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Federer, Nadal easily advance, experience scary quake
- Roger Federer beat Ivan Dodig for his 890th career victory on the ATP Tour
- Rafael Nadal earned a walkover into the fourth round when Leonardo Mayer withdrew
- %22I was very scared. First time in my life%2C%22 Nadal said after experiencing his first earthquake
INDIAN WELLS, California (AP) — Defending champion Roger Federer beat Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-3, 6-1 in a third-round match at the BNP Paribas Open on Monday for his 890th career victory on the ATP Tour.
Federer joined Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl and Guillermo Vilas as the only men to have won at least that many matches in the Open era. The second-ranked Swiss star is seeking his first tournament title of the year at an event where he has won four championships and has a 41-8 career record.
Federer was the highest-seeded men's player in action Monday.
"I'm not too worried. I have gone through it so many times where you feel a little tweak," he said. "Happened during Grand Slams, during tournaments, in practice. It's just something you learn to deal with."
Top-ranked and defending women's champion Victoria Azarenka rallied to beat 28th-seeded Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0 and improve to 15 matches without loss this year.
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck at 9:55 a.m. local time near Indian Wells. It occurred before the day's matches had begun, although the Indian Wells Tennis Garden was busy with fans and workers, many of whom said they felt a strong jolt.
Federer ran out of the house where he's staying during the tournament.
"I didn't know how long it was going to last, if it was going to get worse from there, or if the worst was already past," he said. "It was a very strange feeling to have because you see the windows shaking and you look up and realize you're under a structure. It was quite scary for a second there."
Fifth-seeded Rafael Nadal was on the massage table preparing for his third-round match against Leonardo Mayer of Argentina when the quake hit.
"I was very scared," he said. "I think the massage table moves even worse."
The Spaniard said his legs were wobbling and even though it was his first earthquake it took him "probably a half-second" to realize what was happening.
After the excitement caused by the quake, Nadal didn't even get to play his match. Mayer withdrew because of a back injury.
Nadal opened his bid for a third Indian Wells title with a two-set victory over American Ryan Harrison on Saturday, the Spaniard's first hard-court match in nearly a year. He returned to the ATP Tour a month ago, winning two of three tournaments on clay after missing seven months because of a left knee injury.
Temperatures are forecast to soar into the 90s Fahrenheit (30s Celsius) in the next few days, conditions that should favor Nadal.
"For me, for my knee, for my foot, for everything is better when the conditions are warmer," he said. "I love practicing and playing in days like today: no wind, fantastic weather, good, hot temperature."
Nadal shared a friendly hit on Sunday with tournament owner Larry Ellison, the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corp. and one of the world's wealthiest men.
"His backhand improve, especially a lot from last year, so that's great," Nadal said. "It's great what he's doing for tennis and especially this tournament. He knows more about tennis I think than me."
On the men's side, No. 6 Tomas Berdych defeated 27th-seeded Florian Mayer 6-4, 6-1; Latvian qualifier Ernests Gulbis outlasted 20th-seeded Andreas Seppi, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 to win his 13th consecutive match this season; and Kevin Anderson beat Jarkko Nieminen, 6-3, 6-1.
Gulbis takes on Nadal in the fourth round, a player that Gulbis has yet to beat in four matches.
"I believe that I can win," Gulbis said. "Yeah, I said it already."
Among the women's third-round winners Monday were No. 4 Angelique Kerber, No. 7 Sam Stosur, No. 8 Caroline Wozniacki, and No. 10 Nadia Petrova.
Kerber beat 30th-seeded Yanina Wickmayer 6-1, 7-6 (4) after rallying from a 1-4 deficit in the second set. She and her coach were talking before the match when the quake hit.
"In the first moment we both were thinking, it's like a subway here, but actually we are in the desert. No way that there is a subway," Kerber said.
Stosur needed three sets to get by 32nd-seeded Shuai Peng of China, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; and Wozniacki routed 29th-seeded Elena Vesnina, 6-2, 6-1. Petrova beat No. 21 seed Julia Georges, 6-1, 6-2 and Spanish qualifier Garbine Muguruza defeated Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia, 6-4, 6-0.


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I will :P thanks ~~Be Cool Be U~~23:50, August 9, 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I realize that you're using Crimson's userpage format for your own user page, but could you please remove the Pokepower and Featured User templates from your userpage? You haven't been awarded them. Thanks ChaosVoid 09:00, August 13, 2012 (UTC)
Sure, I was trying to fix it some more anyway, sorry for the trouble :P ~~Be Cool Be U~~ 20:03, August 13, 2012 (UTC)
- It's fine, but you missed the Featured User template. ChaosVoid 01:21, August 14, 2012 (UTC)
- I've tried to I'm not so good with this, I'll try to see if I can help any more. ~~Be Cool Be U~~ 01:46, August 14, 2012 (UTC)
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Hey there 98malimal! ;) Marioandluigibros12345 (talk) 17:58, August 15, 2012 (UTC)
hey :D ~~Be Cool Be U~~ 20:00, August 15, 2012 (UTC)
Hya when you put the {{Delete}} on a page please make sure that you put a reason {{Delete|This is spam, or this is unnecessary, or whatever.}} Thanks! Slay Talk "Shadows wonder why we scream."15:12,8/31/2012 4,527
Hi 98, how do I become a chat mod? —Preceding unsigned comment added by AzureAzulCrash (talk • contribs)
sorry for late reply lol but you can ask admins and if they think you deserve it then you will more than likely be promoted. ~~The Timid Black Guy~~ 22:51, December 6, 2012 (UTC)
If you want to be friends, got my friend on my page.Golden Manda (talk) 00:01, December 6, 2012 (UTC)
Re:The Polls
Yes it's been bothering me for a while now, but I'm just glad it's up and running again and it'll give me a chane to see how many active users we have who will actually vote. Rainbow Shifter 17:00, December 7, 2012 (UTC)
Vaporeon learnset
Hey, I'm just dropping a message to avoid a potential edit war. I'd like to know why the learnset page is unneeded. There are learnsets for many pokemon and this is a page that we need.
FireIsMy Passion 00:29, December 15, 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for a late response, but they aren't needed they are already on the "Vaporeon" page, even though it isn't bad, can you maybe put it onto Vaporeon's page instead of making a new one? The Timid Black Guy 06:19, December 15, 2012 (UTC)
Actually, Vaporeon is one of many pokemon on the wiki that lack learnset information. In case you haven't noticed, old generation learnsets are separate pages with links to them on the pokémon's main page, and the current gen learnset is featured on the main page. Basically what I'm saying is that neither the gen 1 or gen 2 learnsets should have been deleted, and I fail to see why Slayingthehalcyon even deleted them. I might as well go through and put a delete category thing on the couple hundred learnset pages that are out there if the vaporeon pages aren't valid.
