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Does a cubic graph with $2n$ vertices admit a minimal cover with $n-1$ vertices?
A subset of vertices $S$ in a graph $G$ is called a dominating set if every vertex in $G$ is in $S$ or is connected to a vertex in $S$. The size of the smallest dominating set in a graph is called the domination number of $G$.
Even though your question asks about a minimum (vertex/edge) covering, what you seem to be interested in is the dominating number of a cubic graph. Not only does the domination number satisfy the bound in your question, but it can be improved further. Bruce Reed showed in "Paths, stars, and the number three", Combin. Probab. Comput. 5 (1996) 277--295, that every cubic graph has its domination number bounded by $3|V|/8$, where $|V|$ is the number of vertices in your graph. The bound is achieved for some graphs on 8 vertices. This bound has been more recently improved on by Kostochka and Stodolsky. I believe the conjectured best bound is $5|V|/14$, but it is not known if infinitely many graphs achieve it.
Pick any vertex. It is adjacent to three other vertices. Now repeatedly pick an edge joining two vertices, call them $x$ and $y$, such that $y$ has not yet been accounted for, and choose $x$. Each such choice adds one more to the vertices accounted for. When you've exhausted the graph, you've picked $n-1$ vertices such that each of the other $n+1$ vertices is adjacent to at least one of the $n-1$.
Dear Gjergji Zaimi, thank you for your reply but I think there is something wrong with this value $ 3 | V | / $ 8 because the following cubic graph, http://www.dharwadker.org/independent_set/fig2a.gif, has 6 vertices and a dominating set with three vertices. Is not This?
Looks wrong. The Heawood graph is 3-regular on 14 vertices and its vertex cover is 7.


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Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution (Hardcover)
What happens when a renowned river guide teams up with the CEO of one of the largest and least Earth-friendly corporations in the world? When it's former Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott and white-water expert turned sustainability consultant Jib Ellison, the result is nothing less than a green business revolution.
Wal-Mart long the target of local businesses, labor advocates, and environmentalists who deplore its outsourced, big-box methods has embraced an unprecedented green makeover, which is now spreading worldwide. The retail giant that rose from Sam Walton's Ozarks dime store is leveraging the power of 200 million weekly customers to drive waste, toxics, and carbon emissions out of its stores and products. Neither an act of charity nor an empty greenwash, Wal-Mart's green move reflects its river guide's simple, compelling philosophy: that the most sustainable, clean, energy-efficient, and waste-free company will beat its competitors every time. Not just in some distant, utopian future but today.
From energy conservation, recycling, and hybrid trucks to reduced packaging and partnerships with environmentalists it once met only in court, Wal-Mart has used sustainability to boost its bottom line even in a tough economy belying the age-old claim that going green kills jobs and profits. Now the global apparel business, the American dairy industry, big agriculture, and even Wall Street are following Wal-Mart's lead, along with the 100,000 manufacturers whose products must become more sustainable to remain on Wal-Mart's shelves. Here Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Edward Humes charts the course of this unlikely second industrial revolution, in which corporate titans who once believed profit and planet must be at odds are learning that the best business just may be a force of nature.
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Edward Humes is the author of ten critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including Eco Barons, Monkey Girl, Over Here, School of Dreams, Baby E.R., Mean Justice, No Matter How Loud I Shout, and the bestseller Mississippi Mud. He has received the Pulitzer Prize for his journalism and numerous awards for his books. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, and Sierra. He lives in California.


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A weekend fire that gutted a rent house in the 200 block of East Webb Street in Carmi was likely caused by a lit cigarette.
Carmi Fire Chief Larry Hite and an investigator from the Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office combed through the house Monday and made the determination based on the evidence at the scene and interviews with the renter, Roger Raymond.
Hite said it appeared Raymond had been smoking a cigarette and fell asleep. He later awakened to a smoke-filled house. He was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
Carmi firefighters were called to the 600 block of North Sixth Street around 9 a.m. Tuesday (today) on a report of smoke coming from a clothes dryer.
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Is it possible for plates, tiles or small pieces ? Is it possible to use MLCAD with a Makerbot replicator?
LDview can directly export LDraw files to .STL. But the problem is that the mesh obtained may not be suitable for 3D printing, many of LDraw parts are not "watertight", or contain surfaces inside the part volume (eg. suds are simply lain on flat top surface).
(fair warning: I work for a 3D printer company [Type A Machines])
I thought this cross-posting up on the RepRap forum would be useful here: http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,114024,114024
Summarizing that post: It is possible to 3D print lego-compatible parts on desktop 3D printers, but with caveats:
...but with those caveats, its totally doable. The holes I printed stuck quite nicely to the top of a standard lego 8x8 plate. Of course, its crazy to try and print any standard lego/technic brick...Lego corp does that so much better than you ever will. The interesting thing is making custom pieces that you'll never see from Lego. There are a lot of interesting 3D designs out there that - with the methods above - allow you to turn them into a lego component.
You can't directly export from MLCad to the .STL format that the Makerbots require, but there are workflows you could probably set up.
MLCad doesn't really have many export options, so you're better off using something like LeoCAD which can read .ldr files from MLCad, and export as other formats.


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Eat the Rainbow for Your Eyes
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Yellow: Corn, Eggs
Corn (and corn tortillas) are good sources of lutein, fiber and B vitamins. And don't toss out those egg yolks! Yolks are an excellent source of many nutrients, including lutein. Try wrapping scrambled eggs in a corn tortilla for a quick breakfast on the go.


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When I connect to a VPN, all my network traffic is automatically routed through it. Is there a way to add exemptions to that? I don't know if adding exceptions has anything to do with the VPN protocol, but the VPN I'm using is of the OpenVPN protocol.
Speaking of OpenVPN, why is it not installed by default on Ubuntu installs unlike PPTP?
I could not get the list of IRCHighWay's servers, and this is the result I get trying to connect on XChat with running the bash script running:
* Looking up irc.irchighway.net
* Connecting to irc.irchighway.net (126.96.36.199) port 6667...
* Connected. Now logging in...
* You have been K-Lined.
* *** You are not welcome on this network.
* *** K-Lined for Open proxies are not allowed. (2011/02/26 01.21)
* *** Your IP is 220.127.116.11
* *** For assistance, please email firstname.lastname@example.com and include everything shown here.
* Closing Link: 0.0.0.0 (Open proxies are not allowed. (2011/02/26 01.21))
* Disconnected (Remote host closed socket).
