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  • Oregon WR Devon Allen was a crucial part of the Ducks' run to the 2014 College Football Playoff. But as the season looms, Devon isn't on the football field. Instead, he's at the Rio Olympics, racing in the 110m hurdles.
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August 15, 2016

EUGENE, Ore. — It went just as Devon Allen had planned. First, he took 10 leaps over the 10 hurdles, beating everyone to the finish line in 13.03 seconds, a lifetime best and the second fastest time in the world this year. Then Devon took one final leap, over the Hayward Field fence and into his father’s arms, catching Louis Allen off-guard.

And that’s saying something, because not much Devon does these days surprises Louis.

Was Louis elated that his son won the 110-meter men’s hurdles at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials? Of course. Impressed? You bet.

“I can’t look at the photo of us hugging without breaking down into tears,” Louis says. “He seemed like a little kid when he won. He just wanted it so bad.”

But was Louis shocked? Not even a little.

“Since he was old enough to participate in sports, if he believes he can do something, he does it.”

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So when runners line up for the final of the 110m hurdles Tuesday evening at the Rio Olympics, Louis doesn’t just expect Devon to be lining up in that final, having safely made it through the heats and the semifinals—Louis is sure he’s going to win. And then Devon, a key piece to the University of Oregon’s run to the 2014 College Football Playoff, is expected to return to Eugene for his third college football season.

“You know how we do [the big screen] video before every game where they introduce all the players?” Devon says. “I was thinking it would be cool to wear my gold medal in the video.”

But what comes after that? There’s professional track, the NFL and maybe … professional baseball?

“I honestly believe if he had stuck with baseball he could be a pro right now,” Louis says. “He was great at stealing bases and running down fly balls. A good friend of mine is a positional coach with the Kansas City Royals and he’s told me, ‘If you give me 30 days with Devon, I could at least get him a minor league contract.’”

Don’t be surprised if Devon does it, Louis says. His son has been known to set some outlandish goals, and then follow through on them.

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During a spring practice in Devon’s freshman year, the confident freshman wondered aloud, “Hey, what’s the world record in the 110 hurdles?”

Someone answered, and Devon nodded matter-of-factly. “I’m gonna beat that some day,” he said. “And I’m gonna go to the Olympics.”

It was a bold statement coming from someone who’d only been hurdling for a few years, taking up the event when he was 16. (Days before leaving for Rio, Devon offered this: “If I had focused on sprints, I think I’d be running 9.5 in the 100 right now.”)

“I mean, when he said that, we’re just getting to know each other,” says Oregon track and field coach Robert Johnson, who will be in Rio to watch his star pupil. “For him to make such a bold statement at such an early age, that said a lot about him and his mindset. And I think he gets a lot of that mindset from football—that ‘go get ‘em, go after it’ mentality.”

In his rookie year at Oregon, Devon won the 2014 NCAA and USATF titles, the first 110 hurdler to accomplish that double since 1979. His 13.16 at the NCAA championships set a school and meet record. Then he returned to the football field for a breakout season, catching 41 passes for 684 yards. He torched secondaries with his speed, scoring seven touchdowns, and became a dangerous returner, averaging more than 26 yards per return despite only eight carries.

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Then, in the opening kickoff of the Rose Bowl, Johnson’s worst fears came true.

As Devon raced back the opening kickoff, dodging would-be tacklers, he saw one last barrier before the end zone.

“There was only one more person in front of me,” Devon recalls wistfully. “Everyone else was over to the left. When I went to cut, when I tore it, there was only one guy left. That would have been cool to score on the opening kickoff of the Rose Bowl.”

Johnson’s reaction from Eugene, where he was watching on television: “Holy s---!”

Devon went down, clearly hurt, but no one knew the severity of his injury. He limped off the field on his own power, watching the rest of the half from the trainer’s table. During games, Louis turns off his phone, trying to avoid the distraction of congratulatory texts that typically stream in anytime Devon grabs a pass or a touchdown. At halftime he turned it on, horrified to see he had “something like 15 voicemails” informing him that Devon had likely blown out his knee.

Doctor’s confirmed the injury—a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus—and Devon’s 2015 track season was shot.

He opted for the most painful surgery, a procedure where doctors cut into his patella tendon, take a piece and sew it onto his ACL. Eventually, Devon explained, the body grafts the patella into a thicker, stronger ACL, ideal for someone making a lot of lateral cuts. He chose the surgery with his future in mind; were he going to return only to running, he probably would have taken an intact ACL from a cadaver.

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Pain management proved harder than he anticipated. Devon came back for the 2015 season, but played sparingly, as Oregon used him primarily as a decoy or blocker. He recorded just nine receptions for 91 yards, and did not attempt a return. Duck football coaches famously do not discuss injuries, but it was clear to anyone familiar with the team that something wasn’t quite right. Devon says now that his weeks typically went like this: practice Wednesday and Thursday, walk-through Friday, play Saturday and struggle to walk Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

“Football season was kinda tough because I wanted to play, but I wasn’t in as good of shape, didn’t feel as good as an athlete, I was heavier,” he says. “As the season went on, my body just started to break down in all facets.”

Before Oregon’s Alamo Bowl game on Jan. 2, Devon had surgery to clean out scar tissue that had accumulated since his first surgery. He says now he never stressed about not coming back as the same athlete he was before the tear. Louis didn’t worry either.

By Jan. 30, Devon had returning to the track, running in the Razorback Invitational at Arkansas. There, he was beat by Iowa’s Aaron Mallett in the 60-meter hurdles, an indoor event. Louis watched the race and found the positives. “The Iowa kid beat him by a hair,” Louis says, “but the smile on Devon’s face told me he was back.”

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Devon has never bought into the outside chatter of “You’re going to have to pick a sport eventually,” and neither has his family. Oregon track recruited Devon before the football team got interested, but when football did give him an offer, coach Mark Helfrich promised he’d be able to do both, so long as he kept his academics in order. Other colleges said the same but when Louis would follow-up with, “So, who do you have right now that’s doing both?” coaches often answered sheepishly with, “Well, no one.”

