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North Coast Rhone Rangers Tasting - Oakland at Campovida
North Coast Chapter of the Rhone Rangers
Saturday, February 8, 2014 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PST)
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San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
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** Online ticket sales are now closed, and available at the door for $20**
Join the North Coast Chapter of the Rhone Rangers for a afternoon of Rhone wines at the Campovida Taste of Place tasting room in Oakland Saturday Feb 8th from 1-4 pm.
Like our previous Chapter tastings, this will be a small focused event, allowing for engagement and exploration. Attendees will receive a clipboard with detailed information on the wines being poured, and will also vote for their favorite wines of the day.
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Most of our members our small, family run operations, making very small lots of Rhone wines. Interact with winery owners and winemakers as you taste, compare and ask questions. Tasting is only $20 ($15 in advance) to taste 35+ wines from 12 producers, less than the tasting fees of many wineries. (See below for current list of participating wineries.) Tickets are limited, and usually sell out.
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For only $5 more purchase a VIP ticket to start the tasting early, at Noon, before the doors open to the public. Tickets are very limited, to keep this tasting exclusive.
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Nosh on Paella from Nora Spanish Cuisine
Highly celebrated Spanish food caterer Nora Spanish Cuisine will have their paella booth set up and would be selling plates of their renowned cuisine. This is a East Bay food purveyor not to be missed!
Please note, ticket sales are non-refundable.
Participating Wineries Include
- Arrowood Winery
- Campovida (also our gracious host)
- Carica Wines
- Cornerstone Cellars
- Eric Kent Wines
- Miner Family Winery
- JC Cellars
- Stark Wine Co
- Stage Left Cellars
- Two Shepherds
- Urbano Cellars
- Urban Legend
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Campovida Taste of Place
95 Linden St
Saturday, February 8, 2014 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PST)
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Anyone heading out of ohio and if so from when and where? Were thinkin thursday morning bright and early from mansfield area.
Anyone heading out of ohio and if so from when and where? Were thinkin thursday morning bright and early from mansfield area.
Columbus here. Most likely can't leave until late Thursday or super early Friday.
Trying to get a group together to cruise down on thurs bright an early. Any takers?
theres a group of us, looking like 5-6 leaving from dayton are around 10ish thrusday.
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i think we were planning to leave mansfield area around 3:30ish 4am on thurs morning or maby from cbus depending on if we stay at my girlfriends house. We were told there is a group of 8 or so heading out of florence ky around 7 meeting at about 6:30. Who all are you guys rolling with? I believe i talked to NINOHALE and he is the one that informed me of that.
doc.crush is also one that will be leaving from the cbus area thurs morning if we can organize these different groups into one that would be a good group to cruise down with sounds like each person i talk to say there leaving with around 8 or more cars.
leaving columbus thursday morning for ATL (staying at families house thurs night) than ATL to helen on friday morning.
I'd love to roll with some others on the way however, i'll have a few other cars with me as well!
ill be in this, a buddy in a noggy s4, a buddy in my bmw wagon as support, my other buddy in his s2000, and maybe a few others.
A group of about half a dozen are rolling out from Waterford MI early thursday morning we're planning to stop in knoxville TN for the night and then roll through the tail of the dragon friday morning before making the rest of the trip to Helen.
we should be rolling through Dayton around noon if any of you guys were interested in meeting up and caravaning.
Hey I am looking to go Thurs morning early, I need someone to cruise with and if you guys are ok with it I will cruise with you I am in Florence Ky and would just meet up with you guys on 75
Ben, the slide is south of the Jelico exit. You would be able to get off at jelico and hit US25 from there toward lafolette
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nate was the original plan 6:30 and 7? Now were wait a lil longer n meet up with them? Thats fine by me just makin sure.... is Dave commin down later or is work not permiting?
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Chance946 is gonna be rolling with me.... He doesnt wanna spend money on fuel so hes gonna be in my car and another buddy with a stanced evo on works is going to be in my car also... he was contemplating driving his evo down but i think he will take the cheaper route as shane did and just come with me. We will be in my green tdi. Were going to stay in cbus wed night with my girlfriend n just roll from there and meet you guys in Florence. From there we will just follow you. Dave sent me something on mautofied for the tdi on the sti and we conversed at little and he said he was thinking about bringing the sti down to sowo but i havent talked to him since.
UPDATE: Due to the closing of 75S in TN we are going a diff route.
Meet at the rest stop just past Florence at 7am sharp. We are leaving at 715 to head to Louisville to meet up with them and head to Helen.
PM me if you have any questions.
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RTP Pathways to Opportunity- Caldwell County
Research Triangle Park
Friday, November 16, 2012 from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
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San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
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Join Dr. Ken Boham, and other leaders of Caldwell County, for a tour of significant programs and a discussion on our economic future
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday returned home a stolen silver pendant that once belonged to Russia's last tsar and surfaced on a online auction site last year with a starting price of $500.
In a conciliatory gesture, U.S. Ambassador John Beyrle handed the pendant to Russian prosecutorial official Vladimir Markin in a small ceremony that brought U.S. lawmen and Russian cultural agents to the ambassador's residence in central Moscow.
"This is not just a story about a small medallion, it is also a big example of successful cooperation that is building a better relationship," Beyrle said.
Among more than 200 items authorities say were stolen four years ago by a married Russian couple working at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg -- the Winter Palace of the tsars -- the pendant emerged on a U.S. auction site late last year.
Russia had asked the United States to recover the pendant, which is 2.6 cm long and 1.7 cm wide and depicts a tiny portrait of eighteenth century Czar Peter the Great.
"We were able to locate the individual who had it, seize it and bring it back home," said Special-Agent-in-Charge Leigh Winchell, adding that it was found in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington.
He refused to identify who had the piece but said legal action against the person would take place.
Russia's cultural preservation agency, Rosokhrankultura, said the pendant once belonged to Czar Nicholas II, who was killed by the Bolsheviks after they swept to power in 1918. Continued...


