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A Steubenville High School freshman killed in a fire topped the news in January.
State fire marshal investigators believe the fire that killed Lee West, 15, at his 316 Virginia Ave. home on Jan. 31 started in the kitchen in the rear of the two-story, wood-frame house.
At the time, Shane Cartmill, state fire marshal spokesman, said the cause of the fire had not been determined, but investigators found no evidence of criminal intent, he said.
West, a student at Steubenville High School, was found in an upstairs bedroom.
Cartmill said investigators found two smoke alarms in the home, one upstairs and one in the basement. He said it is unknown if the detectors were in working condition.
Steubenville firefighters were called around 5:41 p.m. on Jan?31 and found heavy flames and smoke, especially in the rear of the home.
The firefighters initially were told nobody was inside the home but later were informed that up to three people may have been inside. Firefighters were able to account for two of the people outside the home.
Also in January, a Toronto man was lodged in the Jefferson County jail after allegedly luring and beating two young girls who were on their way home from school on Jan. 3.
Danny Nichols, 30, of 306 Carnegie Court was charged with two counts of felonious assault on a juvenile after police said he allegedly lured and beat two children in a daytime attack while the girls were on their way home from school, according to police Capt. Rick Parker at the time.
"(The juveniles) were walking home after being dropped off from the school bus near Carnegie Court," said Parker, adding the female victims were 12 and 13 years old. Parker said the suspect lured the two by telling them he was watching deer. Parker added the suspect began to assault the victims when they came near.
"He began to physically assault them," Parker said.
Parker said the 12-year-old managed to get away, while the suspect continued to assault the other girl.
"The suspect had the 13-year-old on the ground and continued to assault her," Parker continued. "The 12-year-old ran to call 911 and get help. (The suspect) then got up and picked up a few items he had dropped and left."
Nichols was sentenced by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. in July to three years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of felonious assault.
In other news in January:
Steubenville Council and the Jefferson County Commissioners reached a tentative agreement on Jan. 10 to abolish the inactive city port authority and create a new nine-member county port authority.
The deal reached at a special meeting of city council and commissioners would see the two political entities each appoint four members, with a ninth member to be appointed by the Jefferson County Regional Planning Commission.
The city's appointees were to include a representative from the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, while the commissioners' were to include an appointee from the Steubenville Area Board of Realtors. Appointees will be limited to two full successive terms and cannot be elected officials.
"I want to keep this as non-political as possible. The Community Improvement Corp. will transition into the new port authority and the port authority will become the economic development tool of the county," said Jefferson County Commissioner Tom Gentile.
"We are creating the county port authority to be the premiere economic tool. We hope to keep as many partners from the private sector as possible to continue their financial contributions to Partners in Progress," added Gentile.
The port authority meets every month, and the December meeting saw a significant shift of support from the Community Improvement Corp. to the port authority.
The county commissioners indicated they were willing to provide $100,000 in funding for the authority and cease future funding for the CIC.
A group of Toronto area citizens formed an exploratory committee on establishing a walking and bicycle route through the city.
At the time, organizers were hoping there's enough public support for establishing a pathway through the city to link with the Jefferson County Chamber's planned trails and greenways plan, unveiled last year. The committee, which includes George Komar, Bill Kulstad, Bob Bratt and Bob Merideth, said any proposal would need citizens' input and support.
"I think what we're looking for are streets in Toronto that are safe for bikers and walkers," said Komar at the time, adding the committee and plans are still evolving.
Committee members believed Toronto would be the ideal place for a biking and walking route, citing the city's long, flat streets and scenic river views.
"All over the county there are trails being developed," said Merideth, adding any proposed Toronto route would ultimately link with other trails currently in the planning stages.
The project moved forward, with Toronto establishing a pathway through the city.
Teddy L. Clark, 34, of 527 Clinton St. was indicted on charges of murder and tampering with evidence in connection with a fatal stabbing on Jan. 10.
James E. Daniels Jr., 53, of 990 McKinley Ave. walked into the city police station around 3 a.m. on Jan. 19, saying he had been assaulted. Daniels suffered a deep knife wound to the neck and was profusely bleeding. He lost consciousness at the police station but not before he gave officers some information. Daniels later died at a Pittsburgh hospital.
Daniels told officers he had been with an unknown man at a downtown bar drinking and gave the man a ride to Highland Avenue, where he was assaulted.
Police Detective John Lelless said at Clark's preliminary hearing in municipal court that he obtained video from the bar that showed Daniels and Clark talking at the bar and then leaving together.
Lelless testified that Clark's wife, Shannan, told him that her husband had called her and said, "I'm sorry. I did something very bad."