FireIsMy Passion 22:16, December 15, 2012 (UTC)
Feel free to look at the Squirtle page as an example. FireIsMy Passion 22:20, December 15, 2012 (UTC)
You are right, sorry about me wrongfully deleting it :) The Timid Black Guy 07:16, December 16, 2012 (UTC)
The Timid Black Guy 01:32, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
me being chat moderator
hey, I was wondering you would let me be a chat moderator, I am on my PC everyday, not 24/7 (duh) but I am very responsible, I have reviewed the rules of chating and can offer up some contribtations
- Two things: One, a Chat Mod cannot give you Chat Mod status, only an Admin or B-Crat can. And two, this is the first time I have ever seen you on chat. You don't have any edits and nobody here knows you (because you have never been on chat). Even though you want chat moderator status you still need to edit and show some interest in the wiki. You obviously think that you can just come on here, click your fingers and be given rights. That's not how it works around here. You have to work and you obviously don't know the rules or how Wikia works otherwise you wouldn't have asked to be one. Rainbow Shifter


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ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE INTERACTIONS IN NEURONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE-RELATED PATHWAYS By Anusha Jayaraman A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (NEUROSCIENCE) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Anusha Jayaraman
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Next time you're sitting in an airport waiting out a weather delay caused by a light sprinkle, just sit down and watch this video of Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan, as they fly jets in and out as a typhoon rages behind them.
This video was captured last night from the Naha Airport Webcam as Typhoon Muifa, currently with winds gusting to 125 mph, aimed for the island en route to an expected landfall near Shanghai, China, early Sunday morning.
Though the storm was still a good ways out, there's massive surf, heavy rain, and gusty winds all evident even in the low-quality web video as crews quickly load and unload planes, including an All Nippon Airways 747-400.
"In Asia, they are much more prepared for typhoons than the US," said extreme storm photographer Jim Edds, who has experience chasing typhoons in Asia and found the webcam. "The whole infrastructure is built solid — some folks will go to work today."
The worst of the storm is about to hit Okinawa and the planes have stopped, for now, although another large jet did a quick turnaround last night according to photographer James Reynolds who is stuck on the island.
Keep an eye on the camera as the sun comes up and surge from Muifa watches over the airport.
Photo Credit: Double-H, Japanese Meteorological Agency; Music Credit: Andrew Shoemaker


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by Mike Badyk
Specialized Bicycles invited Canadian Cyclist to the debut of their 2010 bicycles in Snowbird, Utah. The folks from Specialized are there for a few weeks, with the media being the first guests, followed by presentations to their dealers.
Photo gallery has additional shots
With the journalists on site, the focus was the higher end product. There were presentations from engineers and designers and, of course, the opportunity to ride some of the bikes. Before arrival you had to decide if you were going to focus on mountain or road bikes. There was so much to see that it was virtually impossible to do both. My focus was the mountain, but I did have a chance to do one brief road ride and also have a glimpse at some of the new road bikes.
Snowbird is a very beautiful ski resort on the outskirts of Salt Lake City. SLC is flat, but head south from the city centre and turn east up a canyon and you quickly enter some serious mountains. After climbing a winding road we were presented with a gorgeous facility nestled in a narrow valley, with massive snow capped peaks towering above.
You immediately notice the altitude. At over 8000 feet above sea level, it was a chore to even get the luggage out of the van. Acclimation was the order of the whole event. There wasn't a lot of flat ground here either. You were either going up or down, no matter which way you headed. The nice thing is that Snowbird, which is very, very busy in the winter, is much quieter in the summer. The roads are lightly traveled, there are lots of mountain bike trails, and important for what we were doing there, lots of meeting rooms available for the presentations. The inside joke was that it was selected for its sheer absence of golfers.
Specialized set up one tent up above the resort for the demo road bikes and another below for the mountain bikes. Check out the photos to get an idea of the beauty of the location. Talk about a kid in the candy store. Make a request for the bike you wanted and the Specialized techies would set it up for you and away you went for a ride. Then go back and repeat as desired. Way fun.
There were a lot of different themes to this launch. So, instead of one massive article we're going to split it up into a series of pieces.
Road Bikes
As I mentioned in the intro to this series, I didn't have much time with the road bikes. I was able to get into the presentation room between talks to look at a few of them, and I did manage one short road ride the last morning I was at Snowbird. I would have loved to spend more time but it just wasn't possible with the mountain bike schedule that we had. That's too bad because there are some really sweet road bikes from Specialized.
This was complete drool factor. I mean, it's highly unlikely that any of us journalists there would actually ride one of these things in real life, but, just like an ultra high end sports car, it looked fast sitting still and you can always dream. It also looks very aggressive in all carbon and black. The Specialized crew made a point of stating that it isn't for triathlons. It's made for cycling TT's only, based on positioning.
The Shiv is going to be available in the spring of 2010 in limited quantities. There will probably be only a few hundred made for the whole world. In other words, if you want to be a clone of Fabian Cancellara then you'd have to act pretty quickly. The Shiv is going to come in four sizes, but not measured in a conventional manner. The measurement is from the centre of the BB to the arm pads on the handlebar. A medium is going to weigh 7.5kg (16.5 pounds) which is very good.
The aero shape is fully UCI compliant. The Specialized techies claimed that it is actually 20% faster in a crosswind than a headwind. The shaping of the tubes would suggest that, but I'm basically taking it on their word. Even with the aero tubing the Shiv is the equal of the highly successful SL2 frameset in terms of stiffness. Pretty darned impressive. Components are mixture of Specialized and SRAM Red.
Visually it looks like most TT bikes, but the entire front end of the Shiv is absolutely unique. The handlebar, stem and front brake are all one unit that is bolted to the top of the fork. It's pretty hard to explain in words, so I hope that the photos do it justice. You have to do most of the brake adjustments before you install the assembly. You can adjust the pads up and down but that's about it once it's installed. Your position on the bar is adjusted by arm pad supports of different rise. In one of our photos there are no supports installed and you can see them in the second.
Price? No clue. It seems like one of those deals where if you have to ask then you can't afford it. We'll have to wait and see.
PS: Seems like the Shiv works well underneath Mr. Cancellera. Obviously a weapon of choice.
As I mentioned above, the SL2 road frame is one pretty slick item. Well, it's about to be dethroned in 2010. Welcome to the new S-Works Tarmac with the SL3 frameset. Although it doesn't look that different, the frame has been almost completely redone. There is a new carbon construction and it has become lighter yet.
The BB on the SL2 was plenty stiff, so for the SL3 Specialized set about improving torsional stiffness, with the end result of an 18% improvement over the SL2. And they made it lighter too. A production 56cm frame weighs 875 grams! I mean, this is getting silly. They managed to get a 153 gram savings in the combo of frame, fork, seatpost and crank. That brings the finished weight down to a UCI illegal 5.9 kg (13 pounds). I'm wondering if it will come with its own custom lead filled water bottle to make it legal for racing.
There are some really trick things going on with this bike. There is a tapered head tube with 1-1/8" bearing on top and 1.5" at the crown. And the bearing cups are carbon fiber too. There are internal ribs in the down tube and top tube near this large head tube. The chainstays are now one piece of carbon. The alloy dropouts are a hollow box section that are lighter and stronger than carbon.
