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March 2017
Lisa Renee
Dear Ascending Family,
In the ES community we have been paying great attention to the importance of the 2012-2017 evolution window and preparing for the immense transition the planet is undergoing this year, as conscious and informed as possible. This is in sharp contrast to so many who have no idea that these global changes are happening or how they are being directly impacted. We are seeing more people start to lose coherence, exhibit lunacy or have their light bodies knocked out of their physical body. This produces a lack of physical coordination, clumsiness and disorientation in people that are not grounded within their physical body, as the foundation beneath our feet is changing. This month we will try to connect some of the larger Ascension Cycle shifts happening at multidimensional levels, with some of these strange and surreal experiences that people are having. The earth is going through a massive Geomagnetic transformation which creates both opportunities and vulnerabilities at this time. These radical changes in the magnetic field impact the functions of our personal biology, our mind and our consciousness. The war over timelines is more pressurized and the people who are unaware can be easily swept up in powerful forces they would not consciously choose to participate with. It is highly suggested to focus on staying in your core, being inner directed and connected to the God source, as well as to conserve energy and use common sense in avoiding areas of potential chaos or disruption.
The Earth's magnetic field is an ever fluctuating phenomena that greatly influences the world of subtle forces. It directly impacts all human activity, the environment and the matter world in a myriad of ways. The Earth's magnetic field acts like a giant invisible bubble that shields the planet from the energies in space, such as cosmic radiation. The Earth's magnetic field, also called the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from the earth's interior to where it intersects with the solar wind as a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun. Geomagnetism is the study of the earth's magnetic field and all associated phenomena and forces that impact it. Many of us will recognize that very little information about Geomagnetism is reported to the mainstream public because the magnetic field and gravitational waves on the earth are highly controlled and manipulated to suppress consciousness in a variety of ways. However, undisputed facts about the rapid weakening of the earth's magnetic field have been verified by some researchers. As of 2014, the rate of the earth's magnetic field weakening had greatly increased. What was previously measured as a five percent weakening per hundred years, has now increased to a five percent weakening per decade. This allows the space weather or cosmic energy to penetrate and interact with the earth's atmosphere and crust more and more. The Geomagnetic North pole is moving many kilometers a year across the Arctic Ocean towards Russia, while the Geomagnetic South Pole has left the continent of Antarctica and is moving towards the Indian Ocean. The Geomagnetic poles are moving every year towards the equator. There are massive changes occurring in the earth's magnetic field that are transforming life on earth as we've known it, and yet the topic rarely makes the news.
If we clearly comprehended Geomagnetism humanity would have free energy, understand time differently, would look at the moon contrarily and it would forever change the methods science uses for carbon dating fossils and rocks. If humanity actually understood the earth's magnetic field and gravity, it would present many conflicts in the theory of evolution that are presented in the fabricated historical chronology. Previous carbon dating methods have had radical time measurement differences that science does not share openly with the public. This is also the result of the magnetic field of the earth shifting and weakening.
Recently, when going deeper into the holographic architecture of the planetary body, it is clear that there are major geomagnetic shifts occurring, that are producing incredible changes in the physical properties of the planet earth. If the physical properties of earth are changing then it means the physical properties of our bodies are also shifting. Even the physical elements themselves are changing in chemical composition. The matter composition of our bodies is being altered, which impacts the state of human consciousness in moving towards an ascending arc or a descending arc throughout time. These changing geomagnetic properties have deep repercussions at the quantum level, which shift the balance within the state of electromagnetism, which greatly impact the rotational spin rate of energy on the planet. The change in spin rate influences the earth's rotation, which is the rotation of the planet around its own axis. If we view the planetary body from above, from Polaris or the North Star, the earth is turning counter clockwise. The axis line is the vertical central channel or Staff, which functions as the main energy channel or Hara Line within the center of earth's consciousness body, interfacing with many dimensions of subtle forces leading up the frequency scale into the Universal Core.
Currently, the radical shift in the magnetic field and core earth resonance is impacting our physical coordinate location in time and space. Our bodies are skipping forward through time rapidly attempting to keep up with Geomagnetic shifting that is occurring in the planetary body. This has been observed as many people being jerked out of alignment with their physical bodies, and noticing the energy layers and the core spiritual bodies are not centered properly on their vertical channel. When people are misaligned and not fully grounded in their inner core and physical bodies, accidents, injuries and near death experiences are much more common. The changing Geomagnetism is also impacting the dark matter field and the interplay between the natural subtle forces, which change the way energy transduces into matter as it moves from the unmanifest level, into the manifested form.
Recent geomagnetic shifts have resulted in alterations and failures of the microwave technology and alien black hole technology, which are primarily Black Subtle Forces, harvested and produced to circulate in the earth and in humanity. Black Subtle Forces are contained in dark matter, gravitational waves and are generated by the artificial magnetism in lunar transmissions from the moon. The manipulation of the earth's magnetic field and gravitational forces are designed to manipulate DNA, control the carbon based matter on the earth body, as well as simulate these substances in labs, for use as nanotechnology weapons. Essentially the alien's technological manipulation of the black subtle forces and dark matter have been used to manipulate and suppress the molecular structure in matter, producing artificial magnetic effects in order to compact and compress the molecular structure of the earth body and the human body. Molecular compression is similarly to the piezo-electric effect, as matter is being squeezed it gives off biological light emissions. In order to comprehend the nature of primal subtle forces, and the reasons behind the NAA proliferating more and more of the black subtle forces in the earth, we will discuss these primal forces more deeply.
Three Primal Forces hidden in Nature
The main powers of cosmic intelligence that are hidden within all of creation are also found within matter. These consist of three main primal qualities that are contained within the subtle forces of consciousness, to which we are all exposed. The awareness and choices we make to interact with these subtle forces and their qualities, determine the rate of our spiritual growth and consciousness evolution. The consciousness of nature functions through these intelligent forces. These are spiritual qualities that exist within these subtle forces that either expand our consciousness or contract our consciousness. These three qualities are available in every spectrum of frequency and energy in existence, that are natural or organic to creation. To heal our mind and body we must understand how these subtle forces work and learn to flow in harmony with them, because they exist at every level in the world and also inside of ourselves.
It's helpful to think of the subtle forces as a triad of qualities or frequencies that are being directed. We may choose one of the three potentials that exist inside that force, to interact with. Every organic force in creation has the potential of these three hidden qualities within it, while artificial intelligence forces, such as alien based technology used to transmit a range of electromagnetic pulses or gravity waves does not. Only the natural forces in creation or our organic human consciousness, can interact and encode the artificial intelligence waves into the specific intention or thoughtforms that we direct as a spiritual quality, to any source of energy. That ability to encode energy is inherent in the original human DNA and our human consciousness. This gives important clues as to why organic human consciousness is so coveted, and why humans are trafficked off planet. Because human DNA is required to power up the alien technology, on and off planet, in order to actually have it work.
Black Subtle Forces – Negative Polarity
At the base level, there are black forces that exist in the negative polarity that especially connect to the material earth elements and the force of gravity. It is the principle of unconsciousness or falling asleep in the material world, and its weight is very dense and heavy. As a result, it tends to produce inactivity, darkness, dullness and an absence of light, while it obstructs the person's action potential or movement forward. When a person holds too much negative polarity of this black colored subtle force in their energy body, they will show effects of ignorance, delusion, insensitivity, unconsciousness and a lack of sensory feelings with little to no empathy. The profile of this type of person will also have deeply buried psychological or emotional blockages, with the tendency to be stagnant, repressed, depressed or internally chaotic, making them distracted and unaware of what their problems really are. They allow negative forces, dark forces and other people to completely control them, usually in the victim role, refusing to take responsibility for their lives. By refusing to take responsibility or make productive actions, this only allows their problems to escalate along with the amount of black substance they generate as blockages in their body. Without balancing the black substance and transmuting it from their consciousness, they will digress into a state of internal chaos or apathy, with sensations of great physical, mental and emotional pain, or numbness, leading to states of disease. This is truly the state of hell, of the lost soul.
The negative ego construct, militarized psychotronic weaponry and the alien machinery is used on the earth to trap humans into mass producing more and more black subtle forces. This ferments into black miasma, leaving the masses ignorant, deluded and unconscious, therefore totally controllable. Consequently, the alien technology and mind control methods are designed to generate and circulate as much of this negative polarity black force and density in the human being as possible. Many people that feel depressed or stuck are sucked down in the weight of this negative polarity of this black force. The density of the black force blocks higher sensory perception completely. This type of person will need to take some kind of action in the positive polarity to help them dissolve the black energy accumulated in their body, which generates the sensation of extreme density and stagnation.