Lelless testified that Shannon Clark said her husband repeated the statement when he came home. The wife said her husband had blood on his coat, which he placed on a chair before washing blood off his hands at the kitchen sink, Lelless said. The coat was recovered by Lelless during a search warrant.
Lelless also said the wife said her husband told her that Daniels had propositioned her husband for sex and he lost it and stabbed Daniels. The knife used in the stabbing hasn't been recovered.
Clark's trial is scheduled for February.
City Police were searching for clues and a suspect in the Jan. 22 shooting death of Demeatrus Benjamin, 24, outside his 1302 Pennsylvania Ave. home.
Police were called around 4:46 a.m. on Jan. 22 to a reported shooting. Officers found Benjamin outside the home, dead from gunshots.
At the time, Police Chief William McCafferty said witnesses reported hearing seven shots. It isn't known at this time how many times Benjamin was hit with bullets. Shells casings were found at the scene, McCafferty said.
His body was transported to the Cuyahoga County coroner's office for an autopsy. McCafferty said it isn't known if there were any witnesses to the shooting. City officers, Jefferson County sheriff's deputies and troopers from the Ohio State Highway Patrol searched the neighborhood after the shooting. McCafferty said it appears the shooter was waiting for Benjamin to come home. The chief said there are no suspects or motive in the shooting as of this month.
The treasurer of a Toronto organization was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury on Jan. 4 in connection with alleged embezzlement of funds.
Maureen A. Robins, 36, 211 N. Third St., Toronto, was indicted on single counts of theft and forgery.
The Jefferson County Prosecutor's Office in January stated Robins took nearly $8,000 in cash and cashed in a certificate of deposit worth more than $5,000. The alleged embezzlement, which occurred during a two-year period, was from the Red Knight Women's Club, which raised money for youth sports activities in Toronto.
According to Chief Randy Henry, the charges were pursued after City Police conducted an investigation into theft of funds from the organization by some officers, including Robins and Brandy "Bink" Blanton, club president.
Blanton, 32 , 710 Trenton St., Toronto, had admitted her guilt to police for the alleged theft, Henry said.
As of December both had taken plea deals offered by the Jefferson County prosecutor.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department investigated the armed robbery of a bank on Second Street in Bergholz on Jan. 28.
The sheriff's department reported the robber, who was bearing a silver handgun, fled into an alley behind the Bergholz branch of Huntington Bank with a bag of money containing a dye pack that exploded as he ran. The packs are timed to explode after money has been taken, leaving the cash and robber marked with the dye.
Sheriff's deputies said the robber left a trail of dye and cash behind him in the alley.
Indian Creek High School students continued to support Justin Cummings, the 15-year old student involved in the Jan. 15 accidents on state Route 151 near Smithfield, and his family through school fundraising activities.
Cummings suffered lower body paralysis after being ejected from the vehicle when it lost control and slid into a guardrail. He was one of six students involved in two accidents.
Steubenville-based Louis Berkman Co. announced it was putting Follansbee Steel up for sale, citing "sustained unfavorable business conditions" as the culprit. The company had 36 workers.
Officials in Washington County, Pa., celebrated Oklahoma-based Mathena Inc.'s decision to locate in the 147-acre Starpointe Industrial Park, located just off U.S. 22 near Florence, Pa.
Mathena, which supplies surface control equipment the oil and gas industry uses in the well-drilling and completion phases, paid $175,000 for the 3.1-acre pad-ready site, where it constructed a 7,200-square-foot building.
In January a patient at Trinity Health Systems was the first in Ohio, and just the fifth in the U.S., to have an INCEPTA, the world's smallest and thinnest cardioverter defibrillator, implanted in him. The device, used to treat heart failure and sudden cardiac arrest, was implanted in a patient being treated for ventricular arrhythmias by Dr. Maninder Bedi, a Trinity electrophysiologist.
Weirton Medical Center celebrated the opening of its new advanced cardiovascular lab, a $1.3 million upgrade officials said means patients will get faster, more efficient cardiac care. The new system has the ability to capture clear images quickly, while also reducing the risk of complications. The new system, an Allura Xper FD20 X-ray system from Philips, enables physicians to capture and view detailed 3D images of a patient's cardiac vasculature, allowing for faster and more accurate diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease while at the same time exposing patients to less radiation than many other available systems.
State Del. Tim Ennis, D-Brooke, was appointed on Jan. 4 to fill the Brooke County Commission seat held by the late Bernie Kazienko, who died on Dec. 5, 2011, following many years of public service, including as sheriff and county commissioner.
