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reviews for: listing #2918 - Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri Condo rental
- bedrooms 4
- pool yes
- type Condo
- baths 2
- hot tub no
- community Ledges
- sleeps 12
- pets allowed no
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$600 - $1,410 /wk
Review submitted: May 12, 2014 Date of arrival: May 6, 2014
My brothers and I pick a golf get-a-way somewhere every May. We picked this condo for this year and it was perfect. We could not believe the amenities included in this package. What place would ever include shampoo, soap, and even laundry detergent? This place does. It's beautiful, exceptionally clean, with excellent location! We will be back! Loved it!!!!
Recommended for: adventure seekers, age 55+, families with young children, families with teenagers, girls getaway, sight seeing, romantic getaway
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Helpful votes: 1 / 1
Perfect Getaway Condo!
Review submitted: March 30, 2014 Date of arrival: February 14, 2014
We had a fun weekend with 3 other couples & stayed in this beautiful condo. Very spacious, beautifully decorated & super clean. Would highly recommend this condo. Plan to return next year! Owners were easy to work with & easily accessible by phone after we arrived.
Thank you for a great place to stay!
Recommended for: families with teenagers, girls getaway, romantic getaway
Owners response:
Thank you, Timothy for taking the time to review our condo! We are so glad your group had a great time.
We look forward to your staying with us again!
Gary & Sue
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Helpful votes: 1 / 1
Perfect Condo...Wonderful Stay
Review submitted: February 14, 2014 Date of arrival: December 6, 2013
Wow, what a great stay we had in this spacious, beautiful condo! We've been renting this condo for the past 5 years & it's always a beautiful place to stay. The owners keep up with the painting, updating furniture & carpeting. We really enjoy the huge kitchen & dining area. Very well stocked kitchen. Celebrated a birthday here & had the mixer, baking pans, everything I needed. Just like home only better. The view of the lake is breathtaking from the living room. The owners are easy to work with; always answer their phones if a problem arises. Looking forward to many more happy memories at our favorite condo at the lake! Thank you Gary & Sue!
Recommended for: families with teenagers, girls getaway
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Helpful votes: 3 / 4
Beautiful place!
Review submitted: October 16, 2013 Date of arrival: October 11, 2013
We just recently stayed at this condo Oct. 11-14th for me and my partners birthday. There were 7 of us total so we had more than enough room. They have updated a few things but could use a bit more. For the price I really can't complain. We enjoyed movies and dinners with laughter and tears. The deck was wonderful. My 1 and only complaint is that we bought a bunch of stuff to BBQ, corn, asparagus, chicken drums and when we went to light up the grill, it was completely rusted. I tried covering it with foil but it literally just fell apart. So maybe next year update the grill. Other than that I can't complain! Place was awesome and I can't wait to go through Gary again! Thank you for letting us stay here!!
Recommended for: adventure seekers, age 55+, families with teenagers, girls getaway, sight seeing, romantic getaway
Owners response: I am sorry for the problem you had with the grill which I replaced today.I sometimes do not get the feedback I need from the cleaning crew. We would have been glad to replace the grill if you had contacted me during your stay. Gary
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Helpful votes: 3 / 4
Family Fun
Review submitted: August 21, 2013 Date of arrival: August 8, 2013
We arrived early on Thursday afternoon and were able to begin moving into the condo early which was convenient. Everything was as advertised, the rooms were great and the location on the lake was excellent. We did some shopping but spent most of the time on the lake, we were able to rent a boat slip which worked out perfectly. We had a great time with the kids and grandkids and look forward to coming back next year.
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Helpful votes: 5 / 7
Wonderful Condo!
Review submitted: April 2, 2013 Date of arrival: March 16, 2013
Our family had a wonderful stay in your condo! The condo was exactly as described and pictured. It exceeded our expectations. Weather wasn't great (March snow!) but that did not dampen our spirits or effect our stay. We spent a lot of time just hanging out and spending time together. Plenty of room & comfort for playing games, doing puzzles, watching movies. And plenty of space to spread out when everyone needed their privacy. Beds were comfortable, condo supplies were abundant, no problems whatsoever.
We are thankful for the comfort, cleanliness & welcome feel we enjoyed! Everything, from the time we made our reservation until the time we checked out was truly perfect. Thank you! We plan to come back!
Sending sincere appreciation from a Michigan family for a great place to stay!
Recommended for: families with young children, families with teenagers, romantic getaway
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Helpful votes: 5 / 10
Wonderful stay
Review submitted: August 29, 2012 Date of arrival: August 20, 2012
We stayed Aug 20 & 21 2012, 5 adults. We loved this property, looks exactly like the pictures and was very clean. We enjoyed the view from the deck, which had plenty of chairs. We could see the turtles and fish in the water and the sunsets were beautiful. We spent time at the pool which was also clean and had lots of chairs and tables to hang out at. We enjoyed the area also and ate at Dog Days and Shorty Pants and had great food both times. We also enjoyed the shopping at the Premium Outlets.
