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MADISON, Wis. - Dane County is moving forward with a new public/private partnership that could help bring fresh food and jobs to one of south Madison's so-called "food deserts" in the Southdale Neighborhood.
Urban Assets has been selected to receive a $31,700 county grant to develop a feasibility study for a small neighborhood-scale market in the area. Based on research and input from food industry experts, the project team would develop a concept design, operational model and a financing plan, according to a Dane County news release.
The goal of the new partnership, the South Madison Food Enterprise (SMFE) project, is to develop a market feasibility plan for a neighborhood-based food enterprise to meet the needs of area residents, employees and employers, identify an owner/operator, and help in developing the new facility.
"This new partnership holds exciting possibilities for innovation and economic development in a neighborhood that is already growing in great ways,"Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said in a news release. "The expansion of access to fresh local foods, and needed job creation, proves that we can continue to achieve great things when we work together."
County officials said the size of the fresh market facility could range from 5,000-15,000 square feet and add up to 20 full-time jobs, depending on the results of feasibility and market research and work with industry stakeholders.
The food enterprise will be located on Rimrock Road in the Town of Madison, on Alexander Company's Novation Campus. Phase I of the project will engage area residents and work with the community to survey residents and employees, conduct a market analysis and review existing small food enterprise models, according to the release.
The goal of Phase II is development of the site that would come with additional support in grant funding through Dane County, and development assistance from the Alexander Company.
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Casting from either bank, my snap T always casts very square. I can't seem to get less than about 80 degrees. What might I be doing wrong? Does anyone have any ideas?
Also, from left bank, medium to strong upstream wind- what's the best cast?
The snap-T is generally designed to be a square angle-change cast but it can be made at a more acute or obtuse angle depending on (1) the plane of the d-loop before the cast (2) how the pull/push is directed and (3) where the anchor lies.
Skipping the details for a minute, as long as you can lay-down this formation in a manner that it can be swept up into a d-loop, the most important thing is that the d-loop is aligned with the forward stroke - follow the 180 degree rule.
However the shape of the line on the water determines the sweeping path, and the sweeping path influences the d-loop - thus pay attention here too.
The shape of the line after the snap is a sort of 'candy cane' or "U" with 54-65 ft lines one leg ends at the rod tip and the longer leg lays on the water with only the anchor and fly upstream of you on the final casting side of the body.
Make all moves with the body, not just the arms...
a) lead the initial lift and pull toward the middle of the river a little more for closed angles
b) when pushing the rod tip underneath, cross to the inside toward the shore a bit more
c) use a shorter belly line for more maneuverability
d) pay special attention to degree of rotation at the end of the sweep - watch the d-loop!
e) wait for the sweep momentum to form the d-loop... after the stop it may take a full second for that d-loop to swell out and back
f) look for the end of the flyline to pivot before making the forward cast, this means the d-loop has formed fully
Lastly make sure the anchor and fly are on the correct side of the cast or risk a hookup of the wrong species
Upriver wind, left bank? My pet cast - the upriver snake is my favorite, but I will use a single spey most often for simplicity and power.
Good luck casting!
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I like a snap t with a twist in Juro's river left ,upstream wind situation..the twist is a sidearm delivery when the wind is hard.the sidearm aspect makes evrything rollout and turnover parallel to the water surface.your leader and fly will flip around and land downstream of your line and be ready to fish without a mend.whereas, with the more normal delivery the hard wind will mostly blow the big fly and leader upriver of your line and this will require a hard messy mend.to me it is easier to do the sidearm than with a single.also easier to laydown the 2nd cast move of the snap T in a tough wind consistently.BEAU
are you trying to direct the cast more upstream or more downstream?..if you are trying to get more uptream, thne try this...I am not a casting instructor and only can say this works for me in my snap t ....If you right hand is the top hand and you have snapped the line upstream and before it anchors , if you sweep the rod back and downward to the left as far possible without taking it behind you , the effect is to move the anchor in really tight to your right side and with the rod then directed upstream on the forward stroke you can direct the forward and final portion of the cast more upstream..said another way, the further the rod is swept back to the left, the more upstream shot you get on the final cast...
Bee, Beau Purvis and especially Juro once again... thankyou for the tips. I'm heading down to the river over the next few days- I'll try what you have recommended.
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on Juro's part of the cast described under b] ,I sort of cast the line below me by puting a good bend in my rod tip and using that to propell a few feet of semi slack line as I follow through down and and around toward shore a little more than where i am standing. that way ,the line on the water ends with a half of a C shape on the downstrem half.That ,to me, is the perfect shape to retrace on the sweep back upstream. It eliminates any extra noise or tension.it is a smooth oerfect retracement.also ,I make sure my tip on that move ends in the water. So,before I start the sweep back up , all the line and the tip are on the water.If I do that every time ,the fly is anchored in the same spot above my body every time, eliminating any variation of the anchor and giving me a smooth, even ,continous build of load from the moment I start the upriver sweep prior to final delivery.By the way ,my first lift move is done with a combination of a down hand push and up hand pull and as soon as it is lifted ,the down stroke is done with a downhand pull and upper hand push combo.I dont really use any arm movement.A lot of people use big arm movements and move the whole rod.my hands and arms basically stay pretty much stable in those first two moves and I use an easy push-pull and pull-push making the top half of the rod to do all the work!Beau
Juro and Beau provides tons of good advice. Here's a ounce:
to cast a narrower downstream angle on the snap-T, throw the D-loop more upriver
the anchoring and body tips that Juro and Beau give will make it possible to send the line fully downstream on the final cast, 0 degrees, back to the dangle
Up stream wind on the left bank. You would be crazy to not use a single spey off the right shoulder, quickest way to get the fly back out and fishing. I won't discredit the snap-t as a cast its very useful with very heavy tips and a serious change of direction. But you can achieve the same with the single and use one less move to make the cast. Learn the single and it will be your best friend, practice it off both shoulders and you won't want to use a snap or a double.
