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Seeds released this morning by the Vermont Principals' Association for local high school soccer and field hockey teams arrived as expected — The VPA's in-season rankings proved to be accurate.
The only suspense was whether the Mount Abraham boys' soccer team would be awarded the No. 3 or 4 seed for the Division II playoffs. The 6-4-4 Eagles finished tied in the points standings with 7-4-3 Montpelier, and the teams did not meet each other this fall. In breaking the tie, the VPA apparently relied on the Solons' edge vs. common opponents — Montpelier defeated Green Mt. Valley in those teams' only meeting, while the Eagles split two games with the Gumbies — rather than Mount Abe's edge in strength of schedule.
Starting at the top, the highest seed earned by any of the local teams went jointly to Middlebury field hockey and football. The 10-3-1 Tiger stickers received the No. 3 nod for the D-I playoffs. MUHS will entertain No. 6 Colchester (6-6-2) in a quarterfinal at 11 a.m. on Saturday. MUHS defeated the Lakers twice this fall, but it wasn't easy: the scores were 1-0 and 2-1. And the health of senior standout middie Brandi Whittemore remains uncertain. Up next on Nov. 1 for the Tigers would be a road semi at No. 2 Rutland (11-3) or a home game vs. No. 7 Hartford (6-6-2). Those teams split two games, and an upset is possible. The Tigers played neither this fall. Defending champion South Burlington (12-2) is the top seed and odds-on favorite, but the Tigers split two games with the Rebels this fall, losing away, 8-0, and winning at home, 2-1. The D-I and D-II field hockey finals will be played at the University of Vermont on Nov. 11.
Speaking of D-II field hockey, Otter Valley earned the No. 4 seed with its 8-5-1 record, including solid play vs. D-I competition. The Otters will host Spaulding (7-6-1) on Friday at 3:45 p.m.; they have not met the Tide this fall. Next up would almost certainly be a Nov. 1 semifinal at No. 1 Woodstock. The Wasps defeated OV, 1-0, in Woodstock this fall.
Mount Abe enters the D-II tournament as the No. 7 seed with a 1-8-5 record against only D-I competition. The Eagles open with a 3:45 p.m. Tuesday first-round game vs. No. 10 Burr & Burton (1-11-2); the teams did not meet this fall. If the Eagles advance, they will travel to face No. 2 Windsor (12-1-1) on Friday at Kimball Union Academy.
Back on the soccer pitch, the Eagle boys' bounce-back season earned them a first-round game against No. 13 Otter Valley (4-10) at 3 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams did not meet this season. The winner of that game gets either No. 5 GMVS (7-4) or No. 12 Woodstock (6-8) on Saturday at 11 a.m. The Eagles and Gumbies traded 1-0 wins. OV did not meet the Gumbies, but split a pair of one-goal game with the Wasps, each team winning on its home field.
No. 11 Vergennes (4-8-2) will travel on Tuesday to meet No. 6 Springfield (6-6-1) in another Lake Division-Marble Valley League match-up in which the teams did not face one another. The winner of that contest will meet either No. 3 Montpelier or No. 14 Bellows Falls (3-9-2). VUHS has no 2011 history with those squads, either. Burr & Burton (11-2-1) and U-32 (8-3-3) are the top seeds. South Burlington will host the D-II final on Nov. 5.
MUHS got bumped up to D-I this fall, and on Tuesday at 3:45 will head over the Appalachian Gap to face another team recently moved up to D-I: the No. 12 Tigers (5-6-2) drew No. 5 Harwood (10-3-1). The winner of that contest on Saturday gets either No. 4 South Burlington (9-4-1) or No. 13 BFA-St. Albans (6-8). MUHS has no history this fall with any of those teams.
Like the Eagle boys, the Mount Abe girls' soccer team rebounded from a tough 2010 to enjoy a strong 2011: At 9-3-2, the Eagles earned the No. 4 seed in D-II. They will host Lake Division foe Missisquoi on Wednesday at 3 p.m. The Eagles and T-Birds battled to a 2-2 tie in Swanton back on Sept. 27. A win on Wednesday would mean a Saturday home game for Mount Abe against either No. 5 Springfield (9-4-1) or No. 13 Vergennes (3-10-1). Neither Mount Abe or VUHS has battled Springfield this fall, but of course the Eagles and Commodores know each other well: The Eagles won twice by 2-1 scores this season, once in overtime.
Otter Valley finished at 2-11-1 after tying and winning their final two games and earned the No. 16 seed. That means a tough challenge on Tuesday for OV, a road date at No. 1 Milton, which has lost only to D-I top seed Champlain Valley. Hartford and Montpelier, both 10-3-1, are the Nos. 2 and 3 seeds. South Burlington will host the D-II final on Nov. 5.
MUHS finished at 4-8-2, tying the program's high-water mark for wins in the past two decades. The Tigers were 4-4-1 against D-II and D-III competition, but were bumped up to D-I this fall. They are seeded 14th and face defending champion South Burlington (11-3), the No. 3 seed on Wednesday. An upset would mean No. 6 Essex (9-4-1) or No. 11 Burlington (5-7-2) on Saturday.
Photographer Trent Campbell and I will be in Bristol on Tuesday for the OV-Mount Abe boys' soccer contest and the Eagle field hockey game. We will, of course, also attend Friday night's MUHS football home playoff game. That's when the 7-1 Tigers, the No. 3 seed in D-I, will host 5-3 Colchester, the No. 6 seed. The Tigers defeated the Lakers, 25-8, on Oct. 14. A win for MUHS on Friday means a game the following weekend against either No. 2 BFA-St. Albans (7-1) or No. 7 Rutland (4-4). Hartford (8-0) is the top seed. We will also cover at least one other game this weekend, possibly determined by Tuesday's results.
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Talking Pictures
Images and Messages Rescued From the Past
Ransom Riggs
It Books: 384 pp., $16.99
Ransom Riggs wrote the bestselling novel "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" around the spooky found photographs that appear in the book. In "Talking Pictures," he lets the images tell their own story.
Each one included in this photo book comes with its own words — written long ago in fountain pen, pencil or typewriter, on either back or front.
"A lot of people consider that a defaced picture," Riggs says by phone, but he saw something different. "Lines on the back open a window into a lost world," he explains. The heavy-set woman "raising the water level in Miami" is named Ruth; the happy drunk couple had been married less than two hours when their Polaroid was taken.
Based in Venice, Riggs earned his master's in film production at USC. There is something not unlike film editing in the way he's assembled these particular pictures to tell this exact story, grouping unrelated images in chapters with titles such as "Clowning Around" and "Life During Wartime." "I did a little narrative tomfoolery," Riggs admits. Together, the book's arc moves from silly to sad, from public to intimate.
He estimates he went through almost half a million photographs to find the ones that appear in this book. Some were lent to him by major collectors of vernacular (amateur) photography. Others he found at thrift stores and swap meets, scanning quickly by turning boxes of pictures around backward.
"I only looked at the photo's front if the back had something interesting written on it," he says.
With blogs like Tumblr and the image-sharing site Pinterest, why collect these lost pictures into a print book? Riggs has blogged, but he thinks there's something essential in the print nature of these photographs.
Although the visual digital record we create now is vast — more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook daily, Riggs points out that it's "much more ephemeral than what we call ephemera: film and negatives," he says.

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According to Hitwise, Google accounted for 64.49 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ended October 27, 2007, while Yahoo Search, MSN Search and Ask.com accounted for 21.65 percent, 7.42 percent and 4.76 percent of searches, respectively.