Yellow Subtle Forces – Positive Polarity
In the middle level, there are yellow subtle forces that are in the positive polarity of activity, forward movement, transformation and the ability to address and resolve conflict. The active quality encourages the force or power behind the movement necessary to make great changes, which is needed for transition and spiritual growth. These forces also may incite deep feelings of inspiration, passion and personal desires. If the pain body has not been cleared appropriately, these desires can become overstimulated, taking the mind into obsessions and quickly resulting in pain and suffering. The pursuit of over-activity in the material world can be used as an escape mechanism from looking at the truth, as when these forces are imbalanced, they easily become destructive and explosive in the person's life. People that tend to be active too much of the time, burn themselves out through excessive mental and physical activity. Many people that are in a chronic state of doing rather than being will tend to undergo shocks in their life in order to dismantle their energetic imbalances. The mind becomes agitated and stressed, as it's dominated by the negative ego, and thus unable to hold the observer and find the inner stillness of calm and peace. Many controller archetypes are imbalanced in these subtle forces, as they tend to be materialists, and are very unhappy and suffer when they feel they have lost control of their environment. Thus, these types of people are usually disconnected from their spiritual purpose. The over stimulation and need for constant activity make it hard for them to be still, be alone or meditate. Because the imbalances of the positive polarity tend to generate selfishness and short term ego gratification, higher sensory perception and the inner compass of the heart become blocked.
White or Clear Subtle Forces – Neutral or Zero
In the top level, there are white or clear subtle forces that are the neutral energies. It helps to restore balance, stability and peace, as it transmits higher spiritual intelligence to bring energetic harmony and higher consciousness into the environment. The neutral quality and neutral force are what develop spiritual awakening. It is the virtues, goodness and clarity that comes through the access to the higher spiritual intelligence, as well as connecting with the force of love that is inherent in creation. Connecting to this subtle force quality will develop the purity of the mind, body and spirit, which induces consistent stages of spiritual awakening and the expanding of consciousness, as the feedback loop to the zero point is created within the body. Through the qualities of the white or clear subtle forces, we gain spiritual clarity and can perceive the truth in the people and things around us. This develops and strengthens our spiritual light through our focused concentration, attention and devotion. When we hold the white or clear subtle forces as predominate in our consciousness, we experience our unification with the eternal God self, which transcends all time and space. When we are capable of holding this state of neutral it restores balance to all layers of our body, and this state is what is responsible for all true healing and sense of wellbeing. Our balanced health is maintained by this state as a lifestyle, because it is in harmony with the Natural Laws, earth and our inner spiritual self, which brings the gift of perfect peace. The state of neutrality recognizes the place of the black force or negative polarity and the yellow force or positive polarity in the cycles of creation. It discerns them without value difference, while observing them at work in the world of forces. Harmonizing the opposing forces throughout creation is the natural result of the white or clear subtle forces of the neutral or zero point. The Universe is neutral and as such natural forces will always attempt to return to balance, unify and bring wholeness to creation.
Healing the Imbalances of Primal Forces
If we understand that these three forces are governors of the movement of energy and consciousness inside our body, we can use this model as an assessment tool, to help us heal, to help regain more health and balance. Our highest goal is to return to the top level and restore the neutral state of being so that we can exchange feedback loops directly with the God source or zero point field.
Generally, a person with imbalances of the negative polarity of black forces, must move into the positive polarity of yellow forces to dissolve the black substance that has accumulated in their body. We must recognize our pain and suffering and learn from it, by actually confronting it and knowing the reasons why the pain and blockage is there. This means we must move out of mental and emotional stagnation and into some level of self-motivation, physical action or goal which keeps us moving forward in some direction or on a schedule. The black substance attracts the shadow forms, spirit attachments and ghost entities, so this issue may also need to be addressed very specifically with people that are weighed down with black forces. Daily exercise and physical disciplines like martial arts, as well as goals for setting self-motivated actions can be very helpful for this group, because it breaks down these black forces. Many times, these black forces are accumulated from past trauma and we must break from the past patterns and shift in order to bring new energies into our lives. To move out of the heavy burden of carrying these black forces self-love, self-esteem and personal healing must be the main focus.
A person with imbalances of the positive polarity that has produced overstimulation and excess physical or mental activity, must move towards neutrality, stillness and holding the observer state of engaged detachment. This transforms both black substance and yellow force accumulation in the body, into the pure white and clear forces of neutrality. Because too much positive polarity generates the Service to Self level of consciousness this group needs to transition from self-motivated actions to selfless service, such as dedicating to the Service to Others. In order to move past selfishness we must depersonalize our problems and see the pain in others as a result of the entire human condition on the earth. To create more inner empty space, we surrender our personal disappointments and sorrows to be willing to look at ways we can be of service to the greater whole, helping to be a productive cause to solve the problems on the earth. Highly mentalized people that have problems with quieting their mind and finding inner stillness, may need more assistance with methods of psychological and emotional clearing. A cluttered and undisciplined mind makes the body restless. Through the study of negative ego functions and learning how to discipline the mind, while working with resolving inner conflicts, they may do better with visualization techniques before they can meditate. To move out of the selfish imbalances of the yellow forces, the healing of humanity and the earth must become the main focus.
A person that has moved toward embodying more of the neutral force, will continue to develop and expand the pure qualities of gaining the ever expanding consciousness that connects us into the Universe and attaining Perfect Peace. In this state, we are not centered in our own personal issues but focus on developing deeper communication with our divinity and gaining clarity about our place in serving the Cosmic Consciousness. We experience unconditional love and the many states of consciousness as one with the Universal forces and the creator, and seek to be in harmony with it all. As a human being we should be able to self-assess and discern all of these three forces and their qualities in our nature and behaviors, as well as in the environment. The intention to continue to develop the state of neutrality, as well as neutral forces in our body, supports us to directly develop our consciousness and to build strength in our spiritual bodies. This helps to describe the important reasons why the emphasis on developing neutrality and the observer consciousness, in all areas of our thinking, feeling and behaviors has been especially emphasized in our community.
Black Subtle Forces and the Moon
Additionally, these same subtle forces are directed to us through stellar objects, such as the stars, constellations, planets, satellite bodies and of course the moon itself. Now that we can better understand the consciousness impact of the three main primal forces, we can comprehend why the NAA and Controllers harness black subtle forces in order to control humanity and the matter world. From the Guardian perspective our moon is an inorganic structure, and did not come from our solar system. The moon is an artificial satellite that is locked into orbit with the earth body's magnetic core. Its use was for practical reasons to be able to have a moon base in close proximity to monitor and harvest humanity, and to alter the magnetic and gravitational fields of the planet. The Moon base has black hole technology that keeps the magnetic spin rates powering up machinery, that keep the connections open to the wormholes or hibernation zones that they have created. Through field research, it appears the moon's artificial influence is made upon the earth's rotation around the Sun in order to maintain an axis alignment with a black hole inside the center of the Milky Way. A major reason the solar system is so damaged is because these entities and humans are consistently creating rips and holes in the fabric of space-time through the abuse of technology.
Further, these entities using the black hole technologies are spreading and proliferating much more black force substance and gravitational corruption into the earth field. This generates toxic black energy that we call dead energy or miasma which becomes littered in the planetary fields, and the extreme density of it makes many people feel very apathetic, confused and depressed. When humans are disconnected from their light source, or there is an absence of light, this is the common experience.
As an example, many sensitive and empathic people can feel the impacts of psychic attack or dark interference when more of the black subtle forces are being transmitted into the earth during certain moon phases. The moon phases also connect to the activities of the moon lineages, who have consciousness bodies that are made up of these same black substance forces. Some of these entities can also be called black hole entities. They have no way to generate or produce a light source, so they exist as parasites on earth humans that do have a light source. The more black force is proliferated in the earth field and in human bodies the more easily these black hole entities can move around, possess human bodies or become active on the earth. It is easy to connect the desire to spread these black forces as directly connected to the purposes behind the Satanic Agendas that are growing steadily on the earth.