Ennis resigned from his seat in the state House of Delegates, which he had served for nearly 18 years, and Phil Diserio of Follansbee was appointed to serve the remainder of his term. Ennis was elected to the commission seat and Diserio, to the state Delegate position, in November.
Steubenville Council members unanimously approved two new appointees to the city's parks and recreation board in January.
Ken Peterson and Jim Emmerling were appointed to fill vacancies on the recreation board created when Kenny Davis was elected councilman at large and Willie Paul won the 5th Ward council seat.
Davis and Paul resigned from the parks and recreation board in December.
The JB Green Team started a search for a new executive director in January. The board of trustees approved language to advertise for the executive director position that became vacant in December when Jack Cera stepped down from the leadership post of the solid waste authority following his appointment to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Board member Mark McVey was appointed as interim executive director and indicated he will apply for the job. The trustees officially reorganized for 2012 and re-elected Favede, a Belmont County commissioner, as chairperson; Cathy Davison, Steubenville city manager as vice chair person; and Bruce Misselwitz, administrator of the Jefferson County Health Department, as secretary.


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Cool Down
It happens at the end of every ride. You start the cool down and inevitably some participants stop, take a quick stretch and walk out, all in about 30 seconds. It is like the credits rolling at the end of a movie. People are leaving the theatre before the actual end of the film. As an instructor I smile and wish them a fantastic day but inwardly cringe and hope I don't walk into the change room 15 minutes later and find one of them faint or worse passed out.
Many participants don't understand the importance of cooling down properly after a training session. The cool down allows your heart rate and blood pressure to come down to more normal levels, blood shunted to working muscles to recede and become more balanced. It also gives the body a chance to flush out the bi-products of exercise, like lactic acid. The cool down provides the body a smooth transition from exercise back to a steady state. The cool down also helps the mind to transition from exercise back to a calmer state and prepare for whatever is next on the agenda.
Top reasons to cool down:
- Allows heart rate and blood pressure to gradually and safely decrease to pre-exercise state
- Allow breathing rate to gradually decrease back to a normal state
- The body has time to retract the blood sent to muscles during exercise back to the heart and rest of the body
- Allows blood to keep circulating removing waste and preventing it from being trapped in the muscles which helps prevent muscle soreness and prepares the body for the next training session
- Helps prevent dizziness, faintness, nausea and irregular heartbeat
Tips to have participants stick around for the cool down
- Educate participants on the importance of the cool down with some of the points mentioned above. When participants understand the importance and how it contributes to their overall fitness they will be more likely to participate
- Play a song the group likes to hear and even sing to. When participants connect to a song they like they are more likely to stick around
- Make the cool down part of the total journey not an optional add on to the ride
- Schedule the cool down as part of the total class time not an extra 5 or so minutes past the scheduled end time of the class

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Calcium May Help Prevent Hormone Disorder
Oct. 18, 2012 -- Women who supplemented their diets with modest amounts of calcium had a lower risk for the hormone disorder known as primary hyperparathyroidism.
The study, which is published in BMJ, also found that women with diets low in calcium may be more likely to get the disorder, which erodes bones and potentially sets the stage for depression, fatigue, and kidney stones. The research may be a reason to revisit the idea of taking a daily calcium supplement.
Many women shelved their calcium pills last year after an expert panel concluded they don't prevent osteoporosis-related fractures, at least in postmenopausal women. Recent studies have also tied calcium supplements to a higher risk of heart attacks and strokes.
For example, a 2010 report on dietary calcium by the Institute of Medicine concluded that most healthy adults don't need supplements because national surveys show average intakes are adequate.
"The problem is that the average is not exactly what everybody gets," says Bart L. Clarke, MD, an endocrinologist and associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "To take a supplement of about 500 milligrams a day, that amount makes up the difference, really, I think, for what most women's diets might be missing."
"This makes perfect sense to me. As long as they're not taking too much," Clarke says.
The Institute of Medicine recommends that nearly all adults get 1,000-1,200 mg of calcium a day to meet their daily needs for strong bones.
Calcium Levels Linked to a Common Hormone Disorder
For the new study, researchers tracked more than 58,000 women taking part in the long-running Harvard Nurses' Health Study. Every four years, the women were asked about their diets and overall health.
Over the 22 years of the study, 277 women were diagnosed with primary hyperparathyroidism.
In hyperparathyroidism, the parathyroid glands release excess hormones that pull more than the needed amount of calcium out of the bones and then deposit it into the blood.
Diets low in calcium may chronically stimulate the parathyroid glands, which normally work like thermostats. When calcium levels dip, they effectively "turn on" and pull calcium from bone. When there's enough calcium coming in through food and other sources, they shut off. Their job is to keep calcium levels stable.