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New Delhi, Nov 27: Parliament was disrupted for the fourth day Tuesday as the opposition continued its protests against the government's policy on allowing foreign investment in multi-brand retail.
The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha could not carry on with question hour as members of the opposition raised a din inside the two houses over the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy that they claim will hit small traders.
Within minutes of proceedings beginning, opposition MPs were on their feet raising slogans against the FDI policy.
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Despite her request to take their seats, the MPs continued with their sloganeering, resulting in Meira Kumar adjourning the house till 12 noon.
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Raising IQs key to keeping corpulence under control?
The maudlin media has evolved with the changing waistlines of America's poor, with stories of how they must now eat themselves into obesity, since that's what is most available to them (thanks to the hard-nosed realists who retail in the realm of the underclass, carrying greater quantities of the stuff their patrons actually buy).
Lugubrious reporters try to paint it in Marxist terms. Yes, it is implicitly implied, America's poor have enough to spend on food, but only enough to buy (lots) of junkfood. Their economic disadvantages keep them from eating enough fruits and vegetables. That's absurd. A four-serving size can of green beans costs less than a king size Snickers bar does.
Might it be, instead, that the poor tend to be more impulsive and have a greater time preference than the rest of society? This immediate orientation means the good taste now weighs (heh) heavier in the mind than health benefits foregone, relative to the longer-term orientation of the burgher who foregoes the burger for the salad. More bluntly, those of lower intelligence are likely to eat less healthily because the realization of the benefits that come in doing so are difficult to pinpoint and only accumulate over time, whereas the sugary stuff tastes good now. Similarly, they are less likely to engage in physical activity for the sake of the health benefits derived in doing so.
The self-destructive tendencies of the duller underclass illustrate how the more intelligent, affluent a society is, the more libertarian it can afford to be in its social and economic frameworks. As a society trends toward Idiocracy, its governmental structure necessarily becomes more authoritarian and increasingly intervenes in the lives of its citizenry, through regulation of personal behaviors, wealth transfers, and the like.
Yet, at the state level, the inverse relationship between obesity (p6-7) and estimated IQ is only a modest .22. The fat numbers come from Trust for America's Health August 2007 report, in which obesity was calculated using the Body Mass Index. The BMI can be problematic, as it considers an NFL linebacker with 8% body fat to be obese.
The BMI shortcomings are personal. When I was in ROTC my freshmen year, I finished first or second in the program on the two-mile run portion, consistently in the 10:40s, in every monthly PT out of 80 pretty fit guys. Yet at the weigh-in I was consistently deemed overweight with a BMI of 28 (I'm 6'1", 210 lbs). I've plenty of problems, but physical fitness definitely isn't one of them.
Still, my vain personal bone aside, these imperfections are going to be sufficiently smoothed out over entire state populations. Athletic Coloradoans might prefer mountain biking more while fit Floridians enjoy pumping iron on the beach, but the overall distortion should be marginal.
Why, then, the modest relationship between fitness and intelligence? One caveat to the IQ estimates using NAEP data is that they are a measure of current adolescent intelligence, a glimpse of the intelligence levels that can be expected in the future. In states that are relatively demographically stable, this caveat may not mean so much. In areas such as the Southwest and the South, it becomes more important.
Fortunately, the study included, for the first time, rates of heftiness among children ages 10-17. Falling smack in the middle of that age range are the 14 year-olds who constitute the NAEP results used for the IQ estimates. The inverse relationship between corpulence and IQ among these youngsters is a much more robust .60.
Meh, maybe it's just a coincidence? But consider the Vietnam Veteran IQ estimates that come from the baby boomers who are now running the country. The inverse correlation between those estimates and obesity rates among adults is .62, almost exactly the same as the relationship between the two attributes for teenagers. The Vet and NAEP estimates are similar, but not identical. Some of this variance is surely attributable to changes in states' composition over the last four decades, as the Trust for America's Health study and the aforementioned relationships suggest.
David Brooks, who, if he'd paid a little more attention to the predictive power of IQ in terms of determining the viability of a liberal democracy, might not have been one of the most unrestrained, vociferous supporters of the Iraq plunder, says paying attention to IQ reduces us to obsessing over "electrical impulses and quantifiable pulses". Uh, the sociological and statistical work on IQ in books like The Bell Curve, of pundits like Steve Sailer, and papers like that of VCU's Professor McDaniel, do not deal with this much at all.
Well Mr. Brooks, in addition to the material standard of living, infant mortality, wealth, life expectancy, criminality, employment, educational attainment, and livability, among others, comes the relationship between IQ and physical health as measured by tubbiness. If IQ was meaningless--essentially a randomly assigned number--it wouldn't correlate with anything. If it was merely a rough proxy for some other measurable trait, it wouldn't relate to some variables more strongly than whatever that it is putatively proxying for does.
Virtually every way it is looked at, IQ correlates positively with favorable social variables and negatively with pathological ones. Human resources are of crucial importance to any institution's success. It's past time we looked at IQ as a valuable human resource that should be cultivated.
People like Brooks want to kill the idea of innate differential intelligence (or temperament, physical dexterity, etc) because their ideologies are at essence institutionally biased. The neocon right (free markets, equal representation, and democracy) wants to claim an equal playing field will lead to equal opportunity and maximum prosperity. The big government left (redistributive income, universal healthcare, affirmative action) wants to claim it can direct equality and prosperity into existence. For both of these broad ideologies to work, people must be blank-slates responding identically in identical situations. That's becoming increasingly difficult to maintain in the face of quantitative sociology and advances in human genetic sequencing.
Feeling threatened, they're lashing out sophomorically, asserting that everyone who is anyone knows--knows!--IQ is bunk, so why are you thinking about it? NPR's Talk of the Nation ran a ridiculous 'hit segment' on the putative moribundity of IQ several weeks ago that was frustrated over and over by callers who persistently took more moderate positions on the subject.
If these blank-slatists, especially on the neocon right, believed IQ testing, correlation, and research to be worthless, they'd allow it to occur without protest. Just like irrational racial discrimination, right? The market will punish it. Of course, the market rewards it because it brings rewards in the market, which is why companies try to sneak in things like the Wonderlic test wherever they can (my employer uses them) even with the sword of Griggs v. Duke Power hanging over their heads, why the military and academia make extensive use of aptitude testing, and why business moguls like Bill Gates have leveraged it to attain greatness.
As maintaining an appropriate weight becomes more of a choice (in the sense that almost everyone has the ability--although not necessarily the genetic predisposition--to choose whether or not he will become obese), intelligence will become an increasingly important factor in determining obesity rates in the first-world. Part of the strategy employed to deal with burgeoning healthcare costs should be to take steps to increase the average IQ of the population through eugenic birthing incentives (and the ending of disincentives like the EITC and the child tax credit), changes in the tax code, a restrictive merit immigration policy, the liberal use of genetic testing and sperm banks, and the like.
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The really intertaining thing about the PC crowd is they have no problem accepting the idea that athletic ability is genetic, yet they squirm so much to accept the same thing about intelligence.
- MensaRefugee said...
Brilliant Post! Nice to see the Obesity/IQ angle quantified.
P.S Your Company uses the Wonderlic? If its ok can you email me where ever you happen to work?
I gave the Wonderlic for the Canadian Government once, it really is scary (and a lil depressing) how a lil 12 minute test can correlate so well with 1-2 hour full blown IQ tests.
