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WINGS, PRAYERS, AND THE COSMIC COMIC CONSPIRACY
July 25, 2018 by Ben Ackerman 4 Comments
Wings, prayers and the cosmic comic conspiracy
Lately at home we've been invaded by wings. Chicken wings, that is. It's my fault. They've been on sale and I can't resist a bargain. But beyond that, I just find them to be a good, easy-to-make food you can cook a million ways.
My wife is less enthralled with what we've come to call 'wing season' around here, and almost seemed relieved by our recent nine-day halachic hiatus.
There may well be a way to tell which wings in a given package are 'right' wings and which are 'lefts', but I have yet to discover it. Far easier is it to discern what qualifies as politically left or right wing—or so I thought until recently.
Certainly here in Israel it seems to revolve mostly around issues of security vis-à-vis the Arabs. Although once they get into power, the so-called 'right wing' politician and his 'left wing' counterpart, tend to behave essentially the same, the only difference being that which one does with a smile on his face, the other does with a frown.
In America, where there exists (at least the illusion of) more existential breathing room, the two 'wings' tend to spread out more and take on a broader ideological spectrum.
Simply put, if I had to pigeonhole (pun somewhat intended) I'd say that the right wing emphasizes values—or, what 'should' be, while the left wing stresses vision—or, what 'could' be.
Now we Jews are smart enough to know that a bird needs two healthy wings to fly, and the Torah is, in my opinion, unique in that it presents a way of life with both vision and values in abundance. The two not competing, but complementary, avoiding the inevitable imbalance of a secular approach, be it right leaning, or left.
But even this cursory distinction between the two wings shrinks when we step back and focus on how the non-Jewish socio-political left and right wings actually conspire to mislead people and prevent them from approaching and appreciating the truth of the Torah.
To illustrate, think of the classical comedy teams (Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, etc). Generally these consist of a 'straight man' and a 'fool'.
The straight man's job is to serve as a set-up for the fool to bounce off of. This is often accomplished by the straight man portraying a caricature of accepted mores and values, emphasizing their weak points and hypocrisies, which the 'fool' wryly pounces upon, spoofs, or otherwise picks apart, rendering the previously respectable straight man foolish, and himself winkingly wise. (Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont, being a textbook example).
On the surface, the straight man and the fool seem to be at odds, antagonistic toward each other, but in fact, the two are in cahoots, reading out of the same script. They are both in fact letzim (mockers), simply pulling off their letzonus in different ways.
So how did we get from food, to politics, to comedy—you might well be asking? Let me explain.
The Torah presents a pure, clear, God given morality (or values, as we like to call it today). The political left (beginning from the so-called 'enlightenment') has been at war against these values and the curtailment of unrestrained selfish desire fulfillment they mandate.
But to mock and attack the truth directly would yield them little, so they teamed up with a 'straight man'—the non-Jewish religious right. These latter present (or misrepresent) Torah-originated values and outlooks, distorting them based on their ancestors' millennia-old distortions.
These simplistic distortions, coupled with the blatant hypocrisy of many of their high-profile practitioners, serve to create a perfect 'foil' for the left-wing 'fools' to mock. "See, there is your traditional values and religion!…How ridiculous!…(and it is, as the right-wing straight man/letz presents it)…So chuck it all and be free!"
This 'Cosmic Comic Conspiracy' really is a very slick and professional comedy team. Only its results are a far from laughing matter, as it poisons and prejudices people's minds and has practically closed the door to any of our attempts to fulfill our mission of relating the message that a life of true God given values, far from being silly, is sublime.
Is there any way out of this cynical cycle?
You tell me.
Filed Under: Inner work, Non-Fiction, the spiritual dimension
About Ben Ackerman
'Open when you are' is the debut novel of Ben Ackerman, available as a Kindle book on Amazon for $2.99.
Esther Cameron says
Shalom Ben, it's good to see this piece here. During Elul while we do personal teshuva maybe we could also be thinking about what's happening to the state of Israel, "the beginning of the growth of our redemption."
OK, I'll try.
A bit of analysis to start. I think the development you describe has two causes. First, the modern Jewish settlement in Israel has been dominated by people who really are not interested in Torah, in fact they are hostile to it. They don't want all that medieval stuff, they just want to live in a country where they aren't a minority, so they can do what they please. That's why the government is so hostile to the settlers in Judea and Samaria, that may be part of why Gush Katif was uprooted, because those places are/were strongholds of a loyalty grounded in Torah, and that outweighed the obvious security interests that would be served by supporting those communities. In the first years these people had a certain nationalist loyalty, but now they are mostly into their own careers which are largely supported from abroad, and if the pursuit of those careers involves gross or subtle betrayals of their country, well, that's the price. You see this rot in too many places, including among some people who purport to be religious.
The second cause is the power of the media. Some wise person said that freedom of the press is available only to him who owns one. With the growth and increasing sophistication of the media, two things have happened. First, the price of communication has gone up. I don't know if you remember when a typewriter ribbon cost $1.50 and lasted for a year or so. Now you have to pay for toner which costs tens of times as much, and that is just a tiny start – you've got to pay for all the computer technology, the graphic design, the marketing which has become a science. No one can be elected to public office, or stay in office, without massive and ongoing efforts to raise money. This places more and more control in the hands of people who have money to contribute, and those people are preponderantly not friendly to Torah or to Israel. And second, the media grab a lot of the attention people used to give to one another in face-to-face communication. The attention of the masses is riveted on images of people who are lying to them 24/7. This has a dissolving effect on all normal human relations, and certainly on any impulse to come together for any serious purpose.
There is one potential bright spot in this picture, and that's the Internet. It allows lines of communication to be established at a relatively low cost, and so it could conceivably become the platform for a significant Torah-based resistance movement. But there are problems with this medium that would need to be addressed: how to establish trust, how to get people to take communication through this channel seriously in the absence of traditional social controls, how to resist the pull of distraction in all directions and concentrate on the task of forming a movement, a task force.
Well, first of all, we need some modern Maccabees – a small group of people resolved to make a start. I've often wished I had the talent for writing fiction – I'd write a Utopian novel with this theme (hint hint…). Meanwhile, I'm writing this as a comment on your article rather than submitting it as a separate article, because I'd like to see started among us a continuous thought process, a connecting of the dots.
May we hear of good things and with G-d's help make some good things happen.
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Rivka Levy says
[Posted on behalf of Ben Ackerman, who does not use the internet]
Thank you for the comment/article. I agree with much of what you say – I like the line about 'freedom of the press'.
Anyone who read my book knows what I think about the media. Without getting into politics and policy, one hugely positive outcome of the Trump era is that it has once and for all smashed the myth of media objectivity. That 'sheep's clothing' with which those most ferocious of wolves cloaked themselves to repel all criticism and critical analysis of their underlying motives, has been ripped off of them and will not easily be restored. (Interesting, as I write this, an image I once conjured of the secular Zionists as 'sheep in wolves' clothing' as they bluffed the notion that the Jews were just any other nation, comes to mind. But this is certainly a topic of its own – and I did say I wanted to avoid politics.)
How to 'fight back'? At this point I am baffled. I truly thought my book was going to hit the world as, if not a bunker-busting bomb, at least an attention-getting opening salvo. But, allowing for the fact that H' can do anything and His timing isn't ours, so far it has failed to detonate, or even really leave its launcher. The world is so distracted nowadays; so fiercely committed to numbing itself to escape its own feeble and distorted self-concept, that I don't know if there is anything we can do anymore to get their attention in a serious way. Especially as the message we have to sell, while one of joy, meaning, and reality, is certainly not one of ease and comfort.
