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This was some months back. It also involves the crazy self-appointed evangelist I spoke of before.
One woman has a daughter and the daughter was in the hospital. So the mother was absent from a community event. It seems that the daughter has a long term problem with drug abuse, like methamphetamine. She is in her 40's and has health complications. She was hospitalized. The mother was gone to be with her.
The evangelist started ranting about how she should just write the daughter off. "She's a drug addict, she's almost as old as me." This angered me.
So I sent the mother an email. I felt good about what she was doing. I said, "I commend you for being with your daughter at this difficult time."
What came back was, "otherwise Satan would have his way with her."
Well, before I felt good. Now I felt sick to my stomach. I imagined the daughter there in the hospital bed, listening to that. I imagined the daughter listening to that kind of stuff her entire life.
The mother herself had a long long term problem with alcohol and marijuana, that is until she "got Saved" and started talking about Jesus everywhere, and about who is and who is not Saved.
The next week I saw the mother and asked how things were. She said in a disparaging tone that the daughter did not get the help she needed. I asked what she meant. She said that she needs psychiatric help. This made me feel even worse. The daughter is the scape goat.
The mother said that the daughter still lives with people who cook up drugs. She asked the daughter to come and visit. The daughter said that she fears the police might be following her, so she should not. The mother repeats the indignant tone she used, "Well I think its alright for you to visit your mother."
Yes, the idea that police have nothing better to do that to follow her around is crazy. But what the daughter is saying is that she does not trust her mother's intentions. This is dead on good perception.
The whole thing made me sick! Usually in these Born Again families there is one child who is the scape goat.
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Hey, Jesus smoked weed. There is a passage in the Bible saying God gave man dominion over all the earth, including herbs. Jesus scored through John, the disciple he "loved." Hey, I love my dealer, too.
I've often wondered how alcoholics and addicts get help that is not religion-based. All the 12 step programs say you have to give up to a "higher power," so I don't think they're very open to nonbelievers. The whole basis of their program is god-centric, so I don't even know if it would work for nonbelievers. Luckily, I'm not in need of a 12 step program, but it's something I've thought about.
Yes I guess their are non-religious programs. But most of these programs, if not God / Higher Power based, are still "Recovery" based.
A while back another one of these Pentecostal crazies told me that I should read Rick Warren's "A Purposeful Life". This is a motivational book which has been on the market about 12 years. It still sells a couple million copies per month. I do not read motivational books.
Warren is the founder of the Saddle Back church, now with 20,000 members in Riverside CA.
I first heard of Warren over the objections raised to him speaking at the Obama inaguration.
So, to defend myself, I listend to some of Warren on his web site. He can't speak without using the royal WE in every other sentence. He says that "everybody needs Recovery", he says it over and over and over. He says it is a key value.
"Recovery" is the new original sin. Much of what is implied in this is substance abuse.
I always say, "Movie stars get into trouble with drugs and alcohol all the time. Its considered a medical problem, not a moral problem. But then, movie stars have large freelance creative incomes. Whereas ordinary people are judged by their willingness to work demeaning 'jobs'. This is why the substance abuse of ordinary people gets treated like a moral problem."
I also say, "People who have been treated with dignity and respect and given the chance to develop and apply their abilities, are not likely to become substance addicts."
The meaning is that it is not the addict who needs to recover. It is not the addict who has a problem. The addict is a victim. So what is needed is redress.
At a minimum there should be educational resources available. Not programs, resources. People should be able to learn what social conditions cause family dysfunction and the exploitation of children. People should be able to learn how an ideologial approach to religion is already evidence of family dysfuction. People should be able to learn how when this exploitation and abuse is not recognized, then the result is dissociation.
Often this does lead to substance addiction, an ideological approach to religion, and another dysfuctional family.
Education can help dismantle this, not Recovery. But what is really needed is redress, redress for the exploitations of the Family System.
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"The city works as a partner with the Lincoln Jaycees and area businesses to make this a fun and safe celebration for area families," said Wesely. "Holmes Lake provides the perfect setting for the activities during the day and the spectacular fireworks show at night."
Pepsi-Cola and Embassy Suites are major sponsors for the event. Zambelli Internationale will present the fireworks display, with the accompanying music broadcast on KTGL-FM, 92.9 The Eagle. The Eagle is the official radio station for the Fourth of July celebration, and the station will broadcast live during the celebration from Holmes Lake near the old marina area.
StarTran, in cooperation with the Jaycees, will again provide free public shuttle service from 3 to 11 p.m. between Seacrest Field (72nd and "A" streets) and Holmes Park (Normal and Van Dorn intersection). The last bus will leave Seacrest for Holmes Lake at 8:15 p.m. Limited Handi-Van service is also available for eligible individuals, and reservations can be made through StarTran at 441-7109. For those unable to make it to Holmes Park, 5 CITY-TV, Time Warner Cable channel 5, will carry the fireworks display live.
Four bands will perform throughout the day and evening in lot #3. Bands performing from 1 through approximately 9:30 p.m. are, in order, Wishpool, Kris Lager Band, 3-Day Meat Sale and the featured band, Planet Butter. Planet Butter is scheduled to take the stage at 7 p.m.
A variety of food will be available at lot #4 on the north shore throughout the day. The Jaycees will operate an information booth near the old marina, and the Red Cross will have first aid available.
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Citizens are reminded that alcohol and fireworks are prohibited in the park and all pets are required to wear a leash.
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Sunreaver Micro-Sentry
Binds when picked up
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
Saw this on the AH for 900 G, I took it because it was such a grab and have not reggretted it
It will make a good addition to my mechanical team
This guy is awesome for battleing a number of the pet boss dailies. He's a goto for my mechanical pet. He can pretty much solo Gara and has done so by accident a number of times while leveling some pets. I think it's Hyuna, he can usually take down the wasp and snake and die from the headbut from Dor the Wall making way to slide your level 1 then finsih off the fight with a Raven of some sort.
I also use him to shred through the beast hatchlings when getting those last levels for some pets outside the garrison.
Got lucky and got this pet on my first try. :)
Ever since getting this pet it has shown off horribly. From my experience: despite have Extra Plating it's still extremely frail, and its only Mechanical type move is Call Lightning, which makes it even ore frail and on a medium cd. Haywire's typing contributes nothing to this pet pvp-wise, and doesn't seem to do enough dmg outside of Supercharge. If you're looking for a mechanical pet, all I can say is don't ever use it.
Seriously? I was about to say I think they nerfed him because I've taken him out a half dozen times and no pet yet... Just Valor points and lesser charms of good fortune... Plus I'm a Mistweaver and damage is low so it's a long boring fight... sigh..
ok, on my 10th kill it finally dropped. Whew! Glad that's over! If at first you don't succeed...