The Ducks, meanwhile, have a long history of football players who also excelled in track, most notably former track All-American Jordan Kent. A local product who won 11 state championships in track and basketball at Churchill High in Eugene, Kent played football, basketball and track at Oregon. He took advantage of his NCAA five-year clock, deciding to try out for football late in his collegiate career. By spring 2007, with his track eligibility up, Kent opted to focus full-time on football. It worked well, as the Seattle Seahawks drafted him in the sixth round of the 2007 draft. He spent three years in the league before being cut by the St. Louis Rams in 2010.

“It’s easy, when you see people who are focusing on one sport have a lot of success, to wonder ‘What if?’” Kent says. “But that thinking can be pretty unhealthy, and take away from the moment and the uniqueness of what you’re doing.

“It’s funny to me that people think Devon can only do one, track or football, long-term. There’s no guarantee that if he stopped playing football, he’d be a better hurdler, or if he stopped hurdling, he’d be a better football player. All we know for sure is that right now, doing both is working out well for him.”

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Kent also points out Devon is at an advantage over many dual sport athletes because he doesn’t have to dramatically change his body from season to season. Louis says that at most, Devon’s weight fluctuates between eight to 10 pounds from football to track. Currently, he’s listed on Team USA’s roster at 6' 0", 187 pounds.

As of now, Devon is planning to return to the football field, but not until after the Rio closing ceremony. At Pac-12 media day, Helfrich joked that he would not make Devon run extra sprints for tardiness. Upon hearing this, Devon’s eyes lit up as he mentioned he’s in the best shape of his life, and Helfrich could bring on any running challenge.

Helfrich plans to hold a watch party for each of Devon’s races—“I was going to call it a team meeting,” he says, “but ‘watch party’ sounds cooler”—and will welcome him back whenever he returns.

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Devon isn’t sure he’ll ever have to pick one sport or the other permanently. He points to Bills receiver Marquise Goodwin as proof that multi-tasking works in the professional world, too. A former standout receiver at Texas, Goodwin won two NCAA long jump titles (2010, ’12) and competed in the London Olympics. He didn’t medal and when he returned to school, focused solely on football. He played in 2012 and skipped track in ’13, telling NFL teams he was fully committed to football. Buffalo drafted him in the third round of the 2013 draft, the No. 78 overall pick. At the 2016 trials last month in Eugene, Goodwin again competed in long jump (he did not qualify for Rio) and took time to give Devon some advice.

“Do what you want,” he told Devon. “You have complete control when you’re a professional athlete … but I’d recommend maybe focusing on football your rookie season to build some tenure and leeway. Then you can say, ‘Hey, Coach, I’ve got this track meet I want to go to, and I’ll miss two or three days of OTAs.”

Certainly, Devon has a future in both sports. He’s still relatively new to the hurdles; Louis says he marvels at video of Devon’s high school hurdle races, when his son had such a slow start “he was almost always one of the last people to the first hurdle.” Now much improved out of the blocks, Devon is still perfecting all of the small details that can help him continue to shave time off his personal record. He’s young, charismatic and good-looking, a triple threat in the marketing world. As a bonus, he goes to school and trains just two hours from Nike World Headquarters. Many speculate that Nike will make Devon a lucrative offer to turn pro.

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Long before the Olympics came into view, Devon, like many young football players, dreamed of playing in the NFL. Despite underwhelming stats from the 2015 season, he’s likely to be drafted, at the very least, as a returner. Devon says he’s gotten intel that he’d be a third-round pick right now, but he thinks a good season could dramatically improve his draft stock.

Currently, he’s in talks with Oregon and NCAA compliance about if he could turn pro in track while maintaining his collegiate eligibility in football. The parameters are strict: Devon could take prize money right away, but he would likely not be able to accept appearance fees. He would not be able to sign an endorsement deal. He could hire an agent, but it would have to be for track and track alone.

Louis, who is currently unemployed, has told Devon he needs to make the best decision for him. He doesn’t want Devon feeling pressure to provide for his family. “We’re not sure on a timeline just yet,” Louis says. “I’ve told him, ‘Just win the gold medal, and then we’ll figure it out.’”

But Devon might also still be exploring his options in college track and field. Since the fall, he’s been telling people he’d like to try the decathlon. He could do something completely new, too. His family has an Olympic tradition elsewhere: Louis’s cousin, Darin Allen, was a U.S. boxing champion, and was the silver medalist at the 1988 Olympic trials.

So does Devon have a future in yet another sport?

“There’s no way he’ll take up boxing,” Louis says. “He’s too pretty.”

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) With his trademark self-deprecating humor, James Hinchcliffe jokes that he received ''a complete oil change'' after his accident during preparations for the Indianapolis 500.

All kidding aside, the IndyCar driver recognizes he's lucky to be alive.

Hinchcliffe suffered a life-threatening leg injury May 18 when a piece of his suspension broke during a crash and pierced his leg. IndyCar's safety crew had to act quickly to extract him from the car and pump him with more than 14 points of blood as they raced him in an ambulance to an Indianapolis hospital.

Hinchcliffe, who was in critical condition when he was rushed into emergency surgery, said Wednesday he has no memory of the race to save his life.

''I'm not sure if it's some sort of defense mechanism or biology taking over - despite being conscious throughout the whole process, I have mercifully been spared any memory of the accident whatsoever,'' he said. ''Even the first couple days at the hospital are a bit of a blur. I remember waking up in ICU, knowing that obviously I'd had an accident, that I was somewhere I probably shouldn't be.''

It wasn't until he'd been moved from ICU several days later and family remembers recounted their experiences from that day that Hinchcliffe realized ''just how serious the injuries were and how very close it was to being a different story.

''That was a first time I had an appreciation of the severity of the situation,'' he said.

He's watched the video multiple times of the wreck, which began with a spin that led to a hard crash into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway wall. Many observers have said if not for a steel-and-foam energy absorbing wall, Hinchcliffe would not have survived that initial impact.

''It's fascinating and terrifying all at the same time,'' he said. ''I still have a lot of questions about the day because I don't remember it. I'm the luckiest unlucky guy.''

Hinchcliffe was not hurt in the collision, which ripped off one side of his car and sent his Honda into a lazy spin that briefly caused the car to turn on its side. His injuries came from a piece of the suspension that went through his upper left thigh and caused massive blood loss. He also suffered a fractured pelvis.

