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New Year's resolutions are often focused on goals that serve to improve the life of the resolver-lose weight, get married, kick the caffeine addiction-but very few involve selfless acts. Helping others each day or on a regular basis, however, can still serve the purpose of bettering your own life while also enriching the lives of others.
Whether it's something as small as holding open the door for someone or as big as donating a kidney, doing something kind for someone else can create a chain of good deeds that will leave an impact larger than the original goal.
Not only is it easy to do something nice, but there are plenty of opportunities out there and plenty of people that could use it, say some local residents.
Janice Hill, a pastor for the Central Christian Church in Marietta and First Christian Church in Parkersburg, goes above and beyond the act of enriching her congregation, and said that anyone can make someone else's day.
"The most unhappy times in my life are when I'm caught up in me. The best times are when I'm way in the background," Hill said. "It's always been what I can do for other people. That's where happiness is. So we always look for ways to let people know that they're special and important."
Hill and other volunteers make up baskets of homemade goodies-anything from cookies to crocks of soup-and deliver them to a different person in the community every month. No one is immune, Hill said. It's anyone who in their opinion, is just out there working hard. The post office received a basket during the holidays, and the mayor of Marietta was the most recent recipient.
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O'Neill Center: 333 Fourth St., Marietta, 373-3914-Volunteers of all ages always welcome.
Reno Lions Club: 50 Valley Drive, Marietta, Meetings every first Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
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Washington-Morgan Community Action: multiple volunteer opportunities, 218 Putnam St., Marietta, 373-3745.
"The entire world is putting people down, with gossip and negativity," Hill said, mentioning that making someone's day when they're having a bad day can create a chain of good feelings, both from the recipients and the givers.
The chance to help and be kind is not hard, Hill said, but sometimes people just need to be reminded. Her own car sports a vanity plate reading "B Kind." Though people ask her if it's meant to be a reminder to others, Hill claims that it's to remind herself to seek out people to help.
"The key is having your antennas out," she said. "There are so many opportunities to do something kind, just do it. Look for them, and they'll be there."
The pay-it-forward act of picking up the bill for the car behind you in the drive-thru has becoming an explosive trend. Tim Horton's in Marietta is no stranger to that kind deed.
"I would say that happens here at least once a day," said Kelly Mullins, a shift supervisor. "We have a lot of regulars that do it, and on the holidays, it's like wildfire."
She said they've come to expect it daily as a part of the normal business day.
"There was one day, I had several people that would give us a $20 and said 'use this to cover as much as you can,'" Mullins said.
For those who may want more organization, clubs and institutions provide ample opportunities to do nice things for people.
"We are always seeking volunteers," said Nancy Matheny, the activities coordinator at O'Neill Center in Marietta.
People can help plan events, transport seniors to doctor's appointments, or even just connect with each other. Matheny said there's a big demand now for people to come and teach seniors how to use computers.
"We use the resources out of Marietta College, but we love to have other seniors because they understand each other," she said. "Once you retire and need an outlet it's a great opportunity."
The center is seeing more baby boomers moving into retirement that still need opportunities to provide service and help out, she said.
Janice Arnold, a member of the Reno Lions Club, said doing something kind is as easy as showing up to one of her club's meetings. The club does everything from purchasing eye glasses for people who cannot afford them to holding parties during the holidays for children to enjoy.
"We work for the community as the world's largest community service organization. We do what we can do," Arnold said.
Lions Club raises money for all of its charitable work itself in order to help where there's need and to do common, ordinary things that anyone can do to hep each other out.
"It's very rewarding. People always say 'we don't have time,' but take an hour or two a month. There's time," Arnold said. "You don't have to go to everything, just help every once in a while."


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Is it because we have identified and found more who need them?
Is it because we have changed the standards for eligibility making more eligibile?
Is it because the economy is getting so much worse that more are eligible?
Is it because we have been sloppy or incompetent in trying to assist those who get on food stamps to get off them with opportunity?
Are there other reasons?
(And I don't want to read hate spewed on this posting. I want you all seriously thinking about this one and not just reacting. I know many of you have a big heart and don't want people to starve and I also know that you don't want food stamps awarded to those who abuse the system. Our food stamp program is a real issue for us to look at. Some of you may know people on food stamps and can provide some good information for us to look at the program.)


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What does the future hold for my boys? Like the tagline reads in the latest series of Breaking Bad promos: All bad things must come to an end. Ah, so I'm going to be crying.
Breaking Bad is almost over. I'm handling it like any sane person would: alternating between cry-singing Boyz II Men's "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday" and calling Jesus, but when he answers I realize that I haven't prayed since I was a kid, so the only thing I have in my arsenal is: "Over the lips and through the gums, watch out stomach, here it comes," which makes him respond with:
The point is: My weak attempt to save this show did not work, so I should forget about the end and enjoy what will surely be the finest eight hours of television in quite some time. If you're like me, you'll do the same. If you're not like me—meaning you have a life and don't remember every single plot point (or you haven't seen even one second of BB, but you're insane in the membrane and willing to go all in and watch the last epis with the rest of us)—you're in luck because I'm here to break it all down. Before I do, let's get in the right state (hearts palpitating like a dubstep beat) and take a peek at the last half of season five:
Now start reading my handy CliffNotes guide of the most intense, craziest, and thrilling moments in BB history.
Season One
We open with Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in his Fruit of the Looms and a gas mask, driving an RV-turned-meth-lab with Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), also wearing a gas mask and passed out in the passenger seat. Oh, yeah, two dead bodies are rolling around in the back! Walt keeps speeding until he crashes into a ditch. He gets out, hears sirens, and starts to panic the way I do when my boyfriend is about to come over and I don't have enough time to hide all the new clothes I just bought with money I told him I didn't have. Walt throws on a shirt, grabs his wallet and a video cam, and takes a gun out of the hands of one of the dead men. He does a The Real World-style confessional, but instead of drunkenly saying, "I'm not here to make friends," Walt records a short, but tender message to his family. He marches to the main desert road and aims his gun. Whew!
We jump back and get all the dirt on Walt's life: He's an overqualified high school science teacher who has to support his wife, Skyler, a pregnant stay-at-home mom, and their disabled son, Walt Jr., by taking up a part-time job at a car wash. His life is like a re-gifted box of Whitman's Sampler chocolate a.k.a. Walt knows exactly what he's gonna get, and it's crap. Maybe things will look up because family and friends throw him a 50th birthday party. Nope! He's upstaged by his alpha-male brother-in-law Hank, whose latest drug raid is highlighted on television. To make everything worse, Walt is diagnosed with inoperable stage-three lung cancer.
Walt clearly doesn't have the money or insurance to pay for treatment, so he doesn't tell his fam he's sick and decides to cook meth after noticing the amount of cash-ola Hank confiscated during his drug bust. Walt goes to Hank and is like, "Hey, what's the deal with this drug stuff," and Hank takes him on a ride along to another drug operation. At the scene, Walt spies Jesse, a former student, escaping. Walt later approaches Jesse and says he won't turn him in if they team up and split profits 50-50, which leads us back to the opening scene.
Walt and Jesse cook up a bunch a meth in their makeshift lab, an RV, and Jesse tries to sell the drugs they made to two distributors: Krazy-8 and Emilio. The deal goes bad—they snatch Jesse and make him show them the lab. Because Walt has brains and has seen a Steven Seagal movie a time or two in his life, he knows these dudes are going to try and murder Jesse. Walt is like, "Let me show you the meth recipe," and Krazy-8 and Emilio agree to this because they are dumb. For reals, this isn't a cooking demonstration on a Bobby Flay TV show where mofos show up and go, "Teach me how to make scrambled eggs." This is drugs. If some dude shows up uninvited, you should just put one bullet between the eyes. K&E do not, and Walt successfully poisons them, thus the opening scene. But....
