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Overnighting in Tam Dao
While not a must-visit destination, if you're not in a rush and are keen to explore less touristy spots in Vietnam, Tam Dao hill station is worth an overnight from Hanoi, especially to escape the capital's summer heat. Here's some advice on how to spend your time there.
Leave Hanoi after breakfast — by bus, bike or car — to get to Tam Dao in time for lunch. Places to eat and drink line the streets, so if you're a fan of Vietnamese food you'll be spoiled for choice. If you're not a fan, simply grilled yet tasty meat is easy to find and the town is famous for its su su — a leafy green vegetable served boiled (luoc) or fried (xao) with garlic. Other specialties include deer, squirrel, porcupine and boar.
Check into your hotel and change into walking shoes — it's all about walking in Tam Dao. Head along the main road up the hill until you reach a gate, where you'll need to pay the guard 25,000 VND admission to continue; it's a bit of a walk to get there, or on a motorbike it takes around 10 minutes. Once past the gate, you'll begin about a two-hour walk through bamboo forest with the occasional 180-degree view of the forest below. The path can get muddy, but is well-signposted and you're unlikely to come across anyone else, making it a peaceful and interesting walk.
For a shorter walk, visit the waterfall, near the Mela Hotel, or, in summer, spend the afternoon at the public swimming pool in the centre of town.
Tam Dao is not a place to go looking for a party – unless you're a fan of Vietnamese karaoke, which seems to be very popular – but street food stalls selling delights including kebabs, baked eggs, chicken feet and corn run alongside the river, near the market, and are a good place to start, and maybe end, the night.
As the food on offer at the stalls is unlikely to satiate a hearty appetite, head to one of the many restaurants for some more meat and su su and, if you're brave enough, some rice wine. Check out the rice wine variants at Kim Lien restaurant, near Gia Le Hotel – the grilled pork is highly recommended but the snake rice wine is not.
Next day, after breakfast at your hotel or a local restaurant, wander down to the market square to see vendors selling both to locals – meat and eggs – and tourists – rugs, scarves and the like. Enjoy a Vietnamese coffee at one of the cafes at the northern end of the public pool; expect to pay 10,000 VND for a strong cafe sua (coffee with milk).
Explore the rest of the town. Despite recent development, many interesting buildings remain. They may be rundown and shabby, but that somehow adds to their appeal.
Consider a stop at Tay Thien Pagoda, sometimes called the birth place of Vietnamese Buddhism, and home to some wonderful mountain pagodas, on the way back to Hanoi if you have time.
As for when to go, at 920 metres above sea level, the weather in Tam Dao is far cooler than in Hanoi, so it's a pleasant respite from the heat in the summer but in the winter you'll need to wrap up, particularly in the evenings. On the positive side, despite the cold, the weather in winter is lovely, with blue skies and low humidity.
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# Steve Scotton 07 Dec 2012 at 2:48 pm
Having spent time in Tam Dao with an Earthwatch Institute research team studying butterflies, I wouldn't recommend a visit there…..unless you want to hike in Tam Dao National Park. The village is a collection of gaudy 1 and 2 star hotels intended for Hanoians enjoying large amounts of alcohol and karaoke! The streets are filled with large and nasty loose dogs, the exotic game menu has probably been poached inside the National Park, and the locals are not at all friendly.
Currently there is also a big controversy about the National Park supervisor and his business partner daughter evicting the Animals Asia Bear Rescue Center located in the park. This wonderful center will be evicted to make way for another tourist hotel…one which the park supervisor has a financial interest in!
Check out http://www.animalsasia.org/ for the latest on this horrid situation.
Also check out http://vimeo.com/6600682 a video I made about the Earthwatch project….which helped to stop some development inside the park. Travelfish is the only site to get this far off the beaten track and always a wonderful source of inside info on Vietnam Travel. How about doing a story about my group, Vets With a Mission http://www.vetswithamission.org and the medical work we do…..we will be working in Hong Ha, A Luoi and Hue City next June. The clinic in Hong Ha is a joint project (the VN government and VWAM) dedicated to an American helicopter pilot shot down and killed there during the war, and is a fine example of our motto…..reconciliation. In A Luoi we will be working with Ta Oi minority people (montagards) who are very, very poor…..this is in the area of the 1st Cav and still a "hot spot" for Agent Orange exposure. In Hue we will be working with handicapped kids….mostly Downs Syndrome….who sadly don't have the help they need.
Also….a better visit would be to Cuc Phuong National Park….large, good trekking, village home-stay, onsite primate and turtle rescue centers, quiet.
Heres a blog post I did http://fieldnotes-steve.blogspot.com/2012/05/trekking-in-se-asias-primary-forest.html
# Sarah Turneron 10 Dec 2012 at 10:23 am
I'm not going to argue that Tam Dao is a must visit destination, and in part agree with you that the town itself is "a collection of gaudy 1 and 2 star hotels intended for Hanoians enjoying large amounts of alcohol and karaoke." – although nowadays there are more than just 1 and 2 star gaudy hotels. However, it is still an option as an escape from Hanoi for a day or night and offers an alternative Vietnamese experience. Regarding the controversy, I am in the middle of writing a feature about the issues at the Bear Rescue Centre and that will be posted here soon. I also covered Cuc Phuong National Park back in May and agree it is a more enjoyable trip than Tam Dao but it's a lot further, so not so suitable for a short trip, and the weather is the same as in Hanoi. Thanks for the information about the work you're doing – I'll check it out.


