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This was the first book written by Greg Iles. His style of writing is there, but I'm not a big WWII buff, so the subject matter really didn't interest me. For those who don't mind that subject it is a decent mystery.
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A long-buried Nazi secret erupts into a nerve-shattering nightmare, as fact meets fiction in this explosive international thriller.
In 1941, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's fanatical Deputy Fuhrer, shocked the world by flying on a seemingly mad peace mission to Britain. He was captured there, and after the war, spent the rest of his life behind forbidding walls of Berlin's Spandau prison.
In 1987, with that sole remaining prisoner's death, Spandau is razed, and the strangest, most mysterious chapter of World War II is closed forever...
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The answer to this question is a decisive and deadly no for Berlin police sergeant Hans Apfel. In the rubble of Spandau, Hans discovers a sheaf of tattered papers in a hollowed brick. It is the half-mad diary of Prisoner #7, known to the world as Rudolf Hess. And it holds the first shocking revelation of why Hess flew to Britain, and the terrifying dimensions of Hitler's boldest, most brilliant move at the height of his evil genius.
Thus the most vicious momentous competition in the annals of international espionage is set in motion. In a Germany moving toward unity, in a Soviet Union falling apart, and an Israel facing destruction, the most skilled players of post-glasnost era will stop at nothing to seize the Spandau papers. Brutal violence, global intrigue, treason and terror turn innocent bystanders into desperate combatants - in a world where nations battle for supremacy and trust is another word for suicide.
With unforgettable characters - including Sgt. Hans Apfel and his estranged father, forced to ally themselves against impossible odds; Hans' kidnapped wife, fighting to save her unborn child; and a driven Israeli agent whose country's survival depends on the contents of the Spandau diary - this riveting thriller moves relentlessly across time and around the globe. Its pulse- pounding action ranges from Germany to South Africa, from England to Israel, from a World War II conspiracy to its long-delayed but inescapable endgame - a Nazi dream that will not die. Greg Iles has written a brilliant epic novel that rips open the last great secret of World War II.


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Europe calls out corporate tax schemes our politicians won't
At least somebody is questioning the tax-avoidance schemes of our tech companies.
Seattle Times staff columnist
You'll have to forgive Amazon for getting a little flustered when the British Parliament publicly blasted the company for "gaming the system" to dodge paying taxes.
Amazon is an American company. They're used to far more deferential treatment.
Responding to how the company paid only $7 million in taxes despite selling $7 billion in goods in England, a furious British committee chairwoman told one of Amazon's executives: "I don't know what you take us for."
They took you for the kind of easy marks they have back home?
Amazon didn't say that, of course. But what they are accused of in Europe — setting up an office in a tax haven to lower their entire tax burden — is pretty much standard operating procedure for big corporations here in the U.S. And not only do our politicians rarely question it, in Congress they seem to spend most of their time holding hearings on how to cut corporate taxes even more.
The past five-year period has been the easiest on U.S. corporations tax-wise since the 1920s. Between 2009 and 2013, just 8.5 percent of all federal revenue was collected from corporate income taxes. By contrast, in the 1950s corporate taxes made up nearly 30 percent.
Yet scarcely a day passes without a new story of a U.S. company trying to decamp the U.S., or set up some other scheme, in order to pay even less here.
What was so interesting about the series this newspaper just ran on Amazon's experiences in Europe isn't what the company is doing over there. They are as anti-tax and anti-union as they are here. So give them points for consistency.
What's interesting is the pushback in Europe. Even high officials in the government are recoiling. Britain's conservative prime minister, David Cameron, was quoted as decrying such "tax dodging" by companies like Amazon, saying, "The public who buy from them have had enough."
Jeff Reifman, an ex-Microsoft multimillionaire who has been a sort of one-man town crier about Microsoft's tax-avoidance schemes over the past decade, said companies here are almost never subjected to anywhere near that level of official questioning.
Example: Two years ago a U.S. Senate committee revealed how Microsoft uses subsidiaries in Puerto Rico and Bermuda to shift up to half its revenues offshore, thus allowing it to skirt $6.5 billion in taxes — more than $4 million per day from the Puerto Rican operation alone.
