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According to Mazda, every family has one, and SEI is no exception.  Jimmi couldn’t stand Eric having a faster car than him, and had to go get his new honey, a Mazda Speed3 (Mazda’s self proclaimed Wild Child).  This Wild Child certainly looks happy in his Cosmic Blue sporty rig. We understand that it is a very fuel efficient vehicle, right Jimmi? 

Six Concepts were developed by the Urban Design Studio at Alfred State College in Partnership with the Rochester Regional Community Design Center to create plans for the revitalization of the historic Susan B. Anthony District in downtown Rochester. This group of students from Alfred included SEI Design Group’s Justin Cross!  Under the direction of Professors Bill Dean and David Carli, they have assembled a variety of design solutions that will be on display at RRCDC. There is an opening reception at RRCDC in the Hungerford Building at 1115 East Main Street Door #4 on the evening of Friday, December 7 from 6 – 8:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Yapta can track prices before or after you buy airplane tickets to get best prices and see if you are entitled to a refund if the ticket price goes down.  Linkedin is a social media  network for connecting with business contacts and colleagues.  Woot is an online store and community that sells cool stuff cheap.

Happy Turkey Day from SEI! We figure that you probably are not a huge fan of shopping on Black Friday, so we found some great deals that you can order right from your computer to make that special someone happy at holiday time and avoid going to the stores at 6 am tomorrow.  MacMall has the best price on ipods.  Samsung 46" LCD for $1299 and LG 42" LCD for $999 are great values for big spenders.  Get a Garmin Nuvi 200 for $169 (coupon code WEST15).  As  you know, we love the Casio S770 and the vendor we have used in the past is still the low price.  Add a memory card and get the case, extra battery and more.  Almost all of these deals(except the camera) expire today or tomorrow, so act fast and don’t eat too much turkey!!

Churchville-Chili CSD recently accepted bids on their $9.4M EXCEL Renovation Project.  This project is primarily HVAC and roof replacements and all alternates were able to be awarded!  Finally Bob and Betty will have a positive end to their career since this project will be complete September 2008.  SEI is also working with the District on future project planning.

Met Glenn Gaudet from podcast.com at BlogWorld Expo last week. Podcast.com is a podcast aggregator and also a social media network. You can save podcasts and subscriptions for your listening pleasure.  Via this beta service, you can listen to your selections on any web enabled mobile phone(as well as on the computer or iPod)!  Perfect for those times you are stuck waiting somewhere. Listen to our selections in the dark blue box on the far left.

What’s your favorite office chair?   You can find Humanscale’s Freedom and Liberty, as well as Alsteel’s 19 in SEI’s offices.