When the safety crew arrived, they had to act quickly to first extract Hinchcliffe from the car and also stop the bleeding. Hinchcliffe has credited IndyCar's use of a traveling safety crew for recognizing his injury and knowing immediately how to keep him alive while transporting him to IU Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.

''You know, me and my family have literally everything to thank them for,'' said Hinchcliffe, who believes the safety crew saw the blood pooling at the bottom of his race car and knew exactly what to do.

''Having an understanding of racing, having an understanding of the kind of injuries that can happen in a racecar, it gives them such a leg up. You know, you can have the best surgeon in the world, but if he doesn't have a grasp of what could potentially be wrong, it's going to take him that much longer to really diagnose the problem. In a situation like mine, there wasn't any longer to diagnose the problem.

''It is no doubt in my mind a contributing factor to me surviving that accident, was not only having a safety team there, but one with the kind of skills and experience these guys have.''

Hinchcliffe, who was released from the hospital May 26, doesn't know when he'll race again. Although the Canadian wants to attend this weekend's race in Toronto, he wasn't sure Wednesday he could get the doctor approval to travel.

For now, he just works on walking a little more each day, and said his high so far was 4,000 steps in one day. He's able to use an elliptical machine a bit, but exercise has not been approved.

Still, he said doctors believe his recovery is on schedule. He'll need one more surgery, and learned Wednesday it could be scheduled in the next four to six weeks.

''The pain level has been going down every single day. I'm almost completely off pain medication now, which is great,'' he said. ''There's some other things that have to happen, some other bits that have to heal before we can schedule (surgery), but based on the progress we've seen on those areas, the doctor's confident that within the next four to six weeks we should be able to schedule that surgery.

''Then it should be another four to six weeks before I'm kind of back to the gym and really getting back into a full training regimen.''

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If Assassin’s Creed Unity feels like a star ballplayer calling his shot to the bleachers, popping it up for an easy catch and losing the game, Assassin’s Creed: Rogue is the result of that same ballplayer keeping the ball on the ground and hitting a nice solid double. It’s thoroughly unambitious, but what it does, it does well, and with a practiced ease. It’s a solid refinement of old principles, and it comes off as a much more appreciable success as a result.

The game takes place 20 years after the events of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, and its own events directly influence the state of the Assassin/Templar war as we saw it in Assassin’s Creed III. The current Assassin Brotherhood is gearing up to turn the tides in the wake of the French and Indian War, and is seeking to steal the Templars’ thunder, quite literally, by finding artifacts from the still-laughably implemented alien “Precursor” race. The package Adewale was trying to keep out of Templar hands in the Freedom Cry DLC turns out to be a map of sorts, showing where the artifacts are kept, and fresh-faced, smart-mouthed Irish Assassin Shay Patrick Cormac is dispatched to retrieve it from Portugal. The retrieval goes wrong, however, resulting in one of the most harrowing sequences in an Assassin’s Creed game to date: a playable escape from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, a very real event that completely decimated the city. Tortured by the thought of having inadvertently killed thousands of people, and the Assassins potentially causing more if they disrupt any of the other artifacts, Shay makes a failed attempt to destroy the map. He’s summarily branded a traitor, leading him into the surprisingly welcoming and sympathetic arms of the Templar Order.

Rogue is meant to not just close the book on what UbiSoft has dubbed “The American Saga,” which includes Assassin’s Creed III, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, Black Flag, and Freedom Cry, but it’s meant to close it on Assassin’s Creed as a last-gen property. The wave goodbye is a fond, enthusiastic one, where the game seems hellbound to tie every major loose end from the colonial era of the Brotherhood, and implement every good idea from every game so far that brought the series to this point. There’s a return to the first game’s mission structure, where stalking and intelligence-gathering before you face your Assassin target is encouraged, though not as linearly laid out as it was there. The renovation, property, and fortress system from the Ezio trilogy—Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations—returns here, with a few nail-biting twists, where success doesn’t just mean finding a gang leader and killing him. Destroying a faction’s explosives, raiding their stores for treasure and goods, and cutting down their flag may be necessary before you even see their leader. Even then, getting a clean kill is no easy feat, thanks to Rogue’s best innovation: an ambush system that turns on about a third of the way into the game, where enemies are as good at silent stalking from around corners and striking from above as you are.

The glue holding it all together as more than just a stale repurpose of the previous games is the story.

Assassin’s Creed III and Black Flag’s major contributions come in with the aesthetic. The vast majority of Rogue is spent in what is now the Hudson River Valley, spanning as far north as Albany, and as far south as downtown Manhattan. The same attention to colonial detail that made Assassin’s Creed III so pretty to look at is evident here, without colonial Boston’s boring, uninspired flatness. When not in a city, you’re on the water, and the sailing and naval combat is copy-pasted straight from Black Flag, with a few new sea shanties tossed in for good measure. The kicker here is that with the Northern exposure comes the Northern weather: The water in the northern areas is freezing cold, and does damage after a time, meaning swimming your way out of problems as in games past is a no-go. An attachment has to be mounted to your ship so you can break through completely frozen areas of the water. Icebergs, blizzards, and complete white-outs are a common sight, and one of the game’s climactic battles is all the more awe-inspiring due to having to take down a man-o-war with zero visibility, and a labyrinth of icebergs blocking every shot. The aesthetic suffers due to Rogue’s relegation to the last-gen systems, but it’s still milked for all its worth.

The glue holding it all together as more than just a stale repurpose of the previous games is the story. Shay isn’t as lively a traveling companion as Black Flag’s Edward Kenway, but the story supports the constant air of regret and tentative trust once he wakes up in New York an Assassin no more. The other side’s viewpoint is rarely considered in any series, let alone this one, and the game’s willingness to tilt our POV of the entire series thus far, to see the Templars as an army of fundamentally good men forced into extreme tactics as opposed to the mustache-twirling megalomaniacs of games past has to be commended. Neither side comes of this game fresh as a daisy, and in a righteous world, this is the slant UbiSoft will be taking going forward, one toward nuance when it comes to how and why the killing must be done.