The one on display was spec'd with SRAM Red but there were a small number in the demo fleet with Shimano DI2. Unfortunately, there weren't any large enough for me to test. Those that I spoke to that had a chance to go for a spin came away impressed with the bike overall.
With the Tarmac getting an upgrade, the women's side wasn't ignored. A very attractive S-Works Amira was on display. It's even lighter than the Tarmac. It is definitely a racing bike, but with a UCI imposed minimum weight I just don't know where it is going to be raced legally. Hot stuff at the local club ride though, so maybe that's where you'll see it. Although it benefits from the technology seen in the Tarmac it has its own unique tube set and the tapered head tube goes 1-1/8" down to 1-3/8". Another beautiful bike.
I'm not exactly a small person and there weren't a lot of road bikes available for me to ride. Fortunately, there was one XXL S-Works Roubaix for me to take out on a ride. I didn't have a lot of time so I pointed it up hill to the nearby town of Alta (Elevation 8400' Above sea level) and the literal end of the road. It's a heck of a way to start a warm up, with a pretty serious climb at this altitude, but this bike was an excellent choice. The Dura-Ace compact drivetrain performed flawlessly and this bike was plenty stiff during standing climbs.
Once I got over the initial climb it was a steady gradual climb to the end of the road in this little ski town. I took a couple of pictures and headed back down the road past where I started to a bit lower in the valley. The road in Alta was freshly paved, but as I got lower it was pretty beat up, thanks to the harsh winters that they typically experience here. The addition of the Zertz elastomer inserts in the stays and fork did their wonderful job of taking the sting out of the bumps. It's a very enjoyable bike.
There aren't a lot of changes between 2009 and 2010 besides the cosmetics. There are now Dura-Ace carbon wheels and Specialized S-Works Turbo Tubeless tires. Anybody out there remember sew-up tubulars? The technology just keeps progressing. The ride was very nice from my limited experience. Everything was very smooth. To complete things a Specialized crank is used to shave even more weight. It's just a great bike overall and I wish I had more time to ride it.
This bike is a work in progress. It actually wasn't part of the presentations, at least the ones that I saw, but thanks to having the good fortune of dining with Dr. Roger Minkow, one of the leader's of Specialized Body Geometry efforts (he came up with the groove in the saddle that is now everywhere), I was invited to see this bike.
The Roulux was invented to be the most ergonomic bicycle every produced and the first Specialized Body Geometry Bike. My invite to see it all came about because of my bad hands. I have lots of tendon damage in my fingers thanks to genetics and various injuries. Dr. Minkow asked me to come and look at the Roulux and some of its features.
When I arrived another journalist was sitting on the Roulux. He had suffered a compression fracture of his spine years ago and, for the most part, bicycle riding was a really difficult undertaking. Sitting on the bike he was put in a very different position than he would be on a conventional bike. The first thing I heard him say was that it felt comfortable.
When he got through it was my turn. Climbing on board my hands fell into a very natural feeling position on top of the ergonomically shaped grips. The best way I can describe it is to be sitting on a stool and then just extend your arm and hand forward to reach for something. It just comes naturally. Unfortunately these were the only prototypes in existence and thus a ride wasn't possible.
Despite the appearance of something like a fitness bike, they're designed to be an enthusiast's bike. In other words, they are made to go fast. They might even come with a deep-dish aero wheel if Dr. Minkow has his way.
The most noticeable feature, and perhaps one that strays the most from a conventional bike, is the handlebar. It just doesn't look like what we're used to on a fast bike. However, according to Dr. Minkow it is essential to eliminate the neck, back, arm and hand pain that many people experience.
Basically, he wants the ride on the Roulux to be as comfortable as possible in order to get more people on bikes. To add to the comfort there are elastomers in the fork and on the seat stays to provide about an inch of travel. The elastomers will be replaceable to tune the ride. There's one more detail to make it easier for people to get around by bike: on the downtube are a couple of little mirrors that allow you to see what's behind you without twisting around. Glance down and look between your legs instead. They work very well from my limited time astride the bike.
I'd really be interested in riding the final product. The Roulux could be an important step forward in getting more people on bikes.
Body Geometry
As can be illustrated by the Roulux and ergonomics built into many Specialized products, they are treating this aspect of design very seriously. I was expecting a rather dry and technical talk from Dr. Minkow and Dr. Andy Pruitt (renowned bike fit specialist), but it turned out to be highly entertaining and downright funny at times.
They started out talking about the history behind the Body Geometry saddles but before long they were talking about their efforts to fit the Saxo Bank pro road team on their Specialized bikes. Saxo Bank team manager Bjarne Riis has always been of the opinion that his riders needed to have their handlebars as low as possible to be as aerodynamic as possible. It took a lot of testing on his riders to convince him otherwise.
Using a couple of riders as examples their position before and after the BG fitting was illustrated with lines and arcs in both side and head on views. It was quite remarkable to see these images. It is hard to believe that raising a handlebar a couple of centimetres could actually make a rider up to 10% more aerodynamic thanks to improved back curvature and fit of the aero helmet onto the neck and upper back. Much of the humour in this talk was directed towards Riis and convincing him of the benefits of the Body Geometry system. Eventually Riis was won over to the system enough that he himself was fitted to a bike. He came back from a ride feeling fantastic and stated that he too was ready for a comeback to pro racing.
The benefits of Body Geometry are seen throughout the Specialized equipment and clothing lines. There are new road (and mountain) shoes with an assortment of footbeds to fine tune the fit. There are saddles, shorts, and gloves that are all designed to improve comfort and performance. It doesn't seem just to be a goal of Specialized but an underlying philosophy behind much of what they do. It's rather noble if you ask me.
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Marnie Schulenberg (Allison, As the World Turns) is featured in a new series of hilarious Webisodes called Pump Sports Club Fitness. The series is shown exclusively on YouTube.com and is a mockumentary about those who work in and participate in health clubs and physical fitness. Think Pumping Iron meets The Office.
The series was created by and is directed by Paul Mischeshin, who also stars as the overly zealous trainer, who just so happens to be named Paul. Marnie appears in the series' second episode (see below) as award-winning high-maintenance actress Nicole Spencer.
Each episode is only about 5-7 minutes long, so you have no excuse not to watch them all. And checking back every Sunday for the next few weeks to catch new episodes.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
ATWT Star Gets Pumped Up
Marnie Schulenberg (Allison, As the World Turns) is featured in a new series of hilarious Webisodes called Pump Sports Club Fitness. The series is shown exclusively on YouTube.com and is a mockumentary about those who work in and participate in health clubs and physical fitness. Think Pumping Iron meets The Office.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Y&R: Such a Tease!
•With Amber's help, Kay realizes what she needs to prove who she truly is. Will her plan work?
•Billy and Chloe panic when an old friend comes to town. Will she divulge their history to Cane (Daniel Goddard, pictured) and Lily?
•After accidentally running into each other, Phyllis and Sharon have a heated confrontation.
