The time has come, so walk away from the Google Monster and get the hell out of Dodge!!
Introducing the New Home of Removing the Shackles & Transpicuous News!!!
The decision to get off of Blogger and move to an independent host was a major one, that was finally forced upon me with the Google monster rearing its ugly head time and time again.
From this point on, all new articles and videos will be posted on my new website. The plan is to slowly move the content from RTS over to its new home and to populate the video archives for Transpicuous News and the One Peoples Roundtable Discussions......at least for 2015 anyway! Stay tuned for many changes and many additions to the new site!!
Well my friends, the year has come to an end, with not so much of a bang... more of a whisper and a whimper it would seem. While on the Surface the "News" has been devoid of anything even remotely interesting, in the back ground, while everyone was distracted by egg nog and leftover turkey sandwiches, there was a few very interesting things that almost slipped by unnoticed.
Today we look at the War between Canada and Denmark, the "real" space review that isnt, the Chinese question, and whether or not the Pentagon has any clue what they are doing.
Have been looking at ways to boost the nutrition of the chooks at late & have come up with a few ideas like the Black soldier larvae farms... As you can see from the clip below they are a hit with the girls..
Another way is by increasing their greens intake.. At the moment they are getting grass clippings, grass from the neighbours yard & leafy greens from the patch.. Think its time they grow their own ; )» Living Green Chicken feeder..
Have been wanting to make one of these feeders up since a friend told me about them.. The concept is fairly basic, plant some chook fodder seeds under a chook proof cage so the greens can grow through for the chooks to feed on them without scratching them up..
So far I have made up the cage & installed it into the chook pen.. It is hinged so the mesh can be lifted easily & the soil worked or left to the chooks to scratch out between crops..
A hanging pot hook will be used to keep it from turning it into a chook trap : )» I have some wheat grain soaking over night so it can be sown out in the morning... Just thought it might give the seed a bit of a head start germinating.. A clip will be made once we have a bit of growth & the chooks are feeding from it..
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Well folks, this whole "Mandela Effect" shit just jumped to a WHOLE new Level!!
If youve been watching the One Peoples Roundtable Discussion on Monday nights, then you know Lisa harrison and I have been discussing the so called "Mandela Effect" for months now. And over the past month or so, there was a decidedly new level seen in this mess, as we talked about on this weeks show- with us now seeing very blatant changes in modern history.
Specifically, the Iraq War in 2003-07. In a completely different conversation in the UnFuckers facebook group, someone brought up that Mongolia had fought in the Iraqi war.... and I said "No fuckin way". So I went to check and sure enough, according to our "new" history/timeline/matrix fuckupery, yes, Mongolia actually sent troops to fight in Iraq in 2004!! Im not going to get into the whole discussion from Monday night about Mongolia itself, but rest assured we have a VERY different view of Mongolia from what is being now portrayed in the Media/news now- please listen to the show for more on that, HERE.
But I went looking for the lists of coalition forces that supposedly were in Iraq during the war.... and I just about fell off my chair!
If there is one topic that I have read quite a bit about over the past 5 years or so, its the Iraq War- being the backdrop to the purported "IQD RV" , so when I saw this list I knew immediately that there was no way that: Mongolia, El Salvador, Tonga, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, South Korea, Fiji, Iceland AND Japan had forces IN Iraq during the Iraq War! The other countries listed you might be able to kinda sorta maybe see as having participated.... but not these countries.
Japan.... Ive been reporting on Japans Defense Forces and the HUGE change to Japanese Law that Abe pushed through their government, on Transpicuous News several times this year alone. Japans military is ONLY Defensive, and has been ONLY defensive since WWII. When Abe pushed through a new law- this spring 2015- that would allow the Japanese Defense Forces to act OFFENSIVELY, and to LEAVE their country to support their purported "Allies", the Japanese people had a serious freak out. One man even lit himself on fire in a public square, and immolated himself as a show of outrage against this new law. When this was going on I did several house of research into this law, and into the background on the Japanese Defense Forces.... so I know for a FACT that they were NOT in Iraq in 2004.
With this information, on this area of change, it showed a definite jump in level of what sort of Mandela effects were seeing.
Then today in the UnFuckers group, someone dropped a bomb that nearly knocked me over. Not just in the bare HUGENESS of this change, but what this change signifies.