The usual series problems holds here, in that many of the sidequests are disposable half-thoughts, and the ending stumbles on its words a bit, with a final mission that’s essentially a playable teaser for Unity. Shay’s journey and its purpose as a Templar soft-sell, showing the fallibility of the Assassin order, is a compelling one that may not break new ground, but the game doesn’t sell any of its well-trod concepts short. Again, refinement, not innovation. Rogue bids a fond farewell to the last gen, making promises that, unfortunately, Unity wasn’t able to keep, but hopefully a future Assassin’s Creed might.

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November 11, 2014
PlayStation 3
UbiSoft Sofia
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Blood, Strong Language, Violence


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Time-lapse Photography in a Single Frame | Pelle Cass’ “Selected People” Series

Pelle Cass’ Commandments for “Selected People” Time-lapse Project

  1. I don’t change a thing and I never move a figure or doctor a single pixel. I simply decide what’s stays in and what’s left out.

  3. My work looks real because it is real, even though it’s based on a trick.

  5. I use Photoshop to increase imperfection, not remove it.

  7. When I go out to photograph I like to have a plan because I can always bag it when I get back to the studio and do something completely different.

  9. I try to have some context so I’m not just taking pictures in the dark, as it were. So I try to read a million books, see a ton of movies, listen to all kinds of music, and go to every gallery and museum I can find.

  11. I never pass up the chance to make a joke, visual or otherwise.

  13. People tend to clump, so I look for birds and kids to fill the high and low spots.

  15. Rule: If twins happen to wander into the frame, I always leave them in so people think it’s a Photoshop trick.

[rewind: Lovers Dance All Night for Long Exposure Time-Lapse

Until Next Time . . .

Stay Inspired ~ Jules

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CREDITS: Photographs by Pelle Cass. Do not copy or modify.

is a Southern California based Conceptual Artist and Photographer. Her work has been featured in several print publications and selections can be seen in local gallery exhibitions. Connect with her on Facebook and Google+.

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  1. Roberto

    Interesting project, the production and the concept gives a whole new sense to the final image, that otherwise it would look like just another place full of people. Thanks for sharing this Jules.

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4 Stars from the Sydney Morning Herald:

"All the world was a stage for Shakespeare. For US bassist Matt Geraghty it's a palette of sounds. He draws on elements of Indian, North African, Latin and Gypsy music to infuse and thicken his highly melodic compositions, doing so with a lightness and lack of self-consciousness that sets him apart from much fusion. Each piece is a touchdown at a new destination, accompanied by a cast including the gorgeous Polish singer Anna Maria Jopek and pianist/accordionist Gil Goldstein. Fans of Pat Metheny and Chick Corea will quickly latch on, but Geraghty's singularly appealing ideas are all his own. Beautiful and very accessible, this could be the pop music of a more sophisticated planet." -John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald 2012

Matt Geraghty is a bassist without borders, a sonic traveler whose musical pursuits have drawn him to the local music scenes on four continents. Geraghty has collaborated with musicians from Brazil, Colombia, West Africa, Japan, India, and Trinidad, and has journeyed deep into the musical enclaves of Spain, France, Portugal, Cuba, Colombia, and the Philippines.

Matt's list of music collaborations crosses all genres of music and includes projects and recordings with 3-time grammy winning pianist Gil Goldstein, 7-time grammy winning drummer Paul Wertico, Polish star vocalist Anna Maria Jopek, Indian Sarangi Master Ramesh Misra and grammy winning harmonica virtuoso and original member of Bela Fleck and Flecktones Howard Levy.

Drawing inspiration from Pat Metheny's melodic clarity and Herbie Hancock's moody, electric grooves, Geraghty crafts a global sound that's rooted in the style of contemporary jazz. His compositions are both atmospheric and tuneful, serving as compelling narratives of the journeys that continue to shape his musical style.


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With the Olympics finally over (and while we’re waiting on the reports on their doubtlessly disastrous long-term effect on the Chinese people, their environment and economic situation), here’s a nice cartoon from De Morgen by Flemish artist Kim Duchateau about a new Olympic discipline, the 100 meters free speech.

Besides the fact that this cartoon uses traditional cartoon elements like word balloons in a nice, formalistic manner, I particularly liked Kim’s implicaiton that free speech automatically entails uncouth language and verbal abuse.

(artwork © Kim Duchateau)

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The Being behind Hitler

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(Regarding an old "Playground Talk" of March 8, 1951, in which Mother spoke of the being that possessed and "guided" Hitler: "Hitler was in contact with a being whom he considered to be the Supreme: that being would come and give him advice and tell him all that he had to do. Hitler would withdraw into solitude and wait long enough to come into contact with his 'guide' and receive inspirations from him which he would afterwards carry out very faithfully. That being whom Hitler took for the Supreme was quite simply an Asura, the one called in occultism 'the Lord of Falsehood,' and he  proclaimed himself to be 'the Lord of Nations.' He had a resplendent appearance and could pull the wool over anyone's eyes, except one who truly had occult knowledge and could thus see what was there, behind the appearance. He could have deluded anyone, he was so splendid. He generally appeared to Hitler wearing a breast-plate and a silver helmet (with a sort of flame coming out of his head), and there was around him an atmosphere of dazzling light, so dazzling that Hitler could hardly look at him.

He would tell him all that he had to do – he would play with him as with a monkey or a mouse. He had set his mind on making Hitler do all possible kinds of folly ... until the day when he would come a cropper, which is what happened. But there are many cases like that one, on a smaller scale, naturally. Hitler was a very good medium, he had great mediumistic capacities, but he lacked intelligence and discernment. That being could tell him anything and he would swallow it all. That's what prodded him on little by little. And that being would do that as a pastime, he didn't take life seriously. For those beings, people are very small things with which they play as a cat plays with a mouse, until the day when they eat them up.")

I knew that being very well (for other reasons ... the story would be too long to tell), and once, I knew he was going to visit Hitler – I went before he did: I took his appearance, it was very easy. Then I said to Hitler, "Go and attack Russia." I don't exactly remember the words or the details, but the fact was that I told him, "Go ... In order to have the supreme victory, go and attack Russia." That was the end of Hitler. He believed it and did it – two days later, we got the news of the attack.[i] And then, the next day, that is, when I came back from Hitler, I met that being and told him, "I've done your job!" Naturally enough, he was furious!