•Brad's anger over Newman Enterprises and Victor's influence on Abby's life leads to a fiery face-off between the two.
ATWT: Such a Tease!
•Everyone reels from Carly (Maura West, pictured) and Craig's big announcement.
•Dusty takes matters into his own hands.
•Jade and Derek have a hard time accepting the truth.
•Meg catches Paul in yet another lie.
GL: Such a Tease!
•Bill searches for Phillip (Grant Alexsander, pictured).
•Coop and Beth start to go public with their affair.
•Lizzie begins to appreciate Cyrus.
•The identity of the mysterious man following Shayne is revealed.
B&B: Such a Tease!
· Jackie takes a page out of Sally Spectra's book.
· Nick searches for the truth behind the anonymous e-mails.
· Rick's hopes are dashed by Ridge.
· Felicia and Thorne (Winsor Harmon, pictured) take matters into their own hands.
· Katie questions her future.
Days: Such a Tease!
* Bo has a disturbing vision about Hope (Kristian Alfonso, pictured).
* Philip tries to tempt Stephanie with a fancy date.
* Nicole convinces Dr. Baker that he's too involved in her plan to bail out.
* Melanie plans to start a bidding war between the Kiriakis and DiMera families.
* Thursday – The killer and Rafe have their final face off.
* Friday – Chloe realizes Maggie knows about her affair with Daniel.
Monday, January 19, 2009
GH: Such a Tease!
Carly urges Sonny to reconcile with Jason.
Anthony questions Sam's true motives.
Spinelli's self-esteem takes another beating.
Sonny grows more suspicious of Claudia.
Carly admits to Patrick she thinks Robin needs help.
Olivia (Lisa Lo Cicero, pictured) advises Sonny to stay away from Kate.
AMC: What a Tease!
JR hits rock bottom.
David turns the tables on Angie.
Angie becomes David's latest victim.
Tad accuses Krystal of letting David brainwash her.
Jake (Ricky Paull Goldin, pictured) gives Amanda something to think about.
Annie remembers killing Richie.
OLTL: What a Tease!
Rex arranges a surprise for Gigi.
Schuyler knows more than he's saying.
The Plain White T's perform.
Marty gives Wes a shoulder to lean on.
John and Blair don't see eye to eye.
Dorian makes a surprising announcement.
Matthew swipes Cole's drug stash.


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Elder Sister, Save Me
Feng Yu Heng's pharmacy could be used for mobility. It was just that it could only be used for the length of the pharmacy. The two appeared a total of three times. On the third time, they finally arrived at the side of the boat.
Upon appearing, Xuan Tian Ming immediately grabbed Feng Yu Heng tightly and said in a deep voice: "Grab on!" After saying this, he used his inner strength, sending the two soaring upward before the two landed on the deck.
When they landed, a pregnant woman with a large belly was looking at the two with a shocked expression. She even looked at the river once more. It was clear that she had seen the two appearing and disappearing.
Feng Yu Heng gently flicked her wrist and pulled out a knife. After taking a single glance at the pregnant woman, she let go of the knife in her hand, sending it straight at the neck of the pregnant woman.
Following this, Xuan Tian Ming sneered. The pregnant woman did not have a chance to defend, as the surgical knife stabbed into her throat. She could not even let out a single scream. When she died, fear did not even get a chance to appear in her eyes. It remained on the earlier look of confusion and shock.
Feng Yu Heng coldly said: "What sort of pregnant woman would risk their pregnancy and come stand on the deck in this heavy rain? The people of Qian Zhou really put in quite a bit of thought to get onto this boat."
At this time, Xuan Tian Ming's whip extended forward and wrapped around Feng Yu Heng's surgical knife, pulling it back. She held it in her hand once more then went forward to pick at the pregnant woman's belly. Sure enough, there was a soft cushion stuffed inside.
This person was a hidden guard from Qian Zhou. She had been hidden on this boat to assist the divine archery team. Her martial abilities were actually quite amazing. Unfortunately, no matter how great her abilities were, they could not handle Feng Yu Heng's ghost-like appearance and disappearance. She was already completely frightened stiff by what she had seen. That was the reason that she did not even react when the surgical knife went flying at her.
After the two got on the boat, they immediately killed one person. Very quickly, who knew how many people suddenly appeared from all sides. There were people in all kinds of disguises. At this time, however, an ominous look came from all of their eyes, as they stared at the two.
Xuan Tian Ming pointed his whip forward and loudly said: "Little children of Qian Zhou, this lord will send you to Western Heaven!" After saying this, the whip suddenly became hard and acted like a spear, stabbing forward at an enemy's chest. This cut his clothes open and left a bloody mark on his chest. "Dear wife!" He shouted loudly, an endless joy filling his voice, "Husband will take care of killing the pigs. You should just take care of providing some extra cuts!" As he spoke, he suddenly dashed forward, flying into the middle of the enemies.
Feng Yu Heng followed behind with a cold expression. This was the first time that the two had worked together in a fight. There was a bit of excitement in their hearts. Xuan Tian Ming's strikes focused on being fast and accurate. If he wanted to kill someone, he would not leave them any time to breathe or prepare. The whip was handled even more magnificently than a sword. There were times when it flopped around, and there were times when it stretched forward to probe. With every flick of the whip, a chunk of flesh would be torn off by the barbs on the whip.
There were roughly 30 enemies, and they were suddenly caught off-guard by Xuan Tian Ming. But they were still fine guards that had been trained for many years by Qian Zhou. The chaos that had erupted was quickly recovered from, and they swiftly began their counterattack.
These people from Qian Zhou were very smart. They could see that there was an extremely large gap between Xuan Tian Ming and Feng Yu Heng's martial abilities. Although Feng Yu Heng's abilities were also good, when it was compared to Xuan Tian Ming, it was not just a little bit worse. Everyone had to attack the weak points. This was a point that everyone understood. For a while, numerous swords rushed in the direction of Feng Yu Heng.
But how could Xuan Tian Ming allow his wife to suffer even the slightest grievance. As each sword drew near, the whip would come and take one away. If a pair came, a pair would be taken away. If even more came, the whip would become rigid and stop all of them.
Nobody understood what that whip was made of. Swords were completely incapable of cutting through it, thus someone tried to avoid the whip and attacked Feng Yu Heng from the back.
However, the surgical knife in Feng Yu Heng's hand became a military knife. Not only was it a military knife, but it was also one made of steel. It was precisely the one that had broken Zong Sui's iron essence weapons in Fei Cui Hall.
When someone swung at her with their sword, she did not even dodge. Even after Xuan Tian Ming saw the sword get swung, he did not go to save her. Instead, he chose to watch her meet that sword with her military knife. His lips then curled into a cold sneer.
Someone saw Xuan Tian Ming's sneer and was beginning to wonder if he had gone insane. He had clearly already seen the person launch an attack. Based on his abilities, helping Feng Yu Heng would not be considered hard, but not only did he not help, he even laughed!