Just about every child who was raised in a christian household knows the Lords Prayer. Lets face it, even non-christians know the Lords Prayer. You know it, right? Can you recite it right now, in your head?
What if I were to tell you that its now changed?
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Happy new year! Agoucha, Toon, Neko [pronounce N- e (like the first e of there) ko (like in in loCO)] and I wish everyone a healthy and happy new year!
The tower farm keeps growing slowly and surely! Some plants seems that they are really liking it there, especially the collard greens. I Also am pretty sure that I need to add more light to the system. Also the compost tea "experiment" is continuing, and so far it does not seem to provide significant amount of nitrates. Here is a breakdown of the state of things from top to bottom.
On the top, the is a pepper seedling, It grew in the compost from the worm crate and I transferred the 2 leaf seedling into the vertical farm a little while ago. It now has 4 leaves, and seems quite happy there.
Next there is one of the collard greens that grew its longer leave from 7.5 cm to 10 cm now. It also has added new leaves. (see second photo)
Next there is the parley, I harvested half of the leaves last week (not much, but it was tasty). this week it put out 2 leaves (stimulated by the cut ?)(see second photo)
Next there was a small 3 leave seedling of parsley that died, not sure why, but it became suddenly totally dry.
Then the is the bok choy core that seems to grow too, and added a few new leaves in the last 3 weeks.
Another collard grows lower, it also have grew new leave regularly, but it is not as green as the one on the top of the tower. This is what makes me think I need more lights. The light are placed on the top. Notice on the picture how the collard on the left is not as intensly green as the one on the right.
Also There were a few green onions lower, but they died (except one that is higher in the tower) after I did the monthly cleanup. I have disturbed them, and they didnt like it, maybe added to insufficient light also participated, as they were not as green as the one closer to the top.
When I did the clean up there was a bit of a biofilm in the reservoir, internet sources are no agreeing whether it s good or bad, but logically, since we are dealing with a system full of life, I would expect such biofilm to develop.
For the water quality, I have hiked up the amount of ammonia to 4 ml for about a week, and there is now an obvious accumulation of ammonia and nitrate, with some traces of nitrite. I have back down the additions of ammonia as I would aim for an amount that gets quickly processed into nitrates. I am also wondering if this increase of ammonia may be in part linked to the cleanup - which may a killed some of the living film, releasing ammonia as it decomposes.
For the compost tea addition, I have kept increasing the amount of compost used. Yesterday, I have added 2.5 cups of compost to 4 cups of water, and "brewed" for 24h with aeration. I finally got around to get test strips to look at nitrates, and it does not show a significant amount of nitrate in the compost tea. However, the stips also measures general hardness (180 ppm) carbonate hardness (120ppm) pH (7.5) and nitrites (0 or maybe traces).
Finally, I seems that the Blog will pass the bar of 1000 views ! that is quite exiting, Last check I had 997 views!
The poultry run has been pretty quiet for the last several months. In autumn we processed all the old birds who were no longer laying. The one long day we spent processing was an unwelcome chore but what a relief when it was all over and the freezer was full of chicken and duck for the winter stock. Last August we bought twenty five laying chicks and our new flock has grown fabulously. Raised on a soured milk diet, they are now almost five months and we expect them to begin laying soon. We are ecstatic to have reached our goal of completely cutting off store bought feed! For about four months we have been feeding a combination of spent grain (fermented non-gmo barley that we get for free from a local brewery), vegis from the garden, organic green bin waste, our kitchen scraps-including fish and meat, and clabbored milk. After doing a bunch of reading and combing the internet for recipes/ratios of homemade feed made with spent grain we really didnt find much useful information so we have been experimenting with trial and error. What we learned is that our birds all love the spent grain but when fed to the younger pullets they had bloody stool within a day. So we kept to the sour milk diet while they were growing with a supplement of organic grower crumble. Once they reached 6-8 weeks they transitioned from the brooder to the run and started on spent grain combined with vegis, etc. They are all looking happy and healthy. It will be exciting to find out how well they will lay on this diet. Since we especially chose high production breeds this time around we are hoping for lots of yummy eggs. I have to admit, I miss all the colors of the old flock. The three breeds we chose are not as bright; white leghorns, red and black sexlinks, as well as our one random Americauna who gives us her periodic green egg.