The IP
184.108.40.206 is the one due to my VPN. I had forgotten to check
ip route list before running the script, and this is the one after running it:
~$ ip route list
220.127.116.11 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 22.214.171.124
18.104.22.168 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 proto static
18.104.22.168 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 src 192.168.1.3
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.3 metric 2
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link metric 1000
default dev ppp0 proto static
Oh and running the script returned this output:
~$ sudo bash irc_route.sh
Usage: inet_route [-vF] del {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [gw Gw] [metric M] [[dev] If]
inet_route [-vF] add {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [gw Gw] [metric M]
[netmask N] [mss Mss] [window W] [irtt I]
[mod] [dyn] [reinstate] [[dev] If]
inet_route [-vF] add {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [metric M] reject
inet_route [-FC] flush NOT supported
I ran the script after connecting to the VPN.


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SharePoint 2010 FireStarter (Session 3): SharePoint 2010 Developer Tools
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 contains a new set of tools for developing with Microsoft SharePoint. These tools make developing SharePoint applications as easy as any other .NET applications. The tools include project templates for many of the SharePoint application types such as web parts, modules, application pages, workflows, event receivers and others.
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Growing up in Batesville, MS, I had many great teacher role models. I suppose I have always been a teacher. I was the one who asked for extra handouts to take home and "teach" my pets and stuffed animals, then later I practiced on the kids at VBS and Sunday School. I love learning, so a career in education interested me. After graduating from South Panola High School, I entered MC as a Freshmen and began preparing for the teaching profession. I received a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Education at Mississippi College and went on to teach elementary, middle and junior high students. I also earned a Ph.D in Educational Leadership from the University of Mississippi and began my teaching career at Mississippi College.
At MC I serve as Chair for the Department of Teacher Education and Leadership, as well as the sponsor for Nenamoosha and Kappa Delta Pi. You can usually find me somewhere in Lowrey Hall!
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Connect to and Share Files with Other PCs on Your Network
Click the Start menu and choose Network.
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DILLONVALE - Students and teachers in the Buckeye Local School District are moving closer to the day when smart boards, texts and other support resources will be installed and more easily accessible to students at every grade level and in each building.
During Monday's regular meeting of the district school board, Angela Hicks, administrative assistant for federal programs, reported on several ongoing efforts to make educational technology more readily available throughout the district.
She also discussed the district's efforts to combat cyber bullying, steps being taken to make students and parents aware of the problem and to provide informational resources to help combat the problem.
Hicks told board members of efforts to secure grant funds and other awards to increase funding for technology purchases and related improvements. She noted several individual teachers from within the district have made personal efforts to secure grants for technology purchases.
She said district representatives will be meeting with other educational entities from across the region to seek access to grant money and resources through the strength of a combined approach to application processes.
Unfortunately, the district's buildings are not able to benefit from fiber optic networks because regulations prohibit installation of lines that would cross over or go under certain types of infrastructure, such as railroad tracks.
Needs for substantial increases in broadband resources at each building have been reviewed and adjustments made, or are being made, in preparation for the addition of more technological resources to be installed in classrooms.
Hicks praised the efforts of Vince Pastre, the district's computer technologies manager, for his work with assessing, updating and installing technology resources.
Board members previously approved earmarking money generated by gas and oil lease agreements to help fund the purchase of 31 Smart Boards, some of which will be in areas now home to recently purchased English and Language Arts text materials, and also to math texts.
These purchase decisions were made in anticipation of the district's purchase of the special high-tech white boards, which allow teachers to access and share lesson planning and related support resources with their students.
The board also approved the hiring of Rick DeLuca as the new boys varsity head basketball coach and Greg Novak as the eighth-grade basketball coach.
The board's next meeting has been scheduled for 6 p.m. Dec. 17 in the administrative offices in Dillonvale.


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Two Cities, Two Americas
Nobody claimed it was the best of times. Either it was the worst of times, as the Republicans insisted in Tampa, or it could have been even worse, as the Democrats replied in Charlotte. Each nominating convention competed to present the more convincing demonology. The Republicans, for whom history began in 2009 and Congress does not exist, have blamed President Barack Obama for everything from the deficit spawned by his predecessor's wars and tax cuts to the lingering consequences of the Great Recession. Vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan, vying to set a new record for most falsehoods in a single televised convention address, not only mangled the historical record on the economy, health care, welfare, and Medicare, he contended that the Obama administration had done exactly what it set out to do. Republican speakers wagered that Americans would ignore their party's deliberate and almost entirely successful effort to block every measure that might have addressed the related problems of unemployment and flagging consumer demand. The president could then be held responsible for Americans' economic woes, continuing unrest in the Middle East, and every other nightmare alarming potential Republican voters: rampant abortion, gay marriage, illegal immigration, and the hurricane bearing down on Florida. In response to that litany of charges, Democratic officials, scarcely looking beyond their "things could have been worse" mantra, repeatedly invoked the resurrection of General Motors and the death of Osama bin Laden. Conveniently forgetting their own complicity in the economic deregulation of the 1990s, they have blamed Republican intransigence for everything else.
An insatiable craving for the newest news drives commentary on American politics. Dozens of angles have come and gone in recent months, as writers and talking heads have proposed new story lines only to drop them after just a few days. The economy dwarfed every other issue—until it didn't. Foreign policy didn't matter—until it did. CEO Romney and policy-wonk Ryan were riding a wave of antigovernment sentiment—until they weren't. Romney's wealth and disdain for all but the wealthy would sink him—until it didn't. Obama the reclusive, bloodless deliberator had to grow a backbone and start giving fiery speeches to inspire Democrats and independents—until he let Bill Clinton handle that chore at the convention.
In the weeks after Obama's acceptance speech, the media's interest in the election as horse race has nearly blotted out the substance of the president's address and its relation to the broader themes of the Republican and Democratic campaigns. As attention ricochets almost hourly with momentum shifts, and as millions of dollars are raised and spent in swing states from New Hampshire and Florida to Colorado and Nevada, trivial scoops crowd out the substantive issues. If pundits are inevitably drawn to the latest gaffe or poll, historians should take a longer view. That's my goal here. Only by refusing to play the soothsayer can one escape the danger of inaccurate predictions.