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A New Vision of Vision
An example of such a rule might be: a sudden change in the amount of light reflected from one part of a surface usually means there is a border, or change of contour, at that part of the surface. Other rules would refine this rule, determining, among other things, if the change in reflected light was caused by a shadow.
Nonetheless there are limits to the brain's ability to acquire the necessary rules for seeing and creating a coherent visual world. More than two hundred years ago an English surgeon, William Cheselden, removed cataracts from a young boy who had been born blind. The operation attracted considerable attention because it seemed to answer a question the philosopher William Molyneux had asked John Locke: whether a man born blind who had recovered his sight later in life would be able to "distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal." Locke believed that he would not be able to distinguish the shapes visually because "he has not yet obtained the [visual] experience."
Locke's view appeared to be confirmed following the operation. Cheselden reported that his patient was unable to judge the shapes or sizes of objects. His room appeared to him as large as his house, though he knew this did not make any sense. He could see portraits hanging on the walls, but was surprised to discover that the faces were flat. He could recognize objects in two-dimensional drawings, but, again, their flatness did not make sense to him; they appeared to be in three dimensions. Cheselden's patient was unable to acquire the rules that are essential for understanding drawings of three-dimensional objects on two-dimensional surfaces. Similar surgical operations on people born with congenital cataracts have been performed some twenty times since, always with unfortunate results, although they differ in some ways from the reactions of Cheselden's patient. Recently, one patient reported, following an operation that restored her sight, that she had great difficulty making sense of whatever she was looking at. She was in a constant state of depression. Among the distressing problems she described was her in- ability to see individual colors as a part of objects; she saw the colors floating in separate planes before her eyes. Zeki cites the case of a French surgeon, Moreau, who in 1913 had enthusiastically looked forward to restoring the vision of an eight-year-old patient with cataracts. "The deception was great," Moreau wrote. He concluded that,
It would be an error to suppose that a patient whose sight has been restored to him by surgical intervention can thereafter see the external world. The eyes have certainly obtained the power to see, but the employment of this power…still has to be acquired from the very beginning. The operation itself has no more value than that of preparing the eye to see; education is the most important factor. The [visual cortex] can only register and preserve the visual impressions after a process of learning…. To give back his sight to a congenitally blind patient is more the work of an educationalist than that of a surgeon.
Unfortunately, however, just as children who have never learned any language before the age of puberty cannot acquire the grammatical rules essential for language, people born blind who later have their vision restored cannot acquire the rules essential for seeing and recognizing objects and people.
Such cases of people who are born blind and later acquire sight seem to show that our visual recognition of distance, size, and the three dimensions are acquired early in life when visual stimuli are integrated with our sense of touch, a sense that generally depends on movement. Our capacities to recognize distance, size, and dimensions derive from the set of rules or procedures the brain uses to recognize and make sense of the visual world. The rules required for creating the abstract idea of a two-dimensional representation, for example, must be acquired very young. Apparently infants can acquire the ability to correlate their sense of touch and movement with visual stimuli and older children can't. After infants undergo operations to remove congenital cataracts, they have normal vision; following the same operations, children of some twelve years or older are hardly able to make out objects clearly. Once again, Hoffman makes it clear that we do not understand why this is the case, just as we do not understand why most children learn new languages easily and most adults do not.
Artists have always known, at least intuitively, that the brain makes possible the creation of our visual worlds, since representational art uses materials on a flat surface to create the illusion of faces, objects, and scenes. For Zeki, artists were unwitting neurologists long before neurology came into being, at times exploring the limits of our visual intelligence. He argues that in simultaneously showing objects from several different perspectives Cubist works make explicit the perceptions that we know implicitly and that are essential to our faculties of recognition.
Brain damage can destroy this implicit knowledge, making the recognition of objects and drawings virtually impossible. Zeki describes a patient who, following a stroke, had great difficulty seeing objects. He was asked to make a drawing of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. After considerable effort, he eventually completed the drawing. But when he had finished, Zeki writes, "he could not recognize the Cathedral in his own drawing; he could not combine the elements of which the drawing was made into a whole. But he could see the individual details, describing correctly the orientation of the lines in various parts of his drawing."
Another brain-damaged patient reported: "Generally, I find moving objects much easier to recognize, presumably because I see different and changing views…. For that reason the TV screen enables me to comprehend far more of an outdoor scene than, for example, the drawings on my living room walls." Here movement provides the information that most of us implicitly understand when we are viewing a face or an object. The case of this patient shows it is possible to be directly aware of stationary objects and yet have difficulty imagining what they are like.
