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Thank you, Randy, for this foray. Maybe now we'll get somewhere and set
a discussion rolling.
>I'd read several translations of the Gita (Edgerton, LaFolet (or
>something like that), Hanumanprasad Podar and Sridhar Swami, just to
>name a few. None of them are logically consistent from start to
>finish, and none of them presents the Gita literally. They all try to
>'improve' upon the Bhagavad Gita, altering meanings, so that it
>corresponds to their own understanding of reality. This is not the
>case with A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami's translation and commentaries.
I should like to start off by saying that I have no negative opinion
of Prabhupada's translation. I have also read a few other translations
such as the ones by Radhakrishnan, Swami Nikhilananda etc and have
enjoyed them (the JnyAneshwari too!). My enjoyment primarily stemmed
from the clarity of their exposition and the efficacy with which the
central core and message of the Gita stood out.
Apropos of our issue - comparative and critical judgment of translations
calls for expertise in both Sanskrit and English and also perhaps a good
background in the tradition. I don't know Sanskrit very well and so I am not
competent to make these attempts since I have no way of definitively
ascertaining the literal adherence to the original. The people (ISKCON fellas,
to wit) who I knew and who alleged that the 'other` Gitas didn't quite cut
it were even less competent than I in that they didn't even know to read
Sanskrit much less understand it. Worse still, further inquiry would reveal
that most of them hadn't read any other version than P's. Yet curiously,
such considerations never came in the way of their pronouncements
(denouncements, really) of the 'other` Gitas. This should set the context
for my last post.
Now then, you have indicated that you have read across a wide spectrum
of available translations. I also presume you know Sanksrit very well.
Could you, then, please cite some specific shlokAs along with their
translations from the 'other` works and contrast them with Prabhupada so
that (a) it illuminates your points of the primacy of P's translation
and the errors in the rest (b) the experts on the net can comment, and
(c) the less-informed in such matters (such as myself) are educated
and edified and hence better equipped to make our own evaluation?
For once we will have something concrete to go on than merely bland assertions.
The matter of distortions in the 'other` Gitas should be easily demonstrable
if that is indeed the case and I, for one, will have no hesitation, if
presented with a reasonable amount of evidence, in coming around to your
point of view. I trust that you will go with the spirit of this request
and select 2/3 reasonably popular and canonical translations to tackle this
quodlibet. And that the sholkAs you choose to address will be such that
the distortions/inconsistencies/shortcomings in the 'other` Gitas will
emerge unambiguosly.
As it stands, merely asserting again and again that Prabhupada's translation
is the best and the most accurate while the others fall short is just that -
an unsubstantiated opinion. Proof by repetition isn't taken that seriously
around here.
Warm regards and Hari bol,
ps: If my presumption of your expertise of Sanskrit is false that would
be just fine, but then please indicate the basis for your claims.
>Understand, if we liked the truth, we'd know it. The reason we're in
>this materially conditioned state is that we don't like everything
>about the truth. Srila Prabhupada presents the Gita truthfully,
>without changing or adding to it's meaning. One may not like what
>Srila Prabhupada says, but it is the truth.
>The first edition I read was Frank Edgerton's version, which strives
>to maintain the Gita's poetic genre. That was in 1967. I first read
>Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad Gita As It Is in 1970. I have read Gita
>more times than I can count since then. Srila Prabhupada's is, hands
>down, the best.
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Nuggets open camp with familiar faces, new names
Denver looking to build off momentum of 2010-11
Trimmed down and built for speed, Ty Lawson looked as quick as ever.
Freshly inked and feeling healthy, Chris Andersen looked ready to run, rebound and defend.
Energized by the arrival of his first NBA practice, Kenneth Faried looked like the athletic power forward of the future.
Yes, basketball returned to the Pepsi Center on Friday as the Denver Nuggets opened training camp with a spirited practice that extended well beyond the dinner hour. After three hours on the court, no one was complaining.
"It was hard, but it was worth it," said Faried, selected 22nd overall by Denver in the 2011 NBA Draft. "I couldn't wait to get on the court."
There will be plenty more opportunities for Faried and his new teammates over the next two weeks. The Nuggets opened camp just 17 days before their 2011-12 opener against the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks.
"You're going to go 15 or 20 games into the season still trying to get your team to (have) a full playbook and a full defensive concept playbook," Nuggets coach George Karl said. "Everybody's got the same timetable. I think we can take what we did at the end of last year and come out ready to play."
The Nuggets closed 2010-11 with an 18-7 surge that earned them the fifth seed in the West. Six players from last year's playoff roster were on the practice court, and Denver is still hoping to re-sign restricted free-agent shooting guard Arron Afflalo and unrestricted free-agent center Nene.
Friday was the first day NBA teams could sign free agents.
"I've been texting Arron and Nene," Lawson said. "Hopefully they sign back with us. I have confidence."
Lawson also has confidence in his game as he prepares for his first full season as Denver's starting point guard. He spent the past few months playing professionally in Lithuania and believes he is quicker than in his first two NBA seasons.
"I've been waiting for this moment for months," Lawson said. "We had a good practice, worked hard. I'm excited, ready to get back."
Lawson and veteran Andre Miller will be called upon to run Karl's free-flowing, uptempo offense this season. Though Lawson is the incumbent starter, Karl won't hesitate to play two point guards for stretches.
"Andre's a winner," Karl said. "The guy's one of the smartest players in the NBA. He directs a team and leads a team in a very, very winning way. I'll be anxious to see how he and Ty play together. They went at each other pretty good today. That was pretty fun, too."
Before their first practice, the Nuggets officially signed rookies Faried and Jordan Hamilton to contracts. They also reached training camp agreements with undrafted free-agent guards Cory Higgins (Colorado) and Julyan Stone (UTEP).
"The guys who come in the gym, we're going to try to make them better," Karl said. "Ty and Andre had good days today. I thought Gallo and Timo had good days. Bird and Al were pretty good. The young kids had their moments. Jordan Hamilton shot the ball too much, but he also did some things pretty well."
After one day of practice, the evaluations were secondary. Karl and the Nuggets were just happy to be back in the gym playing basketball again.
Aaron J. Lopez is the primary writer for Nuggets.com, providing behind-the-scenes content, including feature stories and video for the site. Before joining the Nuggets in 2009, he spent 15 years covering Colorado sports for the Rocky Mountain News and the Associated Press, making him one of the longest-tenured sports writers in Denver. Aaron's full bio...

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Wednesday January 16, 2008
By Diane Clehane
After a mind numbingly dull Golden Globes awards ceremony- turned-press conference where the biggest stars to were Mary Hart and Lara Spencer dressed in their camera ready, studio supplied finery, it's clear that Hollywood needs fashion – and fashion needs Hollywood. But maybe all this codependency is reason for some fashion rehab after all. And what better time to take that much needed break from each other? There has been much hysterical reporting about all the relentless campaigning by designers to dress the stars that starts in December in anticipation of 'awards season' leading up to the Oscars – the Super Bowl of fashion (and the second biggest advertising generating television event bested only by the year's biggest football game) only to be thwarted by the increasingly hostile Writer's Guild strike. Designers, stylists and other assorted hangers on that bank on making their biggest publicity hits (not mention sell more than a few dresses and handbags or bill studios upwards of $5000 a day to send assistants to Beverly Hills to hoard jewels and dresses) are literally sick over the prospect of not being able to fight for the privilege of dressing Brangelina. In case you haven't heard, Angie has a shot at an Oscar nod for her portrayal of Marianne Pearl in 'A Mighty Heart' which Brad produced.
