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I am thoroughly obsessed with the new Grimes single, "Genesis." I wasn't familiar with her until hearing this track and now I can't wait to hear the full album, Visions (out 2/21 on 4AD), to see if she can pull off what she has done so masterfully in this initial single - that is, combining the most seemingly disparate genres into one coherent piece of music and somehow making it work.
"Genesis" starts with this synthy piano bit that could come from an Enya album or something. Then her ethereal vocals kick in around the 0:39 mark. I can't, for the life of me, understand what she's saying, but it's beautiful. But then at 1:02 the track veers left into the world of electronic beats. Every time the track is over, I hit repeat to see if I can finally, finally make some sense of it on the next listen. So far, no dice.
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Grimes is the project of Canadian Claire Boucher and Visions is her fourth release in two years (it's also her first for 4AD). 4AD and Arbitus Records describe the influences on her new album "as wide as Enya, TLC and Aphex Twin, whilst drawing from genres like New Jack Swing, IDM, New Age, K-pop, Industrial and glitch resulting in a record that is both otherworldly and futuristic."
I am thoroughly obsessed with the new Grimes single, "Genesis." I wasn't familiar with her until hearing this track and now I can't wait to hear the full album, Visions (out 2/21 on 4AD), to see if she can pull off what she has done so masterfully in this initial single - that is, combining the most seemingly disparate genres into one coherent piece of music and somehow making it work.
School of Seven Bells just released "The Night," the first single from their forthcoming third album, Ghostory. The album features SVIIB's signature dreampop influenced by '80s pop, shoegaze, and ambient electronic music. But it's also kind of a concept album in that it tells the story of a young girl named Lafaye and the ghosts that surround her life.
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School of Seven Bells is vocalist Alejandra Deheza, formerly of On!Air!Library, and guitarist/producer Benjamin Curtis, a former member of Secret Machines and Tripping Daisy. They formed in 2007 in Brooklyn, New York with Alejandra's twin sister Claudia (who left the band in 2010). Their debut album, Alpinisms (Ghostly International), was released in October 2008. Their second full-length album, Disconnect From Desire, was released in July 2010 on Vagrant Records. Ghostory is out February 28, 2012 on Vagrant Records/Ghostly International.
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Dignity's Due
"A king's head is solemnly oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad," Ishmael jokes in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, in the course of cataloging every last use of whale blubber. "Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process." The word "dignity" appears roughly twenty times in Melville's novel and usually refers to the high standing of various offices and activities—including, inevitably, whaling. But often, "dignity" pertains to monarchs, though the humorous treatment that somehow elevates kings doesn't work its magic on everyone. For Ishmael, the notion that democracy offers all people the dignified prerogatives of kings seems mistaken, if not ridiculous. "In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil," he observes, "can't amount to much in his totality."
In Dignity, Rank, & Rights, Jeremy Waldron—perhaps the leading legal and political philosopher of our day—argues that the notion of human dignity originated in the democratization of the high social status once reserved for the well-born. "Dignity" means rank, and Waldron argues that we are the beneficiaries of a long, gradual process that he calls "leveling up." More and more people, he says, are treated as high-status individuals, deserving of the social respect once restricted to the solemnly oiled. In an age of human rights, everyone can become a king, at least on paper or in court, where claims that basic human dignity is nonnegotiable have achieved a remarkable popularity in the last few years.
Since the end of World War II, no one apart from conservative and typically Catholic thinkers has staked philosophical systems on the notion of human dignity, but liberal philosophers like Waldron are now flocking to this position to revitalize theories of political ethics. Around the same time that Waldron turned to the concept, the late Ronald Dworkin, in his masterwork Justice for Hedgehogs (2011), claimed that dignity constitutes the most basic value that a society should advance. Jürgen Habermas, the great German thinker, recently admitted that human dignity had never been cited as the basis for human rights for most of modern history, whether in Virginia in 1776, France in 1789, or thereafter; he concluded from this fact that dignity must have been the implicit underpinning for human rights all along. But this can't be correct. During most of that time, the concept of dignity served to elevate some people over others rather than putting them on the same level. And when dignity finally did enter politics—encoded at midcentury in the United Nations Charter (1945), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and West German constitutional Basic Law (1949)—it was not the watchword in philosophy or political theory that it has since become.
