It now has been almost 2 months that I built the vertical farm ! and things are going along pretty well ! I have some parsley growing, a few green onions, 2 collard green plants and swiss chard. The parsley that got burned by the light bulb that was too close almost made it, but I pulled it out to make space for the seedlings to come. A few weeks back Ive planted the core of 2 collard greens and one of a swiss chard, just to see, and last weekend when doing a bit of cleaning I pulled a bit on one of the collard greens and was happy to see a few tiny roots that where growing out of it ! The collards, swiss chard and onions are all "salvage" from the kitchen scraps.
I just seeded a few seeds last week end : Cilantro, Parsley, Roquette, Letuce (black seed simpson), Swiss chard, Summerlong basil, and Spinach. I hope to be able to plant all of that - to see how many plants I can put in there.
I have kept adding 2 mL of NH4OH to make sure that there is enough nitrogen. I have kept increasing the amount of compost I use to make the compost tea, so far I am at 1 cup - which is 240 mL - of worm compost for 2 cups (480 mL) of water. Depending on the volume in the tank I am either using "new" water, or water form the system, and "brew" it for about a day and a half. After that i measure if there is ammonia and nitrate in there. Given the coloration from the compost (of course filtered) its really difficult to tell, but so far, it does not seem that there is large amount of it. Possibly, the different compounds of the compost interfere with the kits reactions. I may get these strips to see if the results are different form the API kit I have. The systems water has some ammonia (the one i add) but no nitrite or nitrate accumulating. The Ph seem stable around 7 ish : the ammonium hydroxyl I add probably buffers the acidification due to nitrification, as well as the compost tea. Also exiting things are happening at the school I volunteer, but there will be more about it in a little.
& now there are 6... As mentioned in the last blog I have been rather busy over the past few weeks trying to get the front garden beds up & running.. Added another 2 beds over the weekend just past to bring the total number of beds up to 6..
The last 2 beds will be made up in a few weeks time after we pick up a couple of ½ tanks that have been offered to us (Thank you sir).. Once they are all in Bianca & I will decide on what sort of cladding will be added to them to finish them off.. I have decided to keep using the wicking beds in the front yard after seeing how invasive the onion weed has been in the hay bale & lasagne style beds.. Not sure we will use IBC or tin style beds in the lawn as of yet & still have some tin put aside if we want to go down that road.. The compact dimensions of the IBCs would suit the slope of the land better but the tin beds wouldnt need to be clad so it will be something we think about later..
Wicking IBC beds... Have been using the IBCs as wicking beds for a while now & have come up with a few modifications on the way they are being put together so they can store water in the reservoir..
Will be interesting to see how they go over summer once it kicks off.. I have a feeling that the corn in particular will be very appreciative of having the extra water available to it..
Harvesting the compost... We have had 2 "slow cooking" piles of compost going in the patch now for close to 8 months.. As I ran out of horse manure on the weekend I decided to raid these piles to help add some organic matter to the new beds.. One pile was actually supposed to be a "Back to Eden" style wood mulch that just "cooked" a tad too much..
Must say that was very pleased with the way both batches had broken down & have already used over ½ of the composted timber pile.. There is a fair amount of the clipping compost left & think that most of that will be used in the last 2 IBC beds planed for the front yard..
Super fast manure mulching...
As you may have guessed by now I love using horse manure in the gardens & as an edible bedding for the compost worms.. The manure we normally get has been sitting in a pile for a few weeks before it is bagged up so is semi composted & normally very moist.. My local supplier was out of his finest pony poop when I stopped in on Saturday but I was lucky enough to get a few bags the next day from local farm gate.. Some of these pellets had been "sun baking" for a bit becoming rather hard to push through the screen so the big guns were brought out to process it : )»
Have tried the lawn mower method before with the moist manure but it just didnt want to cooperate by clumping up & stalling the mower.. Am thinking that I might be sun drying the moist manure for a few days in the future then running over it with the mower.. Will also save the gloves from extra wear & tear methinks...
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Looking at playing around with a chook feeder this week so shall do a quick post on that once its built.. There is also our Bits Out the Back Facebook page that we post mini updates on the worms, fish & veggie patch if you feel like a visit..
The time for kid gloves, political correctness and worrying about bruised feelings and "triggering" people is well and truly over. No more nicey nicey. No more sugar coating. No more mincing words. Its time for the cold harsh reality of what the fuck is going on right now.
Tonight Lisa and I will be joined by Lily Earth and ohhhhhh boy! We have a lot to say. Tonights menu of topics will include Mind Control, "AI", Programming and Rituals, the use of auto suggestion and blatant programming by Hollywood, and ..... the Savior Meme.
This will not be a lovey dovey, feel good, sweeping strings while we frolic through fields of flowers on unicorns kinda night.