As Walt and Jesse try to dump the bodies, Krazy-8 wakes up, so they have to tie him up in the basement of Jesse's house while they figure out a plan. Meanwhile, Skyler is like WTF is going on with Walt. Before she can investigate, she learns she's having a baby girl. Meanwhile, Walt continues handling grown-folk biz a.k.a. instructing Jesse to dissolve Emilio's body. Jesse messes up big time, but he and Walt manage to get to rid of Emilio. However, Walt can't make up his mind about killing Krazy-8. Meanwhile, Marie is also suspicious of Walt's new behavior and thinks he's smoking pot. She tells Hank to scare him straight:
JKLOL! Hank doesn't do that. Walt decides to make Krazy-8 a sammich and passes out. He wakes up and tells Kray that he has lung cancer and they talk. After getting to know Kray better, Walt decides to release him. As he's getting rid of pieces from the broken plate, he figures out that Krazy-8 was going to try and stab him with one of the pieces. Walt confronts him, Kray attacks, forcing Walt to defend himself and kill Krazy-8. Walt and Jesse decided to pull a Ross Geller/Rachel Green and go on a break.
Hank starts looking for the new drug lord in town (not realizing it's Walt), but that's overshadowed because Walt announces he has cancer at a family BBQ. Jesse's family sitch is no better: He ends up covering for his successful younger brother after their parents find out the lil bro is smoking pot and gets kicked out of the house. For once in his life, he's not being a P.O.S., and it bites him in the butt.
Back to Walt: He turns down financial help from an old friend, Elliot, because they used to work together and his friend went on to be hella rich. I get it, but Walt should've taken the damn money. His family stages an intervention to persuade Walt to undergo chemotherapy. Once again, Walt is offered money, this time by Elliot's wife, but he decides to ask Jesse to resume their partnership. They do, and Jesse finds out why Walt is selling drugs. Hank's nosy ass traces one of the gas masks back to the high-school chem lab.
After they only make $2,600 off their first batch of meth, Walt demands they find a new distributor. Jesse connects with Tuco, who whoops his behind and steals his meth. Walt gets pissed, marches into Tuco's place, and makes an explosion. Tuco agrees to deal with Walt and Jesse, who end up having a hard time producing the large amount of meth they promised Tuco. They break into a warehouse to steal a large barrel of methylamine, which is needed to help them make more meth in a shorter period of time. They get the meth to Tuco in time, but during their transaction, Tuco beats one of his henchman unconscious for making a random comment. Tooks is bats#*t crazy.
Things I Skipped Over: Marie is a shoplifter. Walt Jr. gets arrested for shoplifting beer. Jesse says "bitch" a lot.
Season Two
Following what went down at the junkyard, Jesse is certain that Tuco's black SUV was going up and down his street. Walt treats Jesse the way my boo does my girlfriends and me when us ladies get scared while watching a horror movie:
That is until Walt sees a black SUV parked near his house. Jesse decides they need to shoot Tooks; Walt thinks they should use ricin, but they don't act on the plan. Tuco kidnaps them and holds them hostage in a desert shack where his sick uncle, Hector, resides. Meanwhile, Hank is checking out the surveillance footage of the warehouse break-in and doesn't realize it's Walt and Jesse in the video. Hank busts Tuco's entire organization, so Tooks thinks there's a mole.
Skyler passes out a missing person's flyer for Walt, and she sends Hank out to look for him. Hank decides to track Walt via Jesse. Back in the desert, Hector alerts Tuco that Walt and Jesse are up to no good. Tuco is ready to kill Jesse when Hanks shows up, looking for Jesse, and a shoot-out happens. Hank kills Tuco.
Walt and Jesse get home and split up. Jesse cleans his house, ditches the RV, and explains his absence by saying he was shacked up with a hooker, while Walt does the more practical thing and FAKES A FUGUE STATE. This story Walt concocts is hella ignorant, but people fall for it anyway. Hank is not convinced by Jesse's lie and brings in Hector to identify him. Hector is old-school and is like, "Bros before hoes and DEA mofos" and refuses to cooperate. Walt is like, "Yay! Let's cook meth again," but Jesse gets kicked out of the house, so he tracks down the RV he ditched and sleeps there. Walt can't leave the hospital room and resumes his chemo.
Not all is grim because Jesse slowly starts to get his ish together and moves next door to love interest Jane (Krysten Ritter), a recovering heroin addict. Eventually, he and Walt start cooking again, but Jesse wants them to be distributors instead—with that responsibility comes drama. Jesse's friend Badger is arrested while selling meth, so they have to hire a shady lawyer named Saul (Bob Odenkirk). Then Combo, another henchman for Jesse, gets killed by a rival gang. Back on the home front, Skyler gets a job to help pay off the chemo bills and works for her former employer Ted Beneke. Hank gets a new job as well: He's promoted to work on a tri-state task force. It turns out to be dangerous—a bombing happens, and he starts to suffer from PTSD.
Walt is getting sicker and bills are mounting, so he and Jesse spend a whole weekend cooking meth. Saul suggests they link up with Gus Fring, but Gus is not keen on teaming up because of Jesse's drug problem. Not a bad hunch because Jesse and Jane have relapsed and start using heroin after he confides in her what his job is. Gus, not knowing about the heroin relapse, changes his mind and asks Walt to do a delivery on short notice as a test, which happens to be at the very same time Skyler goes into labor. Walt delivers the inventory in time but misses his daughter's birth. #Awkward
Jesse wants his cut from the delivery, but Walt refuses until Jess gets sober. Jane's dad, an air traffic controller, finds out she's using and tells her she has one day to get her stuff together before he takes her to rehab. She finds out about the money Walt is withholding from Jesse and blackmails Walt into handing it over. Walt feels defeated, but comes back to Jesse's to try and get him over his addiction. That's when Jane, high on heroin, starts asphyxiating on her vomit. Walt does nothing to stop it and lets her die. This is pretty trifling, but Jane was totes Yoko Ono'ing the guys' partnership. Like any sensible man, Walt told himself, "I'm not about living that Paul McCartney Wings life, even if that means that Jane has to die." I know I'm justifying his actions, but he cried when she was choking. Obvs, he was sad.
Jesse wakes up and discovers Jane's body. He calls Walt, who calls Saul, who calls Mike, who makes sure that there's no evidence of Jesse being around Jane when she passed away. Meanwhile, Walt, who's under the initial effects of anesthesia right before his surgery, alludes to having a second cell phone, which makes Skyler even more suspicious of him. She finds the phone and uncovers many of his lies, so she leaves him.
Things I Skipped Over: Marie goes to therapy for her kleptomania. Hank and the DEA have come across the name Heisenberg and aren't sure if he is real or just an urban legend. Walt Jr. sets up a website to gather donations for his father's medical expenses, and Saul uses that as a way to forward Walt's earnings without raising red flags. Jane's father, saddened over his daughter's death, causes a midair collision, resulting in debris and human remains raining down onto the Whites' residence. Jesse says "bitch" a lot.