WAs lucky to get this on my first kill, finally the RNG gods where kind for once. Now to level him up
Good pet.. lvled my Sentry up to 25 does awesome damage
i have 2 of these in my pet log but i can't add a 3rd one it says "you can't have any more pets" it might be a bug in world of warcraft pet interface or something...
Just got him today from Haywire. First time killing the rare. I died once during battle. Came back and managed to get in a few hits before he died. I didn't even know this pet dropped from the mob.
Got the pet on my 3rd kill. Spawns were 36 mins, 48 mins, 55 mins from the time of the previous kill (not spawn).
If you can't loot, relog. I also heard running away til you can't target him and coming back works, or killing another creature and looting it works, but I did the relog method. Two of my 3 kills I had no loot, relogged, and it was there. One of those was the pet. So be sure to try this if you can't loot him.
Also got a key, stone, and tomes of valor. Hope this helps someone. GL all!
Anyone find it strange that Haywire is a beast type ability? It might get changed in the future.
Seems to have a rather large drop rate (at least the same as if not better than the classic raid pets), I killed twice in a row and got the pet both times. The spawns on the isle are very fast (~30 minutes).
As a battle pet..He is breed 4, is the second mech with Call Lightning (Tranquil Mechanical Yeti), and has Supercharge too. He lacks any mech attack though besides the lightning, and there are better pets with beast-centric attacks..so I don't know how useful he really is.
This pet is awesome got it today. Now it's 25 and massive dmg dealer:)
Just killed him. BF didn't get any loot on him. I got gold and a 15 VP book. No pet. :(
Update: Killed him at least 7 times and finally got it! There's a lot of bugs with the loot on these rares. Sometimes you get loot sometimes you don't, regardless if you have the tag. When you have no loot, or tried to loot and then it disappeared from the loot window (but not into your bags); if you drag another mob nearby and kill it, about half the time you'll get that missing loot via aoe looting.
just killed this rare Haywire on the far side of the isle on the beach , the whole group got to loot one from his corpse it is soulbound :) great looking pet, little bit like xt
In PTR this dropped from the rare (silver dragon) Haywire Sunreaver Construct (NPCID:50358) found on Isle of Thunder. Like the other battle pets off rares this is not a 100% drop.
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March 5, 2017
At the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards on Sunday (March 5) Big Sean did it up with an incredible performance of "Bounce Back" and "Moves." But apart from his killer number, Big Sean also killed it behind-the-scenes — like when he photobombed an entire table of radio talent.
Ryan Seacrest was busy speaking to a table of iconic radio DJs — Elvis Duran, Big Boy, Angela Yee, to name a few — casually talking about how they all have the best jobs in the world. Enter troublemaker Big Sean, who just decided that right then and there was the perfect time to sneak his face in the background, make goofy faces and wave at the camera.
😂@bigsean @BigBoy #iHeartAwards pic.twitter.com/4trij5jpUr— iHeartRadio (@iHeartRadio) March 6, 2017
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My little family is no different. We are always on the go, and that includes Christmas. My COG entry is a confession to our busy calendar, our remedy to the situation, and the revelation that bore our unique tradition. Read on:
This is our Christmas tree. Yes, that's a Seahawks helmet at the top. It used to be a full-size tree that went to the ground, but the cat peed on that part. Now our festivities are reduced by 33%.
Though we live in Texas, December 25th is spent in California. This is sometimes tricky because big presents can't be transported. How do you give a boy a bicycle for Christmas if he lives in one state but celebrates the holiday in another?
We solved this problem by creating "early Christmas." Usually the night before we leave for California, my husband, son and I open the presents we got for each other. Radio holiday music provides the soundtrack. Stocking gifts are opened and it's always fun. The cats even get gifts (fancy food and catnip).
When the present part is over, we go out to dinner. It's never formal, just what we feel like at that time. Sometimes ice cream is involved for dessert.
After the meal, we drive around town (again with the holiday music on which my son insists) and look at the Christmas lights. We live in an area where professional lighting displays on houses are not uncommon, so we often get quite a show.
"Early Christmas" was supposed to be a temporary solution for a family who was always on the road during the holidays. It will never replace December 25th, of course. However, I look forward to the brief pause from the holiday madness every year. The low-key night with a family focus has become an annual event in our household and one of my favorite traditions.


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Recent Blog Entries
Slum Walks in Delhi by Pete (Providing Education To EveryOne)
What we do
Free education, including English language, for local children in the slums, providing a safe place to learn and stay off the streets. We run the following schools in the slums of Kathputli Colony, Delhi:
Nirvan School
Our school provides a classroom for 40 children and supplies them with clothes, games, notebooks and education. Our school also creates jobs by employing local young guides and teachers from within the slums.
Nirvan Vocational School for Womens
This school provides stitching and beauty courses, providing practical skills for women to earn money.
Nirvan Vocational School For Womens No 2
(RenovatIng opening in 2 to 3 week of nov 2016 we need volunteers maybe for one day or 2 for painting the new school)
(We need mirrors,chairs,battery run inverter,Beauty parlour chair,exhaust fan,Almariah and led bulbs anyone like to do something please buy any of items listed
Any seamstress or beautician background volunteer will be great help
Nirvan Kindergarten
We take care of slum children from age 2-5 years and provide their meals for their parents who both have to work as labourers, cleaners and cooks in other people houses.
NIRVAN Computer Education
Providing computer education to the slum kids (At moment we need 2 laptops and 2 desktops and some chairs to fulfil the growing number of students)
Nirvan Informal Class
Providing Education to Adult Kids to Prepare For the Syllabus of their Class
Training Centre And Manufacture of indian Clothes In the Slums
We donate used clothes and other items useful for kids and adults. We also provide financial help to buy medicine for infants and children whose parents can't afford medicine on a regular basis.
We support local artists by promoting their talent.
We recognized around 100 widows in the slums with no earning household member and more than 3 kids in their family. We provide flour, spices and vegetables on a monthly basis and right now we are supporting 10 widows. We are looking to expand this to help more widows, so any food donations would be appreciated.Please ask us and can have opportunity to help directly their family in person by handing out food donations.
Nirvan New Centre Opened on 14/4/2017
Clean filtered water to students
Modular Kitchen with chimney for providing students with healthy food
No smoke while preparing food
Western Toilet facility within centre
Free Wifi
Free Coffee/Tea For Guests
Free Luggauge Storage for guests Leaving for airport and arriving from airport
Job Opportunities for women students by applying heena on guests hands who ask for applying on their hands
Making Clothes,cutting,packaging,ironing paid by us to make..