I wonder how long it will be before the Canadian Government stops using such tests. From reading over at Steve Sailer's blog, it seems the US Government has long since been cowed into not using such pseudo-IQ testing.
- agnostic said...
You're 6'1 and 210 lbs? Definitely not the typical Magic card addict I pictured -- and your icon doesn't help!
Raising IQ would help, but so would research into the pathogenic side of obesity. That's easier to attack.
Plus, more organized religion to shame them into exercising self-restraint. Gluttony is a sin. Just what the op-ed columnists are proposing, I'd imagine.
- John said...
Congratulations on another contribution , which could lead to more successful interventions. Maybe the poor, with low-IQ and poor impulse control could be candidates for surgery to control the problem behavior. What's next state IQ and cigarette consumption per capita?
- Audacious Epigone said...
Would you say they have no problem accepting it? I think generally it is still not talked about too openly, although it is so blatantly obvious that is hard to deny with a straight face. I presume that eventually other human differences will reach that same level of (forced) acceptance.
Regarding the employer, email me if you want to know. I don't want to make it public, since there is no reason the company should be associated with any of my personal opinions outside of a work setting.
The men are big out here in the Midwest. Not quite Iowa, we're they're corn-fed, but we're caught in between that and Texas, where college-sized monsters start playing football from the time they can walk.
I played the game when I was younger, but I've been out for a few years now. My problem is that I have too many hobbies without really excelling in any of them.
I wonder if the GSS offers any insight into piety and physical health, when word score (the IQ proxy) is taken into account.
It is yet another illustration of how IQ correlates positively with almost everything that is socially desirable.
- Audacious Epigone said...
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- J. said...
A correlation of 0.6 is not so high...
(it is an argument ad hominem because I am fat. Very fat.)
- Audacious Epigone said...
An r of .6 is high for the social sciences. As for your personal struggles, well, those are your demons to face, but I'd suggest dueling with rather than consuming them at this point.
I'd not expect to see any particularly strong religious correlations on obesity in the US. Having attended mushy mainline, semi-pentecostal, and conservative evangelical churches in my day, I can't say I've ever heard anyone sermonize against gluttony. Perhaps the Catholics still occasionally preach against that member of the seven deadly sins.
Obesity is also pretty heavily concentrated in the suburbs (people who live in cities usually get more exercise walking, and hence are less obese on average). A visit to your local Costco should be sufficient as a demonstration of this---smoking rather than obesity is the essential urban vice :-). Since urban dwellers are less churched (particularly white urban dwellers), I'd expect the correlation, if anything to run the other direction.
- Rob-ot said...
I don't have any data to back it up or anything, but I have to go anonymous: Church and fat probably correlate positively, or have no relationship.
We have a pretty free market of religion. Obese people who hear about gluttony every Sunday will change churches.
From my observations, religious women tend to be obese. Maybe religion is a substitute for... y'know.
Blacks have higher religiosity and higher obesity, so that should alone should make them covary.
Religion and IQ covary negatively, so do IQ and obesity, making it likely that Religion and obesity correlate positively.
OTOH, being religious(or at least going to church) probably means that one is concerned with what others think, so controlling for other factors that covary with being religious, maybe religion keeps 'em thin. Someone with GSS ability should look into it.
But, my tiny amount of money says religion makes people fatter these days.
- Audacious Epigone said...
Robot stole my thunder.
Religiosity correlates inversely with IQ, as does obesity, both at statistical significance and at high levels. In the US, blacks are more religious than Hispanics, who are more religious than whites, who are more religious than Asians. It would be statistically improbable that piety and thinness would be positively related.
But that is a trap that invariably makes religion look ugly when it might not be justified. Unless we are arguing that religiosity makes people stupid (and no doubt some would make such an argument, but few probably take that line in the HBD realist camp), that is.
My question is, once IQ is controlled for, what effect does religion have on people's waistlines, if any.
- Fat Knowledge said...
Part of the strategy employed to deal with burgeoning healthcare costs should be to take steps to increase the average IQ of the population through eugenic birthing incentives (and the ending of disincentives like the EITC and the child tax credit)
How is the EITC a disincentive? I am not able to follow how you came to that conclusion.
And what eugenic birthing incentives are you suggesting? Are they based on IQ directly, or something which works as a proxy for it?
- Audacious Epigone said...
It is essentially a $40 billion wealth transfer from the middle and upper classes to the poor. It's the ultimate in the progressive tax system, as it can actually be credited even if no taxes are paid, so that it actually becomes a stipend for some.
I like what Project Prevention does. Also, progressive instead of regressive credits for dependencies and grants for high-IQ (or highly educated, if that is more palatable) people who have children or donate eggs/sperm.
- MensaRefugee said...
And what eugenic birthing incentives are you suggesting?
Free Market...good.
Will arrive at the same outcome but without the potentially evil side effects.
- Rob-ot said...
Here is a crazy long comment I left on gnxp a while back on eugenics, now that we've drifted onto the topic.
These I think are the most acceptable plans with eugenic, eusocial, and euenvironmental effects:
Long term birth control until age 18: at least girls, because there are currently no options for LTBC for boys. Justify restriction to girls on: lack of reasonable options for boys, and boys don't get pregnant and suffer the physical risks of pregnancy and childbirth (which are worse for teens than early-mid twenties). Say teens cannot reasonably make the decision to have a child before 18. In effect they lack the capacity to "consent" to having kids. If needed, point out that boys' lives are not affected as much by having a baby because our brutal, sexist, patriarchal society expects women to take care of kids. Girls deserve a chance to be worker drones without the burden of a child to advance feminism.
Pros: Dumb girls start having children earlier, so direct effect. Indirect effects: Second child has lower marginal costs than the first in dating, lifestyle, jobs and education, etc: so lower IQ women may have even fewer if than the 1-2 they would have had as teens. Even lower-IQ women maybe make better choices reproductive partners after they're 18. Even if they don't, prison and death rates are inversely correlated with IQ, so they male pool is a bit better for 18+.
Does not single out minorities.
Arguing for more teen preg. loses elections.
Cons: I like pros, but please give 'em. Don't tell me it is not legal: Of course we'd have to change laws. Is it unconstitutional? Could Europe do it though?
Speaking of cons: allow the eugenic effect of prison to work on women. When women abuse or neglect a child, make their sentences comparable to a man's. And increase length of all the scentences. Justification: No child deserves to be beaten by a parent twice. A man or woman who abuses one child do not deserve a second chance at abusing that one, or another one.
Women have shorter reproductive careers than men: prison will have a bigger eugenic effect on women.
Maybe, if mom's boyfriend abuses a child, and the mother does not contact the police, send her to jail as an accomplice, and vice-versa of course. Who can argue that she isn't aiding, if she knows, or should know, that it's happening.
Arguing any eugenics plan: Do not necessarily argue eugenics. Talk in terms of things that only home life provides. Say it is horrible that more children don't get adopted, but that can't really be changed: we have tried hard. Where I live, there are commercials advertising babies to adopt: as if children were commodities.
Just thought of this: "Anti-family" taxes discourage adoption: Increase the tax deduction (NOT CREDIT) for each child. If only parents of adopted children, that'd be like paying people to take kids, do you really trust someone who adopts for money? But legally, adopted kids are your "real" children, so I don't think we can single out parents of adopted children: so for every parent. Raising kids is hard, and they deserve all the things their parents worked hard for. I won't work out exact numbers here, but at 20K a year, a deduction is worth about 1/3 of what it is to at 60K. So smarter women get more money, and overall, married couples get more.
