, he felt like he needed to make an appearance. He apologizes for not being available for Peggy during her Koss crisis, explaining that it turns out her works too much. Peggy lets him know that she figured out the problem, and that everything will be okay. Ted asks why her underlings are still there on New Year's Eve if the big crisis has been averted. It's a gentle admonishment, but a criticism that isn't new to her.
Peggy shows Ted the work. It's from an outtake of a commercial shoot that was inspired by Abe's visit. Ted loves the new commercial, pronouncing it even better than the first. "It always takes a crisis to make work this good," he says. He piles on the praise by telling Peggy that she's always good in a crisis.
Appearance made, Ted wishes Peggy a happy New Year then leaves for his party. When Peggy picks up the receiver, Stan is still there. "He likes you," he says, laughing.
Don and Megan host a party to ring in 1969. Arnold and Sylvia Rosen are there, as is another couple from the building – Dave and Kathy. The couples obviously don't know each other very well, and ask basic getting-to-know-you kinds of questions. It's a setting that has never suited Don very well.
As Megan switches fondue courses, she has Don get out the slides from their vacation. It's such a 1960's move, and one that calls back the chilling conclusion to season one – Don's Carousel pitch to Kodak – except that Don is mute during this presentation.
Later, after Dave and Kathy have gone home, the Drapers and Rosens enjoy themselves so much fun they miss midnight altogether. While they do a round of celebratory shots, the phone rings. It's Arnold's service, calling him in for emergency surgery. Don offers to walk him downstairs, saying he needs to buy a pack of cigarettes.
Don and Arnold end up in the storage area of the building, looking for Arnold's cross-country skis. Don asks Arnold what it's like having someone's life in his hands. Arnold tells him it's an honor and privilege to be trusted with that responsibility. He also tells Don to quit smoking.
As Arnold makes his way to the door to leave, he turns and tells Don, "The whole life and death thing doesn't bother me. Never has. Guys like us, that's why we get paid…people will go anything to alleviate their anxiety." Don watches him ski into a driving snow.
Don seems to really like and respect Arnold, which makes the next scene difficult to reconcile. Instead of returning to his apartment, Don goes to the back entrance of Arnold's apartment, where Arnold's wife Sylvia waits and leads him to bed.
In the bedroom, Sylvia asks Don if he read her Dante. He tells her that it reminded him of her, a comment that she doesn't quite know how to take. Don tells her it's beautiful. After a quiet moment, she asks him what he wants in the new year. "I want to stop doing this," he tells her. It's a flat statement, nearly whispered. "I know," she tells him, not understanding that Don's statement isn't about them leaving their spouses for each other, but something much deeper. Don's statement seems to be more about that jumping off place, and this season promises to take us there.
Early the next morning, Don goes back to his place and slips into bed with Megan, who has a script in bed with her. They wish each other a happy new year as Don Ho sings.
Don and Betty and Roger and Peggy are at a jumping off point. Who else will join them? Who will follow-through, and who will chicken out or not make it?


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Firstly (because I'm so eager to show it off!):
Wedding cake! My old high-school bestie got married at the weekend and asked if I would do the cake as a wedding gift. I'll confess that I got really stressed out about it as it all became rather last minute but I got there in the end so super happy!
My other big time consuming task was gala day dresses for my niece and her fellow Bauer girl. They started off like this:
I'm not sure who I blame most - my 12 year old niece and classmate for deciding that they were too old for kids clothes, or their parents who let them buy the dresses. Either way, as you can see my pre-pubescent niece suddenly (to her absolute horror) had a dress giving her gigantic boobs (and they really were gigantic on her). As usual, the buy was last minute so they had no other option other than to ask me if I could do something to fix it and make the girls presentable to the public.
So this happened:
Missy found that the boob made a good skull cap. The dresses were basically demolished. The only seams not ripped open were those holding the loops for the ribbon back. My hubby did ask if I would have been quicker making the dresses from scratch, to which the sad answer was yes, it would have been quicker.
Anyway, the 12+ hours effort paid off:
I was at the above mentioned wedding, so missed the gala day, but I was reliably informed that the dresses held up well and that both girls were very happy with them!
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I kind of enjoy shopping but I'm not one to purchase big ticket items except for maybe the geeky stuff. I would splurge any day over a new gadget such as tablet/e-reader/camera than to get a Miu Miu. I think to date, the only branded thing I own is probably my 21st Kate Spade wallet from my JC besties.