Just as we rely on implicit knowledge in our perception of objects and faces, so too, the brain creates a sense of "color constancy": no matter what the lighting conditions—bright sunlight, filtered sunlight, or artificial lighting—colors remain more or less the same. This remarkable ability is not fully understood, but depends, in part, on the brain's comparing the amount of light reflected in the long (red), middle (green), and short (blue) frequencies coming from different parts of a given scene. In a famous experiment performed by Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid camera, a multicolored surface was illuminated by three projectors of colored light; one projector emitted red light, one green light, and one blue light. The intensity of the light emitted by each projector could be adjusted. The people being tested were asked to view, for example, a green patch. The projectors were then turned on and the green patch was illuminated with 30 units of red light, 60 of green, and 10 of blue. All the subjects of the experiment agreed that the patch was green. Of course this is hardly surprising since most of the reflected light (60 units) was green. In the following trial, however, the multicolored surface was illuminated by 60 units of red light, 30 units of green light, and 10 units of blue light. Even though the surface was illuminated by twice the amount of red light than in the first trial the subjects of the experiment agreed that the patch they had declared to be green in the first trial remained green. (See illustration on page 61.)
This is an example of color constancy. The brain compares the light frequencies coming from the green surface with those coming from surrounding surfaces. The green patch will reflect proportionately more green wavelength light than the surrounding areas no matter what the actual mix of red, green, and blue light coming from the projectors. Hence surfaces appear to have basically the same color under very different light conditions. Furthermore, since colors are created when the brain compares the ratios of light frequencies reflected by neighboring surfaces, colors establish borders; even in chaotic and turbulent paintings there are always unavoidable distinctions from one shade of color to another.
Carbon monoxide poisoning can cause the loss of color constancy and with it a separation of the sense of color and form. One patient Zeki describes complained that though he could see colors, they were "wrong"; careful study revealed what he meant. If a green surface reflected more red wavelength light than green or blue, he saw the surface as red; if the same surface were made to reflect more green wavelength light than red or blue, he saw the surface as green. In other words, unlike the normal subjects in the experiment I have already described, this patient's brain did not compare the amount of red wavelength light being reflected by a given surface with the amount of red wavelength light being reflected by surrounding surfaces. For this patient, green leaves did not remain green from morning to evening. His brain was measuring the frequency of the light reflected from the leaves throughout the day without comparing the frequency reflected from the leaves to the frequency from the surrounding areas. The leaves became red in red light, blue in blue light, and green in green light. He had no way of knowing if the leaves had any permanent, invariant color.
And yet if pathology has told us much about how the brain works, artists have in their own way discovered aspects of brain function that had previously been unknown. Indeed, Zeki writes, brain-scanning techniques have revealed that abstract, representational, and Fauve paintings cause very different patterns of brain activity in normal individuals. Abstract art activates principally two areas in the visual cortex of the brain—V1 and V4—that are apparently essential for creating the perception of colors. Representational art activates, in addition to areas V1 and V4, areas believed to be concerned with memory and learning, including the hippocampus. The Fauves painted people and objects with unnatural colors. Zeki found that Fauve art creates a pattern of activity in the brain that is quite different from the pattern created by traditional representational art.1 It is remarkable that abstract and representational art should cause such diverse patterns of brain activity; different schools of art each seem to have their own neurological basis.
Our enjoyment of portrait painting, moreover, is dependent on our specialized faculty for face recognition, which, Zeki writes, is an apparently irreducible neurophysiological unit. When that unit is damaged, the capacity to see a portrait may be impaired, as in the case of the patient who said, when looking at his wife, "I can certainly see a face, with eyes, nose and mouth etc. but somehow it is not familiar; it really could be anybody." A relatively small lesion in a specific part of the brain is responsible for these difficulties; brain damage causes an inability to synthesize visual faces into coherent, recognizable images. Equally striking is another form of brain damage, which does not destroy a patient's ability to recognize faces, but leaves him unable to recognize facial expressions of emotions such as fear. Our interest in portraiture obviously derives not just from recognition but also from our ability to read facial expressions and their psychological implications.
Our visual worlds, as the books by Hoffman and Zeki demonstrate, are creations that depend upon complex interactions within the visual cortex. Color, form, and motion are the brain's solutions to making sense of the constant flux of visual sensations that are registered on the retina. We are beginning to uncover the ways in which the brain divides up its visual tasks, but, as Zeki and Hoffman both make clear, we have few details of the neurophysiology of these rule-following processes.