A group of more than a hundred small-business owners from Washington state then wrote to Microsoft and implored it to "do the right, fair and moral thing" — pay its fair share of taxes. The letter was ignored. Other than that, the revelation caused nothing at all to happen. A bill to address offshore tax havens attracted just four co-sponsors — notably none from Microsoft's home state.
"The corporations have won on these issues, and they know it," Reifman says. "They just laugh at this stuff. They know there's not going to be any price to pay. Not in the U.S. anyway."
Asking them to be patriotic or shaming them seems like a fool's errand, though. What they're doing is legal. So it's up to the government to take charge and change it.
I say this to Reifman, who, like a corporation, laughs at me!
"This isn't a functioning democracy anymore," he said. "It's a corporatocracy. There isn't going to be some 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' moment that changes any of this."
No, probably not. You don't get your share of the national tax burden cut by two-thirds in 50 years by happy accident. Plus, corporations now have the ability to pump unlimited amounts of money into the election system.
I know that writing "Hey, let's be more like the Europeans" probably makes it even less likely that people in power will question the tax tactics of Amazon, Microsoft or any of our swashbuckling tech companies. But I'm glad somebody is.
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Shaw out-coached himself by over-thinking the call on 3rd and 4th at the goal line to win it. He should have went with his bread and butter and ran it. It could have been a QB fake, hand-off to Gaffney or Sanders. Just run it! Now the faint hopes of making the title game are gone.
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on Oct 16, 2013 at 12:21 pm
I hope "Sunnyvale Fan" didn't learn his grammar at Stanford.
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Ever bust out your NES to revisit some retro-gaming memories and pop in a copy of Super Mario or Castlevania, only to find that dust in the cartridge has transformed those familiar stages into glitchy (but dope-looking) labyrinths of jacked-up sprites and alphanumeric characters? That's a pretty apt analogy for what KON Sci's done with '90's hip-hop on his first solo feature, making its world premiere in the Booth. "Bringing the gutter back" is the Carolina rapper/producer and MindsOne member's stated mission on Dire Straits, and bring it back he does—but with a few surreal twists. The gritty, boom-bap percussion that forms the backbone of his instrumental is accompanied by garbled electronic whirs and tightly-compressed guitar crunch, and the artist's nostalgic lyricism comes filtered through a thick layer of post-Aesop Rock free-association. DJ Noumenon provides the perfect question-mark to cap off KON's enigmatic retro pastiche, scratching on KRS-One's iconic line, "Rappers are in danger," as the record rolls to a close. Intrigued? Then keep it locked for more fresh song releases leading up to the fall arrival of KON's And Beyond LP via Soulspazm.
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A method of preparing metal proteinates from natural proteinacous material without destroying naturally occurring vitamins and hormones which comprises neutralizing a protein containing material, subjecting said material to enzymatic hydrolysis, adjusting the enzymatically digested hydrolysate to a slightly basic pH and adding a metal salt thereto to form a metal proteinate precipitate. The proteinate thus formed is a chelate of polypeptides with metals and is substantially free from metal salts and single amino acid proteinates.
1. A composition of matter comprising naturally occurring proteinaceous tissues selected from the group consisting of muscle, heart, liver, thymus, brain, spleen, kidneys, duodenum, pancrease, and orchic a portion of which have been enzymatically hydrolyzed by a protease to produce
2. A composition of matter according to claim 1 wherein the naturally occurring vitamins and hormones have not been destroyed by the hydrolysis process and remain intact.
3. A composition of matter according to claim 2 wherein the bivalent biologically essential metals are selected from the group consisting of iron, copper, zinc, manganese, cobalt, chromium, calcium, magnesium and vanadium.
4. The composition of matter claimed in claim 3 wherein the metal proteinate is essentially salt free.
This invention relates to a process of enzymatically preparing metal proteinates and the products obtained therefrom. More specifically, this invention relates to enzymatically prepared metal proteinates wherein the proteinate is a chelate of an enzymatically digested protein with bivalent essential metal wherein the naturally occurring vitamins and hormones in the protein are not destroyed.