The juxtapositions between the two conventions were jarring and emblematic. In the space of just a couple of weeks, Americans watched as the jagged fragments of their nation seemed to drift further apart. Republicans reveled in the glories of private enterprise, marveled at the promise of unregulated capitalism, and denigrated those who look to government rather than the free market for solutions. By contrast, Democrats celebrated togetherness and ridiculed the selfishness of those who trumpet American individualism and neglect the importance of community. In Charlotte, one of the "nuns on the bus," the effervescent Sr. Simone Campbell, flatly denied that the Romney-Ryan plan to slash domestic spending jibes with the convictions of American Christians who care about the plight of the poor. She invoked the criticism of Ryan's budget leveled by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Ignoring the bishops' myopic focus on abortion (see Cathleen Kaveny's "The Single-Issue Trap"), Campbell cheerfully exhorted her listeners to be their sisters' and brothers' keepers rather than acolytes of self-reliance. Massachusetts's Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, not known for quoting Scripture on the stump, recited Matthew 25:40 and elicited boisterous assent from Democrats eager to remember "the least of these my brethren." Michelle Obama endorsed her husband, and Joe Biden his running mate, by defiantly restating the creed of the 2012 Democratic Party: We all built this nation together. Exonerated in the court of public opinion and reconciled with the Obama presidency, Bill Clinton skillfully exposed Ryan's whoppers, punctured the Republicans' supply-side fantasies, and offered convincing evidence of sustained economic growth during Democratic presidencies. Clinton's barnburner reminded any Americans who might have forgotten just how tragic it was that he squandered the enormous promise of his presidency. When he proclaimed that we are not individuals but a community, not alone but together, and not independent but responsible for each other, he was sounding chords already struck by speakers who preceded him, but for twenty years nobody in American politics has played the communitarian tune better than he does.
Obama's acceptance speech, according to critics and commentators, failed to eclipse Clinton's address. It was less feisty, less partisan, more subdued—in short, just another in the string of disappointments that began with his inauguration. But in the flurry of Monday-morning quarterbacking and savvier-than-thou assessments, few journalists paid much attention to the striking continuity between Obama's most prominent speech of this summer and the one that first brought him to national prominence eight years ago. Offering a resounding tribute to America, including its record of social mobility and expanding inclusiveness, its boundless promise because of its vibrant economic system, its democratic political institutions, and above all its balancing of individualism and community, Obama in 2004 made clear that his hope for the nation rested on his conviction that America cannot be "sliced and diced" into blue and red, conservative and liberal, because "we are all one people." Reprinted in the best-selling 2004 edition of Dreams from My Father, Obama's speech at the Boston convention highlighted the signature commitments of his political career, including affordable health care, accessible higher education, renewable energy, rebuilding families and stable neighborhoods through individual responsibility, restoring jobs in manufacturing, and ensuring a strong military because, as he put it, America does have "real enemies in the world."
Those themes of moderation and balance, especially his refusal to embrace standard Democratic nostrums and his emphasis on individual initiative and the productive power of a market economy, have run through all of Obama's speeches and both of his books. They surface in Dreams and emerge even more sharply in the accounts of American history and the economic and political analysis offered in The Audacity of Hope. Although Republicans excoriate Obama as a socialist bent on destroying capitalism at home and apologizing for American power abroad, their demonology was as empty as the chair to which Clint Eastwood delivered his bewildering soliloquy in Tampa. Obama's record, from his days as a community organizer through his years at the Harvard Law School and his service in the Illinois legislature and the U.S. Senate, shows that he has been committed to incremental progress through persuasion rather than arm twisting, painstaking consensus-building rather than power politics. He has consistently refused to denigrate the integrity or deny the intelligence of those who disagree with him. His steadfast commitment to respecting his foes, of course, has infuriated his most enthusiastic liberal supporters, who projected onto him their own dogmatic certainties and their own disrespect of their opponents. Even in Charlotte, where he gently mocked the Republicans' reliance on tax cutting and deregulation as their only ideas, he embraced Franklin Roosevelt's "spirit of experimentation" and again proclaimed his unflagging eagerness for bipartisan solutions because "no party has a monopoly" on good ideas. Obama's detailed treatment of American history in Audacity shows that his commitment to deliberative decision-making is not merely strategic. Instead it springs from his sober understanding that democracy requires a willingness to cooperate. Intransigence, as Americans have long understood and as we have seen demonstrated since the Republican takeover of the House in 2010, brings democracy to a halt.
In his Charlotte speech Clinton had described, in surprising detail, just how hard Obama tried to conjure up some consensus on health care in the early months of his presidency. Obama's passion for working across the aisle is not naïve. Nor is it a sign of his inexperience. It is grounded instead in his conviction that, as he put it, "no democracy works without compromise." The intractable and unprecedented opposition of Republican legislators derailed almost everything Obama tried to accomplish in his first term, which is why his explicit endorsement of bipartisanship in Charlotte deserves attention. In a detailed profile of the president in the September 6 edition of the New York Times, Peter Baker showed just how much Obama's commitment to conciliation had cost him and insisted that the president had learned his lesson. Now, Baker concluded, Obama would play hardball. Although members of the White House staff, many elected Democratic officials, and almost all Americans on the left seem to share Baker's impatience with Obama's conciliatory approach, the president's own words, quoted at the end of the article, tell a different story: "My expectation is that after the election, now that it turns out the goal of beating Obama doesn't make much sense because I'm not running again, that we can start getting some cooperation again." Without such cooperation, as the president appears to understand better than those urging him to get tough, his second term might be less successful than his first.
Despite unwavering Republican opposition, the Obama administration can take credit for more than saving GM and killing bin Laden. The consequences will not be pretty, but the president did end America's folly in Iraq and has begun to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Notwithstanding their serious limitations, Obamacare and Dodd-Frank's re-regulation of the financial sector rank as historic achievements. The $800 billion stimulus enacted at the beginning of his presidency, although much maligned by critics on the left who insist it should have been even bigger, was the most the president could persuade reluctant and grumbling members of his own party to accept. Although the American Recovery Act did not end the recession, the stimulus clearly did make a difference, as Michael Grunwald details in The New New Deal. It kept the poverty rate, admittedly awful, from rising even faster. It included funds not only to extend eligibility for Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment compensation, the child tax credit, and the earned-income tax credit, but also for early childhood education, student loans, new forms of renewable energy, rent subsidies, and emergency housing. The stimulus package also included tax breaks for most low-income workers, savings that were deliberately kept invisible to maximize the likelihood that the money would be spent rather than saved.
Will the results of these admirable initiatives, now finally coming to light, be sufficient to win the support of independent voters at a time when Republicans insist more than ever on the folly of economic intervention? Will invocations of togetherness, community, and responsibility be enough to give Democratic Party candidates an edge in November? The answers are hardly clear. Yet by committing themselves fully and unambiguously to those ideals, and to the political and economic policies consistent with them, the Democratic Party's leaders aligned themselves squarely with their president's convictions and with their party's own traditions, from Woodrow Wilson and FDR through Lyndon Johnson. The Democrats also signaled to the American people their opposition to the Republicans' chorus of free-market triumphalism.