Talk about making problems smaller, and breaking cycles of violence, poverty, etc. because it is easier to help if there are fewer people who need it. Say we want to help bad parents become better parents, without the burden of additional children, or the opportunity to mistreat, abuse, etc more kids. Point out that children are the future, and affect everyone. If someone calls you a Nazi: ask why they want horrible parents to have more kids to abuse.
In general, go through the Bell Curve, and find bad things that correlate with low IQ, and lobby for longer scentences.
Project Prevention: I usually say that as a recovering addict, I think it is a wonderful program. My experiences in active addiction: addicts are terrible parents, so bad stories about them sound like propaganda. We love drugs more than anything at all. In NA, we tell ourselves how bad we are at managing our lives. Anyone who will take 500 bucks for LTBC, imagine what they would use a child for. Tell horror stories of junkie parents. Always talk meth, it has white connotations, never, ever, say crack.
If someone says that crack babies were a racist myth(I do not know if that's so or not).It came up on a feminist board, according to some some study, when controlling for a great many things that drug abuse causes: like abuse, malnutrition, maternal education, income, etc, babies born to crack addicts are the same as other children: "So, anyone who drinks, smokes, has sex for money, never goes to an Ob-gyn, is utterly uninterested in pre-natal care, spends days or longer without eating or sleeping, sometimes without drinking water, has open sores that they never even cover, much less get treated...have children 3 months pre-mature, crack babies are just as healthy as those kids? That's fantastic!!!"
Addicts usually smoke, and drink, it is very hard to abuse drugs and eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day: Everything that's bad for a pregnant woman and the fetus, addicts do to an extent most people cannot conceive of. Talk about the stress of pregnancy, on top of the stress of drugs. Every child deserves to be loved, not to be an accident of prostitution.
On Project Prevention: Give a bit, admit your uncomfortable with sterilization(I am, when LTBC is available, and can greatly reduce a woman's lifetime reproductive potential) and the fact that white drug addicts may not be getting the same opportunities to benefit that African-American women do is truly disturbing. Share that you think male addicts should not have kids either, because they deserve to a chance to get clean without the stress and guilt of a child being damaged because of what they did.
PP needs to find a woman who got LTBC from them while she was in active addiction. A couple years later, she got clean, went to school, and met a great man, and now has two beautiful, healthy children... and a woman who tried to get her life restarted, but was so burdened by a 2.5 pound retarded child...and is racked with guilt every day that she did that to her baby. I am so grateful I never had a child when I was using.
Even if PP had no eugenic benefits: it has such social benefits, especially for addicts.
In general, on social and legal mechanisms altering fertility. I was talking with acouple I know, and told the husband: you know I support eugenics? of course he did. His wife said that she didn't think those decisions should be made for anyone. I let it drop. Got to how to punish rapists, and she said that they should be sterilzied. That's the thin edge of our wedge: I am willing to wager that most women think the government should choose for some men.
The other side uses contrived examples: what about serial killer sperm bank: Does the government have any interest there? Or a sperm bank for convicted felons only? Should men in prison for sex crimes be allowed to donate to any sperm bank?
I sometimes ask if they think prisoners should be allowed conjugal visits at any time, from anyone. Almost everyone says no. Has an effect on peoples reproductive choices. Most still say that prisoners should not have free access to any willing partner. So, possibly for some crimes, judges or juries could offer LTBC or permanent BC as an alternative to prison: sort of a "prison lite" without all the effects of prisons, or "destroying communities" by removing huge numbers of young men.
- Audacious Epigone said...
Thanks for that.
Incidentally, I give you full rights to anything you want to pull from here. You're a far better salesman than I am, and your delivery is better.
I've not argued for the delayed childbearing mandates. Beneficial as they might be, at least in the US they seem politically infeasible.
The 'bloated' prison population is definitely eugenic. I'm a big fan of stiff mandatory sentences in consequence.
Generally, positive eugenics are more palatable than negative eugenics are. Do you have a blanket euphemism to replace the term, or are you just suggesting avoiding its use while pushing its objectives in their various forms?
Barbara Harris came up with the organization's name at a time when the crack epidemic was still fresh in people's minds, and as an active foster mother, she'd seen its brutal effects on children firsthand, multiple times. Cocaine is the 'quintessential' black drug, while the various concotions that are collectively known as "meth" tend to be made in the suburbs and in rural areas.
That said, the biggest chunk of CRACK's clients are white, with almost 40% more treated than blacks, the next largest bloc. And DepoProvera is the most common choice elected by clients, ahead of ligation.
- Rob-ot said...
Thanks AP,
If I'm a better salesman than you, no offense, but you might be autistic.
I'd love to have a better term for eugenics than eugenics. But I can't think of one. I'll start trying though. But I'm arguing that we should pursue eugenics policies by other names. And use every argument we can to support them, without saying anything about eugenic effects.
Delayed childbearing: I'm not arguing that adults should have childbearing delayed: only that children should.
Project Prevention, come to think of it, the racial angle, when given with proper refutation, give them more publicity, which is good.
Positive vs. negative eugenics: Do both. As to which is more palatable, I don't know. I'd go with mild negative eugenics being easier: the recipients are already living under what Murray and Hernstein called custodial democracy. I think a majority of voters would like the fraction of the population who are taxeaters and more criminal to be smaller. As long as the great majority of voters don't feel that they or people they like will have reproduction restricted, it could be fairly popular.
Already some of us are supporting a euginic policy putatively for other reasons: Reduced third world immigration. If we could keep out a million Mexican criminals each year keeps IQ from dropping about 2.5 points/decade.


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Sandy Disconnects Telecom Hub Rebuilt After 9/11
Verizon saw severe damage from flooding at 140 West, the same key telecom hub destroyed by the 9/11 attacks. Anton Troianovski on The News Hub has the story of what happened, and gives us a good read on the state of telecom in lower Manhattan. Photo: Reuters.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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You know how in the IDE when you type . you get member information about the object.
OK, so I challenge you to do the same for the generation of Number. We'll stick to just Integer ones for now.
Via The Digits (Easy-Intermediate)
Dim MyNumber1 = Number.One.Two.Three.Four ' Will return an Integer with the value 1234 ' Dim MyNumber2 = Number.One.Negative.Two ' Should be an error, because Sign information (whether the number positive or negative must be first.) Dim MyNumber3 = Number.Negative.One. ' = -1 '
Via The Wording (Intermediate+)
The second challenge is to extend this so you can "Dot Input" Numbers as they said.
Dim MyNumber = Number.One.Million.Two.Hundred.And.Four.Thousand.Nine.Hundred.And.Seventy.Two ' Will return an Integer with the value 1204972'
These should give your brains a work out.
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Since NuSTAR was launched on June 13, 2012 it has moved into its parking spot been checked out and has found 10 supermassive galaxies already. The mission is really just hitting its stride and is expected to last two years. We are just beginning to get a look at the data.
During the two year mission, as part of its core mission, NuSTAR will map selected regions of the sky in order to:
Take a census of collapsed stars and black holes of different sizes by surveying regions surrounding the center of own Milky Way Galaxy and performing deep observations of the extragalactic sky;
Map recently-synthesized material in young supernova remnants to understand how stars explode and how elements are created; and
Understand what powers relativistic jets of particles from the most extreme active galaxies hosting supermassive black holes.
From the NASA NuSTAR Mission page home to among other things different sizes and un-annotated version:
NuSTAR's serendipitous discovery in this field, indicated by the arrow, lies to the left of a galaxy, called IC751, at which the telescope originally intended to look. Both magenta blobs show X-rays from massive black holes buried at the hearts of galaxies.