Most people on our planet are negatively impacted by the buildup of these black forces in their mind, body and spirit, as well as in the earth. When people do not know the black subtle forces are being used in AI targeting and the Transhumanist agenda, and there is no awareness of how to clear that mental construct or to refocus the mind on positivity, these frequencies can have a very negative effect when they become embodied. As the result of the Transhumanist agenda, it is possible for both organic states of black substance and the artificial intelligence replication of dark matter fields, to be enmeshed together in the human body that is of the negative polarity. The NAA discovered that the proliferation of the black subtle forces made the carrier waves of AI transmission and signaling to the masses much easier.
When we come into contact with that level of artificially generated lunar forces in the black substance frequency, we can feel very sad and chaotic, because it is detaching us from access to our light source. When the moon is projecting or transmitting this type of black subtle frequency to the planet, it is a type of acceleration in that black force and the entities that exist as a part of that negative frequency. Ghost chains, phantom entities, demonic entities, formless shadow creatures and all negative types of energies are connected to this black frequency, which exists as a part of the subtle intangible frequencies that we are exposed to on the earth.
The organic black subtle forces are an intrinsic part of creation. We need the black force substance because it is actually part of manifesting the material physicality and gravitational force in this realm. Without the black force our atoms would fly away, as it is what keeps our molecular and atomic structure actually condensed and together. It is necessary in the process of material manifestation and creation, but what has happened on the earth is a severe technological abuse, that has manifested severe imbalances with this black type of the subtle vibration. This is because it is being produced and manufactured artificially, through technological control exerted on the magnetic field and states of gravity. The levels of negativity and lunacy that we can more easily observe in people that are soul fractured, are from embodying the severe imbalances of these black forces that are being transmitted from black hole technologies, artificial lunar forces and military weaponry technologies. Consequently, this attracts much more of the negative spirits and demonic type of entities, because they are made of the same black substance and they will look to find a human host of the negative polarity to siphon. People on the earth that are locked down in the 3D material density, are being filled with a mixture of both naturally occurring black forces and artificially generated black forces, based on their negative ego belief systems, behaviors and actions.
When a person is not connected to the higher aspect of their spiritual consciousness, which exists above this black force, this type of black force tends to overwhelm the body with extreme density and lower negative vibrations. In the pull of the gravitational weight, all of their inner light is being consumed by these black hole entities or dark forces. When this happens, the human body starts to become consubstantial with the same black frequency stream that these phantom energies, demonic entities, and shadow creatures exist within. When the human body matches the vibration of the black force, it becomes a conduit for that force, and attracts even more dark consciousness, like satanic forces that are connected to the black subtle forces.
Depression is a symptom of soul disconnection and the confusion of not knowing who you really are as a spiritual identity. When your heart is closed, when your emotions are closed, when your consciousness is shutdown, a human becomes very sad and depressed. That state of depression from soul disconnection is related to this black subtle frequency force that is transmitted from the moon, from lunar forces and from the artificial control of the magnetic field. The more spiritually developed we become, the more goodness and light we have accumulated in our Krystal heart and aura. The more virtues we develop, the more power we receive to start bringing in that higher frequency, to build a strong spiritual body. Our strong spiritual body and direct relationship with God, is what protects us from the effects of the artificial manipulation of the geomagnetic field, and the consequent spreading of the negative polarity of the black forces.
Moon Phases
The moon influences the subconscious mind contents to come to the surface of conscious awareness. A person that is self-aware on the spiritual growth path will seek to know themselves more deeply by studying the contents of their own subconscious mind. If you pay attention to the feelings that you are having during the full moon or the dark moon cycle, it is generally the subconscious fears or emotional conflicts rising up into the surface of the conscious mind. This gives us the opportunity to look at our fears, pain and hidden weakness, in order to clear and connect that part of our mind into the spiritual light.
Don't be surprised that during the full moon and the new moon cycle, the effects of the black force are the most intense on our planet. This means that dark forces will take advantage of the moon phases as there is an increase of those black subtle forces along with the extreme density of gravitational energy. When there is a full moon, there is that illumination from the sun's reflection that isn't there on the cycles of the new moon. As a result, the new moon has more intensity that increases the proliferation of the black forces into the earth environment.
There is a pressure of contraction that is placed in the atmosphere of the earth when the moon is in the new moon cycle. During the new moon phase is when the most gaseous pressure exists between the gravity forces, the lunar forces and the magnetic field anomalies that occur between the earth and the moon. These moon phases are days that are conducive for the black magic and occult rituals with negative intentions. Not only do we have a massive amount of that black subtle force coming into the earth, we have black magicians, satanists and random people doing occult rituals that are trying to capitalize on those energies, which in many cases creates even more dark energies. This means that the psychic aggression, the spiritual attacking, and phantom attacks are going to be more aggressive to the light filled people on the full moon and new moon days. When we are aware of the moon's potentially harmful effects, it is easier to have proper context, take better care of ourselves and not take it personally.
Saturn Base Transmission to Moon
Additionally, it has been recently observed that the Solar System Stargate 7, located inside the planet Saturn was also transmitting artificial intelligence beams through the moon that corrupted the ultra-violet wave spectrum in our planetary magnetosphere. The impact of several technologies used from this Archon base, seem to have been recently neutralized in some of their effects. Like 7D reversal technologies that allowed for having operable hibernation zones, used in phantom areas as ambush pockets, to get into the earth field quickly though parallel doorways. The parallel doorways appear to lead directly into Lake Titicaca underground water base, which have been closed off and secured. Many underground bases scattered throughout the earth are in some kind of spiritual or material conflict for control and security.
Correction of this particular AI distortion appears to help people on the earth, to potentially align with higher frequencies and to have a better functioning crown chakra, or 7D energy center. The moon transmissions have been especially difficult on the human mental body and the ability to actually have a brain and nervous system that actually functions well. The anticipation is for an easier clearing out of glandular implants, pineal cages and related crucifixion implants, that can be more easily dissolved from the lunar distortion impact as a result. For those on the ascension path, this will gradually lead to clearer thinking, higher functioning glands and the ability to build the perceptual bridge that accesses the functioning of the higher mind.
Gravitational Corruption
Currently, one of the deepest problems in physics is harmonizing general relativity, which describes gravitation of large-scale structures (stars, planets, galaxies), with quantum mechanics, which describes the smallest fundamental forces acting on the subatomic scale. Here in our community, we focus on the consciousness energy as the intelligence behind the form and take account of these subatomic forces as they relate to how matter is constructed. We have learned about the primal forces that exist in nature, and more importantly, the agenda to spread the negative polarity of black subtle forces artificially in the planet and humanity. Although gravity is not considered a force but a consequence of the curvature of space-time, it is being manufactured artificially though the technological control of the magnetic field and the proliferation of the black force, as well as through the control over planetary dark matter.
Since the bifurcation, there is a growing awareness of how gravity waves are corrupted by those who know how to bend components of the planetary architecture, in order to serve their quantum energy harvesting agenda.
To begin to think of the gravitational field on the earth, we need to study the nature of waves. Water waves, sound waves, and electromagnetic waves are able to carry energy, momentum, and have a curvature or angle to their movement. By carrying these waves away from its source, like a planetary body, gravitational waves are able to siphon or bind with that source of energy that is radiating from that body, as well as influence its linear or angular momentum. In speaking to the ways gravitational waves have been corrupted in order to collect energy from a source, such as the earth body, it appears that one reason small black holes are ripped into the matrix of the earth's energy field, is to create mini black holes. These mini to large black holes produce some kind of kick back, to eject large amounts of collected energy that are bound together by these gravitational waves. This is one potential behind the Hadron Collider's particle accelerators and proton smasher technologies that are used at Cern and other research laboratories. These experiments create thousands of miniature black holes and these produce something called kickback in the amplitude of the waves, which act as some kind of forced gravity wave collection.
Like electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves have different wavelengths due to the source and the observer effects, and they can be used to warp space-time. This has been a serious issue for this planet under the control of an artificial magnetic field broadcast from the lunar or moon matrix, as well as the black hole technologies used for gravitational corruption. Gravity is a cause of space-time warping, which is one way to describe the war happening for control over the timelines. Or the intended molecular compaction and control over physical matter, versus the struggle for freedom beyond the artificial timelines used to suppress and enslave human consciousness. Gravitational waves can pass through matter without being diffused or spread apart, and this allows gravitational waves to carry information from space or from the cosmic structure to a body. Or in our case, to realign the planetary magnetic and gravitation field outside of the manipulation of alien technologies, such as the gravitron.