Come And give us your advice how can we improve
If u like what we do please do write us a review that helps us
Wish List April and May 2017 : Air cooler for the new big centre for womens and kindergarden opened on 14/4/2017
Used Laptops
Used Books for the new Library
2 Carpets
4 Small buckets with lid (for installing bucket filter)
Water dispenser hot and cold (filtered water goes into the dispenser and goes on top of this unit and gives out hot and cold water as desired)(Bought by us no longer required)
One beauty parlour chair with push button for bending and height(Needed on priority basis)
Beauty products
Slum Walks in Delhi By Pete
In India, it is very difficult to benefit from any state aid for NGOs. While waiting for that to change, we have several self-management strategies. These become part of the project, along the lines of sustainability and respect for human rights, the principles under which PETE operates.
One of our strategies consists of taking a small group of people, Indian or foreign, to witness the reality of life in the colourful suburb of the New Delhi Kathputli (puppet) Colony.
This activity also allows slum dwellers, if they wish, to interact with foreigners from different cultures and show them their daily life.
The aim of the walk is not to "visit", nor make poverty a "tourist tour", but to meet people and exchange experiences with them, having a tea and chatting. A walk in the slums is much more than a walk; it is an exchange and a first step towards awareness.
Join us on a Slum Walk...
On your Slum Walk our local guide will take you through the maze of alleyways of their neighborhood in one of Delhi's largest slums. You'll meet the smiling children and women in our schools and experience this often unseen side of Delhi.
Join us on our safe and respectful walk of the slums and have an experience you'll remember forever!
- When: Everyday
- Duration: 2 to 3 hours
- Min Donation: RS. 750 pp(increased in price effective from 1 august 2014)
- Private and Group Walks also available: Please see our Walks/Activities page for more information
Contact us to book your Slum Walk
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +91 981 1105601 / +91981352939/+919871151431
Nirvan Commune
The Nirvan Commune was brought into life to develop a spiritual community. Artists, musicians, and other people from all over the world can congregate to share the same vision of love and light. In addition, the Nirvan Commune's philosophy is to have a positive impact on its surroundings. In accordance with this aim, the Nirvan Commune is opening a school for the mountain children, undertaking organic farming, and installing solar and bio-gas facilities.
Nirvan Commune Mountain Schools
Based in the Nirvan Commune, we have locally educated people educating the youth. With a low teacher-to-child ratio, the children begin with personality development, so often neglected in mass city teaching environments. Children will be taught varied disciplines to allow them to integrate into mainstream college.
Nirvan Commune Hostel
NIRVAN to mean ENLIGHTENMENT - This means different things to different people... spirituality, relaxation, thinking on a higher level.
COMMUNE to mean a COMMUNITY place - All are welcome.
A modest accommodation charge as a guest at the Nirvan Commune will help financially support the other projects being undertaken in this community. Better yet, offer your time at the
Contact us to book your stay at the Nirvan Commune
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +91 981 1105601 / +91 9871352939
Volunteer at PETE
We have many exciting and important volunteer activities that you can take part in depending on your skills, interest and time. Below are some of the common activities our volunteers have been involved in:
Assisting on Slum Walks You will attend and participate on Slum Walks by interacting with the guests and locals, describing PETE's ongoing and future projects in the slums
Promotion of Slum Walks in Delhi Spend some time speaking to travellers about Slum Walks, sharing your enthusiasm for the NGO, and providing information about the projects PETE works on
Office administration Some of your time will be spent assisting staff in the PETE office with administration duties
Producing fundraising and awareness materials If you have a creative streak you can assist us by updating / creating new fundraising and awareness materials such as posters and flyers
Photography and video If you have a talent for photography or video production we would welcome you to utilise these skills by capturing new material and producing short films about PETE
Social media and website updates Help us keep our Facebook page and website updated with PETE news and activities
Conservation and environmental work At our Nirvan Commune we have a large ongoing project to re-landscape a piece of land which will involve activities such as building, landscaping and planning
Teach English and Art to the kids in our school in the Delhi slums
Teach Beauty, Stitching, Knitting and Embroidery in our women's Vocational School in the Delhi slums
Teach English and Computing to the kids in our Uttrakhand mountain school
Decoration of school buildings Help us decorate our schools and make them exciting and fun environments for the students
Play with the kids in our Kindergarten Spend some time getting to know and playing with the kids in our Kindergarten in the Delhi slums
Volunteer accommodation
We offer the following accommodation for volunteers:
- Shared volunteer flat with western toilet and shower
- Kitchen with water filter (if you want to cook your own food)
- Bed linen provided
- Laptop and wifi available
- Safe residential location in local market place
- Close to the centre of the city
Nirvan Commune
- Private rooms with Indian toilets (western toilets coming soon) and heater
- 3 meals a day provided
- Communal area with kitchen and water filter (if you want to cook your own food)
- Bed linen provided
- Laptop with internet available
- Beautiful village location
- Surrounded by amazing scenery and nature
Contact us
If you would like to volunteer and help us with our valuable work please contact us using the details below. You can volunteer from 1 day to 6 months, whatever time you can offer. We look forward to hearing from you!
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pete.india.1
Skype: PETEINDIA
Mobile: +919811105601 / +91981352939/ +919871151431
Registered with Govt. of India under Indian Trust act 1882
Reg No. 4266/4/13249
Collection point: Y-40 3rd floor, Front portion, West Patel Nagar market, behind Subhaash JewellersWEST PATEL Nagar New Delhi 110008
Project Right To Education Nirvan Non Formal Education School
Collection point for food, spices, vegetables and other donated goods: Y-40 3rd floor, Front portion, West Patel Nagar market, behind Subhaash JewellersWEST PATEL Nagar New Delhi 110008
'Jannat' means heaven
Empowering women - Nirvan Vocational School for women.
Stitching Learning Centre
Beauty Course - 6 Months each
Creating jobs for the students as well
Nirvan Kindergarten- We take in children from 2-5 years old who are on the streets or whose parents (living in slums) have to work to earn enough for food. As well as teaching them and providing them with a safe environment, we also give them midday meals.
How our projects make a difference
- Creating jobs for women living in the slums
- Removal of child labour
- Creating jobs for families with no (or only one) earning household member
Guests from
Group of students from a
Family from Australia distributing health products to the kids - Thank You!
One of our guests from Canada holding an infant of one of the families in the slumsCelebrating the birthday of one of our guests, Doris, who distributed chocolates and chips among the children in the slums. What a fortunate way of celebrating a birthday - by spreading happiness among others.You Are Blessed Ones!
Promotion of
Traditional Arts
To know more please check our Projects page
Universal Prayer
O Lord give us the firm strength in you. Lead us to the path of Righteousness. O Lord save us from the delusions. Save us from the darkness of illusions, give us the light of knowledge. Save us from misdeeds. Help live a good life. Free our world from hatred where everyone lives in Peace. Cleanse our heart of selfishness. Lead us to your path. Help us spread happiness in this world. Enlighten every Heart with your Love.


