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Somewhere amidst beach bonfires and waterskiing, September crept up on us. As we fall back in love with crisp morning runs and pumpkin spice lattes, ambassador Salimah Kassim-Lakha, shares why she believes we may not want to put away our white wardrobe just yet.
A few years ago I had the privilege of seeing the Dalai Lama at the Rogers' Centre in Toronto. When he walked into the stadium, I immediately felt the physical impact of his presence. It was enough to throw me back in my seat even though he was hundreds of feet away. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.
the power of your aura
That sensation when someone walks into a room and immediately lights it up, is the power of their aura. Your aura has the ability to uplift everyone around you without the use of spoken words. Wearing white is one technique that can strengthen your aura and maximize the power of your presence.
kundalini dress code
Wearing white is embedded deep into the roots of practicing Kundalini yoga. As a teacher, one of the first questions my students ask me is "why do you wear white when you teach?" I tell them I wear white because I believe it holds the space for higher consciousness and creates a powerful presence in my class.
white is the new black
1. wear white to yoga. White is the union of all colours. When you wear white to a yoga class, your brightness elevates others and adds to the sacredness of the practice. Swap out your basic black for white – even just a headband or a shawl. When you choose consciously others will notice.
2. home teams wear white. For years competitive sports teams have been using this subtle and exact science to influence the home team advantage. Both baseball and basketball teams use their white uniforms at home games to subconsciously send a signal of success and stay cool under pressure. Wear white on your next race day and let us know what happens.
Ever worn black to be taken more seriously or had to mentally prepare yourself for a day of wearing red? What affects do wearing certain colours have on you?
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- follow Salimah on twitter @yogavision or check out her site
- experience the power of white – take Salimah's online class via Skype
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12 November 2008,
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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Bedroom Painting #37
titled and dated 'BEDROOM PAINTING #37 1977' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
70 x 68 in. (177.8 x 172.7 cm.)
Painted in 1977.
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The incontrovertible sensuality of Bedroom Painting #37 combines the Pop spirit, Surrealism and eroticism of Tom Wesselmann's greatest pictures. This celebration of color, form and fun belongs to a series of paintings that focus on fragmentary glimpses of bedroom scenes. With these works, Wesselmann amalgamated elements of his seminal Great American Nude and Still Life paintings, concentrating on a few details of the figure such as the face, hands and feet, and surrounding them with commonplace interior objects to create forceful tensions between sharp-edged architectural features and the invitingly soft textures of flesh and flowers.
Although he veered away from still lifes in the mid 1960s, Wesselmann returned to this motif in 1967 via the Bedroom Paintings. The complex reverberations between body parts and still life imagery opened up new possibilites to Wesselmann. It became among his most enduring and important projects, providing him with a way to explore new methods of constructing pictures. His interest in scale and the spatial relationships between forms significantly motivated this change. In Bedroom Painting #37, the objects within the painting do not correlate to a realistic, recessive spatial sense. Instead, Wesselmann radically enlarged them, jarringly juxtaposing individual elements each asserting themselves in a compressed composition.
To create a more visually forceful and intimate encounter with his female subjects, Wesselmann paid increasing interest in scale in this series. "I'd gotten a little tired of doing full length nudes because everything else in the painting had to be so small," Wesselmann stated in 1984, "It wasn't exciting enough to my eye. Everything was little, too much like a Barney Tobey or something. I wanted to deal with these big shapes; so I came in closer and closer on the nude and kept coming in so close that finally I did the whole tit or the whole face or whatever. That was really when my work began to me, when I made that realization of what I'm excited by" (T. Wesselmann, quoted in I. Sandler, Oral history interview with Tom Wesselmann, 3 January-8 February 1984, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, on http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/wessel84.ht m)
Wesselmann's overriding concern for his painting's formal qualities stemmed from his formative interest in abstract artists like Willem de Kooning, whose "all-over" painting method presented a taut, shallow space where the viewer was aggressively confronted by mark-making. Although influenced by de Kooning initially, Wesselmann recognized that he needed to establish his own style rather than merely pursue a familiar, reverential path. Wesselmann developed his unique approach by returning to traditional studio practices, specifically the painting of nudes, interiors and still lifes, freeing himself from the influence of his Action Painter heroes whilst maintaining a confrontational power. To make his presence felt, he deliberately decided to do the opposite of everything he loved, exchanging the violent, messy expressionist style for crisply defined shapes that were emphatically figurative. His graphic flair and fluency in drawing, his devotion to the human figure, a dry sense of humor and his ease at communicating with the general public through his imagery all proved important factors in his erotically charged Pop Art.
Bedroom Painting #37 vividly exemplifies the Bedroom series and Wesselmann's mature style. Indeed indicating the importance of this period, two works that follow in the sequence of Bedroom paintings are now housed in public collections (Bedroom Painting #38 is at The Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum of Contemporary Art, Bedroom Painting #39 is at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts). Tightly composed and saturated with bold areas of color, the composition collapses the space it represents, urging the viewer to become both voyeur and participant in a candy colored moment of intimacy. In the mid 1970s, Wesselmann's rendered his models more representationally as he felt their enlarged scale meant they could absorb more descriptive information. Here, he paints his model in profile view, resulting in a more recognizable portrait, with a less anonymous feel than the Great American Nudes, where he treated figures as flat, flesh colored shapes that merely undergirded the pointed attention he gave their most sexually charged features.
Although the picture reveals nothing of the brazen sexuality of Wesselmann's nudes, it nevertheless leaves room for erotic associations, its imagery playing off advertising clichés whose expressive power derives from the calculated use of erotic symbols. Leaving any activity outside the painting's cropped perspective tantalizingly unattainable, Bedroom Painting #37 relies solely on the face to convey heightened sexuality. This heavily made up brunette is gratifyingly sensual, with her downcast eyes and her open mouth caught expressing ecstasy or lascivious anticipation. Wesselmann presents us with the idea rather than the reality of sex, the image's sensual appeal mainly residing in succulent colors and allusive symbols like the blooming flowers and the light switch turned to "ON." The series title only adds to the implied action, placing this modern odalisque in a locality we normally associate with sexual encounters.
Wesselmann's perfectionist imagery emulates the mass-produced photographs found in magazines and billboards, reveling in the banality of American fantasies about romance and sexual freedom. However, the artist's own sexual experiences primarily lie behind his almost Surreal representations of the female body and the ephemera of American life that surrounds them. Wesselmann admitted that it was reading Henry Miller's explicit and controversial novels, Tropic of Capricon and Tropic of Cancer around 1960, that compelled him to directly address his own sexual outlook in his art. This literary encounter also coincided with his first experience of psychoanalysis, which encouraged him to examine the erotic content of his dreams. Wesselmann's decision to celebrate his personal sexual fulfillment in his work, particularly in the Bedroom series, could have left him vulnerable at a time when contemporary art was refuting the Romantic notion that art provides an arena for the soul's outpourings. Yet, by presenting his muses as slick pinups with generic features, Wesselmann avoids reflecting on his own life, presenting visually bold and brightly colored images that appeal to the pleasure principle within all of us.