Heretofore the hydrolysis of proteinaceous material to form metal chelates or proteinates has utilized sufficiently strong acidic and basic reaction conditions which require the use of special equipment. Such hydrolysis results in the destruction of some of the essential amino acids forming the proteinaceous material. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,396,104 teaches a process whereby proteinaceous materials are subjected to a basic hydrolysis at a pH between about 8 and 10.5 and thereafter subjected to an acid hydrolysis with phosphoric acid or other strong acid in the presence of a metal salt to form a chelated amino acid complex. Similarly, U.S. Pat. No. 3,775,132 teaches a method for the production of metal proteinates wherein the proteinaceous material is first hydrolyzed by a base-acid-base hydrolysis prior to mixing with the metal salt to form the metal proteinate precipitate. These patents are disadvantageous in that hydrolysis with either acids or bases requires relatively high temperatures. Since proteins are made up from a combination of amino acids, some of the naturally occurring amino acids in the proteinaceous substances are destroyed. For example, tryptophan is destroyed in acid hydrolysis. Serine, threonine, tyrosine and several others are partially destroyed in basic hydrolysis. Not only are certain amino acids destroyed in the acid or base hydrolysis process, but also naturally occurring vitamins and hormones, which may be beneficial when ingested into the animal body, are also destroyed.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to prepare metal proteinates by the enzymatic digestion of proteinaceous material whereby naturally occurring amino acids are not destroyed.
It is a further object of the present invention to prepare metal proteinates under mild reaction conditions whereby the naturally occurring vitamins and hormones in the proteinaceous material are not destroyed.
A still further object of the present invention is to prepare metal proteinates prepared from enzymatically digested proteinaceous material whereby the hydrolysate consists of polypeptides, but wherein the hydrolysis is not carried out to the point that single amino acids are formed.
These and other objects may be accomplished by means of a novel digestion and chelation process wherein vitamins and hormones are not destroyed and no amino acids are formed under the mild conditions utilized. This leaves the proteinaceous substance in a naturally digested form which is the form that an animal body prefers. Natural digestion in the body is done by two enzymes, pepsin and pancreatin, which leaves the protein in the polypeptide form.
A particular advantage of the present invention is that the enzymatic digestion allows the formation of a substrate of mineral and protein, i.e., a metal proteinate which is essentially salt free. Most hydrolysis processes use an acid followed with a base for neutralizing. Upon spray drying these form a product, which is between 50% and 70% salt. In the present process, the filtration of the enzymatically digested metal proteinate from the water gives a metal proteinate which is essentially salt free.
Another advantage of the present invention is that in enzymatic hydrolysis, polypeptides are produced as a substrate for the chelation process. No acids or bases are used for hydrolysis, therefore no amino acids forming the polypeptides are destroyed and the hydrolysis is sufficiently mild that no single amino acid is formed.
As utilized in the present application, the term metal proteinate has reference to a metal chelate wherein a protein hydrolysate is used as the ligand thereby forming a polycyclic complex with a biologically essential bivalent metal. The coordination complex is formed between the bivalent metal and at least two polypeptide ligands, depending upon the mineral involved. For example, zinc forms Sp3 orbital hybrids in aqueous solution. This means that two polypeptide residues will chelate with zinc to form the metal proteinate. The planes of the polypeptide residue are at right angles to each other forming a tetrahedral complex. They are attached in two places to the zinc atom forming a polycylic chelated complex. Iron, on the other hand, forms octahedral complexes with three polypeptide residues. Each mineral therefore has its characteristic configuration for forming complexes depending on the oxidation state. They may have different ligands and form different configurations. Biologically essential metals which may be utilized include iron, copper, zinc, manganese, cobalt, chromium, calcium, magnesium and vanadium.
In order for chelation to take place it is essential that both the enzymatically produced protein hydrolysate and the complexing metal be in solution. The metals are therefore added in the form of soluble inorganic salts.
The protein hydrolysate is formed under mild conditions which do not result in the complete hydrolysis of the protein to the individual amino acid state, and which also does not destroy other beneficial substances in the protein such as vitamins and hormones.
