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NEW YORK, NY – Over the last three months, the saga of Washington Capitals megaprospect Evgeny Kuznetsov has gripped the DC fanbase. With Kuznetsov set to be a free agent at the end of the 2011-12 Kontinental Hockey League season, the hope among many was that the winger would take his talents across the Pacific Ocean to begin his NHL career with the Capitals. With his dazzling skill set, glowing scouting reports, and dominance of international tournaments, the anticipation was high, and for good reason.
However, in early May, Kuznetsov announced that he planned to stay in Russia playing for Traktor Chelyabinsk for the next two seasons. The decision is not yet 100% official because Kuznetsov has not signed his new deal with Traktor yet, but every indication is that he has made up his mind, and is not coming, at least not next season. In mid May, Capitals General Manager George McPhee confirmed as such, saying that it "doesn't look like" the 20 year-old will be under contract in DC next fall.
The reasons given for Kuznetsov's disappointing decision varied. The player himself said he was "not ready" to come over and play in the best league in the world, which seems fishy at best considering the way he has torn up the KHL and the World Junior Championships the last two winters. Most NHL prognosticators place his potential rookie scoring output at around 60 points. Not ready?
Others say that Kutzetsov wants to stay in Russia because the money that he will be able to earn while playing for Traktor will enable him to do what he wants to do: start a family, having been married last summer. This, also, seems to have its fishiness.
There is no doubt that Kuznetsov would be able to make a large sum of money in the KHL, upwards of $5 million a season, and most of it would be tax free. In the NHL, his maximum entry-level deal could have a value of around $9 million under the current collective bargaining agreement. That's not as much as the KHL, but it's certainly more than enough money to start a family with.
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However, the most likely and most believable explanation for Kuznetsov's choice involved his participation in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, a small coastal town in southwest Russia. The Winter Olympics have never been held on Russian or Soviet soil, and, much like 2010 in Vancouver, there will be tremendous pressure on the home team to win the gold medal in ice hockey. Kuznetsov, like any other Russian player, wants to make that team and be a part of the group to attempt to do what no "Red Army" Soviet team of the mid-to-late 20th century ever had the chance to do.
Which brings us to Kuznetsov's reason for staying in Russia. It has been rumored that Kuznetsov was told by the national team that if he went to America, his chances of making the Olympic team in Sochi would go way down. This is because almost all of the best Russian players in the world are members of NHL franchises. Players like Pavel Datsyuk, Evgeni Malkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, and Alex Ovechkin would take up those NHL spots – and there would not be room for any more because of the KHL quota. Therefore, Kuznetsov's chances of playing in Sochi would go up if he were playing in the KHL. In addition, playing in America would eliminate the breaks built into the KHL season for international play - which enable national team coaches to look at Kuznetsov play and grow.
In other words, Kuznetsov was forced to decide between club and country. He chose country.
"...Firstly, I really want to make the Olympics," he said to Pavel Lysenkov of SovSport. "I think we have a very strong team and I will continue to gain more experience and progress with the team."
Even if he wasn't directly told that his chances of making the team would be damaged if he left by the Russian team, it's pretty obvious from that quote that the Olympics are his main motive.
It made sense at the beginning of May. Nobody liked it, but it did make sense.
Now? Not so much.
Vladimir Tarasenko is a player much like Kuznetsov – Russian, drafted in 2010, supremely talented, and hard to read when it comes to his intentions about playing in the United States or his homeland. Tarasenko, like Kuznetsov, has spent the last few seasons of his career playing in the KHL.
Tarasenko, unlike Kuznetsov, is coming to play for the NHL team that drafted him, the Blues, this upcoming season. Tarasenko's choice was made public on Saturday when his agent confirmed to Yahoo!'s Dmitry Chesnokov that the young forward had agreed in principle to a contract with St. Louis. It will not be official until July 1st, when he is able to sign, but the agreement is there and the choice has been made.
You may be wondering how on Earth this ties in to Kuznetsov and his choice. It's a fair question.
By most accounts, Kuznetsov and Tarasenko are almost equals in terms of NHL potential. Tarasenko outscored Kuznetsov this year in the KHL, but also played in five more games. Kuznetsov went bonkers at the World Juniors with a nine-point game against Latvia and was named to the tournament all-star team, neither of which Tarasenko accomplished. Different scouting services have one before the other, but the gap is never large.
So why would the Russian national team try and force one, but not the other? They are both very good players who could help the 2014 Olympic team bring home gold, regardless of where they play professionally in the interim. Like the first two reasons, the whole thing just seems very suspicious to me. It makes no sense that the Russian team would care to secure Kuznetsov, and not Tarasenko. It also makes no sense that Kuznetsov wouldn't be good enough to make the team if he were to come here. The NHL is the best league in the world. Kuznetsov would get better here, not worse.
Now, it is also obviously possible that Tarasenko was given the same rumored ultimatum and told the national team that he didn't care. But going off of what many have said about Tarasenko, he is a patriot, and would not likely have decided to come to America had it jeopardized his spot. Or maybe he just wants to be playing in the NHL more.
None of us know for sure what Kuznetsov's true motives are, and we may never know. But at this point, you can't help but wonder just how committed he is is to playing for the Capitals. His actions indicate that he may not be. And that is disappointing, because Kuznetsov has the potential to be an elite NHL player.
However, it is important to note that this saga has nothing to do with the fact that he is from Russia. He's not an "enigma," he's not "lazy," he's not a "typical Russian."
He may just not be what we all thought.Harry Hawkings is a college student who is credentialed to cover the 2012 Stanley Cup Final for RtR. Follow him on Twitter here.
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June 21, 2003 - 5763
Annual Cycle: Num. 8:1 - 12:16 (Hertz, p. 605; Etz Hayim, p. 816)
Triennial Cycle II: Num. 9:15 - 10:34 (Hertz, p. 609; Etz Hayim, p. 821)
Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14 - 4:7 (Hertz, p. 620; Etz Hayim, p. 836)
Prepared by Rabbi Lee Buckman
Head of School, Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit
Department of Services to Affiliated Congregations
Rabbi Martin J. Pasternak, Director
"The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Have two silver trumpets made; make them of hammered work. They shall serve you to summon the community and to set the divisions in motion. When both are blown in long blasts, the whole community shall assemble before you at the entrance of Meeting; and if only one is blown, the chieftains, heads of Israel's contingents, shall assemble before you. But when you sound short blasts a second time, those encamped on the south shall move forward. Thus short blasts shall be blown for setting them in motion, while to convoke the congregation you shall blow long blasts, not short ones. The trumpets shall be blown by Aaron's sons, the priests; they shall be for you an institution for all time throughout all ages. When you are at war in your land against an aggressor who attacks you, you shall sound short blasts on the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God and be delivered from your enemies. And on your joyous occasions-your fixed festivals and new moon days-you shall sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your sacrifices of well-being. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I, the Lord, am your God." (Numbers 10:1-10)
For discussion:
Nachmanides says that one is only required to pray when one feels compelled to do so, during some time of need, using one's own words and format. Prayer for Nachmanides is at its essence a plea for mercy and support during moments of concern and necessity.