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S. Stealingworth, Tom Wesselmann, New York, 1980, p. 211 (illustrated).
J. Wilmerding, Tom Wesselmann: His Voice and Vision, New York, 2008, p. 49 (illustrated in color).
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I love the simplicity of these white petunias. They seem so clean, so fresh.
My garden is full of color. Pinks, oranges, yellows, reds, purples and a few blues. There are also a lot of green leafy plants around to balance out all that vibrant colour. However, I try to always have a smattering of pure white flowers here and there- Petunias, Datura, White fragrant Four O' Clocks, Jasmine, Nicotina and White Phlox. I find that the white flowers that I've chosen all have a lovely scent, and many of them bloom and have their greatest scent output at night.
I love the white flowers, not only for their scent, but because they light up the garden at night. Often they are the only flowers that can be scene clearly in the semi-darkness as we sit at our patio table and have dinner or relax.
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For the third year running, children attending school in North Minneapolis's Cityview building are being uprooted. Minneapolis Public Schools plans to evict the two-year-old Minnesota School of Science charter school in one month, leaving the future of at least 325 children uncertain.
Two years ago, parents angrily protested a plan to close Cityview, the district school that occupied the building, and replace it with the charter school Minnesota School of Science. Last summer poor planning and coordination by both the district and the new charter school forced an abrupt end to an MPS autism program in the building and left the parents of 40 students only two months to choose a new school for their transition-sensitive children.
This year the reasons are different, but the results are the same: parents frustrated, kids destabilized, learning disrupted, all in a North Minneapolis community that has become far too familiar with educational instability and initiatives abandoned.
Minneapolis Public Schools' reasons for the eviction are twofold: they contend that MSS broke their lease with the district by failing to pay rent after state aid fell through, and they say concerns about the way the school is run prevent MPS from doing what it would take to free up the lease aid for the charter school.
Alleged cheating on state tests, poor delivery of special education, and failure to properly account for finances are among the complaints that the district has documented against the charter in the two years since it opened. Leaders from Minnesota School of Science say all valid complaints have been addressed. MSS board members contend that the lease does not require the school to pay the portion of rent that would have been covered by lease aid.
For parents like Debbie Howell, the bureaucratic entanglements behind the eviction are immaterial. For the first time in a long time, Howell trusts her child's school. She sees her third-grader challenged by teachers who show her they care. She says that's a big improvement over what she saw when her son attended the old Cityview. She says she's ready to picket, if that's what it takes to keep MSS open.
Parents interviewed described a school where their kids feel safe, where a sense of camaraderie among parents pervades, a school that sends children home with challenging homework. Students from the school have placed in regional science and math competitions.
"I feel like it's been so long since we had something good in this community," says Charles Reese, who has three children who attend MSS. "Whenever we have something good, it's taken away."
"Our main concern is to stay in that community," MSS board member Gene Scapanski says. "They have been failed by Minneapolis Public Schools in North Minneapolis."
The district is moving forward with plans to place a new district K-5 program in the building. Minneapolis Office of New Schools director Sara Paul said, "We care very much about the students and the families, and we are committed to providing a quality program."
State aid falls through, rent goes unpaid
It's true that Minnesota School of Science did not pay approximately half a million dollars in rent. Lease aid is funding from the state that most charter schools depend on to pay for their space. When MSS signed its lease with Minnesota Public Schools, both the school and the district assumed the charter would pay for 90 percent of rent with that aid.
Minneapolis Public Schools is not only MSS's landlord, but it's also the school's authorizer, in charge of making sure MSS provides the services agreed upon in their charter contract. This year the Minnesota Department of Education decided that authorizers could not receive lease aid from the charters they oversee. Advocates for the rule say that when authorizers act as landlords, they have a financial stake in keeping their renter school open, which could prevent them from acting if that charter had problems.
That means Minnesota School of Science did not get the funding they needed to pay rent. MSS did get lease aid last year, but that was a mistake, said the department of education.
MSS interprets its lease with MPS to say that they do not have to pay the portion of rent that would have been covered by the state. But Minneapolis Public Schools argues that the charter does have to pay, based on an amendment to the lease made last October. The legal interpretation of the lease remains an open question.
Minneapolis College Prep, another district-sponsored charter that rents from MPS, will not have to pay for its missing state aid, since the school's lease was not similarly amended.
At the time MSS's new lease was signed, the district was gearing up for a legislative fight over the education department's conflict of interest rule. Last spring, Representative Jim Davnie introduced legislation that would have exempted school districts from the rule, allowing them to rent to the charters they authorize. That measure failed.
With the rule unchanged, the only way for Minnesota School of Science to get lease aid would be if they dropped MPS as an authorizer. By January, MSS board members say they were already looking for a new authorizer. They began filling out paperwork to switch to Pillsbury United Communities, which authorizes a number of Twin Cities charter schools.
But the district eventually refused to let MSS go, citing a laundry list of problems with the school's management.
Cheating, special education, poor accounting
Last summer the friction between MSS and its authorizer was made apparent when 40 students in an autism program were forced to transfer out of the Cityview building only two months before the school year started.
The district had signed a one-year contract with MSS, which obligated the charter to integrate high-needs district special education students into MSS classrooms for parts of the day. At the contract's July deadline, the charter notified the district it would not continue to provide those services to district students. The district was left scrambling to place the program in other schools. Although the action was within the charter's contractual rights, MPS was surprised, and parents were even more so.
But Minneapolis Office of New Schools director Sara Paul said the district's concerns about MSS arose long before that. What worries her most are complaints that allege the charter has failed to follow testing protocol.
Minnesota School of Science takes great pride in the extraordinary jumps in test scores they've recorded. School leaders cited a 300 percent jump in test scores last year over scores of students from the Cityview program that closed a year before. Those scores are at the heart of their argument for why the school should stay open.
Last year MSS threw out an entire classroom's test scores after hearing complaints that a test coordinator was coaching students on answers. This year an observer from the Minnesota Department of Education reported further violations of testing protocol. School representatives say the violations involved students talking and using the bathroom alone during testing hours.
The list of concerns goes on. MPS noted deficiencies in special education programming. At one point, the charter used a special education teacher as a general education substitute. Another complaint said the school improperly counseled one student to attend a different school. The district documented concerns about the school's financial records and about their management company, Concept Schools, which oversees more than two dozen charters across the United States.
MSS board members say they thoroughly addressed each complaint and that issues are bound to arise in a school's first years of operation.
At the end of April, Minneapolis Public Schools notified MSS that their program would have to vacate the Cityview building by July 1. It wasn't until the end of May, though, that it became clear to MSS that MPS would not work with the school on alternative solutions.
MSS has not been successful in finding a different building in North Minneapolis. Minneapolis Public School officials say they will not offer MSS a cheaper district building in the area. More than sixty percent of MSS students live in neighborhoods surrounding the school.