The enzymatic hydrolysis is brought about by placing a comminuted protein source in an aqueous solution. In general, the solution will contain about 20% by weight/volume of proteinaceous material to water. Preferred sources of protein include naturally occurring tissues such as muscle, heart, liver, brain, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, duodenum, thymus, and orchic. As stated, these tissues can be used as carrier materials for minerals without destroying the valuable vitamins and hormones which may be destroyed by treatment with acids, bases or heat. Other protein sources such as casein, gelatin, collagen or albumin may be used.
Any protease may be utilized as the enzyme. Typical of such proteases are pepsin, pancreatin, trypsin, papain, bacterial protease and fungal protease. The enzyme is added in an amount of about 1 to 10 percent by weight based on the protein.
The hydrolysis is carried out at between about 25� and 70� C. so that none of the amino acids in the polypeptides are destroyed in the hydrolysis process. The hydrolysis period may last anywhere from a matter of hours to a matter of weeks depending upon the amount of hydrolysate to be formed and the ease of hydrolysis. In general, the hydrolysis will be carried out over a period of about 2 hours to about 5 days. Preferably, the hydrolysis is carried out under neutral conditions and it may be necessary to adjust the pH of the protein-enzyme digestion solution by the use of an acid or base. Small amounts of acids or bases such as hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide may be utilized to neutralize the enzymatic hydrolysis mixture, but not in amounts sufficient to cause acid or base hydrolysis. If desired, a small amount of preservative such as toluene may also be present during the digestion or hydrolysis process.
As the proteinaceous material is hydrolyzed into polypeptides it will be brought into solution. Preferably the hydrolysis is brought about by constantly stirring the mixture and maintaining the temperature relatively constant.
At the end of the digestion period the mixture may, if desired, be brought to a boil for a short period of time to kill the enzyme so that further hydrolysis will not take place. However, this tends to destroy natural materials such as vitamins and hormones. The solubilized hydrolysate may then be directly treated with a soluble metal salt to form a metal proteinate or may first be filtered to separate the hydrolysate from undigested tissue.
Since protein hydrolysates are chains of amino acids, it is evident that these substances will contain charged groups. The extent of such charged groups will vary with the pH and the titration curve of a protein hydrolysate will represent the composite of the effects of the various groups as they are able to combine with acids and bases. For example, in polypeptides, the charged groups may be due to amino groups belonging to the N-terminal amino acid of each polypeptide chain, or to carboxyl groups belonging to the C-terminal amino acid of a polypeptide chain. A consequence of charged groups in protein hydrolysates is the ability of the hydrolysate to form complexes with other compounds. In order to form a true metal proteinate (chelate) one must have the proper amount of constituents at the right conditions. It is essential that the mineral and protein hydrolysate both be in soluble form. It is also important that the protons be removed from the carboxyl groups before a chemical bond with the mineral can be formed. In the case of protein hydrolysates, both the amino and carboxyl functions must be free from interfering protons in order for chelation to take place. With protein hydrolysates, such as polypeptides, most protons remain intact in neutral solutions and therefore the pH is preferably adjusted in a range more basic than a pH of 7.5. Preferably the pH will be adjusted to a point that is on the alkaline side of the isoelectric point. In general, pHs of about 7.5 to 10 are preferred. Since the hydrolysate has previously been formed, the pH adjustment does not materially affect the stability of the hormones and vitamins in the protein hydrolysate. The appropriate amount of metal salt is added to an aqueous solution of the protein hydrolysate to form a precipitate which is filtered and then washed. The amount of metal salt that is added is adjusted such that there are at least 2 moles of protein hydrolysate or polypeptide per mole of metal salt. Otherwise, a true chelate will not be formed. The metal chelates readily precipitate, and unlike the protein hydrolysates, do not have a net charge. In other words, there are no free ions associated with the metal proteinates.
The product thus obtained can be dried and mixed in appropriate amounts as a dietary supplement in the form of a powder, tablet, liquid or in any other form desired, and then administered to an animal having a need for the particular metal proteinate thus formed, or if desired the metal proteinates may be mixed in an appropriate base for topical or cosmetic application.