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Before the modern era, dignity was not considered an inviolable value. In the fifteenth century, the Renaissance guru Pico della Mirandola wrote an oration later dubbed "On the Dignity of Man," which is often regarded as a confused precursor of later understandings of the term. (In Dignity: Its History and Meaning, Harvard political theorist Michael Rosen treats him this way.) But Pico, a cabalist and magician, was far too idiosyncratic a thinker to be anyone's precursor; after all, he insisted that what sets humans apart from everything else in the universe is their lack of any defined essence. As the contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has noted, Pico's discourse "does not contain the term dignitas, which…could not in any case refer to man…. For the central thesis of the oration is that man, having been molded when the models of creation were all used up…can have neither archetype nor proper place nor specific rank."
In modern times, Alexis de Tocqueville was the first to write about the democratization of high standing. A French aristocrat who traveled to America to size up a newfangled thing called "democracy," Tocqueville warned that if aristocratic values were not somehow preserved after the departure of feudal kings and nobles, humanity would be debased. "In aristocratic ages, vast ideas are commonly entertained of the dignity, the power, and the greatness of man," he noted. Democracy might promise a leveling up, but it mainly threatened to flatten social distinctions altogether—a risk that Waldron and other current chroniclers of dignity do not seem to take seriously.
But even on its own terms, there are problems with Waldron's argument. Aristocratic status is not an innate characteristic: ask the riffraff who have bought or married into it over the centuries. And even for those who lucked into high birth, their standing was always ritually established, as the ceremonial anointing of kings suggests. For nobles, social requirements included dress, language, manners and manor, and for males they also involved the sort of repetitive violence and denigration of the body that we now think human dignity is supposed to deter or forbid. Nineteenth-century aristocrats, in their last gasp of importance, whiled away their idle hours rattling sabers and, when not preparing to fight, engaging in nasty duels in which they gave one another the physical scars that were frequently the mandatory signs of their superiority. Such rituals, like anointing, seem fairly silly when applied to everyone; besides, discussions about human dignity consider it to be "inherent." It is not something that elaborate social rituals—least of all bodily violence—are required to establish.
The historical origins of dignity in terms of social status are important to Waldron because of the recent turn to another potential source—abstract philosophy—for securing human worth. Even as dignity was slowly being recognized as existing beyond aristocrats, philosophers continued their age-old struggle to identify uniquely human properties that set us above the other animals. One philosopher, however, the German Enlightenment sage Immanuel Kant, thought about human distinction precisely in terms of dignity—namely, the priceless worth conferred on us by our freedom to choose. Kant inserted a break in the great chain of being between the rest of the animals, which are subject purely to the determination of nature's laws, and human beings, who could (he hoped) deploy their free will to make their own rules rather than slavishly obey beastly imperatives. In a difficult argument, Kant insisted that man's "rational nature"—our ability to set ends—makes every human life of highest value, and indeed provides the basis of all value in the world. His metaphysical promotion of the centrality of human dignity is significant intellectually because, as Rosen remarks, it is on Kant's "giant shoulders [that] the modern theory of human rights largely rests" nowadays.
Waldron, whose latest book is typically careful, lucid and subtle, seems clearly nervous about resting everything on those shoulders. In practical terms, he suggests that it is best to establish people's worth not by abstract and controversial claims like Kant's about their freedom and autonomy, which do not command universal agreement, but rather by letting the law work slowly to grant them higher status, as has been the case in constitutional and international human rights law during the last few decades. Further, as Waldron persuasively argues, it is not possible to derive from Kant's idea of human dignity everything that human rights law might protect. For example, the Universal Declaration makes room for economic and social protections, but how can the notion of human dignity justify the declaration's more specific protection of unionization rights or paid vacations? Dignity seems too abstract a notion to support such specific entitlements.