In Tampa Mitt Romney declared that Republicans oppose redistribution, a theme that has now become the drumbeat of his campaign. A growing number of voters are aware, however, that since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 Americans have experienced the most dramatic redistribution of wealth in our history. That redistribution, made possible not only by unprecedented tax cuts for the wealthy but also by the deliberate loosening of restrictions on the financial sector, showered fortunes on canny investors who, after profiting handsomely, walked away from the chaos left by their deal-making. Although much higher tax rates on the wealthy failed to blunt economic expansion in the three decades after World War II, lower tax rates since 1980 have enriched a lucky few and hurt millions who have watched the buying power of their incomes shrink. Dollars that could have gone elsewhere—to increasing the minimum wage, retraining workers in manufacturing after their jobs were outsourced, investing in new sources of energy, or renewing America's once stable and now sagging infrastructure—were siphoned off to line the pockets of new billionaires.
But the Republicans' morality tale of righteous capitalists and perfidious moochers denies the clear evidence of what happened in those two eras. The first carried millions of working Americans into the middle class; the second, stretching from the late 1970s to the present, squeezed millions downward toward poverty. Even Paul Ryan, whose 2009 campaign video shows him enthusiastically endorsing the libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand for doing "a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism," conceded that government assistance enabled his mother to start a new life after his father's death. Yet such examples of government programs that help "worthy" Americans, including military spending, agricultural price supports, Social Security, and (for the moment at least) Medicare, seem not to make a dent in Republicans' increasingly shrill opposition to all assistance for those deemed unworthy "takers," particularly those whose skin color or national origin make their status as Americans, like President Obama's, suspect.
For decades, as E. J. Dionne first showed in Why Americans Hate Politics, opinion polls have demonstrated consistently that American voters cluster toward the middle on most issues. In recent weeks, as Obama's prospects for reelection have brightened, Gallup surveys have confirmed that the strident antigovernment rhetoric applauded in Tampa is dramatically inconsistent with the views of large majorities of American voters. When asked, between two thirds and three quarters of voters reject a larger defense budget, a shrunken Social Security system, a privatized Medicare program, and bigger tax breaks for the wealthy. In short, they express little sympathy with the Republican Party platform. The tightness of the presidential race—and the apparent lead of so many Republican candidates for Congress—seems all the more puzzling for that reason. Of course the explanation, as countless studies have shown, lies with cross-cutting cultural issues such as gun control, gay marriage, and, above all, abortion, which Republicans (and sometimes Democrats) have successfully exploited in recent decades. What is to be done?
It's worth remembering that FDR could count on another Ryan, "Right Reverend New Dealer" John Ryan, and other like-minded clergy and lay Catholics to make clear to working-class Americans the congruence between progressive social and economic policies and Catholic social thought. These days, however, perhaps because of the chill emanating from an increasingly conservative hierarchy, progressive Catholic clergy are less visible. For that reason in particular, progressive Catholic laypeople must make clear that our commitment to a consistent ethic of life is not confined to the time between conception and birth, or to the final days before death, or to questions of sexuality. Progressive Democrats need to internalize the consistent message of Obama's own writings: people on the other side are not fools or knaves. They simply understand the shared American values of liberty, equality, and moral obligation in a different way, and they cherish a different balance among those principles. Democrats should reach out to those with whom they can make alliances, and that includes women and men who disagree with them on many issues. If demonizing their opponents as the dependent 47 percent makes no sense for Republicans, neither does demonizing prolifers and gun owners help Democrats advance the larger goals of effective freedom and greater equality for all Americans. Joe Biden's eloquent speech at the convention made clear how much he shares with Sr. Simone, but whereas she made explicit the religious foundation of her politics, the vice president did not even mention his Catholicism. Catholics should follow her lead, not his.
If Obama does win a second term, it will be less frustrating than his first only if the American electorate returns a Congress willing to cooperate with him despite the inevitable differences between more individualist Republicans and more communitarian Democrats. Such disagreements are perennial. The rhetoric is sharper these days, but the criticism of an activist federal government is as old as the Anti-Federalists' objections to ratifying the Constitution. American history shows that no matter who is elected president, those disagreements will be debilitating only if Congress is dominated by people more committed to partisan dogma than to bringing into focus a shared vision of that most elusive American ideal, the common good. That can happen only through compromise.
In Charlotte, Obama stated his party's principles in words that echo the balanced formulations of his earlier speeches and his books. On the one hand, he called "our free enterprise system the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever known," and he insisted that "we don't want handouts for people who refuse to help themselves." On the other, he invoked the "word at the very heart of our founders and of our democracy," citizenship, with all the obligations that concept carries.
We understand that this democracy is ours. We, the people, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights, that our destinies are bound together, that a freedom which asks only what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism is unworthy of our founding ideals and those who died in their defense. As citizens we understand that America is not about what can be done for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government. That's what we believe.
In its stark contrast to contemporary Republicans' and many Democrats' exaggerated emphasis on individual freedom, Obama offered a vision of democratic citizenship much closer to that animating eighteenth-century Americans and, until recently, espoused by most leaders in both parties. It is an ideal progressive Catholics can and should embrace.
About the Author
James T. Kloppenberg, Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard, is author, most recently, of Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition and the forthcoming Tragic Irony: Democracy in European and American Thought.
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Wow. I am breathless and euphoric. This needs to be said. Thank you.
Great summary of what is playing out in the last days of this campaign. The emphasis on individualism by the present GOP candidates might have them call the Communion of Saints an expression of socialism. The WH and Senate will stay Dem and the House GOP may be diminished.
Dr. Kloppenberg's article is refreshing in it's optimism that America's elected leaders might soon be able to build consensus and move forward. Some of us recall the days when principled leaders from both sides of the aisle could meet, listen, consider, compromise, and move substantive legislation through to completion. "Tip" O'Neill was able to share a drink, a joke, and some legislative progress with Ronald Reagan. George H. W. Bush ("41") and Bill Clinton were similarly gifted at working with opposition majorities in Congress. Perhaps we will see that again, and may it be soon.
One statement in the article strikes me as odd: "... much higher tax rates on the wealthy failed to blunt economic expansion in the three decades following World War II..." But the same Monsignor Ryan cited correctly as a Church leader promoting progressive policies, and thus helping FDR to a landslide victory in the 1936 election, also noted in his 1935 book A Better Economic Order that "If some comparable [to the automobile] luxury were now invented which would be within reach only of the rich and comfortable classes, and for which they had a powerful appetite, consumption would be increased and we might be moved a considerable distance toward the end of the depression." Ryan was noting a drought of innovation which had started in 1930 and continued through FDR's first term. That drought persisted through subsequent Democratic and Republican administrations, through the three decades after World War II. I refer to this era as the Dark Age of American Innovation. During the 1950s, investor Warren Buffett found quite a few companies hoarding cash and government bonds rather than innovating and modernizing. President Kennedy called attention to the need for more investment and innovation to boost job growth in several key speeches. Data on patent applications to the US Patent Office confirm the extent of the innovation drought.