Modern thinkers offer other explanations for petitionary prayer. They help us answer the question: Why ask God for anything? Surely God is omniscient and knows everything about us. Why should God have to be informed about our troubles? How do you answer these questions? Do any of the above commentators offer you a direction?

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The inaugural Race Away Stigma 5K Race and Fun Walk will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 at Hudson Valley Community College. The race is the kick-off event for a collaborative effort that will raise awareness about mental health issues among college students.
Mental health issues will affect more than one in every five Americans this year. The college years, are the most common ages for mental health concerns to arise. Depression, anxiety, and other serious mental health concerns are increasingly common among college and university students in the United States.
Hudson Valley Community College's Center for Counseling and Transfer and the ClearView Center are the two main sponsors for the event. The Clearview Center's Insight Program, which will receive any proceeds from the event, recognizes that the negative stigma associated with mental health concerns can be what stops many students from seeking help. It seeks to break down the stigma associated with mental health and create a network of caring peers on campuses to help fellow students.
A $25 Day of Race Registration Fee pays for race registration, a chicken barbecue lunch and the chance to win one of several raffle prizes provided by race sponsors: Albany River Rats, CustomInk.com, Dick's Sporting Goods, Panera Bread, Pizzeria Uno, Price Chopper, RoadID, Runner's World Magazine, Siena College, TGI Friday's and the Tri-City ValleyCats.
Runners may register by contacting the Hudson Valley Community College Center for Counseling and Transfer at (518) 629-7176. Registration information also is available at www.hvcc.edu/cct.
Founded in 1953, Hudson Valley Community College offers more than 70 degree and certificate programs in four schools: Business; Engineering and Industrial Technologies; Health Science; and Liberal Arts and Sciences; and an Educational Opportunity Center for academic and career training. One of 30 community colleges in the State University of New York system, it has an enrollment of more than 13,000 students, and is known as a leader in distance learning initiatives and workforce training. Hudson Valley has more than 65,000 alumni.


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I have a beekeeping friend who will not place hives near the large coal-fired power plants west of us. His claim is that the power plants produce pollutants that contaminate the honey. Does this concern jive with your experience or with science?
I have a beekeeping friend who will not place hives near the large coal-fired power plants west of us. His claim is that the power plants produce pollutants that contaminate the honey. Does this concern jive with your experience or with science?
I don't know about honey, but existing coal plants produce mercury which gets into the water supply. In Colorado, most of the fish in the state have measurable levels of mercury and the state recommends those under 18 limit their native fish eating to once a month I believe.
I suppose it could get in soil from rain, and then be picked up by plants, but most of the concern I've heard is from lakes and ponds around the coal plants.
I think it's valid depending on how close you are to the plant.
"Fly ash contains trace concentrations of heavy metals and other substances that are known to be detrimental to health in sufficient quantities. Potentially toxic trace elements in coal include arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, barium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, radium, selenium, thorium, uranium, vanadium, and zinc. Approximately 10 percent of the mass of coals burned in the United States consists of unburnable mineral material that becomes ash, so the concentration of most trace elements in coal ash is approximately 10 times the concentration in the original coal"
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I worked maintenance at a coal powered plant in the mid 70's. One of the reasons I quit that good paying job ,was cuz of the high sulfur content in the air with-in the plant.Also flyash (burned coal dust) flying everywhere even out the stacks on to parked cars in P.L.. There was an ash pond where most of the ash was pumped with water however, I am sure there were still some acids in that water.When I left they were in the process of installing scrubbers to remove some of those containments. Nothing in my opinion will ever assure 100% cleaness of the dirty fuel coal.
BTW: I am not a tree hugger so this is not ment to be policital.
I left the job for my own health reasons.
I'd wonder if the area nearest the coal-fired plant might be one of the the "cleanest" areas for his bees. The very high smoke stacks required puts the pollutants high up where winds carry them away for thousands of miles.
Most lakes in my beloved Adirondacks were killed or negatively affected by the coal-fired plants in the mid-west.
What's in the ash ponds has got to be getting in the air too. Maybe not as much but it's getting in the air.
Now if you want to know just how toxic pond ash is to humans, then ask any of the people near the ash pond that broke over near Oak Ridge, TN. Their land is so contaminated with mercury and other metals it's pathetic. 300 acres that will kill a horse.
De Colores,
With the number of coal power plants world wide, the pollution is shared by everyone. Coal is the number one fuel source worldwide for the production of electricity. All my hives are located within ten miles of a Nuclear plant. I havent noticed anything wrong with taste or color. Except it seems to glow a little in a dark room.
The Busy Bee teaches two lessons: One is not to be idle and the other is not to get stung.
I noticed in one of the old bee magazines that there was a bit of concerns in regards to coal mined in Montana. It seems the pollutant of main concern was florine that was showing up in fairly high levels first in the surrounding plants and secondarily in the hive.
My home yard is 2 1/2 miles from a 1200 Megawatt coal Plant (1.2 million KW). I haven't had my honey tested but it tastes mighty good!
Dan Williamson
B&C Honey Farm http://www.flickr.com/photos/9848229@N05/
I don't want to dismiss the idea, but like others have pointed out, where could you really go to avoid pollution or some other potential problem?
Some beekeepers worry about cell phone towers. Some about transgenic crops. Some about herbicides. Some about coal-burning generators. Some about other things.
I've read that levels of lead in soil along highways are significantly higher than background levels of lead, likely because of gasoline burned by traffic on those highways before gasoline was unleaded.
Pesticide residues show up in analyses of polar bears, far from where the pesticides were ever applied.
By-products and waste chemicals from manufacturing processes have contaminated water supplies.
How can you avoid all of the potential contaminants from getting into honey? Don't keep bees, I guess.
There are different types of coal. I believe bituminous coal is used in coal fired plants to generate electricity. It stinks and pollutes. Anthracite, (hard coal) on the other hand, as used in a coal burning stove to heat your home, produces less pollutants than wood in a wood burning stove, and is quite comparable to burning gas, a so called clean fuel. The blue flame coal - anthracite. People have been burning coal - anthracite - to heat their homes for decades.