The partisans of a metaphysical basis for human dignity might respond, predictably, that what goes up can come down. And, ultimately, some irrefutable argument is required to establish the grounds for treating human beings as immediately precious. The arc of the moral universe is definitely long, as our president likes to say, borrowing from Martin Luther King Jr., but it does not bend toward justice unless pushed, as King knew well. Waldron's proposal is that the universal and egalitarian implications of Kant's kingdom of ends can be reached indirectly by allowing the democratization of high status to continue through various legal institutions. But it is hard to see why anyone could be confident about this bet—unless Waldron were, like Obama, committed to the view that history inevitably betters humanity's lot. But at this late date, it is naïve to appeal to the workings of providence. In fact, a closer look at the historical details of dignity's trajectory suggests that its prominence today is directly related to a crisis of progress.
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Your browser does not support iframes. KG: "I always said J. Green is going to be one of the best ever to play this game. When you watch him play, you see the glimpses." Probably the greatest compliment Jeff Green could receive. Not sure how often KG lavishes this praise. I know he said something similar about Austin Rivers a year ago and Rivers has struggled mightily during his rookie season. Still it's nice to see Green get some props from the Celtics leader. Video courtesy of CSNNE.
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The object of the game is to pass through hoops that litter each course before arriving at a finish line. Along the way, you'll need to grab as many stars as possible, some of which sit conveniently in the middle of said hoops, while others lean off to the side, presenting a gamble: do you grab every star to get a better medal, or take the safe route to completion? On top of that, those aforementioned hoops also provide a much-needed lift to keep you going to the next one; if you run out of steam and hit the ground (or part of the scenery), the attempt will end and you'll have to restart.
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well lets see where to begin !!....a little about me im a northern boy grew up in west virginia...but also spent time in michigan after high school i went college and got (2) A.S. degree's along with a five year bachelor's degree in landscape architecture....after school i lived in pittsburgh and got tired of the cold weather :)....and moved !! soooo now that im down here i have since bought a townhouse in the villages !! love it ....i work a 8-5 m-f and most of the times after work i go and workout it's been a good way to relief stress and stay fit :)...on the weekends it's time to relax i do not workout over the weekend need the down time !!...but also stay very active !! l1.) lets see... the perfect match - lol hmmm kinda tricky there has to be a physical attraction first meaing first impressions are everthing :)...second would be good conservation !! and chemistry is key :). 2.) things i look for in a woman...hmmm brains with some wit !!...not a total smart ass - lol ...good conservations in all topic's.., legs, shopping !! because i love it as well :) - a plus for you !! if you pick me - lol...easy going...laid back at times but assertive when need be :)..one that also speaks her mind !! * also im looking for long term relationship...:) and one other thing the first pic of me im not a mean person i was only trying to take a pic of myself !!! and lastly i do not take ROIDS !! im all natural baby !!
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The Canadian Pacific Railway Holiday Train will stop in Loretto at 4:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, at the County Road 19 Railway crossing. The train is on a mission to raise food and money for local food shelves. Musical entertainment will be offered from a lighted boxcar stage. Featured performers wil...Read More
The Canadian Pacific Railway Holiday Train brought a multitude of bright lights to Loretto, Sunday, Dec. 15, and Loretto residents added to festivities by lighting up their homes. Near-zero temperatures did not dissuade visitors who came to hear Willy Porter and the Claytones perform from a lighted ...Read More
Thousands of colored lights will brighten the twilight Sunday, Dec. 15, when the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train — decorated to the hilt — makes a 4:15 p.m. stop in Loretto at the County Road 19 railroad crossing. The train's annual expedition across North America brings both fun an...Read More
The visit of the Canadian Pacific Railway Holiday Train to Loretto on Dec. 13 drew one of the largest crowds ever for this event, said Medina Police Chief Ed Belland. Visitors took in live musical performances presented on a lighted boxcar stage and also donated food and money to three area food she...Read More
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) will bring its Holiday Train to the County Road 19 railroad tracks in Loretto Thursday, Dec. 13. Community festivities will begin at 3 p.m., with businesses and volunteers hosting activities on West Railway Street. The train is scheduled to arrive at 4:15 p.m. Du...Read More


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In Rhino 4.0 Essential Training, author Dave Schultze shows how the 3D NURBS-based modeling tools in Rhino 4.0 are used to engineer products from toy robots to full-sized aircraft. This course concentrates on using Rhino 4.0 for industrial design and rapid prototyping, with a review of common 3D terminology using specific examples. Along with a comprehensive exploration of the Rhino interface, the course includes an introduction to building 3D objects with Rhino's three primary entities: the curve, the surface, and the solid. Exercise files are included with the course.