It becomes at once apparent that many different metal proteinates can be formed according to the present invention and that the particular metals used can be used in predetermined amounts. The Amount and source of proteinaceous material enzymatically digested can be predetermined so that the vitamins and hormones which will be present in the final product can also be predicted. A distinct advantage of the present invention is that the metals, vitamins and hormones are delivered to the body utilizing a proteinaceous substrate in a naturally digested form which is the form most readily accepted and assimilated by the body.
The following examples are illustrative of, but are not limitations upon the present invention.
Into a 300 gallon jacketed tank equipped with a stirrer and a temperature controller was placed 1000 pounds of water. While stirring, 200 pounds of casein was added. Six pounds of sodium hydroxide was added to neutralize and solubilize the acid casein. To this mixture was added a mixture of enzymes as follows: 3 pounds of papain, 3 pounds of bacterial protease, and 3 pounds of fungal protease. 20 pounds of toluene was added as a preservative. The mixture was covered and stirred for a period of 4 days at a temperature of 50� C. The pH was then adjusted to 8.5 with sodium hydroxide and the mixture was brought to a boil for about 15 minutes to kill the enzymatic action. The hydrolysate thus obtained was filtered while hot through muslin. To the filtrate thus obtained was added 33 pounds of zinc chloride whereupon a precipitate was formed, which, when washed and dried, consisted of about 200 pounds of zinc proteinate containing 8% by weight zinc.
The hydrolysis procedure of Example 1 was followed and to the filtered protein hydrolysate solution was added 75 pounds of ferrous sulfate (FeSO4.7H2 O). Upon washing and drying there was collected about 175 pounds of an iron proteinate containing 9% by weight iron.
Again following the procedure of Example 1 there was added to the filtered protein hydrolysate solution 41 pounds of cupric chloride (CuCl2.2H2 O) along with 1000 pounds of methyl alcohol. The precipitate formed was collected and dried and consisted of about 180 pounds of copper proteinate containing 11% by weight copper.
The procedure of Example 1 was again repeated and to the filtered protein hydrolysate solution was added 56 pounds of manganese chloride (MnCl2.4H2 O). The precipitated protein was collected and dried and consisted of about 170 pounds of manganese proteinate containing 9% by weight manganese.
Into 200 pounds of water was placed 200 pounds of lypholyzed liver powder and 6 pounds of sodium hydroxide to neutralize the solution. To the above mixture was added 1 pound each of papain, bacterial protease, and fungal protease. Twenty pounds of toluene was added as a preservative. The mixture was covered and allowed to digest with stirring at room temperature overnight. The following morning 75 pounds of ferrous sulfate (FeSO4.7H2 O) was added and the solution was neutralized to a pH of 8.5 with sodium hydroxide. The iron proteinate thus obtained contained the natural ingredients found in the liver powder prior to the enzymatic hydrolyzation. The proteinate thus obtained contained about 12% by weight iron.
To 200 pounds of water was added 200 pounds of raw gland tissue. The tissue was a mixture of brain, liver, spleen, kidney, pancreas, duodenum, and heart. To this mixture was added 1 pound each of papain, bacterial protease, and fungal protease. Twenty pounds of toluene was added as a preservative. The mixture was covered and allowed to stir overnight at ambient temperatures. The following morning a mixture of metal salts as given in the following table was added:
MgCl2.6H2 O 12% Mg 83 poundsFeSO4.7H2 O 20% Fe 30 poundsZnCl2 47% Zn 12.8 poundsMnCl2.4H2 O 27% Mn 3.7 poundsCuCl2.2H2 O 37% Cu 2.7 poundsCrCl3.6H2 O 19% Cr 48 gramsH2 Mo4 53% Mo 19 grams
The pH of the mixture was adjusted with sodium hydroxide to about 8.5, and the resulting slurry consisting of a mixture of metal proteinates and unhydrolyzed raw gland tissue was taken up on 200 pounds of isolated soy protein and dried at a low temperature. The naturally occurring vitamins, hormones and other ingredients in the raw gland tissue was unchanged. However, the metal was firmly incorporated into the tissues in the form of metal proteinates having a mineral content of about 11% by weight.