"It's really got people quite desperate out here," bemoaned one Los Angeles stylist. "It is the biggest event of the year here and the thought that it might not happen has people reeling."
Having covered the red carpet at the Oscars for almost a decade, I can remember those heady days in the mid-nineties when 'red carpet fashion – and reporting on it was fun. Remember fun? Prada' wasn't a household name but became one thanks to one utterance by Uma Thurman, Joan Rivers decried Nicole Kidman's (then Mrs. Tom Cruise) chartreuse Dior dress as "the ugliest" she'd ever seen and was promptly threatened by uber publicist Pat Kingsley with the prospect of never being able to speak to any other PMK clients ever again and Randolph Duke (remember him?) was a major player in fashion thanks to dressing starlets like Minnie Driver who lost the best supporting actress statuette in 1998 but won best dressed honors. A footnote: no one remembers who bested Driver, but her flaming red gown worn that evening remains one of the most memorable looks from any Oscar before or since. People magazine bought it at the AmFAR Christie's auction had kept it on display in their offices for the longest time - -a true testament to its rightful place in pop culture.
In recent years I have been an outspoken critic on how boring and safe the fashion at the Oscars have become largely because A-list actresses have been lining up to sign five and six figure contracts with fashion and jewelry companies to act as mannequins while shilling for their films. Sure, most deny it, but it's the worst kept secret in the business.
Perhaps there is one exciting scenario that could come out of this near apocalyptic event. There is less than one month left until the Academy Awards. Many designers (none of whom would admit this on the record) are pulling back a bit from the prohibitive cost of doing Oscar dressing which is speculative anyway unless you have a deal with an actress these days and focusing more on the upcoming collections. "I simply can't afford to invest in doing Oscar dresses that I know will never be worn if the strike isn't settled," says one young designer that was hoping to make his first splash in Hollywood this season. "If the show goes on at least I might get some party coverage. If there's no show, all the work is really for nothing."
So, imagine that a last minute deal is struck the Friday before the Oscars. It's on! All of Hollywood descends on Barneys, Neiman Marcus and Fred Segal. An off the rack Oscars! Just like the good old days (before my time, thank you, but I have seen pictures of Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange and Sally Field in dresses they actually bought worn at the Oscars!) Sure Renee might have some old Carolina Herrera hanging in her closet and Angelina Jolie could turn up in some $20 black dress she bought in Ethiopia, but what about the rest of the glamazons? That is an Oscar I want to see – and that might just be what fashion needs to come back in Hollywood even bigger next year. Come on -- admit it -- things were really getting pretty boring fashion wise anyway. Can you name last year's best dressed actress? I thought so. After all, isn't it the movies that taught us that absence makes the heart grow fonder?
Tina Goes 'Live': Her Next Book Takes on Hillary and Bill
Hot off the success of her best selling Diana Chronicles Tina Brown has announced she'll take on the Clintons for her next book – aptly titled The Clinton Chronicles -- due out from Broadway Doubleday Publishing Group in 2010. It's a somewhat surprising choice given what the former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair told me when we spoke last summer during a chat at Michael's (the epicenter of her first book's unofficial public relations campaign). When asked at the time about rumors she was going to take on the life and times of Tony Blair for her next epic tome, the once and future Queen of New York dismissed the idea saying she prefers dead subjects over those that are alive and kicking. While she did say that her next subject would like be American she added: "I think it's very difficult to write well about a living person. It's so complicated because you've got to clear the thicket of a life that you can see whole."
Further complicating things is Brown's unabashed admiration of Bill Clinton which she described in a glowing and somewhat infamous portrait that she penned for The New Yorker. After observing him at a White House dinner she wrote: "For those of us who dismissed him … see instead as his guests do: a man in a dinner jacket with more heat than any star in the room (or for that matter, at the multiplex.)" Ah, but what does she think about Hillary?
Given Brown's legendary ability to tap into the zeitgeist (the late lamented Talk not withstanding), it would seem that she's expecting a Clinton 2.0 version to be filling up the pages of the country's tabloids just in time to fans the flames for her book. If she was able to contribute new insights to the exhaustive list of Diana biographies that were largely retreads, my money is on her to serve up fresh dish on whatever we don't know about what's gone on before in the Clinton's public and personal lives and to reveal whatever happens to be going on when the Secret Service aren't around come November 2008.
A Campaign of Charisma
Speaking of the election, it would seem that this race of some of the least engaging figures to ever run for office (Fred Thompson, if I were you, I'd call Dick Wolf immediately!) has inadvertently become largely a campaign of charisma. Sure, there are those political wonks who are hung up on the issues, but take a look at most of the editorials in the country's major newspapers including The New York Times and it seems to me that style is triumphing over substance – at least when there's no actual primary reporting going on. Hillary's tears have garnered more coverage than anything else in her campaign. Maureen Dowd cynically asked, 'Can she cry her way back to the White House?' (The answer appears to be she has a better shot since tearing up). Hillary promptly went on Access Hollywood to explain why she got emotional. Was Tim Russert unavailable? She chatted up Tyra Banks (!?) about what Bill's title should be if she wins the presidential race – and then suggested a national contest be held to choose. Mike Huckabee's extraordinary weight loss (Did you know he has lost 150 pounds?) may be the most interesting thing about him. The New York Post recently ran an editorial opining that his weight loss is truly political issue citing obesity as a drain on the country's already taxed health resources. Barack and Michelle Obama most definitely seem to be taking a page from Jack and Jackie Kennedy in everything from their wardrobes to their body language when they appear on stage together (even if it's not consciously, but you'd be naďve to think so). Can't you just see the Vanity Fair photo portfolio that's most certainly being planned to capitalize on that? One veteran ABC newswoman recently described the sight of Michelle clad in pearls with her chic flipped-up hairdo her arms encircled around her husband as he spoke to the crowd in New Hampshire as "beautiful imagery." Indeed.