But all the same, in that consciousness, there is with that being (the Lord of Falsehood, one of the first four Emanations), there is despite everything a very deep relationship, of course. He said to me, "I know, I know I will be defeated eventually, but before my end comes I will wreak as much destruction on earth as I can."

Then, as I told you, the next day, the news of the attack came, and that was really the end of Hitler.

As for Sri Aurobindo ... (you know that there is a place in Russia where they were defeated[ii]), Sri Aurobindo had foreseen the defeat and had worked the night before, and that's how it happened – we knew ALL THE DETAILS.

We never told this, of course, but it was perfectly precise.

But I knew that being, I had already seen him in Japan – he called himself "the Lord of Nations." And he really was a form of the Asura of Falsehood, that is, of Truth which became Falsehood: the first Emanation of Truth, who became Falsehood.

And he hasn't been destroyed yet.

[i]The lightning offensive of June 22, 1941.

[ii]Stalingrad, on February 2, 1943.

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 Internal mind Reflects in External Work
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Mind always vibrates (Chanchalamhi manah– Gita) and the vibration indicates the continuous activity. If the mind becomes static or inactive, it is no more a mind, which becomes inactive and inert stone. The activity of mind is the nature of attraction by aspiring and attaching itself to something. Such aspiration for something to be achieved generates action or work. Hence, any living being having developed mind is always identified with constant work. It means that the mind of such living being is always active generating continuous action or work. Hence, the internal mind means external work and vice-versa. Since mind is not visible, from the visible work you can infer the active mind. The Gita says that no human being having developed mind can be seen without doing work (Nahikascchit kshanamapi…). This statement indirectly means that there is no human being without active mind or mental aspiration.

Sometimes, there may be mental aspiration to achieve something, but, the practical impossibility to achieve that thing may stop the generation of the concerned effort or work to be done to achieve that thing. In such case only, the mental aspiration exists without the generation of the concerned external work (Ya aaste manasaa smaran– Gita). This is a special case of resisted work due to practical impossibility. If such resistance is not there, the mind will generate the related work. Therefore, the generation of the work from the mind is to be taken in normal conditions. Even the continuous mental aspiration itself is work, which is the work of the mind. Therefore, the continuous process of aspiration can be taken as the related work generated from the mental attachment.
[Example:] You saw the daughter of the king and you fell in love with her. This love is the first mental attachment. Due to the impossibility of making efforts to achieve her, the external work may not be generated but, the process of constant thinking about her is generated, which can be also taken as the work. Hence, the generation of the work from the mind is nowhere violated. Such person without the external work, but, involved in the mental work of continuous thinking is called as hypocrite (Mithyacharah sa uchyate– Gita). This resisted work is also not universal because some person may be mad of her love and may put the external practical effort or work and sometimes may succeed also.
If this is the case, why the Lord advised the human being to do external work or effort constantly without mental attachment for the fruit? This means that He advised for constant work resisting the mental activity or attachment. This is impossible since we have already understood that work means mind and mind means work. If the mind is detached from one issue, the work concerned with that issue also must disappear. If the mind and work concerned to one issue disappear, it means that the mind and work concerned to some other issue must have appeared since mind can never be inactive by detaching itself from all issues resulting in the disappearance of all types of concerned works. Even in the case of resisted work, there may be absence of external work, but, the mental attachment always existed. Thus, there may be mental attachment without the external work. But, there cannot be external work without its concerned mental attachment. But, the Lord says to do the external work without its concerned mental attachment! Now, the main point is that how the Lord advised to practice an impossible concept (Karmanyevaadhikaaraste maaphaleshu kadaachana…)? Therefore, the concept of work for achieving something without mental attachment to that (Nishkama Karma Yoga) is meaningless since practically it is impossible. You will not go to your office and work if you do not aspire the salary, which is the fruit of your work. If you say that you do the job without any aspiration for the fruit, it is just hypocrisy since there cannot be work without its generating cause, which is the mental attachment to the fruit of that work.

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Explain why it took Saturday Night Live so long to book Miguel, please? The pint-sized, Grammy-winning R&B sex machine, and this generation’s closest incarnation to Prince, conquered Studio 8H last night (April 13), with two hard-rocking transformations from his Best Album of 2012 Kaleidoscope Dream. The first was his go-to late-night single (and No. 6 Best Song of 2012) “Adorn.” In Prince-like fashion, Miguel stripped away the album cut’s bass throb and replaced it with wailing electric guitar and live drums.

For his second act, “How Many Drinks” left remix partner Kendrick Lamar at home, and took the rock-revisionist approach one step farther. Miguel slowed it down, singing out like a preacher peddling repentance over undulating synth and snickering guitar, before cracking it open with an epileptic punk-rock freakout. “Yeah, baby,” he boasted camera-right with a cock of his head and two kicks in the air. Then he dropped the mike and got the fuck off stage, because what else was left to be done? He’d seduced the audience and then slaughtered them all.


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At the helm of the Spread the Word-ship is Rishi Dastidar, Chair, copywriter, brand strategist, published poet and avid social networker. Earlier this year his debut collection Ticker-tape was published by Nine Arches Press. Read on to find out more…

Which poets have been most influential on your own development as a poet?

We all stand on the shoulders – the writing desks? – of those who have written before us, and I am no exception. I would not be doing this at all if I hadn’t stumbled across Ashes for Breakfast by Durs Grünbein (in Michael Hofmann’s translation, who’s also a poet I love). It was through Grünbein that I discovered that something called ‘poetry’ could be this radically different way of engaging with the world – made out of words but doing something so utterly transformative with them, by-passing rationality, winning arguments through feeling, illuminating sensations I never knew I might even have had.

Second is Daljit Nagra – I’ve been fortunate enough to be both taught by him and mentored by him, and I don’t think I can actually begin to fully articulate the debt I owe to him. I’ve learned from him how much craft matters, that it’s the difference between a poem succeeding or not; continually attacking drafts with a restless enthusiasm; and that you should read with an energy and joy, and leave yourself open to be transported by words, simple words. Plus, I’ve looked up to him as a pathfinder and guide – that sense of ‘if he can do it, I can do it too’. He was the one to first break down a lot of the doors that many of us can now walk through.

