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Pre-Crisis Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1rBZIzr49k
Modern Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_o7XUX3fg
Themiscyra, the land of the race of warrior women known as the Amazons, who have lived immortal and childless since the age of myth, having forsworn the race of men. The Amazon Queen Hippolyta wanted a daughter of her own, having no children. The Queen sculpted a child from the clay of the island and the Goddess of Love was so moved that she gave life to the little clay golem. At the celebration of the new Amazon, Diana Prince, named after her godmother Diana the Goddess, Several Olympians came and gifted this young girl with their powers and gifts to herald her great destiny. And so life was good for a time.....
But one day, a MAN washed up on the island, a man named Steve Trevor. From him the Amazons learned of the impending threat of Global Domination by the Axis Powers. To defend Man's world the Amazons elected to send the best of them to man's world. Diana disguised herself and competed with her sister Amazons, proving herself the best. Leaving the island with Steve Trevor she donned her costume and began to fight evil in man's world, serving doubly as ambassador of the nation of Themiscyra to the outside world.
Wonder Woman battles crime and the forces of the War God Ares using her gifts from the gods, her amazon training, and the holy relics of Themiscyra. However these are all mere tools, for Diana due to the amount of divine intervention used to bring her to life, qualifies as an Olympian and can become a God should she not restrain her inner power. That said she doesn't use her Godly powers the vast majority of the time for reasons that will be explained. When she is using her Godly powers and going all out it's usually presented by her removing her bracelets of submission, though I will still indicate when I think it's Olympian! Wonder Woman versus normal Wonder Woman.
As I explained in my post about DC Rebirth, there isn't a Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis divide anymore due to Convergence and Diana herself confirms the two timelines of New 52 and Post-Crisis have melded.
So yeah, Pre-Crisis Feats, Post-Crisis Feats, and New 52 Feats should all be fair game.
Building Level:
- As a toddler Wonder Woman could shatter meteors
- As a Young Girl, Wonder Woman could lift a temple
- Even without her God-Given Powers, Wonder Woman could match in strength the mythical Hero Beowulf
City/Island Level:
- Reactivates a Volcano at the bottom of the ocean with a punch
- Lifts a Volcano
- Lifts a Mountain
- Plugs a Volcano by putting an iceberg on it
- Lifts an Island Underwater
- Lifts Themiscyra
- Lifts Themiscyra underwater
- Wonder Woman throws a discus all the way around Mars
- Wonder Woman breaks down the door to the Fortress of Solitude, impervious to any earthly force
- Wonder Woman punches an Insane Batman with Kryptonian powers (don't ask) to the Moon
- With a tenth of her strength, Wonder Woman could knock Black Canary to Pluto
- Wonder Woman easily hurts Power Girl
- Punch hurts Konvict, who can tank planetary attacks
- Superman and Wonder Woman's battle rocks the Heavens and the Earth
- Wonder Woman tows a Moon at MFTL speeds into another universe
- Early in her career, Wonder Woman tows the Sun with the lasso and her strength
- Early in her career in the New 52 Canon, Wonder Woman hurts Apollo who literally is the Sun, with a punch
- Wonder Woman is officially one of the 4 physically strongest heroes of Earth, alongside Superman, Captain Marvel, and Martian Manhunter
- She pulls Martian Manhunter out of a Black Hole he couldn't escape
- Superman is the only force on Earth that can physically restrain her
- Wonder Woman is strong enough to break the energy constructs of high level Green Lanterns (bear in mind that even Low-Tier Post-Crisis Lanterns have Low Galactic Feats).
- Wonder Woman physically knocks away Ares, who is strong enough to become as large at least the Center of the Galaxy
- Manages to overpower the Hekatonchires Briareus who helped overthrow the Titans and should be at least as strong as Ares
- Strong enough to battle Genocide, an evil future version of Wonder Woman who killed the JLA.
Wonder Woman has never found an upper limit to her own strength and should she tap into her true Olympian power she can access a far greater power. Her opponents better hope she never takes off her bracelets of submission because they are there for their defense, not hers.
- Wonder Woman proves stronger then Hercules, who was strong enough to hold up the entirety of the sky during his 12 labors.
- Wonder Woman is one of the strongest beings to ever walk the Earth, including the age of Myth.
- Infamous Spectre Feat, "lifting eternity". This is an outlier, or at best you could say she was tapping into her power without realizing it. Of note, notice how the narration says Superman and Wonder Woman are two of the mightiest beings in the entire multiverse.
- Wonder Woman going all out manages to match the strength of the Pre-Crisis Martian Manhunter, the physical equal of Pre-Crisis Superman.
- Olympian! Wonder Woman manages to restrain Firstborn, a monstrous being capable of destroying all of underworld, an infinite plane of reality.
Wonder Woman's power depends on which God she is drawing power from. When is drawing power from all of Olympus, her power is raised far beyond her normal limits.
- Breaks Cronos' scepter capable of containing the power of the Godwave of which a small part is capable of destroying a universe.
- Olympus powered Wonder Woman defeats Nemesis in her own realm, and Nemesis was powerful enough to dispose of all the Olympians, even the Multiversal Power Zeus
A Subset of Super Strength, Wonder Woman doesn't use it much cause it's not very powerful compared to her normal strength, but she does have it.
- Wonder Girl's breath cuts like a knife
- Wonder Girl puts out a fire with her breath
- Wonder Woman spreads a fire with her breath
- Wonder Woman's breath freezes water
- Wonder Girl breezes away a meteor and cosmic dust
- Wonder Woman can create the force of a hurricane with her breath, and can use it to pull things to her
Building Level:
- Powerless takes a fall of a few stories
City Level:
- Any Amazon Teen can survive the heat of a volcano
- Tanks a Nuke
- After being beat down by Solar-Charged Zod and Faora, Clark and Diana take a nuclear blast at point blank
Planet Level:
- Year 1 Wonder Woman, as in Wonder Woman from in her first year of superheroing, takes an attack causing seisomographs (which measure earthquakes) to go off the chart ALL OVER THE WORLD.
- More experienced Wonder Woman tanks attacks from Power Girl
Stellar Level:
- Wonder Woman survives a Black Hole
- Wonder Woman takes 3 Infinite Mass Punches without much damage
- Takes a hit from Apollo, literally the Sun
- Diana and Clark keep going after 100 strikes from Zod and Faora
- Apollo supercharges Zod and Faora with sunlight, not only do Superman and Wonder Woman survive their assault after 100 strikes from them already, but even in this state it wouldstill take too long to kill them
Galactic Level:
- Takes a similar beating from OMAC Prime (upgraded Amazo with the powers of the Justice League International instead of Justice League of America)
- Wonder Woman survives an onslaught of Ares in his own dimension doing his absolute best to kill her (honestly this might be even higher)
- When Wonder Woman is drawing power from Zeus, she was able to easily take strikes from the Skyfather Level Entity Pele
Universe Level:
- When Wonder Woman was forced to use her full power due to emotion manipulation, without any power from the Gods at all she took attacks from the powerful Demon Lord Agony
Multiverse Level:
- With the backing of Olympus, Wonder Woman was able to take attacks from Nemesis in her own realm
Healing Factor:
Because of her divine blood, Diana heals quickly.
- Goes from being on the edge of Death to in perfection condition in 3 hours
- The Sea makes her heal faster due to her bond with the nereids
Corrosion Resistance:
- Wonder Woman resists Doomsday's corrosive energy and fights on
Reality-Warping Resistance:
Supersonic, Subluminal:
- Depowered, Diana still easily swats bullets out of the air
- Superheats her blade by moving it really fast, not a particularly big feat but the kind of thing I feel like DB would LOVE
- Somehow turns a sword literally into flame by moving really fast
- Does the Dragon Ball "Many Arms" Trick
- Wonder Woman wins a race against the other Amazons while running on her hands and without knocking over a single bottle
- Wonder Girl's speed is so fast she sets the air ablaze in a rainstorm
- Wonder Girl repairs a ship at super speeds
- Repairs a complex machine in less then 20 seconds
- Talks on over a dozen phones at once (Women amiright :P )
- Wonder Woman was already lightspeed as a teen
- Time seems relatively frozen
- Dodges Apollo's attack made of light
- Casually deflects beams of light
- Faster then thought, even early in her career
- Wonder Woman is faster then Superman, indeed widely believed to be the second fastest member of the Justice League after the Flash
- Wonder Woman blitzes Supergirl, who was able to keep up with an early career Flash, suggesting this feat is at least past the Time Barrier
- Blitzes Zod and Faora
- Battles evenly with The Cheetah, consistently said to be nearly as fast as The Flash
- Manages to tag Black Flash
- Wonder Woman deflects trillions upon trillions of particles from every corner of the universe going to the Shattered God. Calcs put the speed those projectiles must have been moving at dozens of QUINTILLIONS of times the speed of light and to block them would require speeds AT LEAST SEXTILLIONS of times the speed of light.
Speed of Hermes:
Hermes gifted Wonder Woman with his speed, and when she fully uses it, though she rarely does for the same reason she rarely uses her full strength, she enters into a mythic level of speed. You see in Greek Mythology, the God Hermes would escort each and every soul that died from the mortal universes down to the Underworld. If you know DC Comics and their idea of Speed you know what that entails.
- Yes, Wonder Woman can enter the speedforce of her own power and enter it's abstract levels of speed.