We have big plans for the run to be an experimental food forest with apple, olive, fig and mulberry trees, Siberian pea shrubs, bamboo, comfrey and several nitrogen fixing cover crops to support the trees and give the poultry a little forage. Everything is so dry, the chickens and ducks will be happy to be surrounded by more greenery. In the meantime we will build a massive compost pile in the run for the chickens to scratch, turn, and feed off of then they will be pastured through our small orchard while we transform their habitat. Check out this clip of a very cool, inspiring video about feeding chickens without grain.
Other ideas...were thinking of ordering Bourban Red turkeys and geese in a couple of months. It will be so fun to have a bustling poultry yard again!
Made a start on the 2 small beds that are replacing the large Herb Bed.... The first bed is up & just needs to be "Wicked" out & its done... Will start the second on Tuesday if the school schedule allows for it... I also need to scrounge some pavers from under the stairs for the gap & design the bench/storage box as well..... Should have enough bits of timber around to knock one up, just need to find some wire mesh to rodent proof the base.... Will have to look into better fencing around the base of the Chooks Mango yard to stop the soil being spread far & wide as you can see from the picture.... I have some bits of tin I can wire to the base of the fence to stop the spread.... Thinking about putting up a Bamboo or Reed screen on the wire fence behind the Chook pen to shield it from the vacant land to the rear of our place.... The owners are trying to sell the block & I dont really want people Peeping in on our Girls & Garden....
Found a little Native Gecko in the bed as I was building it... I must of spooked the poor little fella & it dropped its tail... : (» It was relocated into a nearby Crape Myrtle tree where it could blend in well.... Im glad to see them slowly move into the yard & Veggie Patch to devour the bugs....
A little less than a year ago, I moved to New York to join my Kochana who took a new job there earlier that summer. We moved from a college town in central Illinois. That meant that we had to say goodbye to sweet and tasty tomatoes, zucchinis and other garden deliciousness. We now leave as many New Yorkers in an apartment, with no balcony, and no access to a small backyard or a rooftop to start a garden... After starting earlier this year a vermicompost bin - my partner suggested I do so - I though she may not mid if I would start to grow something with this compost that I can now start to harvest.... Since there is neither a backyard or a rooftop, the idea to renew a past experience (from very very long time ago - high school more precisely) of aquapomics ( actually my high school attempt was hydroponics). So there is my design : a triangular 3 feet tower with a slit on one side made of a thin plywood recovered from an old cabinet that we trashed a few weeks ago, a small filing store-box find by the neighboring trash for the tank (made of PE), polyester fluffy filling from an old comforter, food grade PE tube, a small aquarium pump found in the neighborhood, and because that free pump was not strong enought an actual fishpound pumps, found on Craigslist for 20$.
I build the tower itself in slightly over an hour of sawing and nailing it together, and cutting the slit in the "face".
The joints where waterproofed using silicone caulking, and the exterior was covered with a white water based paint. I then washed the inside of the tower with some soap and a brush and flowed a lot of water. I rinsed the polyester fluffy material , rolled it, folded it and stuffed it in the tower.
Yesterday, I washed the "tank" and cut a triangular section on the top, reinforced the top with a couple of pieces of wood (from a veggie crate) and made a support for the back of the tower with some more wood.
I also made a notch for the power cords, and the irrigation tubing. After another wash, I put the pumps in (the fish tank one to constantly move water and oxygenate it) and the fish pound one to pump the water to the top of the tower. At the tower end of the irrigation tube, I have put a tee wrapped tightly in polyester to help spreading around the water. It was now time to fill the tank with water, (3.5 gallons of water) close the tank, set the tower on it, and hope for the best. I plugged the pump, and it worked !!! After a few minutes though I noticed that some of the water was running fro the lid. After taking the time to observe it, I noticed how the lid is slightly rounded , witch was leading some of the water " the wrong way". I took my heat gun, heated the PE and bent it so it prevents the water to go "the wrong way". Reassembled everything, and magic happened, no water running off ! After letting it running for a couple of hours, I took some of my newly made "vermicompost" (5 handfull or so) and steeped it in 1/2 gallon of water from the tank for a couple of minutes, filtered it and added it to the top of the tower. I am hoping that this will be able to provide nutrients for the plants and provide the famous "beneficial microorganism". I let it run for another hour and then planted half of my not-so-good-looking parsley and basil growing in a pot by the window, as well as 3 salvaged green onions. I then place my tower by the window. Later last night, I decided to give the tower some "aesthetic" touch, and named it ch fermette a New York" (the little farm of New York)....
