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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is termed out, and between a lack of job openings and dismal approval ratings, probably won't be running a campaign for public office any time soon.
And that combination means he can basically say whatever he likes, which is just what he did on Sunday during ABC's "This Week," criticizing his own party:
I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around and pushing back on the stimulus money and saying this doesn't create any new jobs. And then they go out and they do the photo ops and they are posing with the big check and they say, "Isn't this great? Look what kind of money I provide here for the state." It doesn't match up.
The comments are similar to those made recently by President Barack Obama, with whom Schwarzenegger is meeting in the hopes of getting some more of that sweet, sweet federal cash in order to help a state that, if it could, would probably declare bankruptcy.
His words were less harsh, if more dismissive, of "Tea Party" protester dreams of some sort of re-revolution to return the country to the founding fathers' dream of white, male, property-holder rule.
"The tea party is not going to go anywhere," he said. "I think the tea party is all about just an expression of anger and dissatisfaction."
Somebody won't be getting invited to go hunting wolves from helicopters with the Palins!
And if you think it's too harsh to suggest that the teabaggers are a racially-tinged reactionary minority, a recent poll by the Datamar firm shows that among Republicans, immigration is still the number one issue, even though thanks to the economy immigrants aren't just staying home, but actually leaving.
Meanwhile, among all Californians, the tax burden doesn't even rate as a leading issue. After all, the one nice thing about unemployment is that your marginal income tax rate is next to nothing.
Jackson West wonders when Republicans will figure out that they won't be able to win statewide elections by evoking racism, because the voting majority soon won't be white.


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You can use switches for these purposes... Even better is to make a function that simply returns the desired string, so you can call it to check peoples' opinions, because they are sure to be such checks in many places.
You know about std::vector, don't you? And the other standard containers?Originally Posted by chaucer345
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
vector - C++ Reference , but that doesn't tell me how a storage array could be useful for making a large series of integers more easily transferable between classes.
You know, I have to say, I've been learning C++ from this site's tutorials mostly and I'm starting to think that those are focused primarily on concepts that easily translate from C. There are some large gaps in my knowledge, especially when it comes to all the useful functions in the std library.
It has been a long time since I actually visited the sister site. I could swear the site had some information on vector, map and friends when I used the site, but that appears to be gone. Anyway, even when I first started, I carefully selected a book. Since you're being pressured into using the STL, Accelerated C++ comes to mind. It talks about vector as early as chapter 5.
You may just be taking on more than you can chew at this point but in the spirit of being helpful I will try to turn one of laserlight's suggestions into simple English.
The word list in this statement is just a list and not a data structure as far as I can tell. In fact, vector is recommended. I think I know why vector is recommended: because in the absence of a better idea, vector is one of the simplest data structures. (Simplicity in computing does not always mean poor, by the way.)Originally Posted by laserlight
There has to be a direct connection between the simple fact of where the player is and these pointers to other places contained in the individual rooms. One of your game's most basic jobs is to track movement to keep the game going. So, in your mind's eye, if it's possible travel in four directions from the middle room of the game board, you would have the nearest north, south, east and west rooms in the list pertaining to the middle room. If then you went into the south room you would have a different list of options pertaining to that room, including one option to go back.
It will be important for the rooms to take on responsibilities if you want the game to be organized. Room objects will have to spawn characters and items that belong there, etc, as much as "spawn" can mean in a p&p adventure. That is how you cut down on massive data migration.
Last edited by whiteflags; 08-03-2012 at 10:00 AM.
Maybe this kind of thing is in order. This is just an example. I've used strings instead of pointers to "link" things.
The best would be if all that string data could be read in from a data file.Code:typedef map<string,Item> ItemMap; typedef map<string,Room> RoomMap; typedef map<string,Character> CharacterMap; ItemMap items; RoomMap rooms; CharacterMap characters; class Thing { string name; string description; string location; // room or character name list<string> history; }; class Room : public Thing { list<string> objects; list<string> characters; list<string> connected_rooms; // E.g. south=Bathroom }; class Character : public Thing { list<string> objects; }; class Item : public Thing { // anything needed here? }; Item( "wrench", "a very large wrench", "The Spider's Lair" ); Room( "The Spider's Lair", "A dark, dusty room with a large table ...", "map1", // could be unused for a room, or could be multiple maps/levels "wrench:big_table", "Joe:The Cat", "south=Kitchen:up=Cellar" ); Character( "Joe", "A big dumb guy.", "The Spider's Lair", "harmonica:comb" // Items );
The cost of software maintenance increases with the square of the programmer's creativity. - Robert D. Bliss
Okay, now for a question that has been bothering me a long time...
What's an object?
I get that if I define a structure, or a class, or whatever in main I'm creating a copy of that specifically for main, and that I can even create multiple copies of the same structure/class if the variables of that structure/class applied to two different things I wanted to program about (say I wanted to make two different monsters appear in the game and one monster was just the same as an earlier version with stronger stats so I'd code:
)Code:struct monster { int claws; int teeth; int tentacles; }; int main() { monster little_monster; monster big_monster; little_monster.claws = 1; little_monster.teeth = 1; little_monster.tentacles = 1; big_monster.claws = 5; big_monster.teeth =5; big_monster.tentacles =5; }
But are those two structures in main objects? And what's so special about them being objects?
I'm sorry if it's an impossibly stupid question, but it just seems like everything I've bumped into is an object and it's very hard to determine what that means, especially when everyone keeps referring to my game rooms as objects when I've been using functions for that, like this:
((Note: I'm fully aware that this code is incomplete, and also that that weird pointer-reference hybrid monstrosity thing will give you nightmares. I'm sorry about that, I have no Idea what horrors I've unleashed upon the world.))Code:void rooms::training_room (int& player_race_reference, int hard_knock_conversation_choice_one, int examine_locker, int spiked_horse_shoes, int first_visit, int group_conversation_choice_one, int group_conversation_choice_two, char*& player_name_reference) { if (first_visit=1) {cout <<"TRAINING ROOM\n"; cout <<"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\n"; cout <<"0 () () () () 0\n"; cout <<"0 KICKING BAGS 0\n"; cout <<"0 0\n"; cout <<"0------- ______________________ -------0\n"; cout <<"0 | | | | 0\n"; cout <<"0 WEAPON| | | | 0\n"; cout <<"0 LOCKER| | EXERCISE MAT | | COT 0\n"; cout <<"0 | | | | 0\n"; cout <<"0 | | (STALLION) | | 0\n"; cout <<"0 | | | -------0\n"; cout <<"0------- |______________________| |\n"; cout <<"0 DOOR|\n"; cout <<"0 (ZEBRA) |\n"; cout <<"0 (STALLION) 0\n"; cout <<"0 DOOR 0\n"; cout <<"00000000_____000000000000000000000000000000000\n\n"; cout << "You find yourself in what looks like a gym or training room, there is a row of kicking bags and practice dummies along one wall and much of the floor is covered in mats. There is also a heavy wire mesh case filled with various implements of destruction sitting along a wall. A muscle bound gray earth pony with a steely look in his eyes resides here.\n\n"; cout << "However, he isn't the only one in the room. A startlingly handsome white earth pony stands there talking to a zebra stallion with a perplexing ribbon in his hair. \nThey turn to face you as you enter. The mare nods to the white pony.\n\nThe white pony walks up and holds out his hoof, \"Organizer Blueblood at your service. I have to say, that was pretty impressive. You saved a lot of lives out there and we are definitely grateful\"\n\n The gray earth pony nods. \"Definitely a good show, but we should really get him back home. We can't keep him here.\"\n\n1. He's right.\n2. Don't do that! After what I pulled they'd take my head off!\n\n"; while (group_conversation_choice_one != 1 && group_conversation_choice_one !=2) { cout << "Choose an option: "; cin >> group_conversation_choice_one; switch (group_conversation_choice_one) { case 1: cout << "Blueblood shakes his head. \"That's probably not a good idea... I think you've already figured this out, but your army days are over.\" \nWind nodded, \"You did the right thing, but... you won't like what'll happens if you go back there.\" \nYou knod. She's proabaly right. \nBlueblood sighs and turns back to you. \"Don't worry, we'll find a way to help you out.\" \n\n"; break; case 2: cout << "The muscular stallion narrows his eyes. \"We still can't afford to keep you ar-.\" \n\"Hard Knock, what's wrong with you?\" Blueblood cuts in. \"This pony saved all of our lives.\" \nThe gray pony (Hard Knock you suppose) shakes his head. \"Boss, this pony is an obvious security risk. If he ain't a plant he's at the very least someone they'll be looking for real hard.\" \nBlueblood tilts his head and raises an eyebrow, \"First of all, they're probably looking for all of us pretty hard. Secondly... you really think it's more likely that this stallion's a spy so devoted to Seasons that he's willing to throw away his body parts than it is that he's just some pony who made a decent split decision to help us?\" \nHard knock leans back against the weapons locker and folds his hooves. The zebre looks at the floor uncertainly. if (wind_opinion >= 2) { cout << "Wind speaks up. \"I don't know much about him, but he's a good patient at least. I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt.\" \nThe gray pony and the zebra still look uncertain.\n\n" } cout << "Blueblood sighs and turns back to you. \"Don't worry, we'll find a way to help you out.\" \n\n"; break; } cout << "\"Anyway,\" He continued \"nopony, or zebra...\" The zebra stallion with the ribbon blushed. \"is going to be able to go anywhere untill Archer gets back from foraging at the very least, so we might as well get to know our new friend. What's your name?\" \n\n"; cout << "\"" << player_name_reference << "\" you reply. \n\n"; cout << "\"Well," << player_name_reference << ", this is Hard Knock,\" he says gesturing to the grey earth pony,\"and this is Ura, you've allready met Wind.\" \n\n"; // You need to continue writing the above cout statement } } }
So basically what my assumption had been was that I would set up if statements within the functions such that different things would be occurring in the rooms depending on how the players actions would modify global variables.