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Is your FL CCW license in the process of getting to you?
If not, you'd better hurry to get it. .
If you've processed and paid, I hope it gets to you very very soon.
Carry, and be safe.
This is a discussion on The ONE time I left without my gun. within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Well, we all hear of the "You can't plan a disaster" phrase. Well tonight it nearly turned out that way! I don't have my CCW ...
Well, we all hear of the "You can't plan a disaster" phrase. Well tonight it nearly turned out that way! I don't have my CCW yet, but I always bring my pistol with me in my car. I park my car to where if I need it, I can get back to to it quickly and I always keep my key in hand.
Well about 1 AM, I rode down to the local hole in the wall gas station. I live in a rather crummy area full of scum, child molesters and hicks with complete disregard for the law. Well I pull up, and there's a truck next to me with a bunch of "good ol boys" in it. They had the doors open and were all listening to music and lounging around. One was outside leaning against the wall, they were all eyeballing me. I walked by and politely said "Good morning." The one against the wall got in my personal space and I could smell the alcohol. He was also holding a Coca-Cola bottle that appeared to have something other than Coke in it. He started shouting obscenities, and thats normally when I would have gone back to my car and tried to leave. Well, tonight is the ONE night I didn't bring my pistol. It has some problems that I discovered earlier today and I don't trust it. It still fires, and it would have been better than nothing in retrospect. There were other people at this gas station so I made my way inside since the door was closer. He didn't follow me inside and I told the clerk. The clerk basically acted like she didn't care, and said they'd been trying to start fights all night long! Well, God was on my side tonight and my friend happened to be there. He was packing and has plenty more where that came from in his truck. He walked me over to my van so I could leave, as they were trying to pick fights with him too, he hopped in my van and I drove him across the lot to his truck to avoid walking past them again. We both left and called the police, so I hope they showed up and arrested them.
Thankfully no weapons were needed, but if my friend wasn't there, I would've been in some trouble. No phone, no weapon, a clerk that didn't care, and I had to walk right past them again to get to my car. It was one of those times where you can just feel something bad was about to happen, and I'm a small guy, 140 lbs and 5' 7". These guys were huge.
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Is your FL CCW license in the process of getting to you?
If not, you'd better hurry to get it. .
If you've processed and paid, I hope it gets to you very very soon.
Carry, and be safe.
Great advice.
Like some very wise sage said on here months ago: "If I'm wearing pants, I'm carrying".
It only takes one time.
"...bad decisions that turn out well often make heroes."
Gary D. Mitchell, A Sniper's Journey: The Truth About the Man and the Rifle, P. 103, NAL Caliber books, 2006, 1st Ed.
I'm glad things didn't go south on you. In the future, though, pistol with you or not, you might consider finding a better place or time to gas up.
If getting gas is that important, perhaps a better location might be needed. I would have demanded the clerk to call PD, once someone was looking for a fight with or without my gun on me.
You cannot use deadly force without good reason and drunks have poor judgment.
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Glad to hear you got out of that one. I at least always have a knife in my pocket or inside my waistband....I feel naked if I don't have my watch or my knife...I would say my pistol, but I haven't carried long enough to get that feeling yet.
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Glad that everything worked out OK.
Hope that you get your LTC soon as it sounds like you truly need it where you're living right now.
In the meantime buy yourself a can of Fox Labs OC spray as that will buy you some critical time and will usually make it easier for you to strategically exit a dangerous situation if you are unarmed.
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You need to make sure to tell the manager, THEN THE OWNER of this "fine" establishment.
Managers may not care, but you can always say "they got their chance".... the owner usually does care. Let him know.
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With apologies to those who do not carry all the times they could ............. it is their choice.
I carry all waking hours as many folks know .. and it is NOT because I am in high crime land. Heck I am at home most of each day.