Does that mean give up? I'd say no, but I really can't solidly justify my answer. Maybe the best way I saw the dilemma stated was by the 17th (?) century Chinese poet, Chuang Tzu:
…great truths do not interest the multitudes,
and now that the world
is in such confusion,
even though I know the Path,
how can I guide?
I know I cannot succeed
and that trying to force results
I shall merely add to the confusion.
Isn't it better to give up and
stop striving?
But then, if I do not strive,
who will?
So maybe that's the answer. If we don't maintain a resistance – if we don't whatever little we can to continue to fight H's battles in the face of unfathomable odds – who will?
Shalom Ben, thank you for your reply. The poem by Chuang Tzu is beautiful. How good to know that on the other side of the world, someone was thinking these thoughts.
"How to fight back?" First off, if it's any comfort, you are not the first person who wrote a book (in your case "Open When You Are") which he or she thought would change the world, but…. it seems to me I've heard that refrain many, many times, from the prophets through Dante Alighieri (anyone here ever read the DC?) through many many recent writers to you and me (my own best shot was a blank verse epic entitled "The Consciousness of Earth"). I totally, totally identify with the following sentences:
"The world is so distracted nowadays; so fiercely committed to numbing itself to escape its own feeble and distorted self-concept, that I don't know if there is anything we can do anymore to get their attention in a serious way. Especially as the message we have to sell, while one of joy, meaning, and reality, is certainly not one of ease and comfort."
However, the answer to the question "Does that mean give up?" is another question: "Is there something we haven't tried yet?" I think there is. And this is something I have been trying to get across since 1971. I may die banging my head against a stone wall. But here is one more thud.
Let me quote almost the last poetic words of my – rebbe? guru? mentor? –a rather disreputable character named Paul Celan, a non-frum interim survivor of the Shoah whose words propelled me out of the world of Western lit toward – well, let me translate:
Crocus, seen
from the hospitable table,
tiny exile,
sensitive to signs,
of a common
each leaf.
That poem was published posthumously in 1976. The year before, going by what I'd understood from the work published in his lifetime, I'd written a poem called "Invitation" – it's posted on Sasson here – which talks about "a sanctuary for the common mind" and ends:
How many years? How many lives? We do not know,
But each shall bring a thread.
Having written that, I took "Crocus" as confirmation that I had indeed understood something Celan was trying to convey. Paul Celan is no great name in the Torah world, and I guess for good reason; but "Invitation" reminded an Orthodox rabbi of HaRav Kook, and thus I was introduced to HaRav Kook's writings.
"A common truth." It seems both very simple and impossible, very close and very far away. In Peter Beagle's fantasy novel "The Last Unicorn" – have you read that? there is a song with the line: "What is true no two men know." And yet (this song is sung by one of the villains, a witch who hypnotizes the audience into despair) there are things that two, and more than two of us know. Those sentences from your article which I quoted – this is something that you and I and probably just about everyone reading this, do know.
The nut I have been trying to crack for nearly half a century is: Why don't people build on what they do know in common? Actually, I think have figured out why. It is not rocket science. The difficulty is getting people to acknowledge the dynamic and push against it. If I've been seeing straight, this is the kind of teshuvah that is most needed at this point.
I see two patterns, one literary and one political, that interfere with such construction. Since we're both authors I will tackle the literary one first.
As the literary vocation has configured in Western society – and insofar as orthodox Jews write in Western genres, this applies to us – each author of a Book tends to create a self-enclosed world, organized by its own vision, attracting its own readership, and not tightly connected (despite footnotes and "intertextuality") with other such worlds. Authors, in fact, often avoid acknowledging their connections with other authors (or even avoid reading them altogether), wishing to be seen as "original." Harold Bloom, whose 1973 book "The Anxiety of Influence" crystallized this understanding for me, calls the poet who conceals or distorts his influences the "strong" poet. It sounds like what I've heard about the World of Tohu, in which the sefirot were all very strong but were not arranged in any order, each one said "I will reign and no other," so the whole shebang collapsed.
In a long treatise called "The Web of What Is Written" I analyzed this with respect to the novel. But the pattern can also be seen in nonfiction books that attempt to call attention to some social problem. They're almost all alike in their structure – I can't think of an exception at the moment. Most of each book is devoted to the problem and its causes. In the final section, usually very short, the author begins to address what "we" should do about it. The question is seldom asked how this "we" is to be formed, and the reader is not given much opportunity for interaction with the writer, for continuing development of the suggestions. Sometimes they give a website where readers can post comments, but I have yet to see an extended and in-depth dialogue take place on such sites (I've tried). In the past there have been authors who responded seriously to readers, but I haven't observed this phenomenon recently.
The root of the problem seems to be the impulse to claim an utterance, and whatever truth it may contain, as "property." It is something that is getting worse; recent "intellectual property" laws are a serious barrier to the exchange of thoughts. But it has always been there. Harold Bloom quotes a seventeenth-century philosopher (Vico) to the effect that "poetry is property."
The notion of "intellectual property" is very different from the principle that "He who says a thing in the name of the one who said it brings deliverance to the world." In fact it's the opposite. Those who want to claim truth as their property conceal their debts to others and obscure the light of general understanding; those who say a thing in the name of the one who said it act as channels through their human source to the Source.
What is the solution? In my first reply to your article I suggested that we need a group of "modern Maccabees." In the case of writers, I think this would mean a chavurah of poets and writers who acknowledge a common vision. Like Bob Dylan once said, "I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours." They would produce not isolate works but a continuous text, with different highlights and foci of course. Letters are a good vehicle for this – also, oddly enough, sonnets; in its first generations the sonnet was often "dialogic." The Internet, whatever else it is, is a possible platform for such a literature (see my earlier Sasson post "So Why Are We On the Internet, Anyway?").
I hope this also begins to answer the question how we can regain the attention of the distracted public. Perhaps we are now somewhat in the situation of parents who haven't decided on a unified approach to raising their children, so neither has much authority. We writers stand, I guess, for the importance of the inner life. If a few of us could be observed standing together for this, it might draw an attention which no one of us can command.
The second pattern I want to address – since you did touch on politics in your article – is political. You've surely observed that people on the whole are much more sane than their political representatives. In "The Consciousness of Earth" I described this as follows (if presently not attuned to poetic language, scroll down to where I paraphrase):
The Individual Mind: it sees, it grasps,
today, the image of a common task
(though as yet unresolved to such detail
that would show every I its own assignment);
but it is all our sorrow since we woke
into awareness under Time's command
that Premonition, which can speak so clearly
within the chambers of the isolate heart,
seems for the most part powerless to convoke
those isolate who hear it; they instead
run out to where the thoughtless bugle sounds,
or haggle with each other for what all
have lost before the bargaining began.
Just at the point where urgency compels
our thought to leave its ivory cell in search
of kindred thought and covenant and deeds
devised to common end, it seems to yield,
go blind, and take an unenvisioned way,
swept onward by the logic of division,
now senselessly contending in a tongue
no other understands, now joined with others
in hasty compacts that preclude true thought,
till all at last in unison declare
there is no common truth.