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Average retail gasoline prices in Nebraska have fallen 2.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.12/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 1,150 gas outlets in Nebraska. This compares with the national average that has not moved in the last week to $3.26/g, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
Including the change in gas prices in Nebraska during the past week, prices yesterday were 14.9 cents per gallon lower than the same day one year ago and are 17.2 cents per gallon lower than a month ago.
The national average has decreased 9.3 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 6.8 cents per gallon lower than this day one year ago.
"With the fresh start of 2013 many motorists have begun seeking information on where gasoline prices will be going for the upcoming year," said GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan. "GasBuddy will be releasing its 2013 forecast this week, available on the GasBuddy Blog, which will highlight not only where we expect gasoline prices to go, but new this year is our diesel forecast, just more tools to help motorists budget and be prepared for what lies ahead," DeHaan said.
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Right now, it's only a closet, but this is just a start.
The Counseling Center at WKU organized the Food Abides food pantry just a few weeks earlier.
"We noticed this trend of people needing the help of things beyond the talking therapy, food and things like that, folks that were struggling. So, we started to discuss at what point could we help out. This idea of food pantry came up as a way to help students who were struggling," said Dr. Brian Van Brunt, WKU Counseling Center.
Coordinator Sarah Arnold said this program helps people who may get lost in the shuffle.
"If you think of the local high schools, and the percentage of students that are on free and reduced lunch, and then they come to college. You might have loans that pay for your tuition, you might have a part time job, but it's probably not going to cover everything," said Arnold.
If you have a WKU ID and are not on the highest meal plan, you are eligible for the program, but you can only get food six times a year.
This is all about helping kids focus on their education.
"To help keep kids in school, because the student who is out looking for a meal, and worried about where they're going to get their next meal, is not going to be making straight A's, and be able to really focus on their education," said Arnold.
They're only open on Mondays and Tuesdays from four to six in the afternoon, but are already helping about ten students on each of those days and organizers hope for more.
"I hope that in a year from now, I have an actual room where i can have shelves and a desk. I'm hoping I can work with some departments on campus such as the social work department," said Arnold.
Now, organizers hope this pantry becomes something much bigger than a closet.
Currently the pantry is on the fourth floor of Potter Hall, but organizers hope they move into a bigger place soon.
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A Boiling Springs man and woman are accused of not supervising a 2-year-old found wandering the streets at night, as well as exposing the toddler to marijuana.
John Calvin Hyder, 31, and Laura Jane Rogers, 24, both of 428 Windy River Road, are each charged with unlawful neglect of a child.
A witness saw the toddler around 7:15 p.m. March 25 walking down Windy River Road with a dog, according to an incident report. The witness told a deputy the small child – who was not wearing shoes – fell and tripped as she walked.
Another deputy canvassed the neighborhood in search of the toddler's parents or guardians.
The Department of Social Services was notified and the toddler was placed into emergency protective custody, according to the report.
Hyder and Rogers were booked into the Spartanburg County Detention Center late Thursday night. Both were released under bond by Friday afternoon, according to a magistrate's office employee.
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I have cervical cancer and will need weekly chemotherapy and daily radiation for six weeks. I am wondering if I should take time off from for the entire treatment course or try to work part time. Can you please give me some advice?
Tracy Lautenbach, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C, Oncology Social Worker at Penn Medicine, responds:
There are many people that continue to work during their treatment. It is really a personal decision and depends on the nature of your work. Many people find it helpful as it provides as a good distraction for them during their treatment. For others they want to take time off and just focus on their treatment. There really is no right answer, but helpful to know your options.
It really depends on how you are physically feeling and the demands of your job. In additional, it is important to have the conversation with your healthcare team on what to except in terms of the side effects of treatment and how you will tolerate them. It is helpful to look into your options at work and to see what is available. Some people use their accrued sick or vacation time if they want to take time off from work. Another option for if you work in a place that has 50 or more employees is the Family Medical Leave act, which protects your job for 12 weeks, either unpaid or paid if you have accrued sick or vacation time.
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www.cancer.org - The American Cancer Society
www.disabilityrightlegalcenter.org -Cancer Legal resource Center
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I'm interested generally in discrete optimization problems formulated as 0-1 integer programs; essentially, anything of the form $$\Phi = \max_{\mathbf{x} \in \left\{0,1\right\} ^N} f(\mathbf{x})$$
My question is this: suppose the original problem is solvable in polynomial time. Now, add a constraint that $x_i = 0$ or $x_i = 1$:
$$\Phi_{x_i;j} = \max_{\mathbf{x} \in \left\{0,1\right\} ^N, x_i=j} f(\mathbf{x})$$
Can you give me an example problem (preferably a moderately well-known combinatorial optimization problem) where $\Phi_{x_i;j}$ can no longer be found in polynomial time?