However ....... the last thing I ever want to happen, on that day in a million when I am facing my life being extinguished ... is to reach down and find an empty holster or no holster at all.
I do not therefore have to make an effort to remember when I go out, to ''strap it on'' .... I know anyways I could forget. It is like my wrist watch - always there .... and so the same way I can check time any time - so too can I reach down and know my lifeline is there.
I fully expect to join the worm food menu with no recourse to such action - sure hope so. But out of two epitaphs would prefer this one ...."He went down fighting against unbeatable odds" - and not this one! - "Died because of the one time he forgot to be armed"
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To tell the truth, I can count at least 5 or 6 occasions within the last 6 months that something similar has happened to me. I live over 40 miles from the nearest meaningful store or town, in Fountain outside of Panama City. My only choice at night is to hit up the 24/7 gas station thats a few miles from home. I wasn't gassing up, my little brothers had a friend over (celebrating their summer break) and we were all rocking out the Xbox Live, having a good time. I went out to replenish the chip / soda supply. :)
I almost forgot to add, the moron spit his drink at me as I was walking inside the store. I'm glad none of it hit me, but his buddies started laughing which made me THAT much more upset. I'm just glad my friend happened to be there at 1 AM.
As a "good ol' boy", I'm glad you got out of it OK. You didn't get hurt, and it sounds like you learned something.
I commend your friend for not branishing his weapon. You both were able to leave without having to resort to that. Its sometimes a fine line and sometimes that line is mighty fine.
5'7", 140 pounds. Does carrying a 45 make you 6'6" and add 100 pounds?
You are who and what you are. Period. It's attitude and confidence that makes predators take a second look and decide it's not worth it to strike. I used to be a State Probation and Parole Officer. Back then they weren't armed by dept policy. My bosses agreed that since I had the worst of the worst on my client lists, IF I wanted on specific occasions, I could carry my 1911. If I had to shoot the bosses would back me up since the laws said I was a certified Law Enforcement Officer. It was just dept POLICY that prohibited arming officers. There were often times I went deep into "Indian Country" unarmed. Not everybody is impressed by the local P.O. I made certain that my "clients" knew that if anybody messed with me I'd be sure and take it out on THEM. They were pretty good about whipping the neighborhood into line. Still, a lot of folks who weren't impressed by my client list would have enjoyed tuning me up, just for kicks. I was never challenged.
Today I work in an inner city high school and I'm disarmed daily by the law. The area surrounding the school is a DMZ and the thugs are in my classrooms. In the past eleven years many teachers have been assaulted and some of these punks are HUGE. I have never been touched but I've been TRIED plenty of times. I find standing your ground with calm determination and an unflinching attitude of preparation gets their attention. That and the fact of showing my students my old military photo album. It was decades ago but they don't seem to notice. My bearing is the same as it was then. I guess you can take the boy out of the army but....The personal attitude you project when you're armed should be exactly the same as when you're not.
One more thing, I spent some time as a bouncer in a chic Coconut Grove club frequented by the cocaine cowboys here in Miami during the 1980's. There were fights every night. I find that drunks are pretty easy to handle: They're uncoordinated, and off balance. They can't think straight and often "telegraph" their intentions with body language before they attack. Of course the down side is that they feel no pain. You could break every bone in the body and they won't scream until the morning and they wake up...sober. But they will still react often to non-lethal defense methods like a good stun gun (or TASER) or even OC. Sometimes they can be impressed with the sudden presentation of an expandable baton like an ASP.
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I do night security in Panama City and have done bouncing here too. I know how to deal with people, but I was alone, there were 4 guys, one drunk and the rest appeared to be sober, and the one confronting me didn't seem to be defenseless, he appeared to be wild/rampant and ready to start swinging like a wild buck. He was obviously drunk but not near the mark of "I can't fight, I'm too drunk."
I don't care about the store, I'll never go there again. Its a hole in the wall place and there are no major oil signs anywhere. The gas pumps themselves look prehistoric, I'd be scared to pump gas out of one... lol