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this whole scene from My Big Plump Wedding is SO HOT! I have watched it MANY times and it always get me rock hard and fulfilled....so many fucking way hot chicks just going off. It has a killer cast with so many hot scenes. Love it TSG.
My Big Plump Bachelorette Party
Before Samantha could hold her big plump wedding, her bridesmaids Maria Moore, Sapphire, Rose Valentina and Cassie Blanca insisted on holding a bachelorette party as a proper send-off. Maybe they were thinking that the party would be for them also, their minds filled with the thought of all that hired beefcake as the entertainment. Samantha, torn between staying loyal to her fiance up to their wedding night or having another hot, quick fling, managed to find the willpower to abstain. So did Maria. She and Sapphire went to town another time while Maria's man fucked the hot brunette but today, Maria keeps the swinging stripper cocks at arm's length. No so for Rose, Cassie and Sapphire. Their only loyalty is to their own pussies and there's nothing more they enjoy than a good fuck party while their bosom buddies watch!
Featuring: Cassie Blanca, Maria Moore, Samantha 38G, Sapphire, Carlos Rios, and Levi Cash
Date: December 21st, 2010
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Damn. Why did you have to make Maria and Sam `abstain'?
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Dam. I'd like to join! lol.


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1 - As you all seee and in many jp forum discussion, Restia far out-class all the girl with Est behind at 2nd place and even at 2nd place it's still a big gap to Restia affection level, thus it's neccesary to put her out to let the other girl have a chance or you-know-who to become the main heroine. - this is a rather low percentage possibilities due to the fact if the author actually pull crap like that, it'll leave an extremely bad taste in romance novel and if Kamito actually moving despite Restia sacrifice, that's just make his character terrble.
2 - As Okashira said, the 2nd possibilities is that the next few volumes is going to be Restia-centric since now that:
- the girls know about Kamito secret.
- the girls know about kamito past.
- the story behind 3 years ago is revealed.
- the girls problems now all resolved.
- Rubia is down.
- Dust Witch is no longer tied Kamito down.
- Restia take Ren Ashdoll down so Claire position as a dark priestess is possibly nullified.
Basically, there is a high possibilities that the author will try to pull a Fairy dance or yureka - basically , new settings and a new cast of character with possibly Ren Ashbell being the new MC instead of Kamito and go on a travel since that all prior problem have been resolved and the reason why Kamito attend the academy was for Restia in the 1st place, even if he have comrades in the school it still isn't strong enough of a reason to tied him down. More over, it'll behard to exploit anymore plot inside the school and and the story of spirt King if Kamito only stay in 1 place. But if this happened it'll pretty much screamed "Restia end" so it'll remain a possibilities.
1- most cases when 1 person switch from ittoryu(1 sword) to nitoryuu(2 sword) get weaker is true, however that is due to have no prior trainning and experieces, armstrength neccesary to perform nitoryuu techniques and Kamito have dual trainning prior and arm strength, leave aside experiences since we don't know how he train, i can turn a blind eye to this.
2 - Nitoryuu is mainly for battle, the reason is the fact by nature, nitoryuu is an extremely defensive style ( Yes, it's defense, not offense) so in a 1 on 1 duel, if the nitoryuu user is good enough, even if he can't took down opponent the opponent can hardly get a hit on him either. Regarding arm strength and dominant arm, trainning can overturn that, at least, i myself do success at trainning to perform nitoryuu.
3 - to coment on techniques, 16 hit rush can be overlook though it still a stupid move since most nitoryuu based- attack mostly consist of 1 sword attack and the other keep at side for posssibly defense and perform the next attack( 2 swords attack the same time attack do exist but they are extremely limited) but the counter that using 2 sword is just stupid, nitoryuu do have counter but by nature counter is something use by timing and split second movement so using 2 sword to counter that, i doubt a Hachidan sensei can pull a counter with 2 sword at the same time.
With that said, my suggestion is to just overlook the techniques and enjoy the story, it hurt no one if some skills is a little over the top and unrealistic.
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@dragon1412: It's just fiction, man. Don't be too serious about it. It's Rue of Cool anyway.
About the fairy dance theory, I'd love it if the author decide to bring the story to a bigger stage, a war or conflict between countries now that we have seen or heard about the main powerful factions on the continent.
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I'm so sick of all this bait and switch with Restia. The author knows Restia is the most popular and that most if the readership regards her as the main wife.
So he trolls the crap out of us. For the last 11 volumes it's been holy shit, almost got Restia back, trolololol nope, she does something evil and gets away. (though we did get progressively closer. Now it's reunion Wooo! Trolololol nope not really.
I hate this series and this author. I'm going to be furious if Restia does not appear in volume 12 like what the author did for volume 7 (major development for Restia then awol for one volume)
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My thought is that perhaps some part of Restia will survive / be absorbed into Est. Est, after all, is only at a fraction of her former power, and as I understand it she will never be able to access that former whole of her power: she has permanently separated from it so as to be with Kamito. So perhaps Restia will join with her, letting part of her power / nature die (with the darker nature she absorbed before being stabbed), but allowing a part of her power and awareness to live on in Est, perhaps with Est not being aware of this option for a while. In the latter case, Est may start having flashes of memories not her own, occasionally make comments only to afterward not recall / understand what she said or why she said what she said, and then - during a tense encounter / battle - suddenly find a hidden strength within, and be transformed by it into a true R(Est)ia hybrid blade spirit that has the traits / (fragmented) memories of both.
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Except for the fact that such a scenario wouldn't return Restia ... and would mean the "loss" of the Est that we know, since a combined Est and Restia would be, to some fans, pretty much a completely new character that wouldn't be "Est" or "Restia" anymore.
Overall, I don't think that a development like that has high chances of occurring in the novels.
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It is not so much illogical to have her killed as it is rushed. I can see it happening if it took, say a fully two or three volumes to develop to that point, but to have it happen only one volume after they are reunited (less than one, if more than a chapter or two is a flashback or otherwise a review of the end of the prior blade dance) is just too soon. That said, it could be that the editors pushed this, either due to feeling that Restia was taking too much of the lime light or due to wanting to bring her dramatic end sooner for the shock value.
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|2013-07-26, 11:27
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Not to mention that none of the girls are even close to restia's level. Lets face it without kamito looking for restia he wouldn't have come to the academy and his whole purpose for team scarlet was to find out what the deal is with the sword. Claire acknowledges that she is the most important thing to him. Est is probably a decent second
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We, I mean everyone would love to see Restia and Est catfight at anytime
Wasn't that EST also left us then revived beside Kamito.
I honestly say that the series is still love romantic comedy and it isn't suitable for highly tragic event to get a chance.
So ... just give my Restia back :/
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Because how often do we sit for five hours, chewing beef jerky, watching the sun set? In silence? In dreams? It never happens anymore, except in Canadian hospital emergency rooms, but even then, there's something to watch other than the sunflowers turning west. Without having to make so much as a single lane change, I'd entered the closest thing to a runner's high that a fat man can feel. I had rolled clean into bliss, my mind as open as the fields around me. Squinting into orange, I thought about those things that we never let ourselves think about - those things that we actively defend ourselves against thinking about by having so much other stuff to look at and listen to.
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I've read on your forum that pound dogs can't be fostered. Why is that?
