Ding Ding ding Ding!!!!!!!  BE ALERT PEOPLE!!!!!

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

Published time: 21 Sep, 2015 08:47Edited time: 21 Sep, 2015 09:06

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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.”

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Last week ## edit  now already 3 weeks ago## of the project with the Bronx Writing Academy and Citizen Schools was quite eventful!

A student taking interest in her schoolmates accomplishments

This last week was the WOW! The WOW! Is the culmination of the programs that Citizen Schools offers, and plays out in a unique show, product or showcase by the students. For the Hydroponic apprenticeship, the WOW! was planned to be a public showcase, right in front of the school, to show the community what the students had accomplished.

We started by taking the last measurement for the plants, and finishing the graphs showing the growth of the lettuce and the cilantro. Then the "fun" began, moving the systems from the 3rd floor classroom, down to the street. By fun, I mean the kids had fun spilling the water from the system, and Amrita, the schoolteacher, and I had the fun of apologizing to the janitor. It was a bit of commotion but at the end, everything -the 2 systems, the posters crafted by the students, a couple of tables, and flyers- was taken down to the front of the school, reassembled, and ready to showcase!

Student explains how they recorded the plant growth

A local taking time to ask questions of the students work

The system was positioned right in from of the school, in the triangular section of grass where the flag post is (and a couple of raised bed that were planted last week or so). We asked the kids to try to talks to the passer by, and get their interest up, to bring them by the system. After a few shy attempts, a few of the students became bolder and started to bring people over, and zealously presented their work, the system, the plants growing in it, the nitrogen cycle and etc...
We had planned a quick conversation with JT Bear so give him an update and show our set up, the kids where happy to show their work (again) they have accomplished. They showed around the plants, called the basil lettuce (;-) and commented on the posters they had made. MANY THANKS AGAIN TO JT BEAR!

To be honest I was a bit weary on how it would turn-up, the week en before, I went to the few community gardens I knew about in the neighborhood, and "advertised" the WOW! To try to get some of the community garden member to come up. I was not sure if that was the right strategy, as they first responded by saying how they would be happy to show their garden around. To be fair though, these community gardeners have jobs, and therefore my not be able to show up. So I was happily surprised when I recognized a member of these community gardens. I was even happier to see that not only middle schooler leaving the school took an interest in their schoolmates work, but also members of the community from all ages. It was quite nice also (personally) to have a few people walking up to the kids and shaking their hands congratulating them on their work.

We finally brought everything back up, for a "end of project" wrap-up, including some awards for the students that did the most progress, and showed the most interest.

This was a great experience, and I hope it can keep going in the fall, but at this point I do not know yet if it will be possible. In the mean time, I found a restaurant owner that agreed to allow me to put the system in his patio area, so plants can keep growing over the summer. So I will keep recording what is going on in the comparison fertilizer vs compost tea over the summer. Also the herbs produced will be shared with the restaurant.

Finally, Many thanks to (not in order):Agnieszka Tuszynska (my lovely partner who was supporting the idea from day one), Amrita Kalsa (BWA teacher) , Alex Black, Maddie Oliver,Morayo Faleyimu, Molly Cohen and Katerine Mott (Citizen schools) , JT Bear, Bronx Writing Academy and his director Kasmar Samuels , Greening Forward and Margarita Vigodner (My boss). 

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Interesting.... I remember when this project was first announced in 2012... then cancelled, then brought back to life, sorta, in 2014.....  And now again, Pegasus Holdings is talking about building their "SIM City", with plans to start construction in the next three months.... in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

... Can you say perfect film stage for just about any natural disaster, terrorist attack, false flag or "war"?


New $1.4 billion city is being built in the desert


http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/new-14-billion-city-is-being-built-in-the-desert/story-fnjpja3r-1227502878740

AT FIRST glance it appears to be an illusion — a giant, very pricey one.

A new city is being built in the middle of the desert at a whopping price tag of $1.4 billion and while it’s a very real place, it’s unlike anything the world has ever seen.

Despite featuring all the infrastructure you’d expect to find in a normal city, including skyscrapers, 35,000 homes, a shopping centre, church, service station and an airport, nobody will be allowed to live here.

The 38-square-kilometre area will also encompass farms, an industrial area, a rural road system and a highway.

It will be under constant surveillance and connected by underground tunnels, yet there will be no colourful details such as artwork or billboards.

Welcome to the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation (CITE), a planned ghost town for New Mexico, America.

Essentially, it’s a huge, fully functional test city, the first of its kind in the world.

According to development company Pegasus Global Holdings: “City Lab will be a representative example of a modern day, mid-sized American city. It will ... include urban, suburban and rural zones as well as the corresponding infrastructure.

“City Lab will be pre-wired for data collection giving researchers the ability to simulate system-wide scenarios and then draw data from such activities.

“It’s the first of its kind, in scale and scope.”

Here, drones will rule the sky as they test out the delivery of goods, and roads will be filled with driverless cars and trucks. And the beauty of it being empty of humans is that if something goes wrong, there won’t be any mass injuries.

“It will be a true laboratory without the complication and safety issues associated with residents,” Bob Brumley, managing director of Pegasus says.

“Here you can break things and run into things and get used to how they work, before taking them out into the market.”

Just 300 people will oversee experiments and maintain the city’s infrastructure.

CITE is a replica of Rock Hill, South Carolina, which proved to be a great testing model due to its mix of old and new building materials.

But the project has suffered some setbacks.

Construction was originally scheduled to begin in June 2012, near the town of Hobbs, in the arid Lea County, but the project was put on hold due to environmental concerns.

Its fate then seemed to be heading in the direction of these other forgotten, unbuilt cities.

Now it’s full steam ahead with ground set to be broken outside of Las Cruces for the real-life Sim City within the next three months.

Definition of CRUCES

plural of crux

Definition of CRUX

1

:  a puzzling or difficult problem :  an unsolved question

2

:  an essential point requiring resolution or resolving an outcome

Origin of CRUX

Latin cruc-, crux cross, torture

First Known Use: 1718

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