Join us tonight on the Roundtable Discussion, LIVE Stream on CCN at 11pm BDT/ 6pm EDT
http://www.consciousconsumernetwork.tv/ccn-live/
Or Watch live and join us in the Chat Room on Lisas website:
Tonight on the One Peoples Roundtable Discussion, Lisa and I will be talking about the weirdness of the past week.... or two..... or 3, lol, discussing again, the fluctuations in the Matrix, the fuckupidness of the "Timelines" and..... CERN.
...Cause oh yes, CERN has been doing some seriously freaky shit, and as of yesterday, they hit 14TeV with over quadruple the "bunches" of protons. And let me tell you, shit got really WEIRD.
Lisa and I will be talking to our old friend Duncan OFinioan, from the show "Shoot from the Hip", and Randy Maugins from Off Planet Radio.... hopefully. Internet is seemingly illusive for Duncan at the moment but hes searching for a hot spot, and Randy will be join us for the second half of the show. When it comes to CERN, Duncan and Randy are two of the most knowledgeable people around as they have been reporting on CERN since 2008.
So please join us tonight for the LIVE Stream Broadcast of the One Peoples Roundtable Discussion, at 11pm London, 6pm EDT. You can watch the show live on CCN:
http://www.consciousconsumernetwork.tv/ccn-live/
Or Join us in the Chat room on Lisas site: http://www.lisamharrison.com/watch-live/
Or watch live, right here on RTS, or on the RTS Facebook page.
A recent news release aimed at the microcontroller and Internet of Things communities got me thinking about ways to participate on the leading edge of an emerging technology.
When someone develops a new product, they often need to also develop a market for that product. When that new product becomes available, people who might use it usually are busy with life and are not looking for and waiting for that new product to be released. Getting people to use the new product takes more than just making it available. If the new product is revolutionary, has immediately obvious benefits and is priced reasonably, the developer of the product need only do a good job of communicating to the target audience what the product does and how they can get the product. Then the money comes pouring in. That sometimes happens, like with the iPod, but its rarely the situation.
If the product is evolutionary instead of revolutionary, if the benefits are not immediately obvious, or if it is priced high enough that people decide theyll do without or keep using a competitive alternative, the developer of the product must work much harder to get people to use or buy the new item. Some ways to engage potential users are:
Provide free samples of the new product.
Provide the new product at a very low introductory price.
Provide services, for free or very low cost, that will help potential users understand the benefits of the new product and will help minimize the time and cost for them to begin using the new item effectively.
The news release I mentioned at the start of this post was about the Bluetook Smart Starter Kit, a free training package to,
"...walk developers through building a Bluetooth Smart device and creating a Bluetooth Smart Ready mobile application. The free kit is designed to work with an Arduino board (not included) and includes sample code to get developers up and running..."
If you want to create mobile apps that use Bluetooth and dont already have decent tools to let you do that, you might be interested enough to sign up and try out the free kit. The kit is only software, so there is minimal cost for these developer tools because companies must provide developer tools or no coder is going to develop apps that use the new product. The few app developers who take the time to even look at the free kit will likely go meh and continue using what they already use. A few people, most likely app developers who also like Arduinos, will seriously try out the kit. And a few people in the Arduino community might play with the kit because theyre interested in Bluetooth.
A stronger way to convince people to try using your new product is to offer it for free when there is true value in them trying it out. A pre-internet example was receiving a small personal sample of a new type of shampoo or other useful consumer products in the (snail) mail. An example more relevant to people who work with microcontrollers is the free samples which some electronics manufacturers offer.
Two examples of the free electronics samples are the Texas Instruments (TI) my.TI program and the Microchip Sample program. Create an account in those two programs, then you will be able to get designated electronics samples for free, usually new products. You might also be able to get individual samples for free even if a component is not listed as a free sample. Providing you with free samples is valuable to the manufacturer because you might not otherwise consider using that item, especially if there are obvious competitor items, either from the same company or from other companies, or if its totally new. To use a new item, you have to spend your (limited) time learning how to effectively use it. People like free stuff, so giving away a few samples of relatively low cost electronic components can convince people to try using them.
The second way mentioned above to engage potential users is to price the new item low compared to its competitors. Right now Arduino single-board microcontrollers have a lot of media buzz and a very active user community. When TI released a new single-board microcontroller, the Tiva C Series Connected LaunchPad, they priced it significantly lower than the Arduino Uno with significantly better capabilities. That convinced one of the Humboldt Microcontrollers Group participants to order a Tiva C LaunchPad as soon as he read about it.
The third way mentioned above to get people using your new product is to provide services to help people more quickly start using your product. One examples of this is the upcoming MediaTek launch of the LinkIt platform for the Internet of Things and the MediaTek Labs developer support program.
"MediaTek Labs will stimulate and support the creation of wearable devices and IoT applications based on the LinkIt platform. Developers and device makers who are interested in joining the MediaTek Labs program are invited to email labs-registration@mediatek.com to receive a notification once the program launches."