The Gravitron is a part of the Beast Machine that holds the tilt of planet Earth at its unnatural and artificially sustained 23.5 degrees angle. Black hole entities and Metatronic races created the gravitron vortex networks to link portals in our Sun and Earth, twisting the planetary blueprint into unnatural configurations called the demon seed. Naturally, the demon seed is fed by the increased proliferation of the black forces and gravitational corruption on the earth. Metatronic reversals are manifested into energy spirals that harness the gravitron to create unnatural artificial gravitational fields on this planet. The Gravitron is an electromagnetic harness field that is part of a larger electromagnetic harnessing structure called the NET. These are Black Hole technologies that were orchestrated on purpose, through which this planet has been imprisoned by these fallen forces of the NAA.
The gravitron is a device specifically used to keep the rotation of the planetary axis at an unnatural angle and rotation, but this technology is not working as effectively anymore. The planetary staff alignment is moving towards the due north pole of planet, which has been directly connected into its higher blueprint recently, which has activated the organic functions of the dark matter template body in the earth. This alignment to the holographic blueprint of the earth in its Krystalline form, is slowly returning the spinning axis of planet to align to its true north position. Our pole star is changing, and it is connected to the next stage of evolution for planet earth, as the true north evolves to a higher position pole star.
In field research, it appears that gravitational corruption or gravity devices harness electromagnetic radiation as a type of energy collection, and also to control the holograms that are recorded in the false timelines or artificial timelines that are being pushed by the NAA. By controlling the photons or projecting light reversal fields, they can perpetuate cycles in time to repeat over and over. This is similar to a matrix glitch repeating a timeline. That history is repeating itself over and over goes unnoticed by humanity, because of short life spans and because they cannot sense or understand how the gravitational field and geomagnetism is being corrupted.
Electromagnetic radiation is the radiant energy released by certain electromagnetic processes. Visible light is one type of the electromagnetic radiation. Gravitational waves at the subatomic level are used as forces of interaction, to mediate functions within forced particles that radiate energy. The technology is used to force particles that mediate interactions at the subatomic level, in order to harvest energy at the quantum level. Recently it appears there is an increased desperation in the way the NAA desire to dominate and totally control the subatomic layers of earth. During the bifurcation shift, they are doing whatever they can to maintain this nightmarish 3D density of reality to be accepted by the masses.
Dark Matter Body
Since last August during a massive magnetic force discharge, the Dark Matter Body of the earth has been activated to function outside of the black hole technology suppression. It has begun to generate more pranic life force that is building new light body sheaths for the earth body. As a result, there are many changes happening as the subatomic particles of elemental matter are rearranging to support the planetary body shift into the next Harmonic Universe. All communication systems that connect with these levels of the planetary light body structure, such as the core manifestation body are undergoing fluctuation, reconfiguration and rebuilding interstellar links that reconnect earth portals to realign into multiple star systems and celestial bodies. The holographic geography is shifting, along with the false 23° tilt that disconnected various energy vortices and power grids in the planet's megalithic structures.
As we move into the next Harmonic Universe, there are new communication systems coming online to help realign dormant Earth portals, such as connecting these megalithic structures. Some of them are visible on the surface of the earth grid and there are many that are not visible. This is occurring as a massive shift at the quantum scale is changing the Law of Structure in our planet, specifically in the architecture that governs function over our matter body, as well as our consciousness bodies. The Dark Matter Template Body or Rasha body is this area that governs function over our matter body merging with the eternal source layers of our higher consciousness bodies.
As the planet is preparing to move into the next harmonic of the Universal Time Matrix, there are so many things changing it is hard to find words for how all of these related pieces fit together. The appearance of the organic planetary dark matter template activation synchronized with major geomagnetic events occurring, as well as the transfiguration of the lunar forces and the reduction of the effectiveness of the alien technologies used to artificially control the magnetic and gravitational fields are all part of this. The dark matter body is the connection link that exists between the eternal light spiritual source body and the finite level of the light source body, it is what builds the layers of the lightbody for the material atomic body. Essentially, the eternal spirit body creates the layers of the dark matter body, the dark matter body creates the layers of the lightbody, and the lightbody creates the layers of the physical matter body at the atomic level. During the bifurcation shift to the next harmonic universe, we are observing the dark matter template and the dark matter body layers appearing in sheaths, that are coming online and activating a new functional level of connecting the earth body to the eternal source flows.
The dark matter template is the blueprint on which the eternal source particle atoms and molecules are built, in order to generate the layers of eternal light. This is actually a type of matter body that is fully merged with eternal spirit substance. The dark matter body undergoes a process that appears like full resurrection into light matter, at which point the elemental matter or atomic matter of the body has been resurrected into an eternal light substance body. The state of resurrection that exists as the dark matter body alchemically transforms itself through the intense heat of spiritual fire and bursts into pure light matter, is what defines the building of the eternal Eukachristic spiritual body.
The beloved Aurora flows are very clearly helping to build the earth's dark matter body layers, with flickering and glittering opalescent rainbow pearl energies being observed as they are weaving through the layers, in a beautiful tapestry of flowing currents. As the planetary body is able to hold these activated dark matter bodies, it is the same for each of us on the earth to have the direct potential to interact with these same Krystal forces. This is a major development for the Guardian Ascension support team that is helping us to build the human dark matter body, that exists as the extension of our lightbody. The dark matter template holds a cell that has the instruction set for the new elemental body, the elemental body that is specific to the matter substance that is connected to the harmonic universe we are evolving towards. The process of building the Rasha body also spiritualizes the blood, through what is called the Krystal waters, through which the Krystal blood prepares to animate the creation of the Eukachristic body.
The Krystal Waters are the eternal living waters sprung forth in the first eternal creation, and are to be called upon to soothe and heal the soul and crystal heart and Diamond Sun body. Additionally, through these waters the spiritualized blood of Christos flows from the Fountain of Eternal Life and Youth. Krystal waters support the Aurora project in elemental re-encryption of the bodies, blood chemistry, and in healing the damage of blood toxicity and miasma recorded as reversals in the bloodlines. The dark matter body gives us another level of support to clear and heal bloodline issues, inherited from alien hybridization.
Glandular and Hormonal Suppression
The artificial manipulation of the earth's magnetic field is also related to the suppression of the glandular systems proper functioning and its hormonal secretions made into the bloodstream of the human body. The most impacted glands that were rendered dormant are located in the brain, this means the intentional suppression of the pineal, pituitary, and the hypothalamus. These glands in particular work as a trinity, and are required for our brain to read energy signatures. Human hormonal secretions allow the higher perception of subtle fields of energy in multi-dimensional states, as well as the ability to translate languages and meaning from color, sound and images. When our hormones and our glands are working as they were designed in the original human DNA, it is much easier to expand consciousness through the access to expanded multidimensional perception.
The female body and reproductive organs had additional levels of hormonal manipulation that cycled with the moon phases, which was a byproduct of the control over the female body for breeding programs and the reincarnation cycles on the earth. As the lunar force and artificial magnetism transfigures into light, males and females are being released of constructs of lunar force manipulation that had control over the sexual organs and hormones. The evolution of the human glandular system during the Ascension is currently effecting hormonal changes that relate to building of the new lightbody structure as an eternal Orb body. This returns the freedom of interdimensional travel to the human being.
The lunar force that controlled human bodies is now potentially being superseded with the solar force, which is coming from the base shield of the Seven Sacred Suns transmitting to the earth. As more humans transfigure the negative polarity of the lunar forces, black substance and dark matter into light, the lunar force is alchemically transformed into solar light. This creates the unified balance through solar union.
Souls of Tara
With current major magnetic shifts, matter substance is becoming less dense and changing its chemical structure. As it becomes more fluid and flexible there are articles or things rising to the surface. This reveals an assortment of artifacts and objects manifesting from other timelines, as well as parasitic debris coming to the surface for witnessing. Future timelines reveal the fragments of various kinds of bodies, energetic bodies and spiritual bodies that were exploded and became intermixed with the matter substance in the earth body. Timelines from the 5D earth matter, connected to the Souls of the Taran body that exploded, became a type of radioactive decay intermixed into the soup of matter that came into this physical dimension, from the explosion event and the magnetic manipulation of the time and space fields. The World Soul of Tara, became a part of the atomic body of this physical planet, stuck and strewn between the first and the fourth dimensions. We are in a phase of time where the matter composition is changing into something less dense, and while it's in less dense states we are able to move out these artifacts, assorted bodies and consciousness remnants. As a result, some of us may have been helping in the recon and transit of the Souls of Tara, and so we leave you with GSF blessings to be applied on their behalf.