We would recommend this property to everyone I know.
Recommended for: age 55+, families with young children, families with teenagers, girls getaway, sight seeing, romantic getaway
Owners response: We appreciate you taking the time to give future clients an honest evaluation of our unit
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Helpful votes: 11 / 12
Pros and Cons
Review submitted: June 2, 2012 Date of arrival: May 12, 2012
Three primary complaints: Every faucet in the two bathrooms has significant mold build up inside the handles and the wallpaper in the bathroom off the kitchen is signifcantly peeling off. The owner expects you to clean the kitchen thoroughly despite paying a cleaning fee and will be promptly at the front door at the 11:00 am checkout to ensure that you are out. The microwave does not work properly.
Three primary kudos: Spacious and generally quiet. Air conditioner cools great although it is incredibly loud in the masterbedroom only. Comfortable couches in living room.
This unit is on the top floor and would not be desirable for individuals with small children (loft and loft staircase is not safe for small kids). It is in an over developed area. The boat docks are in front of the complex which makes them easy to access and is about all you can see from the deck. Quick walk to either pool and yet far enough away not to be affected by the noise. The deck is old and in need of repair. Unit is generally clean and nicely decorated although the bedding is starting to show significant wear. It's reasonably priced for the area and is a desirable unit for girls getaway or multiple familes with teenagers. We visited during a weekend when there were few tourists or boats on the lake.
Recommended for: families with teenagers, girls getaway
Owners response: I have been renting this unit for 9 years and have had nothing less than 5 star ratings with glowing accolades. I have tried to figure out why this has been the only complaint in those 9 years. I must assume that this person is a close friend of one of my competitors. Now here are the REAL facts: the faucets were inspected the day after this review by the head of the complex maintenance dept. They found some calcification, but no mold present. The slight peeling of the wallpaper was repaired the same day. This reservation was a back-to-back rental requiring the unit to be cleaned in a 4 hour time frame. The cleaning crew arrived at the prescribed 11:00 check out time (which is detailed in our documents) to clean the unit for the next client's arrival time of 3:00. The microwave was checked several times with no problems. Again in the past 9 years, we've never had any complaints about the air conditioner being noisy in the master bedroom. The picture on the vrbo site is the actual view off the deck showing the main channel of the lake. The loft area and staircase is no different than any 2-story dwelling with stairs, which means you need to keep an eye on your children. The outside deck is newly replaced in the Spring of 2011. The bedding is replaced every 3 years and dry cleaned twice a year; most of the bedding was replaced last year. In short, this person is either the worst inspector I have encountered or on a mission for someone.
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Helpful votes: 12 / 18
Wonderful, clean and relaxing
Review submitted: April 11, 2012 Date of arrival: April 2, 2012
This was a great condo, very near shopping and activities. We had a wonderful time.
Owners response:
We hope that all of our future clients will enjoy the unit as much as you did.
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Helpful votes: 5 / 6
This condo was excellent!
Review submitted: March 8, 2011 Date of arrival: February 24, 2011
My family and I got together for my birthday at this condo. A better place could not have been picked. This place was beautifully decorated and had everything you could think of to make you feel at home. We will return again.
St. Louis, MO
Recommended for: age 55+, families with young children, families with teenagers, girls getaway, sight seeing, romantic getaway
Owners response: Thank you for your kind words we really appreciate them.
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Helpful votes: 9 / 11
Review submitted: September 28, 2010 Date of arrival: September 17, 2010
This condo was really nice and very comfortable. It was clean and decor was awesome. It had a lot room for all us ladies. The owner was nice and the price was excellent. I would recommend this condo to a friend. A lot of stairs to get to the condo but that was alright. We had a great time.
Recommended for: families with young children, families with teenagers, girls getaway
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Helpful votes: 7 / 8
Perfect for a Girl's Getaway
Review submitted: April 21, 2010 Date of arrival: April 8, 2010
We had 6 women from our office stay here for a "girls retreat". It worked out perfect. The view of the lake was superb. The condo was very clean and it was great to have the washer and dryer right in the unit with us. We will definitely stay here for our next "retreat"!!