One reliable barometer that indicates that style ranks higher in this presidential campaign than in those past: designers are lining up to get their wares on political wives (well, some of them at least – I'll let you figure out who), pretty young thing daughters (Donatella Versace already had a crack at Chelsea Clinton – we didn't love the black tights with the open toed sandals but that's just us. Perhaps she'd like to give Bridget McCain was recently crowned 'a hottie' by The New York Post a call), and, of course, the candidates themselves. "They are the movie stars of the moment," says one New York designer. "Young Hollywood is trash and A-list celebrities might not even get to go to the Oscars this year. These politicians are out every day. Barack wears clothes beautifully – and Michelle she is the chicest working mother we've seen in so long. My dream is to get Hillary out of her safe pantsuits. She's worn Donna Karan and Oscar – I can make her look even more beautiful." Next thing you know, Chris Matthews will be vetting the qualifications of the candidates' personal stylists. Think about it …
(Read Diane's interview with Tina Brown for Mediabistro.com:click here for article)
Diane Clehane is Lookonline.com's Entertainment Editor. She is the author of several national best sellers including Diana The Secrets of Her Style (GT Publishing) and I Love You Mom! (Hyperion). Her work appears in Variety, People, The New York Post and other national publications. She also writes the popular "Lunch at Michaels" column for Mediabistro.com.If you have news, gossip, an event, or a new product you would like to tell her about please email her at email@example.com
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JUST being happy with her lot in life is what Ada Werrell and her family put down to her longevity as she celebrated her 100th birthday.
A group of 45 friends and family attended her milestone party at Hotel 20 at the Kings on Christmas Eve, while the tower at Christ Church where she is a regular worshipper was lit up partly in her honour as it signalled the start of Christmas.
Ada, who has lived in King William Street for 73 years after growing up in Bristol, was delighted to receive her message from the Queen.
"It's very nice to get the card from the Queen after the big year she's had," Ada said.
"If I have a secret it is just being content and happy.
"I liked my job and worked with nice people. We had some good times.
"I like having my birthday near Christmas because it brings it all together."
Ada married GWR worker William Mervyn Werrell, known as Merv to his friends, and the couple moved to Swindon in 1939, before war broke out and Ada pitched in the Railway Works to make shells for the war effort.
They went on to have one daughter Marcia, now 66, two granddaughters and two great-granddaughters, many of whom now live in South Africa. Ada has lived alone since William died in 1980.
She said she has seen plenty of change in the area in that time, including Princess Margaret Hospital, where she worked in the shop for many years, being turned into flats.
An active member of the Mothers' Union for more than 50 years, Ada also used to attend the Lady Chapel at Christ church to polish the brass and clean the altar linen with three other friends.
Granddaughter Helen Bleasdale, 41, said her grandmother was an inspiration to her.
"She was always a very strong, fiesty lady – quite formidable," she said.
"She's an inspiration for me I think because of her contentment. Nowadays, we are always driven to want more and bigger but she is just happy with her lot in life.
"I remember when she came to south Africa with my grandfather and she used to bring us presents. "We had sanctions so we could not get all the modern things but they always brought suitcases full of Barbie, Wagon Wheels or Penguins.
"She has been alone since my grandfather died but I think she was always the one who wore the pants. She keeps her mind active and still keeps up-to-date with everything that goes on in Old Town because she listens to the talking newspaper."
The Rev Simon Stevenette, vicar of Christ Church, said: "Ada is wonderful and I look forward to taking communion with her, although it is at her home now becuse she cannot always make it to church."


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Vanessa Hudgens Gives Back at Sonya Dakar Charity Spa Day
Fresh off of a morning workout session, a smiling Vanessa Hudgens attended the Sonya Dakar Charity Spa Day for Wish Upon a Teen on Monday afternoon (April 30).
The "High School Musical" actress arrived at Sonya Dakar in Beverly Hills, California with her mother, Gina, and sister, Stella, while looking gorgeous in a floral patterned maxi dress with loose locks.
Teens in the Make a Wish Program from UCLA-Mattel Children's Hospital got to spend an afternoon getting pampered with the skincare mogul's products - as they were treated to beautification services including facials and manicures.
The charitable outing comes as a break for Vanessa from spending time with her boyfriend, Austin Butler - as the happy couple was spotted at a church service and shopping for some home goods at Ikea.
Enjoy the pictures of Vanessa Hudgens at Sonya Dakar Charity Spa Day For Wish upon A Teen (April 30).
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Spawned by a flooding disaster a few years ago, a program by state emergency response organizations continues to step up and provide help across South Dakota.
Codington County Emergency Management Director Jim Sutton told the county's Board of Commissioners Tuesday he returned last weekend after spending a week in the Sioux Falls area, helping to organize that city's cleanup and recovery from an ice storm that downed trees and power poles around the area.
At one point after the storm, tens of thousands of people were left without electricity as utility companies struggled to repair badly damaged distribution systems."
"There's a lof of damage down there," Sutton told the board. "They've been at it (cleanup) for about two weeks, and they've hardly put a dent in it."
Sutton was called to Sioux Falls as a member of a statewide Incident Management Assistance Team organized through the state Office of Emergency Management.
"It's designed to provide help across the state when a disaster is too large for the local jurisdiction to handle on its own," Sutton said told the Public Opinion following the meeting.
"When (local officials) feel they don't have the people, their emergency management director contacts the state office," he said.
Sutton said the state formed various teams of emergency responders from across the state following heavy flooding that inundated the Aberdeen area in 2007.
"That's when the concept started and it grew from there," he said.
"The teams are made up of people from all walks of life — firefighters, police officers, EMTs, emergency managers and others who just volunteer their time. "Just a wide array of people."
Sutton said those people are divided into teams when they arrive on site and take on various responsibilities in organizing and directing the response. In Sioux Falls, he was part of a four-person team that worked as a resource unit.
"We kept track of the assets (contractors and equipment) that were in the field working," Sutton said. "Where they are, what they're doing, things like that.
"Then we document that information and if FEMA or any other agency needs that, we can tell them where these contractors were on a given day."
In this case, Sutton's team was made up of two people from Aberdeen and another from Mitchell, giving local responders four extra people to help out.
"From what I saw, there was a lot of damage," Sutton said. "There were just a ton of trees with damage to them.
"Everything from broken limbs to entire trees down."
During the time he is called in to help in these situations, Sutton becomes a temporary state employee and his involvement does not cost the county any money, he told the board.
Over the last few years, he has been called to help in wild fire ituations, the massive flooding in Dakota Dunes in 2011 and last year was attached to the Rapid City Wildland Fire Office while others of that staff were already deployed to fires elsewhere.
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n Approved nine applications from property owners who qualified for the state's tax assessment reduction program. Auditor Cindy Brugman said the abatements totaled just under $3,570 and ranged from $58 to $1,242.
n Approved the transfer of $22,964 to the city of Watertown from the $24,172 collected by the state for E911 telephone surcharges in February. Under the current agreement, the city gets 95 percent of the money collected through that program.


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Irish upset top-ranked UConn women
Skylar Diggins and Notre Dame just seem to have Connecticut's number.
The Irish have turned one of the best rivalries in women's basketball into a one-sided affair lately, winning five of the past six meetings.
The senior All-American scored 19 points hitting big shot after big shot in the second half to lift fifth-ranked Notre Dame to a 73-72 victory over the top-ranked Huskies on Saturday.
This was the latest victory for the Irish (12-1, 1-0 Big East), who also ended UConn's season the past two years by beating the Huskies in past two Final Fours.
"I think when we play them, there is a lot on the line, whether it is a Big East Championship or them being ranked higher than us or in the Final Four," Diggins said. "This is good for us."
No team has had this kind of success against UConn in the past 20 years.
The last team to beat UConn five out of six times was Miami back in the early 1990s — before the Huskies started winning national championships.