Hi! I'd like to take a couple of minutes to talk about some recommended hardware for products that I use everyday with Rhino. First up is my mouse. You can see here, also on the screen or at the Microsoft web site. This is the SideWinder Mouse. It's actually designed for gaming, but it's got a lot of great features, which work well in 3D. It is an optical mouse, and that'll give you accuracy in tracking, but almost as important is the third button, which is also a wheel. It's the wheel that's used for zooming, and it's also used for clicking for pop-ups.
Next up is the video card. I'm going to recommend the Quadro FX line from NVIDIA and depending on your budget, we have the high end here. This is the Quadro FX 3800. Now both of these cards I'm going to show you are OpenGL workstation-class video card accelerators, and that's important. Some people think that gaming cards can do just as well, and that's not true, especially for larger, more complicated models. This one here, the FX 3800, is about 900 bucks. If that's not in your budget, you could also try the FX 580, which runs about $150-160.
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This is their top of the line one with the LCD screen and kind of the mini keyboard that lets you do a lot of custom commands and macros. The one I use is this guy, the SpaceNavigator. This one is for anywhere between 60 and 90 bucks, and it's nice because it's pretty portable. You can bring it with you. Now let's take a look at how the Navigator works inside of Rhino. I've got mine right here. So, we have six axes of control, so that means we can zoom by pulling forth and back. We can rotate by turning the knob and we can pan by pushing side to side.
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With dozens of flexographic label presses, our QuickFlex™ custom label printing service can print your custom labels and tags in quantities of thousands of labels, in your timeframe, on your budget.
Our label factory in Rhode Island offers high-end flexographic label printing with every finishing option you need: varnishing, lamination (including thermal transfer printable), cold foil stamping, cutting, hole punching, notching, sheeting, rewinding, slitting, perforation, and adding strings to tags.
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Exerpeutic Fitness 400XL Space Saver Recumbent Bike
Exerpeutic Fitness 400XL Space Saver Recumbent Bike
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|Bike Type: Recumbent bike
|Finish: Black
|Material: Metal
|Non-Skid: Yes
|Slip Resistant: Yes
|Heart Rate Monitor Included: Yes
|Console Included: Yes
|Adjustability: Yes
|Resistance Functionality: Yes
|Power Source: Batteries
|Batteries Required: Yes
|Seat Included: Yes
|Wheels Included: No
|Flywheel Included: Yes
|Headphone Jack Included: No
|Type of Pedals Included: Toe Straps
|Removable Pedals: Yes
|Book/Magazine Rack Included: No
|Cup Holder Included: Yes
|Fan Included: No
|MP3 Input Included: No
|TV Included: No
|Upper Body Workout Ability: No
|User Height: 5'2" - 6'2"
|Weight Capacity: 300 Pounds
|Commercial Use: No
|Country of Manufacture: China
|Assembly Required: Yes
|Additional Parts Required: No
|Product Warranty: 90 days
About the ManufacturerExerpeutic by Paradigm specializes in making treadmills and other fitness equipment that offer all the features of a gym while not compromising your home's decor.
Exerpeutic Fitness 400XL Space Saver Recumbent Bike
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A good value
PMI from Saint Louis, MO – Verified Buyer
Shipping took longer than expected. Was to be delivered on a Tuesday and arrived on Thursday. Arrived undamaged. Packaged pretty well. Looked like a lot of parts when I took it out of the box, however it was simple to put together. For the price it's a good product. Very quiet to ride. The scanner/tracker works well. The pedal action is smooth and the adjustment to the tension works well. The seat and back are cheaply made but adequate and pretty comfortable. Feels pretty solid; again for the price it's just fine. It would probably feel more solid on a wood floor. When you fold it up, it feels unstable like it could easily topple (but maybe I'm not doing it right), and it does feel as if you are dragging it across the carpet when you try to move it. The rollers are not terribly useful. Everything that was supposed to be in the box to put it together was there and having the screws in place, except for the seat bolts, made it a breeze to put together.