But the enemy came to understand very quickly what this sneer meant. Xuan Tian Ming was indeed watching a joke, but the joke was not on Feng Yu Heng. Instead, it was on their Qian Zhou. They saw the two blades collide, but Feng Yu Heng's small teenage frame did not collapse with a single blow as they had expected. On the contrary, the guard from Qian Zhou's blade was the cut through like paper. Upon meeting with Feng Yu Heng's blade, it was cut in two without a single sound.
With the blade being cut in two, the person that had lost his sword did not have time to recover. Moreover, the person that was holding the sword did not think that his sword would break. Thus, after the sword broke, his body continued to move forward, and he continued to exert strength, but Feng Yu Heng continued to charge forward. She stabbed her knife fiercely into this person's forehead.
This was not the end. After the knife stabbed into his forehead, she did not stop exerting strength, nor did she pull back. Feng Yu Heng remained in her stance. This strike started from when the two blades collided. The knife then reached that person's forehead. Immediately following this, it stabbed into the person's skull as everyone watched. In the blink of an eye, this person was cut in two. The head, the neck and even the throat was cut in two. Following these were the chest, the belly, the lower body…
Finally, she retracted the military knife. The enemy looked like a sliced duck. He had gone from being one person to two people, having been split into two halves.
The people of Qian Zhou were dumbfounded. Their minds went "boom" and exploded. In an instant, they thought of a problem: Could it be that they had made a mistake from the very beginning?
In a fight, they should target the weak spot. They thought that Feng Yu Heng was the weak point; however, they never thought that Feng Yu Heng's knife would be an even more troubling existence than Xuan Tian Ming's whip. Also, the way in which it was troubling was too horrifying. It was something that they had never seen before.
In the past, they had believed that being beheaded was the cruelest way to die on the battlefield; however, they never thought that Da Shun's imperial daughter Ji An would have this sort of innovation. What should this be called? Being halved?
The once fierce battle began to cool down following the person being cut in two pieces. Xuan Tian Ming took a look at the dead person and nodded to his wife, saying with praise: "Dear wife has great knife techniques!"
At this time, someone from Qian Zhou finally reacted, shouting: "She has a steel knife!"
The words steel knife caused everyone to inhale sharply.
They had heard long ago about Da Shun's steel being able to cut through iron as if it was mud. Today, they found that it truly was the case. Not only did it cut through iron as if it was mud, but it also cut through people just as easily!
They quickly adjusted their battle stances. The people that had been rushing at Feng Yu Heng once again turned their attention to Xuan Tian Ming. As for Feng Yu Heng, she also let out a sigh of relief. If she had not used such a shocking manner of killing that person, the enemy would definitely continue to attack her. In the end, her small body could not compare to that of a grown man. If 30 people attacked her, she would have died of exhaustion.
Fortunately, Xuan Tian Ming had plenty of stamina. In addition to the whip providing him with a great number of advantages, as long as he swung it around, the enemy would not be able to get close. In fact, there would occasionally be a guard from Qian Zhou that got grabbed by his whip. After receiving severe injuries, they would be tossed out of the fight.
And every time that this occurred, Feng Yu Heng would immediately rush forward with her surgical knife and begin to cut away at the enemies' fingers. The severely injured people had no way of breaking free from her restraint. They could only watch as all ten of their fingers got removed. With the pain of losing all ten fingers, they immediately fainted.
Xuan Tian Ming single-mindedly focused on whipping people, and Feng Yu Heng focused on prowling about with her knife. These two coordinated perfectly. In just a few moments, twelve people had lost their fingers.
The people that were still fighting saw this scene and felt shocked. They knew what Qian Zhou's divine archery team's goal was with this mission. They also knew that they had chopped off one of the kidnapped child's fingers. She was getting revenge!
Qian Zhou's fine guards were the second most secretive organization in Qian Zhou aside from the divine archery team. Anyone that was capable of gaining the position of fine guard had martial arts that would not lose out to the hidden guards of Da Shun. However, they were still beaten senseless by a ninth prince.
Gradually, they understood that they were not Xuan Tian Ming's opponent. If they continued to fight like this, they would all lose their fingers eventually; however, they found that after Xuan Tian Ming had beaten down so many people, he was no longer as relaxed as before. Although his whip continued to move wildly, the force behind it was gradually weakening.
The fine guards rejoiced, but before this joy could reach their lips, they suddenly found that the hidden guards at Xuan Tian Ming's side had already reached the ship. They were about to land on the boat.
Thus a group immediately dove toward the side of the boat and threw their swords fiercely down from the boat.
However, before the swords could pierce anything, they suddenly felt their necks go cold. Immediately following this, they found that the sky and ground were spinning rapidly. They thought that they had begun flying; however, they did not know that the cold on their necks was from Xuan Tian Ming's whip. The sky and ground spinning were because the whip had snapped their necks, sending their heads flying.
Qian Zhou's fine guards felt a chill in their hearts. They watched the hidden guards soar onto the boat and enter the battle. There was no longer any suspense left in the fight.
The men fought the adults, while Feng Yu Heng and Wang Chuan were in charge of cutting off fingers. Feng Yu Heng cut while fiercely saying: "Wang Chuan, help me remember. Qian Zhou's citizens are innocent, thus I will not hurt them; however, the people of the imperial family and everyone from Qian Zhou that views Da Shun as an enemy, this imperial daughter will cut off all of their fingers!"
Wang Chuan knew that her young miss had become infuriated. Her eyes were even blood-red. This boat was like a purgatory. The screams of horror coming from the guests never ended, but nothing was able to stop her hatred.
At this time, a voice suddenly came from the head of the boat. It finally made Feng Yu Heng stop cutting. It was Zi Rui's voice calling out: "Elder sister, save me!"
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As President Trump threatens to heap more tariffs on Chinese imports, he's got one important fact on his side: The United States remains China's biggest single export market, buying some $500 billion in goods last year alone.
But China is less dependent on the American market than it was even a decade ago and in some ways is better able to withstand a trade war than the United States.
"The question is less whether we can do harm to them than, which one can endure the pain the better? And there are some reasons to believe that over the short term, the Chinese are better positioned to manage this," says Robert Ross, a professor of political science at Boston College and an expert on U.S.-China relations.
China grew into an economic superpower by becoming a major exporter, rapidly developing a large and highly efficient manufacturing base that enabled it to sell cheap products all over the world.
"We built China," President Trump boasted during a recent appearance in South Carolina.
But China has been steadily diversifying its economy, in ways that make it less vulnerable to U.S. pressure than it once was.
"China's economy is much less dependent on trade now and on trade with the U.S. than it used to be," says Linda Lim, professor of corporate strategy and international business at the University of Michigan.
"Trade is around 20 percent of China's economy," she says. "Ten years ago, it was 40 percent."
At the same time, U.S. companies like Boeing, General Motors and Apple now make plenty of money in China's vast consumer market, giving Beijing leverage over the U.S. economy that it once lacked.
Chinese bureaucrats could make life very difficult for these companies if they chose to, Ross says.