The sociologist Irving Janis coined the term "groupthink." When people get together they tend to discard the subtleties of their individual perceptions and adopt simplistic platforms that distinguish their group from others. The loyalty to these half-truths is the mortar of group cohesion and precludes dialogue with those who have collectively adopted some opposing half-truth. HaRav Kook addresses this problem in "Orot HaTechiyah" (a text I study intensively). He notes that collectives are more bound to teva, have less freedom, than individuals; and in chapter 18 he feelingly analyzes the situation in which three factions – the religious, the nationalist, and the universalist – oppose one another and empty themselves out by getting stuck in attack mode, instead of seeing their respective concerns as parts of a whole and working out the relationships among them.
Here, I think, the "modern Maccabees" would need to be a group of individuals united in the determination to resist this dynamic, to go on thinking as individuals but to try to coordinate their thinking. I think they would have to share some basic substantive premises, parallel to the three factions HaRav Kook identifies; they would have to agree that we need to keep on keeping the 613; that Israel needs to do what it needs to do in order to survive; and that we need to keep thinking on behalf of the whole world, and in particular about the economic inequality which technology is exacerbating. We can't really start building unless these three principles are considered as settled. For the time being there is no use in arguing with those who don't accept them; we need to concentrate on working out their implications.
We need, however, not only to agree on substance; we need to agree on a form. Many people see form as confining; a poet knows it as energizing. The physicist and poet Chaim Sokolik z"l once said that living the Orthodox Jewish life is like living inside a great poem. I'm hoping that the form I'm suggesting fits into our great poem; it's a variation on the plan suggested by Yitro to Moshe. According to this form, people who accept the above three premises would form groups of ten, each of which would choose a representative, and the representatives would form groups of ten, and so on. If enough people participated, maybe at the top of this structure we'd find Moshe Rabbeinu. In any case it would allow for an exchange of perceptions that would circumvent the media on the one hand, and the political demolition derby, on the other. People who are serious about Israel's and humankind's survival would figure out together what needs to be done, and then, be'ezrat ha-Shem, pull in enough people to make the solutions operative.
Obviously this is just "on one foot." Many logistics problems would need to be solved, to say nothing of the spiritual, emotional and intellectual discipline that would be required. But I think a "chavurah" of writers could be a kind of pilot project.
Let me suggest, to you and anyone reading this, a first step: Print out the "Invitation" (below). Find a quiet time and place. Read the poem to yourself. Then close your eyes, take some deep breaths, and try to envision yourself as one of the "we" of the poem. What does this make you think of/see in your mind? How does it make you feel? If you came to such a meeting, what would you bring to it? With all this in mind, can you write a poem saying in depth and in detail, "Count me in"?
To go back to your language, Ben, I know that the course of action I am suggesting would not be one of "ease and comfort"; but I believe it would be one of "joy, meaning, and reality."
With prayers
We gather here to see
faces from which we need not hide our face,
to hear the sound of honest speech, to share
what dreams have etched upon the sleeping brain,
what the still voice has said, when heavy hours
plunged us to regions of the mind and life
not mentioned in the marketplace: to find
and match the threads of common destinies,
designs grimed over by our thoughtless life —
A sanctuary for the common mind
we seek. Not to compete, but to compare
what we have seen and learned, and to look back
from here upon that world where tangled minds
create the problems they attempt to solve
by doubting one another, doubting love,
the wise imagination, and the word.
For, looking back from here upon that world,
perhaps ways will appear to us, which when
we only struggled in it, did not take
counsel of kindred minds, lay undiscovered;
perhaps, reflecting on the Babeled speech
of various disciplines that make careers,
we shall find out some speech by which to address
each sector of the world's fragmented truth
and bring news of the whole to every part.
We say the mind, once whole, can mend the world.
To mend the mind, that is the task we set.
How many years? How many lives? We do not know;
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As the lead singer of the popular Southern California rock band "The Tijuana Dogs", Matt Mauser has been entertaining audiences with his unique style since the late 90′s. As the Tijuana Dogs grew in popularity, the band was often asked to perform at weddings, corporate parties, and events that required a more sophisticated style of music. It was during that time when Matt fell in love with the music of Frank Sinatra. Mesmerized by Sinatra's smooth voice and unequaled phrasing, Matt memorized the subtleties in each song Frank sang.
In 2005, Matt Mauser and Pete Jacobs were introduced by "The Tijuana Dogs" guitar player Dave Murdy. Dave was performing double duty playing in Pete's big band "Wartime Radio Revue" and with "The Tijuana Dogs". In 2011, Matt approached Pete with the idea of starting a Frank Sinatra tribute band. Pete, without hesitation said, "Let's do it!". They immediately went to work charting music, recording vocals, and rehearsing with the big band. Their collaboration captures Sinatra at the height of his career when singing with The Count Basie Orchestra at The Sands hotel in Las Vegas. Matt's vocal style and Pete's genius as a conductor are a tribute to the two greats coming together.


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It's hard to be objective when it comes to such a subjective thing like beer. We're all driven by our own preferences and tastes mapped out by sensory experiences of flavor and aroma. Things are good and bad, sought after whales and shelf turds. Beer is an experiential good and our exposure varies on time of day, mood, company and more.
But there are still plenty of cold, hard facts that factor into the social, cultural and business side of beer, which is why this week's guest is a special one for me.
Bart Watson deals with numbers. Truthful, verifiable, factual data. As one of only several economists who work within the beer industry, it's his job to offer context and insight into what's changing, and often, what's to come. His logical and well-cited reason is regularly seen on the Brewers Association website and increasingly in media around the country. When some may be focusing on the hot take du jour, Bart can be found writing a blog post or interacting on Twitter with calculated answers. And it's about beer.
As the BA was preparing to kickoff the Great American Beer Festival in early October, I sat down with Bart inside the Colorado Convention Center to geek out, talking about the new challenges within the beer market, including price points, marijuana use, distribution and more. With thousands of people scurrying around the building ready to celebrate craft beer, it was exciting to take a fittingly calm moment to evaluate the state of the industry and where beer lovers should be looking in 2018.
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Home Football Dooley Noted: Colorado State a Must Win for Florida
Dooley Noted: Colorado State a Must Win for Florida
Dooley talks about the hangover for Gator fans from losing to Kentucky and how the upcoming game against Colorado State is a must win game that could make or break the season, guest interview Kelly Lyell from The Coloradoan.
Breakdown:
00:34 Loss to Kentucky has changed the view of Florida
03:30 Want to be football players of want to play football
07:30 About Colorado State
10:00 How Gators may react
17:20 Interview with Kelly Lyell from The Coloradoan
29:00 Games to watch this week
30:30 Three Things
Dan Mullen
Feleipe Franks
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Todd S September 13, 2018 At 6:00 pm
This is the saddest headline about Florida football in my lifetime.
Tailorjacobson September 13, 2018 At 7:40 pm
Yeah and it's not really true. If they lose so what. Nothing's is gonna happen – Florida football is kinda irrelevant
vulcan alex September 13, 2018 At 6:41 pm
I agree but not just a must win, it is a must dominate in all phases of the game. They beat Ark, we must beat them.
Rocketman September 13, 2018 At 8:54 pm
Tailorjacobson. Florida football has been irrelevant for most of its existence, save the Spurrier and Meyer years. Even then, Spurrier had losing records against our main in-state rivals.
But that doesn't mean we can't be relevant again — and we will. It'll just take more time than we all anticipated. Mullen is the guy, but he's cleaning up a huge, huge mess.
mtn2top September 13, 2018 At 8:03 pm
Not hyperbole. It's a must win for any hope of a winning season.
A win by any means is a win.