Great Bike
Kristy from PA – Verified Buyer
I think this is a great bike. It folds up, not super compact but definitely is a space saver. I have taken away a 5 star rating because this is NOT a recumbent bike. It is a SEMI-recumbent bike (which it actually said on the box). Your legs are not our directly in front of you like a real recumbent bike would be. Thought the directions were a little confusing at first, but once I got started it got much easier. I don't think the seat pad is all that comfortable either, so sometimes I sit on a cushion, but not all the time. Overall, I do think this is a great bike and I would recommend it for the price, quality of the machine, and space saving ability.
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Richard Rivera from Prosper, TX – Verified Buyer
I'm the mom that the bike was bought for. The orthpedic Dr. told me the only exercises I can do are the bands and the bike. He gave me the bands and my son bought the bike. I weighed 270 and have chronic arthritis all over my body and multiple spine problems on the L4 & L5. The back on the bike is just what I need to support whatever in my back causes me constant pain and leg jerks at night because of the nerves below L5 and neuropathy from being diabetic. I get no severe leg jerks from the exercise bike that I do get from walking in the pool. The slight recumbrance keeps all the pressure off my back. I can't believe it! This bike is GREAT for a person with severe limitations! I've lost 6 pounds and my blood sugar has returned to normal, with medication, the first time in two years. The computer shuts off, saving batteries, the seat is well cushioned. Put the bike together in about 45 min, alone, after reading clear directions first and putting numbers and letters together in my mind. I'm a 68 year old female. I love this bike!
5 star bike and 5 star customer service!
Susan from Dallas, TX – Verified Buyer
This bike is very sturdy and well made. I had someone put it together for me and they were able to do so easily and quickly. I am a novice at this bike stuff, but one thing I can tell is that the quality is great...the ride is quiet and the bike is comfy! The customer service was absolutely excellent! All I had inquired about was the fact that I didn't get the seat that was pictured and they sent me an entirely new bike! Told me to keep the other one in case I ever needed parts...an this was all quite awhile after originally purchasing (since it took awhile to get it put together due to life getting in the way)...was super impressed and highly recommend them...and the bike!
Very Nice bike
Gene from Los Angeles, CA
It fits me fine. I'm 5'9" about 205 and set the seat on the second to last height setting. It is a simple design with no extras but, is a very solid product. No creaks or rattles. I'm pretty heavy and I get NO rocking or instability at all. I don't get that feeling that "I'm too big" for it. It folds up to fit in an area of about a 2.5ft X 2.5ft and 4ft high depending on your seat setting. Its pretty quiet. I watch TV while riding it and don't need to turn up the volume. I almost breath louder. The resistance settings work fine and are smooth and even. The computer read out is simple with big font. I just need time and mileage personally but, it also does pulse, speed, and calories. Assembly was pretty easy took around 40 min. TWO COMPLAINTS: The wheels that allow you to move it around are good on hard floors but , horrible on carpet and any floor gaps. The seat is not as curvy as the picture. It is clover shaped but, the thickness is flat and squared. It is still gives good cushion and comfort but, is not like a bike seat where it kind of conforms to your motion. As for getting it through Wayfair, they had the best price due the free shipping. I clicked through an ad and got additional 10% off. I got it sooner than expected no damage. So far, impressed with Wayfair and would shop there again and refer others.
Very Happy!
Brenda from Lancaster, PA – Verified Buyer
I too did a lot of research and read a lot of reviews before making my purchase. I needed something small since we don't have much room but also a recumbent bike due to my knees. Also had a small budget to work with. This bike met all my criteria. Ordered on Tuesday and it arrived on Saturday. Assembly wasn't too bad. Did it myself. It really helped that most of the nuts and bolts are already in place so you don't need to sort thru a bag of hardware to find the right pieces. I have used it several times since and have been pleased with the way it operates. It is extremely quiet and comfortable.
Quality & Value
Patricia from BOSTON, MA – Verified Buyer
I chose this bike based on the favorable reviews, and now I'm adding mine. The bike was shipped promptly, and I was able to lug the box into the house by myself.. After reading the reviews, I thought I might be able to assemble it myself but I could not. I have many skills but I know my limitations. I had a friend assemble it, and he found it easy-to-do. It took him about an hour and a half. The bike is as described. We have enjoyed using it and we are looking forward to continuing to use it. It was a good choice.