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Hood | WIG148 | Released: 17/01/05
'Outside Closer' foregrounds a new directness and boldness for Hood. The Leeds 4 piece have made a bright, brave and modern record. It's full of surprise, originality, soul, and venom - just like 'pop' music should be. "We wanted it to jump out of the speakers'' explains Richard Adams "and to make it emotionally draining. Anti-indie/tronic. Big rather than small. Not background music. Not necessarily 'nice'."We decided to move away from the electronic side of things.
The LP is song orientated and features totally different production styles to the last LP (Cold House). The tracks are all quite different as we worked on them all over a long period of time, adding to them, taking things off, putting them back on, taking them off again then putting them back on as the final step before taking them off and ending up exactly where we started." The album was produced in Leeds with Choque Hosein (formerly of Black Star Liner) and features a no star cast of local musicians helping out. Following on from their cLOUDDEAD assisted work on 'Cold House' Hood enjoy looking in new places for collaborators. ''We like using people we find in nooks and crannies, sympathisers if you will - one of the guys is an acclaimed Cuban musician, one of them is 'permanently arrested' anti-capitalist agitator - it just gets your eyes open a bit to other ways of working'', explains Richard.
Though they barely sound like either, Hood's aesthetic has previously been compared to that of Underworld's Karl Hyde or The Streets' Mike Skinner for the astuteness with which they evoke the minutiae of their immediate environment. Future single 'The Negatives' would suggest that the Adams brothers find their epiphanies in lengthy winter walks rather than (or as well as?) Ecstasy or brandy: "Go to the furthest place from your house", they urge, "Stand there a while / Make sure you're broke / And watch the birds fly round!" "Our love of the great outdoors has been well documented," reiterates Chris Adams, "Please refer to all our LPs, singles, tapes, compilation appearances, flexis, MP3s, artwork, interviews, general conversations and holiday destinations." On an old single '(The) Weight', Hood intimated that they would sabotage their local railway system so that a lover didn't have to go home.
'Outside Closer' might reference such actions again. On the cyclical 'End of One Train Working', it's as if the group have fulfilled this threat without actually achieving the anticipated aim: "Where is the train ride home?" they wonder, "Where is the love we had?" 'The Negatives' seems to find them covering the train line with leaves as a means of subversion. Hood become defined by such acts of gentle insurrection. Is the track title 'This Is It, Forever' an allusion to the end of Hood? "We've probably been the only band ever to announce our split in song ('Hood Is Finished') and then not split," suggests Richard, "So I don't know." Don't be fooled, 'Outside Closer' is a New Morning for Hood.
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- 01. (Int.)
- 02. The Negatives
- 03. Any Hopeful Thoughts Arrive
- 04. End Of One Train Working
- 05. Winter 72
- 06. The Lost You
- 07. Still Rain Fell
- 08. Fading Hills
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aoffan23 wrote:So this is still a 2012 set, but I thought it would be dumb to dig up the old 2012 sets thread.
According to FBTB, it's only out in the US at the moment. But holy shit, this is a good polybag. Zahru, Brag, and Swordsalmon will love this in particular.
Yup, I already want 5768368765476354757532754 units of it. US only, and prolly won't get it, we never get polybags. Keep rubbin' it in usbros :<


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Norfolk exterior solutions ltdCertificate of Excellence 2019
Based in Norwich, Norfolk. We are Checkatrade rated approved Firestone rubber cover installers with 10 years experience. We fit to both new and old buildings, using high quality materials. EPDM rubber is far superior to felt and our roofs are backed by a 20 year insurance backed guarantee direct from manufacturers with all rubber roof installs. We also offer replacement fascia, soffits and guttering in various colours and styles. We also offer driveway cleaning and sealing, roof cleaning, fascia, soffit and gutter washing and ladder-less vacuum gutter cleaning. We are able to clean from the ground up to heights of 40ft, quickly, safely and efficiently. We conduct a camera survey before and after cleaning. We also offer conservatory cleaning using our water fed pole system.
Cambridge Roof ExchangeCertificate of Excellence 2019
Cambridge Roof Exchange Limited is a newly formed, vibrant company bringing over 40 years, National and International Industry experience to the local market. We specialise in all types of Industrial, Commercial, Agricultural roofing and cladding with an emphasis on refurbishment projects. Working directly for home and building owners, Corporate, Estate and Facilities Management companies, the organisation offers a highly professional, friendly service to all clients, from initial survey to completion. Requirements ranging from a repair of a leaking roof, to complete strip and re-sheet of buildings are gladly accommodated.
Pure Shine Window & Gutter Cleaning Services
Metro Rod NorwichCertificate of Excellence 2019
Hello, MetroRod are drainage specialists with 17 years experience, we operate throughout the Norfolk area and we are available 24 hour's a day, everyday, including Christmas and New Years Day. We can carry out reactive drainage work such as clearing blocked toilets, sinks and drains and stopping leaks from taps and radiators. We can also carry out works to clean your gutters and CCTV Surveys to investigate collapsed drains and drain mapping in consideration of building extensions. We can also carry out maintenance schedules on domestic and commercial properties to keep them in tip top condition preventing outages.
Pro Pressure Clean ServicesCertificate of Excellence 2019
Hi, we offer all aspects of exterior house cleaning and general building services. Please contact us 07944537041 Regards, PRO PRESSURE CLEAN Services Patios, driveways, roofs, walls, windows - WASHING, SEALING and CONSTRUCTION SERVICES. GET A NEW LOOK FOR YOUR PROPERTY!!! For Full info here http://www.propressureclean.co.uk/index.html
Pure Shine Window Cleaning & Gutter Cleaning
Residential & Commercial Window and High Level Gutter Cleaning Pure Shine Cleaning is a small family run business that offers a professional and experienced window and gutter cleaning service. We undertake all aspects of external and internal window cleaning, for small residential buildings to large commercial and industrial premises, including high level window and gutter cleaning. We operate in the Norwich and surrounding areas. Pure Shine Cleaning provides a reliable and efficient service, always striving to offer a high level of service, ensuring customer satisfaction. We offer: Residential, commercial and industrial cleaning Offices, Schools, Colleges, Hotels, Shops One off cleans, regular and contract work High access specialists High standards and experience Competitive realistic prices Reliable, efficient and friendly service Fully insured
Euroglaze home improvementsCertificate of Excellence 2019
We are a local home Improvements firm that specialised in the following: Windows and doors Conservatories and porches Garage doors Carports and canopies Roof cleaning Flat roofs EPDM and Fibreglass Fascia and soffit Guttering We have many years experience and fully insured. We guarentee all work for a minimum of 10years . We try maintain the highest level of customer service throughout, and endever to assist our customers with impartial advice on various products and styles that would benefit them whilst maintaining the current regulations. We have various samples to enable customers to see the products prior to committing for further price of mind.
