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January 8, 2014 By: Samantha
If you rewind back to a couple of months ago, you may remember that dual boot was achieved on the Samsung Galaxy S Plus. Well, there's been more happening with this device, the refresh of the perhaps more popular Samsung Galaxy S. Shipped all the way back in 2011 with Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread, it only received an incremental, official update to Android 2.3.6 before being discontinued by Samsung.
Fortunately however, Galaxy S Plus owners will see the abandoned device get back on its feet and march on, as XDA Recognized Developers CastagnaIT, Christopher83, educk and ivendor, and Recognized Contributor krislibaeer have teamed up as DevConnection_Team and delivered the latest iteration of Android, 4.4.2 Kitkat to the Galaxy S Plus. The ROM comes as an unofficial CyanogenMod 11 build, and is currently in its beta phase, but despite this, the rom seems to be stable with all of the major functions working as they should. The working list so far includes:
This is quite the achievement, as this was only possible with a hybrid memory allocation solution involving both ION and PMEM memory allocation, with the latter only required for the camera librarys and drivers. Thanks to this solution, this team of developers were also able to bring unofficial builds of CyanogenMod 10.1 and 10.2 to the Galaxy S Plus.
If you would like to find out more on the development progress, visit the respective forum threads for more details:
November 9, 2013 By: Will Verduzco
The Samsung Galaxy S Plus GT-I9001 is the lesser known cousin of the original Galaxy S GT-I9000 smartphone.While virtually indistinguishable from the I9000 from the outside, the devices are vastly different on the inside: For starters, the I9001 swaps out the 1 GHz Hummingbird processor for a 1.4 GHz Snapdragon S2.
While the hardware received somewhat of an upgrade compared to the original Galaxy S, there is a bit less aftermarket development available for the S Plus. Now, however, a major gap has been crossed, thanks to XDA Recognized Developer educk and Senior Member h0rn3t. The developer was able to get dual boot functioning on the device.
Educk and horn3t's solution comes in the form of an application and compatible kernel that is able to switch between your ROM installations once the ROMs are installed in the manner specified by the developer. There are, however, a few requirements and restrictions that must be met before getting up and running. For starters, the main ROM has to be an AOSP-derived ROM based on Android 2.3.6 or above. This is installed on internal storage. The secondary ROM is then installed on your SD-EXT partition, and it must be Android 4.1.2 or greater.
If you've wanted to experiment with a newer ROM but didn't want to leave behind your old Gingerbread installation, now may be the time to do it. To get started, head over to the original thread.
[Many thanks to XDA Senior Member mrjraider for the tip!]


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Great Sport/Sedan by Doug from Las Cruces on 10/08/2008. Trim: 2009 Nissan Maxima SV, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: Great looking. Lots of room and trunk space. All the bells and whistles like bluetooth, navigation, back-up camera, iPod connection, halogen lights, etc. Handles very well. I get an honest 25 mpg around town! I don't have a lead foot but I don't drive like an old man either. Interior is very quiet.
Cons: The transmission takes some getting used to but once you do it provides seemless shifting and when you want to get up and go, it will.
Overall review: Pricey but worth it
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Pros: Pretty much everything.
Cons: My only gripe is with the audio system. It's a Bose system that sounds amazing but the features are a bit lacking. Mine came with an iPod integration cable but no mini jack port for my Android (even my old 2006 Impala had one of those) and no usb port. Either of those would have been a great addition. Instead they have a Compact Flash port? Really? BlueTooth doesn't work either. It does have a built-in 9.3GB hard drive for saving music (2000+ songs) but the only way to transfer music to the drive is via CD. It will play mp3 CDs but you can't save those to the drive. It will only record from a normal format CD. For a newer, advanced system, they were shortsighted on the features.
Overall review: I have only had this car for a week so I can't give an acurate review but so far I love it and hope to own it for a long time. Has the Sport Package and Tech Package which is sweet.
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A "Death Star" won't be a part of the U.S. military's arsenal any time soon.
More than 34,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the Obama administration to build the "Star Wars" inspired super-weapon to spur job growth and bolster national defense.
But in a posting Friday on the White House website, Paul Shawcross, an administration adviser on science and space, says a Death Star would cost too much to build — an estimated $850 quadrillion — at a time the White House is working to reduce the federal budget.
Besides, Shawcross says, the Obama administration "does not support blowing up planets."
The U.S., Shawcross points out, is already involved in several out-of-this-world projects, including the International Space Station, which is currently orbiting Earth with a half-dozen astronauts.
White House response to petition: http://tinyurl.com/asd565g
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These pinheads spent too much time watching Star Wars reruns. They're pals in the OIL, Coal and Nat. gas lobbies have already destroyed the planet. Next bright idea.
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Wolfe's Neck Farm is a nonprofit oceanfront farm located just 4.5 miles from the center of Freeport along the shores of Casco Bay. Its 626 acres are open free to the public every day to enjoy scenic vistas and ocean breezes, stroll through organic demonstration gardens, visit the barnyard animals and explore miles of nature trails.
The farm's educational programs include a summer day camp, school field trips and Teen Ag Program - teaching sustainable farming methods while growing produce for food pantries. The farm hosts a series of annual events including farm-to-table dinners, barn dances, farm festivals and pumpkin hayrides as well as hosting oceanfront weddings and family reunions.
Its pet-friendly 130-site campground was named Yankee Magazine's "Best Seaside Campground" in 2014. During the summer, visitors can rent a kayak, canoe or bicycle (reservations recommended), enjoy ice cream from the snack shack and fresh produce and eggs from the farm stand.
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I've been thinking recently, especially after checking Klout (I know, I know; it isn't really a definitive thing, but it's a pretty good indicator) of what my Twitter feed is really about. I tweet about all kinds of things, though I'd like to believe I focus more on Photography related topics.
Klout didn't even mention 'photography' as an area of influence for me, but then says I have influence in 'publishing,' 'movies' and 'cafes.' My reaction: "What?"
What am I supposed to gather from this? The only time I've ever tweeted about 'cafes' is to promote my post on Snapitude about Maid Cafe...and it actually is a pretty popular post. Is that what bumped it so much? And then there's film and publishing..I have no idea what that's all about.
But I thought a bit further...the whole reason why I even started this blog is so that I could keep Snapitude condensed to just the topics of travel and photography - and I know I'm being redundant here and have said all this before. I don't mind this blog being a more broad platform for me, and my Twitter is also another relatively broad platform. I don't want to go through the trouble of having a locked account with my buds and a public account that is all proper, spiffy, possibly boring; so I've been engaging as many different people who are of interest to me as possible (without building it up to where I'm following 600 people). That means I am in the loop with artists, toy makers/distributors, other folks in my blogging network who are in the video games, film or anime industries, photographers, Disney fanatics and yes, publishers/writers/others. Now my concern is...is it too much?