DFF September 13, 2018 At 10:05 pm
Spurrier never made up excuses for poor play. Take Spurrier's advice Coach Mullen.
On SiriusXM, Spurrier says "Gators need to play better instead of saying it's going to take time. No, no we got players that didn't play well and the coaches need to get on to them. The guys need to play better. That's the answer."
Not really a must win—fla has no chance to be good anyway so losing this game would just indicate how bad they really are.
Joe September 14, 2018 At 8:19 am
No actually it is a must win simply for the sake of quieting down all the negative Nacy's with ridiculous expectations that litter this fan base. Although they'll still find something to complain about even after a win. Winning any game also goes a long way towards helping recruiting.
Smith September 14, 2018 At 9:30 am
gelco30 September 13, 2018 At 10:42 pm
Wow, we lost to a Tucky team that just may be good, and it's ledge time for many of the posters here. Win or lose, it's football season, enjoy it! We wait 8 months for it. (PS, I went to UF and love my Gators, this is my mantra to keep from beating my wife).
David Williamson September 13, 2018 At 11:37 pm
Spurrier is correct. SO Mullen, tell the starters 100% effort 100% of the time or they sit. I would rather watch 2nd and 3rd teamers work like hell to get better and lose than watch the crap that was in our stadium last Saturday. If the starters don't have the talent to play or want to play with Kentucky then we need not worry about the SEC east. Let the young guys who want to do it right play and lets have fun watching these kids grow up. Coach Mullen needs to make sure the parents of the 4 and 5 star kids who do it right are willing to let their sons come play for the greatest university in the SEC… The U of F!
CJ September 14, 2018 At 12:33 am
I believe in this coaching staff. I do not think we could have made a better choice. Does anyone now think Chip Kelly would have been a better call? With that said, it is stunning to believe that the University of Florida is this mediocre in football. Who do we put this on? Meyer? Mus? McElwain? I do not agree that Mus is the scapegoat for this, he had an amazing D and got us closer to a title of relevance than any other coach in this past decade. I'm starting to wonder now if 8 wins is now the new standard at UF, given how the game has changed in the conference and the college sport altogether. I hope I am wrong, but maybe its possible that our program has moved back to the point where it existed for most of modern history. A team with flashes of greatness, but not enough talent nor opportunity to move to the first tier of relevance. I hope our best days are not behind us. But, I think a lot of fans in Knoxville are asking that exact same question. Sad time, not enough answers.
Gator-6 September 14, 2018 At 8:21 am
Hey CJ–I really do think scapegoating is more or less akin to taking a shower in a raincoat, especially when we've got an obvious situation right in front of us to deal with. To tell you the truth, I feel a pit in my stomach when I think of Florida football winding up for eternity the way some guys have already described it. A sick feeling, for sure — I mean, what if these naysayers are right and the rest of us are wrong? What then?
I get the sense you feel the same way — but I'd bet in your career you've had your back to the wall many times, things looked hopeless, and the doubts began to creep in just like they are now for us. But you applied ingenuity, hard work, and guts to turn it around, even when everybody else said it couldn't be done. This is really no different (altho a hell of a lot less important in the grand scheme of things). You said it all in your first line, "I believe in this coaching staff". Me too, it's all I got. I'm trying to not pay attention to the doom and gloom crowd that's already appeared, while at the same time trying to pluck out anything they say that may actually be relevant to a solution — pretty tricky sometimes. Just keep the faith, bud, it's not going to turn out in the end like they say, it's just going to take a little longer than we made ourselves believe. Go Gators!
Yeah Muschamp certainly deserves some of the blame for this. He focused too much on the defense and severely neglected the offense, which resulted in Mac focusing too much on the offense and severely neglecting the defense. Unfortunately Mac was horrible with the offense and after 7 years of lopsided recruiting, we now have a team that struggles on offense and defense.
Rocketman September 14, 2018 At 9:18 am
I do think Kelly would be our coach had he taken the job. It's fair to argue that Mullen is the best coach for the job, but I do believe Stricklin would've preferred Kelly or Frost. I like Mullen the best, but what do I know.
Gator-6 September 14, 2018 At 12:59 pm
What makes you think Kelly was actually offered the job?
Didn't have to be formally "offered" the job. My guess is the Kelly (or more likely his agent) gently declined when approached by Stricklan or other UF rep.
And who could blame Kelly. He's a west coast guy and likely overwhelmingly preferred the UCLA job. C'mon now, glamorous LA or little G'ville. Regardless, I really don't think he'd be a fit here, and am glad he passed.
By the way, I didn't have to ask ladies to be my girlfriend or marry me in order to get rejected. They were so repulsed early on that I never even got to ask! 🙂 Just sayin.
LOL……no,LMAO!
Grump E. Gator September 14, 2018 At 6:58 am
Wow, the decline of the football program at Florida: Colorado State is a "must win." We have reverted back to the 70's because of a previous administration's inaction. If there was any headline that needs to be posted on Scott Stricklin's office door so he sees it everyday, this is it. Next, it'll be Georgia Southern…..oh wait.
It's always darkest just before the storm. Or something like that.
It's really disappointing that Mullen's staff has not gotten through to these players – at all. They have had all spring and fall camps and conditioning all year. Plenty of time to get familiar with the playbook at least enough to play energized football, especially for experienced football players. They haven't done that. So far Mullen's staff has to consider this a coaching failure because the talent level while not great is still pretty good. Better than the talent of a Kentucky team that killed us on our own field. These guys look lazy, disinterested, lackadaisical, poor techniques (blocking and tackling) all of this is the target of coaching. Not saying we won't get there eventually, but we should be much further ahead in energy, drive, effort, skill, will to win. Basic coaching and buy-in of same. It just hasn't happened and it has taken far too long to get no results whatsoever. We should have beaten Kentucky but not with this poorly-coached, unfocused group of players. Mullen should be embarrassed at just how ineffective his staff have been so far.
Tuna, I won't go so far as to say he's casting his pearls before swine, because like you say there are some good kids on this team who are giving it their all. But the team does appear to have a malignancy of sorts, and my fear is that it relates to "character", which is why things have not changed much despite other positive changes. That word obviously draws fire, but it is fixable. Just takes more time than the coach may be given.
I think you need to look at his tenure at MSU to kind've get a gauge of what to expect with the progress. I know the Gators have far better talent than MSU had, but you also have to factor in the metal aspect of things. I think this program was run so poorly for 3 years that it resulted in a lazy team that lacks motivation. It's very difficult to completely flip that mental switch in less than a year. After only winning 4 games the year before Mullen took over, he won 5 games his first season trying to implement a completely new system. The team struggled to grasp all the concepts and took about over a year to pick it up, which resulted in 9 wins the second season. He's said all along it was going to take some time and they were going to slowly throw new concepts at them as they go. It's becoming blatantly obvious now how true that is. Same thing with the defense, it's going to be a slow process learning a completely new system.
gatorgi70x7 September 14, 2018 At 8:50 am
Gator Football is "in the toilet, officially" if they don't win this game (Col. St.). Not the type of verbiage I thought I'd see/read BEFORE the Tennessee game. That's all new for me. But U.F. being bad just takes me back to middle school in '79. I am not certain of anything pertaining to U.F. Football anymore, except this: Perine & Pierce and the receivers are the ones that will make plays. So I'd shovel them the ball, over and over. And play EVERY O-lineman that they have, expecting it to pay-off one day. One bright and sunny day for U.F. Football, when "the Lord smiles upon the Gators", again.