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I am trying to help with ?'s asked about snap T.!! Not preaching that is the only cast to use,Not that dogmatic!! I try to use all casts.As I have said before everyone is dialed in differently and some can do some casts and others can't.All situations are different also.You cant just say 'river left.upstream wind means single spey or what ever.there can be slight differences that favor certain casts.I usually start with obvious but try other options if my first choice seems to have some less thn desired aspects.At rare times and unusual wind currents the "wrong cast" has worked best!I also just like to change and experiment to give my muscles and my brain a change.my single from river left is also a weak cast for me.I tend to do the single on river right ,upstram wind , especially when using a floating line.I use the single much more with a floating line for some reason.I find it interesting that the dogmatic ones argue against the snap T because there is an extra move required. Yet, they use the double spey in a downriver wind .you would think that that same resoning would drive them towards the snake.Must be tradition rather than efficiency!Any way thats my dribble ,for what ever it is worth!!Beau
It's all good!
Beau makes and excellent point, we all have individual preferences, skillsets, goals and pleasure points. I do agree with Brian, the single is the 'one' to learn, however that wouldn't be true for all practitioners necessarily.
Years ago I started out just trying to get the damn line out there far enough. The double and snap were my saviors. Then I got consistent with the single, and my left hand came along too. Now, as funny as it seems, when the cast I am doing gets easy I switch to another cast! Call it crazy but I figure "every minute in a groove is a minute I could use to improve". If Ben Franklin was a speybrotha I'm sure he'd coin a phrase like that.
I listed the upriver snake as my favorite but by no means is it the 'best' or worst, easiest or hardest, and it won't necessarily catch more fish. It's just fun
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was just trying to answer the original question about the best cast river left with a upstream wind. The use of the single spey in that situation is of course only my prefered method. I realize I may have came off with a thats the only way to do it attitude, my bad on that part, I know better, and keep a very open mind when it comes to casting preferences and styles as I tend to use them all.
Brian, drowning in newf drewl
no problem, I was just trying to clarify I wasnt being dogmatic after Willie"s seemingly gruff retort.I really enjoy experiment and change similar to that expressed by Juro.I also am a little sensitive , since once in a while I have been tackled a little hard!!!But I am a big boy!Beau
Moi gruff? what next.
There are only 2 casts to learn the single and the double spey. Left and right hand up, once you can do those well you can fish anywhere. The rest are just patter.
Willie Gunn
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you took my fly. I knew i would draw you back with that one.just playing with you Willie!! By the way, I caught my biggest Kharlovka fish on my first cast in my life with a Willie Gunn on a brass tube.thought of you afterwards.Beau
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TUPELO – Mississippi's congressional leaders predict a more bipartisan tone in Washington next term despite the same political dynamic, as decided in Tuesday's election.
U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker and U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee, all R-Miss., said voters want to see Republicans and Democrats work together to solve the nation's most pressing issues.
"First of all, we have to recognize we have a divided government, and the elections put an exclamation point behind that," Cochran told the Daily Journal on Wednesday. "We're going to have to work together. One-party control is not possible over the next two years."
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"I do think the role of the conservative House of Representatives is to continue to stop the liberal agenda that has advanced the first two years of this administration," Nunnelee said Wednesday. "We won't have expansion of Obamacare, another failed stimulus or another Cash for Clunkers as long as there is a conservative House of Representatives."
Nunnelee also said it's now unlikely the next Congress will repeal Obamacare – officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. States like Mississippi that have been reluctant to implement portions of the act have little choice now but to do so, he said.
The big bipartisan test will come soon enough. Congress and President Barack Obama must address the so-called "fiscal cliff" that's set to cut spending and raise taxes at midnight on Dec. 31. Experts have warned the cliff could tip the country's already fragile economy into another recession, but a compromise thus far has been elusive.
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Wednesday "indicated a willingness to listen to reason and to compromise and to put revenue on the table – revenue that results from tax reform," Wicker told the Daily Journal. "That's a hopeful sign and should be a signal, I think, to the leadership of the Senate that it's important to sit down. That will be a test and a signal for how the full two-year term is treated."


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Forebodings (1881), a watercolor by one of America's best-known artists, Winslow Homer (1836-1910), will be part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and 'The Life Line'. The Hyde's watercolor provides a link between Philadelphia's dramatic image of an American rescue at sea painted in 1884 and Homer's earlier work created at Cullercoats on the north coast of England in 1881-82. The aptly titled Forebodings, captures the anxious mood of two fishermen's wives standing on a wind-driven shore, looking across the vastness of a stormy sea to distantly silhouetted fishing vessels. The exhibition will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from September 16 - December 16, 2012.