Great Christmas present!
Linda from Palm Desert, CA – Verified Buyer
I bought this Space saver recumbent bike for my hubby for Christmas after reviewing many online. His doctor wanted him to excercise on a bike as it would not hurt his joints or back. This product is well made and does not take up much space. It is easy to use and very quiet. he seat is large with a good back and very comfortable, We use it while watching TV. The price and quality cannot be beat. I am very glad I purchased this one. Also - he put it together very quickly and said it was not difficult.
Good quality exercise bike
Margarita from Bismarck,, ND – Verified Buyer– Top 1000 Reviewer
I love this bike and used often. I complained about the handles not reading any pulse so they sent me a new handle. It still did not work because it might be the connection to the main frame itself. I did not mind because I was more particular about the other monitoring as in time, calories, etc. while the bike is in use and that works! It is so compact you would not even notice it is in our bedroom and I just leave it as it is. I can even bike while my husband is asleep because there's no noise at all, and the price was terrific, too!
Best Bike EVER
Carly from Tampa, FL – Verified Buyer
This is my first purchase and it is the best decision I made! Easy to assemble. Quiet and of good quality. I love my new bike and am excited to use it everyday. My local gym closed this past summer and I wanted something that would work me out at home. The fact that it folds up is fabulous, however it is that perfect size which can remain at the foot of my bed without taking up any floor space. It truly is a space saver!! It is the best form of low impact, cardio that in time will shape you up. Thank you Wayfair for having this product in stock. I received it within a week of ordering and assembling instructions were easy to follow with patience:)


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|Unflavored gelatin
|1 Tablespoon (1 Envelope)
|2 1⁄4 Cup (36 tbs)
|Fluffy white frosting mix
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|Rum flavoring
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|1 Dash
|Ground nutmeg
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|Semi-sweet chocolate square
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2) Line a 9-inch pie plate.
3) Trim pastry to 1/2 inch beyond edge of pie plate.
4) Flute edge; prick bottom and sides of pastry with tines of a fork.
5) Bake in 450° oven for 10 to 12 minutes or till golden.
6) Cool thoroughly on wire rack.
7) In saucepan combine pudding mix and gelatin.
8) Cook according to pudding package directions except use the 2 1/2 cups milk.
9) Remove from heat; pour into a bowl.
10) Cover surface with clear plastic wrap or waxed paper.
11) Prepare frosting mix according to package directions.
12) Stir in rum flavoring, salt, and nutmeg.
13) Fold hot gelatin mixture into frosting mixture.
14) Slice 1 banana into baked pastry shell; cover with half gelatin-frosting mixture.
15) Repeat with second banana and remaining gelatin-frosting mixture.
16) Chill several hours or overnight till set.
17) Just before serving, diagonally slice the remaining banana and arrange in center of pie.
18) In saucepan melt chocolate and butter; drizzle over banana slices.
19) Cover; chill to store.


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Ambitious, and brilliant, fourth LP from the New York MC.
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Robert Edward Stewart (the second), aka Beans, is one of rap's finest tongue-twisting purveyors of befuddling non-sequiturs, brain-bumping intelligence and booty-moving beats. Yet the New Yorker remains an underground attraction, three solo LPs before this one released via Warp but – despite the label's fine reputation – failing to fully connect with the mainstream. That might change now, though, as recent superstars-go-bonkers turns from Diddy and Kanye have widened the window of opportunity for more out-there MCs to reach fresh audiences.
Like Kayne's multi-faceted deconstruction of his own shortcomings, released to a chorus of acclaim last year, End It All is an album unsuited to background listening. There is so much going on here that the listener yearns for a slow-motion replay, necessary to pick apart the constituents and separate vowels from vociferousness. And it's not just our lyrical protagonist who zips along at a pace sure to kick up a stinky sweat if transposed to a morning work-out – the array of producers provide intriguing arrangements that skitter and slide, glitch and glide; that snap, crackle and pop their way into sensory overload, rendering attempts at multi-tasking while End It All plays for its 33 minutes futile.