Does that make my room an object? Or are functions automatically not objects?
Note: I thank you guys for your advice. Seriously, you are an awesome and incredibly helpful community and I'm sorry if I just don't get it sometimes
An object is a variable of some type, an instance of some class. A function like main() or anything similar is not object.
Honestly when all is said and done, it seems like the answer to my original question is pretty clear. I'm going to have to merge my two classes so that all of the global variables can be read by each individual room function, it will lead to a long list of definitions in public:, but it will at the end of the day make all of those variables available to me for each function in the class, and I should be able to define the changing global variables that affect all rooms using references.
I know several people have suggested that I define a generic room class and then differentiate it with variables from main, but honestly the rooms are sufficiently unique that I'm not convinced that that would help cut down on duplicate code all that much.
Thank you all for your help! Especially you whiteflags.
Generally, global variables should be avoided, unless they are actually constants.Originally Posted by chaucer345
If you say, have a long list of dialogue (possibly read from file) such that the strings are const, fine. But if you have global variables that can be modified by different functions, then look before you leap, otherwise you will find that it will be harder to reason about your program because a global variable could be changed without you realising it, causing it to be more difficult to maintain your program. Furthermore, it will be harder for you to reuse parts of your program, because you depend on global variables that might not exist (with those names) elsewhere.
Eliminating duplicate code is one thing, but it is not the only thing. A class is a mechanism for abstraction. You create Room objects and reason about them.Originally Posted by chaucer345
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
Tight control over when and how my variables change would truly be ideal.
Let's see... if you are tracking based on certain "player attributes", then these can be member variables of a Player object. Or maybe you want to actually track actions rather than some score that is the result of those actions, in which case maybe you have an Action class then store an archive of past actions in the player object.Originally Posted by chaucer345
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
Here's one idea, an elaboration of laserlight's thoughts. You could use an Action or Decision to represent the choices the player has made. Then store a map from strings to Decision pointers somewhere that's pretty much globally accessible (e.g. in a Player object). This would allow you to add new Decisions without modifying a giant WhatIHaveDone class, and yet query exactly the ones you need...
You could have a Decision hierarchy, inherit BoolDecision from there etc (maybe even have a templated decision class so you could store whatever type you wanted). However, that would mean you'd probably have to downcast the Decisions to the correct type. I'd be more inclined to have a Decision that stores bool, int, string, whatever you need, and then different getter functions. You'd assign default values to the int/bool/whatever. This way you can randomly query a decision -- the object doesn't even have to be registered in the map, it will be automatically created -- and you'll get the default value. If you query the wrong type, you'll get something sensible. Of course you could also have a "type" associated with each Decision, and maybe it asserts if you do a query of the wrong type... it's up to you how much work you want to put into it.Code:#include <string> #include <map> class Decision { private: bool boolDecision; public: Decision(bool yes = false) : boolDecision(yes) {} bool getBool() const { return boolDecision; } }; std::map<std::string, Decision> decisions; decisions["fellIntoHole"] = Decision(false); // ... if(decisions["fellIntoHole"].getBool()) { std::cout << "You already used your rope getting out of the hole, remember?\n"; }
P.S. Great title, by the way. It was the best of code, it was the worst of code... it was the best design, it was the worst design....
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"That's Dorcas Meadowes, Voldemort killed her personally."
Years after the second war is over, when historians begin to accumulate what little is known about the very first Order of the Phoenix, there she will be, in the second row of the reprinted photograph, standing to the right of Sirius Black. She will be half-smiling, as she was on that warm April day, fifty years ago. Only those who look closely will see how her eyes flicker towards the ginger haired man standing at the far left of the front row, a goofy grin on his handsome face. In the caption below the photograph, listing all of the names will be hers;
Dorcas L. Meadowes, murdered by Lord Voldemort in December 1979.
When people read this they will cringe, imagining the worst. They will recreate her death in their minds, formed neatly of their most vivid nightmares. Then they will shake their heads and move on to the next name, the next tragedy, Dorcas having no more distinction than to have been done away with by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named himself. It is not sad, because there is no one left to mourn her or the loss of her memory. Rather it is a testimony to her sacrifice for those who would look to see it. A life, thrown down for others with no lasting glory is the legacy she left behind, in eight words, on printed paper.
Molly remembers her a little; she was her brother's girlfriend and nearly fiancee. She always looked a little sad. There are other memories, but they fade with time. Lost beneath seven children and too much heartache. She remembers kindness and gentleness but little else and those are attributed to many others, gone too soon. Few others remember her vaguely. Aberforth Dumbledore (he was the one who knew her middle name started with 'L', but he couldn't recall it exactly), Andromeda Tonks, a few of her teachers, still living, the list is short and her lonely gravestone has not been visited in many years, though truth be told there are few who would know where to find it, tucked away in the ancient cemetery tucked away behind the old Headquarters.
So it is. Remembered for nothing other than the particular way she died or rather, the fact that she was singled out by the most evil wizard of the day to be dealt with personally. The word has an eerie finality about it and is so strikingly cruel sounding that few will venture to wonder why.
But Dorcas did live a life worth more merit than her death, a life of fleeting happy things, hope, hard work and sadness. The fact that she was significant enough to be killed by the Dark Lord himself does not change the fact that she worried for her friends, doubted herself or fell in love. But what is more interesting is the way she defied Lord Voldemort. She was a healer, going so far as to go undercover in a muggle ambulance to save those who could not save themselves, at the risk of her own life, escaping him twice, only to be lured out of safety for no other reason than to die. But she won't be remembered for that either. For she had friends who thrice defied him.
It seems tragic, but it's not really. What's tragic are the young faces in the photograph, the half-smiling blonde woman who won't live to see the decade change and the ginger haired man who will wish he hadn't. It is only the loss of that beautiful possibility that can inspire sadness and even that means little to those who live and love in the peaceful present. It is of no consequence to the cold body lying undisturbed and quiet in the ground and certainly does it mean anything to the soul, resting in contentment beyond the veil. On the other side, she lives beyond death, with all those she loved in life held close.
In that mockery of death lies her true significance.