- Remember that God Hermes? Wonder Woman has beaten him in a race and fought him while keeping up with his speed
- She can use the Speed of Hermes to ascend between worlds, or fly within Skyland between the lands of the different pantheons
- Uses the Speed of Hermes for group teleportation
- Teleports herself across dimensions into Hell to save Artemis
- Teleports across the Chaos Void said to be impassable without divine power
- As a young girl, Wonder Woman had a duel to the death with Ares himself which she stalemated for hours
- Without her powers, defeats a pack of wolves
- Without her powers, defeats Demons with Beowulf
- Trained by I-Ching in human martial arts while she was without her powers
- Back when she briefly lost her powers she became a space pirate and liberate entire galaxies
- Fights a Team of Armed Metahumans who are at her strength level
- Uses her skill against Power Girl
- A Thousand Thousand soldiers and every weapon on Earth is irrelevant to Wonder Woman
- Can give off displays of unparalleled swordsmanship
- Sword Duels Neptune with a giant swordfish
- Wonder Woman spars and trains with Batman
- She must have impressed him because he refers to her as the best melee fighter in the world
- Wonder Woman is exceptionally good at blind-fighting to the point where she can fight against most of the rest of the Justice League at once blindfolded.
Wonder Woman has the Wisdom of Athena
- Wonder Woman has a photographic memory
- Wonder Woman is observant
- Wonder Woman out-manipulates Joker
- Determines the weight of the Earth using just a pea
- Invents a Healing Ray
- Knows how to invent magical interdimensional portals
- Wonder Woman can speak every language
- This extends to animals
- Works on Dinosaurs
Diana was given the Eyes of Artemis the Hunter. These generally give her vision comparable to Superman's with such specific feats as:
- Can see Plankton
- Can see in the dark
- Can see through illusions
- Her other senses are are also amplified due to her Amazon Training though not as much. It allowed her to hear a silenced pistol
- Wonder Woman defeated her sister amazons in a contest of lasso while blindfolded using her hearing
- Resists Planetary Scale mental manipulation from Maxwell Lord and from Brainiac
- Illusions that work on Gods, don't work on Wonder Woman
- Doctor Psycho is a telepath able to induce people to see other realities, but Wonder Woman sees right through him
- Endures a mental attack from Hades for 117 days relative time
- Can sense divinity and divinely charged objects
- Can sense heat
- Can communicate telepathically
- Can telepathically control robots
- In her God Form as God of War, Wonder Woman can control soldiers
As the God of War, Wonder Woman has gained the ability to summon, primarily weapons.
- Summons Energy Projectiles capable of one-shotting Metallo
- Summons an Energy Spear
- Summons her own lightning
- Can Summon a sword made for her by Hephasteus, The sword was capable of attacking on the atomic scale, creating a nuclear explosion and worked on both Darkseid and Doomsday.
- As the God of War, she can also summon the spirit of EVERY WARRIOR WHO EVER LIVED to fight alongside her.
Lasso of Truth:
The Lasso of Truth is the fundamental concept of truth for the universe and the one time it broke, all subjective truths became true (it didn't go well). Wonder Woman can use it to bind her foes at which point they must speak the truth and they must follow her commands. Of course it doesn't need to bind them to work, it works on people who are just touching it and is strong enough that Pre-Crisis Superman can't resist it's effect. The Lasso can expand and contract, to the point that Wonder Woman has called it "infinitely elastic" and suggested it can cover an entire island. The Lasso in a sense represents Diana herself, representing the binding power of truth.
- The Lasso has significant destructive power. It can slice clean through demon lords and can show Diana the pressure points of her opponent. The Lasso can also reveal the reality of life to someone, able to kill evil-doers out of sheer guilt.
- The Lasso also has notable restorative powers, able to restore the true nature of things and cancel out Circe's witchcraft. The Lasso can also regenerate Diana or restore an entire timeline
- The Lasso can manipulate the elements able to summon the fires of Hesta or whip up a tornado. It can also dispel energy.
- The Lasso can interact with the soul in a number of ways. It grabs onto the soul so one can't phase intangible to get away. It allows Diana to see into the soul and then either destroy it or send it to the afterlife.
- While the Lasso can dispel magic, it can also enhance it
Bracelets of Submission:
The Bracelets of Submission are forged from pure Amazonium, reforged from Aegis, the invulnerable shield of Zeus. Most people purport the Bracelets are invulnerable, and NLF though that that might be, they are the closet metal I have ever found in fiction to being actually invulnerable. The Bracelets of submission represent Diana's submission to the laws of mankind, and to the Gods, and so preserve her humanity in exchange for limiting her divine power. The Bracelets exude a small forcefield that is amount the hardest thing in DC Comics to be broken.
- Reflects Darkseid's Omega Beams
- Deflects the power of the Multiversal Dark Lord Necron, the source of the Black Lanterns
- Deflects the Infinite Power of All Olympus
- Deflects a Mind Attack from Brainiac
- Deflects a Conceptual Attack from Pandora
It has deflected so many things, basically if it hits those Bracelets, it's not going any further.
- Diana can slam the bracelets together to create powerful enough sonic waves to create an earthquake
- The Bracelets heal those in their presence as well
Lansinarian Morphing Disk (or as you probably know it, the Invisible Jet):
The Morphing Disk was a gift from an advanced alien race called the Lansianarians that is designed to assist and work with the assigned partner and is very adaptable.
- The Morphing Disk is a sentient machine that tracks Diana like a faithful hound.
- It can transform into a giant area called the Wonderdome, where it is strong enough to absorb blows from Superman and Wonder Woman, clean poison out of the air, and house the entire populace of Themiscyra.
- The Morphing Disk, especially in it's form as Invisible Jet is FAST. It can break the time barrier, break the dimension barrier and travel to other universes in seconds and generally be a more efficient form of travel to Wonder Woman then ever her own speed.
- The Morphing Disk has vast psychic potential. Probing it caused Martian Manhunter great pain. It's telepathic power has been compared to a supernova and can grow exponentially. It has hid Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman from Martian Manhunter's detection and has even psychically probed the entire universe before
- The Morphing Disk is mentally connected with Diana. It listens to her and her alone. It's interiors change to match her mind. When Wonder Woman uses their psychic connection it has allowed her to gain planetary scale mind-reading and fight on the mental plane.
Other Weapons:
- Unbeknownst to most people, Wonder Woman's bracelets are not the only Amazonium in existence. Her Tiara is also made of Amazonium. Because of that, Diana can throw the Tiara as a projectile weapon powerful enough to decapitate a god. The Tiara throw is also fast enough to tag Cheetah. She's crazy accurate with it.
- Wonder Woman also has a Godwave Powered Sword, meaning a sword with part of the power of the Godwave itself in it. With the power of the Godwave it can kill immortals and crush the head of Ares.
- She has the Gauntlets of Atlas which traditionally multiple strength by 10.
- She has what is basically Gold Cloth Armor. This isn't really more durable then she is, but it's not much weaker either. Basically just adds more layers the force has to get through.
- When she drew her power from Zeus she had the power to channel his lightning. This was able to harm the Skyfather level Pele and kill the Skyfather level Cottus.
The Lady Aphrodite's gift, Diana was given exceptional beauty, and exceptional love. She loves all and she is beloved by all. It was a plot point in the New 52 that when Hades asked her if she loved him in the Lasso of Truth and she replied yes, she was truthful. Because Diana loves all people and all creation.
- There is no one on Earth with more love then Diana
- When Diana became a Violet Lantern, she was their best, because of her "endless love for all creation"
- Diana is also considered beautiful by everyone in the DC Universe. Speaking of which, She officially has the second best breasts after Power Girl, and they are considered a "national treasure".
- Wonder Woman somehow turns a copper penny into a bridge.
- Somehow pushes a bunch of tiny magnets together and makes a big magnet
- Wonder Woman is observant of the Nereids, the water spirits which strengthen her soul in the water and protects her
- Wonder Woman speaks directly to the reader and apparently reads all their letters
- Wonder Woman has serious power in her allies, if she needs help the JLA, The JSA, THE SPECTRE AND THE PHANTOM STRANGER will be there for her.
- Wonder Woman is the modern incarnation of the Fairy Tale Princess.
- Is turned on by JUSTICE.
- Wonder Woman does NOT stand for misandry
- *sunglasses* YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Wonder Woman, though very powerful, has a few flaws. First of all, her power besides her innate Olympian power, is derived from the Gods and should they be unable or unwilling to give her their power, then she will lost the vast majority of her power. She is also generally unwilling to use her own Olympian powers, like the True Might of Hercules or Speed of Hermes for fearing of losing her humanity.
Secondly, she lacks any serious long-range attacks due to the Amazon code of fairness.
Finally, she is somewhat impulsive, and unlike her friends in the trinity, Calm Peaceful Superman and Long-Term Calculating Batman, Wonder Woman can be led astray by her emotions.
Wonder Woman provides the classical feminine touch to the DC Universe. It's emphasized from the very first issue that she is like any other girl really and it's in her femininity and her love for people, that she can really summon up her fiery rage and passion that allow her to fight so well. Despite being raised in a warrior society Diana will always try, as fitting of an ambassador, to find a peaceful solution. But if not she is a pragmatic and decisive warrior.
Diana completes the trinity of Clark and Bruce by providing a straight-forwardness and a closeness to base emotion and reality, an attunement to mother nature that the two boys with their abstract rational thinking have difficulties with. She fights for Truth, Justice and Peace everywhere and for EVERYONE and looks down on people who think it's OK to only serve their own kind.