He is still smiling on us, GI. Gave us Mullen, didn't He? Could've sent us Kelly! Just a test, that's all.
Keep the faith.
Oh, the Lord is always "smiling," but it was used by Coach Spurrier on a COLD, BLUE SKY day in Jan. 1997. We were all "celebrating a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP" at the stadium. That's why I quoted him, Gator-6. Go Gators!
Gator-6 September 14, 2018 At 11:15 am
Roger that GI…..hang in there!
JIM September 14, 2018 At 9:17 am
We know Franks isn't the guy. I watched a replay of the game to see why the offense isn't producing and the main reason is QB play. He lacks the mental aspect of the game which puts us at a disadvantage. We can blame it on the O-line if we want they are playing soft but our QB can help by reading the defense before the ball is hiked. By reading the defense you can determine the match up advantage before the play is called. The run game then opens up because the opponents D plays more coverage rather than run stop. The passing game opens up because now coaches call what they want not what they feel like our QB can handle and understand. I've always said that the QB position is the most important player on the team! Until we put one out on that field that can do these things we will struggle…
mkfgator September 14, 2018 At 9:50 am
What the coach is saying publicly and thinking privately are two different things. I promise you if he had better players, he would start them. And that's true primarily for the offensive line and QB's. He doesn't. That's the hand he was dealt. They are trying. It is not some situation where the kids have not worked hard. They also have some talent. But playing football successfully takes more than talent. Skill is different than talent. "Talent" these days is all about your bench press and 40's time. The recruiting services look at your body: height, speed, strength. They are giving you stars based on how well you might do in the Olympics. Some of that translates to football. If that kid can develop football skills along with his body, yes. But if you are a specimen QB who can't make quick decisions and read defenses, you might as well throw a javelin in the Olympics. Be patient . This is a three year project.
Gregory Taylor September 14, 2018 At 7:42 pm
I had a difficult time listening to the podcasts this week and I didn't even finish the second one. It's weird that Pat was so negative about almost everything. Teams have bad weeks. Teams lose to teams that they are supposed to beat. It happens. After the first play, the gators didn't have their top 3 defensive players. That's big. Sure the rest of them couldn't tackle, but many of them couldn't tackle last year. Seems a little early too throw the baby out with the bath water. Let see how they do vs CSU and UT before me bury them.


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The Ministry of Defence have released a statement saying "Mother and baby are both in a stable condition," following the birth on Tuesday in Camp Bastion, Helmand province.
The woman, a Royal Artillery gunner who has not been named by the MoD, only learned she was about to give birth after complaining of stomach pains. The child was conceived before she arrived in Afghanistan in March. The baby was born five weeks prematurely.
In a statement, the MoD said: "It is not military policy to allow servicewomen to deploy on operations if they are pregnant. In this instance the MoD was unaware of her pregnancy."
A specialist paediatric team from Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital is to fly to Afghanistan in the next few days, the statement added, "in order to provide appropriate care for mother and baby on the flight home".The baby was born five weeks prematurely.
So-called denied, or undetected, pregnancies are rare but in some cases women do not show a bump and continue to have periods for the duration of the pregnancy. Research in Germany in 2002 found 25 out of 475 mothers did not realise they were pregnant until they went into labour.
At that time Mary Newburn, from the National Childbirth Trust, explained that some people simply refused to admit to themselves they were pregnant. Some younger women were not aware of the significance of the changes occurring to their bodies. "Most of us put on two or three stone (28-42lbs) while we are pregnant and by the end of pregnancy feel very much as though it is dominating our entire being, so it is difficult to imagine how anybody could get to the later stages of pregnancy and not realise it. But pregnancies do vary enormously, and particularly for bigger women the amount of weight they put on is less proportionately."


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MARY HAYASHI
Female Athletes Are Closing The Gender Gap When It Comes To Concussions
Published by admin on July 30, 2017
A recent NPR article by Jon Hamilton highlights the fact that, in terms of concussion, women are fast closing the gender gap.
Previously, one of the issues in understanding the gendered response to head injuries has been the lack of research into women's concussion.
"We classically have always known the male response to brain injury," says Mark Burns, at Georgetown University. But there have been remarkably few studies of females. The bias runs throughout the scientific literature, even in studies of mice.
"Male mice have been used historically in research and not really been compared to female mice," he says.
That's changing now. The National Institutes of Health recently began to require scientists to include female animals.
Burns' lab has begun using both sexes in research on head injuries. And they're finding some differences. This summer, Burns published a study in the journal Glia that looked at mice with severe brain injuries. He says the brains of male mice showed a massive immune response within a day, but the female response was much slower — up to seven days.
{Bridget Bennett for NPR} Mazany takes a break from her training. For the past six years, researchers have been looking for changes in blood work, brain scans and mental functioning in the fighters enrolled in their study. So far, Mazany's tests show her brain functioning hasn't been affected.
Dr Charles Bernick of the Cleveland Clinic – Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas runs a long-term study looking at concussion in approximately 700 male and 60 female mixed martial arts fighters. The study focuses on identifying changes in the brains of these fighters. Assessing these fighters offers his team a way to compare how each gender reacts to concussion and is of benefit in a sport where the goal is to knock someone out.
Dr Bernick believes the study's evidence suggests there is a real difference in the ways men and women react to head injuries.
"Women may be more likely to suffer concussion. Their symptoms may linger longer," he says. "The question is: Is that because women are just more likely to report injuries, or is there a biological higher vulnerability."
Researchers have suggested some reasons women might be more vulnerable. They tend to have weaker neck muscles. So a head impact might shake the brain more violently. And hormonal differences might affect the brain's response to an impact or injury.
Dr Bernick is hoping that the results of the study may shed light on the future prediction of neurodegenerative disease.
Read the full article at NPR.
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Why Does it Seem Like Nobody Cares About Female Concussion?
Women suffer more concussions than men in the sports that both play, with an injury rate 50 percent higher, according to the most recent research. Female athletes with brain trauma tend to suffer different symptoms, take longer to recover and hold back information about their injuries for different reasons than males.
Young Female Athletes More at Risk for Concussion Than Males: New Study Confirms Earlier Findings
The lead author of a new study, Dr. Wellington Hsu, has an important message for parents, coaches, and athletic trainers: "While American football has been both scientifically and colloquially associated with the highest concussion rates, our study found that girls, and especially those who play soccer, may face a higher risk."
Women's Sports Safety Initiative: an Interview with Founder Mary Hayashi
more research is needed to better understand how gender impacts the frequency and severity of concussions, why female athletes are so susceptible to sports-related brain injuries and how to better protect female athletes from these injuries. That's where the idea for the Women's Sports Safety Initiative came from. The Initiative is dedicated to advancing the lives of women and girls by raising awareness of sports-related injuries and the unique factors affecting women's susceptibility to and recovery from injury.


SCOTLAND'S FORMER FIRST MINISTER: "THE TRUMP RHETORIC IS OFFENSIVE, HIS PROGRAMME ABSURD AND HIS CONDUCT DANGEROUS"
Former Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond MP, has attacked Republican front-runner, Donald Trump, in the Presidential candidate's own backyard of New York City.
"It is perfectly legitimate for people round the planet to have a view on American politics. After all, American politicians, including the President himself, spoke freely about the Scottish referendum. In Mr Trump's case, he speaks about Scotland all the time. The task is to say something that might hit home.
"Therefore, it is this. It is not really the job of a Scottish or any European politician to make a choice between Deomcrat and Republican, or left and right. That is the task of the citizens of this Republic. However when asked to choose between sanity and insanity then it is not difficult to have a view.