I have a hard time believing that there is "too much" when it comes to Twitter. You have an account which is supposed to produce a stream of your content/thoughts/words, and whoever is interested in you could follow you. Wouldn't people want to have a more personable relationship with the folks they follow, and learn about the other's interests? This is where I think it's alright to be a freelance photographer and writer like I am but also tweet about Disney, toy reviews I've submitted to Tomopop or even cute puppy images to brighten up someone's morning.
I just wonder if I'm really reaching out to the right people. That and I always worry that in terms of "professionalism" whether or not having "geeky" things show up (or even labeled a pervert for being a toy blogger) on my feed would prevent me from getting a better gig. What if a potential client or employer looks at my feed and goes, "dang this girl is a bit weird, she's into Disney and Japanese plastic figures - better just stay away."? It's pretty much my biggest fear, and it's probably the reason why my influence is lower than it could be cause I tone down my broadcasting quite a bit.
It's definitely some food for thought, and I've been looking more into Google+ lately, where professionalism is most definitely a "balance" with a "capital B." The crowd I have encountered there seems much different, and the "circles" feature makes it so easy to sort who you broadcast to (as well as who you filter out). There, the trend seems to be that people prefer to know a bit more about the people they're following as well as keep up with their work, but don't like too much self-promotion. I learned this today with a small-scale poll conducted during a webcast, and I'll have to keep it at the front of my mind in the coming months.
I have some big plans. First, Snapitude is getting its own domain and I'm going to drop the"WordPress" from the address. I'm keeping the WP platform, but the address will be mine! With a new site comes a lot more pushing of my own work, like building my portfolios and publishing them online. Then I'll really be putting my social networking to the test...
That said, I'm happy with the relationships I've maintained through the power of Facebook, or Twitter, and will be forging via Google+ now that I'm diving into it. I just hope they don't leave me swimming upstream.
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Earl of Oxford's Case
The paper brings the factual and legal dimensions together. It analyses
the transactions which lay behind the litigation and investigates whether
it can really be said that the College was cheated out of its land, or
whether in truth it got a fairly good bargain at the time and was itself
quite unfairly attempting to stand on its rights. The various stages of
the litigation are examined through the court records and reports, in the
Court of Wards, Court of King's Bench, Court of Exchequer Chamber, Court
of Chancery, and Parliament. The question whether Chancery could grant an
injunction to prevent the enforcement of a Common law judgment was just
one element of the complex of litigation which lasted for nearly twenty
years, perhaps taking centre stage for only a few weeks in the middle of
1615. The more important issue was whether it was legitimate for Chancery
to interfere with real property rights, an outcrop of the debate over the
fundamental need for constitutional protection of individual liberty and
Penn v Lord Baltimore
Burgess v Wheate
Modern case law, notably McPhail v Doulton (1971) and Schmidt v Rosewood (2003), has pulled the 'beneficiary principle' in the direction of Eldon L.C.'s vision, as does modern academic analysis which tends to favour an in personam analysis of the trust in terms of trustee's duties creating correlative personal rights. But perhaps the classical beneficiary principle in terms of definite equitable claimants as enuciated by Grant M.R. is valuable in curbing the tendency of trust law to shatter the informal numerus clausus of property law. The doctrine of Morice serves to prevent trustees from abusing dispositive powers so as to fragment the institution of property and undermine its function as a transparent set of rights bestowing powers of exclusion, control and transfer. The problems afflicting markets in financial and real assets in the 21st century suggest that the Morice rule is more valuable than ever. This paper will investigate the seedbed of authorities from which Grant and Eldon drew, and the reception of Morice in later case-law and juristic writing. I will also investigate the culture of giving to public causes in Lord Eldon's time, and look closely at attitudes to the Church and to clerical power, to freedom of testation, and to public benefits and philanthropy on the eve of the Napeolonic Wars.
Tulk v Moxhay
Prince Albert v Strange
This paper will examine both the details of the case and its place in the British legal development of law of confidence. Since the basis for the ruling was ambiguous (the court leaving open whether the injunction was granted on the basis of property, copyright or confidence), attention will be given to what it means for a case to achieve « landmark » status, and the role of this famous decision in the characterisation of breach of confidence as part of the law of Equity.
Bishop of Natal v Gladstone
In that case the Judicial Committee held, inter alia, that Letters Patent were ineffective to confer coercive ecclesiastical jurisdiction upon a bishop in a colony possessed, as Natal was, of an independent legislature. Accordingly, Colenso lacked one of the key attributes of a bishop of the Church of England. On the strength of this, and lacking other means of ridding itself of one whom it perceived to be a heretic, the Colonial Bishoprics Fund ceased to pay Colenso the income derived from the endowment. In Bishop of Natal v Gladstone Colenso sought a remedy of specific performance against the Colonial Bishoprics Fund in order to compel its trustees to pay him the sums owed. In response the Colonial Bishoprics Fund alleged that the purposes for which the endowment had been created had failed since the Letters Patent had been ineffective to confer coercive jurisdiction upon the bishop appointed. The subscribers had not achieved the ends for which they had created the endowment.
Bishop of Natal v Gladstone has not, according to modern databases, been cited in a reported case since 1935 and stands only as a rather unremarkable authority for the scope of the remedy of specific performance. Almost its only substantive contribution to legal posterity is Romillys statement that the Court of Chancery will never annul a contract upon which the parties have acted, where it is not possible to restore the status quo ante. To the extent that the court also had to consider the argument that the purposes of a charitable endowment had failed, the case has also made a minor contribution to the development of equitable principle in that area. In what sense, then, does it deserve landmark status? The answer lies in its profound and enduring significance for the fortunes and evolution of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is this aspect of the case, and the interaction between constitutional, ecclesiastical, and equitable principles to which all such cases give rise, that will form the main focus of discussion in the paper.
Earl of Aylesford v Morris
This paper explores the social, cultural and legal circumstances which lie behind this decision. The case has its roots in the unique system of property wealth and social advantage practised in Victorian England. The paper also examines the development of the equitable doctrines designed to protect the weak from the powerful and sets Aylesford v Morris in this context. Finally, the paper sets out the conclusions reached through such an examination.