Tier 7 Normally, Tier 5 in Olympian State
Low Galactic DC/Durability Normally, Universal+ in her Olympian State
MFTL+ Speed Normally, Unquantifiable/Pseudo-Omnipresent in her Olympian State
Can physically affect energy
Planetary Resistance to Mental Manipulation and Reality-Warping
Corrosion Resistance
Healing Factor
Pressure Point Combat
Enhanced Beauty and Love
Various Speed Based Abilities
Superhuman Skill
Superhuman Intellect
Portal Creation
Enhanced Senses
Mystical Senses
Can command Animals, Robots, and Soldiers (God Form)
Summoning (Weapons and Spirits)
Elemental Manipulation (Lightning, Fire, and Wind)
Water Empowerment (Stronger in Water)
Magic Enhancement or Nullification
Energy Dispersal
Matter Manipulation
Timeline Restoration
Can Kill Immortals
Emotion Manipulation
Soul Destruction (Astral Attack) and Soul Manipulation
Mind-Reading and Mental Probing
Can Command People or Force them to Tell the Truth
Can fight on the Mental Plane
Can redirect attacks up to Multiversal+, as well as mental and conceptual plane attacks
-Dependent on the Gods for majority of power, unwilling to use personal divine power most of the time
-Lack of Long-Range Attacks
-Impulsive and Emotional at times
OBD Style Profile:
Name: Wonder Woman, Diana Prince
Origin: DC Comics (Rebirth)
Gender: Female
Classification: Magical Golem, Spirit of Truth, Goddess
Age: Unknown
Powers and Abilities: Enhanced Stats, Various Holy Relics | Super Stats, Likely speed-related abilities, Teleportation, Regen (Low-Mid), Can physically affect energy, Omnilingual, can sense heat and divinity, telepathy, can telepathically control robots and animals, Matter Manipulation, Water Empowerment, occasionally 4th Wall Breaking | Godlike Stats, Abstract Existence, Summoning (Weapons and Spirits), Can telepathically control Soldiers, likely the other abilities that Ares had including Universal Scale Reality-Warping and Dimensional Manipulation
Weaknesses: Power is dependent on the Gods' Favor in part, No Destructive Long Range Powers, Impulsive, Reluctant to use her God Abilities for fear of losing her humanity
Destructive Capacity: Large Building Level | Low Galactic Level, higher with certain magical weapons | Universal
Range: Extended Melee Range | Extended Melee Range, a few kilometers with certain powers, Inter-Universal with Teleportation | Likely Universal via scaling to Ares
Speed: Transonic, Supersonic Reflexes | MFTL+, Unquantifiable with Speed of Hermes | Pseudo-Omnipresent as Goddess of War
Durability: Large Building Level | Low Galactic | Universal, Possibly Low Multiversal
Lifting Strength: Likely Class 100 | Stellar | Universal
Striking Strength: Class GJ | Likely Class XZJ | Universe Class
Stamina: Superhuman (endured a mental attack that took 117 days in relative time) | Theoretically Inexhaustible
Standard Equipment: The Lasso of Truth (Can bind enemies compelling them to listen to Wonder Woman and tell the truth, can reveal pressure points, emotion manipulation, healing, can restore timelines, energy dispersal, magic enhancement or nullification, fire manipulation, wind manipulation, soul manipulation), Bracelets of Submission (Can deflect or reflect attacks up to multiversal+ as well as mental and conceptual attacks, can create shockwaves, can create a forcefield that heals nearby people), Lansinarian Morphing Disc (Transforming sentient machine that can absorb low galactic strikes, shapeshifting, air purification, has psychic offenses and defenses, can give Wonder Woman planetary scale mind-reading and fight on the mental plane), Amazonium Tiara, Godwave Sword (can harm universal Gods and kill immortals), Sword of Hephaestus (Magical Sword that can cut atoms, cause nuclear explosions and harm universal level entities)
Intelligence: Superhuman (Has the Wisdom of Athena), large knowledge of magic and mythology, mastery of combat
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Godwave: Diana can briefly boost all her stats to Godlike levels but can't maintain it long without going insane.
Speed of Hermes: Diana can use the speed of Hermes to travel between realms and universes, or teleport herself and crowds across the same. This likely allows her to use heighted speed powers of other DC Speedsters.
Key: Powerless (without any God's Favor) | Drawing from The Olympians (Normal) | Olympian Wonder Woman/Goddess of War Wonder Woman
Suggested Opponent:
Normally I'd be against bringing people back but if there were going to bring Wonder Woman back I would suggest her to fight:
Wonder Woman vs. (Lady) Thor


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ML Update
A CPI(ML) Weekly News Magazine
Vol. 16 No. 01 25-31 DEC 2012
Saluting the Power of Protest
in the Indian State's 'Rape Capital'
If the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year old paramedical student in a moving Delhi bus on the night of 16 December had shocked the entire country, the unprecedented protests that have erupted since then, most prominently in Delhi itself, have come as a most encouraging sign of a growing democratic awakening and assertion in the country. The year 2012 could not possibly end on a more rousing note. Never before did Delhi, or for that matter any other Indian metropolis, see a protest of this magnitude and intensity on an issue of gender violence. The protests have been remarkable for the scale and range of popular participation - mostly spontaneous but also unmistakably aided and encouraged by the spirited participation of organised progressive groups of students, women and workers - as well as for the bold display of courage and determination in the face of water cannons, tear-gas shells, repeated raining of lathis, and above all, the monumental apathy and arrogance of the rulers.
The protests were necessary for the most deeply felt collective anger that was voiced so powerfully and creatively. More than the demands raised or ideas mooted to combat the ugly patriarchal evil of rape, the very fact that thousands came out to protest and demand justice was itself the biggest deterrent that can ever be thought of against sexual violence. The ideas voiced were no less urgent – the calls for fast-track courts to ensure speedy trial of rape cases and delivery of justice, or a special session of Parliament to discuss and fight the shame of sexual violence faced by Indian women in their domestic domain as well as public realm, are all immensely important.
The protests have clearly been a huge boost to the confidence of the people and certainly a great inspiration for every kind of progressive political imagination. Many fetters on free assembly of people that had been systematically enforced over the last two decades of neo-liberal governance were broken in just two days of spirited and courageous mass protests on December 22-23. November 25, 1992 was the last occasion when the Boat Club lawns had witnessed a massive public protest – it was the first powerful and united rally of Left-led trade unions against the assault of the policies of liberalisation and privatisation – before a ban was announced declaring that area out of bounds for people's protests. After two decades of insulation from public assembly, the Raj Path – the road that runs from the India Gate to the Rashtrapati Bhawan – regained its lost glory by emerging as the key battleground for justice and democracy.
Faced with a mass protest of this magnitude, the least that any responsive elected government must do is to reach out to the protestors, listen to their voice and provide a responsible answer. But on December 22-23, the whole world saw how miserably the much-touted largest democracy of the world lacked this basic spirit of democratic governance. Neither the leaders of the government nor the leaders of the ruling party had the decency or courage to come and face the protesting people. The Delhi Chief Minister, the only woman chief minister in the country to have been re-elected three times in a row, tells a TV interviewer that she lacked the courage to even see the victim who was battling for her life. The Prime Minister belatedly delivers a most unconvincing televised address that fails to answer the fundamental issues or inspire any confidence in the people.
And the Home Minister drops chilling hints of more repression to come in a most casual manner in a TV interview, questioning the protestors' right and defending the government's indefensible attitude. According to the Home Minister, the protestors had no reason or right to continue with the protests when 'Soniaji' had already met a delegation! What monumental audacity and shameless sycophancy on the part of the person who is supposedly in charge of the home affairs of the country! Sonia Gandhi's meeting with the so-called 'delegation' remains entirely shrouded in mystery – the thousands of people protesting in the face of water cannons in a chilly December afternoon had no idea about the credentials of the delegation and whatever transpired in its secret meeting with the Congress president. How on earth could the Home Minister expect the protests to end simply because a chosen few had the privilege of meeting the Congress chief!
When asked why no responsible senior functionary of the government met the protestors, the Home Minister had the cheek to say that no government could afford to set such a dangerous precedent. And then he adduced the most chilling logic – 'if we go and talk to these people today, tomorrow when hundred adivasis are killed in Maharashtra or Chhattisgarh, we will be expected to go there'! Here is the most candid confession from the horse's mouth of how brutal repression of the poor and marginalised is treated as a taken-for-granted fact of everyday life by the state, and any form of accountability for state atrocities in such contexts is dismissed as ridiculous, even as every single mass protest is increasingly viewed by the government through the dangerous lens of Operation Greenhunt.
Some commentators have asked why issues of sexual violence in rural India or anywhere beyond Delhi where rape is used as a weapon of feudal oppression, communal violence or state repression do not get the kind of 'middle class' attention that this particular case has attracted. Well, there is always the proverbial last straw on the camel's back or the last nail in a coffin. It is wrong to presume that the people outraged by this specific incident have all been blind to other cases of sexual violence. Mass protests in the capital of India have already come a long way from the candle-light vigils triggered by the murder of Jessica Lal to the street battles with the police on the issue of brutal gang-rape of an unknown 23-year-old student. It will be the height of intellectual arrogance and sheer snobbery and sterile political pedantry to dismiss or devalue the protests as concerns of an isolated urban middle class and try and pit them against issues of caste oppression, communal violence or state repression.