Universal Carpentry & Building LTD
Universal Carpentry & Building Ltd specialise in many fields within the construction industry, our main business activities being commercial carpentry contracts along with our specialities lower on this profile page. UCB's customer base varies from government departments, professional consultants, commercial companies and private residential clients. We have built our solid reputation through an ethos of commitment to providing a quality service with the approach of completing every job to the highest of standards, not with the 'that will be alright' attitude. A key part in ensuring all our clients are happy is UCB's attention to detail, continual communication through out a well managed project, therefore resulting in repeat business. Experience has allowed UCB to manage contracts responsibly, sustainably, safely, on time and on budget. We are continuously looking to expand, working with new partners and clients on exciting new projects in the UK and abroad. PLANNED & RESPONSIVE REPAIRS ON OCCUPIED PROPERTIES: General building alterations, refurbishments/maintenance Extensions, loft conversions & historical refurbishment works Sash window repairs/replacements Kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, window & door replacements Roofing repairs/replacements, gutter & fascia renewal Disabled adaptions Painting & decorating Carpentry Packages BESPOKE SERVICES: Furniture, solid wood paneling & French polishing Joinery, shop fitting & interior fit out Garden rooms / summer houses Fitted kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms & wardrobes
K c Ellis roofing
Central trading uk,Roofing and building servicesCertificate of Excellence 2019
We offer an excellent customer service, in all aspects of roofing and general building services Flat roofing specialist Tiled roofing specialist Block paving, patios, drive ways ,all aspects of groundworks undertaken
Jc property maintenance & general buildersCertificate of Excellence 2019
Hi I'm john from jc property maintance and general building. We are a family run bussness doing all property maintenance work call us on 08001937702 or 07551729584
Bravo Roofing
Ibo glass & glazing ltd
Lawrence Osborne Carpentry & Construction LtdCertificate of Excellence 2015
Thank you for visiting our page, here are just a few examples of the services we can offer to you. We provide a complimentary site visit to discuss your requirements work with you to provide a solution right for you. We cover all areas of East Anglia for Commercial and Private clients. Kitchens - Let us take the stress out of your kitchen refurb by allowing us to manage the e2e process. We can offer a full solution to your needs, or if youre thinking of just freshing up with a change of worktops - no problem! We do it all. Fencing & Decking - All exterior works taken. Skilled workmanship with attention to detail and the vision to add extra finishing touches to your project. Bathrooms - Whether its a revamp or full refit/design, be sure to speak to us about your ideas and work to a cost effect solution to suit your needs! Commercial - We provide commercial management solutions covering all trades. An increased level of insurances means that we can cater for those requiring an increased level of PLI - in excess of £10m and working at heights. We are currently servicing multiple national facilities management companies and provide rapid responses when required. Total Transformation - Let us project manage your restoration, whether it be large or small, we have the skills and experience to deliver your requirements in a cost effect and timely manner.
CMB Carpentry
Rouse scaffoldingCertificate of Excellence 2019
Property Transformations
Blue Sky Property servicesCertificate of Excellence 2019
Property management and maintenance specialists:(please email or phone us directly for a quick response) Extensions, loft conversions, renovations, fitting bathrooms and kitchens, bespoke carpentry, building project advice, property maintenance and management. We also specialise in home staging, helping getting homes ready for sale and visiting prospective new properties with clients to advise on potential
Ulti-mate Roofing & Construction
Ulti-mate roofing and construction are specialist approved contractors in roofing, modern roofline Products and construction installations We are a establish business based in Norwich that specialises in All types of Roofing, Building and ground work, so you can count on us to handle any problems from a new roof installation, to high quality upvc fascia and guttering including all roofline products, right down to a property extension or outbuilding, With years of experience and also being approved contractors of the materials we can offer to you and city and guilds qualifications behind us you can depend on us for the very highest quality Roofing and building services in a range of local areas in Norfolk and nearby county's.
CW Paving LTD
Property 1st (Maintenance) Ltd
Is your home in need of refurbishment, redecoration or repair? Our experienced team of tradesmen provide a complete maintenance and repair service. We also offer a no-obligation quote for any works required. Some recent customers say: I keep realising that I haven't yet confirmed our delight in the work you and your colleagues did for our bathroom & cloakroom in the autumn. Please pass on our thanks to your staff- (February 2015): Roofer very pleasant and polite and friendly, the same with the scaffolders, roof no longer leaks when it rains - (February 2015): Had a slight problem with a small "drip". Was fixed promptly. Very friendly and explained everything to me. I am happy in the knowledge that I can always phone if I have a problem - (January 2015): Workmen were polite and friendly and worked well - (January 2015).Visit our website for our services and more customer testimonials.
Adams Roofing
Windows Cleaned
Traditional window cleaning services. We cover all areas from Wangford to woodbridge. Tired of trying to get rid of those hard water, limescale or paint marks off the windows? Give us a call we will have them off in no time! Please get in touch if you would like any of the services provided • Windows cleaned interior and exterior • Gutter Clearances and cleaning plus repair • Conservatory Cleaning • Walls, patio and Fascia Board Cleaning • Holiday homes • Commercial and residential and more • Fully insured Many thanks
Asl Building & maintenance
All types of general building work and home improvements.
M&S Contractors EA Ltd
My MinionsCertificate of Excellence 2019
My Minions are a Property Management and Maintenance company based in Norwich, Norfolk. We understand how busy life can be for everyone - and the effects it can have on the upkeep of your properties. Our objective is to help you to achieve your goals by removing the irritations and worry from property maintenance. Whether it's to get a garden regularly maintained, fixing a leaking tap, planning a full redecoration or even renovation, we cover it all with a wide range of services meaning you only ever need one point of contact for all your maintenance. If you're a landlord with multiple properties we even offer a Property Management service with 24/7 call for both yourself and your tenants.
Norfolk Roofline
B and d hodge builder.s
21 years together' still got it' top misses love holidays me kids and still a" top builder" still hate the cold city slicker's. , Loves the city, loves Countryside, Loves Buildings, Loves Grolsch, Vindaloo,Hates being COLD.
PCS Building LTDCertificate of Excellence 2019
We are a one-stop company for your garage doors, exterior and interior doors, windows and building works. We also specialise in garage door conversions, extensions and garage conversions. Some of our services and products: Garage doors supplied and fitted Garage automations Garage door conversions External doors supplied and fitted Internal doors supplied and fitted Fire doors suplied and fitted Patio doors supplied and fitted Windows supplied and fitted Garage conversions Extensions Renovations and refurbishments General building Plaster installation, plastering and painting Floor installation and painting Tiling and bathrooms Kitchens and furniture
Minotaur Roofing & Home improvementsCertificate of Excellence 2019
Based in Poringland Norfolk, we specialise in the installation of Tiled and Rubber roofs. We fit to both new and old building using high quality materials and accredited fitters. EPDM is far superior to felt and our roofs are backed by a 20year guarantee. EPDM roofs are suited to garages, outhouses, porches, Dormas and extensions and can be fitted insulated or unisulated. We are also able to offer replacement Fascia, Soffits and Guttering in various styles. This can be install alone or as a package with your new roof. We will match or beat any genuine like for like quote without comprise to your installation. We work to your requirements and timelines and to the Moto "we may not be the biggest, but we aim to be the best!"
4 seasons garden careCertificate of Excellence 2019
we are a family run buisness with over 10 years experience in gardening fencing and landscaping we cover all aspects of outside work from turfing to decking and garden maintenance to fencing we cover all of east anglia from one off jobs to regular clientel please feel free to contact us for a free quotation
SSGE Home Improvements
We are a friendly, family run, uPVC home improvement company based in Norwich. We supply and install all styles of windows, doors and conservatories and roofline products. All installations come with an insurance backed 10-year guarantee. We are also registered with FENSA for customers peace of mind. We were established in 1983, and have been trading for 35 years with the majority of our business coming from repeat customers and recommendations. We will do our utmost to ensure a quality job at our competitive prices.
SG Glass and GlazingCertificate of Excellence 2019
NK BuildersCertificate of Excellence 2019
Family run, friendly and reliable building firm covering Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth & Norwich NK BUILDERS can do it all from planning and design to the finished product. Services include : All UPVC windows, doors, conservatories etc Woodburner installations Paint and decor Fence, Gates, Decking etc Extentions / Alterations Tiling Kitchen / Bathroom installations Heating & Plumbing Roofing Brick / Block work Plus much more. . .