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An international effort including Europe, the United States and Japan is focused on protecting the global satellite network from Sun-driven space weather.
Satellites can be damaged by high energy charged particles in the Earth's radiation belts, and during solar energetic particle (SEP) events.
With the growing reliance on satellite services, new vulnerabilities to space weather and previous events that have led to loss of service.
Called SPACECAST, this physics-based predictive system for the outer Van Allen radiation belt uses observations of the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field to provide forecasts of the radiation conditions for the next 3 hours.
Solar maximum
The Sun is expected to reach solar maximum this year, heralding a peak in sunspot activity and, within a few years, an increase in geomagnetic storms. Within the past decade, the number of satellites in orbit has soared.
Indeed, these satellites form the technological backbone of an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars per year. But many currently active satellites were launched in the past few years and are flying with new technologies that have been as yet untested in the harsh conditions presented by the peak of the solar cycle.
Societal dependencies
Shifts in satellite construction techniques, including a reliance on off-the-shelf components rather than those designed to be hardened against radiation, mean that some modern equipment may remain vulnerable to solar activity.
What's more, societal dependencies on the information provided by satellites, including the Global Positioning System (GPS) time stamps used to drive automatic high-frequency stock market trading, mean that the potential consequences of satellites being damaged by solar activity have increased.
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The Antahkarana as an Electrical Phenomenon
Laurence Newey
In order to discuss the antahkarana as an electrical phenomenon the first and most obvious question to address is – what is electricity? What is the attractive force between a positively charged object and a negatively charged one? What is the attractive force between a proton and an electron in the heart of the atom? Science knows how electric charge works and behaves well enough, but seems at a loss to actually describe or understand what it is in essence. But then again, science isn't equipped to penetrate this core mystery because electricity is, quite literally, alive; it's a living entity – something that would probably come as a surprise, even a shock, to your local electrician.
In esoteric literature, this Great electrical life is referred to as Fohat and to paraphrase Helena Blavatsky, He is personified electric vital power, the transcendental binding Unity of all Cosmic Energies, on the unseen as on the manifested planes… On the Cosmic level, his influence is felt in the constructive power that carries out the plan in the mind of nature…in the formation of things, from the planetary system down to the glow-worm and simple daisy. On the earthly plane his influence is felt in the magnetic force. He is the active force in Universal Life; the messenger of Cosmic and human ideations. And on a lower scale He is the objectivised thought of the Gods; the 'Word made flesh'. 1
Elsewhere we read Fohat; the swift son of the divine sons, runs circular errands…. He passes like lightning through the fiery clouds (cosmic mists); strides through the seven regions above and the seven below (the world to be). He lifts his voice, and calls the innumerable sparks (atoms) and joins them together.2
"Fohat runs circular errands". What a beautiful way of describing the ultimate – the primary electric circuit. In this scenario, everything in manifestation is part of one gigantic electric circuit; with myriads of smaller circuits existing within larger ones. Furthermore, wherever we have electricity we have magnetism, they are two manifestations of the same electromagnetic entity – wherever there is an electric current there is an accompanying magnetic field and vice versa; and it is this relationship that forms the basis of the science of invocation and evocation.
To understand this we can visualize a simple electric circuit to see how the invocation of a Great Life is taking place at a purely physical level in every electrified household as surely as it is by a group of people coming together to participate in spiritual work through the ritual and ceremony of group invocation.
In a simple circuit, such as a ring of copper wire with a battery and a light bulb inserted into it, the outer electrons in the atoms of copper that make up the wire are loosely bound to one another and are pushed along the wire from atom to atom when the chemical energy of the battery is switched on. This is what we generally understand by the term an "electric current". But this current doesn't supply any power of its own, for the current flow – the movement of the electrons along the wire – is less than a centimetre a minute; and that's direct current or DC. In our homes we use AC – alternating current, and here the electrons don't flow around the circuit at all, they just vibrate; they jiggle or shuffle back and forth on the spot. So if the electric current moves forward so lethargically or not at all, what's happening?
In fact, in the simple movement of the electrons we are witnessing the basics of ceremony and ritual. This little electron dance or ceremony is a "seventh ray shuffle", for, as the Ageless Wisdom tells us, the seventh ray works in connection with the phenomena of electricity. And this rhythmic motion is part of the invocation rite of Fohat, Who, invoked by the chemical reaction in the battery, sweeps through the circle of vibrating electrons to perform His electrifying work. In distinction to the little electron lives who make up the electric current, it is the electromagnetic force field that does the work of lighting up our bulb. A great life has been evoked to do this with the cooperative, rhythmic motion of myriads of not so great electronic lives. Fohat sweeps along the spaces around the wires that connect the battery to the bulb filament at close to the speed of light. Here he rushes into the electron elementals in the filament and stimulates them with His electrical energy to the point that He is converted into light and heat which radiates out into the environment.
Think now of the way seventh ray ceremonial rituals work such as the preparations made at the Wesak festival each year. Prior to the appearance of the Buddha, attendees of every grade perform ritualistic movements to magnetise the ethers and build up the force of invocation to facilitate the Buddha's appearance and work. They weave in synchronized movement to form significant symbols such as the five-pointed star, the triangle and the cross, and all to the sound of certain chanted words and mantrams. The sense of expectancy grows and the tension increases. "Through the entire body of people there seems to be felt a stimulation or potent vibration which…fuses and blends the group into one united whole." Fohat has been invoked and an aspect of his electrical power shoots through the gathering. Each attendee is acting both as a battery and a light bulb – participating in the invocation rite of Fohat through ritualistic sound and motion; and as the invoked electric charge pours into the centres of the attendees bodies, it is converted into light and "the warmth of energetic moving out" to coin an esoteric phrase. Light and occult warmth radiate out into the environment – and, in fact, throughout the world. Now that the circuit is alive and functioning, the blessing of the Buddha can be carried through the group and flow into the world on waves of Fohatic energy.
Having covered the basics of electromagnetic circuits, we can now consider the antahkarana itself as an electrical phenomenon. An initial sticking point is that the antahkarana is not commonly thought of as a circuit, but more as a bridge across the gap in consciousness that exists between the lower mind of the personality and the higher mind of the Spiritual Ego. However, we will recall that the antahkarana is actually woven around an already existing thread of force that stretches across this chasm. This is the sutratma, the life thread that stretches from every individualized son of God on the highest planes of the system right down through the Solar Angel on the mental plane and into the personality in the lower three worlds, delivering the vital energy of Life itself and as much of the consciousness of the higher planes that can be registered at any particular personality's stage of unfoldment. When our thoughts are directed back upwards towards this high source on the spiritual realms in meditation, the antahkarana is woven around the sutratma and we have a two way flow of living, conscious energy, and this completes the fohatic or electrical circuit.Interestingly, the old commentary describes someone who has spun or woven the first tenuous strand of the upward part of this circuit as "a weaver in fohatic enterprise".