Recommended for: age 55+, families with young children, girls getaway, sight seeing
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Helpful votes: 8 / 9
Great Place
Review submitted: October 13, 2009 Date of arrival: October 9, 2009
Along with our friends, we recently stayed at this condo with a group of 10 adults and 1 baby in October. The condo was fantastic. The pictures dont do it justice. It is beautifully decorated, very well kept and there is plenty of room. The view is gorgeous. We would all recommend this condo to any small or large group. It was a little difficult to find in the dark, but we blame our internet directions. We are all hoping to visit the Ozarks again soon and plan to stay in this condo, if available. The only thing that would have made it better is if there were a few more chairs in the dining room. We were 2 chairs short, but we made it work just fine.
Recommended for: families with young children, girls getaway, sight seeing, romantic getaway
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Helpful votes: 12 / 13
Great location for any size group
Review submitted: August 12, 2008 Date of arrival: July 30, 2008
Our family enjoyed this 3 Bdr condo in July/August; we had 10 total guests and it was fabulous!!! We had plenty of room, we were not laying on top of each other, very spacious. The condo featured beautiful decorating, very clean, and stocked full of everything you would need to enjoy your stay. The location was near practically everything (golf, shopping, go karts, putt putt, dining), and of course close to many lake activities/rental places. We were not familiar with the area, but the owners provided us with plenty of valid contact points to ease our worries and make the stay incredible!!!
Recommended for: age 55+, families with young children, people with disabilities, families with teenagers, girls getaway
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Helpful votes: 29 / 31
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Dopamine and Addiction – Part One
Posted by dlende on February 3, 2008
By Daniel Lende
The Pathway
In your brain you have a system that comes up from some of the oldest evolved parts of your brain to some of the most recently evolved parts. Reptile parts to ape parts. In brain research on addiction, it's generally called the mesolimbic dopamine pathway or system. All the main addictive drugs affect this system, making the mesolimbic pathway a core component in addictive behavior. Addictive experiences—gambling, shopping, eating and sex—also impact the mesolimbic dopamine system.
In both scientific research and the popular press, the dopamine system is often cast in the role of "bad boy," a hard-wired brain circuit that has gotten out of control, self-indulging in an orgy of pleasure. That neat story tells us a lot about how we cast our own morals onto the brain, selectively picking out research to provide a nice scientific sheen. Hard-wired for hedonism, we have to work even harder at self-control.
It strikes me as the same sort of story that addicts know how to spin so well. So let's be blunt. Denial!
Blaming others, whether people or circumstances, is nearly as rampant in the study of addiction as it is in addiction itself. So here's the first step—blaming addiction on dopamine. This chemical becomes the prime cause. It's a simple story: our excesses are caused by a chemical in the brain.
"[T]he brain's reward system [is] powered largely by the neurotransmitter dopamine… The hope is that if you can dampen the effect of the brain chemical that carries the pleasurable signal, you can loosen the drug's hold." -From "How We Get Addicted" by Michael Lemonick, Time, July 5, 2007
When challenged by people who know neurotransmitters do not work in a cause-and-effect fashion, along comes the next step. We have a hard-wired system in our brain, and something goes wrong with it.
"We believe that these [addictive] disorders are linked by a common biological substrate, a 'hard-wired' system in the brain (consisting of cells and signaling molecules) that provides pleasure in the process of rewarding certain behavior… Although each substance of abuse appears to act on different parts of this circuit, the end result is the same: Dopamine is released in the nucleus accumbens and the hippocampus (Koob and Bloom 1988). Dopamine appears to be the primary neurotransmitter of reward at these reinforcement sites." -From "Reward Deficiency Syndrome" by Kenneth Blum, John G. Cull, Eric R. Braverman and David E. Comings, American Scientist, March-April 1996
But our brains are not some fifth-grade science project on electricity, circuits clinked onto a preset board. It has complex patterns of neurons firing together, and those patterns of activation are linked to both body and environment.
In other words, the hard-wired-pleasure story denies basic facts about the brain and basic facts about addiction. So let us take a closer look at the mesolimbic dopamine system and its relationship to addictive behavior.
Carlton Erickson, in his book The Science of Addiction, presents a wonderful way to grasp where the mesolimbic dopamine system is located. Make the peace sign (or the victory sign) and stick those two fingers in the middle of your forehead. Using your other hand, point with one finger directly above your ear. Imagine where your fingers would intersect. That's where the mesolimbic dopamine system is, right in the middle of your brain (yes, the two fingers matter—we have two brain hemispheres). It runs from the ventral tegmental area in your midbrain to the nucleus accumbens in your limbic system, with projections into the frontal cortices.
Being in the middle of the brain matters. It means that the mesolimbic dopamine system mediates between more basic functions, like arousal, and higher-level functions, like abstract thought. So, what does it do?
Here is where things get tricky. Our normal approach is to imagine our brain like a car engine or a computer, with specific functions located in specific pieces. Forget that image, it's wrong.