The Irish were expected to be down this season with three starters graduated. It didn't matter with Diggins still on the team.
With UConn poised to pull away in the second half, Diggins hit back-to-back 3-pointers to keep her team in the game.
Later with the shot clock about to run out, Diggins hit a leaner from the wing.
Finally, with the Irish down by one with 49 seconds left, she got fouled on a drive and calmly sank both free throws. It would be the last points of the game.
"I think Skylar has changed things for us," Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said. "She believed we can win and has the confidence and that is contagious."
The Huskies (12-1, 0-1) had a few chances to pull out the win in the final 30 seconds, but in front of a sellout crowd of 10,127, they fell short.
Breanna Stewart had her shot blocked in the lane. The Huskies maintained possession and then after a timeout, Stewart missed a jumper from the top of the key. Kelly Faris grabbed the rebound giving UConn one more chance, but Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis caught the ball in the corner and her wide-open 3 fell off the rim.
The Irish grabbed the loose ball and Diggins ran out the clock.
"How many times can we put up our defense," McGraw said. "I thought about our football team getting that goal line stand (against Stanford) three times in a row, if they can do it, we can do it."
The Irish women were headed down South after the game to get ready for Tuesday's contest against South Florida. Notre Dame was going to first spend a day in Orlando.
McGraw laughed at the thought that her team would head to Disney World after beating the No. 1 team in the country. She put the victory in perspective.
"It's great to win when they are ranked No. 1," she said. "It's great for our team, but it's still January 5. We're just trying to get better."
The Huskies had come into the game unbeaten and a week earlier had stunned then-No. 1 Stanford 61-35 on the Cardinal's homecourt ending their 82-game home winning streak. They had already beaten five ranked teams by an average of 24 points.
"It's definitely been an up and down week" said Stefanie Dolson, who scored 17 points to lead Connecticut. "We were all extremely excited and on a high when we beat Stanford the way we did. We came into this game and we weren't ready. I don't think we were ready for how hard Notre Dame was going to come at us. They out-toughed us."
UConn trailed by two at the half and took a 48-44 lead on Dolson's layup with 16:18 left in the game. The Huskies led 63-60 with 8 minutes left before Notre Dame scored five quick points. Neither team could get more than a two-point lead the rest of the way.
Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma was OK with the shots his team got in the end.
"You got the best 3-point shooter in the country with a wide open 3 to win it and it doesn't go in," he said. "I'd be more upset if the wrong guy took the wrong shot at the wrong time. We came out of timeout and got the shot we wanted and it didn't go in."
Mosqueda-Lewis finished with 17 points.
Stewart, the high school player of the year last season, scored all 10 of her points in the second half after missing her first five shots. She also had six blocks and nine rebounds.
"She looked out of sorts a little bit, struggled a little bit," Auriemma said. "But then again you think about what she did, 10 points, nine rebounds, six blocks, that's not a bad day. I think that's what we expect from her. Shots she missed we come to expect she'll make all those."
The Irish won both regular-season meetings last year, before being blown out in the Big East Championship Game. They won the decisive meeting in the Final Four, 83-75, in overtime.
Notre Dame's lone defeat this season came at home to No. 2 Baylor, 73-61, on Dec. 5.
The two teams, who have played 12 times over the past four seasons, will play again in South Bend on March 4, in the final game of the regular season.
It's not certain if the two teams will play again after Notre Dame leaves for the Atlantic Coast Conference.
UConn led 18-15 midway through the first half before Notre Dame went on a 12-2 run sparked by Kayla McBride, who led Notre Dame with 21 points. She had back-to-back jumpers. Michaela Mabrey hit a 3-pointer and Natalie Achonwa a free throw to cap the burst.
Mabrey's second 3-pointer of the half gave the Irish a 34-26 lead with five minutes left in the half before UConn closed with a 12-4 burst to make it 38-36 at the break.
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December 13, 1964
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Stephen Douglas Wilson (born December 13, 1964, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) is a retired Canadian professional baseball player. A left-handed pitcher, he played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball. He is an alumnus of the University of Portland and participated the 1984 Summer Olympics for Canada.
In 1984, Steve pitched for the Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks summer amateur baseball club, where he was among 12 other players to eventually reach the major leagues.
Wilson was drafted by the Texas Rangers in 1985 in the 4th round, 83rd overall, and went on to make his Major League Baseball debut with the Texas Rangers on September 16, 1988. On December 5, 1988, Wilson was traded from the Rangers to the Chicago Cubs with Paul Kilgus, Curtis Wilkerson, and Mitch Williams for Rafael Palmeiro, Jamie Moyer, and Drew Hall. After two and a half seasons in Chicago, he was then traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Jeff Hartsock. Wilson appeared in his final major league game on October 2, 1993.
Wilson pitched in the Milwaukee Brewers organization in 1994, and in the Chicago White Sox system in 1996. In 1997 and 1998 Wilson played for the Taiwan Major League (TML)'s Kaohsiung-Pingtung Fala.
Wilson retired after TML's 1998 season to get married and settle down in Tainan. He currently runs an English school for Elementary age children, and scouts for the Chicago Cubs in the Pacific Rim. Wilson also scouts in southern California for the Cubs.
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The last time the Chiefs faced the Browns they lost. However, the Chiefs took their season opener with a couple of cunning plays, long passes and staunch defensive strategy. The Browns lost their season opener, but are hoping to use past experience to beat the Kansas City team. This game is certainly up in the air. Will experience be enough, or will the Kansas City team prove to be unbeatable and go 2-0? Football betting lines.
This will be an enticing game. If you follow football, then you know how a rivalry often gives way to a better game. Well, the Chiefs and the Browns have a bone to pick. Where better to settle the score. Kansas has been putting in some solid work in practices, and their players are looking better than ever. The Chiefs had a promising game against Seattle, in which they performed exceptionally well right down to the wire. The victory was taken on the back of the defense, which stopped the Seattle team from scoring at the score line late in the fourth quarter time and time again. Glenn Dorsey had six tackles and a half-sack in what many are calling his best performance since being picked fifth overall in 2008. Basketball odds.
The Chiefs will be wise to use the same skills against the Browns, but perhaps in a more comfortable position than at their own score line. Cleveland has a few issues with some of their players. Injuries early on in the season can spell disaster for any team, no matter how good they are. Nose tackle Shaun Rogers far from 100 after a leg injury sustained in practice. Nevertheless, he will be present. The game will be a measure of how prepared the Browns are, and how confident the Chiefs are feeling. Be sure and follow it all at www.scoresandodds.com, home of the best sports betting information on the Internet. Basketball spreads.


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Back in January, we told you about Chicago's Museum of Modern Ice, which was more a month-long outdoor festival than an actual museum, and now the Windy City is continuing with the theme, this time bringing an icy exhibition to The Field Museum. With a title that we suspect represents the top three finishers in a 'Name the exhibition!' contest, "Melting Ice — A Hot Topic: Envisioning Change" features works by 26 contemporary artists from 10 countries. Ranging from photographs and paintings to sculptures and video installations, the works all focus on climate change, specifically melting ice caps and their effects on the planet. The exhibition, which runs through September 1, is presented in partnership with the Natural World Museum and the United Nations Environment Programme.