The district says the school's "deficiencies" make it irresponsible for Minneapolis Public Schools to consider handing MSS to another authorizer. Despite MSS's claim that Pillsbury is ready to transition into the role, Paul questions the likelihood that such a transition could be approved in time for next year. With its $25 million budget deficit, the district cannot afford to wait and see, says Paul. The charter school's contract with MPS ends at the end of next school year.
Instead, Minneapolis Public Schools will start a new district K-5 program in the building, to be overseen by Paul's office. Older MSS students will have the option of attending Olson Middle School. On Monday, June 17, the district will hold an open house from 9 am to 7 pm at Cityview, where families can learn more about their options.
MSS does not intend to give up. Charter board members are still pushing the district and the state department of education to allow them to switch authorizers to Pillsbury. (Pillsbury United Communities declined to comment for this article.)
Parents like Howell and Reese plan to attend Tuesday's district school board meeting. They hope to convince board members to keep MSS in North Minneapolis.
Should MSS be forced to leave, Howell does not intend to send her son to any new district program in the Cityview building. "I don't want to deal with any kind of Minneapolis Public School system, period," she says.
Alleen Brown (email@example.com or Twitter @AlleenBrown) is a freelance writer from Minneapolis.


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I am nearing the end of California recaps; I still have the Barrel Tasting event that we traveled all that way for and a few random tasting room recaps to write, but other than that, I guess it's time to start planning another trip to Sonoma, right?
We've stayed at many places in Napa and Sonoma over the years, and since several of you mentioned in the comments that you are planning trips out to wine country, I thought a post on places to stay would be helpful. Of the seven or so places we have stayed, I would recommend all of them, for different reasons and different budgets.
Best Western Dry Creek Inn – On our last trip to Sonoma, we were definitely keeping budget in mind. We also knew that we had a lot of plans to be out and about and would likely not be spending much time in our room. We opted for the Best Western because of its great prices and the fact that it is located within about 15 minutes walking distance of Healdsburg plaza (and places like Barndiva!)
Well, we loved the Best Western. We were in the newer Tuscan wing, and our room had a Jacuzzi, super comfy big bed, wifi, and a fireplace. It also included a pretty good breakfast.
We also stayed in a Best Western in Sonoma and were more than pleased with those accommodations. With a TravelZoo deal, our room, with a fireplace and balcony, included breakfast and two massage vouchers for the local Massage Envy, which turned out to be fantastic. Again, a really great deal and a comfy, clean room.
In addition to Sonoma and Healdsburg, we also ventured to the Sonoma Coast and stayed at the Timber Cove Inn, our second time at this magical property.
This year we took advantage of an amazing deal Timber Cove had and scored an ocean facing room with a Jacuzzi that looked out over the Pacific, a balcony, and a fire place. We slept with the screen door slightly open so that the chilly air, pouring rain, and crashing waves lulled us off to slumber. Timber Cove is remote, but it has a fantastic restaurant, cozy with great food and wine.
Timber Cove also has a great room with a huge fire place, perfect for relaxing by before dinner. This inn is a true getaway, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to unplug. (They do have wifi, which did come in handy!)
If you're looking for something a little more expensive and centrally located to the Russian River Valley, Vintner's Inn is a great choice. We stayed there for my 30th birthday, and we especially loved the vineyard views from our room and the extremely comfortable bed. Service was fantastic as well.
And finally, I can't post about wine country without posting about one of our favorite places ever, Bella Villa Messina. Just look at this house!
The inn is gorgeous, happy hour includes great local wine and snacks, and the breakfast is legendary. Bella Villa Messina is also a splurge, but it would be my pick for a special occasion vacation.
Over in Napa, we absolutely love, love, love The Avia. It is comfortable, luxurious, and centrally located within walking distances of places like Bistro Sabor and Zuzu, among others. It's definitely my first choice if you are venturing over to Napa Valley for the night.
And now I not only want to book a plane ticket to San Francisco, I would now like a giant plate of bacon and a frittata.
What's the most important part of a vacation for you?
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That plate of bacon and frittata looks delicious! I love visiting California wine country – I've been out there twice in the past 4 years and am hoping to make it out there again this October (fingers crossed I will get into the Nike Women's 1/2 Maratgon this year!). The most important part of a vacation to me is the company. Who I'm with can make a vacation more enjoyable. Also, the food definitely plays a major role – I may forget what I saw on a trip but I never forget a great meal!
We also loved the Best Western Dry Creek in Healdsburg! It was awesome and I am sure we will stay there again on our next trip to the area. Perfect mix of affordable and clean and convenient.
the most important part of a vacation for me is the food, honestly. I can skimp on where to stay as long as the place is clean, but I want excellent food options all the time.


text:
In previous versions of Directory Server, attributes such as the all IDs threshold and the data directory paths that correspond to the dsconf command properties db-env-path, db-log-path, and db-path required the server to be offline when the attribute value was changed. You can now change the values of such attributes while the instance is online.
Although the values can be changed online, changes for some attributes might not take effect until after the instance has been restarted. In addition, some changes require manual intervention before restarting. For example, you can change the data directory path settings with the server online, but before you restart the server to put the change into effect, you must perform the following procedure.
The reference manual pages indicate that after you change the server db-env-path, db-log-path, or the suffix db-path, you must perform an export to LDIF, and then import from LDIF. Alternatively, you can move the data files. If, however, any of the steps in the following procedure do not complete successfully, or if the new configuration does not coincide exactly with the layout resulting from the steps of this procedure, you must reinitialize the server or restore from backup.
Back up your server, or make sure that you can reinitialize the server from another instance.
Create the new file system directory with the same ownership and permissions as the old file system directory.
Make sure the new directory resides in a file system with enough free space to hold the data.
Stop the server.
If the server is not stopped cleanly, you must reinitialize the server or restore from backup.
Move, do not copy, the files from the old file system directory to the new file system directory.
Files to move
If the old directory is now empty, or contains only empty directories, delete the old directory.
Restart the server.


text: This Surrogates Satin Glove has been highly recommend so I decided to try it out and properly review it. Surrogates is essentially a sub-brand of L'Atelier Imports. The company is ran by Pete and K.C. Johnson, Pete of course is the mastermind of Tatuaje Cigars. This is the latest release from Surrogates that made it's debut at IPCPR last year.


text:
Object of desire....
the awe and impressive statement fuels our need for stimulation and excitement.
Swarovski Chrystal, and a rusty iron fork lift truck.
oversized and sultry and impressive.- Smokey glass, and the shape of bottles combined in an artform.
The ultimate in table tennis. But will it improve your game!!
A 1 piece dining table.


text:
I (an other)
by Travis Jeppesen on April 3, 2015
I (an other) — a limited edition publication — now available from Frenetic Happiness
16 Sculptures audio tracks now online
by Travis Jeppesen on April 2, 2015
You can listen to the audio tracks from the 16 Sculptures online here.
All Fall reading in London
by Travis Jeppesen on March 12, 2015
Next week I will be reading from All Fall at the Royal College of Art in London.
18th March 2015,
at 06.30pm
Student Union Cafe, Royal College of Art
It's free. Facebook invite here.