The need of the hour is not to pit one case of sexual violence against another, but to see and show the hidden links and work for an unstoppable and comprehensive democratic awakening. The rulers are already revealing the links – we must grasp them and storm all bastions of oppression and win every battle for democracy. The protests of December 2012 have already provided a great spark that the cause of genuine freedom and democracy needs at this hour of all-round crisis and concerted state-corporate, feudal-communal and patriarchal assault on the dignity, livelihood and democratic rights of large sections of the Indian people.
Assembly Elections in Gujarat and Himachal:
The year 2012 had begun with Assembly elections in the five states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttaranchal, Goa and Manipur. The year now comes to an end following elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. Governments have been changed in four of these seven states – UP has gone back from the BSP to the SP, Uttaranchal and now Himachal have been wrested by the Congress from the BJP while Goa has witnessed an independent BJP-led government for the first time. In the three other states, the ruling parties have successfully retained power, expectedly so in Manipur and Gujarat, and quite unpredictably in Punjab.
From the point of view of the rivalry between the Congress and the BJP, most crucial among these seven states were the elections in Uttar Pradesh in Gujarat. UP was of course not expected to be won by either of these two all-India parties of the ruling classes – the only point of interest was to find out if and how much the two parties could regain their lost ground. The result however revealed that both parties had actually lost more ground, being relegated further to the political margins. The multipolar political scene of UP had turned considerably bipolar, with the SP and BSP knocking out the Congress and the BJP from what a decade ago used to be four-corner contest in the state. If in 2007, the BSP had won with record number of seats in the Assembly, in 2012, it was the SP's turn to steal the show.
A BJP victory in Gujarat was of course a foregone conclusion, and the state has sprung no basic surprise in that respect. In the two previous exit polls in 2002 and 2007, the psephological pundits had tended to underestimate the strength of Narendra Modi and this time around, most of them had quite generously predicted a sweeping victory for Modi, with projections ranging from 120 to even 140. Gujarat has corrected that excessive exuberance of the pro-Modi camp, subtracting two seats from his erstwhile kitty of 117 seats while granting two seats more to the Congress, raising its tally from 59 to 61. Instrumental in this was the emergence of the Gujarat Parivartan Party under the leadership of former CM Keshubhai Patel. The GPP, which managed to win only three seats, was perhaps effective enough to damage the BJP's prospects in a dozen or so seats. BJP dissidents organised under the Himachal Lokhit Party also played a role in ensuring the BJP's defeat in Himachal Pradesh.
Modi's dangerous mix of aggressive communalism, unabashed Gujarati pride and unbridled corporate-driven economics, delivered in the inimitable Modispeak, the heady rabble-rousing rhetoric that has acquired a distinct identity, was always considered a sure winner in the given socio-economic and political balance of Gujarat where pockets of rural destitution and urban poverty are sought to be obliterated from the public vision by the dazzling display of corporate wealth, and the disturbing memories and facts of the 2002 genocide and the subsequent brutal reality of a series of staged encounter killings lie buried in the dark depths of official oblivion and conspiratorial silence.
Many political analysts believe this model can be replicated nationally and the Modi caravan is now all set to march from Ahmedabad to Delhi. But this is precisely where the Himachal results should inject a necessary sense of sobriety. The Congress managed to wrest Himachal Pradesh even as it lies badly discredited on account of mega corruption and a grave economic crisis resulting from its blatantly pro-corporate, anti-people policies. The popular anger against the corrupt and non-performing BJP government in Himachal proved more powerful and potent than the general disenchantment with the Congress. And Narendra Modi's campaigning did little to improve the BJP's prospect in Himachal. The idea that Modi can revive an otherwise stagnant or even declining BJP on an all-India scale certainly did not come good in Himachal Pradesh.
Die-hard Modi admirers have already begun to dream of Modi occupying the Prime Ministerial bungalow at 7 Race Course Road (Mukesh Ambani has recalled his father Dhirubhai having once described Modi as a 'lambi race ka ghoda', a horse capable of running and winning a long race). Modi himself is acutely aware of the Modi-as-PM campaign and does not really hide his Prime Ministerial ambition. Significantly enough, he delivered his victory speech in Hindi, attributing his victory not only to the six crore Gujaratis (even though the BJP's vote share has never touched even 50% in spite of the well-entrenched bipolarity in Gujarat's electoral politics), but describing it as a vindication for all Indians who wanted to prosper. He also tendered an arrogant 'apology' of sorts, seeking the people's blessing to save him from any 'inadvertent mistake', and saying in the same breath that the people can never be wrong (read, any crime can be committed in the name of the people).
The corporate world too greatly relishes the prospect and countries like Britain and the US that had shunned Modi since 2002 have already been indicating their readiness to welcome him back. Some of the NDA allies like JD(U) may of course find it difficult to accept Modi as PM, but the loss of a partner in some state may always be offset by the return of some other estranged ally elsewhere. Many however believe that the BJP itself is perhaps less ready than its partners to project or accept Modi at the centre of its national scheme of things.
But at the end of the day, the shame and calamity of having a Narendra Modi at the helm of the Indian state can only be stopped by the people of India. The more the struggle against corporate plunder intensifies in 2013, and the more the people of India come out on the streets to secure their democratic rights, the more difficult will it be for the BJP to return to power and Modi to realise his dangerous dream.
AISA, AIPWA, RYA, AICCTU Join the Upsurge Against Sexual Violence
In Delhi AISA, AIPWA, and RYA were at the forefront of the protests against sexual violence – with the rallying cry "When not a corner of the city is safe for women, it is time to turn every corner into a site of protest!"
The JNUSU organized protests and chakka jam (road blockade) at Vasant Vihar thana (close to the site of the rape). AISA, AIPWA and RYA braved water cannons at Sheila Dixit's house. Massive protests called by JNUSU and AISA have been held at India Gate – with student protestors marching to the Home Ministry defying all security arrangements one night, and holding a sit-in till the Home Minister met a delegation. JNUSU as well as AISA-RYA called for a vigil at Safdarjung Hospital, which was spontaneously joined by women lab technicians and doctors from the Hospital itself.
Activists of the DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation) Unity Centre (affiliated to AICCTU) distributed a leaflet in support of the struggle for women's rights, and pointing out that the Delhi rape case underlined the need for a comprehensive network of DTC buses in the city instead of anarchic and privatized, insecure transport allowed by the Delhi Government.
Protest demonstrations and meetings were held at various areas of Delhi, organised by the party. At one such meeting at a slum cluster in Wazirpur, where many women spontaneously joined the party's demonstration, one comrade was greeted with much appreciation and applause when he said, "Candle marches are all very well, but women should have sandals in their hands!"
All over the country, AISA, AIPWA, and RYA have held protests. In Allahabad, 1000 women students joined a March organized by AISA and the Women's Cell of Allahabad University. At Patna, a massive demonstration took place in which large numbers of women students, nurses, and others joined. Enthusiastic district-level protests were held all over Bihar and Jharkhand. Powerful protests were held at Banaras, Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati and Jorhat and as we go to press, the protests continue.
Mass Hunger Strikes in Jharkhand
On the 12th anniversary of the formation of Jharkhand state, the CPI(ML) conducted a fortnight long campaign against corporate loot of minerals, Coal Block Scam, forcible land grabs, issues of para-teachers, and rights of panchayats and corruption. This campaign was concluded at all district headquarters on 15 November. On this day thousands of people led by CPI(ML) MLA Vinod Singh, took part in a mass hunger strike at Giridih district headquarter. Similar mass hungers strikes were also held in all other places. In dumka, hunger strikers were led by Ramchandra Manjhi and Bitiya Manjhi, while Gita Mandal and Sahdeo Yadav led hundreds of people in Deoghar. Large number of people took part in Dhanbad, Bokaro, Ramgarh, Palamou, etc. In Ranchi, strikers paid tribute to Martyr Birsa Munda before starting the hunger strike. This was attended by large sections of urban poor, women construction workers, as well as many intellectuals of the city. Speakers here condemned the ongoing loot, repression and betrayals by the governments. Bahadur Oraon said that the political establishment has misused Martyr Birsa Oraon's name only to crush the aspirations and dreams of very same people for whom he laid down his life. CPI(ML) Jharkhand State Secretary Janardan Prasad said that the last twelve years of the Jharkhand state have proved to be a shameful era of loot and corruption in the history of the state. He blamed all political parties and their leaders who themselves are involved in this loot of Jharkhandi people's resources.
Towards 9th Party Congress
The preparations for the forthcoming 9th Party Congress of CPI(ML) are on in full swing in the host state Jharkhand. The Congress is scheduled to be held on April 2-6, 2013 in Ranchi. Party cadres and members are enthusiastically taking part at every level in ongoing campaign, propaganda and mass collections. Recently cadre conventions were held in six zones which were attended by all leading cadres of the state. These conventions were addressed by senior party leaders including party General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya. A Convention of Santhal Pargana zone was held in Godda on 8 December which was addressed by Com. Dipankar and Jharkhand State Secretary Janardan Prasad. A group of new activists also joined the party on this occasion, who earlier had left JMM. Activists of Giridih and Koderma region organised a convention in Giridih. Nearly 600 participated here. This was led and addressed by Vinod Singh and other state leaders. The activists resolved to make every effort for the Party's Congress and to make the forthcoming rally to be held in January in Bagodar on the occasion of martyrdom anniversary of Comrade Mahendra Singh a great success. Party CC's call for the VM Memorial Day was read out and discussed in the convention. The participants reported about the preparations and achievements in this regard. It was resolved to further intensify the campaign and take it to every home of every village in our areas with launching of 'Vikalp Jathhas' (people's contingents for alternative) at village level. Comrade DP Bukshi, Politburo member was also present in this convention.