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Thanksgiving 2011
Thanksgiving 2011: Where to eat, drink & celebrate the holiday
Offers a Thanksgiving Day dinner buffet from 3-9pm. Highlights include turkey, herb roasted beef tenderloin, honey glazed sweet potato casserole, corn bread stuffing and baked apple tart. $60 per person, $30 per child
1500° at the Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach: 4525 Collins Ave, Miami Beach; 305-674-5594
660 at the Angler's
Is serving a three-course holiday feast available from 3-10pm. Menu highlights include roasted pumpkin bisque, maple and bourbon glazed turkey and brown sugar & sweet potato cobbler. $44.95 per person.
660 at the Angler's: 660 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach; 305-534-9600
Area 31
Is offering a "decadent" Thanksgiving buffet featuring turkey carving station, a whole pig carving station, pork tenderloin, braised short ribs, winter salads and snapper. $85 per person, includes house red or white wine.
Area 31: 270 Biscayne Blvd, Miami; 305-424-5234
Asia de Cuba
Celebrates Thanksgiving with a four-course holiday menu available from 7-11pm. Menu highlights include calabaza soup; avocado, mango and crab salad; and pavochòn, a turkey roasted in the style of suckling pig. $56 per person, regular menu also available. Asia de Cuba at Mondrian South Beach: 1200 West Ave, Miami Beach; 305-514-1940
Offers a Thanksgiving buffet feast from 1-8pm featuring Vermont butter roast turkey, slow roast beef brisket, a selection of pasta with seasonal accompaniments and garden herb & sour cream whipped potatoes. $55 per person
Atrio at Conrad Miami: 1395 Brickell Ave, Miami; 305-503-6529
BLT Steak
Is treating diners to a traditional three-course Thanksgiving Day dinner from 4-9pm. Menu highlights include wild mushroom risotto, butternut squash soup, Ashley Farms turkey roulade, roasted prime rib of beef and macaroni & cheese. $72 per person
BLT Steak: 1440 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach; 305-531-6100
Bulldog BBQ
Is dishing out a take-out Thanksgiving in a box menu featuring maple brined hickory smoked turkey, cornbread sage stuffing, sweet potato casserole and smoked braised collard greens. $35 per person.
Bulldog BBQ: 15400 Biscayne Blvd, North Miami; 305-940-9655
Is offering a three course Thanksgiving menu beginning at 11:30am. Menu includes butternut squash soup, roasted turkey stuffed and apple pie a la mode. $50
Cecconi's: 4385 Collins Ave, Miami Beach; 786-507-7902
China Grill Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale
Are offering a la carte menus with Thanksgiving specials including roasted turkey two ways (traditional roast and dark meat crispy spring rolls) and five spice pumpkin pie. Fort Lauderdale available from 5-10pm, Miami Beach from 3-9pm.
China Grill at Hilton Ft. Lauderdale Marina: 1881 SE 17th St Causeway, Ft. Lauderdale; 954.759.9950 China Grill Miami Beach: 404 Washington Ave, Miami Beach; 305-534-2211
Celebrates Thanksgiving with a four-course traditional turkey dinner. Menu highlights include chestnut stuffing, crème of mushroom soup and sweet potato mash. $39.95 per adult, $19.95 per child.
Christy's: 3101 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables; 305-446-1400
Chophouse Miami
Offers a three-course feast from 11:30am-2:30pm and 4-11:30pm. Menu highlights include radicchio & watercress salad, spiced pumpkin soup, cedar plank salmon, roasted turkey "chopblock style" and sweet potato pie. $55 per person
Chophouse Miami: 300 S Biscayne Blvd, Miami; 305-938-9000
City Hall – The Restaurant
Is celebrating Thanksgiving with a moderately priced, a la carte menu available from 4-10pm. Regular menu will also be available.
City Hall – The Restaurant: 2004 Biscayne Blvd, Miami; 305-764-3130
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Presents a "slightly less traditional" three-course Thanksgiving meal from noon to 8pm. Menu highlights include pumpkin soup, bacon-wrapped turkey breast and pecan tart. $74 per person, $35 for children 12 and under.
db Bistro Moderne: 255 Biscayne Blvd, Miami; 305-421-8800
De Rodriguez Cuba on Ocean
Is offering a four-course meal featuring "traditional dishes with a slight twist." Menu highlights include roasted chestnut soup, poached pear & mozzarella salad and slow roasted organic turkey. $65 per person, a la carte menu also available.
De Rodriguez Cuba on Ocean: 101 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach; 305.673.3763
Duffy's Sports Grill
Offers a three-course $13.99 all-you-can-eat turkey dinner. Feast on tossed green salad, oven roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread stuffing and pumpkin pie. Seatings from noon-7pm.
Duffy's Sports Grill: 3969 NE 163rd St, North Miami Beach; 305.760.2124
East End Brasserie
Offers a three-course feast from 11am-10pm. The menu includes butternut squash soup, turkey and pan roasted filet mignon. $55 per adult, $27 per child.
East End Brasserie: 601 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Fort Lauderdale; 954-567-8070
Offers a three-course Thanksgiving Day Dinner from 6-10pm featuring calabaza squash & caramelized fennel soup, grilled cranberry pomegranate Caesar salad, spiral cut honey baked ham, apple cider brined & roasted turkey and bacon corn bread muffins. $39 per person, $19 for kids 10 and under
Essensia: 3025 Collins Ave, Miami Beach; 305.908.5458
The Forge
Is celebrating Thanksgiving with a four-course feast. Menu highlights include pumpkin bisque, pan seared crab cakes, roasted Carolina turkey and Italian sausage stuffing. $68 per person, $38 for children under 12.
The Forge: 432 W 41 St, Miami Beach; 305-538-8533
Gotham Steak
Is serving a "traditionally inspired Thanksgiving meal" from 4-10pm. A la carte menu highlights include roast turkey breast, slow smoked turkey leg, Yukon potato puree, roasted quince with Alsatian cabbage and pork belly. A special dinner menu will be offered for children 12 & under.
Gotham Steak: 4441 Collins Ave, Miami Beach; 305-674-4780
Hyatt Regency Bonaventure
Is hosting two holiday seatings (11:30am-3pm and 5-8pm) featuring family-style holiday favorites like roasted turkey, carved ham, candied sweet potatoes and green bean casserole. $32 per adult, $15 for kids under 12.