Louise Bourgeois in Oslo
by Travis Jeppesen on February 23, 2015
A review of Louise Bourgeois's current exhibition in Oslo at Peder Lund is now online at Artforum.
by Travis Jeppesen on February 18, 2015
Dear reader,
We are delighted to let you know about the publication of a new book project called Stationary, an annual collection of stories by artists, writers, and curators that has been in the works for the past year at Spring Workshop, Hong Kong. Co-edited by Heman Chong and Christina Li, the publication offers a suspended moment to contributors so that they may take stock of and elaborate on their burgeoning ideas, obsessions, and influences. The pieces are written by Ivan Argote, Yiu Fai Chow, Fayen d'Evie, Chris Fitzpatrick, Nav Haq, Sharon Hayes, Rosemary Heather, Malak Helmy, Ho Rui An, Clifford Irving, Travis Jeppesen, James Langdon, Quinn Latimer, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Sean O'Toole, Manfred Pernice, George Szirtes, Taocheng Wang, Yeo Wei Wei, and Adrian Wong.
The book is not for sale; it is only available as a gift handed from person to person or via subscription on our website at www.stationarystories.com. There you can also find information on the content as well as related events that might pass through your neighborhood.
In the spirit of opening up this project to an extended group of people, please feel free to forward this message to friends and colleagues who you think would enjoy receiving a copy of this new collection of stories that arrives wrapped in a special commission by Manfred Pernice.
We look forward to sending you a copy soon.
Warm regards,
Christina, Heman, Janine, Julie, and Mimi
Heman Chong and Christina Li
Associate editor:
Janine Armin
Julie Peeters
Web design:
Vytautas Volbekas and Carla Peer
For any questions and concerns please send us an email:
Published by:
Mimi Brown,
Spring Workshop
3/F Remex Centre
42 Wong Chuk Hang Road
Aberdeen, Hong Kong
In a Movie
by Travis Jeppesen on January 16, 2015
In a movie
he is in the forest
Nothing is pure.
In a movie.
In a movie
we sit
watching you
wishing that
it was real
but it is not
it can never be real
it is only
a movie.
In a movie
the nothing
that is real
is nothing.
That is what
a movie
is for –
the transcription
the triumph
of nothingness.
In a movie
you're lost
and in real life
you are not
to be found.
This is different
from being lost.
In a movie
where you are lost
there is still
the possibility
that you
will be found.
This possibility
creates a desire
a desire
a hope
that may lead
to the finding.
In real life
where it is known
you will never
be found
that desire
is absent.
is what defines
real life
whereas hope
and desire
their natural dwelling place
is in
the movie,
the sole place
where you now
Politics of Friendship
by Travis Jeppesen on January 8, 2015
"Thus is announced the anchoritic community of those who love in separation [who love to stand aloof: qui aiment à s'éloigner]. The invitation comes to you from those who can love only at a distance, in separation [qui n'aiment qu'à se séparer au loin]. This is not all they love, but they love; they love lovence, they love to love – in love or in friendship – providing there is this withdrawal. Those who love only in cutting ties are the uncompromising friends of solitary singularity. They invite you to enter into this community of social disaggregation [déliaison], which is not necessarily a secret society, a conjuration, the occult sharing of esoteric or crypto-poetic knowledge. The classical concept of the secret belongs to a thought of the community, solidarity or the sect – initiation or private space which represents the very thing the friend who speaks to you as a friend of solitude has rebelled against."
– Jacques Derrida, Politics of Friendship
Yes, I remember you sometimes. I look back, I keep the image to remind me. It hurts me knowing that you're not the person you once were, that you have morphed into this monster, this thing you are today, but I guess the process is inevitable.
You always stood apart from everything. You were never really a symbol, you could never be passive enough to stand for, signify anything. You wanted to get married to the window. You were so busy being an outsider, you couldn't even notice your own shadow. That's all I paid attention to. Sort of hovering. I was a ridiculous faggot, a troll with bad breath trolling after you, you spent all your time in the forest drinking beer with your friends, I hid behind a tree and watched you. Shifts of vision occurring all over the place. You were smoking cigarettes, hiding from your parents. There was a city not far away. You didn't want to be a part of it. Running away, that's what it all became about.
I'm sick of emotions, having so many at a time and not knowing what to do with them. Wanting to subscribe to the illusory notion of control, and yet wanting to lose myself in every cranny of doubtless ecstasy. I'm tired of being so fucking conflicted, that I can't properly commune with my fellow humans, so fucking self-conscious, and hence narcissistic, that I've become a prisoner of myself, these constant movements. I don't know what's right anymore, where I should be going. I want to end this phase somehow, become a new person. Perhaps isolation is the answer.
That's what I wrote nearly ten months ago. Before I put an end to this. Before I propelled myself forward, out of that steadfast stasis I found myself in.
Now I am all alone, completely isolated from the person I was for the last six years. There will be no hurrah, no celebration. A camera clicks somewhere. I sit here and try and imagine the person I'm about to become. Measuring that self against the one I became with you.
Being vague: the other person. There is no such thing as a "change of weather." It's an acrid sanctuary, this new dwelling place, for reflection. Only the atmosphere alters, a painfully gradual process. Hearing something muttered in the background and it's not your name.
Cleaning, re-painting the empty apartment, we became individuals once again. Can't help thinking of the times when we didn't hate each other. You begin to hate the other person once he teaches you to hate yourself. It's a circular process, a sort of social masturbation. Only so much hate is needed to alter your basic processes. Your way of dealing. What you achieve is desire fortified into fuckery, absence. The levels of abandon trampled until abandon trampled us.
Oh oh the absence can jolt you. I started off writing about the homeless never knowing I'd become one, alone in this apartment. In France, poverty is thought of as a spiritual condition; here, it's just something that happens when your eyes fall out of your head. Nothing's a metaphor. Only silence. Oh why did I ever find you. If only I had left the club early that night. I never would have seen you at the bar, offered you that joint. To change my own story – you can do that in writing. Do you still believe me when I say that I am here? There are only disparate voices; there are no melodies to unite them.
I don't want to tell the goddamn story anymore. You see someone once and then it changes you. Devils sting your eyes. You go from saying hello to sleeping beside each other to living. And it is a total happiness drenched in dread – in the beginning. In the beginning. And the dread – it is real. Because you anticipate the ending, the dissolution, years before it will actually happen. It's not what you expect. There is never a single event to set it off. Nor a series of calamities, leading up to some ultimate one that makes you turn around one day, say, "That's it." Just a gradual corrosion, as the other person exposes all the flaws in you – ever so slowly. All of your shortcomings and failures as a human being become magnified through the other person, until you get to the point where you can't stand it anymore, this caustic testimony. This unraveling of a junk persona. There is no natural, you decide, only layers of artifice that must be peeled back to expose a plastic core. It is dangerous, the self-knowledge that comes from love. A dangerous extraction that leaves us stinking, de-mystified in front of ourselves…
Tell yourself lies about "growing apart." That sociological impulse slays you every time. To class people by type, as though they could ever conform – even if they willed themselves to. This is one of the lies of the overeducated American. People are people – and that is precisely where the problem lies.