Alternatively, is there an argument to be made that no such example exists?
Edit: clearly there are cases where a variable can switch between hard and easy problems, so examples will exist. I'm looking for a case that isn't "contrived" in this sense--preferably a well-known combinatorial problem that becomes harder when you condition on a partial solution. Is there some characteristic of functions/problems that describes whether they get harder or easier to solve as you condition on more variable assignments?


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If, on a SharePoint page, I use the Client Object Model, doesn't this pose a massive threat to the SharePoint site by exposing service calls that allow you to completely interrogate and manipulate SharePoint objects?
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For example, how would one say 'More Cuba Libres' in Spanish?
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I mostly hear Cuba libres, my view point is that of a native speaker, not a linguist, so it may not be right, but in matters of languages, how the living language is, is sometimes more important that what books say.
One clear example is Medialunas ( literally half-moon, means croissant ) although sometimes but not often, I've heard medias lunas
You can either write Cuba Libre as:
The problem here is the difference between proper and common Spanish. In proper Mexican Spanish a proper name is never pluralized. For example if there are 3 people named Jose in a room you say "Dale la sopa a los Jose nomas." Give the soup to the Joses only; this is because the name always refers to an individual that cannot be plural. It may sound funny but the proper way to say it is "Dame 3 Cubalibre para mis compañeros". The rules for when to use the plural are very specific in proper Spanish. I found an example back in a previous question about "Buenas Noches." The proper form is if you are addressing an individual you say "Que tengas una buna noche" now if you are addressing a group you say "Tengan buenas noches" it is plural because the night refers to each person so multiple people have there individual night.


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In various forums and articles, it is frequently mentioned that Homelands is one of the worst, if not the worst, Magic the Gathering expansions. Even on the main Wizards website, you will occasionally see this mentioned. Is there any canonical consensus as to what was wrong with the expansion?
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It helps to look at the whole set in Gatherer and think about what you don't see.
Basically it's a set that's full of rather weak creatures and almost nothing else. Have fun turning Spectral Bears sideways!
Mark Rosewater described Homelands this way:
This reputation was further cemented when Wizards tried to "fix" Homelands' unpopularity by adding stupid rules forcing you to use Homelands cards to the first Pro Tour.
What I find surprising isn't so much that Homelands had all these problems but that the original Magic set (Alpha/Beta/Unlimited) largely didn't. Most of the design space of modern-day Magic can be traced directly to about 300 cards in ABU: direct damage, removal, countermagic, bounce, fast mana, mana ramp, card draw, card filtering, tutors, sweepers, tokens, reanimation, X-spells, even morph.
Now, Homelands was never really meant for stand-alone play; note the inclusion of Leeches, for instance, without any in-set poison cards. As a 1995 Duelist article explained:
But, even if you use the core set or previous expansions will make up for them, I think the gaps in the set are still noteworthy as reflections of the designers' general unpreparedness and confusion: Why are there no real burn or removal in Homelands? Because the designers just couldn't seem to get their heads around the role of those things in a game of Magic. Instead you've got way too many narrow cards that try to answer strategies that were mostly too weak to need "answers" anyway.
Overall, it has the feel of someone taking their "kitchen table" dynamic and turning it into a set. I think that's a reflection of the set being designed by folks who weren't really plugged into the ways Magic had developed as a strategic game.
First off, let's clarify; Homelands was "bad" in that it was a poorly designed set for the purposes of playing Magic. This is observable via the incredibly small pool of Homelands cards that have ever seen play in any Constructed format, ever. It was so bad that at the time of Homeland's release when the first Pro Tour was happening, Wizards instituted a rule that each deck had to contain at least five cards from every Standard-legal set in their decks, just so that new the Homelands cards would be showcased in Pro Tour decks.
As for why it was bad, the general consensus is that it was a set designed from a plot and story perspective, with not enough care given to gameplay and mechanics. A good history of the design is given in the reprinted article, Homelands: The Making of a Magic Expansion.
Overall, it just didn't do enough:
Even ignoring all the aforementioned reasons in the others answers, I would simplify saying that it's just not fun to play with.
I tried playing with my friend using only Homelands set cards and it was horrible. You couldn't do any interesting combination, no strategy. You feel powerless, impotent.
A lot of people (kids at the time) bought large quantities of Homelands boosters because they were cheaper than the alternative (Revised, fourth edition, Ice Age, Mirage), only to realise the cards were unplayable. People ended up hating the set.