Indeed, there is still much to learn. We will only truly understand vision when we have unraveled the mysteries of consciousness and memory and the relations among recognition, remembering, and awareness. We have yet to learn how we become aware of our recollections and perceptions, and how we can consciously recognize and recall people, places, and things. Not very long ago, for example, it was a generally accepted truth that the human brain never produces new neurons after birth; therefore it was widely believed that memories had to be imprinted and permanently stored in fixed brain structures for recognition, thought, and action to be possible. Last year researchers discovered that new neurons appear in areas of the brain concerned with learning and memory. If these findings are confirmed, it is very probable that even our present limited understanding of perception and brain function will undergo radical, if not revolutionary changes—just as Hoffman and Zeki have shown us how our present views of perception are radically different from what they were a few decades ago.2
Fauve art activates areas V1 and V4, and scans show a pattern of frontal lobe activity different from that of traditional representational painting, with no activity in the hippocampus.↩
See Elizabeth Gould et al., "Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of Adult Primates," Science, October 15, 1999, pp. 548-552. The first reports of neurogenesis (new neurons) in mammalian brains go back to 1965. See J. Altman et al., Journal of Comparative Neurology (1965), p. 319. Also F. Nottebohm has long studied neurogenesis in avian brains. See S.A. Goldman and F. Nottebohm in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (1983), p. 2390. See Gould's article for more recent papers of Nottebohm and others.↩
Fauve art activates areas V1 and V4, and scans show a pattern of frontal lobe activity different from that of traditional representational painting, with no activity in the hippocampus.↩
See Elizabeth Gould et al., "Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of Adult Primates," Science, October 15, 1999, pp. 548-552. The first reports of neurogenesis (new neurons) in mammalian brains go back to 1965. See J. Altman et al., Journal of Comparative Neurology (1965), p. 319. Also F. Nottebohm has long studied neurogenesis in avian brains. See S.A. Goldman and F. Nottebohm in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (1983), p. 2390. See Gould's article for more recent papers of Nottebohm and others.↩


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CAIRO, Egypt, March 11 2013 - On Saturday March 9, 2013 the criminal court confirmed death sentence for 21 people indicted in February 2012 for the massacre at Port Said Stadium. The highest ranking police officials received 15 years in prison, and 28 other defendants were acquitted.
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Fans of Al Ahly as well as other demonstrators, disappointed with the verdict, took to the streets of central Cairo. Demonstrators ransacked and then set fire to the headquarters of the Egyptian Football Federation and also burned down the adjoining Police Gezira Club.
In Port Said, hundreds gathered outside the local government headquarters after the verdict carrying flags that called for an independent republic of Port Said. The angry protesters threatened to stop the ferries that transit from Port Said to Port Foad.
On January 26, 2013 the criminal court sentenced 21 out of 73 defendants to death for their involvement in the riot. The verdict sparked violence that led to more than 40 deaths in Port Said.
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Dr. Mohamed El Baradei, a leading opposition politician wrote a sarcastic comment on his twitter account: "awaiting details of verdict to know who the mastermind behind the Port Said massacre is and learn the truth about what is happening in Egypt. I hope it is not the invisible hand that has been haunting us for 2 years."
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As John Tierney pointed out in the New York Times a few years ago, there was a time when Sacha Baron Cohen, in the guise of faux hip-hop interviewer "Ali G.," used his comedic gifts (which are substantial) to skewer the powerful, popular, and pretentious.
But puncturing the inflated self-regard of the powerful isn't a path to critical acclaim and the kind of popular success one can receive with the help of the elite. So Cohen chose the time-honored career path of mocking the kind of hard-working, harmless, unsuspecting people who, as Tierney points out, were heroically patient with "Borat"'s crude, offensive behavior.
Gadflies take on the powerful; bullies target the powerless. Cohen is typical of people who prefer to kiss up and kick down, and pose as agents of "enlightenment" even as they reinforce the prejudices of the powerful. This is why it was delightful to see what happened when Cohen, in character as Borat, tried to pull a prank on a savvy New Yorker.
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On several websites and forums I have read that it is difficult for foreigners to open a bank account in their name in the Philippines.
Today I applied for one and there was no problem in getting one.
If other banks are that easy I do not know, but within 30 minutes everything was done. The only thing I have to wait for a few days is the ATM card. This needs to be made with my name on it and takes a few days.
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Shahidullah, S. M. and Musa , Mohamed Hanafi and Ashrafuzzaman, M. and Ismail, Mohd Razi and Khair, A. (2009) Genetic diversity in grain quality and nutrition of aromatic rices. African Journal of Biotechnology, 8 (7). pp. 1238-1246. ISSN 1684–5315
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The study was conducted at Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), Gazipur in 2005 to assess the genetic divergence of aromatic rices for grain quality and nutrition aspects. Forty genotypes composed of 32 local aromatic, five exotic aromatic and three non-aromatic rice varieties were used. Univariate and multivariate analyses were done. Enormous variations were observed in majority of characters viz. grain length, breadth, kernel weight, milling yield, kernel length, L/B ratio of kernel, volume expansion ratio (VER), protein content, amylose content, elongation ratio (ER) and cooking time. In multivariate analysis, genotypes were grouped into six clusters. In the discriminant function analysis (DFA), function 1 alone absorbed 61.7% of the total variance. The most contributing variables were kernel weight, kernel length and L/B ratio in function 1. The inter-cluster D2 value was maximum (26.53) between I and VI followed by 21.28 (between I and V). Minimum D2 value was found (5.90) between II and III. Majority of the local aromatic rice varieties with smaller kernels were included in the cluster I. The cluster III contains Elai, sarwati and sugandha-1 with long-slender kernel and 'very good' appearance. Thus, these varieties can be used in breeding programme for improvement of germplasms in cluster-I.