Re Hallett's Estate
Ramsden v Dyson
North-West Transportation Co Ltd v Beatty
Rochefoucauld v Boustead
Re Earl of Sefton
The specific themes that will be explored are:
Regal (Hastings) Ltd v Gulliver
Pettitt v Pettitt [1970] AC 777; Gissing v Gissing [1971] AC 886


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Education, Industrial Development and Foreign Trade in Argentina: Econometric Models and International Comparisons
AbstractEconomic policies in Argentina, during the last decades of the 20th century, have been generally focused more on monetary policies than on other questions really more related with economic development, such as expenditure on education and sustained industrial development, which unfortunately have not received enough attention. In this paper, we compare the economic development of Argentina with that of the OECD countries and Latin America, and we estimate some econometric models to relate education and foreign trade with industrial and non-industrial real Gross Domestic Product per inhabitant in Argentina during the period 1960-2000. These models show the important positive impact that human capital and industrial investment have on the development of Argentina. We suggest some changes in the economic policies priorities, for the first decade of the 21st century, in order to focus more on education and industrial development, learning from the best lessons of Ireland and other countries, to get fast increases of real Gdp per inhabitant, eradicate poverty and improve socio-economic well-being.
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- Paolera, Gerardo Della & Taylor, Alan M., 1999. "Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(03), pages 567-599, September.
- Donald J. Robbins, 1999. "Gender, Human Capital and Growth: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 151, OECD Publishing.
- Lawrence F. Katz & Claudia Goldin, 2001. "The Legacy of U.S. Educational Leadership: Notes on Distribution and Economic Growth in the 20th Century," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 91(2), pages 18-23, May.
- Jonathan Temple, 1999. "The New Growth Evidence," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 37(1), pages 112-156, March.
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He's 1-year-old, slightly bigger than a house cat and has been on display for only a week. But the newest member of Micke Grove Zoo prances, purrs and plays as if he's right at home.
On display between the golden tamarin monkey and bald eagle exhibits, the zoo's small and feisty bobcat, who weighs a slight 22 pounds and has yet to be named, already knows how to put on a show.
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Today I decided to do a little beauty tribute to the women that inspire me because they are creative, exquisite, and overflow with style and class despite the challenges their careers have presented them with. (they are listed in no particular order).
Mainly, they are fearless.
Emily Browning is pictured first- she has her own sense of style, and only chooses to take on roles that challenge particular stereotypes. For instance, she was offered the role of Bella Swan for the Twilight series- but she wasnt really feelin it. Even though it would have made her exponentially more wealthy and famous, she turned it down because she did not like the character she was cast to be. BOSS.
Gwen Stefani- need I say more?
Misty Copeland- This woman is everything. She is the first African American soloist for the American Ballet Theatre, started dancing when she was 13, and even though she does not have the typical body type of the Balanchine dancer, she is so talented and positive that ABT couldnt even stop her.
Etta James- perfection. Talent, strength, and beauty. I am overwhelmed just thinking about how many challenges she had to face. But her challenges just made her stronger and fueled even more artistry and passion.
Im working on a little something to post tommorow- in the meantime, I am in complete awe over these two "comic book" makeup looks. Absolutely flawless…(photoshop had something to do with that with regards to the second look fo sho)
Tribute to the absolutely incredible Alex Box (mostly with Illamasqua)
Um, flawless.
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Would You Play with Helium?
Posted By Bryan Eisenberg On August 21, 2007 @ 10:14 am In Breaking News,Publishing,Search Engine Marketing | 9 Comments
My friend Anne Kennedy [1] sat with me yesterday in the speakers' room at Search Engine Strategies [2] and told me about a company she's involved with called Helium [3]; a directory of about a half-million user-generated articles (so far).
But it's much more than a directory. Helium allows articles its community considers more valuable to get better visibility — and a bigger chunk of its ad revenue. They also have an area for debate [4] and have included a marketplace for publishers and authors to connect [5]. Today, they have publishers willing to pay from $16 to $100 per article to some 69,000 writers, who've already generated 400,000 articles on 60,000 topics [6].
As a Publisher, you can list a bounty for any articles you want written. Authors then submit stories following your guidelines and compete for the bounty. Publishers can select any article as the winner, while Helium's peer review ratings help rank submissions.
Would you use articles written by anonymous freelancers? Have you already? Could you see yourself using Helium to bolster your content offerings and, possibly, your search engine rankings?
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I really dont think that applies to healers like it does dps, as tanks gear improves you heal less, certain healing assignments cause you to heal less, and certain specs like disc make it appear that you healing less.
Heavy AoE fights AoE healers will rock single target healers socks off, same goes for fights with little raid damage paladins really shine here and leave everyone else behind.
In short healing meters are nothing like a dps meter.
Sorry dude but you're just wrong when it comes to healing meters. Unlike dps players healers are doing other things than just hurting the boss--we're cleansing poison, removing disease, decursing, removing harmful magic, battle rezzing, etc. None of which show up on HPS meters.
This ridiculous reliance on healing meters as the sole test of a healer's performance is causing massive problems in ulduar where people are hitting difficult content for the first time in a long time and looking for somebody to blame and stupid people like you look at some meaningless numbers on a healing meter and blame the wrong people.
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No. Healing meters can be useful but one's hps should not be the end all and be all when it comes to judging how well a healer is doing in your raid. I'm the healing raid leader for my guild and I'm aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the healers under my wing.
Any of them can heal effectively, I can tell you that. But the ones who truly shine are not always at the top of the healing meters. Our disc priest is usually at the bottom, but has done a hell of a lot of mitigation during the fight. Paladins may not top the raid healing Shamans, but the tanks they're assigned to aren't dying, either. All of them also knowing when to move, when not to, are raid aware and aren't gluing their eyes solely to the green bars. That's what makes them effective healers, regardless of where they place on the healing meters.
Arguments like that show your own lack of understanding of the game mechanics and can end up with some DPS shouting how they topped the dps meters, ignoring the fact the pulled off the tank, healers had to scramble to keep them up (causing potential tank heal or mana issues), or stayed dead for half the fight. I can pull 16k dps on an aoe pull with my lock, that said, few tanks can hold against that kind of aggro. When they break loose, kill me, then run through the raid, the wipe it would cause is my fault. Looking only at the meters, I am a stellar performer. Looking at the results, I would be just another failed dps.
Meters are one tool and those that bases decisions off of only one tool does not understand the game.
The same is true of my healer. I have resto druid that is specced for raid heals. His numbers look great, but other classes/specs do better at MT healing. Basing it off just the numbers and I would be the obvious candidate for MT heals on a tough boss fight.
Healing meters can provide some data on how a healer is doing, but not the whole picture. As others have said, healers do a lot more than just heal: cleansing, dispell, mitigation, etc. Just looking at the healing done chart on Recount pushes people towards AoE heals and massive overhealing. In short, they become dps healers.