"The Trump rhetoric is offensive, his programme absurd and his conduct dangerous. To describe his politics as that of the playground would be a slight to the standard of debate in playgrounds across America. Sooner rather than later the American people will put him back in his television box and out of the Presidential ballot. In particular, no self respecting Scots-American should countenance a Trump finger anywhere near the nuclear button."
Mr Salmond was speaking during Scotland Week, which commemorates the sealing of the Scotland's independence declaration, the Declaration of Arbroath on 6th April 1320. The Arbroath Declaration is thought to contain the first European enunciation of the concept of popular sovereignty. The US Senate has passed a resolution proclaiming that the day should be called "Tartan Day" to signify influence that the Arbroath Declaration had on America's own Declaration of Independence.
"The unionist London-based parties won the Scottish referendum of 2014, but they have lost the nation. The direction of travel in Scottish politics is set and the destination as certain as anything ever gets in politics. Timing is always difficult to determine. However, at some stage the circumstances will combine for the Scottish people to force a further vote and next time round the result will be a resounding Yes."
Notes: The American edition of Mr Salmond's referendum diary "The Dream Shall Never Die" is published by Harper Collins this week.


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Islamists Stall Gender Equality Bill
by Kafil Yamin (jakarta)
The fate of a gender equality bill pending in Indonesia's parliament and aligned with the United Nations convention on the elimination of all forms discrimination against women (CEDAW) has become uncertain after falling afoul of powerful Islamist groups.
No fewer than six major Islamic organisations have formally objected to the equality bill on the ground that some of its articles go against Islamic values in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation where 80 percent of its 238 million people are followers of the faith.
Organisations opposed to the bill include the influential Indonesian Ulema Council, the Indonesian Consultative Council for Muslim Women Organisations, Aisyiah, Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) and the Islamic Community Party.
Iffah Ainur Rochmah, spokeswoman for HTI, said after an important consultation with parliament's commission on religion and social affairs held on Mar. 16 that gender equality and policies that encourage women to seek employment could only lead to conflicts within marriages.
According to Rochmah, divorce rates among female teachers were high because 'wives with better earnings may feel superior to men leading to conflict.'
The bill goes against the grain of the Islamic Shariah law on inheritance which favours males. It also allows a man or a woman to freely choose a marriage partner regardless of religious persuasion and seeks to legalise homosexual or lesbian marriages.
Many ordinary women now accuse non-government organisations (NGOs) such as the international Women Against Shariah (WAS) for creating confusion in Indonesian society that has set notions about the place of men and women in it.
According to WAS, Shariah law imposes second class status on women and is incompatible with the basic principles of human rights that include equality under the law and the protection of individual freedoms.
'Indonesian women have no problems with men, but there is a tiny group of people which is out to create problems,' said Salwa Amira, a young Muslim woman who is an environmental consultant to a South Korean firm in Jakarta.
Amira said feminist groups and NGOs were promoting the bill. 'These are small groups of women who talk a lot,' she said. 'Their campaigns attract some women who happen to be going through some crisis.'
'Yes, some Indonesian women are excluded from job positions, but so are men,' said Muhammad Abas, a regional head of the country's religious affairs department. 'Sexual abuse, trafficking and labour conditions are not problems of gender, but of the law,' he added.
Some analysts believe that it is only a matter of time before the bill, originally due to have been passed on Apr. 15, becomes law. There is no official word on when it will be taken up again in parliament.
'The Indonesian government has already ratified CEDAW as government regulation in 1984,' Nining Widaningsih, a well-known commentator on women's affairs, told IPS. 'The bill is meant to amend this regulation, which still leaves a lot of disadvantages for women.'
The 2011-2015 United Nations Population Fund's programme in Indonesia has plans to address gender-based violence 'through improved policies and social protection systems, in alignment with the CEDAW, the International Conference on Population and Development's programme of action and national legislation.'
Indonesia's women empowerment and children protection ministry reports that the number of domestic violence cases has increased during the last two years - 105,103 cases in 2010 and 119,107 cases in 2011.
But, what irks many ordinary women is allegedly hyped up data on gender violence released by some NGOs. 'It's amazing how these NGOs can collect data so easily in a large and diverse country like Indonesia. We are a society that keeps domestic affairs out of public view,' Amira said.
Yeni Huriani, a lecturer at the State Islamic University of Bandung, says many NGOs have no credibility. 'Let's be honest, there are some NGOs who attempt to draw public attention by creating controversy and may possibly be trying to attract donor funds,' she said.
Recently an obscure NGO, Keadilan Jender dan Hak Asasi Manusia (Gender Justice and Human Rights) published a survey alleging that students of Islamic boarding schools in Central Java become the victims of sexual abuse by their teachers.
Although the survey did not cite any responsible teacher, student or manager of the Islamic school it found its way to the popular 'Solopos' tabloid, sparking outrage among the Muslim leaders, academics, and students.
'How can such unreliable information be spread among the public? Sadly, this is the kind of information that is used by feminist lobbyists to press their agenda,' Yeni said.
'This is the work of radical feminists who are fed by the West,' Kirana Andilycia, a housewife, commented in the Facebook group 'No to Gender Equality Bill'. 'It has been stamped in their minds that Muslim women are oppressed, beaten, and excluded from public positions, although the facts are different.'
Kirana said it is not difficult to see that the real aspirations of Indonesian women are not reflected in the bill. 'I think freeing women from breastfeeding and demanding 30 percent of (parliament) house seats are a bit much. That is not what Indonesian women want.
'We will stick to Islamic teaching in women's affairs. God created women different from men. Our duties and responsibilities are different. Our tendencies and inclinations are different. But we are equal as human beings, as God's creatures.'
Figures from World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2010 show that 21 percent of parliamentary legislators and 15 percent of government ministers in Indonesia were women. The same report shows 20 percent of Indonesia's senior officials and managers are women.
Similarly, the World Bank's 'World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development' says Indonesia has made good progress in improving health outcomes among women and girls, and has also managed to increase women's access to finance and justice.
Said Coen Hikmah, a Muslim businesswoman: 'It is sad to see that while more and more European and American women are turning to Islam as an alternative way of life, we are promoting this bill.'
'The problem in Indonesia is not the absence of gender equality but poor law enforcement. Abusing women, children and human beings in general is a crime,' Coen said.
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Islamists Stall Gender Equality Bill, Inter Press Service, Wednesday, May 09, 2012 (posted by Global Issues)

Islamists Stall Gender Equality Bill, Inter Press Service , Wednesday, May 09, 2012 (posted by Global Issues)


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Phase 2 seemed to last an eternity. Time passes so slowly as a kid unless you're really dreading something. This is why I schedule shots for my kids on December 26 and a visit to the dentist on the first day of summer vacation. My kids will attest to how quickly these dates always seem to come.
I wish my parents had cared enough to schedule a full check-up for me on December 26. In the weeks before Christmas I would constantly check the clock, willing it to go faster. My mom would send me outside, and I would ride my bike to a friend's house, play basketball, eat sugary cereal we didn't have at my house, play video games, trade baseball cards, throw snowballs, make a snow fort, then return home to check the clock and only fifteen minutes had passed.
As an adult, if I have fifteen free minutes to do anything I want, I usually choose to sit. If a friend calls and says he'll be fifteen minutes late, I just sit right next to the door and wait. If I tried to make a decision on doing something worthwhile with my fifteen minutes, I'm sure by the time I had decided I would look at the clock and realize three hours had passed. The sitting isn't a complete waste though since I try and multitask and often manage to fit in some staring and if I'm especially efficient, possibly some tapping of my foot.
