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Allentown Saturday in the Park Series, West Park, 16th and Turner streets, 7 p.m. July 13, Hector Rosado and Orchestra Hache; July 27, Lucky 7; Aug. 10, The Large Flowerheads; Sept. 7, James Supra and Sarah Ayers Quartet.

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Ryan lives in West Bend, Wisconsin, a town of just over thirty thousand outside Milwaukee. He has a kid face, with big brown eyes. His mom, Tori, usually cuts his hair, which he sometimes styles into a side sweep. He’s well-dressed and has a sizable sneaker collection. At six five, he’s taller than most of his classmates; taller than his dad, Owen; tall enough to get into a bar to watch football without getting carded. Ryan’s girlfriend, Kaitlyn, is also seventeen. They got together in eighth grade after she gave him a birthday card with a twenty- dollar bill inside. Ryan thought, Who does that? He’d had girlfriends before, but she is his most long-standing and most serious. They eat lunch together in the cafeteria of West Bend West, where they’re both seniors, and they make sure to cross paths in the hallway between classes, even if just for a moment, long enough to graze fingers or lock eyes. Sometimes when Kaitlyn is driving and he’s riding shotgun, she’ll pull up to a four-way stop and gesture to other drivers to go, go, go, even when it’s her turn. It is just one of those things Ryan thinks girls do. They are more tentative, no fault of theirs. Whereas he knows with certainty that he is decisive.

Many companies outsource the filling and packing of their products to specialized service providers. While the profile of such a contract packer was previously limited to packaging alone, nowadays companies look for experts who can supply an all-in-one service. Co-packing has become more demanding. From automatic packing (with film technology such as shrinking, sleeving or sealing, for example) to assembly, labeling, coding, logistics and even raw material and packaging sourcing, a contract packer must fulfill versatile tasks. 

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Per serving: 292 calories; 17g fat; 9g saturated fat; 11mg cholesterol; 18g protein; 26g carbohydrate; 4g sugar; 2g fiber; 1,204mg sodium; 85mg calcium

There’s seven minutes to go in the second quarter, and the Packers are down by 7. “They say domestic violence goes up in the state when the Packers lose,” Owen tells me. Clay Matthews, a player for Green Bay, tackles the Redskins’ running back but doesn’t get in trouble. The camera cuts to a close-up, and Matthews is visibly relieved—a week earlier, he got a penalty for roughing the passer. “You can’t tackle,” Ryan explains. “The rules have changed.” He’s watched football since he was eight, and he just wants to watch football, not a neutered version. “It’s getting kind of stupid. You can’t hit the quarterback’s head; you can’t hit him a second or two after he throws the ball; and if you’re going to slide, you can’t hit him. You can’t put weight on him. You’ve got to set him down gently, like putting him to bed.” Ryan is worried that in five years, hard tackling will no longer be a thing. Matthews tackles the quarterback in the third quarter, but this time he gets flagged. A bar patron curses at the screen. The Packers’ coach sprints toward the ref and starts screaming. “He doesn’t know what to do,” the television commentator says about Matthews, “what’s right or what’s not right.”

If you are freezing items in containers, leave about 1/2-inch headroom at the top because some foods, especially liquids, expand slightly when frozen. This way, the food will fill the container as it freezes, but not pop off the lid.

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The City of Allentown offers children ages 7-15 a free eight-week outdoor program of activities, games, crafts, more. Sessions run 1-3:30 p.m. Mondays and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays through Aug. 8. Registration available at any playground, school or park during program hours. Info: (610) 437-7757.

Truman’s concentrated cleaning products give even entrenched home cleaner consumers a convincing reason to make the pivot from retail display case RTU spray bottles to a more sustainable e-comm model that eliminates the need to ‘ship water.’

Notes: Sambal oelek, a hot chili paste, is available in international stores. You may substitute sriracha sauce for sambal oelek, but the texture of the dressing will be smoother and runnier.