In Colorado, at the Denver Art Museum, The Hyde Collection's drawing by Vincent van Gogh entitled The Orchard with Arles in the Background will be shown in the exhibition Becoming Van Gogh. The exhibition traces the evolution of the artist's mature style. The Hyde's pen and ink landscape demonstrates a key element in this process, as Van Gogh mastered the subject of a walled orchard in Arles during this critical period in his career. It is one of a series of works representing this scene including a painting from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that will also be featured in the Denver exhibition. Becoming Van Gogh will be on view at the Denver Art Museum from October 20, 2012 - January 20, 2013.
A sculpture by John Rogers (1829-1904), The School Examination, will be on loan to the Newark Museum for the exhibition Angels and Tomboys: Girlhood in 19th- Century American Art. This is the first in-depth examination of nineteenth-century depictions of girlhood in paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs. The exhibition will explore the myriad ways that American artists participated in the artistic and social construction of girlhood throughout the 1800s. The exhibition will open in Newark, New Jersey and be on view from September 11, 2012 - January 7, 2013, then travel to the Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee from February 16 - May 12, 2013, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas from June 28 through January 20, 2013.
Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910, Forebodings, 1881, watercolor on wove paper, Bequest of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, 1971.69
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By Parrish Alford/NEMS Daily Journal
Monday was a big recruiting day for Ole Miss football, with the Rebels confirming one member of the fold and adding a new one to it.
The Ole Miss Spirit and others reported Monday morning that junior college transfer defensive tackle Jarran Reed (6-4, 305) had offered a verbal commitment to the Rebels.
In the afternoon Memphis running back Mark Dodson, who has been an Ole Miss commitment since the summer, reaffirmed that pledge and went so far as to sign financial aid papers with the Rebels.
Vanderbilt had made a late push for Dodson (5-10, 192), who is rated a four-star prospect by Scout.com.
Signing of the papers at this time binds Ole Miss to Dodson – who is expected to enroll in January – not the other way around.
Dodson last week was named Tennessee's Gatorade Player of the Year. He rushed for more than 3,300 yards this season, including a reported 318 in the Class 5A championship game as he led Whitehaven to a 36-35 overtime win against Maryville.
Reed, a native of Goldsboro, N.C., is expected to be a February signee. He is described as a raw, physical talent and had offers from Florida, Florida State, Texas Tech and Mississippi State as well as his home-state Tar Heels.
He will give the Rebels a big presence to help replace seniors Gilbert Pena and Uriah Grant on a defensive line that otherwise returns most of its players.
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Repairing the GoFlex Home NAS Drive
I was recently introduced to the GoFlex Home Network Drive over the
holidays, and got to help set it up. Unfortunately, the device has a bug,
which is not fixed in the latest updates, that makes it impossible to
use static IP addresses.
Each time the device powers off and restarts, it sets itself to use DHCP.
The device runs Linux under the hood, and even exposes the SSH port, but the accounts it uses are not obvious. And root is disabled.
To fix the device yourself, you will first need root access. The easiest way is described in this wiki page. Basically:
ssh USERNAME_hipserv2_seagateplug_XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX@DEVICE_IP_ADDRESS sudo -E -s
The USERNAME is the name of the account you have created on the device, when using the usual Windows interface. The XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX is the PK Product Key located on the bottom of the device.
First, make it easier to gain root access by enabling root SSH logins:
Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and uncomment: PermitRootLogin yes Set your own root password: passwd root Restart SSH: service sshd restart
Next, there is a bug in the logic of the /etc/init.d/oe-bootinit script's ensure_firstbootnetwork() function. The entire function should probably only run if the /etc/firstboot file exists, but there is an if/else statement that only checks this for the first half of the if statement. The else is where the DHCP overwrite happens.
By this point, though, your device has passed the first boot, so you don't need this code anymore. I commented out the entire block of code, and replaced it with something innocuous, just to avoid any shell issues with empty functions:
echo do nothing > /dev/null
You'll want to be careful editing these files, since if you make a typo that prevents network boot, you won't be able to login to fix it.
It seems that Seagate has known about this issue since September, but there were no software updates that fix this issue. Using the web interface to check for updates, it claimed that the device was up to date. You may want to take this into consideration when making future purchasing decisions.
Good luck, and enjoy!
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Duke Sports Medicine is pleased to begin a partnership with Triangle United Soccer Association for health care services as well as educational information on injury prevention, performance enhancement, training and nutrition. As part of our health care services to Triangle United, we will be providing athletic training coverage at club hosted tournaments and assisting members of the club with setting up appointments and referrals within Duke Sports Medicine.
Beginning this fall, I will be available at the Homestead fields on the following Monday nights from 6-8 pm: 10/6, 10/27 and 11/10. Activities such as agility, speed, coordination/movement patterns, etc are a few examples of the skills I can work on with teams or individuals. I am also a resource for injuries and can refer players or assist with setting up appointments with Duke Sports Medicine physicians.