I would like to finalize a God Sovereign Free blessing to the Taran souls, or souls which we are representing here and now to have them go forth fully freed in the eternal light of God.
Beloved holy presence in Cosmic Sovereign Law, I am your compassionate witness in service to the souls of Tara or the world collective soul which this impacts. I pray with all of my heart to bless them and protect them in the eternal light of God in the blessings of Holy Spirit and the spirits of Christ to be fully freed from the spiritual burdens and shackles that have been placed upon them by those imposters and deceivers of God's eternal light. Through the light of God I am and through the power of love in my heart, I consecrate and bless the world Souls of Tara to be freed into their highest expression and true nature that they may be with God. May they be God Sovereign Free in the eternal light of God now and always. May all beings be baptized and blessed in the Holy Spirit so that the true nature of God and reconnection and reclamation of Christ is fully made manifest in this reality here and now. Thank you!
Please only take what is useful for your spiritual growth and discard all the rest. Thank you for your courage and bravery to be a truth seeker. I am God, Sovereign, Free!
Until next, stay in the luminosity of your Avatar Christos Sophia heart path. Please be kind to yourself and each other. GSF!
With a Loving heart, Lisa


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Chris Hughes hasn't been in the journalism game long, but he knows better than to take a business-as-usual approach to running The New Republic. The 98-year-old title relaunched with a new look in print and online last week, almost a year after the 29-year-old Hughes purchased the magazine. Though Hughes may be a millionaire many times over thanks to his time at Facebook, he has no intention of committing endless fortune to his new magazine: He says he wants it to be in the black by 2015.
"I think it should be profitable," he said Tuesday at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "I think it's our challenge to ourselves, and to the world, to prove we can find a profitable model."
Hughes was in town to talk about The New Republic's place in the shifting media landscape. He made it clear he intends to take ideas from companies like Facebook and apply them to the media business: "One of the key things we're trying to do at The New Republic — which I think is very much in the DNA of Silicon Valley, but not so much in this industry — is take a highly experimental approach," he said.
In its relaunch, The New Republic took on a variety of new forms: a newsweekly in print, a minimalist responsive site on the web, and an iPad app with multimedia features. Of those three, Hughes said their main focus is on the HTML5 site, which he said offers the greatest potential to snag a new audience through features that improve the reading experience. It's not just that the site can bend to fit a desktop browser as well as your phone, but it can sync up between the two, allowing subscribers to pick up a story from the point they stopped, regardless what platform they were reading on. The site has a number of other interesting touches, like audio versions of each story and a visual indication of how far you're into your reading. "One of the things we want The New Republic to do is build the type of technology that adapts to how consumer are reading and consuming content today," he said.
Hughes said 20 percent of the people coming to newrepublic.com are on mobile. Similarly, 20 percent of the site's traffic comes from Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, doubling the rate from the previous year, he said. But there are a few obstacles the magazine may have to overcome in its quest to be more webby. The new site's front page doesn't do the best job of illustrating what new content is available; users must click through to "Our Latest" to see what's new. The front page of NewYorker.com — produced by a magazine Hughes has cited as a model — contains over 50 links to stories, blog posts, and multimedia content; the front page of NewRepublic.com has nine. There are design arguments to be made in favor of that choice, but it also could hurt repeat front-door traffic.
With the new site also came the return of the magazine's paywall, now with a meter, allowing non-subscribers only eight stories a month per device. That wrinkle was not promoted as loudly as other new features; it could prove either problematic in attracting readers or useful in attracting revenue. (And TNR's position as an opinion journal — and thus one aimed at influence — complicates the equation of open vs. closed. Hughes worked on Obama's 2008 campaign; his husband filed papers to run for Congress a few days ago.)
Still, it may be the business side that presents the biggest challenge to The New Republic. Magazine journalism, like all journalism, is having its difficulties, something Hughes is acutely aware of: "From my perspective, the era when there were sizable profits in this industry is over," he said.
Under Hughes, The New Republic will follow the tack of many other publishers by putting greater emphasis on generating online revenue from readers. But doing that means changing the relationship with the audience, Hughes said. Titles like The New Republic now have to make the case that you get more for your $35 annual subscription than a print product delivered to your mailbox. "People are not willing to pay for access to content in a digital environment," he said. "But I think they are interested in supporting brands they believe in, and I think they are interested and willing to pay for experiences." Experiences, to Hughes, could be anything from the immersive setting of an iPad app to subscriber-only events held in cities around the country.
He also wants the magazine to experiment with advertising, something noticeably in short supply in both web and print version of The New Republic. Hughes said the way to improve advertising is by focusing on reader metrics that are valuable. Rather than measuring pageviews and unique visitors, look for data that can tell you about reader engagement and retention, he said.
Advertising and editorial play into one another — quality stories and reader experience can grow an audience, which can in turn build capacity for better advertising, he said. Hughes sees himself as an idealist when it comes to the journalism, saying he believes in "the power of great writing to shape how we view the world." But on the business side, he says an open, practical approach to technology and revenue are what will help The New Republic succeed.

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26 Tasting Notes
A nice change of pace for people who like Yunnan teas, but want something a little different. Has the body of a Yunnan, but has a floral quality reminiscent of a good Ceylon tea, which it shares something in common — Assamica leaves. Personally, I think the bouquet makes it a poor candidate for milk, so I'd drink this straight.
Flavors: Apple Skins, Grapes, Rose
Forgive me, it's been more than two years since my last tea review. The new job pretty much ate my brain — and all my free time. O.K., so enough about me. Let's talk tea.
Technically, you can't call Himalayan Class Black a Darjeeling because it's grown 150 miles (245 km) to the west. But for all intents and purposes that's what it is, a Darjeeling grown just over the border in Hile, Nepal. Darjeelings have this amorphous quality about them. They're technically a black tea, but they're kind of green. And they're made with Chinese varietals and Assamicas.
Himalayan Classic has that typical Darjeeling quality. It has very little body and that classic apricot-peach taste that Darjeelings have. (Rishi also says it has a malty quality, which I'm not tasting.)
If you like Darjeelings (particularly second flushes), you'll like this.
You wouldn't want to put milk in this tea. Well, let me rephrase that — I wouldn't want to put milk in this tea. There's no accounting for what you might want to do, but the tea doesn't really have enough body to handle it. And I'm not sure milk goes well with teas with floral qualities either.
The tea is quite green, as is the wet infusion. The liquor has that greenie-oolongie thing that Darjeelings tend to have. Quite frankly, Darjeelings have been mediocre the past few years, so this is a good alternative.
First steep should be about three minutes, just like a Darjeeling. Go four to five minutes for the second steep. And I don't think you can coax a decent third steep out of this.
Flavors: Flowers, Peach
I hate mentioning a tea I'm not sure you can get if you live outside the New York area, but this one is a winner and really reasonably priced. I'm generally not a big fan of Fairway and have never figured out what all those West Siders love about the store — the place is crowded, the customers are rude and pushy, and the help is non-existent. So when Fairway opened an East Side location, I was like "whatever." (If you love Agata & Valentina, arguably the East Side's most civilized store, you're gonna hate Fairway, but Agata doesn't have a tea department to speak of.)
So I'm checking out Fairway's new East Side store, which is no more appealing to me than their other locations, when I spotted this organic Wuyi. It was bound to be horrible, I figured, since it was only like $1.60 an ounce and packaged in a clear plastic container that inspired very little confidence that the guys in the coffee and tea department knew anything about buying tea — storing or packaging it, either. But I bought it anyway and, much to my surprise, this stuff is really good.
It's got this great oolong woody-roasty flavor, vaguely reminiscent of Japanese hojicha, but with a hint of peach or apricot. And despite how Fairway describes the taste on the packaging label, it's not smoky at all, which in my opinion is actually a good thing. As the tea snobs like to say, this tea is patient, meaning you can steep it a shitload of times and still coax out some really good flavor. If you do a faux gong-fu method and use a couple of heaping tea spoons worth of tea per cup and a short steep of, say, just a minute, I've found I can get four great cups, each tasting slightly different, but just as good as the previous one. This oolong is on the darker side, closer to 70 percent oxidized, I'd say.
A nice tea and a pleasant surprise. And one reason perhaps to go to Fairway every now and then, even if the place is a friggin' zoo.