A better way to think about the dopamine system is as a chess piece, say, the knight. The knight has a limited repertoire of moves, different shaped L's. So what really matters is what pieces are left on the board and what the other person is doing. The brain works that way—the role of each piece depends on what other pieces are doing, and how that works vis-à-vis a changing environment.
So, here are some basic results from research on the mesolimbic dopamine system: dopamine is involved in seeking and wanting, dopamine is involved in both pain and pleasure, dopamine function can be viewed as a learning signal, and dopamine can modulate emotions, attention and memories.
What?! How can one system do all that? Here is where using the chess piece metaphor is important—one piece can accomplish many things but still have some basic patterns of movement. What it can accomplish depends on the overall layout of pieces on the board (the environment) and the strategy of the player (the overall behavior of the person).
In discussing brain function and plasticity, my friend Greg Downey also makes an important comment: "Our cultural categories of perception — folk concepts, phenomenological traits, or even physical categories from audiology such as timbre, pitch, and location — may not be relevant categories for the neural division of labor." In other words, expecting the dopamine system to have one function—such as pleasure or reward—is based on our own expectations and categories, not on actual brain function.
Actually, the structure of the system lends itself to a varied view of function. As I said before, it goes from the midbrain through the limbic system and into the frontal cortices. There are pathways that come down from the frontal cortices to shape mesolimbic dopamine signaling, as well as other pathways from association cortices.
Put differently, it's a big system with broad and diffuse projections and with feedback systems from memory and judgment/control circuits. Of course it's not going to accomplish one simple thing. Put differently, the mesolimbic dopamine system is a major modulator of your brain. But would you expect anything different from a system that plays a role in sex, eating and most other sorts of "get up and go" activities?
(Author's note: This is a draft for one section in the opening chapter of a book I am writing about my research on addiction. The book is aimed for a popular audience. If anyone has comments on the writing, as well as on my characterization of the mesolimbic dopamine system, I would appreciate hearing them. Feel free to email me at email@example.com or to post your comment below.)
9 Responses to "Dopamine and Addiction – Part One"
February 5, 2008 at 6:06 pm
[...] Dopamine and Addiction – Part One – Researcher writes on his insights into the addiction [...]
March 9, 2008 at 3:17 am
This is an interesting article. While we explain what is happening we need to also let people know about the prescription drug epidemic. As the director of Novus Medical Detox, I daily see the ravages caused by prescription drug addiction created by doctors prescribing it to their patients and then the patients either continuing to obtain it or purchasing these drugs on the internet or the street. Probably the worst of these drugs is OxyContin–legal heroin.
Pain is real. I have had it much of my life first from polio and then from two surgeries. However, there are alternatives to painkillers and they must be tried first. Let's not treat the symptoms but the cause.
Prescription drug addiction is an epidemic and we must do everything we can to stop it before it overwhelms us. Education is a must.
Steve Hayes
April 8, 2008 at 6:36 pm
hi, i am not a scientist or an accademic at all, but am doing a complementary health therapiis degree (mature student) and am writing an essay on sociology in relation to medecine right now. i like what you have written, it allows for more possibilities in all kinds of directions.
i was listening to the inaugural lecture by fred toates from the open uni (march 2008)via internet, its great, but everything is so over-simplified and popularised, there's a kind of dishonesty in that and a lazines. its more complex, what you have written,i dont really understand it but i can sense that it is a more true and creative way to understand or talk about dopamine!
June 5, 2008 at 2:09 am
The initial goal to achieve while in rehab is abstinence. As long as drug or alcohol remain in the blood stream, a person's thought process remains somewhat distorted. This process of gradual clearing may take days or even weeks as a person progresses through their detoxification process or "detox"
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March 14, 2009 at 8:54 am
Your entry popped up, FYI, as the first listing when I entered the search terms "dopammine," "seeking," and "addiction" in Google. I'll explain why I did so because I think my motivation and experience may help in your providing a more informative and nuanced exposition, free of what you correctly decry as an overlay of sociopolitical bigotry. My search was motivated by a my sense of a continuing and disabling schism between fields that seem to have things to tell each other, especially in the direction of informing an understanding of addiction. Back to back with reading "Over the Influence," a harm-reduction manual that is probably one of the less hysterical approaches to discussing how "addictive substances" work and how to deal with them, I've been reading a fair amount of animal behavior literature related to temperament, training, and animal husbandry [works by, e.g., Patricia McConnell at Univ of Wisconsin, Steven Coren at the Univ. of British Columbia, and Temple Grandin's newly-published "Animals Make Us Human"]. The understanding displayed among students of mammalian behavior — for instance about the nature and meaning of "reward" which is so pivotal in both fields == seems to me strikingly disconnected, with the more compelling [because unbiased by addictophobia] story the one that has emerged from decades of rigorous research in animal neuroscience/behavior, and the vacuously simplistic, bigoted, habitual, reflexive, relatively uninformed one a sort of "set piece" of the addiction literature as you illustrate. Part of why the schism is so frustrating — besides the political obfuscation which is appalling enough — is because, wrongly understood, the nature of "reward," "pleasure," "satisfaction" and such concepts obscures a useful way to begin to approach an interpretation of addiction useful to habitual users of mind/exerience-altering substances and, especially, the worldwide disgrace known as "addition treatment." I would be thrilled to see writers in this area begin to try to use the terms and concepts of animal behavior to provide a much more nuanced, open-minded, perhaps speculative [but why not given the state of the "art" and the "science"?] account.