A convention was held in Ramgarh on 10 December for the Hazaribagh zone which resolved to conduct a three-day campaign before 18 December. The convention held in Ranchi was attended by cadres from Ranchi, Gumla, Lohardagga and Jamshedpur region. A convention of Bokaro and Dhanbad was held on 12 December in Bokaro. This was attended by good number of comrades from working class. They resolved to make the forthcoming general strike on 20-21 February 2013 a great success. A plan was chalked out for intensive propaganda against loot of minerals and land by corporates and FDI. This was addressed by Comrades Dipankar, Janardan and DP Bakshi and presided and conducted by Deodeep Singh Diwakar and Subhendu Sen.
A Convention was held on VM Memorial Day, 18 December, in Daltanganj which was attended by comrades from Palamou region. Block Secretaries presented their reports regarding the Congress preparations. This was presided by party district secretaries of Palamou, Latehar and Garhwa. Some comrades shared their experiences of conducting Vikalpa Jathhas in their areas and told about the massive mass support they received in the campaign. It was decided to accomplish the collection of party members' contribution towards 9th Congress before 15 January. It was also decided to hold memorial rallies on 16 January in all towns of the region. All conventions were addressed by Comrade Dipankar. The Conventions concluded with a very enthusiastic note and comrades resolved to make 9th Congress and ongoing political campaign a great success by banking on people's support and involvement.
VM Memorial Day Commemorated
The 14th Anniversary of the sad demise of Comrade VM was observed in all the states as 'Pledge Day' where whole party pledged to make the forthcoming Party's 9th Congress a great success and take it forward to make the dream, as envisioned by Comrade Vinod Mishra, for the communist revolution in India a reality.
Memorial meetings were held in all centres in Uttar Pradesh where Comrade VM's contributions in the communist movement were recalled by the speakers.
In Odisha the 14th anniversary of Com. VM was observed at Nagbhusan Bhaban on 18th dec as Sankalp Diwas. Central committee member com Arindam Sen addressed this meeting and called for strengthening the party to fulfil the dreams of VM and to make success the party's 9th Congress through a massive grassroot level campaign in his inspiring speech. He emphasized on the fact that the Nation is going in the hands of corporatocracy instead of democracy, and at this juncture our Party should fight to save the nation from the hands of corporates. Comrade Kshitish Biswal, State Secretary of Odisha, Yudhisthir Mohapatra, Radhakant Sethi and Satyabadi Behera also addressed the meet and called for a massive campaign up to the villages and to achieve all round expansion of the Party before the forthcoming Congress.
In Uttarakhand the Pledge Day was observed in many districts and tributes paid to the memory of Comrade VM. A GBM was held in Bindukhatta in Nainital district where Party's State Secretary Rajendra Pratholi called for making 9th Congress a great success and asked every member of the party to intensify the efforts towards study of the proposed documents, new membership recruitments, and the mass campaign in this direction. He recalled how the Party sailed through massive state repression and various hardships since 70s to the present day and attained a distinguished place in the communist movement under Comrade VM's leadership. He also explained the importance of All India General Strike to be held on 20-21 February called by trade unions in the wake of all the ruling class parties going openly to serve the interests of big corporates in India as well as of foreign countries at the cost of the Indian people. Memorial meetings were also held in Pithoragarh, Bhikiasain, Shrinagar and Gauchar.
The Pledge Day was observed all over in Bihar with good participation and enthusiasm. In Patna district a week long campaign was organised among all the members of party on the call of the Central Committee. This was taken to the branch-level where party's political campaign, 9th Congress preparations, and all organisational requirements were discussed in detail.
In Delhi, a Cadre meet was organised on 18 December at Charu Bhawan where floral tributes were paid to Comrade VM and CC's call and 9th Congress preparations were discussed in one session and discussions on the proposed Party Programme were held in the next session. Comrades Prabhat Kumar and Kavita Krishnan spoke on the occasion. It was resolved to carry the CC's Call and 9th Congress preparations at every branch and ensure the involvement of every party member in the campaign.
Pledge Day was commemorated in different centres of Rajasthan. In Udaipur, good number of party members attended the memorial meet. They pledged to work hard towards the 9th Congress of Party and make it a great success. Many new members were also recruited on this occasion.
Similar programmes were also held in all other states and resolutions were taken to make the 9th Party Congress a great success.
AICCTU's Jail Bharo
At the call All India Trade Union Coordination Committee for satyagraha on 18-19th in preparation for general strike on Feb 20-21 2013, a Jail Bharo was organised on 19 Dec. by CITU,AITUC,AIUTUC, in front of odisha Assembly where around 500 activist courted arrest. Com Mahendra Parida, Secretary of Odisha AICCTU,Janaki Rao, Seema Sethi of Rajdhani Rickshaw Coolie Union, Dilip Samal of Safai Karmachari Union, Bharat Ghadei of East Coast Railway Union, led the AICCTU comrades during the arrest. The activists gave slogans to stop price rise, registration of unions within 45 days and against corporate corruption and loot.
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The region, as defined as the city, suburbs, South Jersey and down to Wilmington, ranked 39th out of 52 urban metros evaluated by Transportation for America, a consortium of groups looking to improve mass transit and road infrastructure. David Goldberg is a spokesman.
"A place like Philadelphia has had a lot of folks walking and taking public transportation for a long time, and you tend to provide the kind of infrastructure for that."
But not in growing suburbs, and that's a problem. The survey was based on highway fatalities over the last decade involving pedestrians. The group hopes to promote a national move toward putting crosswalks and pavements along many busy highways that don't have them now.
The safest roads to walk on are in Boston; the most dangerous are in Orlando.
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How far out do you work on your family trees? The sky is the limit of course but where do you stop researching? How far off your direct lineage do you go?
My two cents is I think it begins with your purpose and what interests you? If you are still active age focused on life things like raising a family, is genealogy something you want to do as a second vocation or will it remain a hobby passion? I think you need to do the same good effort for both but if you are thinking certification then you might want to take a peek at what is required and that might guide you in terms of things to accomplish over the long term when ready to embark on the second vocation.
As to interest what hooks you? The thrill of the hunt, the sharing of news, documenting the line, searching long forgotten documents and images in County Offices and libraries, visiting where your ancestors walked, creating a trail of family history useful to your descendants? Any of these things and more are great interests; if you live a long life you could be doing this stuff long after you "retire" so make sure you are enjoying what you do. It is fair to tell others what your search mission is so they can understand your methodology and don't be reluctant to carve it up to play towards your interests.
I like to go back as far as 8-10 generation if this is possible for each of your lines; at this writing 8 generation for me would be in the early 1700's. I say this is my preference because 8-10 generation matches with an above 90% probability of finding a most recent common paternal progenitor based on 111 marker DNA testing.
If you wish to acquire membership into certain organization such as DAR or SAR then their documentation requirements will help define the extent of your searches.
In regards to how far I go off of my direct lineage I generally use a couple rules of thumb; I try to go one extra step if available to add what I might know or have found to leave a good hint for others who may wish to go further. I often get off into a treasure trove of information purely because I started on a path and the findings are so easy for me to document and share with the assumption that someone, somewhere is searching for this exact information. And lastly, I will find myself off on a tangent purely because it is somehow interesting or providing something new unexpected. At some point I always come back to my main mission and now and then take stock on how well I am progressing.
In my case, I hope to find and document my Yates paternal line back to at least my migrating ancestor or beyond. I would like to visit England (based on DNA testing) and walk in those space once filled with my ancestors. It shapes how I go about my searching and learning.
For myself, I find I need some variety in how I do what I do. I find myself searching and documenting, sharing through various routes, working with images when available, learning about and participating in DNA testing, visiting locations where my search indicates interim presence of my line and then I do a significant amount of learning to understand the context of the times. As a result of not being a stellar student in my formative years this has been an important and enjoyable treat. And lastly, I spend energy when I am connected with an unknown cousin doing searching or someone who has found some of my work helpful and we find ourselves momentarily working hard together sharing every little hint we can. These focused moments normally have a short life but it is a connection that can be called upon over time. I find these moments truly an unexpected and enriching benefit to all the hours spent.


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There is no way to solve the problems of this world by trying to use its own means!
If humanity wants to come out on the other side, the side of true Freedom, Light and Happiness, we must go beyond the prison of this world in its ENTIRETY. It is our promised turning point!
We are capable now to turn the wheel around, but how many truly understand what it means? Lets grow the numbers of those who understand and change the world by going beyond!
What has become obvious: most of you still seek for solutions within the matrix, not being aware, that "the matrix is everywhere", to quote Morpheus from the movie "The Matrix".
Even spirituality is promoted and lived within this very matrix. It is a never ending mind game of false presumptions, teachings and doctrines that are very hard to see through!
They are by education and deep routed believe systems tightly anchored at the core of your mindset. They build the very foundation of how you view your world. You live with and through them every day, they are programmed into your subconscious and you have come to the conviction that they are the necessary basis of your life without even suspecting that you must question them!