White men and their families may remember the three decades after World War II as a period of economic blessings. But the exclusion of African-Americans from social and economic mobility in those decades produced the urban riots of the late 1960s, and women's career choices were limited to teacher, secretary, nurse, housewife or nun until well into the 1970s. Kloppenberg's view that the country got along just fine in an era of much higher taxes on the wealthy ignores the reality: limited economic blessings were distributed unevenly, making life pleasant for some and stifling for others. President Obama calls on FDR's "bold, persistent experimentation" as a model for progressive action. It should be. But we must carefully review the results of prior experiments, and honestly assess what has worked and what has not, if we are to avoid wasting resources and causing real suffering. Some of FDR's experiments were brilliant successes, including Social Security which, with occassional minor updates, has served well. But other experiments failed, and caused real suffering. We need to know the difference, lest we harm those in need.
Dr. Kloppenberg is eloquent in his review of President Obama's consistent approach to incremental progress through persuasion and deliberative decision-making, and laments that "intractable and unprecedented opposition of Republican legislators derailed almost everything Obama tried to accomplish in his first term." But as a progressive Catholic, I think there is more to be considered here. While every race and age group is represented among the "least of these my brethren," surely the undocumented immigrants in our land, who lack even the Rooseveltian "freedom from want, and from fear, and freedom of speech," may be the least of the least. Yet President Obama, having pledged to pass immigration reform in his first year, and enjoying a popular mandate to move in a progressive direction away from the Bush agenda, and favored with Democratic majorities in the House and Senate for his first two years, ignored the immigration issue. Dr. Kloppenberg acknowledges the "string of disappointments that started with his (Obama's) inauguration." Those first two years were an opportunity lost in so many areas.
As many have noted, there may be no easy answer to the country's challenges, and there may be no perfect candidate--there never is. So, all of us must take on, as President Obama describes it, "the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government." We need to think about this.
Joseph J. Dunn, Author of After One Hundred Years: Corporate Profits, Wealth, and American Society.
Obama likes to compare his approach to Clinton but fails to acknowledge that Clinton knew how to compromise and get things done. Obama is much more stubborn and intransigent compared to Clinton. This is one of the reasons that the second part of his first term went nowhere.
Most people discount the fact that Obama's promise to change Washington was nieve and disengenuous, especially when he turned over his healthcare intititive to Reid and Pelosi and did nothing to bring the parties together. Reid and Pelosi's appoarch was bitter and harsh and made negotiations almost impossible. Obama's conference with the Democratic and Republican leaders (near the end of the healthcare legislative process) was political theater. The cake was already baked.
Most of the healthcare law was formulated behing closed doors with little, if any, accepted input from Republicans. Most Congressional leaders never read the more than 2,000 page document and today are ignorant of its remifications and servere financial consequences. Trust me, I know what I am taiking about. I was a senior partner in a worldwide consulting firm and a Senior Vice President of a Fortune 200 healthcare organization. I like some things in ObamaCare but most of it under-estimates the cost and over-estimates the savings. It also neglects the $300 billion "doctor fix" that was never included in the CBO report. I could go on.
Obama is well intentioned but not a good leader. In the first debate with Romney he could not defend his domestic record and never displayed any type of expertise in terms of facts. On foreign policy, he has little to talk about except the death of Binladen (thanks to intelligence gather from water boarding some combants) our exit from Iraq (which was largely underway) and the surge in Afganistan (which was Bush's strategy).
As to the poor and less advantaged, we need to do more and do it differently. Education has always been the way out of the getto and to improvement in overall economic and social progress. Most importantly, we need an economy that is growing and creating good paying jobs and offering opportunies for all. I see nothing that is turning the tide based on what Obama has done.
No candidate has the perfect answer. Both candidates have good points and bad. IMO, I would vote for Romney because I don't think we can take another 4 years of the same. At least Romney, as Governor, has shown that he can compromise and get things done in a state where 87% of the legislators were Democrats. Then again, we all could be fooled as we all have in believing that Obama was the President of "hope and change".
Michael B I agree with much of what you wrote. It's beyond obvious that we need a real/new leader, at least someone who wants the job (not just the position).
We can all speculate, spin, deny, and hope, but the reality is, America has already spoken on this issue in the midterm elections. What we are seeing now is more spin than a Whirling Dervish, including the polls. I'm no Rasmussen, but I have quite a bit of common sense. If American's "shellacked" Obama/Dems in 2010, why would it be any different or better in 2012 when things have only gotten worse? Heck if gas gets any more expensive in California, even the big blue state may be in play when even the "over regulating greens" go "red."
Obama will loose by a landslide.
After that, until or if we can come together as a nation of God-fearing people, with peace in our hearts, all bets are off, for it is only when we are united in God that we can and will be one in country.
Michael and Patricia: You both must, I Plead, get your facts straight.
1)Obama, Reid, and Pelosi gave us the Rebub. Conservative Romney health plan.
2)If you have a private health care plan, ask for the base or operation plan document. If it does not exceed 2,000 pages, you have a poor plan,
3) When Gov, of Mass. The Dems. over-rode 100s of Romney vetos. Look it up.
4) Obama disdains "you lie no you lie" politics. Romney has many problems with reality, and he does in fact lie a lot. Look it up.
5) Patricia, gas prices are high because private, underregulated oil refiners have sat on their ass and let their infrastructure rot to the point that we have had three, count them 3! major refinery fires/explosions/shut-downs in the last three months. Look it up.
Oh and by the way that European Style Socialist Canada has a lower corporate tax rate than the US and single payer health care, no wonder so many American jobs are going up there, and keystone pipe line sand tar is "foreign oil" Look it up.
James: Your account of the current national situation re: Obama is very accurate.Those who think that it is somehow wrong for Obama to appear a reluctant President, should study the life of the 1st, George Washington. Look it up.
"Gallup surveys have confirmed that the strident antigovernment rhetoric applauded in Tampa is dramatically inconsistent with the views of large majorities of American voters."
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Nothing is more basic to human well-being than having enough nutritious food to eat. Yet one in every eight people in the world — 842 million — are trapped in a cycle of hunger and poverty.
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Kenya: The plight of a "pastoralist drop-out"
I'm a big fan of visiting markets, especially during Mercy Corps trips. It seems that even in the bleakest parts of the world, markets are vibrant, dynamic and often colorful places.
Ethiopia: Meeting drought-stricken families' urgent needs in Ethiopia
Even before the current Horn of Africa drought reached its acute stage over the last several days, Mercy Corps was already hard at work on drought response activities throughout the region. So far, the majority of our drought-related activities have been in Ethiopia.
Kenya: Struggling to keep a goat alive
I arrived in Garissa, Kenya — a city of at least 180,000 people not far from the border with Somalia — today after a long, hot drive from Nairobi. I'll be in Garissa and areas to the north for the remainder of the week to see how this year's drought has impacted families in the area.