I'm in between sizes so it gets kind of annoying for me when I purchase clothes. I got this cutie when I was in Hanoi. So in places such as Bugis Street where you aren't allowed to try clothes, I'll whip my ladybug out for a quick measure. It's super useful in Bangkok too.
My grandma tends to nag at me whenever I purchase new things. It is pretty amazing how alert and sharp her mind is when she puts her mind to it. I need to be especially sneaky these days. Well, my wardrobe now kinda looks like Niagara falls of cloths and I own… maybe 6 pairs of boots.
The trick is smuggling and no plastic bags! I'll usually stuff my new loots into my bag that I'm carrying. When I do online shopping, I'll have them send to my bestie's place or to my office. With shoes, it tends to get a little trickier. I've learnt that the key is to come home super late and quietly, hide the shoebox and plastic bag somewhere and place the new shoes in the shoe cupboard so it looked like it belonged there all the while.
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Four Million Chevys Sold in China
Ten years ago, America's iconic bowtie brand was imported to the People's Republic of China. Since then, there have been four million Chevys sold in China, a milestone that speaks to the explosion of the Chinese auto industry. It's a market boom that's been fueled by increased wages and inflated savings, and Shanghai GM has taken full advantage of it.
With a record 717,000 Chevrolet vehicles sold in the country last year, China has become the automaker's second largest market, with America obviously still occupying the top spot. Although it began with just two, Shanghai GM has expanded its Chevy lineup to 12 models over the course of a decade, and now includes the Sail, Cruze, Malibu, Captiva, Trax and Camaro.
With 280 locations across the country, Chevrolet has also made its Chinese presence felt by offering the Gold Bowtie aftersales service, and accruing over 100,000 Chevrolet UCLUB members and over one million MyChevy app subscribers.
In total, Shanghai GM sold 3.5 million vehicles in China in 2014 alone.


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Mitt Romney's tax plan is more complex than those of his current and erstwhile primary competitors. But in broad effect it accomplishes the conservative goal of dramatically lowering taxes on the wealthy at the expense of the lower and middle classes.
The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center crunched the numbers — part of a series of analyses the group has done of the GOP candidates' tax proposals — and found that the plan constitutes a major tax cut for wealthy Americans. But compared to today's rates, Romney proposes effective tax increases for people making less than $40,000.
Above that level, Romney's plan cuts taxes at greater rates for wealthier people. The average millionaire would thus pay $145,568 less in taxes in 2015 than they do today. Taken altogether, that makes the plan a budget buster, meaning greater deficits or deep cuts to federal programs.
Per TPC, "The Romney plan would reduce federal tax revenues substantially. TPC estimates that on a static basis, the Romney plan would lower federal tax liability by $600 billion in calendar year 2015 compared with current law, roughly a 16 percent cut in total projected revenue. Relative to a current policy baseline, the reduction in liability would be roughly $180 billion in calendar year 2015."


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MPN US Issue 9
Thermoforming player expands into the medical device arena
Dordan Manufacturing, a Woodstock, Illinois-based custom thermoform designer and manufacturer, is currently building an onsite and fully enclosed hardwall construction ISO Class 8 Cleanroom, signalling an expansion into medical device packaging. Read more
40 years on: PEEK has yet to peak
MPN recently had the opportunity to talk to John Devine PhD, Business Director at Invibio Biomaterial Solutions, to assess its progress with its implantable PEEK. Read more
A bright new future? What Tekni-Plex's purchase of Beyers Plastics means for both firms
Dave Gray caught up with Michiel van den Berg, director, global pharmaceutical development for Tekni-Plex's Tekni-Films business unit, to find out what its takeover of Beyers Plastics means for both firms. Read more
Finish the job: How miniaturisation is affecting coating and finishing
Jay Tourigny, senior vice president of MicroCare Medical explores how the trend towards miniaturisation is affecting coating and finishing decisions. Read more
Making Advances: How to design a drug delivery device for optimum compliance
Dave Gray speaks to Pascale Farjas, global category manager for ear, nose and throat, and Benoît Guillard, senior design engineer, at drug delivery expert Nemera, to find out how to design a drug delivery device for optimum patient compliance. Read more
Get yourself connected: The digital revolution's impact on drug delivery
Chrissy Bell, global business leader, 3M Drug Delivery Systems, looks at what the digital revolution is doing for design and commercialisation in drug delivery. Read more
Comment: May cause unintended side effects: The interplay between medical devices and pharma
Dave Gray examines the trend of medical devices reversing the side effects of the pharmaceutical business. Read more
Diagnostic Duos: How device manufacturers and contract manufacturers collaborate for success
Miranda Conary, product specialist at Web Industries, discusses how device makers and contract manufacturers collaborate for success in development of medical diagnostic devices. Read more
Why in-home healthcare is good news for plastics
Tim Jennings, president of Custom Case Group, a manufacturer of casings for the biotech industry among others, explains why the trend towards in-home healthcare is set to benefit the plastics industry. Read more
Turning a corner: The positives following a turbulent period for the medical device sector
Regular contributor Reece Armstrong looks for the positive repercussions in what turned out to be a challenging past year for the medical device sector. Read more
Time for change? What's in store for medtech
What does 2019 have in store for medtech? Dave Gray looks ahead. Read more
Applying a human touch: How trends in healthcare create demand for soft-touch overmoulding
Plastics play an important role in the medical devices industry. Not only do they help control cost, they've improved patient care, and contributed to patient safety. Read more


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Photos shown in this article are witnesses to the most important events in history. They are imbued with the atmospheres of different eras that will never happen again. With the help of these shots, we can make short trips to the past to cherish every captured moment and feel a witness to these big events.