Let's do a quick case study. Two priests in our guild. One is disc, one is holy. The disc priest never tops the meters (even when holy), the holy priest makes sure he tops the meters. The disc priest's assignments never die, the holy priest's assignments often find themselves face down at the end of fights. Who would you take, the responsible person who forsakes their place on the meters to ensure their target's survival or the irresponsible dps-wannabe who forsakes their targets in favor of topping the meters?
Healing meters should have a FAIL switch, something like:
IF (player_assignment=dead), THEN Healing_Done=0
As a Healing Leader in 25 mans I look at the meters only to see if the Healers are mainly healing WHO i assigned them to and to look at the activity meter. I never use this information against them I just think it shows their ability to listen/follow instructions and shows if they keep themselves busy (within the context of a given fight). That is what meters are for imo.
Yeah, but...
If a holy pally heals the MT for 14000 that shows on the meter. If a disc priest shields the MT for 14000 that does NOT show up on the meter. However they did the same work (in fact the shield might have saved a life if the MT had less then 14000 health left...and it did more work if the MT had less then 14000 damage when the pally's heal landed)
So the meter is flawed when looking at a class that hands out a lot of shields.
If you look at total heals and don't look at over heal then you have another chance to point at a "good healer" and say "bad! no biscuit!". (that is not to say just look at over heals and say "bad!", subtract OH amount from amount healed to see "real heals").
That still doesn't really tell you what is going on either. If I'm assigned to raid heal, and I let 3 people die, but on the next try at the boss the next healer lets 2 folks die who did a better job? Well, if there was similar damage going out, Mr "2 deaths" worked better then "mr 3 deaths" right? Well, maybe. But what if "Mr 2 deaths" lost the 2 highest DPSers in the group, while "Mr 3 deaths" lost the lowest 3?
Who did the most healing, the pally that throws out 1M healing, or the one that does half that AND cleans off 200 poisons?
Evaluating healing is HARD.
If you are wiping, you do need to evaluate healing, but it isn't as easy as "this number is too low, shape up or get out!". The numbers don't tell the whole story for DPS, and they tell even less for healing.


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Q&A: Benjamin Ginsberg, the Author of 'How the Jews Defeated Hitler'
His thoughts on Jewish strength, Jewish weakness, and the secret history of the Judeo-Episcopate in America
I want to get back to this sense of Jews globally as a collectivity and what the touchstones of that collectivity are now. You have the Holocaust, and you have Israel. And then you have, for one segment, actual Jewish religious beliefs and practices—but even if the proportion is growing, that's still a global minority.
This to me has always been an absolutely fascinating question, and I write about it in my next book. The Jews, who are scattered all over the place, do have a sense of communal identification, because of a set of institutions that depends upon and works hard to maintain that identification. Absent the Jews, these institutions would have no constituency. And this goes back to the Babylonian exile.
This came to me in an inspiration one day. I was sitting bored to tears at the bar mitzvah of a son of a friend of mine, and the Haftorah for that day, I forget what the portion is but it's the complete rules of how to treat Amorites that you might have captured. I was thinking it's been a long time since we captured any Amorites. But then I realized, what happened here was that the entire middle-upper stratum of the Jewish kingdom is transported to ancient Babylon and they stick them in a suburb and say, "OK, do whatever." So, you had a leadership with no coercive institutions—no army, no police force—and they made a religious symbol of the law, they ensorcelled the law. And all the Jews would sit and listen to a recitation of the laws of a kingdom that didn't exist. And that's still what we do today. We've still got to remember how to treat the Amorites. It's as though somebody took the local zoning ordinances and recited them as a central communal ritual.
My bar mitzvah parsha was the single longest possible combination of texts—Vayakhel Pekudei, Parshat Ha-Chodesh. It was, like, 250 psukim long, and what made it even more entrancing was the fact that it was the complete set of building instructions from the mishkan. I was literally reading lists of construction materials for a portable sanctuary in the desert aloud to an assembly of American Jewish suburbanites in New Jersey, 3,000 years later.
That is the ensorcellment of the building code, which has the purpose of creating communal identity and continuity in the absence of a state, which would normally do those things. The Jewish religion has been a terrific religion for a people in exile.
Israel, in a peculiar way, represents a challenge to that. After the creation of Israel there was a big struggle between the American Jewish leadership and the Israeli leadership, which led Ben Gurion to say, "I'm tired of people from Cleveland telling me what to do!" So, an accommodation was reached. The American Jewish leadership wouldn't tell Israel what to do. Instead, they would raise money for them and Israel would serve as a symbol, a good symbol, for fundraising. Everybody goes there once a year to check their heritage. But that's become problematic because the politics of Israel and the politics of America have diverged so sharply. When Israel was a nice little Socialist state that grew oranges and people worked on the kibbutz, there was no problem.
New Deal Democrats could get down with that!
Even European socialists used to go there. But when Israel became a fairly serious military power, it moved out of its socialist phase and became an American military satellite. At the same time the American Jewish community was very carefully allying itself with the WASPs so you could go to Harvard, too. So, now the American Jewish community is divided on Israel. Some have decided that they are Jews first and liberals second, and those people are becoming Republicans, and they're becoming more religious. Others have decided that they're liberal Democrats first and Jews second. But it's tough to be both these days.
You don't think that Michael Lerner and J Street have provided a third way by which liberal Democratic Jews in America can identify with the State of Israel as it should be—meaning, an instrument through which we Jews will continue our holy mission of tikkun olam, repairing the world?
No. They are a stepping stone for Jews to leave the Jewish people. They're a stepping stone into WASP-hood. That's all they are. The third way is false. Sometimes there are only two ways. You can be a Jew, or you can be an American liberal.
Whoa, there. First off, I like WASPs. I love sailing, Triscuits, and Martha's Vineyard—although I like the Jewish parts of the island better than the WASPy parts. Second, I think that the Democratic Party itself, like all two of the American political parties, is a fractious coalition that encompasses at any given point three or four large-scale blocs, which compete with each other for power and influence and control of messaging. In turn, the terms of those coalitions' agreements within the party often determine the level of national support for the party as a whole. When I look at the Republican Party, I see one group that obviously supports Israel and is in favor of a robust American presence in many parts of the world. I see another faction that seems to dislike the Israelis—the Baker-Scowcroft-oil money-Carlyle Group-George H.W. Bush contingent. Then there are those nasty Buchananites. So, I'm hard-pressed to see why Jews can be Republicans but they can't be liberal Democrats.
I would say that at the present time the Republican Party is friendlier to Israel than the Democratic Party. Also that, for Jews, adherence to the Democratic Party has become a kind of secular religion. Politics is not about friends, it's about interests, and I think Jews are not acting in accord with their interests when they strongly support the Democratic Party.