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At Campuses Across the Country, More Reasons Than Ever to Skip the Game
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The scene at home football games here at the University of Georgia is almost perfect. The tailgate lots open at 7 a.m. Locals brag of the bar-per-capita rate. The only commodities in greater abundance than beer are the pro-Bulldogs buttons that sorority girls wear.
There's just one problem: Some students can't be bothered to come to the games.
Declining student attendance is an illness that has been spreading for years nationwide. But now it has hit the Southeastern Conference, home to college football's best teams and supposedly its most fervent fans, giving athletics officials reason to fret about future ticket sales and fundraising.
As it turns out, Georgia students left empty 39% of their designated sections of Sanford Stadium over the last four seasons, according to school records of student-ticket scans. Despite their allocation of about 18,000 seats, the number of students at games between 2009 and 2012 never exceeded 15,000.
Winning isn't even necessarily a solution. The average student crowd to see last year's Georgia team—which finished the season ranked No. 5—was almost 6,000 short of maximum capacity. Even at Alabama, 32% of student seats went unused by students between 2009 and 2012, when the Crimson Tide won three national championships. Alabama coach Nick Saban wrote a flattering letter last week in the student paper to recruit students back.
Georgia officials have been so concerned by student attendance that they reassigned 2,000 seats previously reserved for students to young alumni before this season. "It was a significant hole, and it was very noticeable," Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said. "It was way too obvious."
The inscrutable behavior of 18-to-22-year-olds is actually understandable in this case: For students today, there are more reasons than ever to skip the game.
The cellular reception at the stadium is bad. The nonconference schedules these days are worse. And the high-definition broadcast at home (or at the frat house, the bar or wherever) is gorgeous. The result is students are focusing on the few marquee games—like Saturday's matchup of No. 6 LSU and No. 9 Georgia—at the expense of others.
To study this shift in behavior, the SEC recently hired Now What, a New York market-research firm that will spend this season traveling to SEC stadiums, visiting fans watching at home to gather their opinions before presenting its findings after the regular season.
"We can't afford to lose a generation," said Mississippi State athletic director Scott Stricklin, a member of the SEC's committee on the game-day experience.
This worrisome dynamic was evident last Saturday, when Georgia hosted North Texas on a drizzly afternoon and one tailgating troupe near Sanford Stadium kept dry underneath tents. Lounging in lawn chairs, with a makeshift bar to their right and their buffet and beer-pong tables behind them, students who said they had tickets to the game being played across the street instead were glued to two flat-screen TVs. "There are a ton of people who prefer this," said Sam Little, a junior at Georgia. "They can actually watch the game instead of deal with the crazy atmosphere."
Those students were far enough from the stadium to use their smartphones—which, they gripe, is virtually impossible inside. As the service is right now, many stadiums are such dead zones that "you can't text, Instagram or tweet," said Georgia senior Kim Baltenberger.
Most schools are considering new stadium Wi-Fi networks that would cost anywhere between $2 million and $10 million, industry experts say. The need for this technology is greater in college than in the NFL, said Enterasys Networks chief executive Chris Crowell, whose company outfitted the New England Patriots' and Philadelphia Eagles' stadiums. The upload traffic at crowded events doubles that of downloads, he said, and the activity ratio is further skewed by younger crowds: Gillette Stadium's Wi-Fi network, installed in 2012, whizzed with its most upload data during a Taylor Swift concert this summer.
Some students also have better things to do than watch football. When asked if they agreed with the statement that they didn't have time to attend Tennessee's football games, undergraduates there averaged a response of 3.15 on a scale of 1 to 5, said Tennessee professor Robin Hardin, who surveyed 2,500 students for a report on their habits commissioned by the school's athletic department. (The depressing state of their team doesn't help matters.)
Student indifference is easy to spot at matchups they expect to be lopsided: 45% of the student seats went unused at Georgia's non-SEC games. In the Big Ten, Michigan's student section had wide swaths of empty rows before kickoff Sept. 14 against Akron, the week after a stirring home win over rival Notre Dame. At Ohio State, the student no-show rate hit 26% for a game last season against lowly UAB.
Once the students straggle in, schools struggle to keep them interested, a problem they attribute to the shorter attention spans of students today. Oregon devised a solution to slow its exodus: fast food. If the Ducks score 40 points, those who stay for the whole time earn a free "Jumbo Jack" hamburger from Jack in the Box. The team held up its end of the deal for three of its four conference games last year, when the reward was tacos.
Around halftime of Georgia's game last week, students trickled onto the main drag here, most still wearing their wristband tickets from the stadium. Some were in search of beer—unlike some other conferences, whose members soak up beer revenue, the SEC has banned alcohol sales to the public in its stadiums. A short walk from the stadium yielded more bars than streets, plus the Georgia Theatre, a concert hall that shows Bulldogs games on its big screen, and a row of fraternity palaces.
"Big-screen TVs close to your own refrigerator are pretty compelling," Georgia president emeritus Michael Adams said.
One of the first to tackle the discord between football mania and student apathy, Georgia is encouraged by the early returns this season. The first home game on Sept. 7, a 4:30 p.m. kickoff against South Carolina, hit the sweet spot for student attendance. It drew 15,864 students, the most since at least 2009. Students are anticipating a similarly boisterous crowd against LSU. In fact, at the South Carolina game, there were so many students in Sanford Stadium that some struggled to find seats.
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Hawks must adjust game plan to stay with Ansonia
NEW BRITAIN — Battered and bruised, hobbled and hurt, the Woodland football team will play tonight for a state championship.
The No. 4-seeded Hawks (12-2) will face No. 2 Ansonia (14-0) for the Class S crown at 7:05 p.m. at Central Connecticut's Arute Field in New Britain.
"Well, we're standing up," Woodland coach Tim Shea laughed at Wednesday's CIAC media luncheon. "We're going to dance with who we brought. The kids are ready and we're going to give them everything we've got. On one night, hopefully anything can happen."
Woodland is the heaviest underdog of the weekend, due in part to the Hawks' injuries, but more because of just how good Ansonia is. Just last month, the Chargers laid a 48-7 beating on Woodland for the Naugatuck Valley League championship.
In that game, Arkeel Newsome ran for 222 yards and scored five touchdowns. Ansonia held Tanner Kingsley, the state's all-time passing touchdowns king, to 10-of-29 passing for 76 yards, no touchdowns and three interceptions. Jai'Quan McKnight, Witold Gul and Tajik Bagley all picked off Kingsley. Despite mostly good protection by Woodland, Kingsley often had nowhere to throw.