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Hub Network Announces "Sing-Along Easter Marathon" ft. My Little Pony
This Easter, the Hub Network is celebrating with a song in its heart and several on screen as the network presents its "Sing-Along Easter Marathon." The marathon will consist of six back-to-back musically-themed episodes from four of the Hub Network's most popular and enjoyable series on Sunday, April 20 (8:30–11:30 a.m. ET/5:30–8:30 a.m. PT). This marathon will be followed by the network premiere of "Tiny Toons Spring Break" on Sunday, April 20 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.
Episodes included in the marathon will feature music and songs from family-favorite series "Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures," "Pound Puppies," "Littlest Pet Shop" and "My Little Pony Friendship is Magic." The Hub Network, champions of family fun and the only network dedicated to providing kids and their families entertainment they can watch together, will help kids join in on the fun by showing song lyrics on the screen during each song so that kids and their families can sing along at home.
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Tiny Toon Spring Break? That a highly rare special episode! Only seen that episode on March 27, 1994, after that no re-run, VHS, or DVD existed. Two years agos, I seen that episode on youtube but the video have it's glitches and scramble images in someone VHS from North Carolina. I'm ordering the Family Tier package that come with the HUB network for the Tiny Toon Spring Break.
Meh. These are the exact same songs they did for the Hub Summer Sing Along Saturday last summer. ;-; They need to pick different sooooongs! D:
Are you sure about that?
I can't wait. I love the hub network and I watch it every day! I have a lot of my little ponies and littlest pet shops…
i think the songs are going to be cool and we get to sing to it i think this is the first time they ever did this
I can't wait till it's here
my dougther really love those shows,she can't wait to enjoy it
Can we sing some songs from equestria girls like cafatira song?
My girl love to sing and dance and to model and use makeup and be a girly girl
pinkepie my girl
these are good new songs i like songs are fabulous my sister dyanna she not lover of sonsg what she now about songs i love songs very much i love my little pony in my little pony it is of the roof it is fun.name danny.
Omg I love my little pony there the best thing ever and also the best show on hub network


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President Barack Obama spoke about education, technology and economy in his address at Hudson Valley Community college.
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President Barack Obama spoke about education, technology and economy in his address at Hudson Valley Community college.
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one word(with apoloigies to Billy) its gonna be HUGE!!!
I am thrilled our President is coming to our area, particulary Troy which is hard hit in the wavering economy yet is working at reidentifing it'self as an arts community after being an industrial one for so long. Troy has always had vision, and thanks to former Sen. Bruno's vision we have one of the best Tech 2yr degree schools around. I only hope the citizens are allowed in, and not just the media.
Its too bad Billy Mays won't be here to see this.
No doubt that the Right Wing Obama-Hater groups (funded by the Insurance Companies) will be there to redbait, vilify, claim he was born in Kenya, is Muslim, etc.
So folks who spend most of our time on this planet, who want HealthCare for All, who want Energy Independence, who want Diplomacy instead of War – we need to be there to show that the MAJORITY of Americans support President Obama's progressive agenda!!
See you there!
Hey, has anyone told Obama's staff about the HVCC history of sticking felons' names on buildings? Better watch those camera angles…
Does anyone know who will be able to attend this event? Are there tickets available?
I don't plan on being there, see enough of BHO on tv.
The Liar in Chief will be in town !!!
Maybe he should enroll in Economics 101 while at HVCC …
I did not vote for him. Yet, I am very proud that he is coming to the area.
Hopefully, upstate NY will finally reap some rewards like other areas have in the past.
This is a great honour.
I want to go, how do I get in?
Oh for the love of god? Really? This is going to make any and all traffic along all major roadways in the area a nightmare. I remember when V.P. Biden came to visit the entire Southbound section of the Northway was closed off from traffic below Clifton Park. Just a nightmare! He should just stay in Washington D.C. and oh I Don't know, maybe put in some time in his office.
nothing cooler than seeing the motorcade fly to events…. surreal to see how it all works. good for the area not matter your pol persuation… unless you get caught in the traffic.
Thank god I won't be anywhere near the 787 exit for rt 378
Even though I disagree with the president on many policies it will be pretty neat to see air force one land at Albany International Airport.
Everyone prepare for all out Traffic Jams on roads that lead to Troy!
Soo EXCITED! I might just have to call into work for this.. I wonder why he would pick Troy NY to visit??
there's not enough parking for students to begin with… whats going to happen on monday when they take away 500 parking spaces for Obama?? granted its great he's chosen HVCC to give his speech.. but for the students sake, lets try to figure out parking BEFORE we bring the President of the United States on campus.
isn't hudson valley traffic bad enough already?
i heard he was just coming for the end of season clearance sale at aj wright
Get ready for the lunatic fringe to come out!! Showing up already on this board. Please, traffic concerns? Get a grip.
For all you limbaughistas, just want to know where the cross burnings will be held?
Show your patriotism, GOPers, put your money where your mouth is.
I think Troy should put in a traffic circle at the bottom of the Morrison Ave. hill. I'm not a big fan of circles, but the road can't handle all the traffic when school is in session and something needs to be done. Just imagine now.
Upstate New York has many important initiatives and so we should be recognized for our accomplishments. We can remember this month in New York State with a better vision! Thank you Mr. Obama!