Other names? I’ll claim there’s some Keats and Robert Herrick in what I write, though I suspect others will struggle to see it; I long to record life the way Frank O’Hara did; I wish I might have the moral purpose of James Fenton; I aim and miss to have the deftness, wit and touch of Wendy Cope; I still dream of trying to master rhythm and rhyme like Vikram Seth; and if I can ever get close to anything as good as Maggie Nelson’s Bluets I’ll die happy.

Can you share the process of one of your poems from idea to publication?

I find my process very difficult to describe, as it can seem to me at least that it varies from piece to piece, commission to commission. But broadly speaking, it’s rare that I start with an ‘idea’ for a poem per se – or if I do, those take a heck of a lot longer to write. That’s mainly because, I recognise now, that I’m very much driven by language first. What tends to happen is that I’ll come up with, get snagged and caught by a phrase, maybe when walking around, scribbling something at work, even the shower. I’ll store that away, and then at some point come back to it, and start exploring, pushing – what works with it, what else should follow, what does it suggest? And it’s through that that exploration that the idea of the poem starts to reveal itself to me. Sometimes this can take ages; other times it needs a further stimulus – an photograph, something someone says that I overhear, or in a message to me – that triggers the movement towards the first draft. The best moments are of course when this process of playing with language happens at what feels like warp speed, and half an hour later you have something that looks like a viable first draft.

And then the real work begins: re-drafting four five six seven times (I am a handwriter), gradually whittling the poem away, putting it into a shape, seeing how and where the lines need to balance – and saying it out loud too (a poem needs to work in the air as much as it does on the page; reading things out is still the best way of checking how and where your lines need to breathe, as you need to breathe). Most often I’ll then put this away, for (depending on whether it’s a commission or not) a day, a week, six months. And then when I look at it again, hopefully what jumps out at me is what needs to change – more likely what needs to be taken out: a verb, a stanza, whatever. What I’m really trying to keep an eye on is – does the poem still have a lot of energy within it? I worry that too much drafting can kill a thing stone dead, and my voice needs a lot of energy to achieve its effects.

And if it’s not a commission, it’s only at that point that I start thinking about sending the poem out. There’s a bit of plotting involved, about where it might fit well, are there magazines I’m enjoying reading right now that I think might be a good home for it… but that is all so much in the lap of the gods that I don’t worry about it too much. I wish I was more systematic about sending, but ultimately I write so much for myself that I don’t get too crushed by rejections any more.

You’re published by the prolific and excellent Nine Arches Press. How did this come about?

A couple of years ago, I sent a few poems in to Under The Radar, the excellent magazine that Nine Arches also puts out. Jane Commane, the driving force behind both that and the press, took a couple and in her lovely note back to me said, “When you’re ready, I’d love to offer you some mentoring on some poems.” This arrived at roughly the same time as I felt that I had enough poems for a collection; so I pulled a rough first manuscript together, and sent them to Jane, saying it’d be great to get her view on these. I didn’t hear anything for about 3, 4 months, and then I got a message back – “The offer of mentoring is still there, but can I have the book too?” It took me all of about 30 seconds to reply in the affirmative. Of course there’s a little coda to the tale, in that Jane told me recently that she had been expecting only about 15 poems rather than 60…! Now, I’m not saying be bumptious and over-interpret a brief but… *exaggerated wink*.

How does social media help and hinder your poetic voice?

Well, regular readers will know that I am, how shall we say, annoyingly prolific over on the twitter dot com and Facebook too… I don’t actually think of the time spent on either site as places where there’s been any help or hindrance to my poetic voice per se. What both places have been good for is a) ‘meeting’ other poets (Facebook in particular can feel like the poetic bush telegraph, as people share news, what they’re writing, beefs they might have – I love the sense of community overall) and b) trying things out which might not actually be things when I start them but ultimately end up being so. Two cases in point: 1) a few years ago, me and graphic designer friend of mine took nearly all of my Facebook updates until then, turned them into postcards and put them on as an exhibition 2) I’ve been testing out on Twitter some aphorisms, loosely inspired by Martin Luther’s 95 Theses. That really isn’t something I’d have even thought about trying to do if it wasn’t for both the constraint and the throwawayness feel of Twitter – it encourages risk-taking, in me at least.

Oh, and using things like #hashtags in poems also – I think that’s useful, if for no other reason than to drawn attention to the way we’re all using language right now. And if compression, and threading and captioning and whatever else is what we’re up to, I’d like some of that to leak into my lyric style.

Your collection features a great many influences, from many popular culture references to cities. What are the three biggest influences in Ticker-tape, that without, your collection simply wouldn’t exist as it is?

Apart from the poets named above? Briefly: 1) various strands and types of popular music from between 1991-2008 – there’s a lot of writing about, and writing through pop music, and not just lyrically, but attempts to try and capture sonic effects in text too (the book has its own playlist on Spotify, by the way); 2) an idea of and about California, a place I’ve only been to once, and even then that was only a layover at LAX airport – there’s something about how it embodies a myth of how the future will be – a place where everyone’s future is made – that underpins a lot of the poems; and 3) my undergraduate degree in history, but replayed sideways, slant – it almost feels like I’m trying to point people’s attention to different ways of looking at and reading certain events, to look at some of the stories beneath the stories, as it were.

How does your work in copy writing and advertising feed into your poetry?

I did a talk about this recently, at the excellent Copy Cabana conference. Long story short, there’s lots of different ways that one bleeds into the other. I’ve found advertising, marketing and design, and their roles in service of a particular style of capitalism, interesting topics to explore poetically, so in Ticker-tape are poems inspired by particular advertising campaigns and figures from this world, such as David Ogilvy, founder of the famous ad agency. In the other direction, poetry has helped me become bolder in some of my work for clients – particularly around verb choices: it’s amazing how using an unexpected verb in a sales or marketing context suddenly makes things a bit more noticeable; useful when you consider the amount of stuff out there that you’re fighting to be heard against.