"All these various industries can develop problems in China," he says. "There can be health hazards at a McDonald's. Starbucks could all of a sudden come under investigation for profit issues and tax issues."
To be sure, the United States can exert pain over Chinese companies, too.
But the top-down nature of its economy gives Beijing weapons that Washington lacks. Unlike Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping doesn't need to worry about midterms or congressional oversight when he acts.
Many Chinese companies can count on government subsidies to tide them over when things get rough and don't face the same pressure from shareholders to turn a profit every quarter, Lim says.
"If you don't have to make money, that's a huge competitive advantage. So they can absorb the cost" of a trade war, she says.
That's not to say that China is eager for a trade war or can afford to be indifferent to its consequences, says David Dollar, who was the U.S. Treasury Department's financial emissary to China during the Obama administration.
"I would say it's a serious short-term problem for the Chinese and not so big a problem in the medium to long term," Dollar says.
China's $500 billion in exports to the United States are equal to about 4 percent of its gross domestic product, and losing even half of that would be a blow. But China can gradually replace it by exporting to other countries, something it has been doing for years anyway.
In fact, a trade war would only accelerate a process already underway in China of becoming more self-sufficient economically, Lim says.
"China wants to become more independent technologically and less dependent on foreign imports of high-tech products in particular, semiconductors and the like, which it gets from the U.S. and elsewhere," she says.
"So it's perverse. You reinforce their determination to be less dependent on you," Lim says.
Beijing says it will retaliate if President Trump goes ahead with plans to impose tariffs on more Chinese products. The U.S. and China are locked in what could become a full-on trade war. And China's economy is better positioned than it once was to survive. NPR's Jim Zarroli has the story.
JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE: President Trump holds a view of China that a lot of Americans have. He says, for too long, it's been able to flood U.S. markets with cheap imports. And as a result, it's amassed lots of money, which has helped turn it into an economic superpower.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: China made - anywhere, depending on the way you count - from $375 billion, we built China.
ZARROLI: It's true that China has sold a lot of products to the U.S. over the years, and it still does. The U.S. remains China's most important single market, buying $500 billion in goods last year. David Dollar, who worked on trade negotiations with China in the Obama Treasury Department, says losing access to that market would take a bite out of China's economy.
DAVID DOLLAR: For any economy to go down by 2 or 3 percentage points, that's a serious issue.
ZARROLI: And the impact would be especially serious right now because China's economy is already slowing. At the same time, Dollar says, the pain wouldn't be as bad as it once might have been.
DOLLAR: The U.S. market is very important to China, but it's less important than it was 10 years ago.
ZARROLI: For one thing, the Chinese economy has become a lot bigger and more diversified than it once was and less dependent on trade. And China now has leverage of its own against the U.S. Companies such as Apple and Boeing make big money in China. And Boston College political science professor Robert Ross says the Chinese bureaucracy can make life difficult for them if it wants.
ROBERT ROSS: All these various industries can develop problems in China. There can be health hazards at a McDonald's. Starbucks could all of a sudden come under investigation for profit issues and tax issues.
ZARROLI: China can even discourage its consumers from buying American products. Whether it would go that far is still an open question. But Ross says, if worse comes to worst, China may be better able to survive a trade war than the U.S.
ROSS: The question less is whether we can do harm to them than which one can endure the pain the better? And there are some reasons to believe that, over the short term, the Chinese are better positioned to manage this.
ZARROLI: It can do that partly because of its top-down economy. If its growth suffers, Beijing can take steps like cutting taxes or stimulating spending without having to run it by Congress. No one has to worry about midterms. Economist Linda Lim at the University of Michigan says many of China's most important companies are government subsidized, and they don't have shareholders breathing down their necks.
LINDA LIM: If you don't have to make money, that's a huge competitive advantage. So they can absorb the costs.
ZARROLI: Lim points out that China has been gradually trying to become a more independent economy, to strengthen its tech and defense industries. Ironically, she says, a trade war would accelerate the process, even if China has to suffer through some pain to get there. Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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I've been a camper most of my life and and backpacker since high school. I use to just have a cheapy puptent but finally I wanted to invest in a nice tent. My mom was kind enough to research and find this tent at a great deal on ebay-it had been used once and kept in very good condition.
I love this tent! It's the best piece of equipment she could have gotten for me. It's very light weight especially for a small woman (5'3") to carry miles into the woods along with everything else I would need a for a few days.
I've only used it 3 seasons out of the year, but I'm convinced with the right sleeping bag I could use it in the winter too. I'd just have to keep the rainfly closed throughout the day. The rainfly, while it meets the ground, provides just enough cover in the entryway to put your bag and shoes, things like that.
My favorite things about this tent:
1) lightweight
2) super easy to assemble by myself and in the most weather conditions-it only has two poles.
3) seems to be waterproofed on the bottom, as its never leaked.
4) the mesh top is great for a couple of reasons-doesn't get too hot, finally a tent I can sleep in until mid morning, and if it's a clear night I can fall asleep looking at the stars and wake up looking at the trees.
The poles can seem a little tough to get into the grommets.
The tent didn't come with a footprint-it's sold separately and pricey-so since I'm cheap I just bought a small tarp and cut it down, put grommets in the corners where the tent meets.
I've had this tent for a little over 5 years and I hope to have it for more years to come.
Price Paid: probably a little over $100
I LOVE this tent. Bought it slightly used in 2006 and spent 3 months backpacking over Northern Argentina with it, and slept in the tent more than I slept in a bed. Also spent 6 weeks of a summer living in it in the alpine. There's room for two, even without romance, with more than enough room for backpacks and boots; and with just one it's palatial, with room to sit up, get dressed and turn around.
The smaller vestibule has poor access except from the inside, which was a bit inconvenient at times - on the other hand, I don't mind the missing weight of one less zipper. Rain protection is pretty good if you get the fly tight; I spent 17 hours in a torrential tropical downpour without leaving and the worst was some dripping in the middle where the fly touched (possibly not staked tight enough, or the stakes shifted with the rain). Admittedly the fly can be a bit tricky to get good and tight. Ventilation isn't the greatest but again - fewer zippers=less weight, and when the fly comes off for a nice starry night, there's no better view. Easy-peasy to set up, which is great in a downpour, mosquito swarm or tricky spots.
Overall it's a 4.5-5; I'd like something a *bit* lighter but it seems to be sold as one of the lightest on the market, so maybe it's an issue of getting better poles.
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Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: Easy, best with two but can be done with 1
Weight: Says 4 lb 14 oz, not sure if that's w/poles and fly
Price Paid: $160?? I think
This tent is awesome! I spent a week in New Hampshire at the end of August and this made the trip feel like I was staying in a five-star hotel compared to some of my buddies.
The tent sets up very easily and is fool-proof in a few short minutes. Only two poles, color-coded slip into fabric sleeves instead of sucky clips. It's free-standing, but stake it out just in case.
Can we talk ROOMY for such a small footprint? It easily fit me (6'1") and my girlfriend (5'10" -- yea, she's a tall drink of water), but would easily accomodate two tall guys without worrying about the people in the tent next-door questioning your sexual orientation. :)
It's got a nice gear loft included and a great vestibule. I'd HIGHLY recommend this tent.