Another example of providing user support is when a tech manufacturer or distributor sends a representative to a user group meeting to explain and promote their products. I worked with Adobe one time to put on a Tech Cafe in Milwaukee which talked about recently released Adobe products and gave a short workshop on how to use some of those products. Adobe sponsored the meeting by having one of their employees lead the workshop, and they provided breakfast and beverages for the workshop participants. Everyone thought that was fantastic -- learn about powerful products, like Creative Suite, get to ask a knowledgeable company rep questions and get informative answers, and have free snacks on top of it. What geek could ask for more than that?
Oh by the way, the Adobe rep gave away a $2500 software suite at the end of the workshop, along with a few other valuable Adobe goodies and company swag. That was an awesome way to support their users and potential users!
How could the developer of a new product get you to try it out? Maybe at the next session of the Humboldt Microcontrollers Group we can make a list of all the ways people at the meeting know of that companies are willing to support the microcontroller users community in Humboldt. And one or several of us can start reaching out to those organizations to make them aware of us and to let them know we are interested in working with them to expand the use of their products!
Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself...
-Rumi
In general it has felt like a late, lean year in our garden. With the lack of rain and our attention focused mostly on the animals, the garden has kept us fed, but felt less abundant than previous years. And just as I was thinking about how there seems like not as much growing around here (besides the ever prolific squash!), I take a spontaneous walk through the orchard and discover an abundance of fruit in need of harvesting. In turn, this prompts several days of gathering and preserving. There are so many plums and apples. If we wait until the fruit ripens on the trees the turkeys and deer will eat it all. So in an effort to keep some of these sweets for ourselves I harvested buckets full. They can all take their time ripening in the sun in our driveway. Some of the trees produced less this year-like the prune plums and the gravensteins- but the grapes are off the hook! I kept making trip after trip with my basket loaded, all in amazement that the laden vines were hidden under the leafy cover just waiting to be discovered. Like a kid in a candy store, I cant imagine a better way to spend my day. And into the kitchen I go to make grape jelly, fruit leathers, apples sauce, and dried plums. (My goal this year is to can enough jam that we will not buy even one jar from Trader Joes!) The oysters and shitakes from our mushroom bed are going into the dehydrator too for soups later in the season. Were still crankin out the sweet and spicy zucchini pickles, our preferred method to use up overgrown summer squash. The Oregon Sweet Meat squash are piling up on the cob bench as they make their way in from the garden. These have become my favorite winter squash for their rich delicate flavor and their ability to keep for almost a year without refrigeration. They have a striking grey blue skin with a generous bright orange inner flesh. In these days that our hearts are filled with gratitude and reflection, the harvest has begun, and we preserve the bounty one small batch at a time.
I woke up to a completely skype outage- not just the usual Skype fuckery Ive been experiencing for the past few months, but a full blown outage. Some messages are going through- but taking 30 minutes to be delivered- some are not going through at all. In Skype groups, some people are receiving the messages, some cant even get signed into Skype.
I do NOT Believe in Coincidence. As I said last night on Transpicuous News, this could be a VERY interesting week.
BE ALERT BE PREPARED ...AND KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL!!!!!!
Do you have a secondary plan for communications? Even Zoom is not working well this morning. Facebook calls are not going through..... do you have another option for communication with groups and friends and family- especially those in other countries?
.... Im working on it as well. Ill let you know if I hear anything else.
love d
RT- update on skype: http://www.rt.com/news/316064-skype-ruined-users-lives/
Skype communication app is down across the globe
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Popular communications application Skype went down across the world on Monday. Numerous users are currently complaining on social media that they are not able to sign in.
“Were a bit overloaded right now...Please try again later, or download Skype to use it anytime,” Skype wrote on its website. “Affected users will not be able to change their status, their contacts will all show as offline and they will be unable to start Skype calls to them.” However, they added that instant messages “are still being delivered as usual. The status issue also doesnt affect Skype for Web, which can be used to make calls and send instant messages.”
So tonights post about the PancakeBot show you just how much fun you can have with microcontrollers (and other bits of technology) once you learn how to use them. A recent SlashGear post is about an Arduino-controlled pancake-printing 3D printer that prints out an Eiffel Tower. The PancakeBot is an open source project, so if you want to 3D print your pancakes, theres information out there to help you put together a slightly-wacky machine that will do just that.
The video for printing the Eiffel Tower is worth watching, if only to see how well-produced the video is and what a great job theyve done of getting the pancake printer to work.
But what I thought was even better was PancakeBots "Breakfast Gallop" video. I went to the projects website and checked out their blog. The video of a pancake horse riding across the countryside would be a priceless memory to make with your kids. After 3D printing the props for the video and after making the video, the kids get to eat the props! How much better can it get?