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Today, Monday was the first day of the winter season. Due to ongoing firearm deer seasons orange must be worn until Dec 10th when we can go back to the no see em clothing. This requirement makes it much more challenging, even for Vic clad in orange he has a much harder time getting close for good breaks. Plus the 9 gun season has dispersed the turkeys on most farms to parts unknown. And public land birds--yikes who knows how far back they were pushed.
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Interview: Pink Floyd's Nick Mason, Engineer John Leckie Discuss the Making of 'Meddle'
But the group didn't simply stumble onto this new musical path. According to drummer Nick Mason, he and his bandmates sized up the strengths and weaknesses of their previous experimental efforts—namely Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother—and discovered something instructive: both albums were divided between tracks written by the full band and by individual members—and the band-composed tunes were the best.
"We'd done the individual solo tracks and decided that we worked better together," Mason says when we meet up with him in his North London offices. "There wasn't any great plan when we did Meddle other than it would be a group effort. There was no concept. I don't think we had anything already written when we went into studio. After Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother, we thought that we should make a group album, something that was maybe a reflection of where we were going live."
Certainly, by the end of the Sixties, Pink Floyd had developed into a formidable live touring band. They remained as adventurous and experimental as they'd been in their Syd days, but they were also more structured and stable. Although Meddle reveled in its use of the recording studio, it was the first Pink Floyd album to capture some of the potency and excitement of their live shows.
According to Mason, the band's label, EMI, had no grand ambitions for the album. "We weren't under any pressure from EMI to release anything," he says. EMI, for that matter, didn't seem to have a clue about Pink Floyd, other than that they sold lots of records, and so the label left them to their own devices. "We had just signed a new contract that gave us a slightly reduced royalty in return for unlimited studio time," Mason says. "I think only the Beatles had a similar deal at the time."
"They were left alone," confirms John Leckie. "Colin Miles, who was the only person at EMI who could 'relate' to Pink Floyd, used to turn up occasionally with a couple of bottles of wine. Maybe some spliff. They worked hard, though; it wasn't a party."
Work on the album began in January, when Pink Floyd returned from a tour of the U.S. In the early stage of making Meddle, the band recorded at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, sometimes bringing in ideas that they had worked on at home. Leckie and Peter Bown, who had worked with them on Atom Heart Mother, recorded and engineered the Abbey Road sessions.
Leckie remembers that the atmosphere in the studio was good: "They weren't really different from any other band," he says. "It was quite energetic, everyone had a say. Nick came up with a lot of the crazier ideas. It's his voice through a ring modulator that you hear on 'One of These Days,' saying, 'One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces.' Rick contributed a lot. Roger and Dave were running the show, but everybody was contributing."
They continued to gig, setting up their gear in the studio then going off at night to play headline shows at colleges and universities. "We were trying out a lot of stuff live at that time," Mason says. "Echoes" in its developmental stage was a series of unconnected parts, each of which was labeled, from "Nothing Part One" to "Nothing Part 36."
It began to take shape when Floyd debuted it live at a gig in Norwich in April. It was still listed under its working title "Return of the Son of Nothing."
But the band was now pushing the possibilities of the studio. Mason remembers, "Abbey Road had invested in an eight-track, but we were ready to go 16-track. So we went to AIR studios, which was great." AIR—Associated Independent Recording—was established by Beatles producer George Martin in 1965 after he left Abbey Road and became an independent producer.
"A very different atmosphere to EMI," Mason says. "EMI was very established, had the big canteen [cafeteria]…there was already a lot of change, though. The Beatles did that a few years before. But AIR was state-of-the-art."
It was the possibilities offered by 16-track that changed everything. "Yes, by definition, though unfortunately it made the process of recording slower. There were almost too many options," Mason says. "Mixing took a hell of a lot longer." Leckie and Bown handled sessions at AIR, as they had at Abbey Road, but they relinquished their duties to Rob Black and Roger Quested when Pink Floyd moved their sessions to a third studio: Morgan, in Willesden.
"Morgan was one of the first British studios to go 24-track, though not at that time," Leckie says. "Later, I recorded some of the first Stone Roses tracks there, when it was called Battery."


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Eight states most in the Northeast and Midwest would lose seats in Congress in 2010, based on an analysis of Census estimates of 2008 state populations released today.
Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania each would lose a seat, according to an analysis by Election Data Services, Inc.
Five states Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, and Utah would each gain one seat. Texas would be the big winner, adding three seats.
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As a counter to my earlier post about hope for the bull market to continue its run, here's a chart from JPMorgan Funds' Guide to the Markets, which handily illustrates the last three bull markets:
Click for larger, and to see why the bearish are concerned: The previous two bull markets saw gains of 106% and 101%, while the current run has seen a trough-to-peak climb (so far) of 132%.
What's more, of the previous two bull markets, one lasted four years and three months and the second lasted five years. Today's is now just over four years old, meaning it's conceivably heading into running-out-of-steam territory.
Of course, history doesn't repeat exactly, and as my earlier post noted there are reasons to remain bullish. Still, the above is a nice snapshot of where we're at right now.


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On the Penguins: In the NHL, sometimes it's one night onlyJanuary 11, 2014 10:55 PM
Yeah, the Penguins are spoiled.