Into a container was added 200 pounds of water and 200 pounds of autolyzed primary grown yeast. To this mixture was added 1 pound each of papain, bacterial protease, and fungal protease. Again, twenty pounds of toluene was added as a preservative. The mixture was allowed to stir overnight at room temperature and the following morning sufficient sodium hydroxide was added to adjust the pH to 8.5. This procedure was repeated with 4 different yeast solutions. To the first solution was added 33 pounds of zinc chloride, to the second solution was added 75 pounds of ferrous sulfate (FeSO4.7H2 O), to the third solution was added 41 pounds of cupric chloride (CuCl2.2H2 O), and to the fourth solution was added 56 pounds of manganese chloride (MnCl2.4H2 O). Upon the addition of the metal salt a precipitate was formed. The unhydrolyzed yeast and metal proteinate thus produced were taken up on 200 pounds of isolated soy protein and dried at a temperature of between about 50� and 60� C. Upon analysis it was shown that each metal had been chelated into the yeast, but that the yeast still maintained the high vitamin content as primary grown yeast. The metal contents ranged from about 9 to 14% by weight and the metal proteinate recovery varied from about 175 to 200 pounds.
Into a ribbon blender was placed 180 pounds of water and 2 pounds of bacterial protease. The mixture was stirred and heated to 55� C. Isolated soy protein was added to the mixture 10 pounds at a time until 80 pounds had been added over a period of one hour. The mixture was allowed to digest or hydrolyze for one additional hour and then 280 pounds of anhydrous calcium chloride was added and the mixture was again stirred for 30 minutes. To this mixture was added 90 pounds of isolated soy protein and 20 pounds of micro cell E. The mixture was stirred for an additional 5 minutes and then put on trays to dry at 75� C. The product consisted of partially hydrolyzed soy protein containing calcium proteinate firmly intermixed therewith.
The procedure of Example 8 was followed with the exception that 300 pounds of manganese chloride (MgCl2.12H2 O) was substituted for the calcium chloride.
Into a tank was placed 450 pounds of water and the water was heated to 55� C. To the water was added 350 grams of Bromelain. While stirring, 400 pounds of gelatin were added to this mixture, 100 pounds at a time, at intervals of 20 minutes. At the end of two hours, the mixture was brought to a boil for 10 minutes to stop the enzyme. To this mixture was added 66 pounds of zinc chloride and the pH was adjusted to about 8.5 with sodium hydroxide to form a precipitate. The mixture, consisting of zinc proteinate, was taken up with 500 pounds of isolated soy protein and dried at 70 � C.
The procedure of Example 10 was followed with the exception that 350 grams of papain was utilized as the enzyme.
A mixture was formed by adding 1000 pounds of water to a tank with 10 pounds of sodium hydroxide and 200 pounds of casein. To this mixture was added 3 pounds of pancreatin as an enzyme and 20 pounds of toluene as a preservative. The mixture was stirred and digested at 37�C. for a period of two days. At that time the pH of the mixture was adjusted to a pH of 2 with hydrochloric acid and 3 pounds of pepsin was added along with additional toluene. This mixture was stirred for two more days to allow further digestion to take place. Following this the mixture was adjusted to a pH of 8.5 and 45 pounds of zinc chloride were added. A precipitate was formed consisting of a zinc proteinate. The mixture was filtered on muslin and dried.
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I've Been Paroled!April 12th 2010 7:07 pm
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I have been playing with Gunnie only when mama supervises for the past two weeks. Mama says I am an escape artist; I leap the barriers she puts up. Gunnie sits politely and cries for somebody to open the barrier for him. I walk right up to the barrier, measure it, and then leap. Mama always hears me, but she is never in time to catch me, and then I run off. I finally trained mama to take down the barriers and let me and Gunnie run around most of the house. The first time was yesterday, and it was wonderful. We ran and chased each other around the furniture. Mostly Gunnie could not keep up with me. I can zig and zag faster than Gunnie can because he has been eating too much kitten chow. I guess he thinks I will eat all the chow if he doesn't get it first. Pretty soon he will be too fat to EVER catch me. Mama has been surprised by how good we've been and how nice we've been playing since we have more room. So far we have not broken a single thing.