Hyatt Regency Bonaventure: 250 Racquet Club Rd, Weston; 954-349-5744 x7675
Kitchen 305
Is celebrating with an all-you-can-eat Thanksgiving buffet. Menu highlights include Polynesian hearts of palm salad, oven roasted turkey, Smithfield ham and peach cobbler. $30 per person
Kitchen 305: 16701 Collins Ave, Sunny Isles Beach; 305-749-2110
Mister Collins
Offers a family-style feast featuring roasted turkey, rosemary whipped potatoes and maple brown yams. 3-9pm. $65 per person, $35 per child.
Mister Collins: 10295 Collins Ave, Miami Beach; 305-455-5460
Gives thanks Italian style with an specialty a la carte menu featuring baby arugula salad, braised turkey breast, oven roasted leg of lamb and pumpkin tart.
Quattro Gastronomia Italiana: 1014 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach; 305-531-4833
The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove
Is offering a gourmet "Turkey to Go" four-course feast. Highlights include an herb roasted turkey, ginger carrot soup, spiced pecan stuffing and homemade pumpkin pie. Order by Nov 22 by calling 305-644-4680. $135 for a dinner that feeds six.
The hotel is also offering a Thanksgiving Day Brunch from noon-5pm on Nov 24. Enjoy oven roasted turke
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The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove: 2700 Tigertail Ave, Coconut Grove; 305-644-4680
Is offering an Italian inspired Thanksgiving Day buffet dinner, from 2-8pm. Highlights include slow cooked turkey breast, leg of lamb, signature spaghetti tomato & basil and buttermilk chestnut biscuits. $75 per person, $32.50 per child under 12.
Scarpetta: 4441 Collins Ave, Miami Beach; 305-674-4660
The Setai
Offers a Thanksgiving jazz brunch as well as a Thanksgiving dinner. The brunch, available Thursday from 11:3am-3:30pm, features Taittinger champagne, homemade bloody Mary's, roasted turkey and tandori turkey tikka. $95 adults, $45 children.. The dinner, available Thursday from 7-11pm, offers diners the choice between four-course wine-paired American or Asian menus. The Asian menu includes consommé with foie gras custard and tandori turkey tikka, while the American menu includes pumpkin veloute and roasted turkey. $95 per adult, $45 per child, $145 with wine pairings.
The Setai: 2001 Collins Ave, Miami Beach; 305-520-6400
Steak 954
Offers an a la carte menu with Thanksgiving specials including butternut squash soup, roasted turkey dinner, marshmallow sweet potatoes and big eye tuna & foie gras tacos. Menu available from 11:30am-9pm. Steak 954 at W Fort Lauderdale: 401 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Fort Lauderdale; 954-414-8333
Is offering a sweet twist on the holidays with special desserts on its Thanksgiving menu. Highlights include pecan caramel cinnamon buns with chocolate cream cheese dipping sauce and almond apple crisp with cranberry orange ice cream.
STK: 2377 Collins Ave; 305-604-6988
Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill
Is dishing out an a la carte menu featuring spiced squash soup, creamy polenta, rosated fall vegetable salad, suckling pig porchetta and apple cider roasted turkey.
Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill: 3250 NE 1 Ave; 786-369-0353
Sushi Samba dromo
Treats diners to an a la carte menu featuring braised short rib gyoza and mojo roasted organic turkey with linguica quinoa stuffing and sweet potato home fries
Sushi Samba dromo: 600 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach; 305-673-5337
Texas de Brazil
Is treating diners to a three-course dinner accented with roasted turkey, house-made cranberry sauce and sweet potato casserole. Regular menus 15 grilled meats and salad bar also available. Texas de Brazil: Multiple South Florida locations, texasdebrazil.com
Is serving a Thanksgiving Day brunch noon to 4pm. Menu highlights include an omelet station, French toast and truffle risotto. Vida is also offering a dinner buffet from 6-10pm. Dinner highlights include sushi, traditional stuffing, roasted garlic mashed potatoes and bourbon pecan tarts. $75 per person, $32.50 per child under 10.
Vida: 4441 Collins Ave, Miami Beach; 305-674-4730
Offers a three-course Southern-inspired menu at 3:30 or 7pm. The menu includes skillet cheddar corn spoon bread, heirloom baby beets, turkey three ways, garlic mashed potatoes and apple pie. $65 per person
Yardbird: 1600 Lennox Ave, Miami Beach; 305-538-5220


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From cyber to cyborg : The influence of motivation and personality traits on the merging of consumer and technology
Wiyanto, Tifani, Luck, Edwina M., & Mathews, Shane W. (2011) From cyber to cyborg : The influence of motivation and personality traits on the merging of consumer and technology. In Marketing in the Age of Consumerism : Jekyll or Hyde?, Australia & New Zealand Marketing Academy , Perth, Australia.
As technology extends further into consumer daily lives, consumers develop significant relationships with their technology, particularly mobile devices. This conceptual paper aims to investigate the merging of consumers and their technology, termed the cyborg consumer, which has been previously overlooked in the marketing literature. More specifically, this investigation extends the marketing theories of consumer psychological motivation and ersonality traits in examining the influence of these elements on cyborg consumer behaviour, such as intensive consumption of technology and construction of an important part of the self on the Internet. A conceptual framework of the cyborg consumer is presented, which will help marketers to better understand how consumers' relationships with technology are changing and how marketing practices can be better targeted to the cyborg consumers.
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AAH Oral Histories
Interview with Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp (b. 1942), was Chair of the AAH from 1989-1992. As a young lecturer at the University of Glasgow he was seconded to help coordinate the 2nd annual AAH conference in 1976 after the sudden death of the Professor Andrew McLaren Young, the first Chairman of the AAH. He later became a member of the Association's Executive Committee 1982-85 before taking on the Chair in 1989.
Martin Kemp studied Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge in the early 1960s before completing further studies the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1965. He has held various academic posts including lectureships at Dalhousie (Halifax) and University of Glasgow, Professorships of Fine Arts at University of St. Andrews before becoming Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University. His research has focused on imagery in art and science from Renaissance to the present day with particular focus on Leonardo da Vinci.
The interview was conducted by Liz Bruchet and took place at the Department of the History of Art at University of Oxford on 27 November, 2009. © AAH
Portrait of Martin Kemp by Maggie Milne, 1984, pastel on paper.
Excerpt 1. Studying at the Courtauld mid-'60s
Recalls studying at the Courtauld Institute of Art as a graduate student in the mid-1960s and the distribution of Art History jobs by the Institute's Director, Anthony Blunt. [4:40 mins]
When you were at the Courtauld what were you interested in studying?