"Our (defensive backs) played great and we were able to get some pressure," Ansonia coach Tom Brockett said. "They'll make some adjustments so we'll have to adapt. They had a touchdown pass called back, which
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was a huge play, and we can't count on that again. I don't know if the score was really indicative of that game."
It's been a struggle for Kingsley in his career against Ansonia. Three of his five career games without a touchdown pass have come against the Chargers, and his career 64.9 percent completion rating is weighed down by his 42.1 percent against Ansonia.
Kingsley, who set a state record with his 113th career touchdown pass in Saturday's 30-26 semifinal win over Bloomfield, knew the NVL title game wasn't his night. He hopes tonight is.
"Our offense wasn't crisp and we weren't on our game that day," Kingsley said. "I expect our offense to come out guns blazing. The receivers have to make catches in tight areas and I have to make tough throws. We have to play perfectly."
The Hawks will be without Coby Vaccarelli, their starting safety and backup running back who scored three times in a 47-21 quarterfinal victory over Morgan, after he tore several knee ligaments just before halftime Saturday.
Woodland hopes to regain the services of Sean McAllen, the 1,500-yard rusher who missed the semifinal with a concussion suffered against Morgan. He also starts at cornerback.
Whichever players the Hawks have on the field have to execute better than they did in their last meeting with Ansonia. Woodland went three-and-out on its first two possessions and allowed the Chargers to roll up more than 11 yards per play.
"We need to tackle better in space," Shea said. "You know what's coming from them, but you have to stop it. We need to win third down. We need to get off the field on defense and sustain some drives. If that happens, I think we'll be in for a much better night than last time."
Newsome, the state's all-time leading rusher and scorer by wide margins, has enjoyed plenty of success in five games against Woodland. He averages 212 total yards per game with 17 touchdowns against the Hawks.
Brockett, whose team breezed past Coginchaug and Rocky Hill in the first two rounds, expects Woodland to be better than it was the last game. Playing a team a second time opens the door to adjustments, although he said by December every team has to rely on its strengths.
"It's a little bit of a chess match as to what you think they'll change," Brockett said. "But when you have Ansonia and Woodland, you have two programs that believe in what they do, so I expect both teams to do what they do best."
The Hawks have not beaten Ansonia since 2005 — the last year Woodland won a state title — and have lost their last nine games against the Chargers. Ansonia can win its record 19th state championship and complete the 10th three-peat in state history (and third in school history).
However it ends, it will be the last time Kingsley and Newsome get a chance to shine on the high school stage.
"It hasn't hit me that it's going to be my last game," Newsome said. "It will probably be (today), and after the game it will hit me a lot more."
"I don't want people to remember me for records," Kingsley said. "I want people to remember me for bringing a championship back to Beacon Falls and getting this program back to where it was."
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" go get them woodland you kids gave us a great season fun to watch and cheer good luck "
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Now that the Engineer update has come, there will be lots of Engineers building up everywhere. How should this best be handled?
Lots of medics with lots of ubers on high-damage-dealing classes. Demomen, if they are any good, usually work best against a sentry farm — stickies are perfect for this job, the usual problem is living long enough to deploy and detonate enough of them.
Heavies or pyros can also be effective, if they can get close enough (short range for a heavy, point-blank for a pyro) without being overwhelmed by the knockback before they can do damage. The medic should lead the uber combo in (particularly if the partner is a heavy) — he's faster, so he can absorb the knockback better.
If at all possible, back the uber team(s) up with as much raw firepower as you can muster — the aim is to either overwhelm the engies' ability to repair stuff, take out the engies directly, or take out dispensers. Soldiers are good for this support role, as they can place well-aimed damage from behind the uber. Demos can support well, too — their indirect fire can damage engies and dispensers without having to kill the sentry first.
Sending a spy in to sap just before or during the uber(s) can be a good idea, too.
Unfortunately, twiddling your thumbs behind your own base isn't going to win your team the round. If there are that many Engies, Spies will probably be ineffective.
Grab yourself some medics and frontline (or take 'em from behind) forces like Heavies, Soldiers, or Demomen, uber, and advance. Side tip : as you advance, have your progress reinforced by your own engineers setting up on newly-won terrain behind you. This will help your new ground to hold out longer.
Class updates will always create all-of-a-sudden influlxes of the respective classes, but just remember their strengths and weaknesses, and don't feel too overwhelmed.
A lot of engineers usually involves a lot of teleports.
As a spy, alert your team about your intentions and go to sap the teleports entrances. These will cause the engineers move the focus out of the sentries and your team should be able to put them down. 1 uber or 2 could help. ;)
As a long-time engineer player, I'd say my sentry has been killed by a soldier or demo more than anything else.
Spies are useful in hectic situations but not when there are multiple alert engineers, and ubers are useful but require careful coordination and are very limited.
I say, go with corner-edging soldiers and sneaky demos. A big enough concentration of them can just cause so much damage the engineers can't keep up.
Also, any source of crits (buff banner, krit medic) can be a great help. It doesn't do extra damage to the sentry but it can definitely do some serious damage to the engineer healing it.
For pre-update senties, they will always shoot at the closest enemy. Run an uber up front to take all the sentry fire, and let the rest of your team stand behind and focus fire on the sentries without getting shot (By the sentries at least). Soldiers work well for this, as they can straight-shoot the sentries from a distance. Direct-hit especially so. Just remember you need at least two soldiers per sentry or the engineer can out-repair the damage.
Watch out for pyros air-blasting you with this method. Kill them first if you can.
Whenever ubers attack sentries, the medic should run ahead of their buddy. This allows the medic to take the brunt of the knockback and allows both players to get closer. This is especially important when there are multiple sentries, because the accumulated knockback can push a demo or heavy back beyond their effective range.
It's not just the job of spies, medics, and heavy-hitting classes, everyone can pitch in to help take down a sentry!
As a scout, you can Bonk! in and draw the fire of the Sentry. As long as you're the first thing it sees, un-Wrangled sentries will target you and not the rest of your team. Even if they DO wrangle, you can still act as a distraction to the rest of the team (Spies especially love a wrangled sentry nest). Might even get in the Engine's face and force him to accidentally shoot himself.
Yes, you too can help take out a Sentry nest! In fact you have the most important job of all - Taking out the Engineer! Assuming you can get a good line of sight, one shot to his head is all it takes. And when he's dead, there's nothing to stop you from charging a shot and picking off his unguarded sentry either. The Machina can help damage Engies that hide behind their sentry, but for unattended sentries, the Sydney Sleeper charges up VERY fast. For a full breakdown, go here. If all else fails, you can always throw a Jarate grenade to soften the Engie & his pals.
You have the pistol, which like a Scout's pistol can take down minis and level 1s at a distance. But you've also got a Wrangler, which if you can get your sentry into position can tear through another Engie's sentry, assuming he doesn't catch on. The best way you can help your team though is by building up a teleporter, so that they can get to and take down the other team's Sentry.