I think that if you are a Palestinian you would have a lot more reasons to see the George W. Bush Administration as having been productive than the Obama Administration.
Bush launched major wars against enemies of Israel and maintained a large American presence nearby. So, from an Israeli perspective, he was an excellent president. Of course, most American policy in the Middle East is explained by a three letter word, which is not "Jew."
Which is what?
Oil. America fights to maintain privileged access to Saudi crude, to put it crudely. Now, what you say may be true at the moment, but I think that the Democratic Party has been moving toward a more even-handed position in the Middle East and that the number of Democrats who are staunchly pro-Israel has diminished, while the number of Democrats who agree with the Mearsheimer thesis has increased. On the Republican side, though there certainly are Buchananites and so forth, at the moment at least they are a very minor group. As I recall, Ron Paul did not do so well in the Republican primaries. Republicans for the most part are strongly pro-Israel, both for philosophical reasons and because they still regard Israel as a strategic asset.
One last question for you.
I thought you said there was only one thing in the book that you didn't know!
On the one hand, when other people talk about "the Jews" or use phrases like "the Jews," we immediately use language like, "You disgusting anti-Semite, take it back, there's no such thing as 'the Jews.' " But then, when we sit in our conclaves, like we are doing right now, we always talk about "the Jews" and how "the Jews" should feel or what "the Jews" should do. In the end there's an interesting ambivalence about this idea of Jews as a collectivity—there's obviously a fear that it is something that will be used to persecute us. On the other hand, it's something that we are proud of.
I think whether you regard this as insulting or not is contextual. If someone is saying, "Oh, the Jews all have long noses," well, all right. But if someone is referring to collective goals, collective interests, I don't find that insulting. There are ways in which the Jews even today, as was true in the 1940s, have a collective consciousness—they look to the same sets of institutions and have a common religion. So, I don't find it offensive to talk about "the Jews." "The Jews" are the last of the ancient tribes.
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Recipe: Brazilian Flan (Pudim de Leite Condensado)
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I spent this past weekend in San Francisco with my sister's family, celebrating my birthday as well as the completion of their new house. Her well-designed kitchen is one of chefs' dreams—not only is she a talented interior architect, but she's also a stellar cook. All of the shiny appliances had me aching to make a mess, so I enlisted her two kids to help me christen the new space with love.
The kids requested their Brazilian nanny's famous pudim, her family recipe they had eaten a million times but never made on their own before. As Annie was leaving for the day, I flagged her down and begged for the recipe. She hurriedly shouted it from across the street, and then I scrambled back into the house to scribble down what I could remember of her vague instructions.
To familiarize myself with this strange new recipe, I typed in what the kids had been calling it—p-o-u-d-i-n—which yielded no results. A few more searches revealed that Annie's recipe for so-called "poudin" was actually p-u-d-i-m with an 'M,' a lesson I immediately relayed to my sister's family. (Just a little off base, right?) I learned that pudim is a very famous Brazilian-style flan made with sweetened condensed milk, regular milk, eggs, and sugar. It seemed delicious and simple enough, so I headed into the kitchen with confidence.
As y'all probably know me well enough by now, per usual, the recipe didn't come together as easily as I planned. Although Annie had told me to make a caramel sauce using only sugar, I found another recipe that used water as well. I should have just followed her directions, because I ended up with a crazy, crystallized mess that in no way resembled caramel, or for that matter, anything of this earth. Round two, of course, using only sugar yielded much better results, proving yet again to trust your gut (or the Brazilian expert) over the internet.
Annie told me to bake the dessert for half an hour at 350 degrees, but a quick peek after thirty minutes revealed a still-completely-liquid filling. I checked out some other flan recipes that cooked for three times as long, so I continued baking the pudim in fifteen minute increments until, according to my very scientific "jiggle test," I decided it was done. Although I initially felt hesitant with some of the components of this new-to-me recipe, all seemed to be okay once it finally emerged from the oven.
In the typical Dozier family fashion, everyone was impatient to sample the results. Even though the recipe called for a long chill, we succumbed to the relentless begging from the kids. My sister did the honors of flipping the pudim onto a serving platter, and within mere seconds the kitchen counter became the host of an island of wiggly flan and a river of caramel lava. My niece and nephew laughed and laughed at our culinary disaster, while we all just shrugged with a grin. I mean, what can you do?
We scooped up the blobs of custard and heaped it into bowls, every bite still just as delicious as could be. And since we destroyed the first attempt before I could take pictures, I smiled knowing we'd have to do it all again tomorrow.
Brazilian-style Flan (Pudim de Leite Condensado)
1 cup sugar
1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
2 1/2 cups whole or 2% milk
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or pure vanilla extract (optional)
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Cook sugar in a heavy saucepan over medium-low heat, whisking frequently, until a smooth golden caramel forms, about 15 - 20 minutes. Quickly pour caramel into an 8-inch round cake pan (or a ring mold) and swirl until the bottom of the pan is coated. Set aside to cool and harden for about 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk the condensed milk, milk, eggs, and vanilla until thoroughly combined (or pulse in the blender for a minute). Pour the milk mixture over the cooled caramel. Prepare a water bath by placing the cake pan into a larger baking dish. Set the whole assembly in the oven and then pour enough hot water into the larger baking dish to come about halfway up the side of the cake pan.
Bake until the custard is set and firm to the touch, about 90 minutes. Remove the pudim from the water bath and let cool to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate until cold, for a minimum of three hours or overnight. Before serving, run a thin knife around the edge of the flan, place a large flat plate over the pan, and flip quickly to unmold.
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Ai que gostozinho! Me da saudade do Brasil...
Yummy.. this is a very traditional latin dish also known as Flan. My family is originally from Puerto Rico and I make one very similiar to this.
I'm curious will someone please summarize the difference between this and regular flan?
The recipe is wrong. Pudim doesn't take vanilla. It is an american thing to add vanilla to everything.
Here in Brazil we actually do this pudding, it is very traditional, I did one here: http://www.aquinacozinha.com/2010/09/pudim-de-leite-condensado-para-quem-nao-sabe-nem-fritar-um-ovo/
Hi, I am a brazilian and this recipe is a day by day thing down here, and there are some differences, please try it and see how much better it is!
500 ml sweet condensed milk
500 ml whole milk
4 eggs
1/2 cup of suggar (for the caramel)
No vanilla and the milks and eggs are mixed in a blender...the caramel is made on the ring mold, so u dont make more mess than it is necessary...no whisking the caramel just put it on the mold and hold the mold with a glove over the fire, it is super quick. Making it this way, u will notice that the result is lighter, the "flan" gets full of holes when ready (which makes the difference) and it bakes much quiker cause the amount of ingredients is in the right balance!