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Pours a clear dark brown color with reddish hues and a one finger khaki head that fades to nice swirls.
The aroma is sweet honey, caramel, winter spices, roast, and slight oxidative notes from the 7 years of age.
The flavor is great. A little sherry-like from the age, but this works pretty well. Sweet honey and caramel malt, pumpernickel bread, toast, nutmeg, allspice, and slight anise.
Medium bodied with soft carbonation, maybe just a tiny bit watery.
This is another good vintage of this beer. I'm really not sure there is a bad one.
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The Fifth Day of Beermas... It pours a murky black-brown topped by a minor wisp of dirty ecru foam. The nose comprises rye bread, chocolate, cedar, sourdough, light anise, tobacco, nutmeg, ginger, and brown sugar. The taste is heavy on the cocoa and nutmeg, with ginger, black pepper, walnuts, brown sugar, and figs thrown in as well. The body is a stoic medium, with a light carbonation and a chunky, oily feel. Overall, another step in the right direction, but the years put on these things have not been too kind to them at all.
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taste- licorice, woody
color- deep chestnut
clarity- clear
smell- roasted malt, black licorice
body- medium-full, fairly firm
appearance- dark, clean, carbonation present
overall impression- solid beer for five years old
notes- smoother and sweeter than the 2002. soft bittering hops. 29th release of this beer. this review is for a 2003 vintage tasted in 2008
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A - Poured a mahogany color with a brown head that leaves lacing
S - Is of roasted malt with some spice scents
T - Follows the nose the roasted malt has some sweetness to it with some spice character
M - This beer has a nice smooth body with low carbonation to it
D - The past five years have been good to this bottle aging it nicely too bad there was only one 2003 cold have drank a lot more of it
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Magnum (50.7oz) bottle received recently as a gift.
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NOTE: did a tasting on 1/15/05 that included years '87, '90, '94, '97, '98, '00, '01, '02, & '03. The '02, '01 & '94 stood out as the best of the bunch. The '94 had a nice whiskey taste to it that the others did not. I thought the older vintages held up well over the years.
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drank August '08
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After some wide climbing this weekend I started thinking about cams that are larger than a #6 bd and all I could think of are the Valley Giants. Sooooo my question is, would the #9 be like a tipped out #6 camalot?
Big bros are cheaper, lighter and easier to come by (used). Valley Giants are bloody rad if you want to walk the gear and are good if you're on delicate sandstone. Also, placing Big Bros 4 and 5 can be a pain. Pick your poison. Either way, you're going in the right direction.
The Valley Giant #9 is comfortably mid-range when the #6 (C4) is getting tipped out to the point of being scary. I tried to measure the usable range of the two to give it some hard numbers. I'd call the max range on a #6 C4 to be ~6.5". Putting the Valley Giant in a similar position, I measure closer to ~8.5". More practically speaking I've really enjoyed having the #9 as I learn to climb that size. I have the bigbros for that range, but I often find them difficult to place in the coarse granite and Front Range sandstone around here. That size is hard enough (knees/quads don't really lock anymore, but I can't really get inside the crack yet) that I don't want to screw around with bigbros. Desert sandstone would likely be different. The VG's are expensive. I split one with my OW partner. Seems most of our other partners don't want to climb anything that size anyway, so it doesn't really matter who keeps the thing, we pretty much only use it when we're climbing together. That helps with the $160 price tag. Have fun!
the 9" VG is pretty similar in size/range as the green (#3) big bro. this cam is pretty nice, as that size can be a real mfkr. too big to stack, too tight to wing. nothing left but strenuous arm barring. anybody who has seen my arms realizes that the word "strenuous" can't be in the same sentence.
If you're getting into that size, NOTHING right now beats the #9 VG. Yeah it's expensive BUT it's TRUCK and nothing makes you feel "better" than sliding that sucker along with you.
+1 for the VG9. Tom Kasper does a very nice job on these cams. They are probably worth the price tag.