Now hopping the plants dont die, and then Ill grow some chards or some salad over the winter.
I had just finished the Live stream of The Roundtable Discussion last night.... just sat down to relax at 1:30 am for the first time yesterday, when this appeared in my news feed.
THIS is MAJOR MAJOR news.
You all know my view of Coincidence- ie: it doesnt exist.
THIS is NOT "Coincidence". Given all of the information weve been discussing on TN last week and the Roundtable last night, and the Data Dump I just published this morning.... No.... this is NOT Coincidental. Ignore the words "Climate change" and focus on what is being said under the cover of the "Global Warming" lies. These articles are LOADED with buzz words and very much outline exactly what weve been talking about for the past week, eh? A New "Earth Constitution"? Where have we heard that before? hmmmmmm I do remember reading the acronym "NWO" somewhere... but the words were Natural World Order. But does it really matter?
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VATICAN SPEAKER ON CLIMATE THINKS THERE ARE 6 BILLION TOO MANY OF US
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One of the speakers slated for the Vatican rollout of the long-awaited Papal document on climate change once said the earth is overpopulated by at least 6 billion people.
The teaching document, called an encyclical, is scheduled for release on June 18 at Vatican City. Perhaps with the exception of the 1968 encyclical on contraception, no Vatican document has been greeted with such anticipation.
The political left is hoping for a document that ties belief in global warming to a religious obligation. Climate skeptics have already started criticizing the document.
The choice of Professor John Schnellnhuber, founding director of the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, as one of three presenters may be giving the left added hope and giving giving skeptics severe heartburn. He has been described as one of the more aggressive scientists on the question of man-made global warming.
In a talk given to what’s described as the “failed” 2009 Copenhagen climate conference,reported in the New York Times, Schnellnhuber, who has advised German President Angela Merkel and is a visiting professor at Oxford, said of global warming: “In a very cynical way, it’s a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something –- namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people.”
Schnellnhuber is also author of what’s called the “two-degree target” that says governments must not allow the temperature to rise more than 2 degrees higher than at the start of the industrial revolution. Any higher, the theory holds, and much life on earth would either perish or be gravely harmed.
To deal with climate issues, he has also called for an “Earth Constitution that would transcend the UN Charter” along with the creation of a “Global Council…elected by all the people on Earth” and a “Planetary Court..a transnational legal body open to appeals from everybody, especially with respect to violations of the Earth Constitution.”
a papal letter sent to all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church.
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of or relating to an encyclical letter.
Popes message on climate change leaked
CNN)Days before it was to be published to great fanfare, a leaked draft of Pope Francis eagerly awaited letter on the environment was published Monday by an Italian magazine.
LEspresso published the 192-page document in Italian online. A Vatican embargo on the letter, called an encyclical, was set to lift at 6 a.m. ET on Thursday.
In a statement, the Vatican said that the leaked document is only a draft and the rules of the embargo remain in place.
"We ask journalists to respect professional standards, which call for the official publication of the final text," the Vatican said.
Derived from the Greek word for "circle," a papal encyclical is a letter from the pope to Catholic clergy and laypeople around the world. Often, the letters clarify Catholic doctrine, reiterate points of dogma and address contemporary issues through the light of church teachings.
Pope Francis, though, has said he hopes his letter will reach a wider audience, including world leaders meeting for several key environmental summits this year.
The upcoming encyclical will be the first to focus exclusively on creation care, the Christian idea that God gave humans the Earth to cultivate, not conquer. Its also the first entirely written by Francis.
In a nod to his namesake, St. Francis, the Pope has titled his upcoming encyclical "Laudato Si." The archaic Italian phrase, which means "Be praised," is borrowed from the patron saint of ecologys 13th-century song, "Canticle of the Sun."
Months before its publication, the encyclical has drawn criticism from conservatives and climate change skeptics, who urged the Pope not to put his moral weight behind such a controversial cause.
From the first days of his papacy, Francis has preached about the importance of the environment, not only as a scientific concern but also a moral one. In his first homily as pontiff, Francis called six times during the short sermon for humans to protect creation.
Vatican advisers have said "Laudato Si" will not be a white paper delving deeply into policy prescriptions. But neither is Francis likely to ignore the opinion of most scientists about how human activities contribute to climate change.