Tell us a little about your role as Chair of Spread the Word

Well, I first fell into the embrace of Spread the Word thanks to The Complete Works 2, but only got a small sense of what we as an organisation do during that. It was after that programme was done, in 2015, that someone suggested that I might be a useful person to join the board of trustees, to represent the artist’s voice in discussions. And it was really lovely through that to discover the passion that everyone has, in the team and on the board, for what we do – and frankly the ridiculously disproportionate impact that we as an organisation make on the careers of writers in London.

I stepped up to become chair of the board in December 2016, and my main role now is basically to keep an eye on things – help Ruth, the director, implement her vision and strategy for reaching more people to persuade them that writing is a potential career for them; finding the talented writers we know are out there and getting them the help they need to develop their careers; campaigning to bring more diverse voices into the writing industry, at all levels, in every part of it; and making sure that we have the money to do it. (Shameless appeal – if you’re a rich donor or company who wants to help talented voices reach the audiences they should, hit me up.)

I’m very conscious of the fact that we’ve been trusted with this precious organisation that has been around for 21 years, and I hope that while I’m around we continue to survive and indeed thrive, and bring more writers the readership they deserve.

And lastly, Rishi – what’s next for your poetry?

I don’t have a burning desire to throw away my style, but I find myself more and more wanting to throw more prose fragments into what I do – I find more and more it’s the way I both best experience the world, and can then articulate that experience. There are lots of ideas for what be a putative book 2 bubbling away: I need to knuckle down and commit to one, and get the first draft done. Because once that’s there, then you have something to work with. So if you see me on social media, remind me to get on with it!

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In Workingman's Dead the Dead taught empathy. Perhaps that's the core of what they do, or is simply what music itself enables. It's no wonder that transportation metaphors of cars, buses, trains, and planes thread their way through the Grateful Dead repertoire, because each of these vehicles gives you a different perspective of the lay of the land. Back in Anthem of the Sun, "The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began." We not only have the dream/reminiscences of Bob Weir meeting Neal Cassady (the real-life Dean Moriarity of Jack Kerouac's On the Road), but we step through the great window to the American urban experience: When you board a bus, it ponderously wends its way through all neighborhoods, whether from suburb to city or across the country. The bus's lumbering pace allows you to see, forces you to see how others live...there are no short cuts on the bus, no darting in and out of lanes. Even the hit movie Speed shows the bus as a great equalizer.

In Workingman's Dead the bus takes you on a journey through the landscape of a blue-collar world, exposing and requiring you to think and appreciate the value of your labor. The band taps into the strength of the American Folktale with its roots in Paul Bunyanesque largesse, its massive sense of right, endurance, and faith. American Beauty (1970) continues this exploration of Americana.

Revisiting Wake of the Flood (1973) this time round, I somehow see dog-eared copies of the Tao Te Ching and the Bhagavad Gita. The message here is one of letting go. With that we see the landscape of both heart and mind: the relationship to the land, American bounty, the Buddhist concept of spiritual freedom meeting the American entitlement to personal liberty. This is an album of great joy and sentience. What remains in the Wake of the Flood is our power of observation: we look at the lay of the land, the tales of its people, and they are us. A flood is another of the great equalizers; in the wake of it there is no longer a "them" or an "us," no tribal individuation run amuck into divisions of race, class, gender, or war---all petty in the face of God/Nature.

Musically, the Grateful Dead are the masters of the lope, even with a half-step. Wake of the Flood opens with that relaxed gait. It's the looseness you need for yoga or a good golf swing---effortless and natural because there is no tension, just a smooth, liquid pace. The A-minor/D/G/G7 intro to "Mississippi Half-Step Toodleoo" has just a bit of bounce before it settles into a natural groove. Again, the philosophy: "If all you got to live for is what you left behind / Then get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine." Positivity overcomes, it's there for you. The violin solo throughout the chorus has wonderful bowing by Vassar Clements, the great bluegrass fiddle player.

"Row Jimmy Row" sustains the ease, with a guiro providing an edginess: "Broken heart don't feel so bad, / you ain't got half of what you thought you had..."

"Stella Blue" shows off Garcia's voice. There is no reaching here; again, with backbone slipped, it illustrates the control that he sometimes possessed, and evocative tenderness, plaintiveness, a disarming gentleness. Its theme is letting go:

It all rolls into one and nothing comes for free

There's nothing you can hold, for very long

And when you hear that song come crying like the wind

It seems that all this life was just a dream (footnote 14).

This is reminiscent of the Hua Hu Ching:

Simply be aware of the oneness of things...

Let the fiction of life and death go.

Just remain in the center, watching.

And then forget you are there (footnote 15).

The sound of the piano keys evokes the aural image of the tinkling of ice cubes in the fallen angel's glass.

Footnote 14: "Stella Blue," by Garcia-Hunter, from Wake of the Flood.

Footnote 15: Hua Hu Ching, Brian Walker, trans., HarperCollins, 1992.


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    I should probably be inpatient, but I know it doesn't help resolve anything, it just is a safety net, a temporary respite, a band aid. Does anyone else struggle with getting help??

    I hate admitting that I feel this way, that I want to die. I think maybe it is something I need to deal with, and don't need to be in the hospital, but then again I don't want to get to the point where I am bleeding to death, or overdosing and then get admitted. When do you know it is time for some intervention? How and who do you ask for help?
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    Sweety simply you're feeling like you're so down and distressed I suggest now would be a good time to go to hospital,and tell them every single thing that is possibly bringing you down.It won't hurt to go I promise and it can only be a good thing provided you get the right treatment,if you feel like you can't go on and are feeling so defeated I say "NOW"is the time to go please force yourself to do this hun.
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    I too suffer with trying to decide to go or not to go...I am there right now the thing we both evidently know is that it can sneak up on us and in a moment of weakness or extreme stress we do something to harm is easy for me to say to you go tothe hospital and be honest with them. they might just help you get through this moment in your life that things seem so bad,yet i dont have the courage to do that good luck to you i hope you get help and things get better
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    There is an element of luck about going to hospital. Let me explain:

    Some hospitals are well run, well staffed, full of wonderful people who really (genuinely) care, who will work you and be with you ever step of the way - through the ups and downs.
    In the well run hospital there will be staff that aren't as committed as that, and there may even be a few idiots staff there too. But on the whole it will be superb. Nothing like you imagine, better in ever way.
    If you go to a well run hospital, you'll change quickly, easily and you'll notice a big difference in yourself.