They sound like the shit. So where do you get these expensive torture device aids? (That sentence is for Broadway. You're welcome) Seriously, what's the story on how to pick up the Giants?
Send Tom an email. He makes them in batches. Lead time can vary from a couple weeks to a month... www.valleygiant.com/VGcontact.html - Luke
Valley Giants also make great dumbbells when training for those hard climbs.
Did pratts crack a few winters ago, my partner had bought a few vg's... They're badass!!! www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=526501&tn=0&m>>>
I would LOVE to get my hands on a few of those!
FWIW, Wired Bliss is coming out with three new sizes of cam : #4, #5 and #9. I don't know exactly how big the #9 is going to be, but I think it will be bigger than the BD #6. They have a few pics on their Facebook site.
talked with Micheal at Wired bliss a few weeks ago and have one of his fives. its a sweet cam and his 9 is going to fill the gap between tipped out 6 and overcammed VG 9
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12:45pm Saturday 10th November 2012 in News
Brighton's Katie Price has said she was left in agony after her fifth boob job landed her in hospital.
The former Patcham High School pupil, who now lives near Bolney, was rushed to accident and emergency three times after her wounds become infected.
Speaking to The Sun, she said: "I was feeling so ill and feverish that my family called an ambulance and I was rushed to A&E.
"They cleaned the wound and said they hoped it would heal with antibiotics. It didn't and a surgeon told me that if the infection had spread, he would have to take my implants out.
"I paid the price for the op but these boobs are the best I've ever had and I'm pleased. I did them for myself — no one else."
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how the hell has she made so much money!!!
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Saw her for she really is and think Peter had a lucky escape
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Maxwell's Ghost wrote:Yes.
Perhaps the fact that she has become a millionaire from false tits says more about modern Britain.
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With senior politicians planning to create school-leaver jobs in the blow industry, apparently. Surely they mean wind farms?
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She is as fake as her breasts.
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she is not worth a mention
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How is she a bad mother?
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Really sticking to your principles there, well done.
The fact that this story has at least 10 more comments than any other currently on the home page surely proves that people DO consider it news...
Good luck to her, I say. She's done very well for herself. And I don't understand how people can get so worked up by her and her life.
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She's probably never heard of him but she certainly knows the sentiment ""There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is NOT being talked about." (Oscar Wilde)
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FIFTEEN homes at West Wellow were left without power after a fault at a substation in the village.
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---- — DERRY — Teachers and staff at Ernest P. Barka Elementary School honored one of their own last week.
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Through my travels throughout the US over the past 3 1/2 years I have gained much insight in to this ever developing marketplace called the Gluten Free Industry. I've had the opportunity to develop relationships with many of the manufacturers, distributors and brokers who initially entered the market prior to the Gluten Free Craze. No….I'm not calling those individuals maintaining a Gluten Free Lifestyle a part of the "craze" but more so those new manufacturers that have brought products to market over the past year and a half.
There are two groups which these new manufacturers actually fit in to this market. Those who have a personal interest since they themselves or a family member or friend has been effected with Celiac Disease, Gluten Intolerance/Sensitivity or other Allergies or Diseases. This type of manufacturer is truly setting out to provide a quality product and sharing these items with those in the Gluten Free Community. However, many of these products which generally are better tasting than preexisting products may come at a higher pricing point, simply because they do not have the ability to buy the ingredients in bulk. This will drive up the price of these products in stores, not to mention these items may not be easily accessible. Well not for Strictly Gluten Free as we continue to travel the country to find these new up & coming Gluten Free brands and bring them to our stores first.
The second group which a new manufacturer will fall in to is the "Nouveau Rich" or "Wall Streeter" as this group is only seeking the financial benefits of "possibly" offering Gluten Free products. I can't tell you how many times through my travels I have heard that….."oh our products are GF because all our ingredients are naturally GF" or " we are using another companies products to make ours and theirs are certified GF so we are too". This is yet another way Strictly Gluten Free will always and continue to separate ourselves from those big boxes who just look for the magic word "gluten free" on packaging which has become a marketing ploy.
During these encounters with such manufacturers it is always fun to kind of put them in their place on determining the validity of their Gluten Free claim. While we set out to educate even these manufacturers its just a matter if they will tend to listen and actually do the right thing by the GF consumer…..but don't hold your breathe as its a pure numbers game and they are looking for someone to show them the MONEY. The whole issue with such new manufacturers products is that they clearly do not understand the CROSS CONTAMINATION that occurs in many ways.