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The Classic Valiant 40

This boat made its debut on the sailing scene in the mid '70s and subsequently altered the attitudes of performance cruisers everywhere. Can you identify it?

OK, dear readers, I hope you didn't stop by Sailnet looking for fun, or even some modest enlightenment about how to do something on or with your boat. Nope, today it's time to test your sailboat IQ. We are going back in history a bit, but not too far, about 30 years ago, to the birth of an American classic. Ready or not, here we go.

What boat launched the storied career of naval architect Bob Perry? What boat is usually considered the first performance cruiser? What boat did Mark Schrader sail on his 1983 epic circumnavigation south of the five great capes? What boat was named cruiser of the decade, by Sail Magazine in 1980 and inducted into the Sailboat Hall of Fame in 1997? What boat did Francis Stokes sail in the 1976 and 1980 OSTARs? What boat epitomized the dreaded pox, that came to haunt the fiberglass boatbuilding industry in the late 70s and early 80s? What boatand this one needs an asteriskhas been in continuous production longer than other? What boat is built today on an inland lake, a long way from the ocean? What boat represents one of the best buys on the used boat market for blue water cruising? By now you've either quit reading and clicked over to something more interesting or likely figured out that this is a trick quiz and there is only one answer. If your answer is the legendary Valiant 40, you're right and that means you really know you boats. Or, like me, you're just getting older.

The first Valiant 40, hull number 101, rolled off the line at the Uniflite factory near Seattle in 1974. Two hundred Valiant 40s were built before the new Valiant 42 was launched in 1992. The 42 is essentially the same hull as the original 40 (with a small bowsprit and other upgrades), which is the reason why the Valiant 40/42 is still considered, in production' and requires an asterisk. In 1984, Rich Worstell, a Valiant dealer who developed a thriving business despite an unlikely location on the shores of Lake Texoma, acquired the Valiant tooling and moved the company to its present home in land-locked central Texas. More than 50 new 42s have been completed at Valiant's plant in Gordonville near the Oklahoma border. Depending on your budget, either an old Valiant 40 or new 42 should be on your short list if you're looking for a serious blue water cruiser.

Shown here in St. Georges, Bermuda, Valiant 40s have recorded passages to destinations on almost every continent around the world.

The Valiant 40 has been everywhere and done just about everything, says designer Bob Perry, what else can you say? Of course the boat was an unlikely success story. Unlikely indeed, the origin of the Valiant 40 gives hope to all young sailors and aspiring designers who scribble on cocktail napkins and dream of building the ultimate boat and actually making money too.

Perry, Nathan Rothman, and Stan and Sylvia Dabney were friends living in Seattle in the early 70s. Perry, who was actually living aboard the Dabney's Islander 36, was fresh from college and desperate to design boats. Rothman, who had been building ferro-cement boats with designer, author and Pacific Northwest cruising guru, Jay Benford, was anxious to build in fiberglass. The Dabneys had tasted the cruising life and were seriously infected with dancing visions of tropical islands, a condition heightened by the perpetual gray hue hovering over Seattle, they wanted a blue water boat to cruise the world. What emerged from this friendship was the Valiant 40.

According to Stan and Sylvia Dabney, a picture of the yacht, Holger Danske, a lovely Swedish double ender designed by Aage Nielson, inspired Perry's design of the Valiant 40s stern. Perry readily admits that a canoe stern was incorporated into the boat more for its looks than seakeeping characteristics and as a blatant attempt to tap into the success of the Westsail 32. The Westsail changed the world, Perry says, cruising hit the mainstream when a picture of a 32 was on the cover of Time Magazine. Everybody wanted to go cruising, and the only way to do it was in a double-ender like the Westsail. Unfortunately, the Westsail 32 didn't sail very well.

One advantage the Valiant 40 enjoyed over its predecesors was a hydrodynamically superior transom, which influenced cruising designs for years to come. Here the same transom was used for the Valiant 50.

The Valiant 40's rear end had better hydrodynamics than the Westsail and Perry's version of the double-ended tumble home stern influenced the shape of cruising boat design for years. From the waterline up however, there is little evidence that the Valiant 40 is anything but another heavy, full-keeled blue water cruiser. There is a decent sweep to the sheer line, the bow is proud and the overhangs are moderate. The cabin trunk stretches well forward and is a bit boxy looking. The rig and deck hardware are robust. The cockpit is small and somewhat uncomfortable. However, the molded bulwark that makes working the foredeck in a blow less terrifying is one of my favorite features.

Below the waterline, Perry created a hull shape that while not radical, was dangerously modern for a cruising boat in the early 70s, after all, the displacement/length ratio was a skimpy 250. A cutaway forefoot and aft section reduce the wetted surface area. A large powerful fin keel provides plenty of directional stability yet allows for a degree of nimbleness that was then uncommon in a cruising boat. The protected rudder is mounted on a full skeg. On paper at least, Perry had made a breakthrough. The Valiant 40 would clearly outperform her full-keeled cruising cousins, but safety, comfort and accommodations were not compromised.