Season Three
Walt is trying to put his family back together while Skyler meets with a divorce lawyer, but is unsure of going through with it because the attorney says she will uncover any money Walt may have hidden. Sky confronts her hubby about the divorce, and he tells her how he made his money—hoping that will fix everything. Uh, no. A gift certificate to a spa and a lobster-steak combo will fix things. Telling your boo that you're a meth dealer will make her leave your ass for good. Walt, realizing how royally he screwed up, tells Gus that he wants out of the biz. Gus makes Walt an offer he can't refuse: $3 million for three months of service, a state-of-the-art production facility, and a brilliant lab assistant, Gale.
While all of this is happening, Jesse's in rehab and feeling terrible over the midair collision Jane's dad caused. But once he gets out of rehab, he starts making and dealing meth. Hank is slowing putting together a case against Jesse, so Jesse goes to Walt and tells him that if his Hank arrests him, he's taking Walt down with him. To keep him quiet, Walt negotiates with Gus to have Jesse off the streets and in the lab. Jesse starts stealing the meth they're making and selling it on the side.
Walt Jr. hates Skyler for kicking Walt out of the house. Eventually, Walt moves back in and does his best Jennifer Hudson by telling her he's not going. Skyler is pissed and decides to pursue her own thing: an affair with her boss Ted. Maybe Walt should be paying more attention to work because there are two dangerous men, the Cousins (Tuco's cousins), who came from Mexico and want him dead. Plus, Gus has arranged a meeting with his Mexican cartel counterparts and makes it clear that he wants him left alone, at least for now. Walt clearly has no idea that so many people are gunning for him.
Walt realizes Hank has found out where Jesse has kept the RV, so Walt meets up with Jesse. Shortly after, Hank finds the RV with both Walt and Jesse locked in it. The two keep Hank away from entering and finding Walt inside. Later on, Hank confronts Jesse and knocks him out cold. Walt resumes cooking meth under the pressure of Skyler, who is forcing him to try and leave the drug game for good. Little does Walt know that The Cousins want him to leave the life game for good, but Gus finds out about this and lures them away. Unfortunately, he has them go after Hank, who had his gun taken away from him at work. Hank gets an anonymous phone call that he's about to be attacked. The Cousins shoot him multiple times, but Hank manages to defend him by hurting one of the cousins, taking the gun, and then shooting the other one in the head.
On a lighter note, Jesse gets romantically involved with the woman he met in rehab group. Walt fires Gale, which makes me a little sad because Gale was such a sweetheart, so now it's just Walt and Jesse cooking meth. Everything is back to normal, right? Wrong. Skyler offers to pay for Hank's medical bills and starts to get more involved in Walt's business by deciding they need to have a business front, the car wash that Walt used to work at, to hide all the cash he's making. Jesse is busy trying to avenge Combo's death. Luckily, Walt shows up in time and kills the drug dealers, who happen to work for Gus, and then instructs Jesse to skip town. Gus is like:
So he has Gale take over the lab and orders his henchmen, lead by Mike, to nab Walt and Jesse. Walt knows his back is against the wall when he's captured by Mike, so he instructs Jesse, over the phone, to kill Gale so that Gus is forced to keep Walt and Jesse alive since they will be the only chemists left.
Things I Skipped Over: Marie doesn't handle Hank's attack well. Walt almost tells Jesse what happened the night Jane died. Jesse says the word "bitch" a lot.
Season Four
Jesse listens to Walt and kills Gale, which mentally and emotionally ruins him. He starts throwing elaborate all-nighters, so he doesn't have to think about Gale. Gus is pissed as hell and reprimands them by slitting the throat of one of his employees in front of them—so they know he is not screwing around. I pause my DVR and go:
Everything just got really real, and Gus is content on making their lives a living hell by running an extremely tight ship at the lab. While Walt cooks and buys a gun to kill Gus, Jesse becomes Mike's sidekick as they travel around to get payments that are owed to Gus. Clearly, Gus' plan is working: Walt and Jesse are quickly becoming more hostile toward each other.
Hank, who is recuperating at home, finds evidence linking Gale to Gus, who becomes anxious that Walter's familial relationship with Hank is going to jeopardize everything. Skyler finally makes the car wash deal happen. This success leads to her having sex with Walt and asking him to move back home. The happiness is short-lived because during a family dinner with Hank and Marie, Walt gets agitated when Hank thinks that Gale is a mastermind behind the meth and suggests Gale copied someone's handiwork. Skyler later tells Walt that saying that mess was self-sabotage, and he responds with a speech about how he's dangerous. Normally, a woman would be turned on by his intensity and start singing, "Panties coming off." In this case, Skyler is like, "Kevlar vest coming on," and considers leaving Walt.
Walt tells Jesse that he thinks Gus is trying to drive a wedge between them and they should try and kill Gus first. They come up with a plan to meet with Gus and poison him. Jesse chickens out and returns back to his 12-step program. To make matters worse, Hank has even more evidence about Gus and plants a tracking device on Gus' car, which Walt has to remove. Skyler discovers Ted Beneke has been stealing money from his job, and the IRS is auditing the company. They cook up a plan to put off the investigation as long as he repays the fine and back taxes. He tells her he doesn't have the money. WTF?
Gus raises their WTF with a "my life is going to sh-t," and gives into the cartel's demands. He asks Jesse to come with him to Mexico to teach some people how to cook the meth. He agrees, tells Walt about the trip, and says that he still hasn't had a chance to kill Gus. It's obviously a lie, and Walt catches him. Jesse tells him to leave him alone and never come back. Jesse, Mike, and Gus fly to the cartel's meth lab in Mexico, where Jesse's replication of Walt's formula results in an 96.2 percent pure product. Jesse is then informed that he now belongs to the cartel. Uh, no me gusta. Yet, the trio go to Don Eladio's estate to celebrate their alliance. Gus poisons him, and as they try to escape, Mike is shot.
Back in the States, Skyler gives Ted money to pay off the IRS, but his dumb ass spends it on other things like a Mercedes. Skyler goes to Saul to see if he can convince Ted to pay the IRS. When they show up, Ted gets scared, tries to run away, and trips and crashes headfirst into a counter. Meanwhile, Walt prevents Hank from finding the meth lab and begs Jesse, who's back in town following Mike's recovery, for help because he fears Gus will kill him if he makes Jesse the main chemist at the lab. Jesse tells him to go to the left. As Walt leaves Jesse's crib, Gus' henchman capture him. Gus tells him he's fired and if he interferes and tries to save Hank's life, his family will be killed. Walt decides to skip town, but when he goes home to find the emergency money that he had been saving, he discovers it's gone because Skyler gave it to Ted so he wouldn't go to jail.
Meanwhile, Gus is trying to convince Jesse to agree to Walt being killed, but Jesse can't do it. But Jesse has bigger things to worry about because the ricin that he stashed in a cigarette in hopes of poisoning Gus ends up in Brock, the son of the woman he's been dating. Jesse goes to Walt's and threatens to kill him because he thinks Walt poisoned Brock to make it look like Gus did. Walt denies it and finally gets Jesse to agree to take out Gus.
First, they try a car bombing. That doesn't work, so they reach out to Hector, Tuco's uncle, because only person Hector hates more than them is Gus. Walt visits Hector and offers chance for revenge. Across town, Jesse gets kidnapped by Gus' men. Gus finally visits Hector, who detonates a suicide bomb that kills him, Gus, and Gus' henchman. Next, Walt, high on adrenaline and bad-assery, finds Jesse at the lab and kills the captors. He and Jesse set fire to the lab. Jesse checks on Brock: He's going to survive the poisoning, and it seems that he didn't get sick because of ricin, but because of Lily of the Valley berries. In the final scene, we see a potted plant on the deck of Walt's swimming pool; it's a Lily of the Valley. Walt is trifling and amazing at the same time.