Unlike Big Box stores who solely look for that magic word on the packaging to generate sales for the ever emerging GF market and who select products by those manufacturers who are paying for slotting fees, who can mass produce and who can do it on consignment. At Strictly Gluten Free we have strict guidelines and follow our core values in selecting a prospective new product to carry in our stores. When you shop our store and even online you can feel confident that each product has been hand selected and over 95% of the products carried have been personally sampled to ensure quality. With the most reassuring point being that we select only those products where the manufacturer has either tested their products to be Gluten Free in one of three ways:
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James Earl Jones, Voice of Darth Vader, Loves MSNBC And Knows the Tea Party Is Racist
Actor James Earl Jones appeared on the public-radio show Smiley & West last weekend and discussed how he stuttered as a teenager. "There's a certain terror I still have about confronting people. I can't debate, I can't argue, I fall apart...I cannot be an activist, for instance, because of that."
But as Brian Maloney reported, host Tavis Smiley wanted to draw his politics out. Jones quickly obliged by saying he simply cannot get enough of watching MSNBC, even though he is the voice of CNN, and agrees with the MSNBC notion that the Tea Party must be racist to oppose Obama (audio and transcript below):
TAVIS SMILEY: You suggested earlier in this conversation that there are reasons why you have never been and will never be an activist. Obviously you have played on the stage and on the screen roles that were political in nature. You referenced Obama a moment ago. Are you a political person, though? You might not be an activist, but are you a political junkie, are you a political person in any way?
JAMES EARL JONES: I listen as much as I can. I'm always on MSNBC. I can't get enough of it. I even venture into the right wing talk shows sometimes.
SMILEY: So sometimes you turn to Fox then?
JONES: Yes.
WEST: Nothing wrong with that. You want to find out why people are wrong as well as right, you know what I mean. [Laughter]
JONES: Knowledge is all over the place.
WEST: Absolutely. You can learn from anybody, any perspective in that sense, absolutely.
JONES: I think I figured out the Tea Party. I think I… I do understand racism because I was taught to be one by my grandmother. My grandmother was part Cherokee Choctaw Indian, part black. She hated everybody. She taught all of her children and grandchildren to be racist, to hate white people and to distrust black people.
CORNEL WEST: Who does she love then?
JONES: Nobody.
WEST: Nobody at all.
JONES: But that allowed me to figure it out for myself. I think I know what racism is better than anybody who's ever been a racist.
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Yes, this great actor...
Submitted by rickbren on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 11:42pm.
. . . has turned to the Dark Side. . .
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He seems confused
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 12:02am.
........almost like he was run over by a herd of wildebeests
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Submitted by OuttaMyWay on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 8:20am.
You win comment of the day!
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Considering Ed, Chrissy, Maddow, and the rest of gang
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 8:30am.
Work there, I would have to agree
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Well, at least he's a
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 12:13am.
Well, at least he's a self-admitted racist...............which is more than I can say for most of the other race-baiters.
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Quell Surprise!!!!!
Submitted by adamsmith on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 9:15am.
I knew this guy was a white hating racist as far back as the Eddie Murphy movie. He had way too much fun acting the King and looking down on whites. Most blacks HATE Whitey. Nothing new there, move along.....
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Loves MSNBC And Knows the Tea Party Is Racist
Submitted by tcm14 on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 12:14am.
That is a redundant statement.
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If it is RACIST...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 12:20am.
...to vote for or against a candidate based on their skin pigment, what does that say about 95% of black voters?
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You know, he's a great actor,
Submitted by pilgrim4jc on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 1:22am.
You know, he's a great actor, but not very sharp about politics. He is also pretty old, I give him a pass on this one.
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I always suspected that MSNBC
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I always suspected that MSNBC was part of the Dark Side.
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The list of actors that I am
Submitted by michael lofrano on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 6:46am.
The list of actors that I am able to watch on screen without being revolted grows smaller and smaller. Sigh.
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Also known as...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 7:54am.
...the voice of Darth Vader. nuff said? Not really.
CORNEL WEST: Who does [your grandmother] love then?
JONES: Nobody.
Which should beg the obvious question... "How were his parents even born?"
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<draws lightsaber>
Submitted by Kodos on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 8:11am.
"You have failed me for the last time, Mr. Jones..."
(c'mon; you knew it was coming!!)
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Old film boxers never die,
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Old film boxers never die, they just drool into the spit bucket.
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Submitted by mustango on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 8:57am.
That's not true! That's impossible!!
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What a sad voice
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 9:07am.
Well, another black actor to put on the list of black actors to avoid. And I file that under the list of actors in general to avoid because they make it a point to bring up race, which deserves their own sub-category. So if it seems racist, they started it.
At least in Jones' case, he's just a voice in Star Wars.
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Turning to Hollywod actors
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Turning to Hollywod actors and actresses for their political leanings is like asking kindergarteners to discuss nuclear physics. There are a few good exceptions out there, but not many.
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So, it sounds like he is
Submitted by Free Stinker on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 9:46am.