What a magnificent day. Warm, high in the 70s here in New York. Sunny. Perfect. The kinda day that makes you want to chase moving vehicles on York Avenue and bark like a dog. But then you start thinking, gee, can I really afford to spend all afternoon being processed at the 19th Precinct? And then there's all those pesky court-ordered psychological evaluations, especially troublesome when things are so busy at the office. Huh, maybe I'll just settle back with a cup of Ceylon tea. (You were wondering where all this was going, weren't you?)
Well, all of this brings me to Greenfield Estate broken orange pekoe from Upton Tea Imports, known to the order-fulfillment boys at Upton's as TC87.
Hallelujah. After drinking a long string of flavorless organic Ceylons (brown water, anyone?), finally an organic Ceylon with flavor. And pretty good flavor to boot.
Have I really never reviewed this tea before? This tea seems like a compromise between an Assam and a Darjeeling, not as rich as an Assam, but a lot more floral. It's grown fairly high, at around 5,000 to 6,000 feet, using Chinese small-leaf varietals (as opposed to Assamicas).
It's grown in the Uva District, for those of you who can actually tell an Uva Ceylon tea from a Kandy Ceylon. I'm not there yet with Ceylon teas, although I can certainly tell a Yunnan from a Keemun, or an Assam from a Darjeeling (actually unless your tongue was surgically removed, anyone can tell an Assam from a Darjeeling).
Back to our Greenfield… The dry leaf is virtually black, although the infusion and the liquor are reddish brown and not that dark.
Like Indian-style teas, it's not at all smokey and I bet the darling of the old-lady tea set. It's a tad thin for milk, I think, but I had it with Rice Dream a few times and it wasn't a complete disaster. Even though it's a broken-leaf tea, which tend to infuse more quickly than their whole-leaf brethren, this one does well with a fairly long four-and-a-half minute steep.
Overall, a nice cup. Available from Upton Tea Imports. And if you're a complete tea nerd, check out the Greenfield Estates website at http://bit.ly/hDos8K.
It's taken me a bit of time to appreciate this tea. Since I'm predominantly a black-tea drinker, Snow Buds organic white tea was a little too subtle for me at first, kinda like those hints my wife leaves for me when she wants me to do something.
Rishi's description of the tea is very accurate. It's grassy and has a sweet hazelnut finish. The grassiness reminds me a bit of a sencha, while the nutty finish is vaguely reminiscent of Rishi's dragonwell (which is less smokey than other dragonwells I've tried).
If you're a green tea lover and looking for something less caffeinated, perhaps in the evening, this is a pretty good find. It requires a fairly long steep time, however. Rishi recommends five to six minutes. Go for six. And since white tea is made from the virtually tannin-free buds, you don't have to worry about the tea going tannic on you from the longer steep time. The never-steep-your-tea-longer-than-five-minutes rule can be damned with this one.
I found this tea to be not as interesting flavor-wise as Rishi's Peach Blossom white tea, but if you're a purist and want to taste a good white tea straight (without the peach and jasmine), this is the real deal.
Available by the ounce at http://www.rishi-tea.com and in 1.3 ounce tins (it's hard to pack bud teas very tightly) at my local (go figure) Food Emporium supermarket, home to the very sweet, but dumbfoundingly unknowledgeable sales clerk. (Ah, to be young, cute and perky and able to get away with not knowing a bloody thing about what you're selling.)
Rishi's China Breakfast tea is made from ancient tea trees in the Mannong Manmai reserve in Yunnan Province in China. And, yeah, they're trees, which is what would happen to all tea bushes if tea estates didn't prune them regularly to make them easier to harvest. These trees are also used to make Rishi's Golden Yunnan and Rishi's Golden Needles.
So what's the difference between the three — aside from the price? Rishi's China Breakfast tea is composed entirely of mature leaves. Golden Yunnan is composed of leaves and buds (leaf buds that have yet to unfurl). And Golden Needles is nothing but buds.
Rishi's China Breakfast is rich and malty, just like the label says. What it's missing, however, is the sweetness that you'd find in Golden Yunnan. Buds typically are sweet since the plant tends to pump sugar to the buds to nourish them and get them to open up. No buds generally means less sweetness. Rishi's China Breakfast is a good tea, but it doesn't give you the full spectrum of flavors that Rishi's Golden Yunnan provides. My wife says the tea tastes like it has no bottom. I liken it to playing your stereo through one channel — it's like you're missing half the music.
So here's my recommendation. If you take your tea with milk (or rice or soy milk) and sweetener, Rishi's China Breakfast tea is great. It's rich, malty and can really hold up to milk. If you take your tea straight, I'd recommend spending the extra dollar and get Rishi's Golden Yunnan. You'll appreciate the extra sweetness that buds can provide to the mix. And if you're feeling really flush financially, really splurge and get Rishi's Golden Needles and experience the joy of an all-bud tea.
Wow, it's been awhile since I had a few minutes to post something on Steepster. (Work's crazy and we moved, too, but still on the East Side, lest I'd have to change my nom de plume.)
White teas are typically too frau-frau for me, so I picked this up for my wife, who typically gravitates more to green and white teas than I do (I'm more of a black-tea kinda guy). However, this stuff is good, and I'm drinking it as much as she is.
The peach thing nicely complements the white tea, which is kinda subtle on its own. (Try Rishi's Snow Buds if you want the pure white stuff.) And Rishi's Peach Blossom is equally good iced. With its relatively low caffeine content, this tea is a particularly good after-dinner tea that won't keep you up all night. A nice tea if you want something fruity, but with more depth than your typical mass-marketed herbal.
Available from Rishi. http://bit.ly/axfcmg
Nice to be able to hang with everyone again.
I've finally emerged from my job vortex long enough to actually get back to Steepster.
I'm predominantly a black-tea drinker, so this was my first foray into yellow tea. But I figured that since three of my favorites teas are made from the same ancient Assamica tea trees of the Mannong Manmai Reserve in Yunnan, China (Rishi's Golden Yunnan, Golden Needles and Rishi's Earl Grey), I figured what could be bad?
This tea is good, but I didn't find the taste so unique. While yellow teas are supposed to be less vegetal than green teas, I found the taste very reminiscent of some senchas I've had. The tea holds up very well to multiple steepings. In fact, if you follow Rishi's steeping instructions, the second steeping lost none of the tea's flavor.
The brewing instructions are a little complicated, especially if you don't have a gaiwan as Rishi suggests. I used a Pyrex measuring cup and a saucer as a cover. It worked just fine. Overall a nice tea.
Upton's description of this tea talks about "Burgandy nuances" and "hints of oak." Mmm, no, not tasting any of that.
I knew I was going to like this Keemun better than some of my recent tastings of this genre just by looking at the leaves. While they were dark, they didn't look like they were covered in creosote, which at least showed promise that this tea wouldn't taste tarry like some other Keemuns I've had recently.
The liquor is dark and the taste has hints of dark chocolate, obscured somewhat by that incessant smoky thing so many Keemuns seem to have. Is there a perpetual forest fire in An Hui Province? What's with the damn smoky overtones? And if you oversteep this stuff, it taste like tobacco, which isn't something I necessarily seek in my teas or in any other aspect of my life. Overall, this tea isn't bad, but I'd love to taste more of the chocolate thing and less of the smoldering fire.
From what I understand, most of the black tea made (if "made" is the right verb to describe tea) in China is for Western consumption since the Chinese themselves prefer greens and oolongs. So, if that's the case, I'm wondering if there are really that many westerners who are really into these smoky teas. Keemun grades like Mao Feng, which I think of as being less smoky, command a higher price. Is there a correlation there?
I've got two more Keemun samples in the pantry, an organic OP and an organic FOP. But I'm kinda Keemuned out at the moment. Plus I just got a shipment in from Rishi that has a Yunnan bud tea in it (Ancient Tree Golden Needles) that seems to be calling my name — in some strange Midwestern accent, no less. "Rahb. Rahb." I think I'll leave the Keemuns alone for a while.
Keemun Dao Ming available for purchase at…
Actually, Chinese do not prefer Green tea. Pu-erh (watered down) is generally the main choice of tea served in Chinese restaurants. I've never been to a restaurant where they've served green tea. It's either that or sweetened chrysanthemum tea. For Oolong, Ti Kuan Yin, is very popular, but if I recall you know that already.
Green tea adheres to westerns for the health benefits, the same goes for tea blends. Chinese is more about keeping the tradition. As for smokey tea, Golden Monkey is popular among Chinese, but it's considered high end. Err, there as another tea that was pretty popular that I can't recall at the moment. Oh, yeah Jasmine flavored teas are pretty popular too.