I'm tempted to mark this question as subjective, but I suppose we can try and look at it from a more objective "what makes magic work" and how you define "bad" viewpoint.
What makes an expansion bad? I can think of two things: how it contributes to the limited environment (drafts, sealed deck tournaments) and how it contributes to the constructed environment (standard, extended, vintage, etc.)
So let's take a look at commons to evaluate how limited for Homelands is like. Ugh. Overcosted, low power creatures, quite often with significant drawbacks or costs for minimal abilities. As just one example, compare Samite Alchemist to that staple of original Magic: Samite Healer.
Now, Samite Healer was never that great to begin with. Two mana for a 1/1 body in white, tap to prevent one damage. So if he's blocking alone, it's like getting 1/2 body for two mana. Of course you could use the healer on other creatures for fancy combat tricks. Still, its impact is fairly minimal.
For Samite Alchemist, you have to pay two more mana for to get a 0/2 body, and to prevent 4 damage (not an insignificant amount, I concede) not only do you have to have two untapped plains to save it, but you also have to give up the use of that creature for next turn. If someone decides to use direct damage before your attack, to save it you must give up two turns of it not attacking.
I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to go through those commons and see how weak they all are. If I remember correctly, the only common to see significant constructed play was Serrated Arrows.
The Uncommons and Rares were also similarly weak and overcosted. The uncommon filter lands were terrible. Here is a list of Homeland cards on Gatherer rated 4 or better. Count 'em. Seven. Not sure how Didgeridoo snuck in there but I suppose it would work well with Changelings. :)
How do you judge an expansion as bad objectively? Well I suppose by the value of the cards, when it came out and over time. I remember when Homelands came out at the height of Magic's initial wave of popularity, and if I remember correctly, its print run quite outstripped demand. This also contributes to it being perceived as the worst expansion, as none of the cards really got to be worth much due to overprinting and low demand.


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Saturday is the birthday of beloved children's author Dr. Seuss.
Last year we took part in the celebration with our take on "The Cat in the Hat," called "The Mouse in the House." This year, inspired by Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham," we ham it up with "Green Eggs, Ham, and Socialsecurity.gov."
I am Guy.
I am online.
That Online-Guy, that online Guy, I do not like that Online-Guy.
Do you like to go online?
I do not like to go online! I do not like it, Online-Guy.
Will you try a site I love?
I will not try that site you love, SocialSecurity.gov.
Will you try it here, or there?
I will not try it here or there. I will not try it anywhere!
I do not want to go online! I do not want to, Online-Guy!
Visit the website from your office computer.
I'll cheer you on! I'll be your rooter!
Try it over bagels and lox!
It takes just minutes - watch the clocks!
Don't bother me here at my desk! Let me be, you online pest!
Would you, could you at the right time of day?
Could you, would you if you don't have to pay?
I will not any time of day! Would you please be on your way?
You'll love the website. You will see.
The online services are free!
These services are not a pain.
Try them on the commuter train!
I don't want to see. Don't be a pain.
Who cares that they're free? I'm leaving the train.
Open a My Social Security account
And see your benefit payment amount.
Do it here! At your kitchen table!
I know that you are more than able.
I will not do it while I eat! I just won't do it, I repeat!
Here's a service you cannot hate:
Get a benefit estimate!
Try it, do! Try it now!
Go online! I'll show you how.
I do not wish for you to show. I only wish for you to go.
Apply for Medicare with me!
Online's where you ought to be!
I will not do that next to you. Phones and offices will do.
But what about when it's time to retire?
Trudge into an office? That seems rather dire!
Online is the way to do it.
Grab your laptop! Let's get to it!
Online-Guy, don't think me picky. But computer apps are awfully tricky.
Nonsense! Do not speak such doom!
Come now, to your living room.
We'll finish your business in a zoom!
Not now. Maybe someday later.
I've always been a procrastinator.
Will you log on from your bed?
Try the website! Go ahead!
Leave my house and close the door! Leave and bother me no more!
I do not want to go online! I do not want to, Online-Guy!
But you go online for all your mail.
You shop online when there's a sale.
Online banking pays the bill.
You'll love socialsecurity.gov. You will!
Guy if you will let me go,
I'll try the website. Then you'll know.
Say! I like Social Security Online! I do! I like it, Online-Guy!
And I'll create an account, and see my benefit payment amount.
I'll use my Social Security, and get an estimate - just for me.
I'll use the website to retire, and for Medicare! Guy, I'm on fire!
There's fun stuff on this website too, like baby names and history, too!