Your favorite microcontroller (MCU) blog or blogs may be included in the list shown below. If not, please send website addresses for the MCU blogs you like best in an email to arcatabob (at) gmail {dott} com.
Most people probably dont have a favorite MCU blog. However, regularly reading a quality MCU blog will be well worth your while if you want to:
Be aware of new MCU-related product releases.
Learn new tricks and skill for using MCUs.
Be exposed to different MCU projects that you might want to copy or hack.
Become aware of other MCU users whom you might want to connect with.
There are two basic types of MCU blogs; ones that have a narrow focus, such as and Atmel blog or an Arduino blog, and ones that cover a wide spectrum of MCU topics, manufacturers, skill levels and applications. The Humboldt Microcontrollers Community blog tries to present a fairly wide spectrum of topics because the primary goals of this blog are to connect MCU users with each other in the Humboldt region and to increase the number of people in this area who use microcontrollers.
Below is the start of a list of blogs you should consider reading either frequently or every now and then. A post on one of these blogs may spark your interest enough that youll buy a couple new components, develop new programming skills, or start working on a project you would never have done if you hadnt read the blog post. Some of the blogs have more than just MCUs, but are pretty relevant to someone interested in MCUs.
Below is a variety of blogs -- see if one or several of them are your cup of tea.
Evil Mad Scientist
Adafruit Industries Blog
uC Hobby -- Making things with Microcontrollers
SparkFun Blog
Official Arduino Blog
Make: Magazine Blog
Hackaday
tronixstuff
Embedds
Atmel Blog
TI MSP430 Blog
43oh -- MSP430 Projects
Dangerous Prototypes
Embedded Lab
Electronics Lab
Tomorrow, June 26, is the next Humboldt Microcontrollers Users meeting, from 6 to 8 PM at 1385 8th Street, Arcata, California. Ill check with people at that meeting to see if they have favorite MCU blogs that arent on the above list. Hope to see you at the meeting!
I think it is time for a new update about my indoor gardening endeavor.
Green onion, longer leaves are "broken"
The verti-Ponic system plants seem to be doing quite fine, especially the collard greens and the green onions. The collard greens are putting on new leaves and really is looking bigger than it was a few weeks ago; but the largest leave does not seem to be growing anymore and younger leaves did not catch up with it yet. For the green onions, after loosing all but one in December, I was hesitant putting new one in, but I did anyway, and they have been growing and growing in the last 3 weeks however, 2 of them were found dying yesterday, but it seems that I "planted" them a bit too shallow. For the parsley, it seems that its been a bit stagnant since I have harvested half of its leaves. I is growing longer leaves, but no new leaves, and a
The parsley
couple that dried off. Maybe half of the leaves was too many, or maybe the plants are too old (they were growing on a little pot for over a year before I transplanted them to the system). So I started a few seeds and I will replace them once the seeds are starting to grow a couple of real leaves. The tomato plant has lost a couple of leaves (they where progressively shrinking since I kind of messed them up 2 or 3 weeks ago), put the newest leaves seem to be doing well, and last night I could see that it seems that the terminal bud is about to put a new leaf out. Finally the Pepper seedling is growing slowly but surely, and has regularly put new leaves out.
The seedlings
I started other seeds in the same time: kale, chard aragula, letuce and basil.
On the least bright side, It seems that the green onion leave have tendency to break after they reach a length (maybe 6 inches), and I am wondering what it could be due to, my thinking is: most people how grow aquatically/hydroponically on a medium of some sort, grow in some sort of stones, of clay pellets, and stones or clay are made of some form of silica. So I added a bit of powdered pumice I had in my toolbox (pumice is a volcanic rock that can be used to polish some wood finishes). We will see if it helps with the newer leaves that are not broken. I might go to the store and buy diatomaceous earth which is another source of silicate.
Green: Ammonia, Purple: Nitrite, Red: Nitrate
On the nutrient side, It seemed to me in the last 2 weeks that there was some accumulation of nitrate, which made me think that possibly the compost tea was bringing some extra nitrogen in a sort of "slow release", so I stopped adding ammonia to the system to see if the level would be maintained, however, it did not stay up, and now nitrate have lowered to traces, as well as ammonia. On hind sight, I used a plastic milk bottle to "brew" the compost tea, and possibly there was some milk protein that found their way to the compost tea, and where progressively supplying ammonia and then nitrate. I keep increasing the amount of compost I use to make the compost tea, but no nitrate seem to be picking out on the test strips. I think I am going to keep adding some extra source of nitrogen since I will not add fish until the project with he class is over.