    On the other hand, a not-so well run/funded hospital, won't be as good, the staff will be... ok... with just a few great people there. You won't get better as quickly.
    But here's the criticl thing: YOu WILL GET BETTER IN BOTH kinds of hospitals, but in the not so well run one, you might not notice that your getting better as easily, because the progress is more slow and gradual. BUT YOU ARE.

    mostly, going into hospital is a good thing - and if you're having trouble deciding - imagine what you're life will be like if you dont. If you stay at home and carry on the way you are now?

    If you go to hospital, it's a change of environment, it's a chance to get better. If you don't try you will never know!
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    I was getting better in the outpatient therapy. But, I lost my job and insurance, couldn't pay for COBRA so I am now out of luck.

    I now have this option of sliding fee scale and we all know how bad that is. Been there, done that many times.

    I hope you get better and have better luck than I.
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    I have been in outpatient therapy, but I don't think it is enough, but the problem is I don't know what I need, I am just in pain, lots of it, but there is no "cure" for that, it is just something I have to live with. Like any illness I suppose my mind and body will one day no longer be able to take it and will just give out and I will die, just like any other physical illness.

    Part of the problem is that I also don't seem to have the words or language to explain this pain to others in a way that makes sense or feels adequate enough. As cliche as it sounds, I don't feel like anyone else understands the pain and the depths of the despair when i apparently seem to function so normally. I am a fraud though, the outside does not match the inside at all.

    I know there is no magic pill, no quick fix for post traumatic stress and depression, but something has to provide me with relief, I don't think I can take this intense pain much longer. I tell my therapist and doctor about this but nothing changes, they don't seem to have the answer either. I did recently switch to a new therapist with the hope that she might be better equipped to help me, but who knows. I really miss my old therapist now though and question if I made the right decision to switch. Anyway, I am so confused I can't stand it, and all I want to do is escape. I don't think i really WANT to die, I just want relief from the pain, the loneliness and the suffering that my mind is creating, and I want someone to save me, to fix me, to love me. What scares me the most is that I know no one person can do that for me.
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    Im honestly happy to be here typing this, and I finally get to say that my depression is over, for now at least.

    Ive been in a depression with little break for almost 8 years now, Ive been emotionless, empty, feeling like nothing mattered and that I didnt matter to anybody. But from the looks of it, my long depression is finally lifting, I feel more alive than ever, I finally have someone that honestly cares about me and I couldnt be happier to have them :3

    Although Im not suicidal anymore, by no means will I be leaving the forum, Ill be here to help anyone who needs it.
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  • When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives you blood oranges, you make these delicious Bloody Margaritas, then get your monster mash on. A Halloween party just isn’t complete without these festive citrus-y cocktails on the menu. Not only are they unique in flavor thanks to the taste of sweet and tangy blood orange juice, they also look the part with their natural deep-red color. No costume necessary for these bad boys - juice a cocktail glass and your best cauldron - er, cocktail shaker, and you’ve got a great party drink! Eureka! There you have it – A bloody margarita worthy of any Halloween shindig. Happy Halloween!

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    Nov 27, 2002
    Hi people

    I'm want to get a digital audio editor to help me on studio mixage (my home studio).

    What should be the best? CoolEdit 2000 or WaveLab 4.0?

    Thanks on advance
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    If you can afford it, get Wavelab - it's state-of-the-art.

    Samplitude 7.02 is nice too.
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    Wavelab is better than Cool Edit Pro 2000 in my opinion.
    But there is a new version, Cool Edit Pro v2.0, that rolls wavelab in the dust.
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    Nov 27, 2002
    OK guys, thankyou for your support
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Omtale Daily Meditations For Women Who Love Too Much
The in-depth practical companion to the hugely popular bestselling self-help book, Women Who Love Too Much. These meditation exercises will help readers feel happier within themselves, and paves the way towards happy, successful relationships.

In her bestselling self-help book, Women Who Love Too Much, Robin Norwood revolutionised the way we look at love, with a compassionate, intimate book offering a detailed psychological recovery programme for women who love too much - women who are attracted to the wrong men, who neglect their own interests and friends and who are unable to leave tormented relationships for fear of being 'empty without him'. It is a book that speaks to nearly every woman who has ever loved and lost.

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A prostitute dressed in a blue rabbit fur coat walks through the darkness of Hackney Fields, seemingly alone. But someone is waiting for her . . . A woman is found dead in her bath, a small child crying in the room next door . . . Is it accidental death or the perfect murder? When WPC Jane Tennison is promoted to the role of Detective Constable in London's Bow Street CID, she is immediately conflicted. While her far more experience colleagues move on swiftly from one criminal case to another, Jane is often left with doubts about their findings. Becoming inextricably embroiled in a multiple-rape case, Jane must put her life at risk in the search for answers. Will she toe the CID line, or endanger her position by seeking the truth . . .?

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Combining captivating storytelling with eye-opening findings, Inviting Disaster delves inside some of history's worst catastrophes in order to show how increasingly "smart" systems leave us wide open to human tragedy.Weaving a dramatic narrative that explains how breakdowns in these systems result in such disasters as the chain reaction crash of the Air France Concorde to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Chiles vividly demonstrates how the battle between man and machine may be escalating beyond manageable limits -- and why we all have a stake in its outcome. Included in this edition is a special introduction providing a behind-the-scenes look at the World Trade Center catastrophe. Combining firsthand accounts of employees' escapes with an in-depth look at the structural reasons behind the towers' collapse, Chiles addresses the question, Were the towers "two tall heroes" or structures with a fatal flaw?

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Ramona's parents were Holocaust survivors who fled their homeland and settle in Melbourne.  As a child, Koval learned little abouth their lives but she always suspected that the man who raised her was not her biological father.  One day in the 1990's long after her mother's death, she decides she must know the truth.  A phone call leads to a photograph in the mail, then tea with strangers.

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