Things I Skipped Over:Following the attack, Hank pushes Marie away, which makes her resume her kleptomania. Walt J. turns 16. Jesse says "bitch" a lot.
Season Five, Part Uno
In this first part of the season, we're concerned with Walt and Jesse getting back in the meth game and Walt's marriage to Skyler falling apart again. Walt is certain that they destroyed any evidence linking him to Gus. Turns out, he forgot about the laptop that Gus had his office. Now the police have it in their possession and close in a German businessman, who ends up committing suicide to evade questioning. While the Gus cover-up is slowly unraveling, Walt decides to move back home and Skyler ain't feeling it. One bright spot is that Walt, Jesse, and Mike are able to erase the data on Gus' laptop by using an industrial electromagnet against the evidence room containing it. Ridiculous, yes, but I lurve it.
Walt, Mike, and Jesse, after teaming up with Lydia (an employee of the company Madrigal Electromotive, which is the parent company of Gus' cover business), meet with Saul and talk about finding a new place to cook. After looking at various labs, they agree to set up a pest control business as a cover. That way they can make meth in the houses that are tented up and clean up when they are done. After selling off the first few batches they cooked, they split the profits. Unfortunately, Mike says that most of the money has to go to his former employees, who were arrested following Gus' death and managed to not snitch. Walt is mad as hell about this arrangement and tells Jess that he's going to fix this situation.
To get the DEA off her back, Lydia gives up one of her employees and teams up with Jesse. They discover a a tracking device on a barrel of methylamine. Mike believes she placed the device herself and suspects she's only looking out for herself. Duh. While they're dealing with that, Walt tells Skyler that he's cooking again. Out of fear for her children's safety, she asks Marie to care for her children.
The methylamine flow is disrupted, forcing Walter, Jesse, and Mike to rob a train carrying a large shipment. Things get messed up fast when a child sees them. Todd, who was hired to help make meth, panics and shoots the kid. As if that's not bad enough, the DEA is tracking Mike's every move. He and Jesse start coming up with a plan to leave meth behind for good. The plan is sell their methylamine for $5 million each to Declan, a major regional meth producer and distributor. Raise your hand if you think that Walt is going to take a dump all over this scheme. If you did, throw your hands in the air like you just don't care: Walt refuses to sell his share of the methylamine and goes to Declan and makes a distribution deal after he reveals that he is Heisenberg.
All of this makes no difference to Mike and Jesse because they're leaving whether or not Walt gives them their fair share of the money. Desperate, Walt asks Todd to help him cook. While this is happening, we learn that Lydia put a hit out on Mike (and is planning on killing the nine men that Mike has been paying off) in hopes that he won't get captured by the DEA and snitch. Mike kills his assassin and almost kills Lydia, but doesn't because she begs that he not kill her in front of her daughter. Instead, he just decides to peace out of town because the DEA is closing in on him, and he can't even get the money that he has in the safety deposit box from the bank. Walt warns him that Hank is on his way to capture, and Walt wants the names of the men he's been paying off to keep their silence. Mike is no dummy and refuses. They have a war of words, and Walt shoots Mike. Only then does Walt remember that he could've gotten the names from Lydia and apologizes. Mike tells him to shut up and dies. I cry into my pillow. My boyfriend, understanding that this is not real life and just a TV show, does not share my over-the-top Madea reaction.
Walt gets the names from Lydia and has all of the men murdered by associates of Todd's uncle, a former convict with ties to the Aryan Brotherhood. Lydia smartly arranges for her own safety by guaranteeing that Walt's product will be shipped to the Czech Republic using Madrigal's more obscure branches. Next, we watch a time lapse of several months: He makes a LOT of money, decides to retire from making meth, and delivers $5 mil to Jesse's house. Everything is peachy keen as the White family is finally at peace and reunited. Well, all that happiness gets ruined because Hank and Marie are hanging out at the Whites'. He goes to the bathroom and finds a Leaves of Grass book. Inside it, there's a dedication: To W.W from G.B. Remembering his convo with Walt early on in the investigation, Hanks puts two and two together. GB is Gale Boetticher and W.W. is Walter White a.k.a. Heisenberg. NO! Just when it looked like Walt was going to get away with it all. In the words of a reality-TV star on a reality-TV show that was canceled, all I can say is:
Things I Skipped Over: Jesse says "bitch" a little less than usual.
Any great moments that I left out? Also, how do you think this series will wrap up? I think Jesse is going to kill Walt. Sad.
Don't miss one second of the Breaking Bad when it returns tomorrow night to AMC at 9 P.M. ET/8 P.M. CT.


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A 31-year-old Elmore man is accused of crashing into a school playground and a barn while driving under the influence early Sunday morning, state police said.
Michael Barup was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident and driving with a suspended license, police said.
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The Federal Election Commission ruled Tuesday that U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, whose campaign lost millions to embezzlement by treasurer Kinde Durkee, can try to go back and collect new contributions from donors whose checks were never cashed.
But the FEC ruled that Feinstein, D-Calif., can't take any new contributions from donors whose money Durkee pocketed.
That leaves the senator with almost no recourse, Bill Carrick, Feinstein's campaign consultant, complained Wednesday, because First California Bank hasn't released records from the Durkee-managed accounts.
As a result, the campaign has no "capacity to figure out right now what money was deposited and what money wasn't deposited," he said.
Congresswomen Linda Sanchez, D-Cerritos; Loretta Sanchez, D-Garden Grove, and Susan Davis, D-San Diego -- also federal candidates from whom Durkee embezzled -- are in the same boat, Carrick said.
"It's disappointing, definitely," Carrick said. "People intended their money to be used for the Feinstein Senate campaign. They did not intend for it to be embezzled by Kinde Durkee."
Federal prosecutors said Durkee, 59, controlled 700 bank accounts and looted at least $7 million from 50 victims, including Feinstein, from 2000 through last year. Durkee pleaded guilty in March to mail fraud, but it's unlikely she'll be able to make full restitution to Feinstein and the other politicians she bilked. She is scheduled to be sentenced June 20.
Feinstein lent her campaign $5 million in the embezzlement's wake, and although she has 23 challengers in next month's primary election, none has held a candle to her in the polls -- though the scandal has provided them some rhetorical fodder.
"Once again, the FEC has refused to allow Dianne Feinstein a free pass. Her refusal to accept any responsibility for the gross mismanagement that resulted in the embezzlement of millions of dollars in campaign donations shows an appalling lack of accountability to the people of California," Elizabeth Emken, of Danville, the GOP's endorsed candidate, said Wednesday in a statement. "It's yet another reason why the average voter feels that Washington elites like Dianne Feinstein are out of touch, and a recent poll shows an overwhelming majority of Americans would vote to completely replace Congress."
Responded Carrick: "That shows an appalling lack of judgment in trying to describe the situation. I guess she doesn't think anyone was victimized by someone who embezzled in the neighborhood of $10 million. ... It's a pretty reckless statement."
Not all Republican candidates share Emken's view.
Oceanside businessman Dan Hughes said Wednesday that although it might hurt his own candidacy, "I believe that the people/contributors whose funds were stolen before Sen. Feinstein spent them should be able to re-contribute.
"As much as I disagree with Sen. Feinstein on policy, in this case she was the victim of a crime and she should not be made to suffer twice," Hughes said. "Should she have had better controls in place? Absolutely yes, and the voters can decide if she is responsible enough to continue on as their senator."
For more recent developments in California's U.S. Senate race, go to the Political Blotter blog at www.ibabuzz.com/politics. Josh Richman covers politics. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman.