So is almost every other team in the Eastern Conference.
Saturday night, the Penguins wrapped up a three-game swing through Western Canada, one of their rare forays outside the Eastern time zone this winter.
That's quite a jaunt for a group whose road trips generally consist of an hour-long flight to someplace like Raleigh, N.C., or Boston or Montreal; for most clubs in the West, a trip like that is as good as it gets, and happens only a few times each season.
Perhaps because the Penguins' travel usually isn't terribly demanding -- not only are the flights fairly short, but they're made on planes far more comfortable and spacious than those used by commercial travelers -- at least some guys don't mind an occasional trip across the continent.
"I love going everywhere," defenseman Brooks Orpik said. "I think it's one of the fun things about the job, getting to go to different cities."
He was quick to add that having every club -- especially one whose lineup is liberally laced with big-name talents as that of the Penguins -- play at least once per season in each of the other 29 cities helps to spur interest in the game.
"That was something [the NHL Players' Association] pushed for during the CBA [negotiations], to go everywhere once a year, based on [appealing to] the fans," Orpik said.
"If you have Sid[ney Crosby] and [Evgeni Malkin] on the same team, two of the best guys in the league, if you're a fan, you want to see all those guys at least once a year, as much as possible."
Brian Dumoulin is back in Wilkes-Barre, back where there was every reason to believe he would spend the entire 2013-14 season, honing his game for an eventual run at full-time work in the NHL.
That, of course, was before the Penguins began to lose defensemen to significant injuries every 20 minutes or so, forcing them to reach deep very deep -- into the roster of their American Hockey League affiliate for replacement parts.
When they had reached far enough, often enough, they grabbed Dumoulin.
And, just like those summoned before and after him, he responded with a quality performance.
There's nothing spectacular about his game in any zone -- he had one assist while averaging over 19 minutes of ice time in six games -- but he is reliable and responsible, not prone to costly or unforced errors.
Which is precisely what management was expecting from him after a strong showing for the Baby Penguins during the Calder Cup playoffs last spring.
"In the playoffs, he was lights-out," said Tom Fitzgerald, the Penguins' assistant to the general manager. "He's been consistent with his job. He knows what he is."
Dumoulin was acquired from Carolina in the 2012 Jordan Staal trade and believes the defensive side of his game have gotten significantly better since he left Boston College that year.
"I felt like, coming in, I needed to get better at my one-on-one defensive-zone skills," he said. "Looking back at college, that wasn't the main focus for me.
"I didn't really understand it until I got with [Wilkes-Barre coach John Hynes] and [assistant Alain Nasreddine] and they really taught me how to play one-on-one defense and make sure I do my job, not try to do somebody else's."
Dumoulin showed enough during his brief stint with the Penguins to suggest that he's not the least bit out of place at this level, and that he probably is capable of taking a regular shift with an NHL club whose blue line isn't so heavily stocked with quality personnel.
The reality, though, is that not only do the Penguins have a surplus of accomplished defensemen on the NHL payroll, but outstanding prospects such as Derrick Pouliot and Scott Harrington in the developmental pipeline.
While knowing that he faces that kind of competition keeps Dumoulin motivated to upgrade his game, the Penguins' wealth of exceptional current and future defensemen almost certainly will make his road to steady work in the NHL longer than it would have been if he were in another organization.
"It obviously makes you better, because you have to push yourself each and every day," Dumoulin said. "But there are a lot of good players here, so that makes it more difficult."
Wednesday: vs. Washington
The Penguins will have plenty of time to prepare for this game, and even more to recover from it. They are off three days before facing the Capitals and four days after that.


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Here are 10 of GQ's hands-down, most emphatically favorite works of fiction from the new millennium, plus books from the past thirteen years the authors want you to read.
Anyone who's been handed a high school diploma can tick off the classic novels from the twentieth century: The Great Gatsby, A Farewell to Arms, The Grapes of Wrath. But cross into this millennium and things are suddenly murkier, Kindle-ier, less classed up with age. Then again, it's been an affirming thirteen years, enough time to breed a whole new body of post-2000 lit we're happy to call the new classics—and we're not afraid to name names. We spent months chiseling down a list of not just our favorite books from the 2000s but also the works of fiction that we most readily recommend to our fathers, brothers, and non-blood-related bros. Then we asked a bunch of those authors to pick an overlooked book—stories, poetry, memoir—from that same period of time.
Dig in quick: This is your chance to right some wrongs and hit the new musts you missed the first time around.
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The Corrections : Jonathan Franzen (2001)
Because: Let's be real, he wrote two of the very best books (Freedom's the other) of the millennium—or, if you're guzzling haterade, at least the two best books on, among other things, family, anti-anxiety drugs, marriage, fate, songbirds, and Minnesota.
Author's pick: "Ms. Hempel Chronicles (2008), by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, is a deftly constructed novel masquerading as a collection of linked stories; you don't even realize it's a love story until you read the last chapter. Its heroine, Ms. Hempel, is a young private-school teacher whose troubles include haziness about the distinction between student and teacher. Chapter by chapter, as you watch her interact with her pupils, you realize that she's as lost and confused as they are, and the result is an extraordinary sympathy for all concerned. Bynum seems incapable of writing a sentence that doesn't have something fresh or funny or true going on in it. She gets you laughing and then she whacks you in the heart.
