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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 12:00:28 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 5:34:04 GMT -5
The root of Valentia, meaning "brave", "strong", is VAL, meaning "strong", "manly", as in the Latin valeo, valeus, valetu-lo, validus, valide or valde. Compare the German wohl, and the English well, weal, and wealth. Members may draw their own conclusions about its suitability for settlement mayn't they.
The vegetation in the plain of Valence is mid-European with a supra-Mediterranean floor (pedunculate oak found in the coldest places, and thickets of hornbeam) mingled with thermophilic species such as downy oak, or even evergreen oaks on exposed slopes with draining soils. Found also in the south of the Drôme Valley where the Mediterranean influence finally prevails (12 miles to the South) are spontaneous populations of thyme, lavender, Euphorbia characias, Spanish broom (Genista hispanica), cane of Provence (Arundo donax), as well as Aleppo pines on the western face of the massif of Crussol. Due to the exposure and the nature of the soil, the Ardèche hills offer landscapes of garrigue and Mediterranean Oak (Quercus Ilex) from Tournon which is located fourteen miles north of Valence (hills of Cornas, Château de Crussol and Soyons). The hills (mostly limestone) have a double vegetation: Mediterranean on the southern side and Sub-continental on the northern side.
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Post by ahinton on Feb 10, 2017 8:21:32 GMT -5
The root of Valentia, meaning "brave", "strong", is VAL, meaning "strong", "manly", as in the Latin valeo, valeus, valetu-lo, validus, valide or valde. Compare the German wohl, and the English well, weal, and wealth. Members may draw their own conclusions about its suitability for settlement mayn't they. I suppose that they - or some of them - may do so, although it is uncertain not only what they might be or how much commonality there might be between them but also why they would do so in the specific context of the thread which is, after all, a particular restaurant in that area. The vegetation in the plain of Valence is mid-European with a supra-Mediterranean floor (pedunculate oak found in the coldest places, and thickets of hornbeam) mingled with thermophilic species such as downy oak, or even evergreen oaks on exposed slopes with draining soils. Found also in the south of the Drôme Valley where the Mediterranean influence finally prevails (12 miles to the South) are spontaneous populations of thyme, lavender, Euphorbia characias, Spanish broom (Genista hispanica), cane of Provence (Arundo donax), as well as Aleppo pines on the western face of the massif of Crussol. Due to the exposure and the nature of the soil, the Ardèche hills offer landscapes of garrigue and Mediterranean Oak (Quercus Ilex) from Tournon which is located fourteen miles north of Valence (hills of Cornas, Château de Crussol and Soyons). The hills (mostly limestone) have a double vegetation: Mediterranean on the southern side and Sub-continental on the northern side. Interesting as all of this undoubtedly is, I am bound once again to question its particular relevance to the thread context, not least because very few of the growing items mentioned would find their ways into the gastronomic creations of the restaurant concerned.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 14:34:38 GMT -5
Let us therefore rule everything off-topic, ahinton. As Europe faces an existential crisis, Sydney, perhaps it is time for you to visit again.
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Post by ahinton on Feb 10, 2017 17:51:19 GMT -5
Let us therefore rule everything off-topic, ahinton. As Europe faces an existential crisis, Sydney, perhaps it is time for you to visit again. Why, do you think that he might be capable of resolving it?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 7:14:01 GMT -5
Let us therefore rule everything off-topic, ahinton. As Europe faces an existential crisis, Sydney, perhaps it is time for you to visit again. When the Thatcher woman drove so many good men out of the country in the eighties there were if I remember rightly six. Now there are twenty-eight or twenty-seven; no one seems to know the exact figure. The simple solution is as we have somewhere already pointed out: abolish the concept of "nation"; when there cannot be any, then there will be none. And while they are at it, let them abolish the whole idea of "Europe". But also let them abolish all the traits and taints of capitalism, including "money", and turn at last to Marx's proven principle of allowing every man his equal share. It is every man's right, has already been tested and is bound to operate.
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Post by ahinton on Feb 11, 2017 9:47:59 GMT -5
Let us therefore rule everything off-topic, ahinton. As Europe faces an existential crisis, Sydney, perhaps it is time for you to visit again. When the Thatcher woman drove so many good men out of the country in the eighties Did she? I'm no Thatcher fan, but where's the evidence for that? And how do you know that those so driven out at that time were all good men and no bad ones and apprently no women at all? there were if I remember rightly six Six what? Nations in EU? Depending on precisely when you're talking about, there were twice that number by the time that Thatcher ceased to be UK's PM. Now there are twenty-eight or twenty-seven; no one seems to know the exact figure. They do. There are 28 and will be so until and unless any (including UK) leave. The simple solution is as we have somewhere already pointed out: abolish the concept of "nation"; when there cannot be any, then there will be none. And while they are at it, let them abolish the whole idea of "Europe". As I have pointed out to you previously, the former of these cannot and will not happen until and unless every nation wishes to do this; the latter cannot be done anyway because whether or not there are separate nations within Europe, Europe as a continent still exists, just as do all the other continents. But also let them abolish all the traits and taints of capitalism, including "money", and turn at last to Marx's proven principle of allowing every man his equal share. It is every man's right, has already been tested and is bound to operate. "Let" who do this? Who's stopping anyone from doing it other than themselves? "Equal share" of what? What would substitute for money? Incidentally,one cannot abolish capitalism merely by abolishing money!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2017 6:30:48 GMT -5
. . . until and unless every nation wishes to do this; . . . What a silly idea! Nations do not possess brains, so they certainly cannot "wish" for anything. They are lines on a map.
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Post by ahinton on Feb 12, 2017 13:08:54 GMT -5
. . . until and unless every nation wishes to do this; . . . What a silly idea! Nations do not possess brains, so they certainly cannot "wish" for anything. They are lines on a map. I accept this, of course, notwithstanding your pedantry in drawing attention to what would better have read "until and unless the peoples of every nation wish to do this" and which therefore makes no difference to the point that it was obvious that I was making.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2017 18:35:11 GMT -5
What is pedantry for one man is for another mere exactitude. To give the members a capitalistic example, when one wishes to purchase an ice one is not asked for "about sixpence", although it can happen in the case of motors and houses. Indeed in the Egypts haggling is common but pedantry is replaced by inheritance.
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Post by ahinton on Feb 13, 2017 1:56:43 GMT -5
What is pedantry for one man is for another mere exactitude. To give the members a capitalistic example, when one wishes to purchase an ice one is not asked for "about sixpence", although it can happen in the case of motors and houses. Indeed in the Egypts haggling is common but pedantry is replaced by inheritance. I'm struggling to imagine anyone "haggling" over amounts the equivalent of of major nations' GDPs and simply do not get whatever else it is that you're trying to put across here; sorry.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2017 14:15:00 GMT -5
Well, on topic, Noma charges about a tenner rather than sixpence for ice cream, or as they put it, black currant wood ice cream and roasted konini. Noma - menuPic charges something similar!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2017 12:39:59 GMT -5
I shall cook coq au vin tonight instead.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 13:36:35 GMT -5
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