The worm composting is doing well, I have been adding the coffee grounds of the day in the bucket for the school since I "finished it up". What I mean is that I have drilled holes in the bottom, as well as on the side towards the top - near the lip of the lid, and glued some fine meshy fabric to prevent bugs to fly in, and added another bucket with 4 large holes near the bottom to collect fluids if they build up, and keep the whole thing aerated. The large holes are also covered with the same meshy fabric. The worm crate has now diverted a total on 25 kg of food scraps (over 50 lbs) and 6.5 kg (14 lbs) of dry paper and wood dust. It also produced 4.3 kg (over 9 lbs) of compost. In total, in the 5 months I have started composting in NYC, almost 30 kg (66 lbs) of food scraps and 8 kg (19 lbs) of paper and wood dust did not go to landfills (including the worm bucket for the school). And this for a very modest investment to buy 1/2 lbs of composting worm (11$). Also the last few times I harvested compost from it, it was incredibly nice and crumbly. I am not sure whether it means that the worm population is "mature" or if it has to do with changes in the bedding. In October, I started to add the compressed wood dust pellets that the cat didnt like too much, this is now over, so I will see if there is a change again later on towards a less crumbly texture.
The worm challenge is doing good, so far I have not added more "food" or bedding, since there is only 2 worms, I am sure it is going to take quite a while until I can add more safely. The 2 worms are alive, and i really think that the biggest is mature at this point. I also set u another one, in a sour cream pot (a little smaller that the other one), but this one is a "one worm challenge" where I added only one worm, an adult (so possibly fertilized). I have made this one just as the first one: brown paper bag for bedding, used cafe grounds for food, and some water from the ponic system to bring some beneficial microorganisms. I will set up one last one when possible (when I have an empty container I can use) for another one worm challenge, but with an immature worm in it. According to Bentley the composting guy, some species of composting worm can auto-fertilize. I am actually not exactly sure what kind of worms I have. I am supposed to have E Foetida (sold to me as: red wiggler) and European nightcrawlers (sold to me as: trout worms), but it seems to me that I have 3 types of worms: some are lighter in color and bigger (the Euros) and then some are small and dark red (E Foetida ?), but some also have a yellow tip, and actually, there are some who have their bands very visible (tiger worms ?). Anyway, this is the main reason why I am setting up one with a mature worm (which most likely is already be fertilized) so I can keep track and take a juvenile that for sure will not have been fertilized, and I can keep this other one as a comparison (juvenile VS adult).
The school project will get its own post very soon.
We have been very lucky so far this year in that we have had no **crosses every digit * fruit fly strike any of the chillies in the patch.. The bell chillies near the house were my big concern as they have no protection unlike the the large chilli in the hoop house.. A few weeks ago I decided to use up the collected chillies in a chilli paste so went searching on the interwebs for some inspiration.. An online friend (Tar Joy) pointed me in the direction of one she had tried & liked.. It looked promising but we were missing a few ingredients so I decided to make up my own using the recipe as a rough guide.. Below is what we came up with & am quite chuffed to say that the sugar & vinegar are the only ingredients we didnt grow ourselves :)»
Sambal Oelek...
500g/1 lb chillies, chopped
300g/10½oz galangal, peeled & chopped (some ginger would be nice as well as or instead of the galangal)
300g/10½oz garlic, peeled
4 stalks of lemongrass, chopped
2tbsp of grated lime skin (we use our kaffir fruit)
small hand full of Kaffir lime leaves
350ml/1.5cup coconut vinegar
200g/7oz rapadura sugar
Add all ingredients, except for the sugar & vinegar, to the food processor & chop on high for about 30 seconds. Slowly pour the vinegar in while the processor is on high until a smooth paste has formed. Move the paste to a saucepan & bring to the boil. Slowly add the sugar & stirred through until dissolved. Reduced the heat & let simmer on low for 5 minutes. Adding a lid at this stage will aid in the clean up later as I found out ;)»
This batch filled 3 sterilised 500ml jars.. 2 of these were added to a hot water bath for 10 or so minutes so they could be stored for later use with one being gifted to some friends..
We have been very pleased with the fresh citrus flavour off this paste.. We have used it to spice up some leftover roast pork & also to make an AWESOME coconut prawn curry.. Cant wait to experiment with the next batch we make up.. Nice & easy Chilli paste.. A simple no frills recipe to make up this basic yet versatile paste.. Thanks to Granny Mel for a few pointers on the paste.. 250g/½lb Chillies, chopped in ½ 125ml/½ cup Vodka 15g/½oz salt 2Tbsp water
Process chillies on high for 30 seconds or until finely chopped. Add to saucepan with water & salt then bring to the boil. Reduce to a high simmer for 4-5 minutes. Turn hotplate off & allow past to cool for 5 minutes. Stir Vodka through paste then add to sterilised jar & seal. I would recommend storing it in the fridge.
This is such a basic recipe that only takes 15 minutes to whip up & can be used in so many different styles of cooking..
Shall post the other chilli paste recipes later if I think they are tasty enough..