Well I was doing Italian sixteenth century with John Shearman, Michael Hirst and Andrew Martindale, this was before he [Martindale] went to [the University of] East Anglia. Yeah it's very odd in a way after a bit of Art History at Cambridge going into this highly specialised area without really knowing a Raphael from a Rembrandt. Obviously I did in a way but I'd never studied it in any sense, but I liked it because you were aware that you were operating at quite a high level in the subject and that you weren't just skating over the surface so that suited me pretty well.
And there were some very bright contemporaries in that group I was in with John Shearman and co, there was John Newman who became a major architectural historian, Charles Avery who was there and subsequently at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Christie's, James Austin who was a rather good photographer, John Onians, who became Professor at East Anglia and generally there was – the body of staff were deeply impressive and was Anita Brookner who was just beginning to make her way as a novelist and Anthony Blunt certainly was a figure.
What was he [Blunt] like?
He was… rather remote diffident obviously got a lot of class a lot of kind of languid poise. Didn't really seem to be terrifically engaged with external things but was clocking up everything that was going on. When I finished studying he was running a kind of placement service at that point, and virtually every job in the British Commonwealth or Britain went through his hands because people would call him and say 'Who've you got coming out?' And I went to see him and I'd only ever been in two seminars, but he knew exactly what I'd been doing so this filing system, which didn't look as if it was operating at all, was all ticking away.
He said 'There's a job going in Dalhousie in Halifax in Canada I advise you to apply for it for one year' so I touched my forelock and off I went and he wrote to me when I was in Dalhousie saying there's a job in Glasgow I advise you to apply for so again I touched my forelock and off I went to Glasgow. It was very extraordinary he had tentacles everywhere. And in spite of his de-frocking by the security services at that point was still Keeper of the Queen's Pictures and had a big sort of networking patronage in the – not in America but in the other bits of the English speaking world in Art History. I listened to lectures by him on Picasso and Poussin and wasn't deeply impressed it was obviously somebody who was a substantial art historian but I always felt that what he did was a bit bloodless, it was much more bloody before the war when he was involved with Marxist Art History and so on, but he went for other intellectualising subjects subsequently. We were aware that he'd had a relationship with [Guy] Burgess and that he was absolutely locked into that group who were being exposed Burgess and [Donald] Maclean were exposed, [Kim] Philby I think had been exposed by then, and we rather assumed that he'd been engaged in that in some way. I've always been part of the stratospheric Left so I was inclined to be very censorious about that activity and indeed as students it's sort of slightly nice to have somebody who's got this frisson of potential notoriety so when it all came out it wasn't a huge surprise indeed you'd think the intelligent services can't be very intelligent if they, if they couldn't have seen this before let alone later.
And what was he like as a person?
Immensely courteous, very gracious, and somewhat superior. You always felt you were being patronized. I was then back there as external examiner, I went back I was quite a young external examiner when Giles Robertson's son was going through, doing a Master's. So I was brought in as emergency cover for Giles Robertson, the Professor in Edinburgh. And for the first time the boot was somewhat on the other foot in that they had to take note of what I saying and I had some minor element of power anyway his tactic was to postpone the difficult cases till after lunchtime and make sure the external was plied with a lot of booze during lunch and became more pliable than he or she might have been before lunch.
Excerpt 2. Art school happenings, c. 1970
Describes experiences teaching Art History at the Mackintosh School of Architecture Glasgow School of Art in 1970, student 'happenings' during exams [4:30 mins]
One of the quid pro quos was that we went down and ran Art History courses at the art school, and this was something of a disaster because we weren't based there. And you got people who wouldn't recognise a Picasso from a bed pan and you know going down and lecturing and having no connection at all with anything which you'd regard as avant-garde even sort of Picasso, and we weren't - we didn't have a feel for the institution and so on, we were visitors and I said to Andrew McLaren Young 'This is going to be a running sore.' He was very irritated by that but partly because I think he thought it was probably true. And I said 'You know the good had to have art historians there' you know you need somebody in the institution who creates credibility and responds.
I went down there and lectured in the Mackintosh School of Architecture and one lecture I gave – and I always made sure I had fantastic visual material, and I got on all right you know I got by and I knew a bit about contemporary art – but one of the lectures the lights went off and they everyone in the audience lit a match so you got this twinkling stars across the whole of the room, it was sort of the era of happenings and things of that sort. I thought it was just wonderful. Anyway they – so I said 'Excellent, yeah, let's settle down and get on with the lecture' and but the person in charge of it Roger Brunyate attempted to impose a kind of iron rule upon this upon this anarchy and he decided to give them a slide test in the university. And he brought them up to the modern languages lecture theatre and he organised it – because he thought they would cheat – so that the people, alternate people sitting in the rows one had to do the right hand slide and the other the left hand slide so that they couldn't say 'Oh Michelangelo' or 'It's Constable' or whatever. Anyway Roger asked me to be in charge of this slide test and I'd only ever gone down there and lectured and didn't know how poisonous the whole situation had become. Anyway I go into the projection box at the back to – having kitted out all these kids with their exam books in different colours to whether they were doing left slide or the right side and they were all arranged in a kind of checkerboard to stop them cheating and I started focusing the projector to the projection box and looked out and all I could see was a lot of stuff in the air. Enormous amounts of sort of straw or shredded stuff all in the air going up like this and I sort of looked out and … Anyway I went out into the lecture room and this terraced lecture theatre was just full of, it was kind of shredded wood, shredded paper and so on and there were three characters sitting there who were just completely covered in this and they were obviously the people who'd been doing it – it was spread around them and rather more thinly elsewhere. And I said, 'I recognise that as a happening' and I said 'What does it mean?' they looked all a bit sheepish and I said 'No, come on tell me what does it mean?' and one of them said 'It's the Hay Wain, it's the Constable Hay Wain' you know and this was hay. And I said I said 'Right, fine' I said 'Could the people who organised this join me afterwards and we'll get some brooms and clean this up because we can't leave the cleaners with this mess.' And these it was perfectly obvious who'd done it as they were sitting there absolutely covered and these rather sheepish young men there were three young men came along and said 'Oh' you know 'What's going to happen?' 'Well if you clear this up, then that's it. It's a happening, it's great fun, and providing we don't leave any mess nobody's been hurt' and the slide test was a shambles of course you know you put things up on the screen and they all shouted out 'Michelangelo!' or 'Constable!' or whatever it was, so [laughs].