Of coures, this is only if you insist on playing these classes...otherwise switching to a higher damage-output class, a medic, or even a spy might be more useful.
As a soldier, a Direct Hit is great vs any Engineers nest, particularly in large open areas where you can outrange them. The low splash damage of the Direct Hit is negated by the fact that sentries don't move, but most importantly firing 4 Direct Hit rockets without delay will destroy a sentry even if 1 engineer is repairing it (though 2 will likely repair through the damage). The only trick is making sure no one kills you while you are firing.


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I would like to know how to best achieve lighting effects with 2D.
I guess the only way is to make sprites of the area to be lit in specific colors? Say I have a streetlamp, and around this place sprites to make it appear lit?
Is there a better way?
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When dealing with a life-threatening illness, we need to know our options but we often also need guidance from healthcare professionals who know the territory. A caring and well-considered recommendation can be more helpful than asking us, "What do you want us to do?"
Much attention and focus in recent years has been given to the right of a patient to make the important healthcare decisions which affect the patient's life. (In situations where the patient is very young or incapacitated, the right to make healthcare decisions is generally a parent or family member.) Part of the movement in this direction is a response to a concern that in the past healthcare professionals made decisions for patients, assuming what was best for patients and not fully informing them of options for their medical care. Presently many are concerned that we may have overreacted and now ask patients and families to make decisions without the benefit of guidance from the experience and expertise of healthcare professionals.
Most of us want to be treated respectfully and want to preserve the right to make the important decisions which affect our lives. That said, we also want help and guidance. We experience this often in less significant areas of our lives. When our high-mileage car is in the shop for another repair, we wonder if this particular repair makes sense or if it's time to look for a new car. To help make this decision, we are thankful if we have a trusted mechanic who can give us an informed opinion about our options and a suggestion about whether or not it's time to start checking out the car market. Many pet lovers and owners come to a place where they look to their veterinarian for help in knowing whether or not there are effective treatments for their aging pets, what things they should be looking for and what are the ways to be merciful to their pets as their lives come to an end. In a brutally hot summer such as this one, we may find ourselves having similar conversations with our air conditioning repair company-is this a time to repair or replace? We know that the final decision rests with us and that we don't have to take the advice we're given, but to make such decisions we need answers to all three of the following questions, not just the first two: What does it look like? What are my options? What do you think?
As patients and families, we need the benefit of recommendations of healthcare professionals who know the territory. For most of us, the latter stages of serious illness or aging are unfamiliar countries. We haven't been here before and can feel lost and confused. Experienced healthcare providers understand that everyone's journeys are unique, but there are common guideposts, pitfalls, turnings in the pathways and crossroads. We need the benefit of that expertise and do not need to bear the burden of decision-making alone. To make good recommendations, healthcare providers need to understand and well consider the complexities of the individual and family and how these characteristics interact with the territory in which they find themselves. With sensitive consideration, a recommendation can help ease the burden of decision-making for a family. The patient and family can push back, ask questions, seek additional opinions and ultimately not accept a recommendation, and yet the recommendation can still play a constructive role as it helps clarify issues and facilitate an eventual decision.
On a personal note: When my mother was in the hospital for the last time with her recurrent and progressive cancer, her family physician told her that it was time for hospice. This recommendation was given out of care and a good understanding of my mother and her illness, and it was well-received and a relief. The recommendation eased the burden of this decision for both my mother and her family. My mother did not give up her right to decide but benefitted from someone who knew both her and her illness well enough to tell her that it was time. A well-grounded recommendation can be more helpful that asking, "What do you want us to do?"
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Goldman Picks New Leader in Asset Management Unit
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2013 Northwest Modified Shootout Format
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Heat races will be lined up by pill draw. We will run duel heats. Round one will be lined up straight up; Round two is inverted from the start of round one. Points will be awarded for finish position as well as passing points in each heat race.
Top 12 in points after heats are locked into the main. Top 10 in points will participate in a drawing on front straightaway for starting position.
We will not run a trophy dash.
There will be two B mains that will transfer 2 cars from each. Each B main will be 15 laps.
We will run 1 LCQ with the remaining cars and transfer 2 to the A main.
Each track will have two "promoter provisional" to fill the 20 car feature.
A mains will be 35 laps.
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I have been having trouble understanding some statements regarding flatness in Hartshorne - in particular relating to some of the examples in the text. Any help would be appreciated!
Here is the issue:
In example III.9.8.4 Hartshorne discusses an example of a family of twisted cubics arising from the projection of $\mathbb{P}^3$ to $\mathbb{P}^2$ from a point. The result is that the flat limit of the twisted cubic is not only singular, but it has an embedded point at the singular point.
In example III.9.10.1 he explains why if one takes the reduced induced structure on the fibers, then the family is not flat.
My question is: If one takes the flat family $Y\to\mathbb{A}^1$ from the first bullet, and uses the canonical map $Y_{red}\to Y$, then by composing one gets a family $Y_{red}\to \mathbb{A}^1$, which should be flat by proposition III.9.7 (which states that you have flatness over a smooth curve if every associated point of $Y$ maps to the generic point of the curve). Now, I expected $Y_{red}$ to be the family in the second bullet, but since it is not flat, this cannot be the case. What is going on?


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It was when Garry Taylor saw a man searching through a garbage can for food one morning that he knew he had to help the hungry in his community. He saw empty bowls as a way to do just that.
"It started with potters, and not just professional potters, but students at the area high schools like Warren East and South Warren," said Empty Bowls Organizer Garry Taylor.
Those bowls were filled with soup donated by local restaurants. The proceeds of each $10 donation will go to food pantries like the Life Care Ministry, and the Manna Mart at HOTEL Inc.
"The donations will help in many ways, and also as we're adding more fresh produce and dairy and meat into our food pantry, and expanding our community garden so we can grow more food to bring into our pantry," said HOTEL Inc. Director Rhondell Miller.
Taylor says you don't have to look far to see a need.
"You see people on TV in foreign countries starving, and that's awful and a huge problem, but our neighbors, people who live just down the street from us often times, don't have enough food," said Taylor.
It's local pantries, he says are helping fight that hunger here at home.
"They're doing a great job of getting food to people, but they need help, too. They need help getting food to them," said Taylor.
The bowls from tonight's meal will go home with those who made donations.
"It also serves as a reminder that there are people in our neighborhoods every day who face empty bowls at mealtimes," said Taylor.
That's a reminder he hopes the hundreds who took home bowls don't forget.
The event actually sold out of their nearly 250 hand-made bowls within an hour, and continued serving soup to donors.
Click the links below for more information on the Manna Mart at HOTEL Inc. and Life Care Ministries.