Having established the fact that there is no real communication gap between Monad, soul and personality, other than one of conscious realisation, we can help our understanding by considering another electrical phenomenon of the physical plane – lightning. How often have we looked in awe at the power of Fohat as he strides across the heavens throwing down lightning bolts connecting sky to earth? Again science flounders in attempting to explain the thousands of electrical discharges taking place all over the planet at any one time via thunderstorms and lightning. They are generally thought to be due to atmospheric perturbations. In reality thunderstorms are the exact opposite to what they are currently thought to be. Rather than electrical generators, they are dissipaters of energy in an interplanetary circuit – lightning being the spark of a celestial current as it connects to the Earth.
So, drawing on a visualization by William Beaty on the Science Hobbyist website,3 let's imagine going outside in a thunderstorm and slowing everything down a thousand fold so that we can see what's actually occurring in a lightning strike. We're standing outside in this time frozen world of a raging thunderstorm. The trees and bushes around us are thrashing frozenly in the stopped wind, and a few torn shingles flying from the nearby roof hang in the air nearby. High up in the sky we see a tangled, branching network of dimly glowing wiggly purple lines like a tree root, which are lengthening. Now we notice that everything on the ground is starting to glow. Bits of dim purple fire are popping into existence on the tops of bushes, the edges of the roof of the nearby house, the ends of the tree branches and the flying pieces of shingles from the roof. Holding our hands out in front of us, we notice that the tips of all our fingers are sprouting dim purple fire as well. As we see the purple fire from the sky lengthening and coming downward, the purple fire on all the objects on or close to the ground is becoming more intense, and beginning to sprout upwards. The invocation/evocation rite of Fohat is well underway and the formation of an antahkarana between the heavens and earth.
As the dim purple lightning from the sky grows downwards it speeds up and, simultaneously, the jagged purple flames from our fingers are growing upwards as a narrow wiggly violet line! We notice that there are streamers growing upwards from the tree, the bushes from the roof of the house, and they're all moving towards the incoming lightning strike. As the attraction or charge builds up between the sky and the ground to an irresistible point of tension, the upward growing streamers connect with the down coming ones and now Fohat surges forth and the purple changes to the blazing blue white lightning we are familiar with, and the voltage difference between sky and earth is neutralized. As an aside, the blue white flash of light we see in a lightning strike is not Fohat Himself; this is the bridge of plasma formed in the air through which he passes – a bridge of nitrogen and oxygen being stripped of their electrons and radiating light and heat as Fohat rushes through. A channel of air is performing the same function as the tungsten filament does in the light bulb in our circuit.
Fohat himself is invisible, intangible and consists of nothing that the lower senses can detect. And so too is the antahkarana that we are constructing in meditation. The Tibetan talks about the antahkarana being composed of mental substance, or of light substance but then turn to a different page and he tells us that this is just a symbolic way of speaking. This is because like the electric current in our circuit or the channel of air plasma in the thunderstorm, while the antahkarana can be described as a bridge or conduit composed of matter of the various planes, it is the life that rushes through it that is our concern. In fact, we have to start thinking of ourselves in general as divine projections, force emanations from the divine, electromagnetic field-waves rather than identifying ourselves with our vehicles of matter, regardless of how sublime. Our bodies are like congealed knots of frozen electricity – capacitors storing electric charge at any particular level of the system we focus our consciousness upon; for as we know, energy follows thought.
So to continue the lightning analogy, the antahkarana is similarly a connecting bridge of electrified mental substance that connects two terminals of opposite polarity or charge. Through concentrated thinking, we build up charge in our meditation into a point of high electrical tension like a capacitor, and then we deliberately release it in a surge towards the spiritual Triad, completing the circuit of consciousness. When this has been done, the centres in our lower vehicles take on the role of the light bulb in the circuit and electromagnetic field waves from the Spiritual Triad pour into them whereupon they are converted into a form of energy that is appropriate for the stimulation of human consciousness in line with the Divine Plan.
We can take the electrical theme right down to the dense physical plane too where lightning storms are constantly taking place in our brains. Even from a solely physical perspective, man is an electrical being relying on the conductive ability of metals to communicate. The human brain consists of more than a 100 billion nerve cells each possessing around 100,000 connections. Every second, trillions of electrical signals are transmitted between neurons – that makes the Internet seem trivial in comparison. And it is the metals, sodium and potassium, acting like batteries, which regulate the electrical energy balance in every cell membrane. Everything we see, feel, imagine or remember, expresses itself through a world of electrical signals, all relayed and communicated to and from the central consciousness in the brain through the ionic bonds formed by electrostatic attraction between these metals.
Indeed, the human being is an electrical entity, and his function is to offer electrical resistance to the inflowing force of Fohat, and the qualities he is carrying. Through contact with the lower planes and specifically within the vital airs in the cavities of the brain, the thought forms we have built light up acting as filaments or resistors through which Fohat can convert his electrical force into light for the world. And interestingly the term for measuring units of electrical resistance is the 'OHM', which has a familiar ring to it...but perhaps we should leave things here – this would probably be an analogy too far!
Finally, to end on, here are two quotes from the Tibetan that explain the importance of starting to think in electrical terms, of viewing life and the universe we live in, from an electrical perspective, and the reason behind the Electric Bridge initiative on the Arcane School section of the Lucis Trust website.
|"In the future, we shall see each other and all forms of divine manifestation as light units of varying degrees of brightness and shall talk and think increasingly in terms of electricity, of voltage, of intensity and of power…The age and status of men, in regard to the ladder of evolution, will… become objectively apparent…thereby re-establishing on earth the rule of the enlightened…these developments will be the work of the scientists of the next two generations and the result of their efforts. Their work with the atom of substance, and their investigations in the realm of electricity, of light and of power, must inevitably demonstrate the relation between forms, which is another term for brotherhood, and the fact of the soul, the inner light and radiance of all forms."4
|"If this treatise [A Treatise on Cosmic Fire]serves no other purpose than to direct the attention of the scientific and philosophic students to the study of force or energy in man and in groups, and to interpret man and the human family in terms of electrical phenomena, much good will have been accomplished. The polarity of a man, of a group, and of a congery of groups, the polarity of the planets and their relationship to each other and to the Sun, the polarity of the solar system and its relationship to other systems, the polarity of one plane to another, and of one principle to another, the polarity of the subtler vehicles, and the scientific application of the laws of electricity to the totality of existence on the physical plane will bring about a revolution upon the planet second only to that effected at the time of individualisation."5
1. The Secret Doctrine. p. 111 (Facsimile edition), H.P. Blavatsky
2. Ibid., p. 31
3. Sparks and Lightning, William Beaty http://amasci.com/tesla/spark.html
4. A Treatise on White Magic pp. 334-5
5. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 714


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Canadian confesses, pays fine at Phuket Court
PHUKET: Canadian tourist Ivan Bob Anwar, who was involved in a punch-up with a Patong tuk-tuk driver earlier in the week, has been ordered to pay a 1,000 baht fine after confessing to assault charges.