But that was a wonderful illustration that you actually had to have art historians in the art school who could become a recognised part of the culture and you couldn't simply do the academic. What you got away with in Glasgow University you couldn't get away with in the art school and art schools were very anarchic at that time and I think wonderfully entertaining but –
When was that?
… I suppose 1970 or so.
Excerpt 3. Ernst Gombrich
Reflects on the character and values of renowed art historian Ernst Gombrich (1909-2001). [2:20 mins]
What was he like?
A man of enormous integrity…civilised values and not always very tolerant. I had the most enormous respect for him because he was that generation of art historians for whom studying an academic subject freely and without restraint was a matter of life and death. You know we have easy careers in a way and you can be a Marxist art historian or an extreme Right art historian and you might write rubbish but nobody, you know, you're not going to be stopped from doing it or you're not going to be prosecuted so for that generation the humanities and humanitarian values and Art History is a humanist discipline to use a Panofskian term this was a big deal. And they were for me a kind of heroic generation. He was a great encourager for me, I was never studied with him in a formal sense he said I was a pupil of his in a general sense which I was very glad to be. I always found him immensely supportive, incredibly honest … not entirely tolerant of people he regarded as timeservers or stupid. So he wasn't an angel in that way but a modest man in how he lived, and he lived for the life of the mind. And he could be very rude I remember at one lecture a rather irritating lady came up to him afterwards and who said Professor Gombrich what's his field? and he leant forward and he says [imitates] 'Ah' he says 'donkeys have fields' and this poor lady was completely crushed. And he wasn't immune from doing that and John Onians would probably tell you that you can give him as a doctoral student a great discourse on what you were doing and at the end he would lean forward and he'd say [imitates] 'So what?' [laughs] So he wasn't always, always very amenable.
Excerpt 4. First stirrings of the AAH
Describes how, as a young lecturer at the University of Glasgow, he was invited to attend an annual gathering of Heads of Art History Departments in the early 1970s where discussions were being held about forming an association of art historians.
The creation of new universities and polytechnics in the 1960s, along with the implementation of the Coldstream (1961) and Summerson (1963) Reports, led to unprecedented growth of the subject in higher education. Before the foundation of the AAH, the only regular meetings among professional art historians took place annually between senior university art historians and were known as the 'Heads of Departments meetings.' [5:19 mins]
View the original 1974 press release announcing the formation of the Association of Art Historians and a response from Hamish Miles, a member of the 1973 AAH Steering Committee.
I wonder if we can talk about the beginnings of the Association of Art Historians?
And how you first became involved?
Yeah there was a meeting which I don't know how long it had been going on for but not very long of Heads of Department. That clearly those people who were in the departments that were growing and had a sense that it wasn't all Courtauld Institute. Edinburgh had been there a long time, Glasgow was operating and so on but there was an expansion such that anybody could look at Art History and think 'Well there's something happening British-wide' and it's not just off-shoots of the Courtauld or to some extent the Warburg but mainly the Courtauld.
There was a meeting of Heads of Department and, one was held in Edinburgh and I was then at Glasgow Andrew McLaren Young was I think the organiser or convener of that that was in Edinburgh. And I was invited along as a kind of observer as Andrew was that sort of person you know he'd say [imitates] 'Oh come along' you know 'You're around why don't you come along and join in'. And it was that meeting I think in Edinburgh where they said 'Well, there's College Art Association, there's a Confédération [Comité] internationale d'histoire de l'art you know should we not have our own organisation parallel to the American one?' And there was great resistance to having to be this great circus of practicing artists, of art historians and so on. So we had this more compact vision of people writing history of art. There was no intention at that time for it to be more than an annual meeting with a committee which would keep the subject under review as it were and would co-ordinate policy, and it's perfectly clear that professions needed some kind of representation. Probably in terms of constitutional, actions and a feeling for a professional body John White probably was the person who had the biggest sense of that. The others were perfectly happy but he was a much more of an organisations and procedures person and was a fairly conspicuous figure in the in Comité internationale pour d'histoire de l'art [sic]. So, I think, without him being a dominant personality he was the kind of constitutions person and said well we need to have this kind of organisation as 'Flying Officer White' as it were, he was keen to sort of get the get the junior ranks into kind of order and so on.
Andrew was not a great organiser but was a great democrat. He really thought that there should be a body representative and that people generally in the profession had a right to come together which is one reason why he invited me along to that that meeting. Yes there were a whole group of people of Heads of Department, Hamish Miles was at the Barber [Institute of Fine Arts] at that point who were not polemically interested in being anti-Courtauld but by having a representative body which recognised that Art History was now a British-wide subject and a number of the centres because they were placed in different constitutional positions in the universities some in History some linked with other modern languages some relatively independent that there was a diversity within the subject which needed representing.
And what was the atmosphere like at that initial meeting that you went to?
I think it was incredibly good. That group of people were so individualistic that they couldn't have made a clique if they tried. Just the sheer individualism of that group of people, looking down that initial list there's no obvious, clubbing so I think they were rather fortunate in that they could distil a common cause out of positions that were very diverse.
And what did you think of the idea of forming an Association?
I wasn't desperately excited by it. I'm not someone who much likes meetings as meetings. There is too much meeting and proceduralism goes on now and I was always rather suspicious of it. So I wasn't wildly enthusiastic but I recognised, partly as a result of then listening to the discussions of issues at that stage you know I knew nothing about university grants committees or university funding, you know I wasn't at all engaged in that and the rise of Art History in the art schools which clearly needed some degree of scrutiny within the profession rather than just leaving it to be done by dint of funding body decree and individual institutions doing what they would and, it was also clear that the art historians and art schools were often not in a very good situation. That they were regarded as rather hostile intruders in many of the art schools so certainly for them there was a real point in having a body to whom they could turn which provided them with a sort of professional reinforcement.
Excerpt 5. 'Old style' art historians & the AAH
Considers the characters of two leading art historians, John Pope-Hennessy (1913-94) and Michael Jaffé (1923-97), and their involvement with the Association of Art Historians in its early days.
Why do you think John Pope-Hennessy got involved [with the AAH]?