Design: 3 season freestanding - could be used all-year round
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: excellent.
Weight: less than 5 lbs according to the literature. But can be set up with just the fly and footprint for those concerned with weight
Price Paid: $199
Reasonably lightweight, roomy, comfortable tent; easy to pitch, rainproof, plenty of gearspace and pockets inside, and a great all-over mesh construction with a sturdy fly. Still going strong after 5 years of pretty solid use, including living in it 6 weeks straight in the alpine (Canada).
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- headspace, unique box design
- solid protection against rain (e.g. 17-hr downpour in tropics)
- fly has no windows at the back to open for ventilation
- a bit heavy for real backpacking
I bought my MSR Ventana in 2006 before a 3-month backpacking trip through Argentina. At $175 CDN it was a steal (I think new was $325) — and I've never regretted the purchase.
Although it's listed as a 1.5 person, two of us slept comfortably in the tent for more than a week at the time; the vestibules provide plenty of space for gear both front and back, and the crossing arches of the poles make a nice box design that maximizes the space while minimizing areas that are too small to utilize (usually corners and along the sides).
It's unfortunate that there are no small openings available for ventilation; during a long rainstorm in Argentina the condensation built up simply because there was no way to open the tent up without getting drenched through the doorway. It's also too bad that there's no zippered access from inside the tent to the rear vestibule, but it's not such a hardship.
The tent is pretty easy to set up and stands free or staked down. It would be handier to have clip-in poles rather than sleeves, but other than that I couldn't complain — just two lightweight folding poles to slide in and the thing is up and ready to go.
Source: bought it used
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New: Berkeley Street Renaming Hearing this Week: A Proposal with Troubling Implications
This Thursday night, the Public Works Commission of the City of Berkeley is holding a public hearing, and discussion, on the proposal to rename Harold Way in Downtown Berkeley to "Dharma Way", at the behest of the adjacent Dharma College, which owns one side of the block.
This proposal should be turned down. It violates an informal, but long, tradition against giving names directly associated with a religious or spiritual tradition to public facilities in Berkeley; it would remove a historic name, nearly a century old, from the heart of Downtown Berkeley; and it creates a really troubling precedent that an institution can move into a new space and almost immediately expect the City to rename adjacent public facilities in its honor.
The Public Hearing will be at 5:30 pm on Thursday, October 4, at the North Berkeley Senior Center (corner of Hearst and MLK, Jr. Way). The hearing will be followed by a regular meeting of the Public Works Commission at 7:00 pm, at which the name change proposal will also be discussed.
The agenda packet for the Public Hearing can be found here:
The agenda for the regular meeting, immediately following, can be found here:
Harold Way—however obscure to some—is a 99-year-old name that is part of Berkeley's heritage. Renaming a street—any street—should not be done lightly, and it should especially not be done at the request of a newly arrived institution / business on that street that proposes a name similar to their institutional name.
The name change, if adopted, would place "Dharma Way" prominently on street signs almost in front of the Berkeley Central Library, and just up the block from the Main Post Office.
City policy on naming currently in effect says the City's objective should be "to ensure that naming public facilities…will enhance the values and heritage of the City of Berkeley and will be compatible with community interest."
It adds: "…the preferred practice is to give City-owned property a name of historical or geographical significance and to retain these names" and "existing names are presumed to have historic significance; and historic names give a community a sense of place and identity, continuing through time, and increases the sense of neighborhood and belonging."
Harold Way is such a name. So that should be it, in my view: case closed. The City should politely decline to rename the street for the institution, as if it's a private driveway.
The Dharma College people that I've listened to, and talked to very briefly, at previous public meetings on this issue are very polite and nice. They are, presumably, exemplars of Tibetan Buddhism, or at least its Westernized offshoots. But I wish they would have realized the inherent hubris of this proposal from the beginning.
Berkeley has been home to hundreds of institutions over the years, from churches, to private schools and colleges, to religious seminaries, and community organizations. To my knowledge, never in Berkeley history has any one of those institutions proposed to change the street name in front of it to a form that essentially privatizes the identity of the street and gives it a religious overtone.
Every institution, until now, seems to have instinctively known that the streets and their names are public. Or, if any such proposals have been made, and are now lost in history, the City of Berkeley at least had the good sense to turn them down.
This proposal, on the other hand, nearly got adopted on the City Council consent calendar until a few individuals (including this writer) raised objections. It was treated in the press as a fait accompli, no more controversial that approving a routine contract for street repaving.
I believe that some City staffers were tone deaf on this issue. Renaming a street is fundamentally a public policy issue, not simply a matter of the adjacent property owners submitting a request and paying some fees. But the staff report which went to the Council in June blandly recommended accepting the renaming proposal, treating it almost as if it were an application to build an uncontroversial backyard deck or in-law unit. The main issues to the staff were whether fees had been paid ? They had. Had the properties with addresses on the street approved? (Of course they had, since they were one and the same with the applicant). Had the City sent a letter to the Police and Fire Departments and, of all places the Alameda County Planning Commission? Yes it had. No one in Berkeley was notified, beyond police and fire staff.
After the proposal somewhat inexplicably sat somewhere on a City desk for nearly a year without action, it was suddenly rushed to the Council because—according to the staff report—"the applicants informed the City that they are having a ribbon-cutting ceremony for June 28, 2012, and would like to have the street name change implemented in time for their event."
And the proposal was initially placed on the Council "Consent Calendar", the location of items that are presumed to be routine and uncontroversial and can be adopted as a group, without discussion.
Fortunately the Council saw fit to emphasize policy, not partying, and voted unanimously to refer the application to the Public Works Commission, where it now awaits a hearing.
There is a second, troubling, aspect to this proposal. It introduces a religious element into what should be a secular realm in Berkeley—the identity of streets.
While Berkeley once proudly called itself "a city of churches" and remains today a community filled with religious institutions and "people of faith" of all sorts, Berkeley has never, to my knowledge, given a name with religious overtones to a public street or facility.
And every religious, or spiritually based, organization in Berkeley—until now, at least—seems to have been content to continue with historic street names that provide Berkeley with an eclectic, secular and ecumenical character.
Newman Hall—the Roman Catholic parish serving the UC campus—sits on Dwight Way, a street named for a prominent Congregationalist minister; Temple Beth El fronts on Oxford Street, named for the university that, until 1866, required membership in the Church of England as a condition of receiving a BA degree; the Pacific School of Religion is at the intersection of Ridge Road and Scenic Avenue, names that emphasize Berkeley's natural, not spiritual, attributes.
The "Dharma Way" proposal would break decisively with this tradition. The City would be implicitly choosing spiritual sides in what should be a community of all religions, and none.
As Lynn Milliman, one letter writer to the City Council, wrote: "Dharma is a Sanskrit word and a concept of eastern religions. Simply explained, it is the way of the higher Truths, a lifestyle that leads to a minimum accumulation of karma is therefore the fastest path to personal liberation."