Vatican speaker and California Governor in push for massive depopulation... talk of Planetary Court and removal of 6 billion people under new Earth Constitution and World Government
(NaturalNews) The depopulationists are on the move again, pushing hard for the elimination of six billion people on planet Earth in order to bring the planet down to whats being touted as its "sustainable carrying capacity of one billion people."
But this time, the depopulation agenda may be codified by the Vatican. Professor John Schellnhuber has been chosen as a speaker for the Vaticans rolling out of a Papal document on climate change. Hes the professor who previously said the planet is overpopulated by at least six billion people. Now, the Vatican is giving him a platform which many expect will result in an official Church declaration in support of radical depopulation in the name of "climate science."
"The teaching document, called an encyclical, is scheduled for release on June 18 at Vatican City," reports Breitbart.com. "Perhaps with the exception of the 1968 encyclical on contraception, no Vatican document has been greeted with such anticipation."
A new Planetary Court to hold power over all nations... one ring to rule them all
Schellnhuber daydreams about a "Planetary Court" guided by a new "Earth Constitution"which would hold power over every nation and government on the planet. As he explains himself in this document on HumansAndNature.org, hes a proponent of an all-powerful, climate-focused world government that would rule over the planet... a literal "science dictatorship" based on whatever "science" the climate change proponents can fudge together each year.
As Schellnhuber says:
Let me conclude this short contribution with a daydream about those key institutions that could bring about a sophisticated -- and therefore more appropriate -- version of the conventional "world government" notion. Global democracy might be organized around three core activities, namely (i) an Earth Constitution; (ii) a Global Council; and (iii) a Planetary Court. I cannot discuss these institutions in any detail here, but I would like to indicate at least that:
- the Earth Constitution would transcend the UN Charter and identify those first principles guiding humanity in its quest for freedom, dignity, security and sustainability;
- the Global Council would be an assembly of individuals elected directly by all people on Earth, where eligibility should be not constrained by geographical, religious, or cultural quotas; and
- the Planetary Court would be a transnational legal body open to appeals from everybody, especially with respect to violations of the Earth Constitution.
Schellnhunber, in other words, believes a new world government can create "freedom" for humanity by dictating to it with a new Planetary Court guided by an Earth Constitution which will no doubt begin by declaring the planet can only sustain one billion people. The other six billion or so simply have to go. So instead of a Bill of Rights, this new Earth Constitution will be founded on a Bill of Deaths and a global government that might order the extermination of billions of human beings in order to "save the climate."
"In an unprecedented encyclical on the subject of the environment, the pontiff is expected to argue that humanity’s exploitation of the planet’s resources has crossed the Earth’s natural boundaries," reports The Guardian. "...[T]he world faces ruin without a revolution in hearts and minds."
The Guardian goes on to report:
The pope is "aiming at a change of heart. What will save us is not technology or science. What will save us is the ethical transformation of our society," said Carmelite Father Eduardo Agosta Scarel, a climate scientist who teaches at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires.
Continue reading here : http://www.naturalnews.com/050075_Vatican_climate_science_world_depopulation.html#ixzz3dEdhsfFg
If youre a fan of the official Italian Arduino components, their blog just announced two new items -- a USB host shield and an In-System Programmer (ISP).
The Arduino Uno comes with a USB B port, and you use a USB A-to-B cable to connect the Uno to your computer for uploading sketches to the Uno. However, to make your Arduino a USB host, you need to add a shield. There are other USB host shields for the Arduino, such as the SparkFun one for $24.95 or the Circuits@Home one for $25 (a mini one is also available for $20). The official Arduino USB host shield is available from arduino.cc for 24 euros, which is about $33 right now. I couldnt
SparkFun USB host shield
find the official shield at any of the distributors I looked at tonight, probably because its just been released.
So why might you want to get a USB host shield? Well, the Arduino announcement has a long list of uses:
HID devices: keyboards, mice, joysticks, etc.
Game controllers: Sony PS3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox360.
USB to serial converters: FTDI, PL-2303, ACM, as well as certain cell phones and GPS receivers.
ADK-capable Android phones and tables.
Digital cameras: Canon EOS, Powershot, Nikon DSLRs and P&S, as well as generic PTP.
Mass storage devices: USB sticks, memory card readers, external hard drives, etc.
Bluetooth dongles.