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TORONTO - A formal protest to the AHL, public flogging of referees and even a police round-up of Virginian tourists wouldnt change the bizarre outcome of Game 3 in the Calder Cup final.
That Thursdays 1-0 overtime winner turned out to be illegal as well as illogical, but still means the Toronto Marlies are down 3-0 to the Norfolk Admirals and facing elimination Saturday at 3 p.m. And thats where their energy should be directed, according to coach Dallas Eakins, who took the high road Friday morning in a magnanimous tweet and general manager David Nonis, who dismissed the idea of filing a protest to the league.
As much as youd like some satisfaction, its not going to be there, Nonis said. The by-laws are clear, the game is officially over and we are part of the group who created the by-laws.
The more we keep talking about (Game 3), the less chance we have to win Game 4.
Soon after Eakins tweeted that officials in the AHL are there to learn as much as players and that the Marlies were moving on from the controversy, league president Dave Andrews admitted the referees should not have allowed Mike Kostkas winner.
The correct application of AHL Rule 83.4 would have negated the Norfolk goal due to a delayed offside call, Andrews said.
As AHL by-laws do not allow for any change to the final result of a game based on an incorrect rule interpretation, the result of the game stands.
There was irrefutable video evidence that Norfolks Brandon Segal was inside the Marlies blue line when a harmless-looking dump play by Kostka hit a stanchion deep in the zone and somehow curled into an empty net. At first the gray area was whether Segal escaped the zone before the puck crossed the goal line or if it had struck a referee, which a splinter group of conspiracy theorists were pushing.
Neither Eakins, goalie Ben Scrivens, forward Mike Zigomanis or Norfolk coach Jon Cooper questioned the goals validity in the post-game press conference. The sold-out Ricoh Coliseum was still in collective shock at how the low-profile Kostka had won the game after 52 combined shots on Scrivens and Norfolks Dustin Kotarski.
There was a little bit of murmur about it while we were walking off the ice, Toronto defenceman Matt Lashoff said. When we got back into the locker room everyone kind of thought about it and said: Yeah, it was definitely a call that was missed.
Our initial reaction was: Hey, lets go run back out there and tell them. But they cant obviously change that call. Its one of those things that makes you want to rip your skin off and go knock some people out at the time. But you have to be able to keep your emotions in check because we have a game to play (Saturday).
Eakins was still trying to get his head around how Kostka scored in the first place.
The craziest, craziest of plays, he said. I know its about it being offside, but the puck gets dumped in and bascally goes off the last stantion (before the icing line), at an impossible angle and ends up in our net. I could take 10 pucks down there and try to get them in the net along the ice and I might (miss) nine of them. So many confusing things were happening in a league final in overtime, I think it caught the fans, the referees, both teams and everybody by surprise.
I know for the four guys officiating that game last night, it wasnt a malicious thing at all. I have made plenty of mistakes behind that bench in my three years here, I have players on a night-to-night basis make plenty of mistakes and I think we all forget sometimes that these refs are developing as well. When you have to face that adversity, youre better for it.
The zebras in question arent excatly green. Marcus Vinnerborg is a Swedish pioneer in the early stages of an NHL career and Jean Hebert spent some time up there, too. Five hand-picked referees in all are alternating in the Calder Cup, but it looks like Vinnerborg and Hebert wont be officiating any more games after this incident.
I can guarantee you that for those four and the backup guys who were in attendance, that play will never, ever happen again in their careers, Eakins said. I can yell and scream, but what good is it going to do? In the end, I dont want to be in overtime in a 0-0 game. We had chances to close it out (six power plays, one in overtime.) Its on us. We have to score to win the game, we take responsibility.
The Marlies need to win both of this weekends games to take the series back to Norfolk. But no AHL team has recovered from a 3-0 deficit in the final in 21 tries going back to 1944.


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1 August 2014 – Yamaha will run a third bike for test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga at the Japanese Grand Prix in October.
Nakasuga, a two-time Japanese Superbike champion, has made four MotoGP outings for Yamaha, replacing the injured Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies in 2011 and 2012 respectively and competing at Motegi last season.
In the final round of the 2012 campaign, Nakasuga battled wet conditions to claim a second-place finish.
"I'm glad to be able to compete again this year in my home country's Grand Prix of Japan in the world's pinnacle class of road racing, MotoGP," he said. "There's no greater competitive arena for a motorcycle racer like myself.
"As I'll be riding the YZR-M1 that I'm involved in developing, my participation will involve development evaluation. But I also want to put in a performance that will live up to the expectations of the fans that have rooted for me."


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Course: SWRK 347-01A, American Social Welfare Policy
Details: 2:40-3:50 PM, Even days, HAB 121
Instructor: John R. Yoakam, Ph.D., LICSW, Assistant Professor
Office: HAB 129
Office Phone: (320) 363-5155
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: 11.00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.; 1:00-2:00 p.m. Tues., Wed., Thurs., or by appointment.
Course Description
THE MAJOR AIM OF THIS COURSE IS TO PREPARE STUDENTS to function as informed and competent participants in efforts to achieve change in social policies and programs. Students are expected to develop skills to analyze and critique social welfare policy and services. Students should know the structure of service programs and the history of the organized profession and social welfare institutions. They should understand legislative, judicial, and administrative policies, acquire frameworks for analyzing social and economic policies in the light of the principles of social and economic justice. Students will also gain an understanding of political processes and learn to use them in ways that will further the achievement of social work goals and purposes.
This course will emphasize integration of professional social work foundation knowledge (HBSE, Policy, Practice, Research, and Field Practicum). Feminist theory and the empowerment models of practice will be used to understand and critique social policies in practice. Social work values as reflected in the Code of Ethics will be stressed throughout.
The instructor will use various teaching methods including small group discussion, invited speakers, video presentations, simulation exercises, group and individual writing projects.
Knowledge and Skill Goals
Students will become knowledgeable in the following areas of social policy development:
Skills in
Required Reading (Available at the campus book store)
DiNitto, D. (2000) Social welfare: Politics and public policy (5th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Ehrenreich, B. (2001) Nickel and dimed: On (not) getting by in America. New York: Metropolitan Books.
MacDonald, M. 1999. All Souls: A Family Story from Southie. Boston: Beacon Press.
Seccombe, K.1999. So you think I drive a Cadillac?: Welfare recipients' perspectives on the
system and its reform. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Other readings may be assigned as the semester progresses.
Prrogram Objectives Met
Final Paper: Course Criteria for ALL written assignments:
All written assignments should be typed, double spaced, have one inch margins and be printed in a 12 point font. Check your paper for errors in spelling and grammar. Read your papers aloud to yourself to make sure that you have made no omissions or that you have no redundancies or other unintended text. Be sure to cite your text and the other readings in the body of your paper using some form of APA style. Also, include a complete list of references. All papers will be graded according to the following:
Organization of the paper 30%
Use of sources 30%
Style and mechanics 25%
Critical Thinking 15%
The instructor is willing to read drafts of papers and give feedback up to (but not after) five days before the due date. Late papers are not accepted unless a special arrangement has been made with the instructor. Requests for an extension on papers must be submitted in writing at least 5 days before the assignment is due.
Each student will complete a 14-16 page paper (double-spaced, typed and using the APA style to cite references) on a specific social problem and the policy or policies created to ameliorate it. The policy you choose may be either a specific policy for a social welfare agency or a larger issue, such as juvenile delinquency, housing, child abuse, etc.
Resources which can be used
NOTE: You are to cite at least ten print sources (from the above sources and others, but not from Websites). You may consult the Web for information to begin your search and cite the "Websites Consulted" in a section separate from the References. You must include the title of the website, the author, and the date. See the APA for the correct way to site these references.
In order to find the correct way to site references APA style, go to the CSB/SJU library home page. Then go to:
I. Problem or need analysis (Draft due September 26, 2002)
At a minimum, this requires that the student define the problem using objective and subjective data. Although often the most demanding and troublesome step in the inquiry process, it is nevertheless vital. Having defined the problem or need, it then becomes possible to determine its magnitude and scope, the salient characteristics of the problem and the theoretical notions or empirical evidence suggesting causes of the problem or conditions associated with its occurrence. Also consider the role of gender in the problem or need.