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SIKESTON - C.C. Pinnell was presented a pin for 50 years of service to the Sikeston Masonic Lodge No. 310.
SIKESTON - Prospective members of the area citizens vocational rehabilitation council will hold a first meeting at the El Capri Restaurant April 24 at 6:30 p.m. When the group is organized it will make a special study of the vocational rehabilitation programs which will assist physically, mentally and emotionally handicapped persons, and recommend programs.
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SIKESTON - Robert H. Boschen was appointed supervising wire chief for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. He replaces William Dreyer, who has been transferred to St. Louis to become a test center foreman.
CHARLESTON - Before beginning the lengthy agenda Tuesday evening, the City Council certified results of the April 7 election and chose a new mayor and mayor pro tem. Serving as mayor for the upcoming year will be Larry Smith. Also elected by fellow council members was Bill Branum as mayor pro tem.
MINER - The Miner Board of Aldermen, on the advice of Mayor Bill James, voted to send a protest letter to Falcon Cable TV which serves Miner and Sikeston. Falcon plans an adjustment of extended basic cable TV starting May 1.
SIKESTON - A burglary was reported at Plaza Tire, 901 S. Kingshighway, at which four custom rims were taken. According to Sikeston Department of Public Safety, a window in the southeast corner of the building was broken out sometime between 2:30 p.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday. The rims, designed for a Chevy 4x4, are valued at $100 each, and the window is valued at $400.
SIKESTON - Lucille Collins of Bernie was the lucky winner in the drawing for the $100 Alford Dunner suit from Norwood Fashions in Sikeston.


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Major League Soccer has to be one of the most unique leagues in all of football. While in countries such as England and Spain, the sport is the dominant face of national sport, the MLS has to compete alongside NHL, NFL and other behemoths of world sport. This uniqueness is also found within the history. While the modern top leagues go back decades, MLS does not. La Liga? Started in 1929. Bundesliga? 1963. MLS? 1996. The sense of new and different is in my view, a fundamental part of my admiration for the league.
Critics of the league will often bemoan the lack of promotion and relegation. Love it or loathe it, it's not a part of the league, and won't be for the foreseeable future. The lack of promotion and relegation though has created a unique atmosphere in American cities. One of the biggest and enjoyable talking points of the league is who "deserves" to be an MLS team. The idea of "proving" themselves leads to some interesting narratives within the footballing landscape. For me, it's great to see cities like Orlando and St Louis prove to everyone they deserve MLS, with fans driven to aid their clubs for the future, as Orlando fans proved with their push for funding from the state. In a way, the quest for MLS franchise state gives the clubs a little more heart and identity as the fans can truly be seen as central to their clubs, and, for the outsider, watching the league grow in this way is nothing short of great.
People also criticise the league's draft system. There is no doubting that it is quite complex for those outside of American sport. However, once you take the time to understand it, you can see its benefits. For a start, the MLS Super Draft is an event worth watching. By keeping the event self contained, it raises the interest of the league's fans. Prior to the build up, the league and it's excellent media staff will educate everyone on just who the prospective big stars are, what each team is looking for and how the day is expected to go. Within the draft, you can hear some truly great stories. Kekuta Manneh is one of these great stories. He arrived at the draft as an 18 year old with his adopted parents. Born in Gambia, Kekuta's rise from the age of 12 through various clubs was brought to a temporary standstill as his mother's death changed his life. At the age of 15, a link to the U.S.A. meant he took the bold choice of moving to Atlanta and waiting to see what happened. He later moved to the Texas Rush where he met his foster parents and had the education he had never had the opportunity for. In 2012, Manneh had the possibility of trials with Liverpool and Monchengladbach. Now 18, he scored his first goal this year for the Whitecaps in a 2-2 draw with FC Dallas. It's stories like this and the opportunities within the teams to stake a place that make the draft enticing.
Of course though, people watch the sport for the on pitch events. While it is obvious that the league still has a way to go in improving the on pitch quality, it is already of a good standard. While people know of the league due to superstars like Thierry Henry, Marco Di Vaio and until recently, David Beckham, the MLS has produced its fair share of stars. Landon Donovan finally succeeded in Europe during his Everton loan spell. Kei Kamara impressed on loan at Norwich. Brek Shea recently moved to Stoke City. While MLS has exported plenty of stars, this is not to say that their are none still in the league. Graham Zusi is a key component of Sporting Kansas City and is one of the league's best players. Chris Wondolowski is one of the league's greatest strikers and continues to prove so at San Jose Earthquakes. The fact that the league continues to create good talent bodes well for a league that is striving to improve on the pitch.
Also on the pitch, the game is made all the more exciting by the league's competition. Promotion and relegation does not at all guarantee an exciting league. Look across the top leagues. Barcelona and Real Madrid dominate Spain, the top four in England is extremely predictable, Bayern are looking like reasserting themselves as the sole dominant force and PSG's finance has bought the French league. Increasingly, fans have to look at the chasing pack and the relegation candidates for competition. In MLS's short history, there has been 9 different MLS Cup champions from 1996 to 2013, and no-one has won it more than twice in a row. MLS offers a refreshing alternative to leagues that are often won by those with the biggest wallet. Choose any team to follow, and there's no telling where that team could end up in a few seasons following them.
With the increase in technology, footballs fans have increasingly looked for a secondary league to enjoy. For me, MLS's greatest strengths is its media. The league not only produces comprehensive highlights on your phone, iPod and online that can be accessed in the UK, it also looks to educate its fan base. A quick look on MLSSoccer.com will show you videos of match previews, goal breakdowns and major news. On top of this, the league looks to educate its new fanbase and makes immersing yourself in a new league all the easier. This is one of the greatest attractions of the league.
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In this Jan. 30, 2013 photo, Drew and Frances Pardus-Abbadessa play with their son Pavol, 1, at their apartment in New York, where they hope another son, from Kyrgyzstan, will one day join them. The Pardus-Abbadessa family were among a group initially known as the "Kyrgyz 65" - Americans who were in the process of adopting 65 orphans from the Central Asian republic when it suspended international adoptions in 2008 due to allegations of fraud. Some of the children were placed in domestic adoptions, and last summer nine of the remaining children finally were allowed to go to America. The Pardus-Abbadessas are now among 16 U.S. families still waiting, five years later. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)


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I just got one from EBGames from Toronto, if you call each store and ask them when are they expecting one, call back to find out if they receive them, and you have a wii. Good luck.
Mine was a promo... A friend of mine bought 5 printer cartridges (for her work) and some company sent her a console. When I couldn't find one she gave it to me (still in the box) till I could replace it. I'll try to find the printer it's for. Some of you might have one. Cheers John
I just got one from EBGames from Toronto, if you call each store and ask them when are they expecting one, call back to find out if they receive them, and you have a wii. Good luck.
I have wireless internet access through verizon, wii indentifies my router, I have put in my WEP code, but it does not pass the connection test. Has anyone had this probem?
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its just that i just got a new wired modem and where i plan on having my wii is like 1 meter away from the computer so the length of the wire is not a problem but yeah just wondering =]
Mate I had trouble connecting wireless so got a lan adaptor and went straight to my router (via 10 metre cable) The lan adapter came with a 1.5 metre cable so it would do you fine.
Faster and no microsoft hangups.
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Doing business online inevitably involves creating, memorising and recalling passwords. Understand how to create a strong password to minimise the chance of your security being compromised.
First, make sure you do not use the same password for two different applications of varying importance (for example, your password for a discussion forum and your password for internet banking.)