I hope I helped, this recipe is in my family for generations.
Agree with Maiko.Rocha, skip the vanilla if you want the real thing.
Good point about the vanilla, guys. I made the recipe two times without vanilla (the original recipe didn't call for it) and with vanilla bean paste the third time around, which I much, much preferred. It just seemed to be "lacking something" without it, but that is very much a personal opinion.
I also used a blender once, and just whisked it the other times. I try to avoid dirtying appliances when possible, and I didn't notice a difference in the end result at all. It's whatever you prefer, though!!
Do you have to grease the pan before you pour the caramel in?
@Rachiebob80. No, you don't have to grease the pan. I've made this and after the caramel melts so there's no need.
I am from Brazil and this is not the original recipe.
The original, we call 1, 2, 3: 1 can of sweetened condensed milk, 2 "cans" of milk, and 3 eggs.
I recently found another recipe that works better for the consistency:
2 cans of sweetened condensed milk
1 "can" of whipping cream
1 "can" of boiled milk
4 eggs
Blend all, and cook as described above. To cook better, use a pan with a whole in the middle.
Not all Pudim is created equal. I lived in Brazil for quite a while and ate with local families daily. I recommend experimenting with different recipes because some are rich and dense and creamy, and others seem almost watered down, even among the locals. I look forward to trying all of these that have been shared!
I am not only Brazilian but I am a trained chef, instructor, and blogger. Like ChristyChristy said, not all pudins (plural) are created equal. There are many different recipes and of course, results. But there is something that all of them should have in common: No overcooking! Pudim is a custard and if it is overcooked, it will be watery and present little holes instead of being compact and creamy. Judging by a couple of pictures here (pudim slices), I think yours was not overcooked. It looks compact and creamy. Great job! And I know how difficult it is to get correct recipes from my people (most lack the right measurements and especially precise directions). That's why I have a blog in English with Brazilian recipes that are accountable. P.S: Although Brazilians use a ring pan to make pudim, it can also be made in a round pan like you did. Using your type of baking pan, custard will need to be cooked longer because of its center and in a lower temperature than if it was cooked in a ring mold.


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These were delicious. I did use a ricer. I used onions instead of leeks and I used all cremini mushrooms because that was what I had on hand... Although the recipe serves 4, my fiancee ate 5 and I ate 3 so no leftovers! I agree it was a bit messy and hard to work with all the dipping stages, but it worked okay. Next time I would probably make ahead and refrigerate as another reviewer suggested to make it even easier.
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LowryLindsay Posted: 02/29/12
While I agree that it took a little long to make, I disagree that this was a terrible or difficult recipe. I would make this for company. I did accidentally mix the panko into the patties before I re-read the recipe and realized they were what I was supposed to coat them in, so overall I wound up with twice as much in the recipe, but no worries. I also used about 2/3 yams and 1/3 Yukon gold instead of all Yukon gold potatoes, which I think is what really made the dish extra tasty. If you're having trouble shaping the patties, either coat your hands with cooking spray, or wet them before attempting to do so.
BCook68 Posted: 02/21/12
I did not have the same problem as Ms Tiggy, but I can see how one would. I had the convenience of being able to start this recipe a few hours before dinner, so I made the potato/mushroom/leek mixture beforehand and put it in the fridge to cool off. When I was ready to start the patties, it was a breeze because they had cooled and were very shape-able. I did 4 big patties instead of 8 small ones. Great recipe!
MsTiggy Posted: 02/20/12
This was quite possibly the worst recipe I've ever tried from Cooking Light. The execution was terrible. Trying to form the potato-mushroom mash into patties was an exercise in futility - the mash was simply too sticky and wet to form into anything resembling a patty, and immediately fell apart when we attempted to dredge it in the egg white. We ended up just combining the flour, egg, and breadcrumbs into the mash and cooking it like one big potato pancake. It worked okay, but was nowhere near the crunchy croquettes we hoped for. The flavor was alright, but nothing spectacular, and the recipe itself was a total fail. Very disappointed.
sprky182 Posted: 09/07/12
Not sure why others had problems, these were not hard to make. They were really flavorful and delicious. The mixture is a little wet, but it was easy to flour and batter it in balls and then smash the ball in the pan with the back of the spatula. Dirtied a lot of pans, but worth the effort! Great flavor- yum!
bellylaughing Posted: 03/05/12
Hmmm. I can usually anticipate whether a recipe will be successful or not by looking at it. I read the reviews for this, but thought- "Hey, I love leeks, I love mushrooms, I love potatoes. Add cheese, pan fry, and really how could it be bad?" Well, the answer is BAD. Trust me. I don't mind a recipe taking lots of time. I'm all about putting in the time in the kitchen if the result is worthy, but man...this takes a lot of prep, dirties a lot of dishes, and is SOOO not worth any of it. I don't know how it happens, but somehow you miss the flavors of everything. It just turns into one gray, mushy, bland croquette. The texture is lame, the flavor is almost non-existent. I don't know how it happens, but this dish manages to have no redeeming qualities. I mean, I've had PLAIN potato cakes that were delicious. These are just a hot mess. Sorry Cooking Light; sometimes you've got winners and sometimes losers and this, along with your Beer-Cheddar Soup is a royal FAIL.
tboneskitchen Posted: 04/26/12
Agree with other reviewer. It was too messy and sticky to form into patties.
thecookingliz Posted: 03/19/12
In spite of the negative reviews, I decided to make this as I had been thinking about it for two weeks. We were NOT disappointed! My 10 yo and hub both liked this one. I used portobello mushrooms in place of the cremini as they are hard to come by around here. Absolutely delicious, but I agree there are a lot of dishes. Perhaps grating the potatoes and cheese on one grater rather than using the food mill would help cut down on them. Using different blades on the food processor may help too. As I didn't cook up all of the mushroom mix due to the reviews, we are looking forward to using the leftovers in an omelette.
ajvogt Posted: 03/09/12
I really loved these croquettes. Next time I will not attempt to rice the potatoes. I don't have a ricer so I pressed them through a strainer. This was too much work and I don't think it made a difference. Next time I will just mash them. I am wondering if others did not cook enough of the moisture out of the leek mushroom thyme mixture before trying to form them into patties. We had no problem with them falling apart. They were so yummy and crisp. We served them on greens with the shallots and dressing as suggested. I think they woul make a great first course! Will make again!
HeidiT46 Posted: 03/29/12
Good, but not too flavorful. I refrigerated them and they formed nicely, but the comment about cooking more water out before forming might help them crisp up a bit. I was worried about overcooking the mushrooms. I should have followed the salad dressing recipe, because the balsamic vinaigrette that I had wasn't quite right.