This is because you are heavily identified with them by the deeply imprinted power of others who rule the consciousness of the very majority of our societies. You seem to have lost the capacity to step back, with the essence of your inner true being, being glued to what appears to be real, the so called reality of your daily life.
Of course this is the result of profound manipulation and mind control, weapons that are everywhere. You must recognize them in every detail of your ordinary lives. And you MUST step back as a result and MUST go beyond!
You can no longer fight the 7 headed dragon, because its heads are growing quickly and each slaughtered head grows new seven heads … and most importantly, this fight happens within the matrix itself.
It is about to understand at the core of your being that well meaning ET's and Ascended Masters, appearances of UFO's, "landings", and so on, not even a hoped for better monetary system, which will be still part of the matrix, are the true solution. These beings may be able to give you some nice advice, some inspiration perhaps, but it is you who must walk and not just talk the way. Therefore these benign forces are perhaps a graceful gift (if they are indeed of the true light!) in the process of a humanity that has decided to wake up and enter the true path of evolution and ascension.
Many hope for a better society by trying to change the ruling conditions within the matrix. But it is in vain, as long as the basic conditions remain the same. Like children destroy what they have built with building blocks and then use the very same building blocks to build something different. But the building blocks are full of worms and contaminated with lies, deceit, blindness, separation, un-love and un-happiness. On this basis something radically new cannot emerge.
Therefore it is the building blocks you must put aside and start with a new creation based on a brand new, not yet known "material" that allows for true ascension and change in consciousness.
Many say: this material is love. But love is one of the most abused words and ideas. Love is not just love. It depends on the definition of it. The less developed the consciousness the more restricted the term and understanding of love. In fact, the state of your consciousness defines how you are able to love or to Be Love. And Infinite Divine Consciousness equals Infinite or Unconditional Love. Otherwise, within the matrix, love is just another word for preference.
The hurdle is the childishness of the vast majority of our human brothers and sisters who resist to wake truly up from their illusions, by preferring not to take their destiny into their own hands, but rather are longing to be parented by whoever comes along to fulfill their self-neglecting desire, telling them what to think, to feel, to do, to choose. In worldly and in spiritual terms! Alluring them into their low vibrational or even seemingly "spiritual" cage and rather unintelligent way of existing, and in the worst case, in a robot-like manner. And they are not even aware of this! In the delusion they are free and independent members of their society!
It is a choice, to be a follower, my dear friend. And it is a choice to enter a completely new way of being which is the power of your True Divinity.
The choice for True Divinity is the ONLY way beyond the matrix! It is the only way of true Freedom. Unconditional Love and Happiness.
The choice to follow somewhat within the matrix, even if you think you don't, perpetuates the matrix of domination and control, slavery, unhappiness, falseness, because this IS NOT WHAT YOUR ARE. As you sell yourself to powers that are out of reach of Pure Divinity, but into Which you could grow.
Most people, are not aware that they are captured in the prisons of an artificially constructed world, full of rules that serve the rulers but not the awakening of Divinity of the people. So they think they are just a body that has to fit into a given political and societal structure that does not allow for expansion of consciousness and your True Creativity and Infinite Being. It reduces you to a slave who obeys their masters, falsely convinced you are your own master. This applies also to churches, some spiritual groups and sects.
Unfortunately a great number of lightworkers are not aware that they also serve these slave masters with their ideas and "experiences" of a bit more subtle worlds and by consider them to be their identity. Because it is the subtle worlds, full of colours and nice feelings and icons, even with some sacred geometry, decorated perhaps with sentimental love feelings, that hold them back from growing into their true Divine Nature, being consoled by transient appearances. Do not forget, also the slave masters are using the subtle worlds and fake light to confine and dominate you. But you are NOT even some subtle appearance in the worlds of creation.
So what do you choose? There is no middle way. Either you go beyond or you get stuck in the matrix that ties up the bag each day a bit more. At some point there will be no escape possible anymore.
Not even into the subtle worlds because also they belong to some sort of the matrix.
If you want to be truly FREE, you have to go entirely out of the whole box. The gross box and the subtle box too! They are the prison of imagination and ideas. There you are vulnerable! It is the infinite world of mind in all variations! As long as you choose to merely live there, you are prone to manipulation, to wolves in the skin of a sheep, deceit, error and downfall. Mind is mercury, it comes in all shapes, forms and colours, it can come as the liar in disguise, the thief in the night and you don't recognize it in the belief it is what you hope it is. But in reality nothing is at it seems!
To go beyond is dying to this world of the entire matrix!
Yes, the matrix is familiar to you! You have been growing up in it. Your belief systems dwells on it. Your ideas belong to it. Your life is running in it. Everything is the matrix. This is what you need to realize, everything!
So who are you "without" it! This question is not correct though, as separation is only a false idea! It arises from a limited point of view. Going beyond is an all-inclusive act.
Although it is your birth right, going beyond needs courage. Going beyond the matrix reveals the Glory of Infinite Existence, Love and Happiness. It is better to use your mind to serve this purpose, instead the purpose of the matrix.
There, in this untouched, pristine Domain, no slave master can reach you, manipulate you, influence you. It makes the matrix crumble away, non-existent. And it is the ONLY way to make this happen. Not revolution, not fight, not regret, not waiting for somebody to save you. And no attempt to make the matrix "better", because better or worse, it still remains the matrix.
Understand: YOU are the matrix. YOU are all beings and things. Divine Consciousness IS EVERYTHING, YOU are everything! But you must choose whether you want to enjoy Eternal Freedom or ongoing slavery, allowing The Supreme Consciousness of your Divine Nature to remain hidden and confined in your unconscious.
Therefore, there is nobody and nothing to save you. No matter how the "external" world appears to be. YOU must choose to go beyond. There is no other way. It is the way of the hero. But this is what humanity is: a hero if we choose our true destiny.
How to go beyond you may ask. Is there a simple and easy way? Can it be done on a weekend, doing a seminar, reading a book, doing some exercises, using mantras, training the mind.
Certainly anything may help to get more clarity where you stand. But certainly it does not happen on a weekend.
Ultimately there is NO means, no magical tool of and in the matrix to set you free!
But why give up! Even the hope that it should be 'easy' is a trick of those who you allow to rule over you. To disempower you! So that you falsely think you are a weak consumer of spiritual things, and as such believing you are unable to intrinsically BE what you ARE. What a blasphemy has been put upon you! Look how you betrayed yourself!
Of course, dear friend, we ALL have the power and strength to go beyond because the Divine Seed lies in every heart.
To peel off the false skins you are still identified with, is the work, purification called otherwise. The way of burning what is fake. In fact your whole existence is a fata morgana, if it is not dedicated to the Truth. It must be burned. You cannot just wrap your matrix into something spiritual that you can buy on the market!
It is the burning fire you must accept and love so that your Shining Truth can finally come forward, as the One Who Is Eternally Free.
What is the new "material" then, if not the rotten blocks of your childhood? It is not some sort of ideas and imaginations, some colorful visions or perhaps some kind of feelings. It is made of a fabric that is very REAL.
It is the Eternal and Indestructible Substance of your Heart that is freed from the rubbish of the matrix by the fire of purification. It is your purified heart that gives way to and opens up to the Transcendental Divine Reality That Is the Source of All Beings and Things. The new building blocks are made of its new clarity and purity, joy and impeccability.
On its clear ground a new radiant world arises effortlessly. It is the other world, - infinitely beyond and untouched by the matrix. It is your True Divine Destiny.
With Love and Blessings,


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I was looking at my plastic bag holders and had a thought- I could make the bottom with a little plastic ring and put my skein of yarn into the bag and pull the yarn out through the plastic ring and that way my yarn wouldn't go everywhere and wouldn't knot up, etc.
Here are some pics of it.
I made and sent several as Christmas gifts.
The pattern will be coming soon.


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Up until this month, I had what I considered an average to low collection of patterns. I have been stumped with what to make because I had more fabric than actual pattern choices. I realize now that it should really be the reverse.
I found these IKEA storage boxes on my top shelf, and realized they were completely empty! Since these were solid, I made labels to help me sort them in the future. The lidded boxes made stacking a breeze, not to mention tidy.\The green box above is for jacket patterns, and the red box is for odd-sized patterns like my Folkwear, StyleArc, downloaded Burda, Eva Dress, and random Indie patterns.
One of the really difficult things about using a lot of patterns is what to do with the patterns when I'm done. I would be interested in knowing what others are doing. I keep telling myself that I might use them again, and I think for patterns I really, really love, I should transfer them to tag board so they can be a part of my permanent collection. But that is a project I have not attempted, even though I have a small roll of tag board ready for use. My current used-pattern drawers are full. My next project is sorting through these and throwing out patterns I don't like.
|These drawers are filled to the brim with used patterns.
|Used patterns on top of those white drawers. It's difficult to store without folding them down to smaller pieces.
I repurposed my extra clear shoe boxes for storing notions a couple of years ago. But I didn't really do a good job sorting out all the notions into categories. Items were scattered across boxes, causing me to waste time digging through several boxes for items I needed. My zippers are now all in one box, bias binding in another, and so on...
Here's a picture of my more organized shelf. Even though it doesn't look less cluttered, everything is a lot more accessible.