Now I get to re-know the imaginary me – what I was before you stained me with the glorious burden of your presence. It will take a long time. It's okay, I'm used to waiting. Like the boy who had to write down everything he did each day, constantly expecting to discover some unseen truth. The usual time, the usual disorder. To get drunk on sadness, constant. To see oneself as less than the others somehow. Comb through the doubts, go to bed. Dire announcement has been made – no one wants to fear. Knowing not what we breathe. In a bar, one never feels alone. Say hi to freedom, she wears a nice dress. A new boy calls to say he's awake, that he's on his way. Will I ask tonight about his sadness. Will he understand what that means. A full-on lullaby. I'm not looking for a replacement you. From faraway in a bar, someone writing frantically always looks mentally ill. Logic of his stare. How people only stare when they don't want something – when they don't know what it is they really want. We talked about this once, didn't we. Or is it merely a memory of me talking to myself. Can you predict the pace of this entropy, this situationality of presence without will? Getting drunk inside the shadow you cast all those years ago, waiting for my life to begin again. I watch phone cam vids of expired love. Now we've invented the technology to store all our unwanted memories. (Though someone probably said the same thing about writing a long time ago.) But you're lying, you're not really in a bar writing, are you. Even though you are, your mind is somewhere else. A place where the floors are painted white to provide a soothing monotony to the walls and ceiling: midnight in a bare lightbulb room.
We feel things brighter than some of the other boys out there, sinking. Feelings're charms, aren't they, yes, I don't know. When I look at your picture, I remember that it's raining outside. It must hurt your face to feel this presence. I've grown immune to hatred. We packed up, found ourselves out, the window glares serpentine. Everywhere the boy went that autumn, there were angels following him useless. The thought of you dreaming out there made my skin speak. Lots of fog and, I don't know, wedges? Are wedges something you can get lost in?
What's sad is I see you clearest when you are far away. Up close, I see nothing. Loving is a thankless task; so is thinking. Blood runs down your forehead. Shadow blindness.
I'm so sorry it had to end this way. I think I gave you as much as I possibly could, given the strangeness of the circumstances. You were never really there, I think your goal has been to be a specter, something to be pondered from afar rather than inhabited. I am done with pondering. I had needs too, we all do, I'm human, I tried to scream them out in the subtlest manner to accommodate your penchant for understatement, but that made them even easier to ignore. It's all games with you, I realize this now. Even if you don't realize it yourself. High on feedback, now you concentrate your energies on severing all ties with reality whenever you get a chance…and why shouldn't I be a part of that?
Time was never able to contain us, you never wanted to form a single unit, be so radical in our singularity. There were other places to go, other faces calling out for a chance to be seen. I keep seeing you crawl down into that hole, see how filthy it feels, living like a criminal vulture.
We were magic words sung loud, a pair of crazed ducks laughing at the night. But don't you worry, I will never allow the memories of all the good times to be overshadowed by the hostile indifference you now show towards me. I know that there are others buried deep in that skin. Some of them might even still recognize me.
I am not much, I must admit, when it comes to mourning. I would much rather go out into the desert, deal with it on my own. Instead I do the opposite nearly all the time. There were times I wrecked my brain so weary, sinking myself so deeply into the night I nearly became totally submerged, unable to return to the order of reality. Other nights I called out to you and was answered by silence.
Now I sit and wait for the next ship to come in. I see myself waiting for a very long time. It's okay. You get better, eventually, at reading the signs. Sustaining whatever momentum that helps you get through. Glass doors slide open, oh there's a knife. People terrified to be us, to be around us, and some nights I clearly felt the danger, knew that you would make good on your promise one day to hurt me – I just didn't know how bad.
As I put my goals to rest, I think of my best friend in prison all those miles away. And yet how he will always be the freest person I know. You strive for that freedom, also, your juvenile cravings for autonomy, you created this legacy so live in it. I can't promise you anything, you said something of the sort at various moments, somehow I always took it as a protective measure rather than the warning it turned out to be.
How much I gave, perhaps no one in the world, not even you, will fully know, and yet I never got the very little I wished for in return. I know I will travel onwards, and yet I will go nowhere, my heart an empty grave. You cannot understand love, you are too autistic, you said it yourself the night we saw the living fox in London, we found him dead the following morning.
That's right, read the signs the animals give us, as though their lives were meant to be metaphors commenting on the occurrences in ours. People run away deep and suspicious of freedom. And I am sad knowing that you will never be free – the reason being that you merely want it so bad. Trapped deep within the core of yourself, imprisoned in a body that you never particularly liked or identified with, and still don't, despite all the work you've done on it.
I'll still be sad that you never really gave me the chance I deserved. I mean, how can one not feel frustrated? But I know that you're going to do this to everyone who gets close to you and feels the same way I do. In the end, what you are doing is purifying yourself. You cannot accept another person loving you when you hate yourself so strongly. I'm sure you are pleased that I have now been ignoring you for the last two weeks – our longest silence since we first came together. Finally, you are able to justify all your fucked-up behavior towards me as reasonable defense mechanisms, your friends will have no trouble agreeing with you that I am the scum of the earth, not to be trusted. But I have been shut out since the very beginning. I am the permanent outsider in every situation I enter into, a person without a country. You're even too narcissistic to briefly consider my status as a possible model of the freedom you so hungrily crave. And it could be construed as such, though having lived it, I can say that it is not.
Our story could have had a beautiful ending. Maybe. But you erect walls, it is your primary task in this life, you can't get around it. Even if you wanted to stop, you couldn't. But I won't allow myself to be walled in. Put me in whatever category you want, I will tell you that it doesn't exist outside your mind. To you, doesn't matter. You will continue to dole out justice according to your own secret code of laws. It is the protestant within that allows you to believe in the lie of your system.
I'm writing with the door wide open; rabbit just came inside.
We, who know how to love at a distance.
Oh my friends, there is no friend.
Live Transmission
by Travis Jeppesen on December 29, 2014
Talking and reading and tracks from 16 Sculptures (the audio installation) on General Fine Arts, a program of Berlin Community Radio.
by Travis Jeppesen on December 10, 2014
A re-issue of Travis Jeppesen's first novel, Victims, is now available from ITNA Press, featuring a new cover by Mario Dzurila and an introduction by Kevin Killian.
The Coat
by Travis Jeppesen on December 3, 2014
Christophe Chemin's new film, The Coat, starring Brian Tennessee Claflin and Susanne Sachsse, with original texts by Travis Jeppesen, will be premiered tomorrow night in Berlin at FSK. More info here.


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Mesut Ozil appears to have responded amid speculation linking him with a move away from Arsenal and intense criticism of his performances, saying "ignore the noise" in a message posted to Twitter.
Ahead of Arsenal's trip to Goodison Park to face Everton in the Premier League on Sunday, Ozil published a comment that appeared to respond to a wave of media reports suggesting the Germany international could leave the Emirates Stadium in January.