For more regular updates about the patch come visit us at https://www.facebook.com/Bitsouttheback Have a great one All... :)»
With the high temperatures we have been having the water in the fish tank has been slowly rising to the 30°C/86°F mark... This is outside the comfort range of the Jade perch & I was getting worried about the amount of dissolved oxygen they had available so needed a quick fix.. Found a very easy fix by doing next to nothing at all..
Might contemplate adding some frozen bottles of water into the tank to try & help reduce the water temperature tomorrow..
Just a quick walk around clip to show where we are up to... Will be spending the week planing the start of the spring patch lay out & setting up some new beds... What Spring plans do you have ?? Have a great one... : )»
Well well well.... I do love when pieces flow together in a seamless stream of information. I woke up this morning to three different posts in the new UnFuckers Unite Facebook group, that ties some interesting information together today.
First up, this report http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/10/ghost-cities-mysteriously-appear-over-parts-of-china/
Ghost Cities Mysteriously Appear Over Parts of China
Imagine looking out a window at dusk on a misty evening and seeing the ghostly skyline of a mysterious city floating in the sky above you. This actually happened in early October when residents of Foshan, China, saw a mysterious ghost city hovering over their own city. It happened again a few days later in Jiangxi. Reports of these sightings recalled a similar ghost city appearing over a river in Huanshan City in 2011. Are these mirages, apparitions of ghost cities, views into another dimension or something else?
go to the original article to watch the videos
I responded in the UnFuckers Unite Group that this story is similar to the story I covered on Transpicuous News this past spring:
Dani Arnold-McKennyhmmmmmm this is interesting. I covered a news story out of Africa- back in spring 2015- a small village in Nigeria (ill have to look it up) - the entire village saw a city in the clouds above them- 100% of the villages saw it. then a few days later they saw it again...... of course, there was no international coverage on it
Here are the links to the original reports in April 2015:
THAT article was followed by a link to Simon Parkes news letter:
Simon Parkes October Newsletter . . . Finally it’s out!
Posted onOctober 13, 2015
Welcome to the delayed October newsletter. World events are moving at a speed that we have not seen for many years. Most of my newsletter will be aimed at United Kingdom and America because this is where the future and the decisions will play out in a more public manner. American readers doubtless will know that the Pope visited Capitol Hill and made his monumental speech. Anyone with an ounce of sense would ask why would a religious man who does not speak for the Hindu’s, Muslims, Jews and indeed only speaks for one faction of Christianity; why would such a man be asked to speak on world topics and to do so not at the United Nations but at the seat of American government. The answer of course is this was their new world order speech, they have fired the starting pistol and there is no going back. What does this mean? Well, it means that the negative elite are now debating which false flag to employ as a precursor to launching their version of the NWO. I have been made aware of two of the possible false flags.The first– the most dramatic; a low yield nuclear bomb in the ocean somewhere off the coast of mainland America with the intent of creating a 100 foot tidal wave to strike the eastern seaboard of the USA, remember this is not destined to happen it is what a small group of fanatics are considering. In every other case they have been thwarted and there is no reason to believe that they would be successful. Second debated option is the much vaunted false flag alien invasion. This is their preferred option (I know many commentators have dismissed this but truly this is now back on the table). This option offers a cheap alternative to obtaining individual sovereign government giving up their authority and accepting one world rule. I would like to go into some detail here – if this option is chosen we can expect first generation triangle craft flying within small areas over the United States, programmed life forms P.L.F’s that will either be used in mock battles with mercenary soldiers dressed in American uniforms or one option that is being considered is a staged meeting between such P.L.F’s and the Pope. Such option should not be discounted, this Pope, according to prophesy the last pope, has already you will remember offered to baptize aliens, I am sure this link is not lost on my readers. Those of you who have seen my presentations will know I have shown photographs of British school children being conditioned to accept spacecraft crashing. This is all part of the false flag agenda.
I dont "follow" Simon Parkes, but the info was interesting.
My Responses to this post on FB:
Dani Arnold-McKenny" I have been made aware of two of the possible false flags. The first – the most dramatic; a low yield nuclear bomb in the ocean somewhere off the coast of mainland America with the intent of creating a 100 foot tidal wave to strike the eastern seaboard of the USA," I have heard this for over three years. I was told that when a certain battle ship had a "training accident" off the coast of Boston just before Hurricane Sandy, that it was carrying a nuke and was "crippled" by the "good guys" before they could set it off. Recently there was another rumor of a plan to set one off in the Gulf off the coast of Texas- the only reason I actually looked at that information was because the theorized "zone of devastation" actually mirrored the Deagle.com info. But yes, this is a theory that Ive been following for a LONG time.