Good news that Mr Obama recognizes that entry level education is the basis of the entire structure, however it is regrettable that much of the motive for this visit is grounded not on profit and efficiency seeking ruthless capitalism (Intel) but on subsidies seeking corporate welfare of AMD+GloFo+Chartered, and on the back of taxpayers in EU, Germany, NYS and Singapore. Not much different that subsidies to GM, except that this time is local. Does it make it any better?
(HINT: AMD has survived its industry wide record breaking money losing battle against Intel (~$10 billion and counting, or about 50 cents on each dollar of revenue since 2006), in spite of its own incompetent business and technical execution, and only through a combination of public relation victories and widespread political influence, questionable relations with governments and massive abuse of taxpayers through corporate welfare in Germany (Saxony, and EU; $4.7B/12yr), NYS ($1,4B/ 2yr), Singapore ($1.1B /6yr through Chartered) and even Abu Dhabi ($6 to $12B /8yr through ATIC money losing investments))
It's a shame that the longtime favorite HVCC watering hole, the Country Grove, has shut its doors. It would have been nice to have a beer with President Obama.
Tickets will be available to left leaning Democrats only… all others need not apply.
Dealing with the HVCC traffic in the AM is bad enough as it is, now this? anyone know what time this speech is so I can plan accordingly?
#21 = mindless rant.
From Hope to complete Dope. The only change I have seen is in my 401K which is down 40% since Barry O won the election.
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MARJAH, Afghanistan - Nearly three years after U.S.-led forces launched the biggest operation of the war to clear insurgents, foster economic growth and set a model for the rest of Afghanistan, angry residents of Helmand province say they are too afraid to go out after dark because of marauding bands of thieves.
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How to Cross Country Ski: Tips for XC/Nordic Breakthru
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...Don't forget: this stuff applies equally to Skating as to Classic! (The essence of each is the same.)
Tourers need a grasp of it as well. Tourers use a wider variety of moves but these "max efficiency" ideas are the core, also they get put into play on challenging uphills.
I've been gleaning online info for ideas that seem like they'd be particularly good for helping people "get it" with XC skiing.
This isn't a Step by Step how-to. If you're just starting, you should take a class that walks you thru the initial progress. These ideas are to help you take the next steps, especially if there are areas that you seem stalled out on.
Pursuit of Perfect Classic -- Gus Kaeding -- www.masterskier.com/article.asp?aid=420
A good trick to obtain correct starting position is to "draw the guns." Stand up and draw your pistols from your holsters like it's high noon on Main St.
What this should have achieved are supple ankles, slightly bent knees, forward hips and a slightly rounded back, which activates the core.
The position should feel very normal and athletic, if not, something is wrong. Put on a pair of poles and superimpose some skis and you've got a basic classic position.
After attaining a good classic position, let us examine what sets classic apart from skating, the kick phase.
Every time I kick I go through a mini checklist and it starts with pole plant. As I am striding out, I plant my pole close to the tip of my boot a split second before my kick starts. I believe as much as 75% of the arms usage is determined the second the pole hits the snow, so make it count! This is to give a little extra length to the gliding ski.
Be sure to not over extend the arm, instead keep it close to the body and activate the larger muscles of the shoulders and abdomen.
After the pole tip hits the snow the kick should start. I prefer to focus on the leg coming forward since that is the direction we are trying to go. If you master the leg going forward, the other will usually take care of itself.
When striding forward do not think about the foot instead, focus on the hip. Lead with the hip and press it as far down the trail as possible.
As the feet pass each other in the middle, transfer your weight from one ski to the other and with your hip over your foot (knee slightly bent) glide out. Weight transfer should be crisp and fluid. Think of an impulse that has been shot through your body. This will serve to "snap" your weight from side to side and set the wax on the kicking ski.
Once the wax has been set, do not focus on kicking back, instead focus on driving forward then riding the gliding ski as long as necessary.
New skiers can be nervous about the unsupported "naked" feel of nordic downhill. Actually, new ski gear offers a TON of support and control while still being ultralight, but still. So pick a gentle hill and glide down it.
Drop into the athletic 'ready' position -- knees bent a bit to absorb or adjust to changes in the trail -- hands forward and a bit low (pole baskets to the rear). (If your legs are stiff and maybe you're hinged at the waist and your hands are waist-high or higher and somewhat back -- well -- you'll fall unless you luck out. You can't respond to any changes in the trail or turn in control from such a position. You can partially skid your feet from that position and by doing that you might not fall, but it's not stable.)
As you glide down, step back and forth across the trail. Shuffle your feet. Don't stay locked to the ground as you glide. Try a tracked trail and glide down with skis in the tracks -- but lift alternating feet. Get used to gliding while weighting your feet differently. Then try a downhill that has a turn in it. Make the turn by stepping around it with small steps as you glide.
Then practice snowplowing by putting a foot out and angling the tip in and tipping the ski until it skids as you go down the hill. Put more weight on it to make it skid more. You can do this with both feet to slow down or either foot to help you turn.