Ozil, who has come under fire from several former Arsenal players in recent months for a series of lacklustre displays, will be a free agent at the end of the season if he fails to sign an extension to his contract. The team's manager Arsene Wenger has acknowledged the playmaker could leave the club.
Former Arsenal star Robert Pires added to the speculation by suggesting Ozil seemed "angry" about the Gunners' failure to build a squad capable of challenging the Premier League's best teams this season.
But the 29-year-old's tweet appeared to be intended to cool the frenzy, saying simply: "Ignore the noise and stay focused".
Ignore the noise and stay focused! #COYG #EFCvAFC @arsenal pic.twitter.com/Gjaf4reVsL— Mesut Özil (@MesutOzil1088) October 21, 2017
Ozil has started four of Arsenal's eight Premier League games so far this season, and has yet to score.
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Santosh Rane (name changed) comes to office in his best formal clothes these days.
He even wears a tie. In his late forties, Rane has recently been promoted to the junior management grade.
In the large public sector bank where he works, Rane is called a field officer. Had he been working in a new private or a foreign bank, he would have been called a 'relationship manager.' Personally, he prefers that tag: 'relationship manager' sounds more respectable.
Rane is the face of his bank's new-found passion -- personal banking. He occupies the front desk of a personal banking boutique branch, wooing customers for home loans, car loans and sundry personal loans. He is the delivery point.
Of late, however, he has started taking leave frequently. He is also seeing his family doctor for high blood pressure, headaches and loss of appetite. His wife finds him a nervous wreck. His boss considers him incompetent.
But his bank does not have a choice. It wants to launch a new product every now and then for retail customers and to sell these products, the bank depends on thousands of JMG officers like Rane.
These officers were originally messengers, peons and clerks. Some of them got employment on compassionate grounds (if an employee dies while working in the bank, one member of his family gets a job).
Some of the junior officers were contractors' labour employed in sweeping and cleaning work in the seventies. A court judgment forced the bank to accommodate them in the payroll.
Once a peon or a messenger boy becomes a graduate studying in night schools (in some states, a graduate degree canĀ be bought even today), he dons the mantle of a clerk.
From a clerk to a junior officer is a long but sure destination in public sector banks unless, of course, the clerk does not want a promotion.
The main disincentive for promotion is transfer. An officer can be transferred but not a clerk. If a clerk follows the internal examination channel, he can become a junior officer perhaps by his early 40s.
Following the seniority channel --which is automatic -- his officerhood comes when he is close to 50. Those belonging to the backward classes can make it a little ahead of the others.
With this workforce, the bulk of which is suffering fromĀ middle-age blues, can the public sector bank play the retail game with the new private and foreign banks? Let's look at some of the statistics.
The State Bank of India is possibly the most aggressive player today in the home loan market.
SBI Chairman A K Purwar wants to launch one new retail product every month to compensate for the lack of offtake in corporate loans. The bank has an employee strength of a shade over 200,000.
Only 20 per cent of the total employees or about 40,000 are officers. The rest is equally divided between clerks and sub-staff (which includes guards, peons, sweepers, water boys and even generator boys from the good old days).
If this is the case with SBI, the consolidated picture of the public sector banking industry is not very different. The total strength of the industry is 757,000.
The officers account for just about 30 per cent of this (2,09,288). In contrast, clerks comprise 50 per cent of the total work force (3,73,800) and sub-staff the rest (1,73,960).
The average age of public sector bank employee was about 45 two years back before the first ever voluntary retirement scheme was introduced, which saw over 11 per cent (110,000) employees marching out of the bank premises. Since then, the age profile has not changed much because more young employees opted for the VRS.
Now, take a look at the new private banks like ICICI, HDFC, UTI and IDBI.
The average age of the employees of a new private sector bank is around 30. And 70 per cent of these employees have additional qualifications -- they are CAs, MBAs or have diplomas in business management. These banks only employ officers as they do not want the hassle of tackling trade unions.
The number of women employees in private and foreign banks is higher than those in the state-run banks.
Is there any level-playing field? Can the big public sector banking industry really take on smart and nimble-footed competition with their legacy work force?
Possibly not. The root of the problem is the hybrid character of the Indian public sector banks. Technically, these banks are board-driven. The listed ones are answerable to their shareholders too.
But for all practical purposes, they cannot do the many things that private banks can. For instance, some of the banks want to introduce another round of VRS but the government has been sitting on their proposals.
Why do they need another round of VRS? Well, they want to bring down the age profile of the employees by infusing fresh blood.
But the income tax rules do not permit that and once the employees accept the VRS, the banks have to abolish those posts.
In other words, successive rounds of VRS cannot solve the problem since banks cannot hire new blood. Since 1985, the state-run banking industry has virtually stopped fresh recruitment except in some specialised areas.
The last bulk recruitment took place in 1982. Those employees, the youngest lot in public sector banks, are now in their mid-40s.
The over-staffed banking industry also cannot offer performance-linked special incentives to their employees.
First, they are not allowed to do so. Second, even at the current compensation level, their wage bill is very high because they are overstaffed.
Till now, these banks have been following the principle of redeployment to decongest overcrowded branches and supply new hands to those branches that lacked manpower. But this practice cannot continue forever.
Once these banks put in place the core banking solution, thousands of employees will overnight became redundant. It is another matter that the bank managements will take time to admit it as they do not want to antagonise the trade unions.
The State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and Bank of India are in advanced stages of building their technology platforms. Other banks too are embracing technology with open arms. Once this phase is over, the private banking industry will lose its technology edge.
But the focus will then shift to the expertise of their employees which will differentiate a good bank from a bad one.
At that time, the managements of the state-run banking industry will find it difficult to hide JMG officers like Rane from the public glare.
But the tale of woe for the public sector banks does not end here. The Ranes in the industry may take a while to unlearn and change their mindsets, testing customers' patience.
But the time is rapidly running out for the government, the majority owner of these banks, in putting in place a transparent selection process for the senior management of its banks.
The Ranes are only the delivery points for personal loans but the CEOs are the face of the banks. The government does not have any policy for appointing them. Intense lobbying by politicians, bureaucrats and even the prime minister's office precedes the appointment of most CEOs.
For instance, for some chairmen, a two-year residual service is a must as this ensures a reasonably long period at the helm. But for a few others, the stipulation can be waived if the government finds them deserving candidates.
Similarly, there are occasions when the government thinks that the top posts at big banks can only go to those executives who first prove their worth as CEOs of smaller banks. At other times it feels that the lateral movement theory is all rubbish.
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Waiting to get their hands on the Lombardi Trophy, the Seattle Seahawks were surrounded by security guards in orange jackets. It was the first time anyone in that color stopped them all night.
The Seahawks stayed true to their mantra to make each day a championship day. They made Super Bowl Sunday the best day of all with one of the greatest performances in an NFL title game — sparked by a defense that ranks among the best ever.
The Seahawks won their first Super Bowl crown by punishing Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos 43-8. That masterful defense, the NFL's stingiest, never let the five-time MVP get going, disarming the highest-scoring offense in league history.