Next, if you choose to store your passwords in a "safe place", make sure the security you apply to that safe place is at least as strong as the most important password kept there. For example, if you use a piece of software or a spreadsheet to keep track of passwords, don't use a weak or easy-to-guess password to access that list.
For the password itself, avoid:
Passwords take longer to crack if they:
You can make passwords easier to remember by having a password that is pronouncable, i.e. it follows English word conventions, without actually being a real word. For example, "4toblestic".
5 Jun
Your website's words compete with others. Prove your confidence in your product or service by writing assertively; respect your visitor's time by writing concisely; engage your visitor by writing conclusively.
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Re-read each page of your website's content and apply the principles of effective writing to turn your spiel into a pedestal on which your product proudly stands.
4 Jun
On the web, prospective customers will come from the world over. To make their life easier, make sure that on every page of your website you disclose where you are located, including the country. On every page that includes a price, explain which currency that price is shown in (or, prefix the price with the currency format, e.g. $AU320, A$320 or AU$320 — depending on your preference.)
If you only ship to your own country, make this clear. If you ship to other countries, explain which countries, be upfront about shipping costs, and include an indicative currency converter (a free tool is available on xe.com.)
Not only does all this give your visitors essential pre-purchase information, but it demonstrates respect that you are not assuming your visitors are of a particular geographic region.
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If you operate a mail server in your office — for example, if you have an Exchange server — ask your friendly IT technician if you have backup mail servers in place.
Commonly, a mail server is set up in an office, but if that server goes down (loses power, loses internet connectivity, etc.,) emails sent to that server will start bouncing back at the sender. The longer your server is down, the more likely the emails will bounce back.
This is rather unprofessional, but the easy answer is to configure backup mailservers. Usually, your Internet Service Provider or your web hosting company will allow you to use their mail servers at no additional cost. The backup mail servers will keep trying to forward emails through to your on-site mail server, and will buy you more time before emails are bounced back.
2 Jun
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When you send an email, you can make the From: address anything you like, and there are many legitimate reasons for why you might do this.
Spammers, as you would expect, do not use their own email address in the From: field. Instead, they will either use a random email address from the list of email addresses they intend to spam, or they will use the recipient's own email address in order to confuse the recipient.
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Definition of dispersant in English:
A liquid or gas used to disperse small particles in a medium.
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Bryan T. McNeil Oral history collection, 1997.
Creator: McNeil, Bryan T.
Collection number: 20298
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Abstract: Interviews conducted in West Virginia in 1997 by Bryan T. McNeil for his honors essay "In My Time: The Strike of 1949 in the Lives of the Coal Miners of Southern West Virginia" Read more…
Spears and Hicks family papers, 1852-191.
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Collection number: 4622
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Abstract: Three generations of the Spears and Hicks families of Virginia and North Carolina, including Sallie Gray Spears Lewis (b. 1833), her daughter Sallie Moore Spears Hicks (b. 1860), and her grandson Charles Spears Hicks (b. Read more…
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Pricing Kernel Monotonicity and Conditional Information
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University of Notre Dame - Department of Finance
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University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
August 2, 2015
A large literature finds evidence that pricing kernels estimated nonparametrically from option prices and historical returns are not monotonically decreasing in market index returns. We propose a new nonparametric estimator of the pricing kernel that reflects the information available to investors who set option prices. In simulations, the estimator outperforms current techniques. Our empirical estimates using S&P 500 index option data from 1996-2012 and FTSE 100 index option data from 2002-2013 suggest that the "pricing kernel puzzle'' is a byproduct of econometric technique rather than a behavioral or economic phenomenon.
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A tax levied on expensive residential properties of a value in excess of a particular sum: the mayoral candidates were asked about their views on a possible mansion tax for rich homeowners
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- Not sure I'd want to pay a mansion tax on it.
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Surely for being the first National League DH in a World Series!Originally Posted by Heath
1976, 5-for-14 (.357) w/ a HR, 2 doubles, 4 RBIs and a SB in 4 games (all as the DH).
Small market fan... always hoping, but never expecting.
I always liked that guys name..NunnallyOriginally Posted by Caveat Emperor
Sounds like a political party
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The question about what number he'd wear in Pittsburgh was ask. Sean said since#21 was retired he chose #25 to honor Jim Thome.
Sean said when he first came up with Cleveland Thome took him under his wing and treated him like a little brother.
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The Meridian Police Department is launching a new DART initiative. The Direct Action Response Team will consist of five members. The group will target high crime areas.
'Our lieutenants and sergeants who are commander of each shift will notify us of problem areas where we're having the most burglaries, gunfire, the most armed robberies and that type of thing,' says MPD Chief Lee Shelbourn.'These five people will focus on that. We'll saturate those areas and try to take the guns off the streets.'
Chief Shelbourn says the DART team will replace the NET team, which was also funding by a federal grant. Although funding for that grant has ended, he says his department's commitment to community policing has not.
'What we have done is we've tried to integrate with our entire patrol to be more community friendly. So, we're asking all of our officers now to get out and talk to people to get to know who lives where and what's going on in their neighborhood.'
Headed by Assistant Chief James Sharpe, Chief Shelbourn says the DART team will not necessarily have the same officers as those who were on the NET team. He says funding for this new initiative is for one year.
'People talk about community policing, which personally I don't think should be specified. I think every officer should be community friendly.'
Members of the DART team are set to hit the streets next Wednesday.


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The Vermont Mountaineers fell into a 6-3 whole before responding with 4 unanswered runs and beat Keene 7-6. The win coupled with a Sanford loss, gives Vermont the northern division title. The 2nd in the history of the franchise, and first since 2006, the first of 2 overall championship titles for Vermont.
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I ordered IL2-COD collectors edition from UBIsoft on 20th March. I paid express delivery & was hoping to receive it today. But alas not. Have you received your copy yet?
UK release pre orders were set for dispatch yesterday expected to arrive with customers by Wednesday/ Thursday.
I've heard nothing. Just sent this to Ubi store:
We were told on the Ubi forum that pre-order DVDs of Cliffs of Dover would be despatched on 28th March.
I have heard nothing and www.findmyorder.com still only says 'Order in Process'. Can you please confirm when my order will be despatched?
I got this usual absolutely useless reply:
Thank you for contacting the Ubisoft Store.
The product that you ordered is a pre-order and has not yet been released to the public. Although we do not have an estimated release
date, as soon as it is available your order will be promptly fulfilled and you will be notified via email.
If you purchased via credit card, rest assured your card will not be charged until the product has been released.
Can you please work your usual magic and see if there is anyone actually alive in there that can tell us what is happening and can we expect an email on despatch?
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I haven't received any notification, or the Collector's Edition pre-ordered on 19th January.
As per the original poster, 'findmyorder' says 'order in process' - I'm now getting a little concerned!
Yep same here, Checked with my bank and no money has been taken from my card either. The fact you guys havnt taken payment is the hugh worry, Its now the 29th 1 day after we were told it woulld be sent and there is no sign of anything happening. Less than two days to get it here for release and with normal post office speed, some may say you are cutting it a little fine.
Im in the UK, I know you didnt ask, but just thought, it would help.
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A very fair and informative review.We are doing this itinerary on the Dream in 2 weeks ( 1st time on this ship) so your comments re dining were interesting as we also prefer to share with others ( see enough of the OM at home). The captains party sounds very like what we have experienced on the other Thomson ships although we were fortunate to be on the captains table last time which greatly enhanced the experience. What was the weather like?