Milliman added: "I seriously doubt that if this was a Baptist, Catholic, or Jewish community holding the property on Harold Way that Berkeley would be agreeing to such a change. For example such possible changes as Salvation Way, Commandment Way…"
Another letter writer, Corey Limbach, added, "I urge you to consider the precedent that this would set regarding the implicit endorsement of religion this would convey. Regardless of the nuance of the definition of the word in English, there is no doubt that it is fundamentally a religious term, and approving it as part of a Public space would open up the interpretation that the City supports Buddhism."
(Both the Milliman and Limbach letters can be found in full in the Commission packet.)
I urge all readers to come to the Public Hearing on Thursday and ask the Public Works Commission to politely decline this misguided and inappropriate naming request.


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Who the heck is Emmett Boaz? That's the question on every lip this week, after the July 10 issue of the Hook catapulted the Greene County Renaissance man to prominence as Central Virginia's resident Jeeves.
As his wide-ranging observations last week made clear, the answer is simple: Emmett Boaz is a jack of all trades and master of most of them.
Boaz (it's pronounced as just one syllable: "Boze") is 56 and knows about books and writers thanks to his studies in English literature at Marshall University in West Virginia and a master's degree from JMU, where he developed a passion for Elizabethan drama. But the wide range of his literary tastes is apparent in his current bedside volume, Elmore Leonard's collection of stories, When the Women Come Out to Dance.
He was drafted and did a tour in Vietnam, then spent 15 years as a gunsmith, 10 as a competitive pistol shooter. But his fierce comment in last week's On the Block column "I'm not going to live anywhere I can't shoot out the back window"– may be a bit misleading.
"I mostly shoot holes in paper," he explains, "although once in a while I might kill a crow for raiding my birdfeeder."
After graduate school, Boaz taught at Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock and junior high English in Brunswick County. That career ended after three years, apparently in the nick of time.
"If I'd stayed teaching junior high, I'd have killed somebody," he says, echoing no doubt the sentiments of many a long-suffering junior high teacher.
While Boaz spent his childhood in Covesville, he may be best known for his 15-year tenure as manager of the Woodbrook 7-11. Long-time Charlottesville resident Kevin Cox fondly remembers visiting the store and finding Boaz amid guns scattered everywhere. "Nobody ever robbed that place," Cox says, "and it wasn't really the guns that kept it safe. It was Emmett."
Boaz describes his duties at the 7-11 mostly as "throwing drunks out of the place," but one memorable event left its mark on his forehead. "It happened as I was foiling a kidnapping," he explains matter-of-factly. "I didn't hit the guy hard enough the first time, and he came at me with a knife."
While Boaz has been unemployed since leaving Lexis Nexis for health reasons last Thanksgiving, his personal life is secure. The outspoken libertarian came upon a like-minded woman in an online political chatroom. When they finally met at a weekend gathering ("I'm big on three-day parties," he says), they realized that not only had their mothers grown up near each other on downtown's Northwood Circle, but their family ties go back 150 years.
Is there marriage in his future? "I'm male and crotchety, and I like to play with guns," he says, "and I don't clean very much. So we get together at her place for three days each week, and that suits us both just fine."
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TRAINING: A typical day of training starts at 10am with team practice, and the team practice curriculum changes every day. I then have the afternoon off and I go back in the evening for private practices with the coaches or drilling with teammates.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started getting involved with MMA in the offseason of my sophomore year 2004 in collegiate wrestling just to keep myself busy but didn't take it seriously. Had an opportunity to do an amateur fight; won it; loved performing in front of crowds; and wanted to do more. After graduating from Southern Oregon University in June of 2007 I got an opportunity to train at Braveheart Fight Club out of Vancouver and to become a professional fighter so I jumped all over it. Started training professionally in September 2007 with only wrestling skills.
What ranks and titles have you held? I was a runner up in the 2006 NAIA National Wrestling Championships at 184lbs. For Southern Oregon University.
Do you have any heroes? My team, my friends and family that will do anything for me.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? I better not screw this up! This opportunity means everything to me. I gave up everything to fight, things such as my credit, my career as an Officer in the National Guard and my plans to teach and coach my younger brothers in wrestling. This is where all of my team's and my hard work pays off. I get my opportunity to show Dana White and the world who I am and what Braveheart Fight Club is all about! We are undiscovered talent that now will hopefully be recognized. I am going to do everything in my ability to turn heads and drop jaws. I am very, very excited for this chance and will not let anyone down.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Southern Oregon University/ Major: Health Education Minor: Military Science
What was your job before you started fighting? I was and still am currently in the National Guard but as soon as I graduated from College I started training full time to fight.
Specific accomplishments in amateur competition? 5-0 as an amateur fighter
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Ranks in any martial arts styles: Hold no ranks, just beat up a lot of high ranks
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"Who else has one of these?" He asked the audience. "Oh! Bill has one of these. Did you all make him give it back?" he asked. "You know you f----d up when they want you to give your trophy back."
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I'm very proud to announce the official launch of the DAX Patterns website!
I and Alberto Ferrari worked on this idea for a really long time. Many business scenarios can be solved in Power Pivot using always the same models, with just a few minor changes. This is especially true for the DAX formulas required. Sometime, you adapt the data model to the requirements and to the DAX needs. But many many times, you end up copying an old project, or an existing blog post or article, and try to adapt the old formula to the new data model. Sometime, you might lose time adapting details that were specific to a certain solution and do not fit well in your model. We just tried to put some order, giving names to common templates and creating more generic versions that can be easily adapted to specific requirements.
Finding the name for this project has been the easiest part: DAX Patterns is simple, clear and direct. I don't know if it is so intuitive for an Excel user as it is for a programmer, but we loved this name since the first moment and we never thought to anything else.
The hard (and long) part is doing all the material job. Defining a format for each pattern, creating a web site, thinking about how to make the patterns easy to find. We based the search on the notion of "use case". This should simplify web search.
Every pattern has this format:
We already prepared many patterns that we will publish in the next weeks and months. This is still a work in progress, we don't have all the patterns ready, but we reached a point where we have enough material to schedule for publishing while we are completing the job. Well, in reality I think we will never "complete" this web site, but we have a list of patterns we want to complete before publishing a book that will contain all of them, so that you will be able to have them also offline. In any case, we will look for new patterns based on feedback we gather from customers, students, readers. If you think there is a scenario you would like to be covered, write us a comment. I already have a list, but prioritization depends also on the feedback we get.
You will find only a couple of patterns now, but you will see the list growing weekly, and I will mention new patterns on my blog when they will be available. If you find a pattern interesting, feel free to mention/link it from your blog, newsletter, forum posts, tweets, and so on. This will help other people finding the pattern when they look for a solution to a problem that the pattern can solve. And, of course, let us know if you have any feedback to improve DAX Patterns!
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Congrats, you guys! This will surely come in handy for many of us!!! Keep up the great work!
Thanks for such a great concept, looking forward to helping.