Building the boat proved more challenging than designing it, especially during the oil embargo of 1973. Rothman wanted to build the hulls himself, but he couldn't find or afford the resin. Finally, he contracted with Uniflight, a successful powerboat builder that had built sailboats in the past. The Dabney's became the marketing arm of the operation. The original name of the company was intended to be Voyager Yachts, and a fancy VY logo with a star in the middle was commissioned. Unfortunately, that name was already taken, so a new name with a VY was needed, hence Valiant Yachts. The star survived the name change. The boat struck a cord with the sailing public and by the time hull number one was finally completed, the fledgling firm had orders for eight more.

"The boat struck a cord with the sailing public and by the time hull number one was finally completed, the fledgling firm had orders for eight more."

The boat was soon tested in the real, watery world and the results were astounding. Between 1975 and 1979 Bill and Mary Black sailed hull number 107 around the world and were awarded the coveted Blue Water Medal by the Cruising Club of America. While the Valiant 40 is well proven as a cruising boat, with numerous circumnavigations to its credit, its record in short-handed distance races has cemented its reputation as an ocean going thoroughbred. In 1976 Francis Stokes' Moonshine acquitted herself well in the OSTAR, being the first monohull to finish the single-handed race from Plymouth England to Newport, RI. Stokes sailed Moonshine in the 1980 race as well and also won both legs of the Bermuda One-Two races in 1978. Dan Byrne, an inexperienced sailor, sailed hull number 101 in the inaugural 1982-83 B.O.C. Around the World Race. Mark Schrader's 1983 non-stop circumnavigation in Resourceful was the fastest ever at the time. More recently, Valiant 40s and 42s have faired well in events ranging from the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers to the Caribbean 1500 where it has won its class several times.

But the original Valiant 40 does have its warts, or I should say, its blisters. According to Stan Dabney, who has owned hull number 108, Native Sun for 28 years, the well-known account of Valiants blistering because Uniflite switched to fire retardant resin, is only part of the story. Dabney claims that the blisters occurred when Uniflite switched to an inferior resin. Like other builders, Uniflite was already using a fire retardant resin, but during the energy crunch in the mid 70s, some resin wasn't up to snuff. Dan Spurr, the former Editor of Practical Sailor, wrote in his book, Heart Of Glass, that the questionable resin had a trade name of Hetron.

For a run of over 100 hulls, the Valiant 40's builders used inferior resin, leading to the need for substantial aftermarket repairs on those boats. Here one victim of those circumstances sits in the builder's yard near Lake Texoma after having had its gelcoat stripped.

The results of boats molded with this flawed resin were not pretty. While some Valiant 40s were horribly scarred with deep, structural fiberglass blisters up to 10 inches in diameter and requiring relamination, others experienced cosmetic blemishes restricted to the gelcoat layer. Still, you should be aware that boats built between 1976 and 1981, or hull numbers 120 to 249 all had some degree of osmotic blisters. As a result, a 1975 used Valiant 40 is often more valuable than a 1980 model. Worstell solved the problem for good in 1984 by switching to an isophthalic resin.

So does this mean you should avoid Valiant 40s built during this period? Absolutely not. Although most marine surveyors claim that only way to permanently fix a badly blistered boat is to completely peel the hull and re-fiberglass it, in most cases the blisters are simply unsightly. Blistered Valiant 40s are in some ways, one of the best values on the used boat market. And besides, by now many of older 40s have been properly repaired at some point.

Dabney, who today owns Offshore Atlantic Yachts in Riviera Beach, FL, notes the market is very healthy for used Valiant 40s. We sell eight to 10 Valiant 40s a year, blister and non blister boats. They're a proven world cruiser that can be bought for a third the price of a new boat. If you have $100,000 to spend and want to sail around the world in a fast, safe, seakindly boat, an old Valiant 40 is hard to beat.

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OK, so Mr. Kretschmer has once again piqued your interest and you want to find further information about the classic Valiant 40. You're in luck because SailNet hosts two great resources for that purpose. Start by checking out the new website that evolved from the Valiant Owners E-Mail Discussion List, the Valiant Owners Group. Of course you can always post a query on the E-Mail Discussion List and use that means to get in touch with some of the more active Valiant 40 owners. What's not to like?