Since purchasing my new Juki, having a convenient place for all the feet accessories was a problem. I like to use the extension table, and the storage space is in the regular pull-out table. I emptied everything, and placed all the feet in a small rubber container. Up until today, I had the feet scattered around the table, and inside the extension bin.
My needs shift with my sewing skills. As I'm utilizing more complex sewing methods, my need to have tools scattered across different areas of my room become very important. I was worried about the number of scissors I owned, but now, they are just enough to have at every work station. I need some identical tools as well as project-specific ones.
This art caddy was originally at my cutting table. I found that the deep and wide bins did not really hold all my cutting, marking, and measuring tools well. But it is a perfect caddy for my ironing station where my needed tools are taller and bulkier. The similar items are scissors, chalk and tape, but I have found that I like to do a lot of hand basting, collar or corner turning, as well as ironing. With everything organized mostly in the caddy, it makes it easier to move it around the ironing board. I replaced the pink caddy with this popular desk organizer.
This is another view of my spinning tray. I remember donating this very item a few years back before I started sewing again because I found it cluttered up my office desk. I am not suggesting that we should keep everything we own. But many office supplies I used to own could be great storage now.
Another item that I never regretted buying was a simple tall basket from TJ Maxx to hold all my rolls of fabric, paper, and miscellaneous vertical supplies. This bin keeps all these items in one corner without tipping over, and the bottoms clean from dust.
My IKEA shelves got a slight adjustment after repeatedly digging around for my interfacing, lining, and muslin fabrics. I decided once and for all that I needed to have all these items visible, and roughly organized at all times. I use some bit of these materials for every sewing project. I took a shelf out of the top, and moved it into the open shelf section where its at arms reach.
By eliminating one of the top shelves, I created more room for thicker and bulkier fabric inside the top cupboard. The third shelf was often too high for me to see or organize the stash. It ended up being a space I rarely used.
|I store my most frequently used knits and cottons here. Here's a picture of the cabinet now.
A few feet away from my sewing studio, in the second and bigger half of the barn sits a china cabinet. I sold the matching table and chairs during one of my many moves, but no one wanted the cabinet. My don't have room for it now, so it's been relegated to storage. With its glass doors, it's a perfect storage unit for some of my fabric stash. I've still got more stash that's hidden under tables around my sewing studio. I don't judge either...
My sewing area is an ongoing organization project. The re-sorting of thread, bobbins, and re-tidying of the tools tray which houses everything I need for the machines will never end. If I do not clean regularly...usually after every sewing project, I find it difficult to be efficient. Here is what my table looks like as of today. It might look different next week!
This sewing table is crowded! If I had a choice, I would love to have about a foot more space between each machine. My sister visited this week, and we shared this sewing space. Let's just say, we bumped into each other a lot. Behind the three major machines are two backup machines in the far corner. They are there because I don't have any other place to store them. But I'm considering relocating them into one of the shelves as soon as I sew some of my stash down. That might not happen for a while...or never. My stash tend to multiply and grow with very little effort. I need stash contraceptives...
If you want to see how much more stuff I have now compared to before...check out my previous blog entry on my sewing room re-org in April 2013 HERE. It's two years...and much fabric shopping, including trips to Asia later, I'm still busting at the seams. This little Spring cleaning took me nearly six hours. But I did it leisurely, and enjoyed every minute of it. Happy sewing!


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Thanks so much for your terrific and generous guidance. I regret only that I had such a limited number of days -- I mean MEALS -- to devote to exploring NOLA foodwise. After spending many hours on this site and perusing menus, I flew down to New Orleans from Northern Indiana on Wednesday, March 14th. That night, I made early reservations (the only ones that were available) for Domenica. Two of us arrived on time, but the other 4 trickled in 30 minutes and then 1 hour late. The server, who was attentive, charming, and helpful, didn't mind at all, and the whole atmosphere was relaxed yet also efficient and expert. We split a gorgeous wild mushroom bacon fontina yard egg pizza -- delicious -- and then our colleagues had a margherita/white anchovy pie (love that you can do half and half), and the other arrivals had full meals. We earlier 4 also split the stunning, beautiful charcuterie/pickle board, which was awesome -- lovely little pickled raisins, "marmelade," cheeses, prosciutto, etc etc. It was an impressive and wonderfully easy-going meal. Later on, we hit MiLa for drinks and some food, which seemed to go over well, though I am not convinced they are really that much of a drinks place -- they didn't have a menu for cocktails and it was a bit vodka heavy.
Thursday morning I strolled around the French Quarter with my friend and we had breakfast at Jimmy J's -- stunning fresh orange juice and lovely eggs. Later we hit a small cafe whose name escapes me (sorry!!) after finding Green Goddess super busy (I never managed to get in there alas)...had a nice rosemary chicken salad, perfectly done. Thursday night I went to Coquette with a friend. It was delightful -- very nice service and exquisite food. I had the "everything" vegetable salad -- fresh vegetables and pickled things and then the stunning fish (arg can't tell you what!) with "kimchee" sauce (mild and more of a sriracha flavor with rice wine/vinegar) -- so pretty I took a picture, which I'll try to attach below. The flavor was stunning. The portions were rather small though. It kind of explained why there were all these very slender super-leggy young women in towering heels at the bar -- I looked at once point and there was only one man at the entire bar. I still felt hungry, so I had the cheese plate, which was tasty and well done. My friend also very much enjoyed her meal. I partly chose the place because it looked easy for her to follow her eating restrictions (no wheat or sugar), and it was. The service was great.
On Thursday evening plans developed for a 6-person gang for dinner Friday night. No reservations could be obtained, except that on Friday late morning I was able to download Open Table to my phone (finally!) and snagged an earlyish table at the 2-month-old Sweet Olive, which I had heard about, luckily, at Coquette the night before. We six at there and had a delicious, amazing meal, which I've posted about on a separate Sweet Olive thread on this board. Earlier in the day, EVEN THOUGH I had a mandatory meeting lunch at Crescent City Brewhouse, where we made a tactical error and failed to order early, then had to wait eons for our meal and then watch while the waitress endlessly consulted her notes to figure out who ordered which (of mostly 2) things (instead of just saying "Tuna?" or "burger?" and letting us sort it out), I say EVEN THOUGH this was set, I wanted to grab some lunch with a friend and happily we ended up at Mr B's and I had a lovely simple salad and then we split the amazing BBQ Shrimp. It was the whole deal -- the bib, everyone staring at us like they'd never seen this before (!?!) -- and it was sooo good. And the service was excellent. And prompt. And we got out and I was only a little late for lunch #2.
On my final day, St Patrick's Day, I had loads of professional responsibilities and skipped the parades and drunken excesses. I had another pre-planned lunch (ALAS!) that was served at the Monteleone -- it was quite good for "hotel food." Dinner was at Root, which I've posted elsewhere -- I didn't really care for the "face bacon" or pickles with which we started, I think the chef has some kind of a chocolate/breakfast fetish that was not my thing (amuse bouche involved granola and chocolate, ew), but the Hanger Steak w/ Crispy Sweetbreads, Sweet Kumquat Bordelaise, Pommes Frites was fantastic and so was the Coriander Scented Grilled Gulf Fish with Lemongrass, Consommé, Satsuma Ginger Shrimp Salad, "Yaki Udon" Noodles. We decided to overdo it by having dessert, and my friend had the Yorkie (more evidence of the breakfast fetish, as it involved cocoa puffs), and I had the Ambrosia, which rocked the house and was like a tiny smurf village. Worth going, but order carefully...
Friends of mine also ate (on my rec or not) at: Herbsaint (loved it), Bayona (adored it -- Susan Spicer was cooking that night), Irene (disappointed), Green Goddess (loved it), Jacques-Imo's (loved it). I will see if others have further feedback to share with the list. But, again, THANK YOU ALL for all the super advice and suggestions, which helped me come off as a total superstar of foodie organizational ability AND enjoy some world-class eating.


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HOUSTON, Texas — Scott Pera has been named the 25th head coach in Rice men's basketball history, Director of Athletics Joe Karlgaard announced Thursday afternoon.
Pera has spent the last three years as the Owls Associate Head Coach. He has served a large role in recruiting and game preparation. He helped the Owls to victories over New Mexico, UAB, Middle Tennessee, Old Dominion and Louisiana Tech.
This past year, he helped Rice to a 23-12 record, the second-most wins in school history and just the eighth 20 win season, while advancing to the quarterfinals of the College Basketball Invitational. He helped oversee a squad that set school records for points, field goals, three-point field goals, free throws and rebounds.
Prior to joining the Owls, Pera spent two seasons at Penn, where he saw the squad lead the Ivy League in assists in 2013-14 after ranking second in the league in assists and tops in field goal percentage defense the season before. He was named the top assistant in the Ivy League and No. 19 nationally among low-to-mid-major programs by Basketball Times in 2013 and '14.
For the Quakers, Pera also played an extensive role in recruiting, player development and game preparations. Penn notched wins against league front-runners Harvard and Princeton during his tenure under head coach Jerome Allen.
"This is a special day for me," said Pera. "I want to thank Joe (Karlgaard) and the administration. My route is a little bit different than a lot of people's (route). Obviously, I spent 11 years as a head high school coach. I've worked at some great institutions and for this to culminate here at Rice University is literally a dream come true. I couldn't be happier. My family loves the Houston area and loves this university. We're just all very thrilled."