II. Policy Analysis (historical overview) (Draft Due October 22, 2002)
The purpose of this task is to arrive at a general understanding of the present-day policies that have been established to deal with the social problem under consideration. More specifically, policy analysis attempts to determine historical antecedents to existing policy; the values and goals implicit and/or explicit in a policy; and the sources - legislative, judicial, or administrative - from which the current formalized policy has emanated. Within this context the student examines the scope of coverage, the kind and level of benefits to be provided in the interest of attaining the goals set forth in the policy, and other specific features that influence the manner in which social services are made available to the problem population. Consider how policies written to affect certain populations based on gender, sexual orientation, race, and/or class.
III. Program Analysis (Draft Due November 15, 2002)
Program analysis is closely related to policy analysis and sometimes inseparable from it for analytic purposes. Nevertheless, it is treated as a distinct phase of the inquiry process because the purpose is to achieve an understanding of the impact of policy objectives at the most local level. The primary focus of this phase of the inquiry is an understanding of the current agency structure existing to deliver programs and services designed to meet policy objectives; an understanding of the factors which impede, neutralize or facilitate such efforts; and an assessment of the programs' impact on the population it aims to serve. In other words, the purpose of the program analysis is to determine whether the objectives of the policy are being realized in the nature of the service being furnished the problem population. At a minimum, it means calling an agency and speaking to a decision maker about the way services are provided, problems and prospects, and a general discussion of how the program is going. Conscientious researchers will also interview service recipients (or their parents) to determine the effectiveness of service provision from the clients' perceptive. Consider what populations receive the benefits of such programs based on their income, race, gender, or sexual orientation.
IV. Recommendations (Due December 2, with entire paper)
Students should elaborate on what should be done in the future to remedy the problem discovered in the first three areas of inquiry: problem, policy, and program. In this section you may create new policies, modify existing policies, or make any other recommendation that is germane to the policy under consideration. Researchers will reference the knowledge gained in the first three sections in order to
write this section.
Suggested Paper Outline
I. Problem or Need analysis
A. Extent of need
1. Objective data
2. Subjective data
B. Summary
II. Policy analysis: historical overview
A. Legislative overview (county, state, federal)
B. Intent of policy
C. Present policy
III. Program Analysis
A. Description
C. Scope of impact
1. geographic
2. population affected
D. Funding history and future
IV. Recommendations
A. Policy revisions
B. Program revisions
It is expected that the paper will be well written and concise. As a general rule, it is far better to focus tightly and to pick a policy and program that is narrow in scope. This makes the literature to be reviewed and the overall paper more manageable.
How do I get started on my paper? It is best to get started on the paper right away. The hardest part of the paper is choosing the topic. Ask yourself the following questions You may begin from any point along the following continuum:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Is there a social problem that really motivates you?
Is there some issue you've been wanting to learn more about?
Do you have access to lots of data on some social issue?
Have you come into contact with a piece of legislation that has sparked your curiosity? Made you mad? Is there some historical trend you'd like to explore more thoroughly?
Have you worked for a program, and wondered where it got its funding, etc.? Have you seen a program you'd like to work at, and would like to do more research on it to prepare yourself?
Do you feel very strongly about the unfairness of an issue that has touched your life? Are you angry about a certain social injustice?
You may move from one part of the paper to another, once you've answered one of these questions. For example:
Students most often think of initial paper topics that are too large. Move from the general to the specific: think about child abuse, and then write about the most recent legislation on child abuse. Think about Down Syndrome, but write about aspects of Medicaid that assist families to maintain high-need kids in their home, or about local main streaming programs.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at any point along the way. I have many resources and can serve as a sounding board for your ideas. It is always best to email me with your ideas to get my reaction.
Current Issues in Social Welfare: Journal and Newspaper Critique Assignments
Each week you will read and prepare a critique of an article from selected newspapers and journals which are relevant to this course (articles about poverty, welfare reform, proposals to privatize Social Security, etc). These articles should be selected from the following newspapers and/or journals: The New York Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The St. Cloud Times, The Nation, The Progressive, The Economist, The New Republic, Harpers, The Atlantic with no more than three critiques selected from any one newspaper or journal. The intent of this assignment is to provide students with a variety of perspectives on social policy issues. Such articles should focus on social problems and policies and programs related to addressing these problems. For example, an article about the difficulty or single mothers trying to find affordable housing would be appropriate especially if it discusses policies which address the problem, such as rent control, expansion of housing vouchers, proposed programs to expand home ownership options for low income families. Articles about natural disasters are appropriate only if these articles discuss governmental programs and their effectiveness in providing relieve to the victims.
You will then write a one to two paragraph summary of the article and a one to two paragraph critique of the article using information gained from other class readings and discussions to shape and inform your opinions. Each critique is worth one point and is due on the first day of the week that the class is held for ten weeks beginning September 16 and ending November 19.You will be asked to critique articles on the midterm and final exams.
Attendance and Class Participation
Class participation is important because the exchange of ideas is necessary in the quest for knowledge. Active class participation facilitates learning not only for the individual participating but for the other class members as well. In order to obtain full credit for participation, students need to attend all classes. Students who miss class will not earn any class participation points for that session. Absence from class more than three times a semester will result in failure of the course.
Developing the ability to participate in a group discussion is essential in the social work field. In class students are expected at all times to demonstrate courteous listening skills and to contribute to the discussions. In order to contribute to discussions students must be prepared, having read the assignments for the day and prepared responses to questions on the readings which will be distributed in previous class meetings . Students will be evaluated for class participation by their frequency of contributions as well as their adequate preparation to contribute intelligently to the discussion.
Class participation will be graded as follows
A = Excellent participation includes frequent and appropriate contributions which:
B = Regular contributions that are not so integrative or interpretive such as:
C = Little contribution such as:
D = Minimal participation such as:
F = No class participation
Course Requirements
Research paper 30% Dec. 6
Mid-term 1 15% Oct. 2
Mid-term 2 15% Nov. 7
Final Exam 20% Dec. 19
Newspaper Critiques 10% weekly,
Class Participation 10% each class
Grading System
Mid-terms and final exam will be comprehensive and have integrative questions based on the readings, class discussions, lectures, speakers, and films.


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Within each Garda Division, there are specialist Crime Prevention Officers (CPOs). These CPOs are trained to encourage, promote and advise on crime prevention in both private and business communities.
To find out who your local Crime Prevention Officer is please use the Directory on this page. Crime Prevention Officers are listed according to area, so for example if you live in Crumlin you would click on Co-Ka.


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Wolverines trim Raiders in opener at Metrodome
Jake Krause scored the winning run with two out in the seventh last Friday as the Wadena-Deer Creek Wolverines rallied to edge Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale 4-3 at the Mall of America Metrodome.
With winter-like weather conditions lingering in west central Minnesota, the opportunity to play on the same indoor field that was formerly the home of the Minnesota Twins was unique.
"The Metrodome was a great experience for our players," WDC Head Coach Kyle Dykhoff said. "It's an experience they will always remember. What a great game, especially for a March game with both teams having limited gym practice."
The Wolverines grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the second as Mackinley Wright drew a walk, stole second, moved to third on a single by Wyatt Weber and scored on a single by Cory McManigle.
The Raiders came right back in the bottom half of the inning as Dillon Card led off with a double, moved up on a single by Eric Blaha and scored on a single by Nick Brown.
Steve Riewer's BHV crew grabbed a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the fourth as Card again doubled and scored.
The Wolverines knotted the game at 2-2 in the fifth as Matt Laughlin doubled and scored with two down.
WDC's Joey Price pinch-hit for Isaac Laughlin in the sixth and tripled with one down. After McManigle flied out, a fielding error allowed Price to score.
Preston Riewer led off the bottom of the sixth with a walk. He stole second and then third with two out and came in on a balk to tie the game 3-all.