Mr Anwar, 51, paid the fine at Phuket Provincial Court earlier today after pleading guilty to charges of assault against tuk-tuk driver Tassanarit Damthong, 30.
The charges against Mr Anwar followed similar charges filed by the Canadian against Mr Tassanarit on Tuesday, the day the altercation took place.
Mr Tassanarit's preliminary hearing took place yesterday at Phuket Provincial Court, where he was granted bail.
He will have to appear in court at a later date to face his assault charges.
As for Mr Anwar, he paid his fine and got his passport back this afternoon.
His case was fast-tracked through the court so he could return home and not have to extend his trip.
At the time of writing, he was expected to fly out of Phuket this evening bound for Bangkok, intending to catch his connecting flight to Tokyo.
Mr Anwar has for years worked in Japan as an English teacher.
For our previous report click here
— Gazette Reporters
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54 year old Swede dodges traffic in Thepkasattri Road, Phuket
PHUKET: Achadtaya Chuenniran
A 54 year old Swedish tourist is now in custody after running around Thepkasattri road yesterday morning dodging cars and causing traffic mayhem. Luckily no cars came in contact with the man police described as 'mentally ill'.
A video clip from the incident shows the man running in and out of the traffic on Thepkasattri Road in Thalang. The incident happened around 2.30am.
The road had to be closed for 20-30 minutes as police apprehended the man, unhurt. The motive for his dangerous antics have not become apparent at this stage.
The man, who remains named was taken to Thalang Hospital for checking then was transferred to Vachira Hospital in Phuket Town. Police revealed that his visa expired on the same day so they've contacted the local Swedish consular officials to check on the man's family and travel situation.
The Swede is currently being evaluated and treated in the hospital's psychiatric wing.
SOURCE: Bangkok Post
Top 10 things to know about Phuket for beginners (2019)
1. Welcome to Phuket
Phuket is an island and a province. It's the largest island in Thailand – 48 km north to south, 21 km east to west. It's about 20% smaller, in area, than Singapore but much less densely populated. Whilst the island nation of Singapore boasts a population of nearly 6 million, Phuket has a permanent population of around 400-450,000 (but varies a lot with the influx of tourists and a workforce that is always changing). Most of Phuket remains jungle and tropical rainforest despite an acceleration of development over the past 20 years.
Unlike some of Thailand's other popular islands (that are in the Gulf of Thailand), Phuket is located in the Andaman Sea. Phuket is only just an island, linked to the Thai mainland by a 400 metre bridge. The channel beneath is frequently dredged to maintain Phuket's status as an island. On the other side of Sarasin Bridge is the Province of Phang Nga.
Phuket is 878 km north of the equator.
2. Basics
The currency used in Phuket is the Thai Baht and the electricity is 220-240 Volts/50 Hz. Thai is the spoken language although, especially with the west coast businesses and tourist zones, you will get away with English.
There is one international airport but multiple piers along the east coast for the many day trips to nearby islands. Public transport on Phuket is negligible. There are constant attempts to establish better public transport but the attempts are usually foiled by a strong taxi and tuk tuk monopoly that keep the charges higher and, largely, unregulated. On the upside there's plenty of taxis and tuk tuks on Phuket but be prepared to bargain and agree your price before you get in despite the taxis being legally required to use a meter.
Hiring cars or a motorbike is easy but we would caution anyone keen to move around the island independently to check their travel or health insurance and to hire from a recommended or reputable company. Roads are fairly good and getting around is easy but the traffic can, at times, be very heavy.
3. Religion
Most of the population is Buddhist, like the rest of Thailand but the island also has a significant Muslim population of around 25-30%. Buddhism on Phuket is influenced by the island's strong trade links and infusion of Chinese traders and workers over the past 400 years. Then you add the local expats and 12-15 million tourists each year and you have a very diverse mix of religions and backgrounds living on the island at any one time. There are hundreds of Buddhist temples around Phuket.
4. The name
The name Phuket (poo-KET) is derived from a Malay word bukit, which translates as hill. On European shipping charts it was called Junk Ceylon or Junkceylon which derives from Tanjung Salang in Malay, translating as Cape Salang. Later the island was known as Thalang which, before the southern end and west coast became popular after the 1970s, was the island's commercial and residential hub.
During the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), Phuket was the administrative centre of tin production in the southern provinces. In 1933 Monthon Phuket (มณฑลภูเก็ต) was dissolved and Phuket became a Province. It's the only island in Thailand which is both an island and a Province.
5. Income
The main source of income in Phuket is tourism, by far. But before the west discovered the island's pristine west coast beaches in the 1970s, Phuket was know all the way back to the 16th century as a tin-mining hub. (If you drive around Phuket you will see hundreds of small lakes. Most of these are old tin-mines). The island's tin mining history has been remembered at the Kathu Mining Museum, located on the back road that runs through the hills between Kathu and Koh Keaw. Besides tourism, latex, pineapples, cashew nuts and palm oil are also grown on the island. But, every year, tourism forges ahead as the island's most reliable income producer.
6. Weather
As a tropical island Phuket is always humid and hot.
Phuket's weather is fairly reliable. Reliably wet during the monsoon and reliably dry in the dry season. But there are also plenty of variations in the shoulder seasons and, even when it rains, it's usually brief (and torrential) with lots of sunshine in between.
The dry season runs from December to April and the monsoon season from May to November. The wettest months, statistically, are May and September. Tourists flock to the island during the dry season when top temperatures range between 31 – 35 (it gets hotter as the dry season months pass), with light winds from the north east.
During the monsoon season the winds swing around to the south west providing rideable surf along some of the west coast beaches. It can also be quite dangerous for inexperienced swimmers so, please, always obey the red flag warnings along the patrolled beaches. Temperatures usually peak at 31 during monsoon season and get down to 20-22 in the evenings.
Consider all this as a guide only as there's always plenty of variation. But you will never need to pack a coat or warm weather clothes when visiting Phuket.
7. Beaches
Depending on how you count them, there are 36 unique beaches on Phuket. The island's best known and iconic sandy beaches are along the west coast – Nai Harn, Patong, Karon, Kata, Kamala, Surin, Bang Tao, Nai Harn and Nai Thon, Nai Yang and Mai Khao up north. The western beaches are fully exposed to the Andaman Sea kicking up some rideable surf in during the annual south-west monsoon.