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Although at the Cotton Bowl we went to a dude ranch type place and they grilled steaks for us. Have a picture of Andre Jones surveying the scene. They also had a Beef Bowl in a room overlooking the field at the Cowboys Stadium, where we tried to see which team could eat more steak. I think A&M might have won that too.
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posted at 2:21 am on November 29, 2009 by Doctor Zero
Jonah Goldberg of National Review recently wrote about the high-stakes political battle over health care reform:
Some moderate Democrats are making a side bet that they can vote for it out of solidarity and then run back to the center come the 2010 elections.
Well, I say let it ride. And just to make it more interesting, Republicans should promise to repeal "ObamaCare" if they get a congressional majority in 2010. As National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru argues, that way moderate Democrats won't be able to run away from their votes come 2010. They'll be on notice that this will be the campaign issue of the election. And moderate Republicans will be on notice to resist the temptation to tinker with Obamacare rather than defenestrate it once it's passed.
Sure, I'd rather see this health-care proposal die stillborn (and that's still quite possible). But if it passes, the upside is that Americans will finally be given a stark philosophical choice on a fundamental issue. That's much rarer than you might think (recall that the Iraq War and the bailouts were bipartisan affairs).
Earlier in the article, Goldberg complains that "the quest for the middle ground usually rewards the worst kinds of politicians — those devoid of any core convictions and only concerned with feathering their own nests — and yields the worst kinds of policies." The health-care debate presents the kind of sharp ideological contrast that makes it hard for unprincipled politicians to seek shelter in the mushy bog of the middle ground. Over the weekend, the libertarian Cato Institute calculated that the true cost of ObamaCare would exceed $6 trillion, after the various deceits used to make it seem close to revenue-neutral are stripped away. How much does real estate in the "middle ground" of such outrageous spending cost? Three trillion? When a radical program of such massive size is proposed, anything less than determined opposition is equivalent to submission.
I appreciate Goldberg's point about the kind of muddled, confusing, and ultimately ineffective legislation produced by the quest for the middle ground. However, I wonder how truly desirable these uncompromising contests between capitalism and socialism are. Aren't elected officials, especially Congress and the President, supposed to represent all of their constituents? Wouldn't that mean listening to the concerns of both liberals and conservatives, and trying to craft legislation that satisfies both sides to some degree? Are the members of a winning political coalition supposed to have absolute power to do whatever they want, even if they won with only about half the popular vote, while the other side sits in obedient silence until their next chance at the ballot box?
In the course of endorsing a Dick Cheney run for the Presidency in 2012, Jon Meacham of Newsweek writes:
One of the problems with governance since the election of Bill Clinton has been the resolute refusal of the opposition party (the GOP from 1993 to 2001, the Democrats from 2001 to 2009, and now the GOP again in the Obama years) to concede that the president, by virtue of his victory, has a mandate to take the country in a given direction.
I don't think most Americans are under the impression they're voting for a dictator every four years. Bill Clinton won the Presidency with a mere 43% of the popular vote. What sort of "mandate" did that give him to "take the country in a given direction?"
Of course, we cannot parcel out presidential powers based on the scale of the candidate's electoral victory. The proper functioning of our government, and the harmony of our democracy, demand that we acknowledge the full legitimacy of the man or woman who sits in the Oval Office. The Left did their country no favors by bitterly dragging the 2000 elections out until 2008. The complementary aspect of this principle is that strong electoral victories cannot logically yield enhanced "mandates" to take the country in various radical directions. If close elections don't produce miniature Presidents who just keep the seat warm until the next election, then landslide victories don't produce super-Presidents with turbocharged authority. A President who carries 49 states, and wins 70% of the popular vote, is not entitled to stuff the opposing 30% of the electorate in the trunk and take America out for a joy ride.
The Declaration of Independence states that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed." The American understanding of democracy does not envision voters as slaves who enjoy the privilege of voting for a new master every few years. When the Declaration speaks of the right – and, later the duty – of the people to abolish tyrannical governments, it renders the notion of "mandates" to impose radical change on unwilling citizens absurd.