Matt Laughlin got the Wolverines going in the seventh with a lead-off single. He stole second and was joined the threat when Krause reached on a walk. Wright walked to load the sacks but with Weber at the plate, Laughlin was forced at home when he attempted to score. Krause and Wright were both able to move up on the play and Weber reached to load the bases again. McManigle watched four straight balls to draw the walk which forced in Krause with the winning run.
Travis Eckel kept the Raiders alive in the bottom half of the seventh when he drew a one-out walk and stole two bases to put himself in scoring position with two out. Josh Gilb struck out swinging to end the game.
Matt Laughlin went the first four frames on the hill for WDC before giving way to Wright, who pitched two innings and gained the win. Isaac Laughlin earned the save with one inning of relief.
"Our pitching was great and it was backed by an error-free game by our defense," Dykhoff said.
Matt Laughlin, Mackinley Wright (5), Isaac Laughlin (7) and Wyatt Weber; Nick Brown, Dillon Card (3), Pat Riewer (6) and Riewer, Matt Lipinski
WP – Wright; LP- Riewer; Save- I. Laughlin


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SHE has already gone head-to-head with Australia's queen of daytime television but now Chrissie Swan has her eyes on the biggest prize of all - the Gold Logie.
Swan, co-host of Channel 10's morning panel show The Circle, was announced today as one of six Aussie TV personalities vying for this year's top award.
Women dominate the field for the 2011 Gold Logie, which goes to the most popular personality on Australian television.
Rebecca Gibney and Jessica Marais, from Packed to the Rafters, Spicks and Specks host Adam Hills, Asher Keddie from Ten's Offspring and Today host Karl Stefanovic are the other contenders.
Swan, a former Big Brother contestant whose show competes with TV veteran Kerrie Anne Kennerly's weekday program, is also vying for two Silver Logies: most popular presenter and most popular new female talent.
The Circle, a relative minnow in ratings terms, is up against Good News Week, Hey Hey It's Saturday, Sunrise and Talkin' Bout Your Generation for most popular light entertainment program.
Despite often trailing Seven and Nine in ratings, Ten has the lion's share of nominations in the "most popular" program categories this year, including Ready Steady Cook (lifestyle), Before The Game (sports), MasterChef Australia (reality) and Bondi Rescue (factual).
Richard Roxburgh received two nominations in the same category for the Silver Logie for most outstanding actor - one for his turn as Bob Hawke in the Ten telemovie Hawke, and the other for his leading role in ABC1's drama Rake.
The "most outstanding" Logies are voted on by industry peers, as opposed to the "most popular" awards which are decided by the general public.
The Chaser boys will be back at this year's awards after landing a nomination for most outstanding light entertainment program for their satirical Yes We Canberra series on ABC1 in the lead-up to the 2010 election.
Also nominated are Spicks and Specks (ABC1), Talkin' Bout Your Generation (Ten), Hamish & Andy's Caravan of Courage: Great Britain and Ireland (Ten) and Luke Nguyen's Vietnam (SBS).
Organisers of the 2011 TV Week Logie Awards have also revealed that LA quintet Maroon 5 and UK pop singer Jessie J will be among the acts to perform at this year's event.
Originally published as Chrissie goes for Gold


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Top 12 racist politicians of modern history
A huge swath of Republican politicians have had ties to white supremacist groups like the Council for Conservative Citizens.
1. Jesse Helms, unabashed racistJesse Helms was the last unabashed racist politician in this country. His ascension to Congress was largely due to his willingness to pick at the scab of slavery and segregation, and to inflame racial resentment against African Americans. There have been many racists after him, but he was the last to stake his political career on it. Back in 1984, a reporter summed up Helms Senate campaign. "Racial epithets and standing in school doors are no longer fashionable," the reporter wrote, "but 1984 proved that the ugly politics of race are alive and well. Helms is their master." Helms launched a filibuster blocking a bill that would make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday. Helms campaign literature warned repeatedly about black voter registration drives. On election even he accused his opponent of being supported by "homosexuals, the labor union bosses and the crooks." In 1990, in an election against African American Harvey Gantt, Helms aired an ad, "You needed that job and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota."
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2. Jim "Raghead" KnottsFor this example, we don't have to reach back too far. In the 2010 South Carolina Republican Primary, Knotts calls his political rival Nikki Haley and President Obama ragheads. "We've already got a raghead in the White House, we don't need another raghead in the governor's mansion," Knotts said. He later apologized for the slur, saying it was in jest that he made them. Haley won that primary.
3. Robert Byrd, pre-transformationShortly after his death earlier this year, the late Robert Byrd's personal story was told as one of great transformation. He did, later in life, become a champion of Civil Rights. However, during the early part of his career, he was a unabashed bigot and member of the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd was a Democrat. "I am a former Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state ... The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd said. In eulogizing Byrd, former President Bill Clinton made this explanation of Byrd's history with the KKK. "He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, what does that mean? I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows from West Virginia. He was trying to get elected," former President Bill Clinton said of Sen. Robert Byrd. "And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There are certainly no perfect politicians," he added.
4. John McCain, no friend to AsiansDuring the 2004 Presidential election, Sen. John McCain told a group of reporters on his campaign bus, "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live." Gooks is a derogatory term used against Asians. Althought McCain later said he was referring speicifically to his prison guards and not all Asians, many Asian Americans took offense. And McCain refused to apologize. Despite the "gooks" remark, McCain was still considered a serious candidate in that election. And ironically, was not soundly defeated by Bush until the Bush campaign leveled their own race-baiting at him, claiming his adopted daughter was actually the love child of an adulterous affair he had with a Black woman.
5. James L. Hart, Tennessee, believer of all things EugenicsIn 2004, Hart won the Republican Primary in Tennessee, vowing that if elected he would work toward keeping "less favored races'' from reproducing or immigrating to the United States. In campaign literature, Hart contends that "poverty genes'' threaten to turn the United States into "one big Detroit.'' "When I knock on a door and say white children deserve the same rights as everybody else, the enthusiastic response is truly amazing,'' he said. Fortunately, he lost the General Election.
6. Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, "I didn't know they were racist."In addition to praising the life and work of separatist Strom Thurmond, Lott also spoke to the white supremacist group the Council of Conservative Citizens no less than five times. He later claimed that he had no idea the group was made up of white supremacists. But during one speech, he said they "stand for the right principles and the right philosophy."
7. Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia, the tip of the icebergBarr actually touched of a fairly decent-sized scandal in 1998 for speaking at the CCC's National Convention. This resulted in a public distancing between the CCC and several prominent members of the Republican National Convention. If it weren't for Barr's utter disregard for minorities in this country, the more secretive alliance between the CCC and RNC may have never been exposed.
8. Pickaxe-wielding Lester MaddoxThis former Gov. of Georgia was known for wielding baseball bats and pickaxes in his fight to preserve segregation. He was a restaurant owner and actually got into politics following his refusal to serve black customers at his Pickrick restaurant. He served Georgia as Governor in 1966, but was term-limited, he then served at Lt. Governor in Georgia. He later ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1974 and for president in 1976, the candidate of the American Independent Party. He died in 2003. He was 87. Maddox believed blacks were intellectually inferior to whites, that integration was a Communist plot, that segregation was somewhere justified in Scripture and that a federal mandate to integrate schools was "ungodly, un-Christian and un-American."
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9. Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour, the most mainstream of them allBarbour is actually being considered as a viable Republican candidate for the 2012 presidential race. Barbour, according to the CCC's own news magazine called the Citizens Informer, along with 38 other federal officials have atended CCC events. Barbour has denied the association. But a former employee said she attended one event for him and realized immediately that the CCC were hate mongers. Later in 2003, Barbour was photographed at a CCC fundraising event with supporters and council officials inlcuding CCC Field Director Bill Lord. The CCC is believed to be partly responsible for Barbour's defeat of incumbent Democrat Ronnie Musgrove — who led the fight to change the Mississippi state flag. When asked about what role the CCC played in his candidacy, he responded "Once you start down the slippery slope of saying, 'That person can't be for me,' then where do you stop?" he asked. "Old segregationists? Former Ku Klux Klan?" Barbour easily defeated Musgrove.