I have wondered myself if the Keemun growing area is excessively smoky from wood-burning stoves. I had not thought that there was a perpetual forest fire but now that you suggest it…
Nice review.
Carolyn, you know I was kidding about the forest fire, right? I suspect that the tea masters who make this stuff are using smoky fires in the cooking process. I'd prefer, however, to taste more of the leaf and less of the chef, if you know what I mean. More like the teas from India, Sri Lanka, and some areas of Yunnan (although some Yunnans can be smokey, too).
Hi East Side Rob, Yes, I got the humor and enjoyed it quite a bit. I thought I was responding with light humor myself (thus the elipsis) but it is often difficult for me to know when normal prose style will do fine and when one must use an emoticon. (There should be a Strunk & White specifically for the Internet.)
I agree with your expression of exasperation about the smokiness. It often seems to me that there are wonderful notes covered up by that smokiness in Keemun blacks.
This fine Chinese black tea is from Fujian provence, the same region that gives us ti guan yin oolongs and lapsang souchongs.
It's a pretty good tea, and, true to Upton's description, it has a chocolate taste, kinda like unsweetened dark chocolate, balanced by a very slight smoky aspect. I'm not sure why panyangs aren't spoken of with the same reverence as Keemuns and Yunnans, but this tea is quite a decent congou. While I'm generally not a big fan of smoky teas (I loathe lapsang souchong), this tea's smokiness is subtle enough to let the leaves speak — and they have some nice things to say.
Upton's description also talks about a sweet berry note. Um, I'm not getting that, but the chocolate thing is definitely there. Panyangs are similar in some ways to Keemuns, but I haven't been particularly happy with the Keemuns I've had lately, which have been too tarry/smoky, so this is a better brew than most of the Keemuns I've had, with the possible exception of Keemun Mao Feng.
This tea didn't do quite as well on the second steep. The chocolate taste wasn't as pronounced the second go-round, while the smokiness was just as strong, so the balance that was present in the first cup, wasn't there on the second.
Upton's Panyang Congou Select is organic, so you're not getting a mouthful of pesticide residue and are, hopefully, supporting more sustainable farming practices, too.
Nice tea. And after sampling a bad bunch of teas lately — really weak Ceylons and tarry Keemuns — this was a pleasant surprise.
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Daniel Radcliffe Parties Like a Sports Star — Photo of the Week
So imagine your team has just won a big championship, and you're out celebrating. Suddenly you see Harry Potter himself -- Daniel Radcliffe -- on the street. What do you do?
You invite him back to party with you, of course.
On Sunday night, the members of Dublin, Ireland's minor Gaelic Football team were tying one on after winning their first All Ireland title in more than 25 years. The revelry spilled outside, and that's where they bumped into Radcliffe (who's in Dublin shooting a new movie).
After chatting for a while, the jocks invited him back to a house party, where Daniel reportedly stayed until about 4 a.m. and gamely posed for photos -- including one that depicts him seemingly drinking from the Tom Markham cup the footballers won in their championship game, and others that show the 5-foot-5-inch actor being comically dwarfed by the huge athletes.
Fun was clearly had by all, but would it have been too much trouble for someone to break out a broom and get a shot of Radcliffe readying for takeoff?


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23 December 2008
At Sloss Furnace
coat: H&M
sweater: from Goodwill but not really vintage
skirt: vintage
boots, belt & hat: vintage
tights: AA
Today Tom and I walked around Birmingham's Sloss Furnace. The furnaces have long been shut down but the whole place is open to the public as a National Historic Landmark. It's supposed to be haunted and if ghosts indeed exist, then this would be as good a place to find them as any. Legend has it that dozens of men died in the harsh working conditions when it was in operation. I don't know if it's true but the city does turn it into a huge haunted house every Halloween.
19 comments:
- Lexie said...
i love places like that. it's nice that it is open to the public.
- December 24, 2008
- Anonymous said...
lovely coat, and I love the fun places you and your bf explore!
- December 24, 2008
- thevintageyear said...
Love the outfit, the turtleneck goes great with that skirt!
You probably already have been given squillions of awards but I gave you one on my blog anyway! Have a great Christmas :) - December 24, 2008
- Cadmium said...
gorgeous photos! i love your sleek look.
have a wonderful christmas! - December 24, 2008
- AlicePleasance said...
I love ghost stories! When I was a child, looking at American movies and tv series, I always dreamt of those night at camping, with marshmallows (wich I actually don't like...!) and scary tales. Don't even know if this too is a cultural stereotype!
Have a sparkling Christmas :-) - December 24, 2008
- Sharna said...
I love the photos you take, and the places where you take them, its awesome.
- December 24, 2008
- WHERE THE WILD ROSES ARE said...
merry christmas!
- December 24, 2008
- Fashion Tidbits said...
awesome pic!
- December 24, 2008
- Eyeliah said...
What a lovely spot for photos.
- December 24, 2008
- Trains and Sewing Machines said...
what a great location!
- December 25, 2008
- esme and the laneway said...
Wow, it looks amazing. I love your outfit, that skirt is awesome!
- December 25, 2008
- devaneante said...
Great pictures, great outfit and great place... as always ;)
- December 25, 2008
- LF said...
Sloss Furnace is pretty sweet, I go to the haunted house for Halloween and it's real spooky! I need to head to B'ham for a photoshoot, You look lovely!
Merry Christmas!! - December 25, 2008
- Lala Lopez said...
love ur blog! would love to link exchange!
- December 25, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Very original place, wish i could find that in France. Nice outfit..
- December 26, 2008
- Londyn said...
Wow - so pretty. Love the look.
- December 26, 2008
- roxanne said...
greatgreatgreat outfit, every last bit of it. reminds me of the movie love story a little.
- December 26, 2008
- Terry said...
Love the classic elements in your outfits. Even without the photoshop-y filters, it looks like it's from another time.
- December 28, 2008
- Nicki's Notebook said...
I never this place existed! love your outfit btw!! xx
- December 28, 2008


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I usually think of gravitational potential energy as representing just what it sounds like: the energy that we could potentially gain, using gravity. However, the equation for it (derived by integrating Newton's law of gravitational force)...
$$PE_1 = -\frac{GMm}{r}$$
..has me thrown for a loop, especially after this answer.
- If potential energy really meant what I thought it did, then it would always have to be non-negative... but this equation is always negative. So what does "negative potential energy" mean!?
- If $KE + PE$ is always a constant, but PE is not only negative but becomes more negative as the particles attract, doesn't that mean the kinetic energy will become arbitrarily large? Shouldn't this mean all particles increase to infinite KE before a collision?
- If we are near the surface of the earth, we can estimate PE as $$PE_2 = mgh$$ by treating Earth as a flat gravitational plane. However, $h$ in this equation plays exactly the same role as $r$ in the first equation, doesn't it?
- So why is $PE_1$ negative while $PE_2$ is positive? Why does one increase with $h$ while the other increases inversely with $r$?
- Do they both represent the same "form" of energy? Since $PE_2$ is just an approximation of $PE_1$, we should get nearly the same answer using either equation, if we were near Earth's surface and knew our distance to its center-of-mass. However, the two equations give completely different answers! What gives!?
Can anyone help clear up my confusion?


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Fractal Design Define XL R2 Case Review: Maybe We Can Have It All?
by Dustin Sklavos on February 20, 2013 12:01 PM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
- quiet
- Fractal Design
Introducing the Fractal Design Define XL R2
Amusingly and appropriately enough, the wave of silence-oriented enclosures that have been popping up recently haven't really drawn attention to themselves as a trend. Yet all of a sudden, we have results from a couple of solid contenders from Nanoxia and a few less expensive (and more readily available) also-rans. For a little while, this was a wave that Fractal Design was riding high, but the Define R4 wound up being a little underwhelming. As it turns out, they might just have something better lying in wait.
We never had a chance to play with the original Fractal Design Define XL, so it's tough to draw a direct comparison there. Yet one look at Fractal Design's page for the original tells you that while the Define R4 didn't change much from the R3, the Define XL R2 is a major shift. The original XL didn't support E-ATX; it was more just a conventional Define with a separate drive compartment. This R2, on the other hand, really is a giant Define R4. As it turns out, that bump in size and modest increase in cooling capacity may very well have been all the Define R4 needed.