Rosenban Posted: 03/26/12
I had no problem forming the croquettes . . . wonder if others who had problems forming the croquettes didn't cook the mushrooms long enough to allow all the moisture to evaporate or used a wetter/less starchy variety of potatoes . . . I DID add extra seasoning and I'd definitely make them again.
rbecich Posted: 03/27/12
They are difficult to work with after shaping into patties. Might help using two egg yolks. Found using a long fork to move them around helped. After the flour, egg white, and breadcrumbs, I found that they shaped up and were easier to handle if you set them on the counter on a piece of waxed paper for 15 minutes before frying. I thought the taste was great, especially on a bed of butter lettuce with Italian Dressing over everything.
hviola Posted: 06/14/12
These are fantastic! I was on the fence about trying them because of the mixed reviews, and I'm really glad I did. I'm not sure where people are having trouble. I have a gas stove and usually things cook quite a bit faster than what is stated in the recipe, but in this case, 6 minutes for the mushrooms was just right, so I'm wondering if maybe that's the problem and maybe you need to cook the mushrooms longer on an electric stove? There are a few minor things I changed about the recipe - not sure if any of them contributed to my success, but they are: 1. For the potatoes, I simply cooked them like how I normally cook mashed potatoes: Skin them, chop them into chunks, cover them with water, bring them to a boil, turn the heat down to a simmer and cover them, cook them for 15 minutes, drain them, and mash with a potato masher. 2. I cooked the potatoes in vegetable broth, which adds a ton of flavor. 3. I added a pinch of smoked paprika to the mushroom/potato mixture at the end.
KateNYCKitchen Posted: 07/30/12
Absolutely loved this recipe. Made it for dinner, and was completely surprised that ONE egg white could really cover the WHOLE mixture, but it really really did. So fantastically healthy! Instead of mashing the potato, I threw it in the food processor instead, then set it aside, and did the mushroom/onions. I had onions on hand, so used those instead with a package of baby bellas that I had in the fridge...cooked it till all water was out. It was still "soft" in the middle when cooked...really hot, but nice and soft inside with crisp outside. This would be really good to make into tiny balls and used as an appetizer. My 2 year old devoured them, which is a great sign!
rachelshekar Posted: 03/06/12
This dish was wonderful! The mix was a bit soggy so I nixed the egg dip. I also baked them at 425 degrees for ~12 minutes (no flipping). They came out crunchy and tasty!
JanetMo Posted: 03/30/14
I have to agree with some of the posters here - I was not that impressed. It was difficult to form the croquettes. I see that some said it was easier to cool the mushrooms mixture first. I had thought of that as I was struggling making them but didn't have the time to allow for that. I also deglazed the pan with wine to add extra flavor. I also added sage. With all that said, I was still not impressed with the flavor. I thought it was rather bland.
longgirl Posted: 03/05/14
Tips that worked for me. Add some paprika. Make sure any moisture is cooked out of mushroom mixture before adding it to the potatoes. Be sure to use only the yolk in the mixture-you don't want the mixture to become slimy. Flour your hands before forming patties. Handle them lightly. Don't bother with egg wash, it make is messy, slimy and isn't needed. Kudos to the person who suggested baking them. I baked mine at 425 and they crisped up nicely (I did flip mine once for even crispiness on both sides). Ingredients are key in this recipe...use good gruyere, fresh not dried thyme and I would go for the leeks (though I used onions that I had on hand). I think the writer who suggested seasoning the potatoes is on to something. Next time I make this, I am simply going to use leftover mashed potatoes. Also, it is possible to just delete the potatoes if you find them bland.
Jenlhebert Posted: 10/12/13
Very tasty! I did have issues with stickiness but just made them into balls as one person suggested and then flattened with spatula. It was a lot of mess but everyone liked the taste.
Trish56 Posted: 10/01/13
I doubled the recipe and didn't add enough salt or herbs so the recipe was a little bland, but that was my fault, however, I served it with a sweet chili sauce and it was very good. I would definitely make this again. My family really enjoyed it. I prepared the mixture the day before and refrigerated until I was ready to cook the next day. No problems with mixture being too sticky of falling apart even though when I doubled the recipe I forgot to add another egg to it! My only hesitation to this being a fabulous dish is the fact that they're pan fried. I hate frying anything! I would love to know if anyone has success baking these instead. If these could be baked I'd be making these weekly!


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The other day I had a rare hour to myself at the used bookstore, and as I was happily digging through a pile of dusty memoirs, I found myself thinking, "Hey! I should see if they have any of those awful Magic Treehouse books I hate reading to my kid."
(Nothing against the prolific and successful Magic Treehouse author, mind you, it's just that I really dislike those stories. But my 6-year-old loves them, and so almost every night I read him that series. From Buffalo Before Breakfast to Polar Bears Past Bedtime, I dutifully visit the land of Jack and Annie, although I've been thinking of publishing a parody book titled Seriously Stilted Sentence Structures at Sunset.)
That's how things are now: I get a chance to be totally self-indulgent, and I end up doing something for my damn wiener kids. I'm not saying I've become a more generous, selfless person since parenthood—I'm saying parenthood causes chemical alterations to your brain, and not always in a good way.
For instance, here are a handful of seemingly permanent mental changes I've undergone in the last several years:
I Buy Stupid Shit at Gift Shops When I'm Traveling. On the (extremely rare) occasion I find myself in a beautiful new city with hundreds of places to explore and sights to see, what do I do? I make a beeline for the nearest tourist-trap gift shop so I can buy my kids a crappy novelty license plate, stuffed animal, or keychain—you know, something they'll lose three seconds after I give it to them. What the hell, self.
Babies Crying on TV Make Me Check the Monitor. God, I hate the sound of a crying baby on a TV show, which triggers a Pavlovian response in me in which I instantly leap to my feet and adjust the video monitor to make sure I'm not actually hearing one of my own children (who somehow managed to travel back in time to the infant stage). The only thing that's even worse is the sound of emergency sirens being used in music, because one minute I'm driving to the store singing along with Beyonce, the next I'm staring bug-eyed in the rearview mirror while vigorously crapping my pants.
I Always Hear Screaming in the Shower. Speaking of noises that aren't what they seem, I haven't taken a single shower in six years without being convinced that I'm hearing the muffled sound of a child screaming somewhere.