This was the 6 night cruise from Palma to Tenerife via Gibraltar, Casablanca, Agadir and Arrecife - the weather was very good with two days sunny all day - casablanca and Santa Cruz the others having more of a mix of sun and cloud. Seas were calm. Cocktail Party agree with review - it was not exceptional .... and there were no cocktails either ! Disagree about sunbeds - but only when the ship was at sea and on the early departure from Casablanca at 2pm. Sunbeds were the same as those in 2011. Would be interested to learn when you return whether the Lido and Sirens are back on self service or not as they changed on the last night of this cruise (Thurs 4th ) due to alleged norovirus - these rumours supported by the sign of crew walking around with large backpack sprayers dousing the stairs and handrails at least at Stairs A if not elsewhere too and all staff in self service wearing disposable gloves whether serving at the buffet or not.


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Technical Abstract: Twenty-three isolates of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum collected from Canada, Switzerland and US from nine hosts were evaluated for their aggressiveness on 10- to 14-day-old susceptible and partially resistant soybean seedlings. Seedlings were inoculated by placing 3-mm diameter hyphal plugs on one cotyledon per plant 5 to 7 mm away from the stem. Plants were lightly misted, covered with a plastic dome, incubated in the dark for 48 hr at 20 to 25 C. Number of dead plants over time was recorded and used to calculate area under the disease progress curve. Isolates were grouped into five different aggressiveness levels. Seventy-eight ancestor lines of modern US cultivars, 98 Asian cultivars and 110 plant introductions (PI) other than ancestor lines or Asian cultivars were evaluated using one isolate. Mandarim (Ottawa), Maple Presto, PI 248509B, PI 384942, PI 423893, PI 503336, PI 504497, PI 507327, PI 578496, PI 592949, PI 592953 and PI 594286 were the most resistant. Variation in aggressiveness of the pathogen may be significant in soybean evaluation to Sclerotinia stem rot.


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The thrust of The Chosen Folks can be found in a single word of its subtitle, Jews on the Frontiers of Texas.
The word "Jews" may intrigue, or provoke, from the start. And "chosen" has been loaded with controversy for years, maybe since the Exodus and Sinai. But in this academic examination of Jewish culture in Texas, Bryan Stone is mostly interested in "frontiers."
For him, the frontier is not just a geographic place on the edge of civilization. His Jewish frontier is a psychological concept beyond the physical, an ongoing way of life.
In America, Stone says, we romanticize our frontier people, those brave souls who conquered the West. But to him, such conquerors do more than transform geography: They are "those who, in any context, go out and encounter the 'Other' ... drawing imaginary lines around themselves that separate them from others." He sees Jews as people who perpetually "draw and redraw such lines on frontiers around the world and across millennia, balancing the urge to acculturate with the competing urge to remain different."
So frontier becomes Stone's metaphor for life in the Diaspora, the great, global scattering of Jews that began with the biblical temple's destruction and continues to this day. And it stands also for "the inner complexities of Jewish identity."
"A Jewish history built on the frontier idea allows us to see 'peripheral' communities as, in fact, central to [that] history," Stone writes. And for him, Texas provides quintessential examples of such communities.
An associate history professor at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Stone received his doctorate in American Studies and Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. His dissertation, "Jews and the Real and Imagined Frontiers of Texas," gave birth to this book. He digs deep into prior historic accounts, never hesitating to shoot holes through some treasured old mythologies that point with what he proves tarnished pride to the supposed Judaism of some early Texas pioneers.
One example: Nicholas Adolphus Sterne, who came from Germany to Nacogdoches in the early 1820s. Authors up to and including Dallas' late Ruthe Winegarten, who wrote extensively about Texas Jewish history, have unequivocally identified him as Jewish. But Stone's research has established that although Sterne's father was a Jew, his mother was a Lutheran, and he himself married a Roman Catholic and converted to her faith soon afterward.
Not to be missed: Stone's deconstruction of "Ride 'Em, Jewboy," one of Kinky Friedman's best-known songs. Under the author's analytic microscope, abounding double images emerge: a strong conjunction of the macho cowboy with his pejoratively wimpy counterpart; Holocaust echoes in "six million" (cowboy miles ridden, Jewish lives lost) and "rounding up and moving along" both cattle and humans to the slaughter; and more. This coup of literary analysis helps fulfill the book's promise "to explore the full evolution of the Jewish experience in Texas."
Harriet P. Gross is a Dallas freelance writer and a Texas Jewish Post columnist.
The Chosen Folks
Jews on the Frontiers of Texas
Bryan Edward Stone
(University of Texas, $50)


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Heart Disease Health Center
Understanding Heart Disease -- the Basics
In this article
Cardiomyopathy (Heart Muscle Disease)
Diseases of the heart muscle, or myocardium, are collectively referred to as cardiomyopathies. When diseased, the myocardium becomes abnormally stretched, thickened, or stiff. Among the many potential causes of cardiomyopathy are genetic heart conditions, reactions to certain drugs or toxins (such as alcohol), and viral infections. Sometimes, chemotherapy for cancer causes cardiomyopathy. Often, the precise cause of cardiomyopathy is unknown. In any event, either the heart muscle becomes too weak to pump efficiently or stiffening prevents adequate filling of the heart.
When cardiomyopathy progresses to the point of causing serious arrhythmias or heart failure, the outlook for long-term survival is poor.
Sudden death is another outcome associated with some cardiomyopathies, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which results in an abnormally thickened heart muscle. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has claimed the lives of several prominent young athletes.
If cardiomyopathy can be detected and treated early enough, symptoms can often be controlled and heart failure averted for many years. Occasionally, cardiomyopathy is relentlessly progressive despite the best medical management, and heart transplant surgery becomes the only option for long-term survival.
Congenital Heart Disease
Should anything go wrong in the formation of the heart during prenatal development, a baby will be born with one or more congenital heart defects. Such defects are quite common, occurring in about seven of every 1,000 babies.
The exact causes of congenital heart defects are generally hard to pin down; the mother's genes and environmental factors may both contribute. Chromosome abnormalities, including the one that causes Down syndrome, have been linked to many congenital heart defects. Infections contracted during pregnancy by the mother, such as rubella, may also result in congenital heart defects for the child. Congenital heart defects range widely in their effects. Some are apparent immediately, but others do not produce noticeable symptoms until adulthood.
Among the most common congenital heart defects are septal defects, or holes in septum, the wall dividing the left and right sides of the heart. If a septal defect is big enough to cause problems, it can be patched surgically or with a minimally invasive catheter-based procedure. Another frequently seen defect is pulmonary stenosis, a condition in which the pulmonary valve is so narrow that blood flow to the lungs is restricted. With surgery, the valve can be opened or replaced. In some babies, a small fetal blood vessel known as the ductus arteriosus fails to close at birth as it should. This condition, known as patent ductus arteriosus, allows some blood that is headed for the body via the aorta to leak back into the pulmonary artery, placing the heart under added strain. This problem can also be corrected surgically or sometimes with medication.


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Topsham police are working to notify the family members of a man who committed suicide Sunday afternoon.
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Facebook Wants to Bring Links Inside Apps
In an effort to make mobile apps work more like old fashioned Web browsers, Facebook introduced new technology Wednesday called App Links.
The links, which Facebook hopes will become a standard for sharing content in the expanding mobile-app universe, look like Web links, except they direct users to specific areas within mobile apps, instead of Web pages.
"This is how the Web worked and it's awesome. Let's keep it awesome," said Ilya Sukhar, founder of Parse, a mobile-app services company Facebook acquired last year. Sukhar unveiled App Links in a speech at Facebook's f8 conference Wednesday.