The Human Stain : Philip Roth (2000)
Because: He's written eight pretty great novels since the turn, but only one masterpiece. Beginning in the summer "that Bill Clinton's secret emerged," it's the best book on sex, scandal (Roth coined the famous phrase "ecstasy of sanctimony"), and political correctness in the Lewinsky Moment.
The Road : Cormac McCarthy (2006)
Because: While plugging this book is sorta like plugging a weekend getaway to Pittsburgh in February, it's irresponsible not to, for the sheer tactful feat of turning a post-apocalyptic skin-crawler into both a critical stick of dynamite (the Pulitzer Prize) and a commercial windfall (Oprah's Book Club).
McCarthy, who rarely lifts a fingernail to promote his work, is better than hermetic: Doesn't care about the fame or money but isn't such a nutbag that he frantically hides from it. He's operating in the new millennium as actively as the younger generation, this prime-time gunner, now 79, who so clearly has still got it. Notice, on the other hand, the absence of those other stalwarts of the 1960s—1990s: Updike, DeLillo, Morrison, Pynchon, Ford, et al.
White Teeth : Zadie Smith (2000)
Because: Smith's debut (published when she was just 24!)—about the friendship and family fates of two polar-opposite and yet instantly identifiable British men—is better than any recent book at answering the question: What was life like in London last century?
True History of the Kelly Gang : Peter Carey (2000)
Because: the voice in this fictional autobiography of Australia's most famous outlaw—Ned Kelly, bushranger—is so convincing that you'd swear it came from his own dirt-and-blood-soaked hands.
Author's pick: "Kent Haruf is one of the great poets of the modern novel. He has an extraordinary capacity for love. He will give you the smell of the dirt and grasses of the High Plains of Colorado. He will never fail to engage your heart, but because he is an honest man, he will have you grasp the nettles. If you have never entered his beautiful singing sentences, I envy you your first time. If you do already know that Plainsong and Eventide are masterpieces, get ready for Benediction, out this year. This is why writers write and readers read.
2666 : Roberto Bolaño (2008)
Because: Big novels always arrive with an aura of ridiculousness, overpraised by critics, under-read by readers, slowly eroding an indent into the bottom shelf of your bookcase.
Worse is a posthumous publication (which usually requires someone to defy the author's last wishes) that's as rickety as improperly assembled Ikea furniture. This book was both: the English translation of 898 pages showing up five years after Roberto Bolaño's death from liver failure. But pick it up with two hands and you'll find a masterpiece just swarming with stories, of hapless critics and too many murdered women; earnest, haunted investigators who don't find the answers they need; and vanished geniuses who don't want to be found.
Tree of Smoke : Denis Johnson (2007)
Because: The best book about Vietnam took thirty-odd years to brew—resulting in the finest first few pages (and subsequent 600) written on the subject.
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned : Wells Tower (2009)
Because: This is the voice lots of writers are most excited about today, the one whose story collection they'll hand you, dog-eared, if you ask for an urgently ass-kicking must-read. Spend a few hours with these damaged, defiant, uncomfortably familiar men (yep, including Vikings) and watch as Tower unravels and stitches up their lives. There's no way you're giving this book back.
Author's pick: "Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy (2001) is a joyous, humane memoir of a midwestern childhood, wrought in sentences whose epigrammatic hilariousness makes you want to applaud at each period.
Fortress of Solitude : Jonathan Lethem (2003)
Because: A lot of people write about Brooklyn—but Lethem's epic take on gentrification and racial tension is the first and last word on the subject.
Author's pick: "The appearance in 2010 of What Is All This?—a 600-page career-spanning anthology of stories from Stephen Dixon—was a welcome reminder of the continued existence of a literary cornucopia still steadily blurting out nourishment and fascination, now for fifty years and counting. Dixon's surely a candidate for the most prolific short-story writer of all time. Every one of his hundreds of tales long and short hinges on the singular miracle of his voice—as sprung and uncanny as Donald Barthelme's, yet as rooted in the urban vernacular as Bernard Malamud's—and from there takes nothing besides that voice for granted, promising constant surprise. Read Dixon to be staggered by his humanity, fearlessness, comic despair, and formal genius. In my opinion he ought to get the Nobel Prize.
Pastoralia : George Saunders (2000)
Because: The title story alone—the depressive ramblings of an employee in a vaguely dystopian caveman-themed amusement park (trust us)—was proof that we had found a new king of literary tragicomedy.
Author's pick: "Stuart Dybek, an American master, is the literary embodiment of essential Chicagoness: deep emotion expressed in language that is street-smart, lyrical, and full of heart. The stories in I Sailed with Magellan are technically amazing, but always to emotional purpose. The book is full of the romantic, exotic, ethnic, story-rich Chicago I remember from my childhood. His story 'Hot Ice,' from the amazing earlier collection The Coast of Chicago, was the first contemporary story that ever completely cleaned my clock.
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He is correct there are 2 rule books- the legal and the unwritten. The "unwritten" book contains the ethics we as hunters have kind of agreed to over the years in order to conduct hunts safely, roughly defines fair chase and is enforced via peer pressure rather than by law.