The vital role of consent in the structure of a just government is one of the most powerful ideas ever advanced by the human race. On the other hand, the belief that consent can be manufactured by democratic majorities is one of the most cherished illusions of activist government. The dissent of a minority is not rendered irrelevant by victory in a popular vote… but the health-care debate in the Senate proceeds on the assumption that victory in a parliamentary struggle between a hundred elected officials will compel the consent of the millions of citizens – now a sizable majority of the population, based on the latest polls – who strenuously object to ObamaCare. If Senate Democrats win this debate, huge amounts of your liberty will be destroyed, and vast sums of money will be seized from taxpayers… and you will not be allowed to object. Any attempt to withhold your consent from this economy-shattering, life-changing radical legislation will end with you sitting in a prison cell.
The consent of the governed cannot be expressed solely through a semi-annual vote for elected representatives. It can only be respected by placing strict limits on what those representatives can vote for. Some would argue that requiring the consent of the entire population to authorize massive government programs would effectively render those programs impossible, because 100% agreement is virtually impossible to achieve. Exactly. The entire apparatus of socialist government is a Constitutional violation that would never receive the total support of those who are controlled by its regulations, or compelled to pay for its agenda. For this reason, its agenda should never even reach the serious discussion stage, never mind legislative implementation.
Americans concerned about the size of their government should not be forced into a permanent defensive posture against an endless series of aggressive initiatives. If the needs and desires of some can transcend the liberty of others, then liberty itself is a meaningless concept. Freedom is not what you have left after everyone else is finished making demands of you. The need for your consent is not respected when your only hope of withholding it lies in historic midterm electoral victories and the rapid construction of huge Congressional majorities. The patriots who declared their independence from England perceived an essential truth about the nature of just government, which we have become almost afraid to contemplate.
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The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, claimed Washington and Ankara had an agreement to allow troops to establish a 20 kilometre "buffer zone" in Iraq to prevent a repeat of the Kurdish refugee crisis at the end of the 1991 Gulf war.
The UNHCR, which has three monitoring teams in the area, says it has not detected any sign of refugee movements towards the Turkish border.
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Turkish media said Ankara had made the move after two Tomahawk cruise missiles malfunctioned on Sunday and landed near villages in the country's south-east. No-one was injured in the accidents.
Ankara-based political commentator Semih Idiz said the Turkish Government had lost its grip on the northern Iraq issue and had harmed relations with the US and other key allies. "Ankara's attitude has screwed up some major American plans," he said. "It's upsetting the Americans no end."
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It is still uncertain in my mind if anyone still has any interest in the ongoing saga of Oscar Pistorious and his shooting of Reeva Steenkamp. The only thing we do know for certain, the only thing both defense and prosecutor agree upon is that Reeva IS dead. OK, they both agree that Oscar did shoot someone which most probably was Reeva. The case is now stalled over the issue as to when did Reeva last eat food before she died. The prosecutor insists the presence of good in her stomach means she had eaten about two hours prior to death. The defense had Christina Lundgren, an expert on food in stomachs testify and she insists one can still have food in the stomach several hours after eating. She cited several examples. So, is Oscar right they ate at 7:00 p.m. and shortly after went to bed or is the prosecution right in arguing they ate and shortly after he killed her?
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Stephens Co. Announces STAR Student, Teacher
Stephens County names its STAR student and teacher for 2014.
This week, the Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce announced that Connor Roberts is the STAR Student for the Stephens County School System.
Connor is the son of Barry and Lynn Roberts of Toccoa.
He selected Mrs. Tamara Cash as his STAR Teacher.
Mrs. Cash taught Connor in Math I in the 9th grade and Calculus in the 12th grade.
The STAR, or Student Teacher Achievement Recognition, program is in its 56th year and is sponsored by the Professional Association of Georgia Educators Foundation, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and the Georgia Department of Education.
To obtain the STAR nomination, high school seniors must have the highest score on a single test date on the three-part SAT and be in the top 10 percent or top 10 students of their class based on grade point average.
*Editor's Note: A typographical error appeared in an earlier version of the story. We have fixed and regret that error. *