Weighting and unweight skis is how you turn them in XC or Alpine. When you unweight a ski you can move it, when you weight it, it starts working (to glide, turn or scrub speed).
Practice on bigger and bigger hills. If a hill seems too big, sidestep down until you're confident (or take skis off and walk down). Then try it again only don't sidestep down as far. The way to master downhills is incrementally, always starting with only as much downhill gliding as you are comfortable with. Don't give up! Keep trying to ski a hill from higher-up than before. But also know your limits of both comfort and control. You might not be able to easily stop on a fast downhill but you should feel calm and like you can adapt to the challenge of the hill as needed. The incremental approach will likely surprise you in a positive way.
Falling: Learn to 'splat' to the side when things go bad. Don't pitch forward onto your hands or knees. All sorts of bad things happen when you do that. Flop to the side. Usually you have time to fling your poles so you don't land on them. (I've somehow protected my fragile carbon poles that way for decades and hundreds of bad crashes. Knock knock.) If a downhill is getting out of hand, just sit back and down. ...And a bit to the side, if you can. To get up again, sort yourself out, bring the skis alongside each other below you and across the slope. Then bend your knees, gather yourself, put a hand down somewhat near a ski binding (in front of a foot) and get up on a knee then stand. Don't rely too much on poles to help you get up. Rely on your footing.
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Question about how to get high hips... Suggestions follow...
What would happen if you practiced with poles that were extra long? Might force high hands and the feeling of getting up tall on a ski?
How is her double poling? For me, that seems to be the gateway for high hips because you don't need the one ski balance, and can focus on body position.
Try doing diagonal stride stair bounding. Start by bounding to one step at a time. Landing on ball of foot with good forward arm extension and rear leg fully extended along with back arm extended. Once this is mastered do the same drill skipping one step each bound. Hold the landing position for just a second. Once this is mastered skip 2 steps.
Ski and play without poles all over the place.
Visual long arrow coming out of the center of gravity below belly button -- direct that arrow down the trail and from ski to ski.
Teach a skier to have their weight forward, ankles and knees bent so that the hips are above their feet and the more they practice the more they can get into this position.
I make the most progress on these issues by going back to double poling- "fall like a tree" + "lock & load" + "pinkies to eyeballs" drills. Gradually hips get a little more forward, hands get a little higher & a little closer to the face.
For classic, my favorite drill is fast striding down a slight decline. You simply can't keep a stride going & get the back ski off the snow if your hips are back &/or weight transfer is incomplete. The feedback is immediate.
Good Skate drills -- *No poles, fling arms like V2A, both at once, with every other skate. *Diagonal skating plus "scouting" -- stand up on each glide ski and "look for your friends" -- put hand to shield eyes like you're searching the sea for a lost ship -- makes you stand up. *Compare/contrast: Do really low, crouched edging skating; then try standing up tall and ride flat ski -- feel the differences. Tipped-forward from ankle and flexed knee gives best of both worlds.
Lots of time DPing with good form & striding down slight hills are still the foundations I go back to.
TIPS FROM STEVE HINDMAN, how-to columnist from Cross Country Skier mag (also wrote the best how-to book)
To help your ski to grip, quickly increase the flex in your knee and ankle a split second before you begin to extend your leg for the kick. Mimic the down up motion you would use to spike the needle on a bathroom scale.
* Leap from ski to ski. Then back off and move from ski to ski with the same quick and concentrated effort but eliminate any unneeded up motion. Land on each ski as if you were stroking the fur of a large cat with your foot.
*Ski like a pouncing cat/lion -- gather, coil, spring -- but 'stealthy'-like.
* Keep hands low as they swing forward to eliminate excess shoulder movement. Point your thumb down the track as your arms swings forward.
* Poling should start before the kick. To help syncopate your arm and leg, wait until your poling hand brushes the thigh of your weighted leg before swinging your other leg forward and beginning your kick.
Tip from XCSkiWorld.com:
To get feel for high hips, put on poles, put em in front of you like doublepoling (near your binding). Weight the poles. Stand up. Lift one leg up behind you without much flex in it. The way you're standing on your front foot now is good for skiing. (But when skiing you don't EVER intentionally lift or fool with your legs or hands when they're behind you -- just let em fling as they like. Ski will come off track behind you after kicking if you have flex in ankle and forward tilt.)
To get feel for stand-up and forward-drive: Have someone hold their poles behind them then have someone go behind them and grab the poles then skate-push them down the trail. (You can also try pulling someone around by a rope tied around your waist.)
A good visual is not to think of kicking back -- that might put curve in your low back. But to ignore the kick foot and focus on forward leg drive. The kick foot just has to "stay put" as you jump forward.
Dryland imitation is great. But I discourage static posing. A little is OK, though. I find balance comes from constant motion -- some slow, some fast. But it's also from good posture. Posture can be practiced through brief posing.
Standing and flinging arms and legs is good for practicing Classic. Tipping forward and catching yourself from falling with your foot is helpful.
Dryland totally helped me to learn V2 Skating. Hop back and forth imitating it until you find your rock solid way.
The Anikins (USSR medalists/medalist-coaches, USST coaches) said that dryland can 99% imitate best skiing.