Among the artists represented are Chris Jordan (who led off February's Greener Gadgets conference with digitally-manipulated images of trash), digital media artist Andrea Polli, sculptor David Nash, and a collective known as the Icelandic Love Corporation, which sounds like a Reykjavik-based ABBA cover band but is in fact three artists who produce performance and video pieces. Dalibor Martinis contributes "Circles Between Surfaces" (pictured above, at left), an installation in which a drop of water falls from the ceiling and briefly disturbs both the surface of the water and the electronic image projected above it. But it's not all Zen dripping and Bjork-like ice fairies. Asked by the Los Angeles Times to reflect on the show's intentions, artist Philip Pastor said, "The purpose is to shock people — shock them into fear."


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Jan 25, 2006 08:16 PM|EricAppel|LINK
Jan 25, 2006 10:43 PM|bleroy|LINK
It's really hard to say without seeing your code. It kind of looks like your tooltips library is initializing at some point using the ids on the page, but it's not expecting the page to change in a major way after it's initialized. Maybe this tooltip library needs to be reinitialized after an Atlas update panel has been refreshed?
So I don't think it's a conflict as much as this other library not expecting the kind of stuff Atlas does (Atlas uses namespaces to minimize the chances of conflict). For tooltip, did you look at the popup behavior?
Jan 26, 2006 12:09 AM|EricAppel|LINK
Jan 26, 2006 03:45 AM|sarpmg|LINK
The new Atlas javscript definetly causing conflicts
I tried using script.aculo.us (http://script.aculo.us) with atlas, and i'm getting javscript errors too...
When i remove the atlas script manager javascript tag:
<script src="ScriptLibrary/Atlas/Debug/Atlas.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
The script.aculo.us scripts just works fine
Jan 26, 2006 03:26 PM|bleroy|LINK
Well, you could also say that script.aculo.us is causing conflicts ;). We really can't ensure compatibility with other libraries that act on a very fundamental level (like extending Object and Function). We use namespaces to avoid the risk of collision, but there's really no way around the fundamental OOP stuff that we do. I think script.aculo.us relies on the prototype library that's similar to our atlasruntime.js and that's probably where the incompatibility really is.
I can see what scenarios would need such compatibility: using ASP.NET with UpdatePanel on the server and a third party library on the client, but I don't think there's a way we can ensure the compatibility with every other library out there.
Jan 26, 2006 06:13 PM|portman|LINK
Jan 26, 2006 06:35 PM|bleroy|LINK
How do you maintain compatibility between two libraries that essentially extend the *same* objects? Prototype is not a browser, and it's not a standard either. There is no official documentation that I could find, and we just can't look at the source code for obvious legal reasons. From some of the unofficial documentation that's floating around on the web, I can confirm that it extends the same objects that Atlas is extending, like for example Array.
Asking for compatibility between Atlas and Prototype is like asking for compatibility between ASP and PHP. I don't see that happening. Sorry.
Jan 26, 2006 07:02 PM|portman|LINK
Jan 26, 2006 07:20 PM|bleroy|LINK
There sure is a lot of duplication of effort here but you should also know that the design decisions we have to put into Atlas are often far-reaching as there are many constraints that may not be initially visible and that may not exist for other frameworks (like consistency with the .NET framework wherever possible, MSN using our stuff, etc.). So even if it was possible for us to stand on top of things like Prototype, it would probably not fit our needs.
While it may seem a little silly to say that we can't look at the source code whereas it's plain text that's downloaded by the browser, it doesn't matter from a legal standpoint. We just can't look at it, let alone use it. No more than we can use Reflector on third party .NET libraries to look at their source code. The technical aspect of it does not matter.
I hope this clarifies.
Jan 27, 2006 12:05 AM|EricAppel|LINK
Jan 27, 2006 02:28 PM|bleroy|LINK
Apr 28, 2006 07:57 AM|JohnRock|LINK
<script language="javascript"> function sayHelloAlex(){ for(i = 0; i < 5; i++){ alert('Hello Alex'); } } </script>--------------------------------------------
<atlas:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" EnablePartialRendering="True"></atlas:ScriptManager> <atlas:UpdatePanel ID="upComments" runat="server"> <ContentTemplate> <div> <asp:Button ID="btnAddComment" runat="server" Text="Click Me!" OnClick="btnAddComment_Click" /> <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label> </div> </ContentTemplate> </atlas:UpdatePanel>
Protected Sub btnAddComment_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Label1.Text = "You just clicked the button" End Sub
May 12, 2006 11:34 AM|vivus|LINK
<script type="text/javascript"> /* <!CDATA[[ */ function sayHello() { for(var i=0; i < 5; i++) { alert("heya i should have used the firefox javascript console =)"); } } /* ]]> */ </script>
Jun 19, 2006 11:56 PM|singcall|LINK
I also have similar problems. I have javascripts inside the master page and obviously it conflicts with Atlas.
But as Atlas is too powerful I have finally test every pieces of javascripts and throw away those that have conflicts!
For example, I need to throw away the following code which is used to check/uncheck all checkboxes in the Gridview. My opinion is that there are often conflicts for new techs and I am already very satisfied with what I can get for now as lots of people are already putting efforts for this and it's totally free.
//SelectAllCheckboxes: function to select all the checkboxes in the GridView function SelectAllCheckboxes(spanChk){ // Added as ASPX uses SPAN for checkbox var oItem = spanChk.children; var theBox= (spanChk.type=="checkbox") ? spanChk : spanChk.children.item[0]; xState=theBox.checked; elm=theBox.form.elements; for(i=0;iif(elm[i].type=="checkbox" && elm[i].id!=theBox.id) { if(elm[i].checked!=xState) elm[i].click(); } }
Jul 22, 2006 12:16 AM|yendi|LINK
2850 Points
Jul 23, 2006 05:54 PM|Luis Abreu|LINK
hello guys,.
the javascript problem is related with the fact that currently the head section content (ie, everything that's placed inside the <head> element) is packaged on the xml response that is sent from the server during a partial postback (that is, if the head has the runat="server" attribute applied to it). unfortunatelly, this content isn't escaped by using a cdata section. so what happens is that wehn you put invalid xml, the xml error will be silently handled by the client side and you won't get any update (though i think that now you 'll get an error message that says unknown error).
if you look at your script block, you'll see a for cicle where you're using a < operator. this is a forbidden xml char and you must escape it so that you don't get an error. another option is removing the script from the head element or putting it in an external file.