I'll use this website in my home, and at my office, and when I roam,
I'll use it here and use it there. Say! I'll use it everywhere!
I do so like Social Security Online.
Thank you! Thank you, Online-Guy.
You'll fall in love with the website, too!
Socialsecurity.gov waits for you.
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The 7 Lamest Fight Scenes of All Time
Great directors draw from the fight scene palette of roundhouse kicks, explosions and snappy one-liners to paint frame-worthy movie and television battles. These are not those directors.
7. Saved by the Bell
Slater versus Zach
Combatants: A. C. Slater (Mario López) versus Zach Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar)
Why it sucks: This fight looks remarkably like a real scrap between high schoolers, which is exactly why it sucks. High school fights are terrible. There's usually one thrown punch (which never lands) before the adolescent gladiators awkwardly lean into each other, tumble to the ground, and commence clumsy wrestling. Slater and Morris might nail that perfectly in this scene but there was no reason. We all watched enough of this stuff in our high school gym class.
Highlight: When Slater complains, "Hey you started it man, making me look like a jerk at the Max," Zach replies "Well, that's what you are." Harsh.
6. The Godfather
Sonny versus Carlo
Combatants: Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo) versus Sonny Corleone (James Caan)
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I'm using 2 monitors with Ubuntu 11.04 and can't for the life of me figure out how to move the Unity Dash/Taskbar/whatever to where I want it (the far left side of the left monitor). No matter what I do it remains on the left side of the right hand monitor. Has anyone else figured out a way to achieve this?
The Unity launcher only appears on the primary monitor. You can adjust the monitors in the Monitors application (available from the Dash) to reconfigure your monitors accordingly.
This can be set by adding the line to xorg.conf. Take attention to select desired monitor's section.
I can confirm this worked for me with ATI Radeon card + manufacturer's driver: Catalyst 11.9 (Ubuntu 11.04). Maybe also applicable under different configs.
I had the same problem needed to move DASH to left monitor. Opened the display app, and just disabled the right monitor, and re-enabled it.
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Which is grammatically correct?
Sophia woke up by the rattling sound of her washing machine.
Sophia woke up to the rattling sound of her washing machine.
Which is grammatically correct?
The first sentence is not what I would consider normal, idiomatic, native-speaker English and should be this:
The second sentence is grammatically correct and standard English.
Except in an extremely contrived context, I don't think OP's first example is valid. Google Books returns just 205 instances of woke by the sound, and it seems to me almost all of those have the verb form wrong. They should be woken by the sound, which itself returns 15,300 hits.
Note that although the by form is normally used in the context of unplanned awakenings, it can be used of a deliberate method - I made sure I woke [up in time] by using a loud alarm clock.
Actually they both seem grammatically correct. 1st one seems to say that she actually woke up "due to the" rattling sound and the 2nd one seems to suggest that she woke up by herself but heard the rattling sound going on.
Yes, both are grammatically correct; it really depends on what you want to express. If you want to say that she woke up because of the rattling, then use the first one. If you want to say that she woke up on her own accord, then use the second one. However, having said that, the first one would be better stated if you said, she woke up "from" the rattling sound.
I don't know what this means. It does not sound right to me. And it certainly isn't idiomatic. I would guess it means one of the following two statements, but I wouldn't know which.
The sound of her washing machine was the first thing Sophia was aware of when she woke up. (I, myself, would be inclined to omit the up in this example sentence, but perhaps that's just me.)
(Bill Franke's suggestion.)
When Sophia woke up, she was beside her washing machine.
The first one ("by") suggests the cause of her awakening.
The second ("to") suggests that there was an incidental sound at the time she awoke.
They are both correct in common use but have different meanings.


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I am back from the street fair and am utterly exhausted. But, I am happy to report that my bake table was a complete success and I made about $220 for the school. The lemon currant rolls were the biggest hit and sold out in about 15 minutes, followed by the rustic bread and whole wheat bread. The baguettes were also a great seller. Surprisingly, the white bread was almost last to go. Of course, people didn't realize that that bread took three days to make with various fermentations, so maybe I need to come up with a sexier name for it next time. The only thing left were about a dozen hamburger buns. The pic above is everything in my kitchen before I hauled it over to the street fair.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Bake Sale Success!
22 comments:
- Teresa said...
YOU GO, Vegan Dad!!!!!!!!
It's clear to see that you had an extremely successful bake sale today, and I'm positive you have the best blog on the World Wide Web!
I hit your site AT LEAST once a day to see what's shakin' and bakin' in Canada. You're a big help and inspiration. Vegan Mom and Sons 1, 2, and 3 are blessed to have you in the kitchen!