Among those aboard for the deliberately bumpy ride: Four Tet, twice, on the blink-and-you'll-miss-it burp-and-gurgle of Gluetraps and, later, the even briefer, but much buzzier, Anvil Falling, which comes on like Aesop Rock cornered by an angry swarm of Atari Teenage Riot demos. Warp electro-head (Chris) Clark drapes android-insect twitches atop closer Hunter, a close cousin of the sci-fi sounds heard on the last El-P album; and Interpol drummer Sam Fog(arino) turns up the suspense on Electric Bitch, a stalker anthem for baggy-panted sneaker creepers.
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Printing in Linux has changed out of all recognition from the early days. Today, you no longer need a PostScript printer or to set the options for print laboriously by hand. Thanks to OpenPrinting's database, you can immediately find whether a given printer will work on Linux, and, thanks to CUPS (originally, the Common Unix Printing System), you can easily configure a printer with a GUI. As with most of the inner workings of a Linux system, however, working at the command line remains the easiest way to see what is actually going on when you print.
Before you dive into the subject of printing, a very brief reminder of the basics might be useful. Today, all major distributions install CUPS as a matter of course, as well as a number of printer drivers in the form of PostScript Printer Descriptions (PPDs), which are generally stored in /usr/share/ppd and consist of a series of formatting and operational options. Should you need more PPDs, look in your distribution's repositories for the HPLIP, Gutenprint, and Foomatic Database drivers, the basic sources for printer support.
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I am SOOO excited for that game!! But I'm on the other side with NM - I think I bleed green. We are also the proud owners of a decent amount of baby Eagles gear.
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I'm from WA state so I root for the Seahawks.....but realistically they won't get far so I'll pick another team to follow this season!!! Excited for first game on Saturday!
Dallas Cowboys fan here! I am soooo ready for football season! Unfortunately, I am a Dallas fan living right outside Philadelphia! (I am from Texas. So it's justified. :) lol) I have a shirt that says "Future Cowboys Fan" on the belly and I already have Cowboys onsies and bibs! lol.
Yay for football season especially when I have an excuse to eat all the wings and junk food I want! (I'm on a high calorie diet per my OB) My team plays tonight too, but my youngest has his first soccer practice so I have to miss it :( I'm a die hard Packers fan and can't wait for another awesome season! Football season is huge in our family because none of us like the same team so it gets loud and interesting. My DH is a Chiefs fan, my oldest son is a Dolphins fan, and my youngest is a Vikings fan lol. I'm determined that my baby girl will be a Packers fan with me when she is old enough to choose and who knows what team our twin son will like. For now my twins will be sporting Packers gear with me as they have no choice :)
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Publication Date : 10-08-2012
The Olympic Games in London is about to end, and thanks to the free TV channels that have resumed the standard definition of free TV, we get to watch and cheer our compatriots in their pursuit of our first gold medal at this Olympiad.
No matter how late in the night the live broadcast is, we stay up in front of our TVs, notwithstanding the low work efficiency rate the following morning in our offices. That could not be said during the recent Euro 2012 football championship when we consumers were again the victims of capitalism.
Of course, we can simply forget and say to ourselves that our national team was not part of Euro 2012 anyway, and we enjoyed it partly because of our favourite pastime - betting or buying postcards to predict the winner in the hop of becoming an instant millionaire. Speaking of which, I'm quite surprised that there was no similar marketing plan during Thailand's participation in the Olympics, despite the higher stakes for us. Perhaps the absence of commercial product logos in the sports arenas - despite a great number of the Games' official sponsors being present here in Thailand - is a reason.
The general tone of the Games is much more relaxed than what audiences around the world have expected from the hosts, with their long history of rigidity or good manners. In fact, they've managed to make the former host Beijing look rather uptight.
During many events, for example, the arena announcers and the athletes, during half-time breaks or time-outs, make the atmosphere seem less like a sports contest being fiercely contested for national pride and more like an entertaining performance celebrating the human spirit. It's a reminder that with a large group of spectators, or an audience, gathering to watch performances by trained athletes, sports and theatre are closely related, and have been since ancient times.