Now time passes so quickly that I seriously consider leaving the Christmas decorations up all year long. When my wife and I shop for decorations I lean towards purchases that can be slightly altered to look good no matter the season. A snowman statue works at Christmas. But the snowman can also be a decoration throughout winter. Give him sunglasses during the summer and a trick-or-treat bag at Halloween, and you've got a year round decoration.
After Halloween I had difficulty removing a giant cloth cobweb from above the door and decided to leave it up for the next Halloween. It finally fell down on its own in May. Our kids' friends only started getting over their fear and coming back to the house again in June.
The period of the cobweb over the door only lasted eight months to me, but for my kids this is more like eight of my years. When they look back on memories of our current home, there's a pretty good chance they'll remember it having a giant cobweb over the front door for some reason.
I've started telling time according to perception. My oldest son turns ten this week, and I told him it's hard to believe he'll be eighteen in five years. He tried correcting my math, but I explained I meant he would be eighteen in five of his nine-year-old years. He still didn't get it.
I've also had difficulty explaining this concept to adults. I had a friend who just turned twenty-five, and I said, "Hard to believe you'll be thirty in a couple years and forty years old in seven." I was just trying to say she should make her twenties count because they were almost over and each decade of her life would seem to go faster, but something about her response told me she's unlikely to invite me to her party next year. Maybe she'll be over it in a year's time, although that year will probably be over faster than she expects.
We still have our icicle lights up. At first it was because we were under heavy snow for two months, with nowhere to place the ladder to get them down. Then we went to rent the ladder and they were out, twice. Now we're boycotting Home Depot, have no ladder, and our lights are still up. I am considering turning them on again at night for the festive party atmosphere this summer, but I think they'd go best with a cobweb. Do you still have the one that fell down?
You've made it this far without taking the lights down, you've only got another half year to go.
I turned 62 on the 18th. I can't believe it. I am retired. I have white hair. I have grandchildren. I am a bachelor. I am content. I can't believe that either but I am surprisingly comfortable where I am in life. All I have to worry about is coming up with cartoon ideas for the blog. And remembering to go to the cardiologist and taking the blood pressure pills and the war and the economy and plagues and global warming and drive-by shootings in Miami and whether the Marlins will ever win a baseball game again.
I hope the blood pressure pills are helpful in countering the effects of all those other things you have to worry about it.
Woah. I started reading this yesterday and it's already 5yrs later. Man, where did the time go?
I hope reading this post was worth five years of your life.
This explains a lot – no wonder it takes FOREVER to get to 'legal' drinking age, and then in the blink of an eye you're too old to handle your liquor the same way you used too. Not fair, not fair at all.
It doesn't seem fair. When will science address this and find a solution?
So true! One exception: every day at work still feels like 5 days instead of 1.
Maybe the best tip for a long life is to spend all your time at work.
Young adults might have trouble understanding your concept — or those "Life comes at you fast" insurance commercials — but they'll figure it out soon enough.
That's why I'm trying to start early with my kids. I don't want to depress them, but I wish somebody had told me my twenties would disappear in 1/3 the time of my teens.
eek… didn't need to read this turning 30 in a few weeks.
.. but I am half way to 60!
For me, the lightening-quick acceleration of the passing of time is best expressed by my kitchen sink. I have to cook and eat several times daily, but this mornings dishes somehow quickly become Last Wednesdays dishes. How is this so? Maybe I should become a Big Sister or Foster a child. And get them to do my chores for me. They seem so energetic, those little ones. And it will seem like 3 whole days between a meal and dish duty. Right?
I like the way you think. A foster child would be thrilled to do your dishes in exchange for such wisdom.
Hey, I'm an English teacher – that math seems perfect to me. I think it's the same formula they use for soap operas. It takes only 9 years or so from birth to college graduation.
I used to watch Days of Our Lives and whenever a child disappeared for a couple months I knew he would return six or seven years older.
When I was 8-9-10, school days were never ending…as a high school teacher with bells ringing every 50 minutes, days flew by…after a 37 year career…it has really been a flick.
btw Can the tomatoes I planted last week in retirement be ready for dinner tonight?
I'm not sure on the system of how tomatoes perceive the passage of time. The science in this area is still pretty young.
If I am thirty two, how many years til I turn 40? I understand the theory, I just don't know how to apply the formula!
It's not exact. Some people of the same age perceive life completely differently. I am also thirty-two, and I assume I have about four years to reach forty.
Goodness..wait till you are my age..then you will know not just how time flies, but days, weeks, months and years are here one minute and gone the next.
If only ..I could turn back time………………………..
Oh Tori! Then that make me in my late 60's. How am I already older than my dad?
Greatsby … you're going to get your book published when you're 63, but it will feel like 58 years, but in reality it'll only be like … thirty or something.
I was the girl who couldn't wait to grow up. When I was 10 I wanted to be 13. When I was 13 I wanted to be 16. When I was 16 I wanted to be 21. Now, I'm 26 and when I don't get carded buying alcohol, I feel like crying. What a stupid, stupid child I was.
I've figured out why this happens. When you're a kid, any time period is a larger percentage of your total experienced time relative to someone old.
Compare a 6-year-old to a 32-year-old. Express the numerator as months in the time period, say summer, divided by the denominator expressed as months in your life. That's 3/72 vs 3/384. Reduce each down and you've got 1/24 vs 1/128. Obviously, 1/24 is a lot bigger than 1/128 (even though the bottom number is bigger on the older guy. Have a 5th grader explain this if it is unclear).
Ipso facto ergo, the summer is a much larger hunk of the 6-year-old's life than the 32-year-old's.
I call this the Theory of Quantum Vaca Relativity. I'm trying to get some grant money so I can publish – any of those Stimulus $$ still floating around?
Of course I occupied myself during those wait times, but that's really what life is. Waiting.
Christmas Eve used to just kill me! Now THAT'S the ultimate waiting period for a kid!
Great philosophizing. If only more parents cared as much as you about scheduling. As for the decoration game, I've come up with a full proof plan of never buying or displaying any decorations. Works like a charm.
I'm somewhat alarmed by the way your childhood years were structured. Phase 2 ends right before Christmas vacation ends, and Phase 3 begins right after Christmas vacation ends, so what happened to Christmas vacation? Do you have any memories of it at all? Is this "missing time"? Were you and your family abducted by aliens each year?
The actual Christmas vacation went by too fast to be considered any kind of life phase.
Or, you could try being home schooled (like Yours Truly) and never get any real set "breaks" but have the year marked by various novels you're doing reports on.
This has translated into my leaving the Christmas wreath on the door, until the glue from the flowers is melted by the early summer sun, prompting me to offer the mail man a bouquet, every time he stops by, in the attempt to clean-off my porch.
When I turned 31, I explained to my kids that mommies don't turn 31, instead they start going backward in age until they turn 21 again and then they go forward again . . .. Fortunately, they are mathematically inclined and they have kept up with the mommy math, celebrating my appropriate age every year. I'll be 28 this year. There will be cake and a snowman.
Oh this gave me chills…and trust me at 50 not a heluva lot does.
I want to write like this.
I want to tie a bow and have have the ends match perfectly.
Here's a great way to slow down time: get on the treadmill. Put a Vin Diesel movie on and time will start going backward.