I like trying to make Classic go as fast as Skating. Takes a sharper impulse on the flats -- then, to not spike your heart-rate, you'll have to make sure to relax between hits. Start from 'first things first' -- compare the feel of the windspeed, then compare the glide-pace of the skis, try to take the side-to-side losses of skating out of your comparison "feel." Make your classic feel as fast as your skate -- or as close to that feeling as you can. What do your different paces feel like, anyway? What's your best gauge? Some gauges increase stress: "I'm trying harder, working more." Some increase relaxation: "I feel more breeze as I look down the trail." (It's better to consider the experience as a whole. Also usually more accurate.)
If you can make your skate skis feel like they're flying (or at least gliding well), you should be able to do the same with your Classic skis. Kick wax shouldn't slow a ski much in tracks. And the direct-down-the-trail efficiency of Classic should mostly make up for the longer push of skating (which is half-wasted due to side-losses).
On an uphill that's a bit too steep for easy V1 skating, but which isn't so steep that you have to herringbone it in Classic, you may well be able to Classic faster than Skate.
Work on increasing uphill glide in Classic, but not by going slower (don't get it by slowing tempo and bogging down). Compare hill times. Find your own style by seeing what way you go fastest up for the lowest heart-rate. Is there any way to lower work effort without going slower? ...It's usually possible by relaxing more, by being smoother and more efficient.
Find a moderately steep, moderately long uphill. Then repeat it at a moderate level. So you're not getting more and more tired as you do it. It should be sustainable. Well, for 8 repeats, say. Try again next day. Time it, feel it: what helps? What does screw-up feel like -- and what do you do when that happens. What does 'better' feel like? Any pattern?
More ideas that really stand out from Steve Hindman's book (he's the best...of course he probably got a lot of his ideas from other people, but his book is the best)...
*To get good forward leg drive in Classic Striding, and to avoid ski slap, bring your foot thru with the toes lifted -- with the sole flat to the ground -- with the ankle flexed already. This propels the ski forward rather than slapping it down. Our goal is to zoom smoothly down the trail, not to move up or down. Some up/down motion is needed but we should try to avoid disturbing our down-trail motion flow.
*Imagine jumping across creeks that are across the trail, but try to do it smoothly with not much vertical.
*Classic skis get grip from an area of the ski that centers around the binding, not around the whole foot. The grip area is, thus, forwardly placed. To press this area down you need to weight the front of your foot. (But be sure to keep your heel down.) To do this, you have to flex your ankle and press down with your knee. If you look down your knee should cover your view of your foot. As your (flat) glide-foot shoves forward, you're dropping a bit and flexing your kicking foot. This gives you grip as the feet pass each other. You'll have grip as long as your heel stays down and the ski is forward-weighted. As you fully get onto your glide-ski the kick is over. (Remember, you're not actually kicking back!)
*Get good kick by forgetting about kicking back! That foot just 'plants.' But DO focus on the forward-swinging glide-foot! In fact, pretend you're kicking a ball down the trail! Kick that thing! Driving forward is what we want. The planted foot (and pole!) are what we kick off from -- they hold the "rear" of us in position as we launch down the trail.
*To help get good poling action imagine that you're tossing cups of coffee down the trail.
Line of skiers flowing up a hill in the Potto Raid. 3 hours ahead of them. Relaxed. Flexed ankle, flexed knee. Dynamically ready. (Who's that in the lead? Why, it's RadNord!)
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Cude's tenure in the league began in 1930-31 with the Philadelphia Quakers, playing in 29 games. The following year, he played two games in goal for Boston and one for Chicago, with the balance of his season being played in the CAHL with the Boston Cubs. The entire 1932-33 season was spent in the CAHL with the Philadelphia Arrows.
In 1933-34, Cude began the year with the Detroit Red Wings but he finished the season in Montreal, with the Canadiens. The last seven years of Cude's NHL career were spent with the Canadiens.
Cude once had the unique distinction of being the NHL's spare goaltender, playing for whatever team required a backup. He may also have been the lightest goalie in league history, tipping the scales at no more than 130 pounds.
Following his hockey career, Cude acquired private ownership of the distributing agency in the Rouyn-Noranda area for British American Oil. Cude died after a lengthy illness on May 5, 1968 at the age of 57.
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Using any standard Cat5 network cable, attach the Ethernet port of the DW6000 to the any port on your switch. If your switch has an Uplink port, you can use that, but keep in mind that the uplink port shares circuitry with one of the standard ports on the switch; usually the one closest to it, or the last standard port on the switch. This means that you cannot use that shared port if you use the uplink port, and visa-versa.
Using any standard Cat5 network cables, connect each computer on your LAN to the remaining ports on the switch or hub.
The DW6000 has a built-in DHCP server so you can set up each computer to get its IP address and DNS information automatically. For Windows users this is the default if you run the Windows Networking Wizard, and is the simplest way to successfully get your network running.
If you want to set up static IPs on your network, the easiest way would be to use IP addresses in the range of 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.254, subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and a DNS server of your choice. 184.108.40.206 is a valid DirecWay DNS server you can use.
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