Dani Arnold-McKenny"Second debated option is the much vaunted false flag alien invasion. This is their preferred option (I know many commentators have dismissed this but truly this is now back on the table). This option offers a cheap alternative to obtaining individual sovereign government giving up their authority and accepting one world rule. I would like to go into some detail here – if this option is chosen we can expect first generation triangle craft flying within small areas over the United States, programmed life forms P.L.F’s that will either be used in mock battles with mercenary soldiers dressed in American uniforms or one option that is being considered is a staged meeting between such P.L.F’s and the Pope. Such option should not be discounted, this Pope, according to prophesy the last pope, has already you will remember offered to baptize aliens, " I have theorized this for years as well and I still believe very strongly that they will try to use this plan, in conjunction with a "second coming". Lisa and I have discussed this several times on the One people Roundtable Discussions.
OK, so so far we have reports of cities floating in the sky, and then Simon parks report, that while he doesnt mention "Project Blue Beam", that was definitely the first thing I though of- both when I originally reported on the Nigerian sighting of the floating city and this report from China.
I have theorized that this would be their "big play" for a long time- long before I had ever heard of "Project Blue Beam". Ill get into this in a moment....
Then the very next article in the group was a video by Daboo7 about NASA and their newest party trick:
A NASA Experiment Is Going to Light Up the Sky With Beautifully Colored Clouds Tonight
Filed to: physics10/07/15 11:15am
If you’re on the east coast tonight, keep an eye on the sky between 7pm and 9pm: NASA is launching a test of some new tech that will include releasing colorful vapor tracers 130 miles above the Earth. It sounds like it’s going to be beautiful.
The vapors will be ejected from a sounding rocket launched from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. NASA explains that it has actually been injecting various vapor tracers into the atmosphere since the 1950s—these trails help scientists understand “the naturally occurring flows of ionized and neutral particles” in the upper atmosphere by injecting color tracers and tracking the flow across the sky.
Tonight, NASA says it’s ejecting four different payloads of a mix of barium and strontium, creating “a cloud with a mixture of blue-green and red color.” Here’s an example of a barium release provided by NASA; on the upper left you can see the barium’s “ionized component, which has become elongated along the Earth’s magnetic field lines.”
And here’s another tracer shot from a launch using lithium vapor and trimethyl aluminum over the Marshall Islands:
Helpfully, NASA also has a guide to which tracer chemicals produce what types of color, compared to fireworks:
The ejection technologies will include a deployment system for forming vapor clouds in space for wind and ionosphere studies and ejectable sub-payloads testing data transmissions between sub and main-payloads during suborbital rocket flights, primarily during auroral studies. Hesh said, “These two technologies will allow researchers to make real-time onsite measurements over a much wider area and increase the amount of data obtained than is currently possible during a suborbital rocket flight.” During the test of the deployment system for the vapor clouds, four sub-payloads with mixtures of barium and strontium will be ejected from the main payload and the vapor will be deployed while the payload is descending. The test also will include the release of vapor from two systems on the main payload during the descent portion of the flight. The vapor tracer sub-payload deployment method being tested on this flight uses small rocket motors to eject the sub-payloads from the main payload. The ejected sub-payloads will release the vapor at about 130 miles above the Earth. The main payload releases will occur at an altitude around 118 miles.
The barium-strontium mixture produces a cloud with a mixture of blue-green and red color. The blue-green part is neutral, i.e. not charged. Strontium is used to enhance the visibility of the neutral flow.
Red and white vapor clouds filled the skies over the Marshall Islands as part of NASA’s Equatorial Vortex Experiment (EVEX). The red cloud was formed by the release of lithium vapor and the white tracer clouds were formed by the release of trimethyl aluminum (TMA). These clouds allowed scientists on the ground from various locations in the Marshall Islands to observe the neutral winds in the ionosphere.
Soooooo..... here we have NASA ADMITTING to using Lithium in its atmospheric testing!! A bit more validation to the article I wrote last week : "Dosed Chemtrails: Have you had your Litium today?"
Would these injections of Lithium be the reason that we are suddenly seeing very "rare" Red Aurora Borealis aka Northern Lights?
NASA Takes Chemtrail Spraying Program to Outer Space - See more at: http://www.pakalertpress.com/nasa-takes-chemtrail-spraying-program-to-outer-space/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pakalert+%28Pak+Alert+Press%29#sthash.UNxFm8Xc.dpuf
Is this the setting of the stage? Is this NASA et al building and testing their giant screen for their next big "Movie" release, to play out their purported "Project Blue Beam"? Or is this just a furthering of their chemical toxification of Humanity?
I theorized a few years ago, that "they" would create a "second coming" , most likely using the "ET" "Disclosure" as a back drop. .... what better way to tie all humanity up in one nice big bow? Have a second coming that involves Space Ships and Aliens and you effectively gather up all the religious people, AND all the Science fiction/NASA people all at once..... and use that to create your "new" "New World Order". Further to this thought is the huge amount of articles over the past 6 months especially, that have skirted around and hinted at the big "D" of "we are not alone in the Universe"....
.... I dont think its going to work, mind you. But it IS an interesting theory and one to watch.