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Reads more like a HowTo: than a regular article. I will look at this closely later, but I have a headache right now. --Danny Himself 13:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Yes, I agree, this article would be better in a HowTo: format.. maybe HowTo:A famous entertainer? I don't know. —Braydie at 16:54, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
OMFGSZZZ XD LAWL WTF. Man in the Ceiling 23:31, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Agree with your article =] and i think that 12 year old girls pretty much do rule the world
AN ACTUAL 12 YEAR OLD GIRL'S POINT OF VIEW ............................................................................................................................. i, bein a 12 yr old girl, agree with only a few parts, i think too many 12 yr olds r too obsessed with miley cyrus an the bros of jonas or watever theyre supposed to be called so must people sum it up that all 12 yr ol girls lik mylee cyrus an think theyre gonna marry sumone from bros of jonas.... but unlik so many stupidly cunfuzed girls, me an all my frens, hate all the stuff, cudnt care less bout them, an were into bands like the red jumsuit apparatus, panic! at the disco, avenged sevenfold, disturbed, m.c.r (my chemical romance), santana ,puddle of mud, creed, zz top, the eagles, kid rock, foo fighters, flyleaf, red, six am, system of a down, and so much more bands that haf of my guy frens havnt even herd of, so if u want the freggin weird-freakky-stupid-retarded-cunfuzed- girls, then plz lisen an follow it, but if u want a realistic girl, who dont car a thin bout bros of jonas, mylee cirus, or tha STUPID musical in hi skool crap, then ACT URSELF!!!!!!!!(we actual girls do hav different kinds u kno, theres more than jus one type!!!!)
- Thank you so much for your opinion. Now please, go back to class. You still haven't learned to type correctly. Also, SPELL CHECK! It's a great tool and almost every computer has the capability to due it. Most do it automatically, in fact... Anyway, this is a comedic site. This is poking fun at the average 12 year old girl. We don't care about your opinion, to be honest. Well, I don't. And you too have a horrible taste in music (Disturbed, System of a Down, ZZ Top, Kid Rock, The Eagles, and Santana are the only good/decent musicians you listed). Don't try to act high and mighty just because you don't like Disney crap. You still like that deploring emo crap. --MegaPleb • Dexter111344 • Complain here 02:43, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm also a 12 year old girl!!! wait, no. I'm 13. But I turned 13 a few months ago. Anyways, I hate HSM and Justin Bieber and the Jonas brothers and all of the disgusting muggle crap. My favorite bands are MCR, Brand New, Death Cab For Cutie, Coldplay, Lydia, Portugal. The Man, Copeland, and so on.... :P It is quite insulting when someone assumes you listen to shit like justin bieber. She isn't acting high and mighty, she's just saying not all 12 year old girls listen to pop shit. -_- You do need to learn to spell correctly. An average 12 year old girl isn't JB or HSM or jonas brother or twilight obsessed.
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I am a genius. Disregard that. I suck cocks. Will yu suck my cock
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Okay, I am a 12 year old girl, I swear to you I am. I found this page funny, actually. You might want to know that Good Charlotte and the Backstreet Boys aren't popular to people in my grade, BTW. This page happens to make fun of everything I hate, well...except Fall out Boy. I kind of like them. I like stuff like Green Day, blink-182, All Time Low, Panic! At The Disco, etc. Not the Miley Cyrus crap. So, I'm just saying that not all 12-year old girls like the Jonas Brothers. I still found this article hilarious. Thank you. (and yes, I did edit this, because I was going to edit it before but it wouldn't work) Jerseygirl182x 00:36, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Making generalisations is a tool of humour, but I apologise that we assume you like Backstreet Boys. --nldr 00:27, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Not a problem (you edited out your response or something). End your messages with the four tildes btw (this: ~~~~) --nldr 00:33, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Right, sorry. :) --Jerseygirl182x 00:44, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Apology accepted. I notice your talk page hasn't received an automated welcome notice, so I'll go cough up an un-automated one. Expect a new message momentarily. --nldr 00:45, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks!--Jerseygirl182x 01:40, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Apology accepted. I notice your talk page hasn't received an automated welcome notice, so I'll go cough up an un-automated one. Expect a new message momentarily. --nldr 00:45, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Right, sorry. :) --Jerseygirl182x 00:44, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
Hey! I found this... and well you people are just sick. Really why would you waste your time making something like this? Every woman you know was once twelve-years-old. Yes, I am twelve and I do enjoy listening to One Direction... but Miley Cyrus is what, twenty-one now? She hasn't done anything in a while that would make anyone like her...
Just to all of you no life losers out there, stop discriminating twelve-year-old girls. By doing this is not going to make your life any better. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.127.116.11 (talk • contribs)
- Yes, I was once a twelve year old girl. That was in the late 70s early 80s, and I watched Lawrence Welk with my parents on weekends, because my mom didn't like Solid Gold Dancers. You should know by now that this site is largely about stereotypes: check out the articles on religion if you doubt me. Lurk a bit more, if your parents will let you, and you will find your perception changed. We mock, but we don't discriminate who we mock. If you like, you can write an article on unemployed 30-somethings and 40-somethings. Or just read the article on Unemployment for more stereotypes on the unemployed. Or if you prefer, try Fraternity or Sorority those are fair game, too (for those still in college who might be in fraternities or sororities). Its easier to criticize than it is to write a decent article. And whatever you do, DO read HTBFANJS before writing your first article. Then after you've read it, come back and criticize it in terms of comedic writing value. Twelve year old girls can be funny. Funny is what we are looking for here. -- Simsilikesims(♀GUN) Talk here. 22:40, May 9, 2012 (UTC)


text: Taxation oppression can be solved by implementing a flat wealth tax. Everyone pays at the same rate. No one gets to hide their wealth with sleazy, tax loopholes. And once we tax wealth, we get to eliminate all of the ridiculous, inefficient taxes which discourage economic activity: our income taxes, our consumption taxes, our capital gains taxes, our corporate taxes. What kind of idiots create a capitalist economic system, and then strangle that system with taxes which discourage all capitalist activity? Structural unemployment can be eliminated, at virtually zero cost, the same way that it has been done for 200 years: by reducing the length of the work week. The basic work week at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution was 7 days a week, 12 hours a day -- an 84-hour week. For 200 years, our governments steadily shortened the work week, and our societies became steadily more prosperous. Suddenly our governments refuse to shorten the work week, and we immediately see our standard of living reverse lower for the first time in modern history. Exterminating all of the parasitic oligopolies and monopolies is considerably more problematic. These corporate behemoths have been allowed to grow to unimaginable sizes. Not only do our governments lack the moral courage to eradicate this economic cancer, but they effectively even lack the political power to do so. As a first step, I have recommended we adopt the progressive economic strategy known as "protectionism". Big Business sold us "globalization," pretending that it was the same thing as free trade. They all fattened up to many times their original sizes and we got a 50+% drop in our standard of living. Bigger is not better (when it comes to parasites). And there is no more direct path to a Small Business (high prosperity) economy than protectionism. At the very least, protectionism makes it impossible for these corporate behemoths to grow even larger. Add a flat wealth tax and a four-day work week to that equation and we have a means to genuinely "stimulate" our economies -- which does not require any significant amounts of government spending (i.e. additional debt). Big Media (itself another oligopoly) tells us we should have even more globalization, and allow these corporate behemoths to grow even larger and more concentrated. Not only do our economics text books dictate the opposite, but so does 40 years of empirical evidence. Big Media tells us that our deadbeat governments (the biggest debtors in human history) are going to "bail out" each other by borrowing much, much more money. Simple arithmetic tells us this cannot possibly be true. We need to completely tune out the economic voodoo preached by these media charlatans. Fixing our economies requires returning to what has worked in the past, not continuing what has failed in the present. Fixing our economic balance sheets is another matter entirely. Most of our governments are already past the point of no return in terms of indebtedness. It makes no sense at all to completely destroy economies with some form of Friedman Austerity first (as was done in Greece) -- only to end up with an even larger default in the end. Had the bond parasites accepted a 50% haircut at the beginning of Greece's debt-crisis, Greece's economy would have remained intact, and they would have salvaged 50% more of their dubious debts (rather than the 75% default with which they ended). Our morally bankrupt political leaders would have us believe that the collapse in our standard of living was some sort of inevitable "accident" of history. The truth is that the economic oppression inflicted upon us has been deliberate and intentional. We have been given the very worst taxation policies, solely to benefit the few at the top. We have been given the very worst employment policies, solely to benefit the few at the top. Instead of our governments vigilantly preventing the spread (or even birth) of any oligopolies or monopolies, they have totally abdicated all responsibility -- and allowed these monstrosities to devour most of the global economy. Even more reprehensible has been the silence of the economics community as these corporate behemoths have been allowed to rampage across the globe. Were all of these economists absent from class during the two weeks of study devoted to explaining why these oligopolies/monopolies should never be allowed to come into existence? It is a tragedy that the standard of living in the U.S. (and much of the Western world) has plummeted by more than 50% over the last 40 years -- unless you're one of the privileged few. It is a crime that this take-down in our standard of living is an obvious matter of cause and effect.