Pera previously spent six years on staff at Arizona State under head coach Herb Sendek. He began as Director of Operations in the 2006-07 campaign but was quickly promoted to a full-time assistant coaching position in 2007 and added the title of recruiting coordinator just one year later in 2008.
The Sun Devils averaged 18.0 wins per season with Pera on staff as an assistant coach, including three 20-win campaigns and an at-large bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament and two NIT appearances (2008 and '10).
While at Arizona State, Pera recruited many successful players to Tempe, including NBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist James Harden, who Pera had previously coached at Artesia High School. He also recruited ASU career games played, assists and free throw percentage record holder Derek Glasser from Artesia.
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Pera graduated with a degree from Penn State's Harrisburg campus in 1989. He and his wife, Alyssa, have two daughters, Sydney and Brynn.


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Taking pics of my outfits has been a learning experience.I really get to see how things are look on film don't look the same in the mirror. Does that make sense? lol! I was comfortable and finally did my hair Monday so felt alot better.:)
So the movie...
I won't spoil it for you, cousins. T.Hall says my line name should have been "Spoiler Warning". Anyways...It was...Well, let me tell you a short spurts:
-I went to see it at the Spartan 16 and there was a girl in front of me that was buying 10 tickets for the 10:10pm show so I know tonight is going to packed and off the hook!!
-However the noon show was packed...full of women of course.
-I swear...I had to be one of the ONLY fashion fanatics in there because the scene with wedding dresses made me clutch my chest and when I saw my play-uncle Andre Leon Talley, I squealed! Then again I was in the 'Burg.
-Ah, It was the best predictable movie ever. Every step you know is going to happen even the end. And what ever happen to the rumor I heard on "Best Week Ever" that Mr. Big dies? They so stupid. If think you know what's going to happen, its going to happen.
-My girl J-Hud AKA Jennifer Hudson was super. It was a well-played, honest, genuinely cute character that gave the Carrie story line some formation. It was great contribution to the movie. I would have loved to see her character develop. You'll hear her song at the end of the movie. But, I hated the her makeup, dark eyes and dark lips, and loved the whole Bag, Borrow, And Steal bit!
-Of course, its a girls night out movie. I went alone after asking my Gay BFF who had to work( he promised to go with me next week...:)) and planning a day trip to Columbia to see it with my troops but my babysitting plans fell through. But trust, I'll go to see it again with anyone who wants to go.:)
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What's Happening -
K thru 8th – March
6th – PALS meeting 7 pm
14th – School hosts Lenten dinner 5:00 – 6:15 pm
14th – 5th – 8th chimes
20th – School Open House 6:00 – 7:30 pm
23rd – April 2nd – Spring Break
24th – Community/School/Church Easter Egg Hunt 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Pre-School – March
6th – PALS meeting 7 pm
14th – School hosts Lenten dinner 5:00 – 6:15 pm
20th – School Open House 6:00 – 7:30 pm
23rd – April 2nd – Spring Break
24th – Community/School/Church Easter Egg Hunt 1:00 to 3:00 pm
2017-18 Supply List
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Useful Links / Tools
'sign in' for St Luke's students parents (tuition payment site)
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Helpful tools for interpreting your child's MAP test scores
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May 22, 2014
New Bead Sets!
It is always fun to put these original sets together. Playing with colors, textures and shapes. These new sets are landing in the indiemade shop today at noon!
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New Bee Charms and Pendants!
These buzzy, busy guys will be landing in my indiemade shop tomorrow at noon (PST)! Please stop by for a visit, no bee net required!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
More Computers Added to Library
The library has been busy this summer adding computers and additional workstations on the second floor. With the expansion of Java City, the first floor computer lab has moved to the second floor. Besides the new computer lab, the library has added 40additional computing workstations on the second floor. This is in direct response to last spring's student survey which stated that the library needs more computers. The library plans to update the furniture and add some more computer workstations in the near future.


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"Young man sleeping, Rotch Library, MIT"
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Friday, March 24, 2006
Drawing: Man Sleeping
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I am slightly churlish today, so at least tell me you're not a fabulous dancer. I need to know there's one art that you haven't mastered.ReplyDelete
I'm feeling quite un-artistic, losing my prose, poetry hand on strike, and I can't draw a straight line with a ruler.
Keguro, I can't sing, which is the artistic talent most highly praised in this culture. I can't carry a note, not even a flat one.ReplyDelete
I know you'll get your prose hand back and your poetic compass will reorient itself soon enough. I know that sounds Pollyannaish, but we both know it's true.
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These are my 2012 goals:
- pay down credit card debt
- start to use cash more regularly
- volunteer
- find a new job
- save a little more money
- make new friends
- date. become more secure in my body & how it works
- lower cholesterol & triglyceride levels
- cook more often
- take a vacation
- some fun activities including: book signing, berry picking, opera, etc.
- freshen style
- move/plan to move
Let's see what I did: Yes, I paid down my credit card debt and used cash much more often. I found and started a new job, a saved a smidgen of money, I partook in some fun activities (fire walking, camping, rope course), and I freshened my style sort of - I cleaned out my closet and donated about 10 bags of clothes and I spent a bunch of money on new clothes....still not super happy.
I did not volunteer, make new friends, take a vacation or move. I also never went for my free physical so I am not sure about my cholesterol levels. The dating thing is tricky, not sure how to answer that, although I did go on about 5 dates with new people this year.
I am ok with these results (considering I forgot to look at this post throughout the year); about 50% because the big stressful ones were taken care of, it was a decent year.
But 2013 has to be better.
My 2013 goals:
- Whenever I say "I never..." write it down, and by the end of the year try about 60% of what I never did before.
- Be more spontaneous
- Be in the moment more...enjoy the time when there, and stop trying to look past that time. Enjoy the person I am with, as I might never see them again. And if I don't want to be somewhere, well, suck it up and ENJOY it anyway.
- Move
- Spend less money on clothes than I did this year
- Try 10 new foods
- Spend less time on Facebook
- Get my photo taken in 5 interesting places
I also have a holiday party next week where we'll do a resolution roulette. Everyone will write down 1-2 fun resolutions and we'll put them in a hat and pick one. Next year we'll see who actually did it.


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Some Birthday Fun
March 12th was my 35th birthday. I'm not sure if 35 is supposed to be a big one (is 35 the new 25?),but we had a pretty low-key celebration. We went out to dinner and then hung out with my knitting group. At 1:30 am on the 13th I went into labor. Our little girl was kind enough to let me enjoy my birthday contraction-free, and she arrived on my mother's birthday instead. Needless to say she has the favorite grandchild position all sewn up (she's also the first for my side).
I actually have some FOs to show for my weeks of bed rest. I started and finished several projects, and am now fully over my nonstartitus (inability to start things). I need to give a big thanks to the Loose Knit Group on Ravelry. I am making major progress on my gifts for Christmas 2008!
First, I made this easy ribbed hat for my brother. I plan to make matching fingerless gloves and give this to him for his birthday in December. Not only am I done with a gift well in advance, but this and the gloves should use up some stash yarn.
Yarn: Lion Brand Wool-Ease Solid in Dark Gray and Unger Aries (45% wool/55% acrylic) in Light Gray
Pattern: ribbed cap from One-Skein Wonders
Changes: I made it longer, because I wanted a cuff (Wisconsin is cold) and my brother has an huge head
Yardage: About half a skein of the light gray and a quarter of the dark gray
Needle: US 7 (4.5 mm)
Time: started January 17, 2008 and finished February 28, 2008.
Notes: This is an extremely easy pattern that is great for using up leftover yarn.
Next, I finished a scarf for a friend in England. I thought the fun yarn would brighten up those gray England winters. This is also a Christmas gift for next year and I plan to make a chunky beret in light green to go with it. I may put just an edge on it in the matching yarn, but I thought a completely matching set would be a bit much.
Yarn: Moda Dea Cache in the colorway Wink
Pattern: 2x2 rib
Yardage: Nearly 4 skeins
Needle: US 11 (8.0 mm)
Time: started January 25, 2008 and finished March 4, 2008.
Notes: This turned out pretty long, so it can be wrapped around the neck to keep out the English chill.
Lastly, two more Seija blankets and the last ones I plan to make for quite some time. I am planning to use all my leftovers from the eight (yes, I've actually made eight of these things!) Seijas to crochet one more baby afghan or two. These final two are gifts for twins, a boy and a girl.
Yarn for Red/Orange Blanket: Caron Simply Soft Shadows in Autumn, Caron Simply Soft in Off-White, Plymouth Encore Worsted in Light Orange
Yarn for Blue/Green Blanket: Caron Simply Soft Shadows in Soft Merino, and Caron Colour Perfect in Woodsy Green and Pine
Pattern: Seija blanket pattern in The Happy Hooker, with the very clever hole for a carseat or stroller seatbelt
Changes: I added three rounds of single crochet for the edging and left out the braided trim. I also added a few rows to make it a bit longer and make up for leaving out the double crochet edging at each end.
Yardage: 2 skein of each of the Shadows, 3/4 of the skein of Plymouth Encore, and about a 1/4 of each of the other skeins.
Hook: size H
Time: started January 28, 2008 and finished February 27, 2008.
Notes: These are so easy and the recipients really seem to like them.
Are you wondering what that large pink obstruction is in the last photo? I know I did. It took me a few seconds to realize it was my pregnant belly getting in the way. My next post will have two FOs for the baby (without the belly obstruction, but perhaps with baby obstruction).