We at Meow GAG collected a new list of archive photos. Before you make a leap to the past, get yourself a cup of hot tea to make your trip more comfortable.
35. Irish children jeer at British troops in Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972
34. Helen, an American Indian telephone and switchboard operator, Montana, 1925
33. French soldiers eat at a police station in Neuvilly after spending days in the trenches in heavy rain, 1915.
32. Muhammad Ali Vs. Cleveland Williams. Ali won the bout through a technical knockout in the third round, 1966
31. Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light, 1937
30. Kurt Cobain having a smoke with Ronald McDonald in Singapore, 1992
29. North American B-25s are pictured flying past Mount Vesuvius in Italy as lava and ash spew from the top of the erupting volcano, 1944
28. Trench Warfare. Photo was taken by an official British Photographer during World War I, 1917
27. Lt. Custer & Union Troops, 1862 (colorized)
26. Ebony Magazine ran a feature called, "What They May Look Like In The Year 2000." Here's Michael Jackson's future portrait, 1985
25. Young Pioneers Defence, Leningrad, 1937
24. JFK's funeral at the Capitol, November 1963
23. Mississippi's First Interracial Couple, August 3, 1970
22. The Greensboro sit-ins. A series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1960
21. Roza Georgiyevna Shanina was one of the best Soviet snipers, 1943
20. Men celebrating the end of prohibition, December 5, 1933
19. Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, flies a Chinese flag so she isn't mistaken for Japanese when she sunbathes on her days off in Miami, Dec. 15, 1941 (Colorized)
18. Rally against Nazism in New York, Madison Square Garden, 1937
17. The first man to walk on the Moon — Neil Armstrong lights a cigar, March 1969
16. Thanksgiving on the frontline, World War 2 (colorized)
15. Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin on the set of City Lights, September 24, 1929 (colorized)
14. The crowd in Times Square, New York City celebrating the surrender of Germany, May 7th, 1945.
13. "Jewish Market" New York, Upper Eastside, 1895 (colored photo)
12. Hiroshima, before and after the atomic bombing on August 6th, 1945
11. A German World War I U-boat stranded on the south coast of England after the surrender, 1918
10. Portrait of a bride and groom; the hat is adorned with feathers for luck, Kraków, Poland.
9. View of Boston, the oldest surviving aerial photograph ever taken, October 13th, 1860
8. A girl trying to cut a sunbeam, 1886
7. This Chicago mother hides her face from cameras as she puts a "4 Children For Sale" in her front yard.
6. A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her veil to protect her, Sarajevo, 1941.
5. The day of Reich's veterans, 1939
4. Boy receiving a new pair of shoes at an orphanage in Austria, 1946
3. Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, California, 1964
2. Anne Frank's father Otto, revisiting the attic where they hid from the Nazis, 1960
1. Captured flags of the defeated Third Reich being displayed during the victory parade in Red Square, Moscow, June 24, 1945
Which of these photos impressed you the most? Why? Please share your opinion in the comments!
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NYTimes writes about Silicon Valley companies have "renewed" themselves as the It environment has changed around them. The article describes the experiences of four companies: Tellme, InterTrust, VMware and Scalix. "Companies across Silicon Valley tell similar stories. The marketing plan, business model and sometimes the company itself die, but good technology tends to live on. Think of it as the business-and-technology equivalent of the 'selfish gene,' a term coined by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who argues that the gene rather than the larger organism is the fundamental unit of survival."