Every Road Leads to Barf. Call it vomit-related PTSD, call it a regular old-fashioned phobia that's blossomed into chunder-sized proportions since parenthood, but every time one of my kids so much as hints that he might be feeling a bit off, I'm running for the barf bucket. Kid is tired? Oh god, he's probably got the stomach flu. Kid is cranky? Great, so much for getting any sleep tonight. Kid is behaving perfectly normally but he stopped playing for half a second to rub his belly? May as well strip him now and make him stand in the tub because he's surely going to projectile-spew half-chewed hot dogs any second now.
Tragic Child Stories in the News: No. Just, No. Don't send it to me, don't link that shit on Facebook, don't print the story in 20-pt font with the words "BRUTAL ASSAULT" in the title. I can watch horror movies all day long, but these types of stories burrow directly into my head and they never, ever leave.
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Yes!!! Love this. The kids-are-screaming-while-in-shower thing. Ugh! From the minute I brought my newborn home I've had this problem (and it's been a long time since she was a newborn). The ONE place I should be able to relax for just a minute and instead I'm freaked out thinking the water is muffling the noise of something horrific happening just outside the door. k
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and this article is exactly why I always read every parenting article by linda :] Thanks for the morning laughs! One thing I would add, is all of a sudden I'm okay with wiping my sons snot on my jeans or bottom of my sweatpants in an emergency, where as before I probably would have puked at the idea. :)
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So "Yeezus" leaked. And it's been about less than 12 hours and already people are trashing Mr. West's latest project. Whether Kanye meant for it to happen or not, I could care less about. What troubles me is that with the amount of hype that came for this album simply because Kanye West has the ability to stop time only for people to trash all over it is kinda disappointing. Not in a sense that it's "bad" according to a lotta people but because it hasn't even sunk in yet.
Some time ago, Daft Punk's album "Random Access Memories" was allegedly leaked or streamed or whatever the fuck they're calling it now. And people shitted all over it. I was one of them. Because people tend to have a preconcieved notion on what the album is going to sound like. And that's not fair to these artists that work their asses off for your entertainment. Because some time down the road, that very album everyone was trashing was recieving (somewhat) critical praise.
Same goes for when Nas' "Life is Good" album was leaked to the public. Instantaneously, everyone on the rap blogs and on the twitter feed began judging the album. It was like everyone needed to give out their reviews before everyone else did just to get those hits. Lo and behold, "Life is Good" was once again given high regard. Maybe not as high as people wanted but a lot higher than the first 12 hours.
The thing is with a lot of these internet critics is that they go into these new albums that get "leaked" and immediately expect a duplicate of the last few albums that the artist made. So when I'm hearing all these shit about how "Yeezus" is such a disappointment, this stems from an opinion that "Yeezus" is going to sound like something close to "Watch the Throne" or "College Dropout." Remember "808 and Heartbreaks" was shitted on too (frankly, that's a matter of opinion). Same goes for Common's "Electric Circus" that was produced by J-Dilla whom some call Dilla's best work.
"Yeezus" has only been out for less than a day. Give it some time. And after previewing it myself, it's not exactly the classic 'Ye everyone wants. Maybe because I listen to a lot of electronica and most Kanye fans............don't. But I can understand how they're not ready for his experimentation on this album. You have to give it time to marinate. Adjust to the new sound. I'm not saying set your expectations low, just stop setting them so fucking high and wanting "ERRMUR GURRD ERBRUM URV DA YUURRRRR". I promise you they'll bump this album (and probably have some house/dubstep remixes) to his music and you WILL go to his sold out shows.
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In one of my workshops, I have people fill out an anonymous one-page questionnaire. People are asked, among other things, to place themselves on a sexuality continuum from zero to six according to their overall score, and according to their behavior, fantasies, sexual and romantic attractions during different time periods—in the past month, before age 16, and overall. They are also asked what word or words they use to describe their sexual orientation. Once completed, the questionnaires are collected, shuffled, and redistributed, so that everyone in the room is now representing someone else in the room.
We then look at the data. It becomes clear that many people's location on the scale varies depending on what period of time, and on whether you are referring to their behavior, their fantasies, etc.
Another consistent finding is that the terms "straight" or "heterosexual" are used by people standing not only on zero, but on zero, one, and two. The term "bisexual" is used by folks not only on three, but also on two and four—and sometimes also on one and five. The words "lesbian," "gay," and "homosexual" are used by folks not only on six, but also on four and five. There's an overlap between categories, so someone standing on four, for instance, might identify as lesbian or gay, or as bisexual.
In no way am I saying that there are not people on the ends of the scale—there are indeed many. Rather, the categories of heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual are broad, and encompass a wide range of experience.
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President Obama last week nominated two more openly gay ambassadors: former HBO executive James Costos, nominated for U.S. ambassador to Spain, and Rufus Gifford, former finance official for the DNC, Obama for America, and the Presidential Inaugural Committee, nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to Denmark.
"Ambassador-designate James Costos is a true citizen of the world," said Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin in a statement. "He has incredible global business experience and is a respected and innovative leader. He has solid business and political relationships at the highest levels and a proven commitment to community, philanthropy, human rights, and democracy that make him an outstanding choice to be the nation's next ambassador to Spain."
"Rufus Gifford is a terrific choice to represent our country in Denmark," Griffin continued. "His demonstrated leadership and unwavering commitment to democracy and human rights will serve him well as he represents America's interests abroad. I urge the Senate to confirm his nomination."
If these two are confirmed, the United States will have a total of six openly gay ambassadors around the world. Congratulations, gentlemen!
A Stockholm high school is set to open a third changing room for transsexual pupils and those who don't want to define themselves as being male or female, a move believed to be the first of its kind in the country.
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CAMDEN, Del. - A crash is under investigation in Camden, after a school bus apparently drove into a home.
Police have identified the driver of the school bus to be Willie Warren of Camden. Camden Police say that around 7:35 AM on Wednesday morning a school bus, loaded with approximately 40 children, in route to Fred Fifer III Middle School, crashed into a South Main Street home. Police say that the bus drifted across a lane of traffic, sideswiped a utility pole, hit a tree, and finally stopping once it hit the house.
A fireman who witnessed the crash reportedly told officials that the driver appeared to be in medical distress. He pulled the driver out, and started CPR. The driver was rushed to Kent General Hospital by EMS, where he later died. The cause of death is being investigated by the Delaware Medical Examiner's Office. The drivers name is being withheld at this time.
Three children were reportedly taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The rest of the students on the bus were transferred to another bus, and taken to school.
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You can do your part to help honor fallen public safety officers in Virginia - all by eating a slice of pizza.
CiCi's Pizza of Charlottesville is sponsoring a "Public Safety Day" on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Ten percent of the proceeds will help build a public safety memorial for the commonwealth of Virginia.
Virginia is one of five states that does not have a memorial to honor fallen public safety workers. The number of fallen safety workers is currently over 800.
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