There are two dead horses I need to bludgeon before we progress any further with this review. First, the quiet chassis to beat are the Deep Silence 1 and 2 from Nanoxia; availability notwithstanding, those two offer the best value and best balance of performance and acoustics. In the XL R2's price bracket, the Deep Silence 1 is basically the bar. Keep in mind, though, that the DS1 is a smaller case than the XL R2, so if you need the extra space, Fractal Design may just win by default.
The other thing to keep in mind is that designing a quiet chassis is basically one of the hardest things a vendor can do. What you're essentially trying to do is get the system inside the case to a noise level low enough that the sound dampening material can do the rest of the job. High end enthusiast cases tend to be very quiet because of their copious high power, low noise airflow. What we want is a case that can get below that already low noise floor. The problem is that doing so means closing off a lot of ventilation; capturing sound means capturing air, and reduced airflow means reduced thermal performance.
Fractal Design Define XL R2 Specifications | ||
Motherboard Form Factor | Mini-ITX, Micro-ATX, ATX, E-ATX, XL-ATX | |
Drive Bays | External | 4x 5.25" |
Internal | 8x 2.5"/3.5" | |
Cooling | Front | 1x 140mm intake fan (mount supports 120mm; second 120/140mm fan mount below) |
Rear | 1x 140mm exhaust fan (mount supports 120mm) | |
Top | 2x 120mm/140mm fan mount | |
Side | 1x 120mm/140mm fan mount | |
Bottom | 1x 140mm intake fan (mount supports 120mm) | |
Expansion Slots | 9 | |
I/O Port | 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0, 1x Headphone, 1x Mic | |
Power Supply Size | ATX | |
Clearances | HSF | 170mm |
PSU | 190mm | |
GPU | 330mm | |
Dimensions |
9.13" x 22.01" x 22.04" 232mm x 559mm x 560mm |
Weight | 36.16 lbs / 16.4 kg | |
Special Features |
Removable fan filter USB 3.0 via internal header Three step fan controller supports three fans Acoustic padding on the interior and side panels Modular, rotatable drive cages |
Price | MSRP $129 |
Consider that the two Deep Silence cases are already pretty heavy and well built in their own right, then add another ten pounds and three inches. The Define XL R2 is made almost entirely of steel with really the bare minimum of plastic used in its construction, and you definitely feel it. This is a big case, but Fractal Design was able to hit a very aggressive price point with it. The last generation Define XL cost a full $40 more.
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ymrtech - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link
I have the first version of the XL and I love it.
Gigantic, but quiet as hell when combined with aftermarket 120mm GPU (x2) fans and a Noctua nd-h14.
My fans never increase in speeds, even under load, and the temperatures are always low. -
reemrevnivek - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link
You wrote:
> Unfortunately, installing a full size hard drive into the top slot
> of the cage will result in it scraping against the bottoms of the
> plastic pegs that allow for the rotatable cage mounts.
I just got this case (and agree with most all of the review) but this wasn't a problem I encountered. I installed a WD Caviar Blue 1TB hard drive and had no such troubles. I slipped the drive sled out, turned the mounting screws in securely, and slid it back in. Turning down the mounting screws caused just a bit of compression on the rubber grommets, but not enough to allow the drive to interfere and break off a plastic peg. The spec sheet for your Deskstar drive says it's the same height (26.1mm/1.028") as the WD drive, which is pretty standard.
With these two data points, I am suspicious that the pegs were somehow moved in your removal and re-installation of the drive cages, and this is one of . Could you check this? I'll make measurements of the clearances on my case when I get home tonight for comparison. -
arthur449 - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link
I encountered this problem recently with WD Red 3TB drives and a Fractal Design Arc Midi. Care had to be taken when inserting 3.5" drives into the cage or the screws of the drive above would scrape the top of the drive below. -
arthur449 - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link
Apologies for the double reply, but it should be stated that I had the same issue with Samsung F4s, WD Greens, and ancient Seagate 7200.11s. I screwed the mounting screws in as tight as they would go, causing your noted compression on the rubber grommets, but it still didn't give me the clearance needed to insert a drive beneath another without manually lifting the drive in the tray above when inserting the drive beneath. -
rrohbeck - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link
Stupid question, but did you use the right screws? I never had that problem mounting 9 drives in my Define XL. -
arthur449 - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link
It's entirely possible that the Arc Midi has less space between the drive trays than the Define XL, but I'm glad to see at least someone else is having clearance issues with 3.5" drives and Fractal Design cases.
I only mounted seven 3.5" drives in the Arc Midi, but I double and triple checked that the screw placement and grommets were properly attached to the trays and that the screws were threaded as far into the drives as they would go (however, the threads of the included wafer head screws stopped well shy of the depth available in the HDD housing.)
Perhaps this is simply an issue with the screws provided with the case. -
reemrevnivek - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link
The threads of the wafer head screws were able to go completely into my three assorted drives. They've got 0.2" of thread and a 0.2" shank. The drives all have at least 0.25" of thread depth, and the wafer head screws seat at the shank, which slides through the bushing providing vibration isolation. Do you have threads exposed when there's a bushing on the shank? -
reemrevnivek - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link
OK, the promised measurements:
- Sled metal + paint thickness: 0.030"
- Height of grommet + sled metal + screw head*: 0.247"
- Delta between fingertight mount screws and torqued down hard: 0.021" (reduces above height to 0.226)
Maximum drive thicknesses:
- Hitachi HDT721075 SLA 360: 0.993"
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750 GB: 1.017"
- Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX: 1.011"
Drive + sled thickness:
- Hitachi HDT721075 SLA 360: 1.227"
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750 GB: 1.248"
- Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX: 1.233"
*These aren't precisely 0.021 + drive height, but I didn't do a thorough statistical sampling of each corner of each drive...it's close.
And the most important measurements:
- Inter-sled spacing: 1.254", +/- 0.02" over all 8 drive sleds
- Grommet to plastic spacer (top hard drive max height): 1.017"
It looks like I was simply lucky to have a set of drives and cages that fit well. My original comment was posted from work based on recollection of yesterday's assembly. As an electrical engineer with a little bit of mechanical design experience, the tolerance levels I see here aren't sufficient for a sheet metal manufacturing process, especially when you add painting/powder-coating variance into the mix.
Looks like this is a tiny manufacturing oversight by Fractal Design, it was manufactured to use 1" high drives (they're not all precisely 1", 26.1mm is fairly common) and 0.25" thick grommets and wafer head screws, requiring 1.25" of spacing between sleds. This really needs to include some extra spacing for manufacturing errors, clearance fitting for easy assembly, and air flow here wouldn't hurt drive temps either.
(PS: "and this is one of ." was supposed to be "and this is one of the things I didn't do." in the previous comment. I have now installed and removed the cages, and unless the whole cage was bent in your extraction (unlikely), it seems impossible to change the thickness.) -
Vatharian - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link
That was nice review, but I'm sorry, it lacks something: What's the point of testing mediocre (in terms of noise output and required/generated airflow) system in such big case? It is valid of course, as it gives reference point, but it's not so useful without a comparison. And that would be fitting at least full ATX, or yet better EATX (to test clearances for cable management in cases that support it (it's easy to route cables if you're putting mini-ITX board in CosmosS, like I did some time ago), with a couple or trio of loud (470 or 5850? FX-5950XT :D). Old 920-equipped X58 or some AM3 130W-140W Phenom I/II with three 470s or 5850, couple of 7.2k rpm drives and stock intel/AMD cooler, as a noise dampening torture test, and then a reasonable system (what was tested here is quite good), that's what should be done with every case. Purpose: It will give idea how good the case is in range of systems (interpolation, yo!), and when choosing a case, we get wider array of features we can compare. What's the cheapest case out there? Which is the quietest case? Which one is best for effectively cooling my high-end hardware? Which has the most useful-to-me feature-rich case, or with highest build quality? And, my favorite: What's the cheapest (with acceptable aesthetics, as per taste) case that will quietly house my hardware? That's why two sets of hardware should be included in case tests. -
Sabresiberian - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link
I agree; a huge case like this isn't really for the guy who builds a standard rig, it's for the person intending to fill it with a large MB loaded with graphics cards. At least one of the cards known to be rather noisy would be a better test here.
And, I still want to know if the case will actually hold an XL-ATX comfortably, if it claims to be able to. You don't need to run the whole test with a board you can't fit in smaller cases, just put a couple of screws in it to see if it actually fits in, and if you have to do something like move the PSU from a bottom to top mount.
I don't want to make this sound too negative - Anandtech does a great job with case reviews! These are just suggestions for ways to improve a bit. :)


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