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A man was left needing medical treatment after an incident in Rubery Rednal.
West Mercia Police received a report of an assault on Leach Heath Lane at approximately 12:58pm on Sunday, 30th April.
Officers are eager to identify the man pictured as they believe he may have information which could be helpful to their investigation.
They also ask anyone who was in the area at the time or who witnessed the incident to come forward.
Any information call 101 quoting incident number 355S of 30 April. Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or visit www.crimestoppers-uk.org


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Tropical travel is truly a marvelous haven for the tourists, who would like to just relax and feel close to Mother Nature. The places are amazing, and the trip is worth all the time, expenses, and experience. To be in the places of the tropical region is a big chance to witness attractive spots that are strikingly conserved and maintained for the utmost comfort of guests.
The Caribbean is a remarkable destination for travelers who would like to spend their time under the warmth of the sun, and feel the cool breeze that originates from the mountains and seas; Puerto Rico, is one of the stunning and tranquil islands of Caribbean calls for a comforting and pleasant stay.
Puerto Rico has very varied regions from coastal to modern metropolitan towns to very green verdant mountain country sides. There is so much to make out and do in Puerto Rico that the unaware tourist might be overwhelmed and end up missing some of the best tourist attractions the island has to tender.
San Juan Metro is the core of Puerto Rico and the axis of a vivacious urban area. If you want to find irresistible good food, San Juan tenders an enormous array of restaurants from local eateries serving traditional Puerto Rican Cuisine to classy establishments offering creations from internationally recognized chefs. More so, nightlife in San Juan is incomparable in the region, salsa clubs, bars, discotheques, casinos and music venues flourish. Shoppers will discover some of high- end stores in the world. If you're searching for a local beach that is immense for sunning, crowd- watching and kite surfing take a stopover to the beach at Ocean Park, a hip neighborhood with a lot of hotels and restaurants.Puerto Rico Vacation Spots
Experience to go on a moonless night when there is a slight lit and you're kayaking through mangrove trees out into Mosquito Bay on Vieques Island, you maybe surprise what it is all about. All the while you'll see that your oars are glowing green in the water. Fish splash away from you like underwater lightning. Vieques Biobay is one of the most amazing experiences Puerto Rico has to offer
The town of Dorado, Puerto Rico, known to be the city of gold which most golf lovers think so, is a playground with five golf courses. This town is known to have a good time art and it's the home to five popular museums. Dorado is located on the north coast of Puerto Rico.
For those traveling with kids you may want to have a side trip from the beach to come to the city of Mayaguez, the third largest metro area in Puerto Rico. Children will be in love with the only zoo in Puerto Rico and those that have passion in Spanish architecture will take pleasure in a stroll around town. Women will enjoy shopping at the mall, so pack light and get some outfits here.
Puerto Rico in the Caribbean is a perfect getaway to spend a fruitful and meaningful vacation. The fantastic spots are inspiring and proven to be therapeutic to the exhausted mind and body caused by intense and serious work. It is about time to give oneself a much commendable break and the journey to the unimpeachable vacation islands of the Caribbean.


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Loudon Wainwright III
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Loudon Wainwright III "wrings more human truth out of his contradiction than any other songwriter of his generation," says the New York Times. What is his contradiction? The one between thinking and feeling, between living and dying, between red wine and white? "And if families didn't break apart / I supposed there'd be no need for art," he sings in his song "In C." Whatever the contradiction, he's been working it out onstage at the Freight since the late 1960s, and he's still going strong. He won a Grammy in 2010 for Best Traditional Folk Album with High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project, and his 22nd and latest album, Older Than My Old Man Now, has won wide acclaim. "The songs signify individually and sequentially as they ponder mortality and poke jokily at old age," says famed critic Robert Christgau. Mojo Magazine calls it "lyrically compelling and emotionally overpowering."
Loudon was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His father, Loudon Wainwright, Jr., was a well-known columnist and editor for Life Magazine. He had an early hit with "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" and the songs have kept on coming, covered by such artists as Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Earl Scruggs, Mose Allison, Big Star, and Freakwater. He branched into acting early in his career, and has appeared on the television shows MASH and Parks & Recreation, and in the movies The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. His recent theatrical piece, Surviving Twin, connects his music with the writing of his late father. Loudon was married to Kate McGarrigle and Suzzy Roche, and is the father of musicians Rufus and Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche. He's a social critic, a self critic, a superb singer and songwriter, and a wildly entertaining performer who balances honesty and emotion with the quirky contradiction of being Loudon Wainwright III.
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