10. State Rep. John Moore, no denial hereMoore has given at least two speeches to various CCC chapters. When asked about it, he said "Is the NAACP on you-all's hit list?" Moore said, "Well, they need to be." Moore said that he would "not brand" the CCC "as a KKK-style organization," and added that he felt "very comfortable" meeting with Council members. "They had folks there in suits and ties, and folks who just left the garage," Moore said. "It was very diverse occupationally."
11. State Rep. Tommy WoodsWoods is one of the few legislators who actually admitted to his association with the CCC. He disputed the "hate-group" label. "That's not true, lady," he told the Intelligence Report. "It's very conservative, Christian people that believe in Jesus as their savior. I've never known any one of them to do anything that would cause anyone any suffering. They've helped people."
12. South Carolina State Rep. Charles Sharpe.Sharpe was a proud member and ardent defender of the CCC. "They think like I do," Sharpe told The Miami Herald. "Especially on the issue of racial intermarriage. Cows and horses don't mix. I don't want any of my people doing it." Sharpe later went on to become South Carolina's commissioner of agriculture. He was arrested and charged with taking at least $20,000 in bribes to protect an illegal cockfighting ring. read the story.
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Recap and Review of The Vampire Diaries Episode "There Goes the Neighborhood"
The Vampire Diaries "There Goes the Neighborhood": The Good, The Bad and The Bloody
There goes the neighborhood, indeed! The sharp-toothed residents of Mystic Falls get some company in this week's episode of The Vampire Diaries.
Things definitely picked up steam, with some sauciness thrown in with a lot of goriness. Still, it was a fantastic installment and I'm dying to chat, so to sink your teeth into the episode (spoilers ahead!) just
- The Good
- Oh, cuss: We see where Anna and a rehabilitated Pearl (and then some) have been hiding: a farmhouse outside of town they've converted into some kind of weird vampire halfway house. They're getting everyone up to speed with technology and modern times, like texting. So who are these other vamps? Residents of the tomb — seems Bonnie and her grandma screwed up and didn't seal them all in. BTW, Harper is kind of adorable.
- It's double date time, ex-files edition: Matt and Caroline and Elena and Stefan go out to the only bar in town to cut down the awkwardness. No luck: it's already awkward, but things really go south when Matt and Elena rehash the good old times, while Caroline fumes. Surprisingly, Stefan is ultra-cool with the whole situation, conceding that he seems like a dick to Matt and bonding with him over cars.
- Pearl is one commanding she-monster. She and Anna drop in on Damon, revealing that she wants all the info Damon has on the families involved in the Secret Council. Pearl wants to take back Mystic Falls and "rebuild" and uses her bargaining chip: Katherine. Damon denies he wants to see her again, but you can tell there's a little part of him that totally wants to see her again.
- Damon "visits Cougartown," downing shots with Jenna and Kelly, who happen to be old friends. Predictably, Damon brings Kelly home to his lair, but it doesn't go that far — Matt and Caroline walk in on them (wasn't it funny when Caroline vaguely remembers being there?).
- Jeremy has a suspicion that Anna's a vampire, but she insists she made all her prior knowledge up. Well, she can't hide it any longer when Jeremy deliberately slices open his hand (ugh, WHY), and temps Anna with it. "Go for it," he says, and that she does, slurping to her little heart's content. When she angrily confronts him for letting him suck his blood, he points out that she didn't kill him. It's also kind of sad and sweet that he wants to know more to resolve what happened to Vicky. Biggest OMG moment? The very last one when Jeremy tells Anna that he wants her to turn him. The appropriate reaction to this is "Whaaaaat!"
- Random Buffy allusion? Jenna's last name is Summers.
- The Bad
- The Bad: Where's Bonnie? She got one name-drop this episode but no screen-time?! Bring her back! They need her powers now more than ever.
- The Bloody
- Pearl sticks her fingers in Damon's eyes! Gag.
- Did Jeremy really have to dice open his hand like that? I think it needed stitches. Couldn't a paper cut have sufficed?
- Pretty sure this was the bloodiest episode ever! Frederick and his lady minion literally crash into Damon and Stefan's place, and Stefan stabs the lady minion with the broken glass. Then, Pearl, angry they went out, stabs Frederick with a wooden spoon in the gut. I said it before, and I'll say it again: Gaaag.
So, what did you think of the show this week? Chat about it below, and if you really want to show your love, join the Hooked on Vampire Diaries group in the Buzz Community!
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Discover Survey: CU Members Not Optimistic on Economy, Personal Finances
Credit union members still aren't particularly optimistic about the economy and their personal finances.
According to the latest Discover U.S. Spending Monitor, 59% of credit union members believe the economy is worsening and more than 53% now believe their personal finances have worsened.
In addition, 50% of credit union members report they will have money left over after paying their bills, representing a five-point drop from August.
Consumers belonging to credit unions experienced a significant drop in confidence over the past year, with 69% now rating the economy as poor, compared to 56% a year ago. According to Discover, that figure is the highest since opinions of credit union members were recorded by the Discover U.S. Spending Monitor and mirrors the attitude of the general public.
Credit union members' spending plans seem to also be on par with the general population with nearly 39% planning to spend more on household expenses next month. In addition, 15% report they will spend more next month on household improvements and only 8% plan to save more next month.


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BOONEVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – Almost two months after being critically injured in an automobile accident that claimed the life of on of his colleagues, Booneville Superintendent Randle Downs is getting back to work.
Downs attended his first regularly scheduled school board meeting Tuesday. Though he is not able to go back to his normal schedule, he is steadily making progress in his recuperation.
Downs and two of his colleagues were injured August 22 in a car crash with four other vehicles on Highway 145 that killed Jason McKinney and injured Luke Ledbetter. Ledbetter has returned to work but it will take Downs a little more time until he is back on his normal schedule.
Wheeler High School Principal Todd Swinney continues as acting superintendent.


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Michael M. Fluegel
Michael M. Fluegel
The funeral for Michael M. Fluegel, of Alexandria, Minnesota formerly of Morris, Minnesota will be held on Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at the Assumption Catholic Church in Morris. Celebrant for the funeral mass will be Father Robert Kieffer. Visitation will be on Friday at the Pedersen Funeral Home in Morris from 4 to 8 p.m. and one hour prior to the service on Saturday at the church. Burial will be at a later date at the Calvary Cemetery, Morris.
Michael Marvin Fluegel, son of Marvin G. and Margaret (Christman) Fluegel was born on October 8, 1947 in Alexandria, Minnesota. His parents owned and operated a Chrysler Corporation Dealership in Dawson, Minnesota and Morris, Minnesota. Michael lived in Alexandria (1947-1949) and (2009-2013); Dawson (1949-1958); Willmar (1973-1974) and Morris (1958-1973) and (1975-2009). Michael attended Dawson Elementary School; St. Mary's Parochial School in Morris and graduated with honors as class president from the Morris High School in 1965. In high school, he lettered 8 times in wrestling, golf and football. He also was a member of the National Honor Society. Michael attended the University of Minnesota Morris, graduating with honors in 1969. At UMM he again earned 8 varsity athletic letters in football and golf and was named UMM's Honor Athlete in 1969. After graduation he served as a volunteer graduate assistant football coach at UMM, under head coach Mike Simpson.
Michael was admitted to the University of Minnesota Law School in the fall of 1970 and graduated Cum Laude in 1973. He subsequently practiced law in Willmar, Minnesota at the firm of Schneider and Neeser; before joining the firm of Giberson and Collins in Morris in 1974. Mike and Marty moved to Alexandria in 2009. Michael continued to practice in Morris with the firm of Fluegel, Anderson, Mclaughlin and Brutlag until his retirement in 2013. While coaching at UMM, Mike met the love of his life, Martha (Marty) (Schuelke) Fluegel. They were married in June of 1972 and had two sons, Matthew and Mitchell. Mike was a proficient and successful firearm and archery hunter, loved golf, fishing and the camping with his many friends. He served as president of the 16th District Bar Association, the 16th District Legal Ethics Board, Director of the Stevens Community Industrial Development Association and President of the UMM Golf Club. He was a director of the Pomme de Terre Golf Club for eight years and a director of the UMM Alumni Association.