- June 7, 2008 at 3:52 PM
- Celine said...
if anyone deserves to kick back and relax now, that would definitely be you.
- June 7, 2008 at 4:07 PM
- Catofstripes said...
Well done for all that effort and dedication. I am in awe. Enjoy your break.
- June 7, 2008 at 4:16 PM
- kindkitchen said...
Congrats on the Bloggy award--you definitely deserve it!! :]
That bread looks really good. Are you going to post the recipes you used? I actually just made my 1st loaf of homemade bread last night and it came out...ok. It was really dense. I got the recipe off of the back of the bag of flour.
Have fun at the lake!
- June 7, 2008 at 4:49 PM
- kindkitchen said...
oops, I just found the recipes hehe
duh, nevermind!
- June 7, 2008 at 4:49 PM
- Animal-Friendly said...
Congrats on your bake sale! Glad to see that all of your hard work really paid off!
- June 7, 2008 at 5:49 PM
- Virginia said...
congratulations! you are amazing, i love to cook and bake but I don't have the patience to be in the kitchen making all of that all day! Kudos to you for being able to!
- June 7, 2008 at 6:03 PM
- Veg-a-Nut said...
What a beautiful site and wonderful success! Everything looks so tasty. Boy, the people in your neck of the woods are truly blessed! Enjoy your relaxation!
- June 7, 2008 at 6:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
your presentation is so beautiful and professional! no wonder people thought you have a bakery. everything looks phenomenal!
- June 7, 2008 at 6:31 PM
- Lisa (Show Me Vegan) said...
Wow, what a surprise to find your fantastic new blog style. And your baked goods look beautiful. Enjoy your break!
- June 7, 2008 at 6:42 PM
- VeganView said...
CONGRATS Vegan Dad!!!!!
You definitely have the most inspiring and delicious blog on veganism! I am so glad VegNews recognized you!
Also, the bake sale goodies look amazing :)
- June 7, 2008 at 6:50 PM
- Eesh said...
Oh wow! It looks even more impressive in picture! Too bad I'm all the way on the other side of the country I would have definitely stopped by to buy at least one of each!
I liked the comment about the bakery. Did you tell them it was all done up chez vegan dad? hehe
- June 7, 2008 at 6:51 PM
- Lisa Dempster said...
Your bake sale table looks gorgeous!
- June 7, 2008 at 6:59 PM
- Ron said...
Ever thought about moving to the Blue Mountains? I would REALLY love to have you for a neighbour! :-)
- June 8, 2008 at 5:10 AM
- Sharon R said...
Your baked goods look better than our local market's (Whole Foods) and we thought they had the best in our area. I feel inspired to try one of the recipes if the temperature wasn't going to mid 90's today! Everyhing looks SOOO good I can't decide which to make first.
- June 8, 2008 at 6:58 AM
- Renae said...
All of your baked goods look amazing - I'm not surprised your sale was such a success!
- June 8, 2008 at 12:15 PM
- Ricki said...
That is one impressive table! Everything looks fabulous. And so glad it was a success--congratulations!
- June 8, 2008 at 5:52 PM
- Stacey said...
That picture is a little bit like what I think Heaven might be like... Can't wait to try some of the recipes!
- June 8, 2008 at 7:33 PM
- Happy Herbivore! said...
one man bakery. I'm still inspired and amazed!
- June 8, 2008 at 11:48 PM
- mom said...
I had to try the fastest seller - the lemon currant rolls - super success! Possibly a new variation of the Christmas breakfast!
- June 9, 2008 at 5:15 AM
- Maggie said...
Oh, my! This is impressive and inspiring.
Glad you raised a bunch of dough (har har).
- June 10, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
I wish I had said that. Nothing beats a delicious pun.
- June 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM


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This question arises from the talk by Voevodsky mentioned in this recent MO question. On one of his slides, Voevodsky says that
a general formula even with one free variable describes a subset of natural numbers for which one can prove, using an argument similar to the one which is used in Goedel's proof, that there is not a single number n which can be shown to belong to this subset or not to belong to it.
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Last Modified: September 30, 2005
Source: Cancer. 2005 Jun 15;103(12):2447-54.
Authors: Santiago RJ, Harris EE, Qin L, Hwang WT, Solin LJ.
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
In breast cancer, invasive lobular cancers (ILC) are rarer than invasive ductal cancers (IDC), and the majority of the large randomized trials establishing the efficacy of breast conserving treatment have been dominated by patients with ductal histology. A few retrospective studies have suggested that ILC has a higher local recurrence rate and recurrences are multifocal and multicentric. Therefore, some have questioned whether breast conserving treatment is also appropriate for lobular histology.