The east coast is largely mangroves in the north and smaller rocky beaches in the south. But there are a few hidden gems including Laem Ka in Rawai and Ao Yon in Cape Panwa. The east coast looks back towards Krabi and Phang Nga Bay and provides postcard views of the many islands dotted in the waters between Phuket and the mainland.
8. Main towns
The main commercial centre is Phuket Town. There have been attempts to get the media and locals to refer to it as Phuket City but, well, it's really just a big town and will likely remain being called Phuket Town. The wider commercial and administrative hub of Phuket, in the centre of the island's east coast, is built around the older Old Phuket Town.
Two hundred years ago, when Phuket was a bustling hub of trade with many Chinese and international sea-farers passing through, it must have been a bustling port of sailors, traders, miners and locals keen to extract money from them all. By all accounts it was a rough place to live with a busy red light district. These early trading days have left a heritage of sino-portuguese shop houses. Before the 1980s these old shop-houses were in serious need of repair.
Now streets like Thalang, Dibuk, Yowarat and Phang Nga roads are a collection of restored buildings, funky cafés, boutiques, art galleries, book shops and boutique hotels. The area has become a worthy tourist magnet deserving of your time when visiting the island.
The other main hub is Patong Beach. On the opposite side of the island to Phuket Town, Patong continues to grow and rebrand itself. Once a quiet haven for back-packers it's now a much bigger haven for back-packers, along with international hotels, 5 star resorts, world-class restaurants and a vibrant nightlife. There are much better beaches on the island of Phuket but no visit to Phuket is complete without a night in Patong. It's international famous, or infamous, for its colourful and (sometimes) raunchy nightlife.
The main residential areas of Phuket include Kathu, Chalong, Rawai, Cherngtalay, Kamala and Thalang. Whilst the west coast mainly attracts the tourists, the locals live in the south, east, central and northern sections of the island. There is an increasing trend for the island's attractions and accommodation centres to move inland from the beaches as number of tourism businesses grow and diversify.
9. Events and Festivals
Songkran is on April 13 and celebrates the start of the Thai New Year. It may have started out as a respectful cleansing of the Buddha images in temples but has descended into a water-pistol war zone with roads lined with people throwing water an anyone driving by. If it sounds mad, it is. If you're in Bangla Road in Patong it keeps going for three or more days. NB. Songkran is not the time to drive your motorbike around Phuket in an Armani suit.
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival occurs during October, depending on the Chinese lunar calendar each year. It's a unique, jaw-dropping festival of parades, piercings, fireworks and markets full of vegetarian food. Almost impossible to describe, so we'll invite you to discover it yourself.
Loy Krathong is in November each year and is celebrated by releasing little (usually hand-made) rafts made of banana leaves, incense and flowers. Just about any waterway on the island becomes a location for families to launch krathongs.
Chinese New Year and the Old Phuket Festival are usually during February each year and celebrate the island's rich and deep Chinese heritage. Be prepared for lots of excellent street food and fireworks.
10. Topography
Phuket is an island of hills (indeed it was once called bukit which means hill in Malay). Very broadly, there is a range of hills that run down the centre, closer to the west coast, with wider expanses of flat lands on the east side.
The highest points in Phuket are Radar Hill overlooking Patong at 513 metres, and the nearby unnamed hill on the northern side of the road that runs over the hills into Patong. It overlooks Kamala on one side and the Kathu valley on the other and reaches 543 metres. You can drive most of the way up Radar Hill but there's a military installation at the top. The other hill you can probably hike all the way up to the top but there's no well-trodden path and you'd need some local advice, a backpack with lots of water and some good walking shoes.
There are a few small but pretty waterfalls on the island – Ton Sai and Bang Pae between Paklok and Thalang to the east and the Kathu Waterfall in the centre. With a distinct wet and dry season on the island you'll obviously get the best photos in the wet season.
Some of the hills have their own unique attractions including the Big Buddha overlooking Kata and Karon beaches on one side and Chalong on the other. There's also Khao Rang (Rang Hill) with restaurants and a specially constructed viewing point. Khao To Sae (Monkey Hill) rises above Phuket Town and is a great place to see the local macaques but DON'T feed or approach the monkeys as they can be quite clever at parting you from your iPhone or expensive camera and have been known to be aggressive at times.
Down south is the southern-most Laem Promthep (Cape Promthep) where tourists flock to watch the sunset each night (we can promise you that you will see exactly the same sunset anywhere along the west coast of the islands if you want to avoid the crowds and tourist buses). It's also an excellent location during the day.
This is just the start of your exploration of Phuket. We look forward to seeing you on the island soon.
Police to target motorbike rental shops when renters are unlicensed
Police are targeting the rental operators of motorbikes when unlicensed foreigners have motorbike accidents.
Police today say they are questioning the renters of the bike involved in Sunday night's crash on Patong Hill between a pickup truck driven by 47 year old Thavorn Glasueak and a motorbike carrying two Russians, a 29 and 31 year old.
This incident happened at the notorious hair-pin curve on the way up Patong Hill, from Kathu. Police say the motorbike veered out of its lane into the oncoming pickup truck travelling in the other lane.
The two Russians were rushed to Patong Hospital but died.
Meanwhile, the motorbike rental operator that rented out a motorbike to 17 year old British teenager Anthony Ryan last month was fined 2,000.
Anthony was on traveling in Thailand with a friend when he tried to pass traffic on the Kamala to Patong road and drove into an oncoming minivan in the opposite lane.
Read the report of his accident HERE.
Kamala Police report that the rental operator has already been fined 2,000 baht. They also warned other motorbike rental shops to ensure that the riders were properly licensed and took out legal insurance with their rental agreement.
In their defence police claim the rental operator said they had rented out two bikes to a second man that had a valid license. Police didn't explain what the renter was going to do with the two motorbikes. (And if the renter had a valid license, why was the shop fined?)
At this stage Kamala Police have not named the rental operator in Patong.
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The view from the hill on the Southeast corner over looks most of the park. The pathway that runs through the park is frequently traveled, often used for an evening walk.