An Olympics basketball game looks and sounds like an NBA game. Wimbledon, sans the white dress code of the tennis players, looks more vibrant than ever, and there are even Mexican waves in the crowd between game and set intervals. Security-wise, it has remained safe and sound despite the boiling political tensions around the globe, and it looks like the extra money the hosts put in has paid off. Let's keep our fingers crossed for three more days.
The opening ceremony set a record high for TV viewers in several countries that enjoyed the advantage of the time difference - but not Thailand. Thanks to acclaimed film director Danny Boyle, we experienced a stunning spectacle that showcased a vast landscape of British culture, juxtaposing the high and the low, the popular and the elite, and the strictly British to the universal.
It was generally unpredictable too - as when Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra's rendition of Vangelis's "Chariots of Fire" was upstaged, visually, by Sir Rowan Atkinson's one-finger piano performance and his bored facial expression. The TV cameras chose to focus mostly on the master comedian, and that's British humour to the max.
There's much more than sports in the city of London right now, but unfortunately it is not being covered by the Thai sports journalists who have been assigned to London.
The London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the "Cultural Olympiad", is on from June to September and features many performances, with free admission and tickets, that are not actually sports-related. For example, the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon has joined with the Globe Theatre in London, as well as other British and international theatre companies, in presenting the "World Shakespeare Festival 2012". It features more than 60 productions of Shakespeare's plays, in many venues across the country, and lasts until November. The world's most produced playwright didn't show up at the opening ceremony, but instead gave the spotlight to the world's most famous spy.
Some British cultural events at this time of year are regular ones held annually with or without the Olympics, like the Edinburgh Festival, which began last Friday. It's been designated as part of the Cultural Olympiad anyway, to ensure that the whole of Britain, not just London, feels part of the Olympics, and to encourage tourists to extend their summer vacation after the games.
This is a good example of how sports events are cultural. It's also shows how various government and private organisations in different fields have joined hands to create a unified perspective of how one can celebrate the human spirit during this important sports event. In this day and age, a sports spectator can enjoy a Shakesperean play as much as any theatre buff.
Thailand still has the hope of hosting the Olympic Games at sometime in the future - hopefully in my lifetime. But a major sports event that we'll host soon is the 2012 Futsal World Cup. It's less than three months from now, and yet I haven't seen many posters or billboards around, nor felt any excitement building up for it. I've seen more posters for events leading up to the advent of the AEC, which is still three years from now.
Futsal is played on a small indoor pitch with only 10 players in total, and that means not much space for commercial logos or an extravagant opening ceremony, but it's a Fifa event that could pave the way for us to host larger sports events in the future. Plus, our national futsal team has proved that they're doing much better than their 11-man counterpart on the outdoor pitch.
And so let's take London as an example for us to organise a sports event that goes further, and is culturally richer, than just a sports event. Of course, I'm not proposing that any Thailand Premier League team come up with more sexy-outfitted cheerleading squads, nor pitching to any Thai theatre company to stage "Futsal: The Musical" this November.
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Has anyone had a situation where the first SA was abnormal but the second one came back normal? In that case, was there a third SA? My husband's first SA was abnormal, but I'm trying to hold out hope that it was a fluke. The next SA is scheduled for Tues.
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There are many factors that can effect a SA. For example, not all of it being "caught" in the cup, illness, recent use of alcohol or drugs, time abstained beforehand, a wild night of hot tubbin' I think it's a good idea to get a third SA and talk to the RE about what may have occurred. Your hubby's sperm may be sensitive to certain factors and it would be wise for him to avoid certain things while ttc. OR.... the actual analysis really was flawed in some way... the lab very well could have screwed it up. I'm sure it happens.
I would guess that abnormal results are at least someone commonly "false negatives" since it is standard to repeat the test. My doc said nothing can be concluded from one SA, and three consistent SAs are when he's really confident.
My DH repeated his a few weeks later and got basically the same results. Hasn't tested since March. I've had him on a boatload of vitamins since then so I am curious to see what his numbers will be when we start IUI next month. I'm hoping they've gone up! But not getting my hopes up really.
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Yeah, unfortunately mine repeated his as well and the results were close to his first SA.
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