"The only way we could say we were the best defense was to take down the best offense," linebacker Bobby Wagner said.
Seattle (16-3) was too quick, too physical and just too good for Denver. What was hyped as a classic matchup between an unstoppable offense and a miserly defense turned into a rout.
"We've been relentless all season," quarterback Russell Wilson said. "Having that mentality of having a championship day every day. At the end of the day, you want to play your best football and that is what we did today."
Punctuating Seattle's dominance was a 69-yard interception return touchdown by linebacker Malcolm Smith to make it 22-0, and Percy Harvin's sensational 87-yard kickoff return to open the second half.
"I always imagined myself making great plays," said Smith, the game's MVP. "Never thought about being the MVP."
When the Seahawks, up by 29 points, forced a Denver punt early in the third quarter, the 12th Man — and there were legions of them in MetLife Stadium — began chanting "L-O-B, L-O-B."
As in Legion of Boom, the Seahawks' hard-hitting secondary, part of a young team with an average age of 26 years, 138 days.
"This is an amazing team. Took us four years to get to this point, but they never have taken a step sideways," coach Pete Carroll said. "These guys would not take anything but winning this ballgame."
The loss by the Broncos again raised questions about Manning's ability to win the biggest games. He is 11-12 in the postseason, 1-2 in Super Bowls. After the game, he brushed off questions about his legacy.
"Certainly to finish this way is very disappointing. It's not an easy pill to swallow," said Manning, who threw for a record 55 touchdowns in 2013, two years after missing an entire season because of neck surgeries. "I don't know if you ever really get over it."
He never looked comfortable against a defense some will begin comparing to the 1985 Bears and 2000 Ravens — other NFL champions who had runaway Super Bowl victories.
Pete Carroll gets Gatorade dumped on him by Russell Wilson during the closing moments of the Seahawks' win in Super Bowl XLVIII.
Seattle forced four turnovers; Denver had 26 all season.
All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman left with a high ankle sprain in the fourth quarter. He celebrated on crutches.
"I hope we etched our names in the history books," Sherman said.
Wilson, who has an NFL-record 28 wins in his first two pro seasons, including playoffs, had a 23-yard TD pass to Jermaine Kearse late in the third quarter to make it 36-0.
Wilson also hit Doug Baldwin for a 10-yard score in the final period in what had become one of the most lopsided Super Bowls. For the fifth time in six meetings between the NFL's No. 1 offense and defense, the D dominated.
"It's all about making history," All-Pro safety Earl Thomas said. "This was a dominant performance from top to bottom."
Denver fell to 2-5 in Super Bowls, and by the end many of Manning's passes resembled the "ducks" Sherman said the All-Pro quarterback sometimes threw.
The victory was particularly sweet for Carroll, fired in 1994 by the Jets. He led the Patriots for three seasons and again was canned. After a short stint out of coaching, he took over at the University of Southern California and won two national titles.
Russell Wilson became the first QB to pass for at least 200 yards, 2 TDs and complete 70 percent of his passes in a Super Bowl win without being named MVP.
SB Quarterback Result
XLVII Russell Wilson 43-8
XLIV Drew Brees* 31-17
XXVII Troy Aikman* 52-17
XXIV Joe Montana* 55-10
XXI Phil Simms* 39-10
*Won Super Bowl MVP
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But he always felt there was unfinished business in the NFL. Carroll finished that business by lifting the Vince Lombardi Trophy, four years after taking charge in Seattle and eight years after the Seahawks lost in their only previous Super Bowl to Pittsburgh.
No Super Bowl had been played outdoors in a cold-weather city — not that the Big Apple was anything close to frozen Sunday, when it was 49 degrees at kickoff.
Things went sour for Manning and the Broncos from the very first scrimmage play, and by halftime they were down 22-0 — their biggest deficit of the season and the only time they didn't score in a half.
On that first play, Manning stepped up toward the line just as center Manny Ramirez snapped the ball. It flew past his incredulous quarterback into the end zone, where Knowshon Moreno dived on it for a safety.
A mere 12 seconds in, Seattle led 2-0 with the quickest score in Super Bowl history, beating Chicago's Devin Hester's kickoff return to open the 2007 game — against Manning's Colts.
That one ended much better for Manning as Indianapolis won the championship. This one was a fiasco throughout.
Steven Hauschka made 31- and 33-yard field goals for an 8-0 lead. Then the Seahawks began scoring touchdowns.
Manning's third-down pass to Julius Thomas sailed way too high and directly to safety Kam Chancellor, giving the Seahawks the ball at Denver's 37. A third-down pass interference call on Tony Carter brought Seattle to the 1, and Marshawn Lynch scored to make it 15-0.
Then Smith made his second huge play in two weeks. His interception clinched the NFC championship win over San Francisco.
Cliff Avril got to Manning's arm as he was throwing, the ball fluttered directly to Smith, who took off down the left sideline for a 69-yard interception TD.
Manning trudged to the sideline, a look of disgust on his face, Denver's reputation as an unstoppable force erased.]]>
Unlike previous Super Bowl Radio Rows, non-football celebrities have been in very short supply on Radio Row at Super Bowl XLVIII.
But finally — in the last hour of the last day — an honest-to-goodness real live celebrity showed up.
The last time the Dallas Cowboys played in a Super Bowl, the Roman numeral was simpler (XXX) and Hall of Fame wide receiver Michael Irvin played in it. Irvin visits on Radio Row with Bill Coates on the Cowboys as well as his pick for Super Bowl XLVIII.]]>
Some Super Bowls are bigger and better remembered than others. But when a Super Bowl comes to the Big Apple, it's bound to be remembered regardless of what happens on the field. At Super Bowl XLVIII, Broadway between 34th and 47th became "Super Bowl Boulevard."]]>
Dallas Cowboys fans may not remember Joe Theismann kindly. He was the quarterback for the Washington Redskins during the height of the Cowboys/Redskins rivalry and he contributed to more than one unpleasant Sunday afternoon for Cowboys fans.
Wearing a championship ring earned in a Redskins victory over Miami in Super Bowl XVII, Theismann joined Bill Coates on Radio Row to talk about the old rivalry, the Cowboys of today, Jerry Jones, the current controversy surrounding the name of his former team, Johnny Manziel, RGIII and much more.]]>
KTBB went to its first Super Bowl in 1993. In 1996, KTBB was on hand to see the Cowboys beat the Steelers in Super Bowl XXX.
KTBB has been to 18 Super Bowls since. The Cowboys haven't been to one.
We took the opportunity to ask several of our Radio Row guests, "Why?"]]>
Mitch Berger punted for 15 seasons in the NFL, including the 2008 season for the PIttsburgh Steelers. At the end of that season, Mitch and his Steelers teammates beat the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII.