If any of those particular use cases are of interest to you, but you still arent totally clear on what is meant by a USB host, or why and how you want to use a USB host shield, Hardware Fun has a good post going into depth about USB host shields for Arduino. Their post explains USB host like this:
"...let’s first understand what is an USB Host Shield. It is a shield which provides USB Host support for Arduino...The USB protocol defines two types of devices. One is called the host (or server) and the other one is called peripheral (client). The Host device controls the peripheral device and also provides power to it. When you connect any USB device like a mouse or a keyboard to your computer, your computer acts as the host and controls (or polls) the client device (keyboard or mouse or even an Arduino). For a successful communication to happen using USB protocol, you need at least one of the device to be the host, which means that you cannot connect two keyboards together and expect them to communicate with each other...Once you have this shield, your Arduino board can act as USB Host and you can connect other USB devices like keyboard, mouse or even an Android phone..."
For lots of technical details and to gain a better understanding of the USB host shield hardware, click on over to the Circuits@Home hardware manual for their USB host shield. The Arduino blog announcement for the official shield says "it can be used with the “USB Host Library for Arduino” hosted by Oleg Mazurov and Alexei Glushchenko from circuits@home" so a lot of the info in the hardware manual will likely also be applicable to, or helpful in understanding, the official Arduino shield. Theres also a reference page for the shield on the arduino.cc site.
The other official Arduino hardware release was an Arduino AVR In-System Programmer. I might do a future post with more about the ISP and programming AVR microcontrollers, but heres what the Arduino blog says about this new hardware:
"It’s a tiny AVR-ISP...useful to anyone needing more space on the Arduino board. Uploading a sketch with an external programmer can be used for three main reasons:
remove the bootloader and use the extra space for your sketch
burn the bootloader on your Arduino, so you can recover it if you accidentally corrupt the bootloader.
when you use a new ATmega microcontroller in your Arduino, and you need the bootloader in order to upload a sketch in the usual way."
If either of these items sound useful for your microcontroller projects, you might want to read a bit more about them or place an order!
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!
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:
So far I have made up the cage & installed it into the chook pen..
A hanging pot hook will be used to keep it from turning it into a chook trap 
Happy new year! Agoucha, Toon, Neko [pronounce N- e (like the first e of there) ko (like in in loCO)] and I wish everyone a healthy and happy new year!
The tower farm keeps growing slowly and surely! Some plants seems that they are really liking it there, especially the collard greens. I Also am pretty sure that I need to add more light to the system. Also the compost tea "experiment" is continuing, and so far it does not seem to provide significant amount of nitrates. Here is a breakdown of the 
On the top, the is a pepper seedling, It grew in the compost from the worm crate and I transferred the 2 leaf seedling into the vertical farm a little while ago. It now has 4 leaves, and seems quite happy there. 
Then the is the bok choy core that seems to grow too, and added a few new leaves in the last 3 weeks.
Another collard grows lower, it also have grew new leave regularly, but it is not as green as the one on the top of the tower. This is what makes me think I need more lights. The light are placed on the top. 
Also There were a few green onions lower, but they died (except one that is higher in the tower) after I did the monthly cleanup. I have disturbed them, and they didnt like it, maybe added to insufficient light also participated, as they were not as green as the one closer to the top.
For the water quality, I have hiked up the amount of ammonia to 4 ml for about a week, and there is now an obvious accumulation of ammonia and nitrate, with some traces of nitrite. I have back down the additions of ammonia as I would aim for an amount that gets quickly processed into nitrates. I am also wondering if this increase of ammonia may be in part linked to the cleanup - which may a killed some of the living film, releasing ammonia as it decomposes.
For the compost tea addition, I have kept increasing the amount of compost used. Yesterday, I have added 2.5 cups of compost to 4 cups of water, and "brewed" for 24h with aeration. I finally got around to get test strips to look at nitrates, and it does not show a significant amount of nitrate in the compost tea. However, the stips also measures general hardness (180 ppm) carbonate hardness (120ppm) pH (7.5) and nitrites (0 or maybe traces).
The first bed is up & just needs to be "Wicked" out & its done... Will start the second on Tuesday if the school schedule allows for it... I also need to scrounge some pavers from under the stairs for the gap & design the bench/storage box as well..... Should have enough bits of timber around to knock one up, just need to find some wire mesh to rodent proof the base.... 
Found a little Native Gecko in the bed as I was building it... I must of spooked the poor little fella & it dropped its tail...
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.