Mr. Carpenter writes:
"I'm not much for rule books. And to be honest, there's nothing wrong with the second kind of rule book, if those traditional methods of hunting make you happy and produce satisfactory results."
Does this mean if you are having trouble bagging a turkey anything goes so long as there is no law to stop you?
I hope not.
One of the seven tactics he promotes raises an eyebrow; a "Turkey Push" really?
Two others, caused the serious heartburn: "Walk 'Em Up" and "Dog It" according to the description you hunt turkeys like pheasants. In the first the hunter attempts to flush and in the second a dog is used both with instructions to shoot fast at flushing turkeys. This is a joke, right? These tactics could result in accidental shootings and wounded birds. Not to mention the loss of prestige and goodwill turkey hunters have spent generations building.
About 5 years in Eau Galle, WI a fellow was hunting fall turkeys using a walk em up method, he shot 2 teenage boys in the face who were setup according to the second rule book. One kid lost his sight the other was "lucky" and only lost one eye.
The author advises safety;
OK good for the guy moving what about the hunter setup per second rule book?"wear a blaze-orange hat when on-the-move techniques"
He continues the safety advice-
"Take special care at the moment of truth… especially moving ones, to be sure that what you are shooting is actually a turkey. Double-check while lining up your sights and before pulling the trigger-and then triple check."
When I taught hunter education we taught you do all this checking before you line up your sights.
My concern for the loss of goodwill; If it becomes common practice for dogs to be used as they are in pheasant hunting there will likely be a backlash to outlaw turkey dogs. When WI was debating legalizing the turkey dog this was one of the one concerns brought up. Turkey doggers assured that no hunter would use them in this manner.
The over all message I took away from "Fall Free-For-All" is; anything goes if you can't bag the turkey for Thanksgiving.
Part of the fall deal is accepting it is harder, much harder than spring hunting but like spring hunting there is that second rule book that I do not think wise to throw out in order to just get your bird. If you feel that much pressure go buy one at the grocery store, they are about the same price as turkey license.


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Finally, the last post on my Taiwan's itinerary. FYI, there's nothing much on Day 8 cos Day 8 is "balik kampung" day as the flight was damn d(f)eviling early! As usual, Day 7 is also a very relaxing day cos I actually "reserve" the last day to go scout for things, you know, those just in case stuff…
- Breakfast @ Hotel
- Anyway, we spend our time (in the morning mostly) at the Taipei Main Station surrounding area after our breakfast. Walk around at the area (those shop lots) behind Taipei Main Station known as "Hou Che Zan". Seriously, if you are into accesories, nails, this is the place to be.
- First of, I think the clothings here are much more expensive than the other places (wufenpu, ximending). But the accesories here are cheaper, so you just gotta walk walk and scout for cheap stuff. =D
- Secondly, I actually bought Kerastase Shampoo (the industrial bottle ok!) from one of the shops. I think this shop is cool cos they sell perfumes (more expensive than duty free la, but slightly cheaper than Malaysia), branded shampoo, hair-related stuff, lotions etc. If you find your usual stuff i think its worth it. Just some hints, if you really spend your time "looking" you can find brands like Kiehl's, Crabtree & Evelyn, Chanel Make Up etc but just for a fraction of the cost. =D
- Oh, another note, if you want to make your trip worth while you must be prepared to cover those small alley and don't underestimate those shops which look a bit dodgy. You might be suprised what you can find there! =D
On the way, behind Taipei Main Station
- After going left, right, with a damn heavy bottle of Kerastase Shampoo and a BIG Hair Wax (the price that I pay for one big hair wax is equivalent to one small bottle of hair wax in Malaysia – same brand!), then we went straight to Taipei City Mall, Underground Mall. Hungry so went around and scout for food. =D After makan, walk around, and continue to shop for souvenir, etc etc.
- One thing that is really worth mentioning here is to buy shoes here!!! Ladies, seriously, the shoes here are like NT$300 for 2 pairs!!! And guess what? No bargaining required! For certain new arrivals or new design, its probably around NT$250-300 for a pair. But still, its so much cheaper! =D
- And if you find certain accesories which are quite common (i.e. Oversized Glasses,etc), don't rush into buying first, cos chances are there will be a lot of shops selling the same thing but you can bargain and buy it at cheaper price. Bargain, baby! But of course if you are afraid you can't get back the similar stuff, then don't take chance lor. hehehe
Inside Taipei City Mall – This dessert (at least I think it is) is good! Sweet!
At a restaurant inside Taipei City Mall – "Mei Chai Kou Rou"
The Set Rice with "Mei Chai Kou Rou"
The Piggy Intestine Pepperish Soup with Preserved Vegetable
- Spend half the day around Taipei Main Station buying souvenirs, shoes, sandals (cos feet pain), makan and then went back to Hotel to put back our stuff. Heavy la! After taking a short rest, out we go again.
- We spend our last day in Taipei chilling out at Hooters Taipei!!!! How cool is that? I shall let the pictures do the talking. If you don't already know, Hooters is actually a chain-store. Its not just exclusive in Taipei. But don't be hoping that it'll reach our shores anytime soon. Nearest Hooters? Singapore!!! *Email me if you want the directions* muacks..