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Since my company's layoff last year I've had more work than I can handle. I'm working really hard, but can't seem to keep up with it. Any thought on ways I can increase my productivity?
Thanks for your question. My belief is that there are millions of other people asking the same question. I think the best way for me to answer you is to tell you what I do. I'm a big believer in working in your highest zone. The rest of this column will explain this statement.
Let me begin by explaining my concept of being in the zone. In the zone is being:
1. Mentally clear on the task to be performed
2. Highly focused on a specific task
3. Physically able to perform the task
4. Motivated to perform the task
By Mentally Clear, I mean having an exact understanding of what you want to do. It could be something simple, like deleting spam email, or something intense, like designing the new structure for your company's communication backbone.
By, Highly Focused I mean single-mindedness, namely, being able to free yourself from mental distractions, like thinking about other projects, all the emails you must answer, or a presentation you are making later in the day.
By Physically Able, I mean that at this moment you are able to perform the task. For example, I know that if I'm very tired, I have great difficulty doing mentally challenging work like writing my columns, answering important emails in a concise manor, or making important decisions.
By Motivated, I mean is this a task that you want to (or have to) work on right now.
For me personally, and I know anecdotally by speaking with others, that when people are truly in the zone on a task, regardless of the task's simplicity or complexity, you are more productive, more innovative, and do a better job. This powerful combination of productivity, innovation, and quality is why you, and me, should strive to be in the zone on any task we are performing.
Now, with these definitions in mind, Your Highest Zone is the task at that time that best fits the above descriptions. Using a previous example, if I'm mentally exhausted and have two hundred emails to review, my highest zone work at that time may be simply deleting spam and other irrelevant emails from my inbox. If I am mentally alert, the deadline for my next IT WORLD column is quickly approaching, and I have a great topic idea in mind, I'll write my column, even if my email inbox is a mess.
Given these two examples, of cleaning out my email or writing my column, from a personal productivity perspective, it would be a mistake for me to spend my time deleting emails, if at I have the ability, motivation, and focus, to write my column. I can delete my old emails later, when I am less mentally sharp.
The final lesson for you here is mentally dividing the items on your to-do list by zone levels. These levels could be:
1. When I'm at my best
2. Business tasks I can do on auto-pilot
3. Busy tasks that must be done but don't require mental challenge
4. Things you do as long as you are not asleep
Then, pick the task to be performed based on your physical, mental, and motivation at that time.
If you have any questions about your career in IT, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or find me on Twitter at @EricPBloom.
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Arthurian Name Dictionary
An Asian lord. His brother was Panschavar. His sister Japhite died from heartbreak when Wigalois, Gawain's son, killed King Roaz of Glois, Japhite's husband. Zaradech and Panschavar came to Glois to retrieve Japhite's body. Both brothers later joined Wigalois's war against Prince Lion of Namur. [Wirnt]
A kingdom in Arabia or Africa. It was ruled by Queen Belacane, who was loved by Isenhart. When Isenhart died in a battle for Belacane's love, Isenhart's allies attacked and besieged Zazamanc. Zazamanc was saved by the arrival of Perceval's father, Gahmuret, who beat back the attackers and married Belacane, assuming control of the kingdom. It later fell to Gahmuret's other son, Feirefiz, who gave it to Perceval as a gift. [Wolfram]
During a speech in Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône, Gawain describes how he "came to the aid of Zazant as a dragon was carrying him to its cave." This episode is not found in existing Arthurian literature. [Heinrich]
One of two knights who murdered Sir Aamanz, who was called "the Other Gawain." [Heinrich]
The capital of Carmelide. It was one of the courts of the False Guinevere. [VulgLanc]
An evil king who had been promised the maiden Perse by her father. When Perse refused to marry Zelotés, he abducted her. Hector of the Fens, who loved Perse, went to Zelotés's castle, killed him in combat, and freed Perse. [VulgLanc]
One of the many Saxon kings to join the Saxon invasion of Britain as Arthur was struggling to establish power. Under King Hargadabran, he fought against Arthur's forces at Clarence. [Livre]
A valley where a knight named Pinabel was slain by his brothers. Pinabel's widow was later saved from these brothers by Tristan. [Tavola]
Zidras [Ydraus]
A Saxon who joined King Rions war against Arthur. He fought Arthur at the battle of Aneblayse but was forced to flee. [VulgMer, Livre]
In a fifteenth-century Shrovetide play, the Queen of Zipper sends a chastity horn to Arthur's court. [Hupsches]
One of four giants who planned to fight for King Ekunaver of Kanadic in a war against Arthur, but were forced to stay neutral when Arthur's Sir Garel defeated Malseron, the giants' leader. [PleierG]
One of four giants who planned to fight for King Ekunaver of Kanadic in a war against Arthur, but were forced to stay neutral when Arthur's Sir Garel defeated Malseron, the giants' leader. [PleierG]
A land ruled by Arthur's Duke Beladigant. [Stricker]
Zoroaster of Arabia
An infidel king who served Feirefiz, Perceval's half-brother. [Wolfram]
Zyrolan of Semblidac
A king once defeated in combat by Perceval. [Wolfram]
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Almancil Vacation Packages
Almancil is a great place to base yourself while you are in Algarve as some of the city's main attractions are within easy driving distance. Karting Almancil and the Quinta Shopping Centre are just two of the popular places to visit. Two other interesting attractions that are within a short distance of Almancil are the Laranjal Golf Course Quinta do Lago and the Aqua Show Park.