So, it sounds like he is projecting his own hatred and racism on The Tea Party.
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His grandmother wasn't a racist.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 10:46am.
She was just a bitter, hateful old woman. Mmmm, much like most of the women on the left regardless of their ages.
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Hes fat!
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And apparently afflicted with Alzheimers!
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Submitted by c5then on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 11:17am.
Just as Luke was racist for opposing Darth Vader because his voice was a black actor.
Anyone who disagrees with a black person, someone who looks like a black person, or someone who agrees with a black person is obviously racist.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
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As a person of absolutely zero "color"..
Submitted by xyzzypoofs on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 11:45am.
who also voted for Herman Cain TWICE by the way, I am getting sick and tired of being assumed racist simply because I refuse to applaud a Marxist for destroying this country; or support a group of people who desire a non-Marxist form of government.
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Beringer Vineyards, a unit of Beringer Blass Wine Estates, and Edna Valley Vineyard are jointly sponsoring Meissner Filtration Products, Inc. to Associate Membership in The Wine Institute. Meissner is a manufacturer of filters and related products for the California wine industry. Beringer Blass Wine Estates is a global premium wine company, which grows, produces and markets a broad range of premium wines from Australia, California, Europe and South America. In the United States, the company produces critically acclaimed wines at multiple California wineries including Beringer Vineyards, Chateau St. Jean, Chateau Souverain, Meridian Vineyards, Stags' Leap Winery, Etude Wines and St. Clement Vineyards. Edna Valley Vineyard is a partnership between Paragon Vineyard Company, owned by the Niven family, and the Chalone Wine Group. Established in 1984, Meissner Filtration Products, Inc. is a California-based manufacturer of membrane filters and related products serving the wine industry. Meissner's wine industry products include SteriLUX® PVDF and STyLUX® PES membrane filters for wine stabilization and sterile filtration, ALpHA®, DeltaMaxTM and DeltaDepthTM polypropylene filters for clarification and prefiltration, ProtecTM glass fiber/PVDF prefilters, UltraCap® high-capacity capsules for prefiltration and sterile filtration in small wineries without stainless housings, electropolished 316L stainless steel filter housings, and Accuflux® filter integrity test instruments.


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Advice given by police ahead of Diwali celebrations
4:04pm Wednesday 7th November 2012 in Redbridge By Melanie Attlesey
POLICE have handed out to advice to residents who will celebrate a Hindu festival next week.
During Diwali, or 'the festival of light', police experience a rise in burglaries due to more gold and jewellery being present in Asian homes across the borough.
Redbridge Police have given the following advice in a bid to prevent people becoming victims of theft:
- Be careful who you show your jewellery to
- Buy a small safe to keep valuable and sentimental items in and secure it to a wall or solid floor
- Do not keep large amounts of jewellery at home if possible
- Do not keep valuable jewellery on display
- Take a photo of each item on a dark background and keep a receipt of when an item was bought
- Inform your insurance company of any items of high value
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9:58pm Wed 7 Nov 12
Cornbeefur says...
I can think of a better idea:
Move to a less Crime Ridden area?
12:01am Thu 8 Nov 12
NDevoto says...
Cornbeefur wrote:What? Like Marylebone?
Good advice by the Police.
I can think of a better idea:
Move to a less Crime Ridden area?
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This is a great American classic, one of our best dishes. It has to be gooey, made with a really rich béchamel and with a Cheddar that sings with flavor. I love it when the cheese on top gets burnt and chewy, and I love to scrape up the dried bits that stick to the pan.
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 2 cups milk
- Dash of freshly ground black pepper
- ½ teaspoon Tabasco, or more to taste
- ½ cup heavy cream or crème fraîche
- ½ pound macaroni elbows or double-elbows
- ¾ pound grated Cheddar cheese
Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add the flour, and stir it with a wooden spoon or spatula for around 3 minutes, until the roux is frothy and the taste of raw flour is gone. Meanwhile, heat the milk in another pan. Add the warm milk gradually to the roux, stirring hard all the while. Turn up the heat and cook, stirring, until the sauce is just at the boiling point. Turn down the heat and let it simmer for a few minutes. Now add the pepper and Tabasco. Don't be afraid of the Tabasco: it will help to bring out the taste of the cheese. Stir in the heavy cream or crème fraîche and simmer a little longer, until the flavors are blended.
Cook and drain the macaroni.
Mix three-quarters of the grated cheese into the simmering sauce. As soon as it melts, combine it with the drained macaroni, and pour it into a baking pan. Sprinkle the top with the remaining cheese, and bake for 20 to 30 minutes in a 350° oven
© 1983 James Beard
Note from Cookstr's Editors
Nutritional information is based on 6 servings.