Bauder Ltd
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Family business w s h your design possibilities are virtually limitless we use the best materials and only use staff with years of experience
Reach right cleaningCertificate of Excellence 2019
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Tile (clay, concrete)
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Notice a leak when raining the other night
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New Delhi, Feb 14: After No One Killed Jessica, Rani Mukerji is set to don the garb of a journalist once again for Bombay Talkies.
Bombay Talkies is a bouquet of four stories directed by four different directors - Anurag Kashyap, Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar and Dibaker Banerjee. It is an ode to 100 years of Indian cinema.
The story directed by Karan features Rani, Randeep Hooda and Saqib Saleem. Both Karan and Rani have been best friends ever since the actress made her debut in the film industry with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and have shared a long professional relationship.
"Rani will be essaying the role of a journalist in the film. She is paired opposite Randeep. The duo are sharing screen space for the first time," the spokesperson of film said in a statement.
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Hurricane Sandy Victims Need Our Help!
I have about 200 quilts that were donated to Phoenix Quilts that I was going to use for the 2013 wildfire season. But hearing about the thousands of people who are still without power and are freezing cold, I've decided to donate the remaining quilts to the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
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I'm sorry for the lack of posting lately. But I have been baking. This post features dessert that I made for the dinner Benjie hosted on Saturday (I'm always there to help and semi co-host.) Anyway, I made vanilla souffles with chocolate sauce. Also, in case those didn't work out, I made a brown butter pound cake.
The souffles turned out okay, and for those of you who were at the dinner, and didn't get a chance to try the pound cake the next day, I am sorry you missed out, because that was also good. I promise I will make it for you some time! 🙂
I had not made a souffle since my second year of pastry school, so I was tempted to try them, especially since I got the ramekins to make them in for my birthday. (Thanks, Mom!) I am so happy they turned out tasting okay, even if they were a little bit crooked (they didn't rise straight).
The pound cake was a little bit dry, but I'll admit to over baking them slightly, because I was distracted while they were in the oven, because I was watching Dexter, which, is a really addicting show. I almost went straight to watching it instead of posting this, but I figured you've waited long enough for a new post… 😉
Click on the link for the recipes and more pictures.
Vanilla Souffle from the Food Network:
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar for souffle dish
- 1 1/3 cups whole, 2 percent fat, or 1 percent fat milk
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 1/3 cup plus 1 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 4 large eggs, separated
- Confectioners' sugar
- Satin chocolate sauce, recipe follows
Satin chocolate sauce:
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- 4 1/2 ounces semisweet chocolate
- 1/4 cup light corn syrup
- 1/3 cup hot water
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Brush 4 to 6 individual souffle dishes (or a 7-cup souffle dish) well with melted butter. Put the sugar inside one dish and toss to coat, then tip the excess sugar into the next dish and repeat. Place the dishes in the refrigerator to chill.
Reserving 1/3 cup of the milk, place the remaining 1 cup in a large saucepan. Add the vanilla bean and heat just to a boil, then turn off the heat and set aside to let the vanilla bean infuse for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, whisk the 1/3 cup granulated sugar, the flour, and the reserved 1/3 cup milk. Add a little of the hot milk and whisk to combine, then add the flour mixture to the hot milk mixture in the saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally. Simmer just until thickened, about 1 minute. Turn off the heat. Add the butter, stir, cover, and set aside 15 minutes. Remove the vanilla bean and whisk in the egg yolks.
In a mixer fitted with a whisk attachment (or using a hand mixer), whip the egg whites in a clean dry bowl until soft peaks form. Add the remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar and continue whipping until stiff and glossy. Fold into the milk mixture.
Pour the mixture into the prepared dishes, filling them 3/4 full. Run your thumb around the inside rim of each dish, making a shallow "moat" around the edge of the batter. This will help the souffles to rise straight up. Dust the surfaces with confectioners' sugar. (The souffles can stand at this point for up to 30 minutes.) Bake in the center of the oven until puffed and light golden brown, 20 to 30 minutes. Do not open the oven door unless absolutely necessary.
Satin Chocolate Sauce: Combine the 2 chocolates over simmering water in the top half of a double boiler. Stir constantly until melted, then whisk in the syrup and water without removing the double boiler from the heat. Whisk until smooth and shiny. (The sauce can be made up to 48 hours in advance and refrigerated. To rewarm, stir over low heat or heat in a microwave.) At the table, serve the hot souffles by poking a hole in each one and pouring chocolate sauce into the hole, then drizzling sauce over the tops. For a large souffle, spoon onto dessert plates and drizzle sauce on each serving.
Brown Butter Pound Cake from Gourmet magazine (Sadly, no longer in existence.)
Makes 1 (8 -1/2 by 4-1/2 inch) loaf.
Active time: 25 minutes. Start to finish: 3-1/2 hours. (including cooling)
(I bet this would go well with the above chocolate sauce, if you simply can't go one dessert with out chocolate.)
2-1/4 sticks unsalted butter
2 cups sifted cake flour (not self-rising; sift before measuring-if using all-purpose flour instead, for every cup of cake flour, sub in one cake of all-purpose flour minus 2 Tbsp.)
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
4 large eggs
1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 325ºF with rack in middle. Butter and lightly flour an 8 -1/2 by 4-1/2 inch loaf pan.
Heat butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over medium heat until milk solids on bottom are dark chocolate brown. (It should smell nutty.)
Transfer to a shallow bowl and chill in freezer until just congealed, about 15 minutes.
Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
Beat together brown butter and sugars with an electric mixer until fluffy, about two minutes. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. At low speed, mix in flour mixture until just incorporated.
Transfer batter to pan, smoothing top, then rap pan on counter to settle batter. Bake until golden brown and a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 to 1-1/4 hours. Cool in pan 30 minutes, then invert cake onto a rack and cool completely, right side up, 1 hour.
Both recipes are actually easy, it just takes time. But, I promise it is worth the wait.


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Hi all. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04. I'm trying to install the latest beta of Bible Analyzer. The install fails with this message:
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But when I try to install this, I get a message that a later version is already installed and it stops.
Any insights? Thanks.


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Patco 5095 Auto Headliner Anti-Squeak, Anti-Itch Tape is used for itching & squeaking prevention within a headliner assembly. It creates a barrier between the foam and the roof of a vehicle and is an alternative to commonly used felt tape. Patco 5095 creates an aggressive and permanent bond to headliner foam (will bond to Dow IMPAXX™ foam) and various other surfaces. The paper release liner used in Patco 5095 makes application of the tape quick and easy. In comparison, Patco 5075 has a slightly higher adhesion strength, but Patco 5095 is thicker and has a higher tensile strength. Made in the U.S.
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Christian Siriano for Payless
Payless has women's shoes for every occasion and any time of year. From stylish sandals for the warm months to furry lined boots for cold and snow, you'll find what you're looking for at a great price. You'll look great, too, whether you're at the office, at the store, or enjoying a night out with friends or coworkers.
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Every closet should have a good selection of flats, and Payless fills the bill. You'll even find dance shoes – ballet, jazz, and tap. For on and off the dance floor, you can pick from Oxford, slip-on, ballet, moccasin, and dress flats in a wide variety of styles.
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The only way to fully appreciate the wide selection, dazzling style, and great comfort of women's shoes from Payless is to see it for yourself. So shop online or at a Payless ShoeSource store today and add some footwear style to your closet.