Another AdventureApril 10th 2010 9:09 pm
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I met my doctor today. Mama put me into the carrier, and we took a long ride to town. Mama said it only took 20 minutes to get there, but it seemed like hours and hours. I complained but not as much as mama thought I would. I did one thing that Miss Muppet used to do. I hid UNDER the squishy bed in the carrier and peeked out from underneath. N0 wonder mama named me Peekaboo.
Gunnie is a BullyApril 9th 2010 7:54 pm
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I am going to tattle on my brother, Gunnie. Last night mama was looking for a three-hole punch. When she opened the cabinet door, Gunnie and I saw the flutter spout toys. Mama bought two packages because Gunnie loves them so. They come in packages of two, so mama got out a package and gave me and Gunnie each a flutter spout. Gunnie ran off with his and sat in the corner guarding his flutter spout. When I went over to see what he was doing, he GROWLED at me and hissed. Mama picked me up and took me to my new toy, but Gunnie ran over and tried to guard my toy too. Gunnie was being so naughty that mama collected the toys and put them away. Later mama heard Gunnie growling again. He had found a piece of popcorn, and he was trying to be sneaky and eat it. Then when I went to see what he was doing, he got all mad and started growling and guarding his popcorn. He had gnawed on the popcorn, but mama took that away from him too and told him he was not nice. Mama gave Gunnie a lecture about being a curmudgeon, whatever that is, and not being nice to his baby sister. I managed not to giggle out loud while Gunnie got his lecture. Later he was in a better mood, and we snuggled in the carrier. Brothers!
Sibling Rivalry (or my brother has more guestbook entries- than me)April 7th 2010 8:08 pm
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I am the Peekaboo princess, but my brother Gunnie has more guestbook entries than me. How can that be? If any kitty or pup can help me outgun (pun intended) my brother, I would love it if you would sign my guestbook.
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I am looking at my ears and wondering if I will grow into them; my paws too. Mama says she loves my big ears and ear floof and big paws. They remind her of my big sister. Mama says Missy Mups grew up to be a real beauty, so I guess there is hope for me.
My Forever Home and a New BrotherApril 5th 2010 8:01 pm
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My name is Peekaboo. When I was very tiny, I was separated from my mama. Two of my brothers and I went to live with a nice lady, and my two sisters and another brother went to live with another nice lady. My foster mom, Debi, took care of me until I was ready for my forever home.
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Middle Israel: Benzion Netanyahu's on messianism
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The Messiah suddenly returned to our headlines this week, after a conspicuous
absence. "Raise a shout," exclaimed former Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency)
chief Yuval Diskin, quoting from Zechariah (9:9), "Raise a shout, fair
Jerusalem," continued the Jewish version of J. Edgar Hoover, "your king is
coming to you," the ever-equipped secret agent read from a note that he pulled
from the back pocket of his jeans, "victorious, triumphant, yet humble, riding
on an ass," this king will arrive "on a donkey foaled by a she-ass."The
idea was to alarm us that the Netanyahu-Barak duo take decisions "based on
nothing but messianic intuitions" and should therefore be stopped in their
tracks as they prepare a potential strike on Iran's nuclear program. And to
sting the two men personally – as if this pair of hopelessly secular Israelis
somehow pretend to be each the Messiah himself – Diskin mentioned the one's
dwelling in a luxury tower and the other's in posh Caesarea, choices which
indeed would be unthinkable for the real Messiah.In fact, the master
agent could have carried his argument further, to Isaiah, who implied the
Messiah will lack the kind of thick hair, perfect teeth, broad smile and
bursting athleticism which image-makers routinely cultivate in modern
politicians before marketing them to the impressionable masses. Moreover, "God's
servant" would be a modern campaign manager's nightmare; he will look "so
marred" that his appearance will be "unlike that of man" and "his form beyond
human semblance" (52:14), and "lacking beauty and lacking elegance" he will be
"despised" and "shunned by men," and a man "familiar with disease" whose
suffering will be as glaring as that of a person compelled to hide his face
(53:2-3).So modest will be the man whose arrival will be so astonishing
that people will ask each other "who can believe what we have heard?" referring