Mike died on Sunday, March 10, 2013 in Alexandria, Minnesota, having lived to reach the age of 65 years.
He is survived by his wife, Marty Fluegel of Alexandria; two sons, Matthew (and spouse, Amollia) of Morris and Mitchell (and partner, Lindsay Bryda) of Minneapolis; two grandchildren, Cooper and Anastasia Fluegel of Morris. He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Kathryn Mary Friedrich.
Pallbearers for the service are: Rich Nodland, Gary Severson, Dave Battey, Rick Feriancek, Steve Eskra, Steve Herzog, Kurt Sieve, Dave Kjos, Paul Ersted, Roy Lende, Reid Lende, Warrenn Anderson and Erik Schultz. Josh Fischer will provide special music for the service. Pedersen Funeral Home in Morris is in charge of the arrangements. To send condolences to the family please visit www.pedersenfh.com.


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Anyone who took the time to examine the pedigrees of 2-year-old Pasaka Boy and 7-year-old Shesha Bear on the Salisbury race card in England June 12 couldn't help but be surprised. Pasaka Boy, who was making his first start, is out of Shesha Bear.
Shesha Bear, by Tobougg, finished second in a 1 1/2-mile race for 4-year-olds and up, and Pasaka Boy, by Haafhd, won a six-furlong race at 50-1.
"It caused a bit of an interest," said J.G.B. Portman, who trains both runners for RWH Partnership. "It's a shame they both didn't win. It would have been great."
Pasaka Boy is the first and sole offspring for Shesha Bear, who raced for Joe Bear Racing prior to becoming a broodmare. Shesha Bear captured two of 16 races prior to being bred.
After Shesha Bear got in foal in 2009, she made five starts for RWH before being taken out of training in the second half of the year. She foaled Pasaka Boy in 2010.
"After Shesha Bear had Pasaka Boy, she wasn't a good mother," Portman said. "She kicked the foal quite badly in the knee, and because she was a pain in the neck, the owners decided to put her back in training. She was sent to me, and after a period of getting to know her, we won three consecutive races at Epsom last year. She ran very well to be second in her recent start."
"The owners are keen to run Pasaka Boy at Royal Ascot," Portman added. "I told them let's enter him and see what the race looks like. In reality, he'll probably go back to Salisbury for a smaller race."
Shesha Bear, who has run two other times this year and was beaten in both starts, is a half sister to stakes winner Warming Trends. Her third dam is North American blue hen mare Kittiwake (by Sea-Bird II), whose stakes winners include grade I winner Miss Oceana and French group I winner Kitwood.
Portman said Shesha Bear might be bred next year. She was not bred this year.


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Samuel L. Wagner School's cross-country team won the Sportmanship Award for the Penobscot Valley Middle School League. Fifth-graders participated this year, since they have made the move to the Wagner School. Students can't participate in contact sports (soccer and field hockey) until sixth grade.
A public forum at Wagner Middle School will be held Monday, Jan. 28, at 6 p.m. to discuss the possibility of Frankfort's joining SAD 22. Voters in the district will vote on the issue April 9.
Community gathering
Time to get rid of cabin fever. Ellingwoods Corner United Methodist Church, at the corner of Monroe Road and Route 69 in Winterport, is having a community gathering Saturday, Feb. 9, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. The thrift shop will be open, hand-dipped chocolates will be for sale, along with baked goods, and best of all a free baked ham lunch with side dishes and desserts from 11 a.m. until gone. There will be board games to play, jigsaw puzzles to do and free hot coffee all day, so plan on staying a while. For further info contact Deb at 234-2762.
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In collaboration with young people in three Philly neighborhoods, artist Jebney Lewis has created a Frankenstein-like 20-ft-tall sculpture called Super Creature of Energy and Power. Lee Tusman talks with the artist about temporary installations, artistic collaborations, and Voltron. > more
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June 28, 2012 | News
At the 2012 Wawa Hoagie Day on Independence Mall, an estimated 4.5 tons of hoagies were served. Wawa Italian Shorti hoagies, to be precise. Theresa Stigale has photos from the event. > more
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The rise and downward slide of magazine editor Tina Brown (Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Talk) and husband, Harry Evans (former editor of the London Sunday Times and, later, president of Random House), goes under the microscope in Tina and Harry Come to America: Tina Brown, Harry Evans and the Uses of Power, which has been causing a stir in New York media circles, for whom stories of the media pair have long been catnip. For many readers, the real news in the book will be the account of the couple's earlier years in England rather than the familiar ground of their New York power struggles in the last decade. Vanity Fair contributing editor Judy Bachrach's book is well researched, but her determination to make the couple's story emblematic of contemporary media culture introduces a degree of editorializing. (Free Press, $27.50; 372p ISBN 0-684-83763-3; July 31)
Making Music
Embraced by rock fans in the early 90s, the Free Jazz movement has inspired a kind of jazz renaissance. Jazz journalist and death-metal fan Phil Freeman describes that revival in New York Is Now! The New Wave of Free Jazz, the first book published by the multimedia Telegraph Company (66 Hope St., Brooklyn, N.Y., 11211; 718-599-6762). In interviews with avant-garde jazz musicians, reviews of salient works, discussions of the scene's important clubs and record labels, and analysis of the genre's relationship to indie rock, Freeman catalogues a much-overlooked musical and cultural phenomenon. Jazz fans and indie-rockers alike should welcome this thorough and opinionated work. ($16.95 222p ISBN 1-930606-00-1; Sept. 10)
Third in Stephen Citron's Great Songwriters series, Sondheim & Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical (preceded by Noel & Cole and The Wordsmiths) demonstrates how musical theater "has done a total about-face" since its inception. Just compare classics like Anything Goes, Oliver! or Guys and Dolls to Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, Rent and The Full Monty, says musicologist, composer and lyricist Citron, to notice the glaring differences between shows made between the 1920s and '60s ("It was a time when plot was secondary") and those made since that time, which have "gone in several directions"—including the "oversize theatricality" of Lloyd-Webber and the "intellectual stimulation" of Sondheim. Tracing the two lives from childhood through early careers (initially, Sondheim was solely a lyricist, Lloyd-Webber solely a composer) to the present (the phenomenal, longstanding success of Cats; Sondheim's receipt of the Kennedy Center Honors Medal from then-President Clinton), Citron trains telescopic and microscopic lenses on the two most important living musical theater luminaries. B&w photos. (Oxford, $39.95 456p ISBN 0-19-509601-0; Aug.)
For readers who play the violin, whether in the school orchestra, the subway station or the symphony, good instrument care is essential. The Violin Owner's Manual is a complete guide to the selection, repair, preservation and protection of the instrument, regardless of type or value. Written under the guidance of the editors of Strings magazine, by a team of violin makers, violin repair specialists, restorers, bow makers, bow dealers and musicians, the book is lucid, and helpfully illustrated by b&w photos and drawings. Among other advice, readers are told how to select a bow and a violin case, guard against theft, install and care for strings, find the shoulder rest that is most comfortable and how and when to sell your instrument. Should be welcomed by violinists at any level of expertise, as well as instructors and dealers. (String Letter [www.stringletter.com ], $14.95 152p ISBN 1-890490-43-1; Aug.)