Get active in the great outdoors at the many beautiful destinations nearby. Relax and enjoy the fresh air. Walk along the coastline nearby such as Garrao Beach, the Vale do Lobo Beach and Trafal Beach in Quarteira.
There's absolutely no excuse not to work on your game. Visit the Quinta do Lago Golf in Vilamoura, the Pinheiros Altos Golf Course and the Ocean Golf Course Vale do Lobo to enjoy great greens and challenging bunkers.
Go to the Loule Town Market in Loule for a satisfying dose of retail therapy.
Almancil is a place steeped in sporting history. Spend an afternoon at Algarve Stadium, Faro, home to the Sporting Clube Farense soccer team in winter and the Louletano Desportos Clube. Enjoy a few post-match beers with local fans after the game in a nearby pub.
Finding somewhere convenient to base yourself close to Almancil is easy. The Conrad Algarve, the Ria Park Hotel & Spa and the Hotel Pinhal do Sol, Quarteira are among the many great places to stay around here.


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- 1 large butternut squash
- 10 cups of chicken stock
- 8oz bacon
- 1 tsp of nutmeg
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
- 2 cups of leeks (optional)
Cut the bacon into little chunks and render in a sautee pan until crispy – drain bacon drippings, leaving about 1 tablespoon in the pan. (You can also roast the squash in a 375-degree oven for 30-minutes or until caramelized).
Cut squash into small to medium sized chunks and pan-sear in bacon drippings then put it into a blender w/ about 10 cups of stock. (you may have to use only 6-8oz of stock, depending on the capacity of your blender – if so, add the rest of the stock after you pour the puree into the dutch oven).
Blend until you achieve a relatively smooth puree and then pour into dutch oven on medium-low heat to simmer for about 15 minutes.
*Optional leeks: Sautee in the bacon drippings until tender.
Season w/ salt, pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon.
For the topping, I just combined 1-part sour cream with 1-part heavy cream and cut up some fresh chives..
Wine pairing suggestions:
– Off-dry Riesling
– Grüner Veltliner
– Verdejo
– Albarino


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» The Vikings came to North America!
The Vikings came to North America!
The Year 2000 marks the 1000th anniversary of the Viking exploration of North America. At the very northern tip of Newfoundland is a site that preserves this outstanding cultural and historical event - L'Anse aux Meadows.
L'Anse aux Meadows is the only authenticated Viking site in North America. It was established 1000 years ago by the explorer Leif Eiriksson during his adventures in eastern North America - 500 years before Columbus' exploits in the "New World". The site was rediscovered by Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine in 1960. L'Anse aux Meadows is now a National Historic Park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first cultural site in the world to receive this designation - a symbol of its outstanding cultural and historical value.
Compared to the histories of contemporary European civilizations, the history of the Nordic peoples is sparse. It is a puzzle that consists of Sagas - a combination of genealogies, histories and legends written during the 1100's through to the 1300's, and archeological findings. The Sagas describe how the Vikings emigrated from Norway to systematically colonize the Shetland, Hebrides, and Faeroe Islands before venturing further north and westwards into Iceland and Greenland. Graelendinga Saga and Eirik's Saga tell of Eirik the Red's colonization of the western region of Greenland and his son's adventures in Vinland.
Leif Eiriksson set out from Greenland on a westerly course and first reached Baffin Island which he named Helluland or Land of Stone. From there he sailed south to Labrador (Markland or Land of Forest) and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence region which he named Vinland (Land of Wine) for the wild grapes that were found there. He established a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows (Leif's Camp in the sagas) which served as a base of exploration during his tenure in eastern North America. He collected timber and other riches of the land and returned to his home in Greenland.
Leif's good fortune in Vinland enticed others to conduct their own expeditions including his brother Thorvald, a relative by marriage Thorfinn Karlsefni, and his sister Freydis. According to the sagas, Leif granted each group use of his houses, but never relinquished ownership. The largest contingent, which was led by Thorfinn Karlsefni, consisted of 135 men, 15 women, and some number of livestock. They spent several summers at the site exploring, cutting timber, and trading for goods that they could sell in Greenland. The sagas also tell of conflicts with Skraelings or natives, the death of Leif's brother Thorvald in Vinland, and the birth of Snorri Karlsefnisson- the first white child born in North America. Leif's Camp was used for a relatively short period of time in Norse history - perhaps as few as 15 years. It never became a colony.
The translation of the sagas into Latin in the 1840's marked the beginning of a renewed interest in Viking history. Historians analysed the fragmented history contained in the numerous sagas of the Viking Age and pieced together a puzzle of Norse colonization. The puzzle evolved as archeological expeditions in Iceland and Greenland revealed details about community structure, hierarchies and lifestyles, but finds in Vinland were elusive.
Clues from the sagas, like references to wild grapes, hardwoods, butternuts, and day length led explorers to speculate that Leif's camp was somewhere between New England and Newfoundland. In 1960, Helge Ingstad, a Norwegian writer and explorer, and his wife, Anne Stine - an archeologist sailed into L'Anse aux meadows. They were directed by a local named George Decker to three groups of overgrown bumps and ridges that looked like they might have been sod houses of the type that were found at Norse sites in Iceland and Greenland.
From 1960 until 1968, Anne Stine led archeological digs at L'Anse aux Meadows. The digs revealed the existence of eight Norse buildings arranged in three complexes. The buildings were wooden frameworks overlain with sod walls and roofs. Fireplaces were located in the centre of each house. Among the important artifacts discovered were a small stone oil lamp, a small spindle whorl, a bone needle, a small brass ring, and bronze, ring-headed cloak pin used by Norse men and women of the eleventh century. This last piece of evidence was conclusive proof that Norse people inhabited North America 500 years before Columbus. Later digs turned up pieces of wood that could only have come from Europe, nails or rivets of the type found in Viking ships, and slag from the smelting and refining of bog ore - a process which marked the introduction of the iron age to North America!
Excavations of the area were resumed by Parks Canada from 1973 to 1976. During that time the picture of Norse inhabitation of L'Anse aux Meadows grew more complete. Each of the three complexes housed specialized craftsmen. One complex consisting of two houses next to a brook was occupied by the smiths who roasted bog ore in one house and worked the metal in another. They also operated a forge on the other side of the brook. The middle complex, which was also the smallest, housed the carpenters, while the largest complex housed the shipwrights. The complexes appeared to function in concert and were occupied simultaneously. The size of the garbage heaps and the lack of burial plots suggested that the occupation of the site was of a short duration. Interestingly, the digs revealed that the site had been home to other cultures, but that they did not occupy the site concurrently.
L'Anse aux Meadows has been a National Historic Site since 1977. Parks Canada operates a Visitor Centre which displays artifacts discovered during the archeological excavations. The park's staff, dressed in period costume, offer interpretive tours of the archeological site and the adjacent full-scale replica houses. They provide visitors with a feeling of what it might have been like to live during the exciting era of Norse exploration of the North Atlantic. Visitors can hike the site using a series of board walks and short hiking trails and see the surrounding landscape which hasn't changed much since the Viking era.
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