John Pope-Hennessy's involvement is a bit of a surprise because he's not naturally a, a clubish person. And I would like in retrospect to ask him that question. If I could make a guess it was motivated by two things. One would be, the sense in which, proper standards needed to be inculcated, and I mean his books on Italian sculpture are very representative of what was thought to be the proper art-historical way of proceeding and are very substantial achievements. And the other was I think that he was very much not a Courtauld person in attitude, and would see anything which opened up the profession to being less dominated by the Courtauld the better it would be. He was daggers drawn with John Shearman and he did odd seminars for the Courtauld but was essentially rather antagonistic to them. But there was quite a lot of bad feeling between Pope-Hennessy and individuals and I suspect institutionally and in the museum later when he came up to Glasgow I was sitting next to him at a dinner and he started to run down John Shearman and I said the first seminar I had from with John Shearman I'd learned more about how Art History was conducted than I'd ever learnt from anybody now or since he said [imitates] 'Oh!' and we went onto another topic but I'd established my position with John Pope-Hennessy and we got on well after that. Like a lot of bullies he was – if you lay down he would carry on kicking you even if he didn't like the response, he was happy to acknowledge that this you weren't going to be steamrollered by this. So I think in his case they, not that he would see it in enormously Machiavellian terms but I think he was pleased to think that things were happening which weren't Courtauld based.
And what about Michael Jaffé? What do you think were his motivations?
Michael Jaffé I knew fairly well but never quite understood him and I think he would probably align himself rather with Pope-Hennessy I'm not saying he would take his lead from Pope-Hennessy but I suspect those two factors I outlined for Pope-Hennessy were the same. These are people with independent means who were old style, art historians who collected. I mean I went to see Michael Jaffé in Cambridge in his rooms in Kings in the Gibbs building and this was to do with Part Two in Art History after doing Science and I'd been lurking in the back of all his lectures and very conspicuously because there were only a dozen people in the lecture for a year or so, with my mathematician friend John Sharp, and I wanted to do the Part Two Art History so I made an appointment to see him in the rooms in Kings and the porter told me to go up to the first floor of the Gibbs building which I did and there's 'M Jaffé' on the board so I pressed the bell and a voice deep within this suite of rooms said [imitates] 'Come in!' so I went in and I then knocked on what looked like a likely door which proved to be the toilets and his room was down the far right hand end of the corridor and I knocked on the door and he said [imitates] 'Come in' and he was sitting at a kind of Louis Quinze [Louis XV] desk in the corner with his eyebrows sort of ascending, and he said 'Sit down' and I looked round and there were no chairs I could sit on they were all museum quality chairs and you know I'd only ever seen these with ropes across them, so I eventually chose a settee which looked like the least damageable of them and sort of sunk in a sea of cushions and eventually came to the surface and I said I'd like to do Art History Part Two and he said 'I think you'd better' [laughs]. There was a bit more to it than that afterwards but that was more or less it and I think he'd seen me lurking in the back of the lectures and he thought he'd got this scruffy oik who's there he might as well get credit for as one of his students. Yeah Michael was another individualist a bully as well. He didn't bully me particularly but like John Pope-Hennessy, they were fairly lordly people they had private resources they had a natural air of being better than the rest of the crowds so they certainly weren't democrats in the Peter Murray sense.


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In fairness, not all Democrats are nodding their heads in sympathy with the paranoid style in American politics, displayed during the healthcare debate this summer by misinformed white people shaking their fists in the air at protests and town hall meetings to the media's delight.
But the Blue Dogs in the House are. And more significantly, so are their conservative Democratic counterparts in the Senate.
And while it's bad enough that Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Evan Bayh and the rest of the Senate "Democratic Republican" Caucus are caving to irrational teabagger concerns about, sigh, "socialism" and a looming "government takeover" of healthcare, what's even worse is that the rest of the Democrats, including those in the White House, are in turn caving to Baucus and company.
The increasingly likely result: Watered-down legislation that may or may not be better than nothing, depending on the final structure by which low- and middle-income workers will be rendered captive customers, forced to pay more than they can afford to health insurance companies whose first and highest priority is not providing coverage but collecting premiums.
Does it have to be this way?
When legislators from his own party were balking on an item Ned Ray McWherter wanted, the former governor and House speaker of Tennessee would (or so the story goes) bring them into his office and point to picture of a bulldozer or some other piece of highway equipment, and ask them to identify the picture. It's a bulldozer, the problem pol would say. That's right, McWherter would answer – adding that the legislator should take a good look because he was never going to see one in his district ever again.
Obama still has his BlackBerry. Maybe he should transmit some images of heavy equipment to the mobile phones of Democratic Senate balkers like Delaware's Tom Carper, Nebraska's Ben Nelson, the Arkansas tandem of Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln or Indiana's terminally ambitious Evan Bayh. Then, when the senators ask what's up with the pictures of road graders, Obama could invite them to over to the White House for a little "explanation".
Or maybe Louisiana's Mary Landrieu should start thinking about how she is going to explain to her oil and gas masters that since she is bowing to the ignorant rage and racism of her most benighted and irrational constituents, the administration will no longer pay any attention to her tireless efforts to shelter the petroleum industry. Offshore oil producers will no doubt agree that paying higher federal mineral royalties is but a small price to pay to forestall imaginary socialised medicine.
Merely acknowledging the existence of Joe Lieberman is a loathsome act, and endeavouring to speculate as to what specific project or policy might be used to leverage his position is probably fruitless. Fathoming what might motivate a perverse, mercurial, untrustworthy changeling can be so difficult, no? Why, even the threat of removing him from his greatly undeserved chairmanship of the homeland security and government affairs committee, which serves as a standing affront to dignity and decency, might not be enough to prompt Lieberman to budge on healthcare reform – it would just give him something else to cry about on Sean Hannity's show.
Having said that, Lieberman does seem like the sort who would fold like a cheap suit if told to be very, very quiet so as to not disturb any of the real senators while moving all of his stuff from his spacious duplex suite in the Hart Office Building down to the broom closet in the basement.
Kent Conrad modestly plays down his attendance at the exclusive Exeter Academy, preferring instead to remind his constituents that he is just another "fifth-generation North Dakotan". And given his heartfelt love and regard of farmland custom and culture, perhaps Conrad could be persuaded to end his crusade against the public option if he woke up one morning next to the head of a large farm animal. It's just an idea.
Granted, basing a legislative strategy entirely on threats, cajoling and intimidation in the form of beheaded ungulates might be ill-advised. But some indication that even a little bit of that was going on would be encouraging.
Instead, Obama and Senate majority leader Harry Reid (a man utterly devoid of progressive instincts who would be standing arm in arm with his obstructionist Democratic colleagues if not in the leadership), are just throwing in the towel to a few corporate shills, er senators, who nobody has ever heard of from mostly lightly populated states.
Well, Obama and the rest of the Democrats must think they know best.