Remember: its not about "Fear" or "Falling for" their bullshit. Watching these things planned and played out is an important aspect of SEEing this bullshit for what it is:
Tonight on the One Peoples Roundtable Discussion, we will be digging deep.... again! Lisa and I will be joined by Bradley Loves and perhaps a couple of other special guests tonight, to discuss CERN, AI, Dimensional interference, and the New World Order Agenda that is being currently played out on a massive scale.
As Homework for tonights show, please watch this 27 minute video where Anthony Patch discusses the ramifications of CERN and AI, whats being done, what has been done, and what they ("they") plan on doing. https://vimeo.com/127970485 Last night Nick and I watched this video and it took us almost 2 hours to get through it, as we had to stop the video multiple times to discuss several pieces of information that are presented here...... youll see what I mean!!!
If you really want to do some homework for tonights show- please review this article that I posted a couple of weeks ago: http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2015/06/cern-theories-end-of-days-or-end-of.html
I am hoping to reach out to Anthony Patch tomorrow to arrange a time for him to be a guest on the Roundtable..... Ill let you know as soon as I have a response.
This all is coming to a head my friends, and the information is coming to light as people are working separately to find the pieces of the puzzle, and then coming together to bring new understanding forward.
As a side note: It would seem that there is a huge global push at this moment to shine a light on all of these organizations and groups that are being lauded as "saviors"...... I do not believe in coincidence, as you all know..... so when I see so many articles, videos and discussions that are suddenly outing the backgrounds, involvement of certain people, and their agendas, all coming out at once.... yea, definitely time to really shine a light on EVERYTHING that is going on!!!
Please join us tonight on CCN at 11pm BDT/ 6pm EDT
http://www.consciousconsumernetwork.tv/ccn-live/
You can watch the show live here on RTS, or on the RTS facebook page. Or watch live on Lisas site and join us in the chat room if youd like to be involved in the discussion.
http://www.lisamharrison.com/watch-live/
See you tonight!
love d
Canary Cry Radio clip with Anthony Patch on AI, Adiabatic quantum computers and the Luciferian agenda from Georgann Ryan on Vimeo.
The week of a nettle harvest is always special, filled with fresh sparkling juiced nettles, delicious nettle soup, nettle quiche or frittata, green smoothies, then bundles and bundles of nettle leaves hanging in the kitchen to dry. This year our preservation method of choice is to dry and powder as many of the leaves as possible and freeze them in small bags to use through out the year as our own local, deep green super food (in place of spirulina and chlorella).
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Herbalist Michael Moore says in his book Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West…"Nettle powder is somethingthat you can gather yourself in places that you trust, and you can add it to smoothies and salad dressings, put it in your bread, add it to tea, home beer, and so forth.It is green food your body recognizes, and can help build blood, tissue, and self-empowerment.”
Definitely our number one go to herb for extra nutrition and nourishment when we are stressed or depleted, an easily absorbable form of iron, vegetable protein, spring cleansing and so much more. Thank you lovely nettles!
It now has been almost 2 months that I built the vertical farm ! and things are going along pretty well ! I have some parsley growing, a few green onions, 2 collard green plants and swiss chard. The parsley that got burned by the light bulb that was too close almost made it, but I pulled it out to make space for the seedlings to come. A few weeks back Ive planted the core of 2 collard greens and one of a swiss chard, just to see, and last weekend when doing a bit of cleaning I pulled a bit on one of the collard greens and was happy to see a few tiny roots that where growing out of it ! The collards, swiss chard and onions are all "salvage" from the kitchen scraps. 
I have kept adding 2 mL of NH4OH to make sure that there is enough nitrogen. I have kept increasing the amount of compost I use to make the compost tea, so far I am at 1 cup - which is 240 mL - of worm compost for 2 cups (480 mL) of water. Depending on the volume in the tank I am either using "new" water, or water form the system, and "brew" it for about a day and a half. After that i measure if there is ammonia and nitrate in there. Given the coloration from the compost (of course filtered) its really difficult to tell, but so far, it does not seem that there is large amount of it. Possibly, the different compounds of the compost interfere with the kits reactions. I may get these strips to see if the results are different form the API kit I have. The systems water has some ammonia (the one i add) but no nitrite or nitrate accumulating. The Ph seem stable around 7 ish : the ammonium hydroxyl I add probably buffers the acidification due to nitrification, as well as the compost tea.
When someone develops a new product, they often need to also develop a market for that product. When that new product becomes available, people who might use it usually are busy with life and are not looking for and waiting for that new product to be released. Getting people to use the new product takes more than just making it available. If the new product is revolutionary, has immediately obvious benefits and is priced reasonably, the developer of the product need only do a good job of communicating to the target audience what the product does and how they can get the product. Then the money comes pouring in. That sometimes happens, like with the iPod, but its rarely the situation.
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