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So after years of being a jap nut, the other week I had a play in my mates 328 e36 and fell in love instantly and just yesterday swapped my corsa B for a white 316i saloon 92 reg (pics in my profile). It needs a small amount of tidying up cosmetically and suffers from the all too common tappet noise but has not lost any power or anything, just an annoying tap! But apart from that I love it and it will be a nice small project for a while and i think of it as in investment. it came with just over 100k on the clock (not bad at all for the age I think) 5 months tax etc etc so not bad really. I've already got some plans laid out after she's tidied up so I'll have to start a progress thread soon First on the list is to sort this tapping but depending on cost may just get a newer/bigger lump put in it. Thoughts guys?


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The Valco Baby Spark Duo Stroller.
The Spark Duo is the first of its kind to offer two reversible '3 in 1' seats that convert from luxurious bassinets to rear or forward facing seats. The stroller adapts to your growing children's diverse needs; whether its twins transitioning their way from infant bassinets in tandem or siblings accommodating personal preferences. The SPARK is truly brilliant, any way you switch it. Two Boot covers & Two Mattress Inserts included.
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Full Reclinable For Infant: Yes
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Child Minimum Weight / Age: Birth
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Child Length Range: 23.2 inches
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All the vet recommended foods make me sick. Any suggestions?
I've been trying to feed my cats healthier dry foods, as per Catster and my Vet recommendations. Every time I do the slow switch over, but all these dry foods make my Henry sick, except for "Good life Indoor cat formula" which many have told me isn't the best. Henry isn't a big fan of wet food, and he gets runny poopies if that's all he eats, so removing dry all together isn't an option.
Henry had a bunch of tests done, and the vet just thinks he has a sensitive tummy, especially now that he's older. My vet says to keep trying the higher quality foods until one agrees with him, but I don't think Henry, my wallet, and my carpet, can take all this experimenting much longer.
Is it OK to feed him the cheaper stuff if that's what agrees with him? My other 2 cats seem fine with anything. I'm just thinking my vet wants to make a buck on selling me the brands from his office.
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The "cheaper stuff" is not nutritious and contains a bunch of crap that can lead to cancer and other digestive issues later in life. But if that's the only thing he can eat without trouble, it may be the only choice for him. You should read the labels carefully when choosing cat food. If the first ingredient is not meat and if all you see for meat includeds the word "by products" and not just chicken, turkey, etc, then it really is not a good quality food. If you don't know what half the words in the ingredients list means, then it's probably not good. Good Life doesn't look terrible, but does contain several forms of corn and grains. I would suggest checking out Blue Buffalo (www.bluebuff.com) they have many very good foods for cats and also have a compare tool to check their ingredients against other brands. Innova EVO is also very good but may be too harsh with meat and fiber for his delicate tummy.
Allie answered on 1/2/09. Helpful? / 0
I'm all for feeding good quality food, but I think you should feed Henry what makes Henry's tummy happy. If that happens to be Goodlife, so be it.
I feed Oscar J. a Purina food and he's happy, healthy and thriving.
Oscar J. Cat answered on 1/2/09. Helpful? / 0
I have the same problem. Right now, two of my cats can only maintain firm stools by eating Science Diet Hairball Control, which provides fiber that counteracts their tendency to have loose bowels. I've had them tested for various things, and one of them had a bacterial infection that could have been causing the diarrhea, but the diarrhea returned after she was off the antibiotic. The vet suggested I try a different diet, but we don't live in the U.S. and don't have the choice in foods that Americans have. The few foods for sensitive gastrointestinal tracts that I tried got the kitty thumbs down (and had no effect on their loose stools). Yes, cheap food doesn't have what it should have, and has too much of what it shouldn't, but if that's all your cat can tolerate, better that than starving to death.
Lola answered on 1/3/09. Helpful? / 0
I agree with Oscar J. My cats (and dogs) have eaten both grocery store food and the more expensive food from the pet marts and it doesn't seem to make any difference. We've never lost an animal to a diet-related disease, and all my animals get wonderful check-ups and have no fur problems other than fleas in the summer when they get Frontlined monthly. As a matter of fact, on the advice of a groomer, I started feeding Delilah an expensive food and she started to lose her fur. Panicked, I put her back on Purina One and her fur has come back with a glossy, healthy vengence! Whatever you feed, don't just switch food suddenly. Mix the new food in the with old for a week or so to give Henry's tummy a chance to acclimate. Vets do make a profit from the food they sell, but mine stocks Science Diet and she's never insisted that I feed my 6 animals that food.
Delilah answered on 1/3/09. Helpful? / 0
I feel the food at most stores are full of bugs and are made with inferior ingredients. (most of them) there are healthy, fairly inexpensive, highly digestable foods out there. I heard on the radio a pet (vet) specialist and she recommended LIFE ABUNDANCE CAT FOOD. This stuff is amazing. My one cat, 13 yrs old, slow, lazy, not enjoying life, we switched her to this food and she perked up, smaller stools, eate less to be satisfied and returned to playing like a kitten and lived to be 18. Now my new kitten, now 9 months was raised on this food for about 5 dollars a month. Isn't your cat worth it, also all human grade food, won't find any better. If you live in the Raleigh area, there is a new company called the pet pantry. www.feedyourpets.com, I also heard on radio and also feed this to Emmi, free delivery 15ibs aprox 25 bucks, will last for aprox 4 months or so, only needs 1/2 cup a day to 2/3 cup. Hope this helps..
emmi winans answered on 1/3/09. Helpful? / 0
you mentioned how experimenting with food is hard on your wallet. try to find a store that is happy to take back foods that don't work for your pet. some may also have samples too. i do think most stores will take food back and give you a refund if your pet doesn't or can't eat it. hope that is helpful. good luck
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Avett Brothers share Home Video of their Red Rocks Experience
This year was the 10th Anniversary of The Avett Brothers playing Red Rocks and maybe you were part of the celebration at one of the three sold-out shows. This is fantastic video of the band, their families and friends behind the scenes during their Colorado visit. Love the footage with Bob Weir and the band talking up Red Rocks. Thanks so much for sharing guys, and can't wait to see you again next year!! - Frank
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