Facebook and others are tackling a key problem of the mobile-computing world: Users spend most of their time inside apps, rather than on the Web, but there isn't a standard technology for linking content inside apps.
Google is attempting to tag and index content in mobile apps so that it can expand the reach of its ubiquitous search engine. San Francisco startup URX has developed new types of links for mobile apps.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that the company is banking its global user base of 1.3 billion people to push its standard to the top of the list. "We can help push that along and establish a standard and that's what we're trying to do," he said.
Zuckerberg said Facebook's strategy isn't necessarily at odds with Google's. "Facebook and Google are coming at it from different perspectives," he said. Facebook's goal is to "enable people to share content from different apps," he said, while Google "is more about searching in apps." He suggested that the mobile world may evolve so that "apps just mark up their views with all of these different kinds of things."
One hurdle for mobile app links, Zuckerberg said, is convincing app developers to do the extra work to create them. Web links are basically automatic, whereas app links take an extra step. "The unfortunate situation right now though is that on desktop web or web in general, everything automatically has a URL," he said. "But in mobile, it's the opposite."
Zuckerberg said getting developers to create the URLs will mean showing them there's real value in doing the extra work. If app developers want to appear in searches, they might use Google's standard. If developers want to attract Facebook's billion users with links sending them directly to specific places within their app – like a song on Spotify – they might use App Links, he said.
"Those kinds of killer use cases I think are the thing that's going to drive the adoption of this, but I think it'll be a few years before this is really big," he said.


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Will you recreate history, or rewrite it? In this fast-playing, 2-player strategy game, players take on the role of John F. Kennedy or Richard Nixon vying for the right to lead his country into the heart of the Cold War.
Product Awards
Winner: Two-Player Games, 2008
Best Game of the Year Nominee, 2007
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Christian Leonhard, Jason Matthews
Z-Man Games
Year: 2007
Players: 2
Weight: 1,945 grams
Language Requirements: This is a domestic item.
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Average Rating: 4.5 in 4 reviews
I've played this only once but am quite sure that this is the best election game I have ever played. The cards covering the various events in the Kennedy-Nixon campaign are intriguing and the cube allocation aspect relating to the candidates' power and influence throughout the states, issues and media is fantastic. There is some luck where you draw the cubes blindly out of a bag for what is called support checks keeps the players on their toes but there is plenty of strategy here as well. There is also pieces representing endorsements and momentum markers that can trigger unplayed events that the other player has. Finally there is a turn based solely on the debates which can be fumbled quite easily if not with some careful forethought put into it. The player with the most electoral votes is the winner just like a real presidential election! I thoroughly enjoyed this game and even though you really have to follow the letter of the rules in order for the game to play out fairly it was worth the scouring of the rules.
1960: The Making of the President is another card-driven thematically-drenched game from the mind of Jason Matthews. Like its predecessor Twilight Struggle, 1960: The Making of the President operates in multiple rounds with varying degrees of turns within a round. Unlike Twilight Struggle, this election game is a bit less tense and much easier to play. My first play of the game was with my 13-year-old son, and he easily caught on to the rules.
Players are either Republican candidate Richard Nixon or Democratic hopeful John Kennedy. The game play involves a clever juggling of historical events, shoring up voter support in different states, working to improve media support in different regions of the country, and vying for positions on key debate topics in Defense, Economics, and Civil Rights. With so many different ways to use your precious Campaign Points, it takes advanced planning to score just the right victories. Taking advantage of certain events in the course of the game can have major pay-offs in voter support if you time them just right.
Be sure to set aside key cards early in the game to help you get the lead in the Debate round, and keep a close watch on the East and the Midwest when courting your voters. Mathematically a win in these two regions alone will net you the number of electoral votes you need to win the election.
Watching the way events tend to play out and affect the nine weeks before the election can also help you better understand the changing popularity of candidates in real elections as well. Best of all, 1960: The Making of the President is one of the best looking games out there. The board, although only a map of the United States, has the look of serious politics, right down to the coffee ring stains. The cards are informative and clever, and the wooden blocks, hard cardboard campaign buttons (Momentum Markers) and smaller round Endorsement Markers used in the game make for a much more esthetically pleasing appearance than the much smaller cardboard chits used in Twilight Struggle.
The game has Jason Matthews' signature attention to detail and historic accuracy, and, best of all, when you win the game, you truly feel you have accomplished something even if White House refuses to acknowledge your efforts.
For some time now I've wanted to try out a fairly new board game called, "1960: The Making of the President". Something about it sounded like my kind of game.
I got a chance to play it recently and was so taken with it that I did something I rarely do and played the same game twice in the same night.
1960: TMotP is a 2-player game that immerses you and an opponent into the depths of the famous campaign of 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Before 2000 this was the most contested campaign in US history. It went down to the wire and has been contested and debated by scholars and pundits since.
The game does a tremendous job of bringing home the feeling of being there. It mainly takes place across a large map of the country that features wonderful artwork and a great overall look. The pieces, especially the event cards, are first-rate. They're made of very durable material and look like they'll hold up for years. Plus the detail that went into them is excellent. Seemingly every event and major personality of the time is represented here.
The game takes place over 9 turns. You play 5 turns before heading to the famous debate then two more turns and finally the election itself. During the main turn you choose actions from the event cards to direct your campaign. It's all about resource management. Where do you campaign? How much advertising do you do? How much emphasis will you put it the events of the day (Defense, Economy and Civil Rights)? Do you bother with going for endorsements? How much rest will you require? All of these items must be well balanced and the game does a great job of making them all count in an equally balanced way. If you don't get enough rest then you'll come up short when initiative is at stake or when you need a critical bit of luck.
Battles will wage back and forth. Your candidate will look to be turning the south towards them only to have the other candidate steal it back with timely plays of their own. In both the games I played (against two different players) all three of us were entirely unsure of the outcome. We could just as easily believe we'd win as lose. Tensions ran high as we calculated the final electoral college votes to see who won. Just as in 1960 the necessary count was 269 votes needed to win. As both sides drew closer the tension grew in parallel.
The first game I took over the Kennedy campaign and won by about 40 points or the margin of one large state. In the second I played as Nixon and won by 47 points and again it came down to one or two critical states being the difference. All three of us thought this was one of the best games we've played in a long time. You could look back and lament earlier moves both made and unmade. If only you'd spent one more day in California. If only you didn't waste time in Hawaii.
What's even more interesting is that this would make for a wonderful educational experience. It really does showcase the major elements of any election and provides a historical reference for anyone interested in this particular moment in time. It's all here. Jackie might show up and woo the electorate causing Nixon to have to work much harder to regain momentum. Will Eisenhower endorse Nixon in time or will his silence go on long enough to raise questions? Will the Catholic issue bring Kennedy support or will it hurt him? Will Nixon's "lazy shave" doom the debate for him? Can Kennedy get Lyndon Johnson to join him on the ticket nearly assuring him Texas as a result?
The cards allow for all of these to be present but each game is different as you may get each card at times where you need to go in other directions than those historically followed. Opponents can also play cards that restrict your options.
The bottom line is that I haven't enjoyed a game this much in a very, very long time. I felt invigorated by the whole experience and can't wait to play it again and expose others to it. I can't possibly recommend it enough. It's not the lightest game out there. The manual is a bit lengthy and games can easily run 2 hours but it's worth every minute of it if it sounds even remotely interesting to you. (this is from my blog at http://blog.pcserenity.com)
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