Mitch Berger's path to the Super Bowl passed through Tyler Junior College, as he recalls to Bill Coates on Radio Row at Super Bowl XLVIII in New York.]]>
Daryl Johnston was an All Pro fullback for the Dallas Cowboys the last time the Cowboys played in a Super Bowl — which was 18 years ago. Now a color analyst for Fox Sports, Daryl spoke with Bill Coates about the Cowboys long post-season drought and the dimming prospects for any near term relief.]]>
On December 31, 1967, Green Bay Packers right guard Jerry Kramer took out Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Jethro Pugh, allowing the Packers' Bart Starr to score on a quarterback sneak. The play snatched the NFL Championship out of the hands of the Dallas Cowboys.
That game remains the coldest game ever played in the NFL and has come to be called the "Ice Bowl."
On the eve of Super Bowl XLVIII, Jerry Kramer talked with Bill Coates about playing big football games in cold weather.]]>


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JC SOFTBALL: Nava shakes off rust to help MC sweep Luna CC
Published 5:28 pm, Saturday, April 4, 2015
Midland College freshman Terri Nava had not seen live pitching for a month entering this weekend's home series versus Luna Community College.
Nava admitted she was rusty at the plate during the four-game series after sitting out with a knee injury, but the visiting Rough Riders may beg to differ.
Nava batted a perfect 6-for-6 during Saturday's doubleheader, propelling the No. 6 Lady Chaparrals to a four-game sweep of Luna CC, in which all WJCAC games were won by run-rule.
Midland College (37-4, 12-4 WJCAC) upended the Rough Riders, 9-0, in the first game, and followed with a 13-1 thumping of Luna CC in game two. Both contests lasted five innings.
Nava showed no ill-effects even though she wore a prodigious knee brace, scoring five runs in the twin-bill.
"I honestly feel like I am working with a new leg with the brace and everything," said Nava, who drove in two runs in the doubleheader. "It is a lot of discomfort, but it's getting better. In a week, I will be back to the way I was."
Prior to the Luna series, Nava had yet to play in a WJCAC game because of a partial tear of her posterior cruciate ligament in her left knee.
Nava was cleared to play Monday, barely missing the Lady Chaps' series versus Howard College when they dropped three of four games.
"We definitely missed her offensive threat at the plate," Midland College head coach Tommy Ramos said of Nava. "Her bat, we definitely missed that."
In her first four at-bats Saturday, Nava pulled the ball to the left side of the diamond for singles. Her last two hits traveled to the opposite field, including a hard hit double that traveled to the warning track in right-center.
Despite not being retired by Rough Rider pitchers, Nava said she was far from comfortable in the batters' box.
"Every day is going to be a stepping stone coming back," Nava said.
"It's not my best hitting, but it's doing something for the team," Nava added.
Remarkably, Nava wasn't even eased into action this weekend as a designated hitter. The Yucca Valley, California, native played all three of her games at the demanding position of third base.
During the fifth inning of Saturday's second game, Nava charged onto the shallow infield area to field a ground ball on the run and throw out a Luna batter at first base.
Nava was recruited by Ramos to play shortstop, but has been moved over to the hot corner because the Lady Chaparrals carry Cassie Siataga and Tammy Viliamu, both natural shortstops. Siataga has been playing shortstop, while Viliamu has been splitting time between second base and third base.
Ramos says Midland College benefits from a flexibility standpoint, having three fine athletes and shortstops in its infield.
"It's good to have her back in the lineup because she gives us options," Ramos said. "Defensively and then offensively, she gives us good pop in the lineup and we miss her in the lineup because she can hit with power. She hit well for someone hasn't hit in four weeks. She did a good job of seeing the ball, putting the ball in play."
In the first contest, Lady Chaps starting pitcher Tyneesha Houkamau tossed five shutout innings of one-hit ball to pick up her second win in two days.
MC sophomore Dominique Lozano Alcocer followed with another pitching gem in the finale, allowing just two hits over five innings.
Melissa Zuniga shined at the plate for the Lady Chaps, compiling seven RBI in the doubleheader. The first game was called with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning when Zuniga socked a three-run home run over the left-field fence.
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Game 1
Luna 000 00 --0 1 0
Midland 021 15 --9 10 0
Danette Diaz, Jackie Mathews (5) and Mercedes Gonzalez. Tyneesha Houkamau and Vanessa Munoz. W -- Houkamau (6-0). L -- Diaz. 2B -- Midland College: Mercedes Humphrey, Tammy Viliamu. HR -- Houkamau (3), Melissa Zuniga (4). RBI -- Midland College: Zuniga 4, Terri Nava 2, Houkamau, Viliamu.
Game 2
Luna 100 00 --1 2 4
Midland 640 3x --13 14 1
D'Ana Gabaldon, Jackie Mathews (1) and Mercedes Gonzalez. Dominique Lozano Alcocer and Vanessa Munoz. W -- Lozano Alcocer (19-2). L -- Gabaldon. 2B -- Luna CC: Gabaldon. Midland College: Munoz, Melissa Zuniga, Terri Nava. HR -- Midland College: Cassie Siataga (5). RBI -- Luna CC: Maria Gonzales. Midland College: Siataga 3, Zuniga 3, Desiree Hagberg 2, Mercedes Humphrey, Tammy Viliamu, Munoz, Jessica Bati.
Records: Luna CC 9-14, 5-11 WJCAC; Midland College 37-4, 12-4.
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Stray incidents of violence were reported from some parts of the state as the day-long general strike called by an umbrella organisation of pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam parties began on Wednesday morning.
Incidents of stone pelting on state-owned buses were reported from some districts, police said, adding that no one was injured in the incidents. Normal life remained unaffected in the state capital where public transport services, including autorickshaws, were operating as usual, police said.
The Sri Lankan Tamils Protection Movement, an umbrella organisation of pro-LTTE parties such as Pattali Makkal Katchi, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi and Tamil Nationalist Movement, has given the call for the strike to express solidarity with the Sri Lankan Tamils.
The police said unidentified persons damaged windscreens of government buses at different places including Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Tanjavur, Vellore, Dharmapuri, Tiruchirapalli, Dindigul and Tirunelveli. A Karnataka state transport bus was damaged near Avinashi in Coimbatore district by unidentified miscreants who pelted stones at the vehicle.
A state government bus was also damaged in a similar incident at Ramanathapuram locality. Private buses, taxis and autos kept off the roads and about 60 per cent of commercial establishments downed shutters.
The state police, which had made elaborate security arrangements to maintain law and order, had warned that the National Security Act would be invoked against those who caused damage to public property.
In Chennai, no untoward incident was reported, police said, adding that the general strike call had not made much of an impact on normal life, though some shops were closed.
The Vanikargal Sankankalin Peravai, a traders' body headed by T Vellaiyan, had pledged its support to the strike call. Government buses and train services were not affected, and around 8,000 police personnel had been posted in the city, police said.
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The case is unusual because it featured not only one of the biggest heists in British history, but mixed in MI5 and a government restriction sealing the story so that nothing could be written about it for 35 years. The reason? Also stolen from the vaults were compromising pictures of royalty and top politicians, which the bank robbers - who had originally been set up by the security services - used to blackmail their would-be captors and ended up getting clean away.
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