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The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis have been selected by someone who should know: Caroline Kennedy. While Caroline's two confirmed appearances on the Today Show, a first serial in Good Housekeeping, and further publicity should make this easily the bestselling poetry title of the season, it doesn't hurt that Jackie's taste was excellent. Charming poems from John Clare, Kipling, and a young Jimmy Kennedy are complemented by work from Langston Hughes, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop—and by 14 b&w family photos. Caroline Kennedy has organized more than 100 poems into seven sections ("America"; "Adventure" etc.), written short, intimate introductions to each and included a small selection of Jackie's own poems. (Hyperion, $21.95 192p ISBN 0-7868-6809-0; Oct. 3)
Titled after his thoughtful Slate column, Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Haiku and Whimsical Observations to Help You Understand the Modern Game presses sportswriter Gregg Easterbrook's commentary into metrical service. His one rule: "literary merit optional." How else to explain gems like "Ideally, don't play./ Fans wince when I trot on field./ I am the Punter." Indeed. Yet Easterbrook has the lefty egghead sportsnut market locked up in addition to his Slate duties, he's a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, and a senior editor at the New Republic. He's also the author of what the press chat calls "the landmark eco-realist book," A Moment on the Earth: The Coming of Age of Environmental Optimism. This little square book (5 1/2"×6 1/4") includes 40 b&w illustrations, mostly of old-style gridiron action. (Universe, $15.95 80p ISBN 0-7893-0651-4; Sept.)
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"Kevlar [a DuPont product] is one of the best candidates... for tethering a space platform.... But gram for gram, silk is stronger still," explains Philip Ball (H2O: A Biography of Water) in Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules. Thus does this Nature magazine writer and editor render practical and navigable the abstractions of invisible science. "Our metabolic processes are primarily about making molecules. Cells cannot survive without constantly reinventing themselves: making new amino acids for proteins, new lipids for membranes." But Ball's biological explanation for life, thought and action is no dry, joyless drone: "That a conspiracy of molecules might have created King Lear... makes the world seem an enchanted place." Pop-science enthusiasts will eat it up. Illus. (Oxford, $19.95 256p ISBN 0-19-280214-3; Sept.)
Fifth in Kenneth C. Davis's bestselling series, Don't Know Much About the Universe: Everything You Need to Know About the Cosmos but Never Learned explores questions "not usually found in science textbooks: What does astronomy have to do with astrology? Did extraterrestrials build the pyramids? Who dug those canals on Mars? ...Was Werner von Braun a war criminal?" In this chatty, eminently approachable science and history survey, Davis (Don't Know Much About the Bible) quotes poets, unscrambles Galileo's coded notes to Kepler, defines "nova" and "planetary nebula" in liberal-arts—friendly terms, discusses The X-Files and generally strives to put science-phobes at ease. Illus., including several cartoons. (HarperCollins, $26 356p ISBN 0-06-019459-6; Sept.)
César N. Caviedes's El Niño in History: Storming Through the Ages will attract the attention of armchair meteorologists and oceanographers everywhere, but particularly in those regions, such as Florida and California, where human life is most blatantly affected by weather. Drawing on his own and others' research, Caviedes (South America), professor and former chair of the University of Florida's Department of Geography, links current findings and speculation to 19th-century shipwrecks off Africa, successful European exploration of the Incan empire in the 16th century, WWI-era droughts in Australia, recent famines in countries in or adjacent to the Sahel and catastrophic floods in China in the 1400s. The book takes in a broader current than Mike Davis's recent, grimly magisterial Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. Tables and illus. (Univ. of Florida, $24.95 288p ISBN 0-8130-2099-9; Sept.)
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In Travelers' Tales Cuba: True Stories, editor Tom Miller (Trading with the Enemy) has gathered 38 essays by Western ex-pats, Cuban exiles and travelers of all stripes, including Cristina García, Pico Iyer, James Michener, Andrei Codrescu and Robert Stone. Novelist Elisio Alberto recollects his 1970s stint at the magazine Cuba Internacional, "a real Gothic cave where chance had gathered together twelve or thirteen madmen who were not afraid of anybody or anything, not even of daydreaming, perhaps the bravest thing of all in this most extraordinary world designed by God or the Devil." From his rental car, Dave Eggars comes to understand something of Cubans' reality: "That becomes the point—it had not been the plan at the outset but now is the mission, one thrust upon us—the picking up of people, because, as we learn soon enough, the most common roadside scenery in Cuba, besides the horse-drawn wagons and broken-down classic American cars, is its hitchhikers." (Travelers' Tales, $17.95 paper 352p ISBN 1-885211-62-7; Aug.)
New York Times editors Brent Bowers and Deidre Leipziger have compiled articles written by the paper's reporters under 10 sections pertaining to key business issues. Each chapter—or case study—in The New York Times Management Reader: Hot Ideas and Best Practices from the New World of Business—is introduced by Times business reporter David Leonhardt; a few carry epilogues. Despite the thematic groupings, the work does not delve deeply into any area, and could just as easily be called Best Business Stories of the New York Times, 2000. (Times Books, $16 paper 352p ISBN 0-8050-6742-6; Aug.)


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text: we put on all new pads, calipers and lines, basicly everything but the master cylinder. Bus ran flawlessly! only thing i need to figure out now is sometimes when the engine is warm, at idle the bus dies, it always starts back up but when there is no RPMS it wants to die. any ideas? someone told me it might be the "idle soluniod" my 72 has a 78 engine with fuel injection. thanks, jeff ----- Original Message ---- From: Christopher Dirksen <cajun-eskimo@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 10:58:03 AM Subject: [tcb] Re: good news and trip report Yep! And the sweet bus he has. Jeff did you fix the brakes? Cajun Eskimo Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:17:59 -0500 From: evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] Re: good news and trip report Are you congratulating him on the trip report or the baby? -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Dirksen Sent: Oct 22, 2007 7:10 AM To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] Re: good news and trip report Congrads to Lee & Jeff, great news and great trip report well done man. Cajun Eskimo Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:44:53 -0700 From: coitspoon@xxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] good news and trip report To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; manlymandallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; leela0303@xxxxxxxxxxx Hello all. First off, I have some good news to start this quick email, my wife Lee is pregnant and due May 21st! We just (on the 19th) had our second wedding anniversary. We are committed to "Adventure and Leisure" in our relationship and part of that is going on a trip every year for our anniversary. Last year we went to California wine country. This year we went on a camping road trip! We took our "new" 1972 VW camper down to the hill country. On Thursday we loaded up, started driving and ended up at Lake Proctor (near Dublin, where Dr. Pepper was originally made). We then continued south to Kerrville, and camped in the Kerrville-Schreiner state park, it was beautiful, loaded with tame deer that would eat from your hands. The drive was amazing, the bus cruised great around 60-65 mph and 20 miles per gallon. On our journey we stumbled on one of those "historical markers," it was the geographical center of Texas – so that was pretty cool! On Saturday night we were in Boerne, great little hill country town, we went on a 3 hour cruise through small towns with 20 other vintage VW's. We spent the night at Jeff's ranch (a fellow VW owner – Ghia convertible), he's got 20 beautiful acres, we had a great big bond fire. This morning we woke up and went to VOSA car show, it had somewhere around 80-90 vintage VW's. It was a truly fantastic trip! We got back around 5:45pm and met up with my parents, sister and husband, brother and fiancée, and grandmother. We went to "Sea Monsters" a 3D IMAX movie that was great, now we're home and ready for bed. Please check out the new photos at: http://bednar.smugmug.com/gallery/3691828#211302361 Thanks, Jeff and Lee +1 Bednar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Boo! Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! Try now! Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook – together at last. Get it now! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com


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So anyone that plays SA probably knows about there custom mission script; there are thousands of user-created missions uploaded.
See to me the purpose of GTA has always been about missions and chaos. Yet here was stand 4 years laters with hundreds of mods that have little to do with that, at least in terms of larger-scale projects. It makes me scratch my head, not gonna lie.
My proposal is for someone to come up with a mission creation mod that can also be saved and shared with other users easily. Additionally if these missions worked in multiplayer that would really expand on the gameplay experience.
It's GTA; killing bad guys for some diluted, psychotic reason really is the name of the game. Yet once we finish the storyline, outside of 3 online coop missions, that whole aspect of the game more or less disappears. This would give us a chance to re-emulate those main things about the game that made it so fun to play.
GTA IV custom missions like SA has
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