I still seem to function on school teacher time. September through May moves at a snail's pace. June through August zooms by at warp speed! I love your shot and dental scheduling! Great idea!
Time is relative, and it starts going by so fast you you can't believe it. Twenty-five is about half-way through if you live to 80. So it's all downhill for most of us.
I have never seen such daft manipulation of the calendar.
Father time is a *bleep*.
For some reason I really like the suggestion of scheduling flu shots around Christmas, and I'm gonna pass it onto my brother. That'll teach my nephew for besting me at Angry Birds!
This is so true it's scary.
I am a 68 year old woman who still has a birthday to come this year. But am I thinking of that birthday????? No!!!!!!!!! Of course I am thinking of the big one….70….because it will happen about 5 minutes after turning 69. So I obviously get your time ideas. You have to enjoy each day, hour and minute!!!!


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When breeding labrador dog litters many owners who either want to breed puppies for their own enjoyment and to stay with them or pursue breeding as a commercial operation.
Whether to keep or sell the puppies produced there are a few basics that the potential breeder should know.
Breeding Labrador dog litters does involve a lot of work and preparation especially in making sure that the pair chosen for breeding are suitable for the task in terms of health, age and temperament.
The following article discusses what is required when preparing to breed Labradors.
No dog should be part of the breeding process until age 2. This ensures that important physical and mental characteristics have time to appear. Dogs with favorable qualities and genetics can then be selected for breeding. The dog's temperament and problems such as canine seizures will be apparent by age 2 to 3.
Females should be full grown when selected. If a dog starts to breed at a younger age, they divert energy from growing into healthy adulthood into having puppies.
Hips: The Othropedic Foundation for Animals (OFA) has a hip test that cannot be used until a dog is 2 years old. Large and medium breeds such as the Lab must be checked for hip dysplasia.
Elbows: Elbow problems also need to be screen in labs. The OFA will review X-Rays of the elbows and make a determination about 4 to 6 weeks after receiving them.
Eyes: The Canine Eye Registration Foundation (CERF) has a genetic test administered by a veterinary opthalmologist via Optigen. The test is done annually during the breeding life of the Labrador. The vet will look for issues such as eye abnormalities, ectropion, entropion, distichiasis, progressive degenerative retinas and cataracts.
Heart: A veterinary cardiologist will check the Labrador for any heart issues.
Other tests include Brucellosis, an infectious bacterial diseases that causes spontaneous abortions in newly infected animals. Both parents need to be tested since it is possible for the male Lab to pass it on to a female. If artificial insemination is done, the female could bass the infection to the puppies.
At a female's 2 year birthday, and before breeding, right before a dog goes into heat, a veterinarian will do a physical, provide any needed vaccines, check the stool for parasites and heartworm. Weight and overall condition will also be checked.
Multiple ways exist to find out when a female dog should be bred. For artificially inseminated dogs, vaginal smears can indicate ovulation. Another test, Progesterone assays can also indicate the best time to breed a dog.
If you are working with an experienced male dog, then breeding can occur every other day, assuming both dogs are willing.
Breeding Labradors is a major responsibility. You need to be ready to not only assess the health of the parents, but then care for the dogs and puppies during whelping. You are also responsible for finding excellent homes for the pups, which involves interviewing any new owners.


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Welcome to the website of the West Sound Polymer Clay Group! We're happy to have you stop by and if you live on the Kitsap or Olympic Peninsula, and work with polymer clay, we'd love to meet you in person! Please read the information below about or meetings.
Our website includes areas open to the general public to visit and use as a reference, however some areas are available to members only, which means you need to register an account with this website to gain access to those areas. Registration is free and you don't have to become a member of the clay group to register. Joining the WSPCG is also free at this time.
Creating with polymer clay in a group is not only fun, but a great way to learn, gain inspiration, and solve technical problems. We meet on a regular basis for "Clay Play Days". Meetings happen approximately once a month and are four to five hours long, usually on a weekend. The time and date is set by concensus of the regular members, according to when they are available, to maximize attendance.
Because we have a focus on advancing our craft through this activity, it is intended for adults only (age 16+), and not for children. As we grow and become more organized, we can consider special family play days, as well, but our purpose at this stage is to gather, to learn together.
Our group meetings are not intended to take the place of formal classroom training. They are informal, where we "play" with clay and visit. We frequently have a "Focus" for a particular meeting, where one or more people will demo of a technique. Attendees are also welcome to spontaneously show others how "things are done", so there is a lot of opportunity for learning, as well as playing. If you are interested in a more formal, classroom style setting, led by an instructor, we encourage you to study our Resources section and look at the events calendar. Here, we will list local or almost-local workshops and polymer clay instructors, and other educational venues.
Meetings are usually hosted by the group organizer, in North Kitsap, 5 miles north of Poulsbo, however other members are encouraged to offer their home to host a gathering occasionally. Our members are polymer clay people from all parts of Kitsap and the Olympic Peninsula, in Western Washington State. Clayers from Gig Harbor and other Pierce County locations are also welcome, as are Mason County people. A little longer to travel from those more remote areas, but our traffic is better than the Seattle side of the water! We offer an alternative to having to take a ferry to attend a polymer clay guild meeting in Seattle, which is a great thing to do, but a long way to go.
We have limited space at the meetings (usually spots for approximately ten people), so you must reserve a spot for each meeting. If we show full, be sure and email us that you want to come, so we can put you in, if a spot opens up, and/or we can figure out how to get more people in. If you do reserve a spot, it is important to let us know if you can't be there after all, with as much notice as possible, so that we can offer that space to those waiting.
If you are on the waiting list, we will call you if there is a cancellation, to make sure you still want a spot, so please give us good contact information in your email.
Attendees will need to bring their own clay supplies, tools and equipment to the group meetings.
Pasta machine, if your project needs one (for new people, loaner is available on request) You will need a large C clamp to attach pasta machine to table. Loaners available. Machine motor optional, and can't be used constantly during meeting, because we're here to visit, too.
Clay tools: Blades, acrylic rollers, carving tools, molds, texture plates, shape cutters, etc.
Miscellaneous: Latex gloves, hand cleaner, saran wrap and/or baggies to wrap your unpackaged clay in.
Beverage of your choice, goodies and snacks (all optional). Coffee and water are usually available.
"Show and Tell" items – Examples of your work, a good polymer clay book, example of someone else's work, new tool, etc.
This group is open to all adults who work with polymer clay, at any level of expertise. The purpose is to have fun, swap ideas and knowledge, and share our work.


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Swiss, 1946–2012
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Working with partner Peter Fischli, Weiss worked with ordinary, banal objects and images, both in installation and film. Best known for the collaborative film "The Way Things Go" (1985-1987).
Artist, Installation Artist, Photographer, Sculptor, Video Artist
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If Everything Is Sculpture Why Make Sculpture? Artist's Choice: Peter Fischli
June 12, 2018–May 10, 2019
The Museum of Modern Art
November 11, 2017–May 5, 2019
Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers
October 23, 2016–March 5, 2017
MoMA PS1
A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio
February 8–November 2, 2014
Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New
December 21, 2013–April 21, 2014
David Weiss has
15 exhibitions
8 works online
Peter Fischli, David Weiss
Fashion Show (Modenschau)
Various Artists, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Louise Bourgeois, Markus Raetz
Parkett no. 17
Record (for Parkett no. 17)
How to Work Better
Untitled (Small Bucket) (for Parkett no. 40/41)
Things from the Room in the Back
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