to the leader whose authority will stem neither from rank nor from charm, but
from "God's arm" (53:1). And as encounters of the biblical sort go, two days
after Diskin's tirade Netanyahu's father Benzion passed away, which brought to
my mind his fascinating biography Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher
(Hebrew edition, 2005, Schocken), and its own take on Jewish
messianism.ONE OF Spanish Jewry's two main leaders at the time of the
expulsion, Abravanel (1437- 1508) arguably experienced the expulsion more
traumatically than any of its estimated 200,000 victims, as he was originally a
royal treasurer who suddenly found himself negotiating on behalf of the Jews in
a futile effort to foil the expulsion. With his colleague Abraham Senor choosing
to convert, Abravanel took to the sea along with the rest of what then was the
world's richest, largest and most powerful Jewish community.Abravanel
thus embarked on a Wandering Jew's voyage, spending his remaining 16 years in
five different places between Corfu in the south and Venice in the north, and
wondering throughout it all just what made the Jews suffer through such loss,
humiliation and despair. As it were, he proved unable to consider the Jewish
situation with the same political sobriety he displayed while advising kings and
queens. Rather than think how to get the Jews to build armies, wield power and
fight for their lives, rights, and honor the way he had seen the gentiles do
throughout his illustrious political career, Abravanel sought in his traumas
God's fingerprints, and the Messiah's footprints.Probing biblical,
rabbinic and mystical sources, Abravanel predicted that Rome was about to
initiate a major clash with Islam so that Christianity would retake Jerusalem,
which it had lost more than three centuries earlier. The assault would
start in Egypt and then proceed to the Land of Israel, an occurrence which he
believed Jeremiah hinted when he wrote (4:16) that Notzrim – Jeremiah's word for
"keepers," but ours for Christians and Abravanel's for Romans – will "come from
a far country and give out their voice against the cities of Judah."Once
Christianity has wrested Jerusalem it will turn it into its spiritual and
political center, yet that reign will only last nine months, for then the
Christians will suddenly face a terrible assault by the Ten Lost Tribes. As
Netanyahu explains (p. 244), Abravanel had a psychological need to insert the
Ten Tribes into his messianic plan because Spanish Jewry's demise generated an
impression that the Jewish nation had dwindled so severely that its end was
imminent, and his prediction of an imminent clash between Rome and Islam was
partly inspired by Christianity's loss of Constantinople when Abravanel was
16.Even so, this entire prediction's relationship with reality, let
alone statesmanship, was loose at best, as this was no political plan, but a
religious fantasy, enhanced by Abravanel's framing it in specific years, all
based on complex textual analyses. The years to which he pointed, 1503-1531,
during which the Jews' Redemption was to begin and end, have long elapsed
without any of his predictions materializing.BENZION NETANYAHU's father,
Nathan Milekovsky, to whom he dedicated Abravanel's biography, was a rabbi, but
Netanyahu himself was secular, and his mentor, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, was even
militantly secular. And so, while throughout the book Netanyahu treated his
hero's messianism with great respect, as a historian must do when probing the
mind-frames of people who lived in distant times and settings, in the book's
last pages Netanyahu finally let out his own thoughts: "Abravanel's messianic
theory reflects the tragedy of the Jewish messianic movements, and to a large
extent the tragedy of the Jews in the Middle Ages. It was a tragedy of a people
that built imaginary towers that breathed an atmosphere of dreams and not of
reality. The worst aspect of that tragedy lay in the fact that while the
nation's soul floated between clouds in the heavens, its beaten body was being
dragged on the ground bleeding from a hundred wounds. There was no bridging the
abyss between the ideal and the reality" (p. 268).And the abyss that
could not be bridged yawned between the perfect opposites of irrational
optimism, which is the hallmark of messianism, and rational pessimism, which in
recent generations has become a pillar of Jewish statesmanship.It was
this realistic pessimism that inspired Benzion Netanyahu's politics and
scholarship throughout his long and fruitful years, and which now inspires his
son's Iranian policy. This may or may not make his attitude restless,
suspicious, alarmist, gung-ho, antsy, simplistic, militant, bellicose,
trigger-happy, even adventurist. Messianic, however, is one thing it is
not.The writer is a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
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