Hooters Entrance
Even the menu makes me *drool* for all the wrong thing…
Hooter's Girls Practising their *moves*
Tell me you have been having BIG EYES over their skimpy pants. So we shall see what we ate, cos if I load too much of their picture, you might ignore the rest of my post! Hmphh…
And we drank like loads of beer. I mean loads. Seriously.
Ok la, I know the girls are more tempting, let me give you more pictures to feast your eyes
The girls can Hoola-Hoop! I mean like at least 28-30 hoops at a time.
And I present to you my favourite girl =D
As much as i was filled with alcohol, we wasted no time and went back to Ximending to do our last minute shopping. I bought a funny Elmo, two Baby-G, facial stuff and much more. Oh and did I tell you I manage to try the ColdStone Creamery Ice Cream. FYI, for all the 7 days that I was there, the last day was the ONLY, I mean ONLY day that it was not packed. =D
This is the girl that sold me my two Baby-G. I think it must be the alcohol that gives me the impulse… kakak… And when I saw the Baby G (similar one) its double the price here!!!
This is the guy from The Face Shop…. He's just C.U.T.E. and well as you can see, TALL
And our final stop, ColdStone Creamery!
I try to upload the Hooters Girls video but to no avail. =( I'll try to upload here once its done ya…. And this shall end my Taipei trip. =D Yipee… Taiwan Rocks!!!
Updates: Find the below video I've uploaded on the Hooters girls! Enjoy!


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Wisconsin Badgers will face Ole Miss on Friday in the NCAA West Region in a matchup of teams that are on impressive late-season runs.
The Badgers (23-11) lost to Ohio State 50-43 Sunday in Chicago but still earned a No. 5 seed in the West. They'll face the 12th-seeded Rebels (26-8), who won the Southeastern Conference tournament title for the first time since 1981.
Wisconsin had advanced to the Big Ten final with a pair of impressive victories over No. 6 Michigan and third-ranked Indiana, which earned one of the top seeds in the NCAA tournament.
Behind Murphy Holloway and Marshall Henderson, Ole Miss gave seventh-year Rebels coach Andy Kennedy his first NCAA tournament berth by upsetting 13th-ranked Florida 66-63 Sunday for the SEC crown.
Game Capsule
Madison, 23-11.
Nickname: Badgers. Coach: Bo Ryan.
Conference: Big Ten. Bid: At large.
Region: West. Seed: No. 5.
Tournament Record: 25-17, 18 years. Last appearance: 2012.
Scoring: Team (66.2); Ben Brust 11.4; Jared Berggren 11.3; Ryan Evans 10.4; Sam Dekker 9.5.
Rebounds: Team (36.9); Ryan Evans 7.5; Jared Berggren 6.9; Mike Bruesewitz 5.3; Ben Brust 5.2.
Assists/Turnovers: Team (13.5/9.8); Ben Brust 2.4/1.2; Traevon Jackson 2.8/2.1; Ryan Evans 2.0/1.6.
3-pointers: Team (.338); Ben Brust 77; Sam Dekker 48; George Marshall 35.
Last Ten: 6-4.
Ole Miss
Oxford, 26-8.
Nickname: Rebels. Coach: Andy Kennedy.
Conference: Southeatern. Bid: SEC champion.
Region: West. Seed: No. 12.
Tournament Record: 3-6, 6 year. Last NCAA Appearance: 2002.
Scoring: Team (79.1); Marshall Henderson 20.1; Murphy Holloway 14.6; Reginald Buckner 9.5; Jarvis Summers 9.0.
Rebounds: Team (39.5); Murphy Holloway 9.6; Reginald Buckner 7.4; Aaron Jones 4.1.
Assists/Turnovers: Team (12.7/11.5); Jarvis Summers 3.7/1.6.
3-pointers: Team (.336); Marshall Henderson 131; Nick Williams 27; LaDarius White 27.
Last Ten: 8-2.
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The message in the Nov. 17, 2006, e-mail from Joseph Cassano, AIG Financial Products chief executive, was unmistakable: Mr. Dodd was "next in line" to be chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which oversees the insurance industry, and he would "have the opportunity to set the committee's agenda on issues critical to the financial services industry.
"Given his seniority in the Senate, he will also play a key role in the Democratic Majority's leadership," Mr. Cassano wrote in the message, obtained by The Washington Times.
Mr. Dodd's campaign quickly hit pay dirt, collecting more than $160,000 from employees and their spouses at the AIG
Now, two years later, Mr. Dodd has emerged as a central figure in the government's decision to let executives at the now-failing AIG collect more than $218 million in bonuses, according to the Connecticut attorney general - even as the company was receiving billions of dollars in assistance from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).


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This is interesting, via Graham Burnett, Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high concurrency servers):
Event-based programming has been highly touted in recent years as the best way to write highly concurrent applications.
Having worked on several of these systems, we now believe this approach to be a mistake. Specifically, we believe that threads can achieve all of the strengths of events, including support for high concurrency, low overhead, and a simple concurrency model. Moreover, we argue that threads allow a simpler and more natural programming style.