But Democrats should also know that while compromise may earn the support from timid, wavering colleagues in their own party, America's forces of ignorant outrage aren't going to stop hurling hare-brained lies and hate-driven distortions just because Democrats pull back from a public option. In fact, compromise won't even stem the criticism from the conservative Democrats. They will scurry back to their constituents and boast that if not for them applying the brakes to those darned "liberal" Democrats in Washington, there would have been a "government takeover" of the nation's healthcare system.
It's a clownish statement of course. Even if the Democrats enacted a bill with a public option and generous subsidies funded by progressive taxation, America's healthcare system would still be the most profit-driven in the developed world.
But Baucus, Conrad and their ilk have about as much regard for the facts as the town hall shouters. And the latter appear to be wielding as much influence with congressional Democrats as the Obama administration – if not more.


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If there was any a foster cat that mom and her family loved more... it was me. She tried so hard to not get attached, but I won her heart over big time. In her world, I was the perfect kitty, and yet nagging at her heart she also knew that I was the most ignored one because I was so perfect and not so much needy as the others.
I could not go to adoption events because I was too shy, and because my foster mom loved me so much she never listed me on her Petfinder account. Then one day my destined new owner phoned her about a kitty she had listed on Petfinder, a short haired, stray orange & white kitty. He said that what he was really looking for was a Maine Coon. After speaking with this person for awhile, foster mom finally confessed that she had me.... what sounded like a perfect match.
With huge tears in her eyes and a hole in her heart, she agreed to adopt me into my new forever home. It was such a heartbreaking day for us both.
Within no time at all, foster mom knew in her heart that she had made the right decision. I totally clicked with my new dad and was more happy than I had ever been with her.
Thank You to all who stopped by on my special day. ~hugs~ I appreciate each one of you!
Headbonks & Love,
Spunky - A King at Last
*Foster mom has no kitties listed on her Petfinder account today..... as there are none left for adoption!!! She considers this a victory! Twenty-five plus cats have come and have been adopted into their forever homes, and all that remain are her forever cats.... Lil' Muppet, Nakita, Sampson & Chico. xoxo* I'm so grateful that I was rescued and found my forever & loving home!! *purrs*
Dear Diary,
I've been doing really well at my new home. I even have a new name! I am now known as Satchmo. Even though I know what it stands for, 'one who jabbers a lot', I still respond to it quite well. *hee, hee*
My new sister, Mui, became very ill and Dad tried his best to have the doctors here and in Las Vegas find out what was ailing her. Sadly it turned out she had a tumor in her belly and about a week ago Dad and the doc helped Miss Mui take her journey to the Bridge. *sad purrs* Dad says that Mui had 15 wonderful years with him, but I know that he's sad and 15 years just didn't feel long enough.
Dad and I are looking for a new addition to our home now. Not to replace Mui, but so that I am not the only furry kid around here. I went from living with Muppet and several other kitties to living with just one other, and now I'm the only one. Somehow this feels quite odd. My foster mom is going to keep her eyes and ears open to find me another brother or sister that will fit right in with Dad and me. *purrs*
Dad had been so busy trying to help Mui that he didn't have time to send foster mom pictures to update my room with. He promised that he will now work on getting some sent to her so she can put them up. :)
Hope everyone is having a nice Memorial Day weekend. I'm stretched out flat on my back just relaxing and spending time with my wonderful Dad. Thanks for all of the yummy food that has been left in my room! Yum, yum! *purrs of thanks to Catster and my friends*
Headbonks & Love,
Spunky - a king at last
Dear Diary,
I'm stunned and I don't quite know what to say! Cat of the Day, WOW! Thank you HQ for this honor and thank you so much to all who have kindly stopped by my room to say congrats! I will paw out my appreciation to each of you later this evening! *huge hugs to you all*
Foster mom has tried to contact my dad today but so far has not had any luck. He does visit my room, so he's going to be thrilled to see that not only has he made it possible for me to be king of my own castle, but now kindly Catster's has made me their king for an entire day! Thank you, thank you, thank you to all!
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With Capitalists Like Jim Cramer, Who Needs Socialists?
Or as Martin Wolf explains in his most recent column in tomorrow's Financial Times:
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"Not so Jim Cramer, hedge fund manager and television pundit, who declared last Friday that chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke,"is being an academic!...My people have been in this game for 25 years. And they are losing their jobs and these firms are going to go out of business, and he's nuts! They're nuts! They know nothing!...The Fed is asleep."
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Cramer represents a long-lived strain of Wall Streeters for Big Government. He almost seems free-market-oriented though, compared to a rag like Investor's Business Daily, which routinely alternates between shilling for the Fed to come to the rescue of Wall Street, and screaming (in the most blood curdling way) for more war in Iraq and elsewhere.
(It almost makes the War Street Journal look like a bunch of flower-throwing pacifists, if you can believe it.)
Then there are all sorts of capitalists like Warren Buffett (and recently Bill Gross) wishing Congress would raising taxes, both income and estate taxes.
There was a great letter in the WSJ today by a writer criticizing Gross, who pointed out that the government would just waste the money on ear marks. Nothing is keeping these guys from donating money to the Treasury.
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Do not most novel's set in wartime send an anti-war message? It seems that only historians or biographers glorify war. Because they record the human experience with all its pathos, most literary works decry the horrors of war.
Clearly, Hemingway does anything but glorify war as himself experienced these horror first-hand. He, too, was part of the disillusioned generation of the World Wars.
Hemingway's novel makes a strong anti-war statement through Lt. Frederick Henry. As the officer in charge of an Italian ambulance corps, Frederick serves on the front in the thick of battle.
Hemingway's descriptions of combat are unsparing in their intensity. Chaos, fear, suffering, and death permeate his prose. In Chapter Nine, Frederick is seriously wounded, shelled by a trench mortar. He can't move. He hears crying and screaming. His legs feel warm and wet. Blood fills his shoes. Frederick tells the reader, "[I] put my hand on my knee. My knee wasn't there." He adds, "[M]y knee was down on my shin."
Despite his injuries, Frederick tries to save his friend Passini whose legs have been blown away. Before dying in agony, Passini screams and prays and begs to be shot. Frederick's horror continues in the ambulance that carries him from the battle. The soldier lying on the stretcher above Frederick's hemorrhages to death, his blood first streaming--then slowly dripping--onto Frederick below.
Hemingway's depiction of the Italian's chaotic retreat from Caparetto further emphasizes the horror. Frederick loses his ambulances and can't save his men. When he is about to be shot by Italian carabinieri, in a terrible ironic error, Frederick deserts, but he cannot leave behind all that he has seen and experienced. In A Farewell to Arms, war is not noble, and war never ends.
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