Utah is a state located in the westcentral region of the United States of America. Utah is the 13th largest state by area, ranks 34th by population and 10th by population density of the 50 United States. Utah was the 45th state to be admitted into the Union, on January 4, 1896. Utah is landlocked, being bordered by the states of Idaho to the north, Wyoming to the northeast, Nevada on the west, Colorado on the east and Arizona to the south. Utah is very mountainous and is a popular outing destination of the outdoorsman. The state population is about 2.82M with 95% being Caucasian, 2.4% Asian, 1.7% Native American and 1.3% Black. The state capital and largest city is Salt Lake City.Source: wikipedia


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3 1/2 cups flour
1 package active dry yeast
2 cups lukewarm water
2 tablespoons olive oil PLUS 1/4 cup, divided use
1 tablespoon salt
10 oz can artichoke hearts, drained and chopped
1/3 cup Greek olives, halved
2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, chopped
OPTIONAL: 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in 1/2 cup of water. Allow to sit about 10 minutes. Then combine yeast with 1 cup of flour in the bowl of a stand mixer with a dough hook. Mix thoroughly then add the 2 tablespoons of olive oil, salt, 2 1/2 cups flour and 3/4 cup water. Mix thoroughly again and then add the remaining flour and water. Continue to mix with the dough hook until a soft dough forms. If it is sticky, add a bit more flour, too dry or powdery, add a touch more water. Remove from the bowl and pat into a round shape. Grease a 14 x18 inch pan* with about 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Place the dough in it, cover with a damp towel and allow to rise** about 1 1/2 hours. After the 1 1/2 hours, stretch the dough out to the length of the pan, cover with a damp towel and allow to rise an additional 45 minutes. After about 15 minutes, preheat the oven to 450***. After the 45 minutes, uncover and poke the dough with your finger to make little holes. In a small bowl combine 1/4 cup olive oil,a tablespoons of water, rosemary and a bit of salt. Brush this over the bread along with the artichokes, and olives. Bake 15-20 minutes, checking about half way through to make sure it isn't browning too quickly. If you are using the Parmesan, sprinkle it on after about 15 minutes of baking then return it to the oven for about 5 more minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
*a black, metal pan works best.
**an "cold" oven is an excellent place to allow your dough to rise.
***it is nice to bake this in the pan on a baking stone, if possible. Place the baking stone in the oven while you preheat.


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Looming across-the-board budget cuts present the U.S. military with the most significant readiness crisis in more than a decade and quick action is needed to avoid the spending reductions, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned during testimony Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
If the billions of dollars in cuts are allowed to stand, Panetta said, he would have to throw the country's national defense strategy "out the window,"and the United States would no longer be a first-rate power. "This will badly damage our national defense and compromise our ability to respond to crises in a dangerous world," Panetta said.
Panetta, however, assured lawmakers the Defense Department would take the steps necessary to deal with possible threats in the Persian Gulf region after he approved the Navy's request to halve its aircraft carrier presence in the area.
Anticipating the Defense Department will have less money to spend, Panetta said the Pentagon has already put in place a freeze on hiring and cut back on maintenance at bases and facilities. Those moves are reversible, he said, as long as Congress acts quickly to head off the cuts, known as sequestration, and approves a 2013 military budget.
The potential for sequestration to kick in on March 1 is the result of Congress'failure to trim the deficit by $1.2 trillion over a decade. The Pentagon faces a $42.7 billion budget cut in the seven months starting in March and ending in September. The reductions through sequestration would be in addition to a $487 billion cut in defense spending over the next ten years mandated by the Budget Control Act passed in 2011.
Panetta said that the department understood that it needed to do its part to help deal with the federal deficit and has been working to adjust its plans to deal with the lower spending levels. But adding sequestration on top of that creates an untenable situation, he said.
As "time went on and the erosion that would take place in our capabilities,instead of being a first-rate power in the world, we'd turn into a second-rate power," Panetta told the committee. "That would be the result of sequester."
Panetta, who is retiring soon from his post, has been leading a vocal campaign to stop sequestration because it would leave the military "hollow,"meaning the armed forces would look good on paper but would lack the training and equipment they need to handle their missions.
As part of that campaign, the Defense Department has been providing greater details on the impact of the cuts. The department on Wednesday said it is cutting its aircraft carrier presence in the Persian Gulf region from two carriers to one, a move that represents one of the most significant effects of sequestration.
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It's finished! Yesterday I finally finished and hung up Liv's new mobile – and just in time as she's beginning to sleep in her crib now.
I wanted to hand make a mobile for Liv that would compliment her animal-themed room while also giving her something bright and playful to look at. After debating different shapes and creatures, butterflies won out. Liv loves staring up at the spinning mobile and the butterflies look like they're flying together amongst the painted animals.
The butterflies are made out of dyed felted wool which is very similar to your standard store bought felt. I was actually on the search for a variety of different felt colors in the palette of the room when I discovered felted wool on Etsy. When I found a seller who hand dyed her own shades, I scooped up eight different versions of pink (talk about difficult to find at a store).
Each butterfly is two pieces of wool held together by embroidery thread looped around the edges. Because this project was so time consuming, it was reserved for car trips and movie watching – or any time I couldn't feasibly get anything more productive done :). So it took a long time… nine-little-butterflies long time.
Here's the skinny on how it all went down.
Butterfly Mobile
Materials: felt or wool, embroidery thread, large needle, small wooden dowels, wooden bead (optional) eye screw
{1.} Cut out butterflies from felt or wool in matching pairs.
{2.} With your embroidery thread and large needle, begin the stitch on the inside of the two layers of felt so that the knot is hidden. Loop up and around both edges until the complete shape is outlined.
When finished, each butterfly should look similar to this:
{3.} Cut a long length of matching embroidery thread and guide needle from below the butterfly up between the two layers and out the top of the butterfly (thread in middle of shape should not be showing but should be hidden between the two layers of felt).
Pull thread tight so that the butterfly scrunches up, tie a knot just above the ruching to keep in place. The rest of the length of thread will be used to attach the butterfly to the hanger.
{4.} To build the wooden hanger, use two dowels of even size or one long dowel snipped in half. Cross the dowels and secure with thread by looping around the center of the crossbow. To keep embroidery thread from sliding, create little notches at the very end of each dowel with scissors. This is where the embroidery thread holding the butterflies can be knotted to as well.
{5.} Cut three lengths of embroidery thread to approximately 8-10″ in length and one piece to roughly 2′ (or the distance the mobile will hang from the ceiling). Tie the end of each of the four pieces to an end of each dowel. The longest length will be tied directly to the eye screw in the ceiling and the other three should meet about 8″ above the dowel. Tie a knot out of all four strings here, you can hide the knot with a bead for a cleaner look.
{6.} Attach butterflies at varying heights along the dowel.
{7.} Secure eye screw into ceiling (making sure mobile is far above the reach of little hands) and hang.
I made two separate hangers for a set of four and a set of five of the butterflies to help space them out, but you could hang them all on one for a beautiful layered effect, too.
Bright, simple and eye-catching, perfect for Liv.
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|Been-around-the-block model Sherry Conley (Rogers) is serving time for a crime she didn't commit when she's offered a deal by U.S. attorney Lloyd Hallett (Robinson) if she'll testify against mob boss Benjamin Costain (Greene). But since no other potential witness lived to the trial date, Sherry's against cooperating. However, Hallett puts her up in a hotel with bodyguard Vince Striker (Keith) in hopes she'll change her mind. But Costain has a lot of clout and is determined to get to Sherry. Rogers gives an excellent performance in a dramatic role with fine support from the rest of the cast.
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