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Heb-Sed Festival Pharaoh's Jubilee
Ancient Egyptian YearWhat: The Festival celebrated the Pharaoh's revitalisation as a living deity
When: In or after Regnal Year 30 of Pharaoh's reign and again every 3 years after that, although the Festival could be performed earlier if the Pharaoh wished it to be to rejuvenate the reign
How: The Deities offer Pharaoh, "Hundreds of Thousands of Years of Life, Stability and Dominion with Sed Festivals", when they give Pharaoh the Heb Sed Festival Hieroglyphs
Who: Carried out primarily by the Pharaoh, the Royal Family and the Priesthood
Where: Locations were chosen by Priests and the Pharaoh working together. Usually it was at places which had religious relevance to the crown and had the room to host the Heb Sed Festival Court
Why: To confirm the Pharaoh was still working hand in hand with the Will of the Deities and physically fit enough to rule
Timespan: Throughout all Egyptian Pharaonic Dynasties
How do we know about the Festival?
From Reliefs found inside in Temples, Egyptologists have learned that Heb Sed Festivals were believed, in Ancient Egyptian Religion, to have been "given" to Pharaoh to perform by the Deities. These reliefs begin in the reign of Pharaoh Ramses I, first Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty. But the Reliefs must be interpreted as a Pharaoh's wish for the future as many of the Reliefs have been dated to early in the reign of the Pharaoh.
In the Reliefs, for example: the Relief of Pharaoh Ramses I. He is shown kneeling with his arms out, palms up to receive the Hieroglyphs of the Heb Sed Festival from a Deity. In Karnak Temple, on the North Wall of the 3rd Pylon, Pharaoh Ramses II stands in front of the God Thoth who hands to him the hieroglyphs which show the Heb Sed Festival. Thoth says to Pharaoh, "receive the Sed Festival from Ra and the years from your father Amun, so that you can rile as King for Eternity".
This relief has been confirmed to date to Pharaoh Ramses II's Regnal Year 2. He was writing down his fervent wish that he would rule securely with the Goddess Ma'at and the Deities by his side for at least 30 years, the date for when the Pharaoh's first Heb Sed Festival could be carried out. His wish was granted. Pharaoh Ramses II ruled for 67 years and he had 14 Heb Sed Festivals.
The Preparation
Preparation for the Festival was large and complex. The building work alone would often be commissioned years before the Festival was due to commence. The Preparations would include the excavations of Stone for the Festival buildings.
Obelisks and wooden Shrines to host the Festival's deities and then the building of the Area in which the Festival was due to take place.
Invitations were sent to Foreign Dignitaries and envoys as well as officials and representatives from all regions of Lower and Upper Egypt.
They would all need to be assembled along with the Statues of the Deities which would arrive at the chosen site by barge on the River Nile and placed into their relevant Shrine.
My opinion of the Heb Sed Festival location & buildings
Heb-Sed Courts have been found within the Pharaoh's own Pyramid complex, please note that the "living" areas remain on the East of the Pyramid. The Pharaoh and the Royal Family need accommodation as the Festival often took place over several days. This was in the form of small Palaces or "Houses".
The Festival
The Festival began with the First Appearance which was formed into a procession. The procession went to the Place of Proclamation where the Festival was proclaimed to those living and deceased that the Festival was commencing. There were several stages of procession.
Part 2: The Dais
The Pharaoh appeared on the purpose built a dais dressed in a short kilt which had a tail attached to the back. With the insignia of both Upper and Lower Egypt and carried the flail.
There were 4 staircases, 1 at each of the compass points.
The Pharaoh would sit at each of the points in turn where 2 deities for each compass point would bless the Pharaoh with raised hands whilst a Priest recites sacred words.
Archaeological evidence has hinted that these were:
South Point Tatenen and Set & North Point Atum and Horus
West Point Khepre and Geb & East Point Isis and Nephthys
Part 3: The Royal Appearance in the Sed Festival Palace
On entering the Sed Festival Palace, the Pharaoh changes into the Sed Festival Robe
Pharaoh is accompanied by the closest family in making offerings to the Deities who have been brought from their residing Temples to the Sed Festival Palace for this purpose.
Part 4: Visits to the Assembled Deities
Findings are suggesting that every Sed Festival Palace was designed and built to provide the Pharaoh with a 3-dimensional map of the sky
Meaning that Pharaoh would be making offerings to a total of 24 Deities – one for each hour of the day and the night
Each deity had their own oblong sanctuary where they were placed after arriving at the location of the Palace from their Temple Sanctuary
My interpretation of the Layout of the Heb Sed Court
Part 5: Visit to Amun Re
The Royal Family progress together throughout the Shrines apart from the Shrine of Amun Re in the Hall of Eating. Pharaoh enters here alone while the Royal Family watches on, as shown from remaining wall reliefs of the Sed Festival. The Deity Amun Re gifts the Pharaoh with a promise of long life and a long reign on the Throne before the Pharaoh leaves his presence.
Carried on a portable Throne by Priests the Pharaoh has now been granted the life, dominion, health, strength, victory, offering and provisions by the Gods and Goddesses. This implies that the Pharaoh has now appeared for the last time as the Old Ruler.
Pharaoh enters the Tomb and "sleeps" through his "Funeral" and "Burial" to be woken by the Deities as the rejuvenated Pharaoh. Changing once again the Pharaoh leaves his Tomb.
New Reign Commences
At dawn the Pharaoh raises the DJED Pillar to symbolize his triumph over death. Pharaoh then ran with a Bull, or an interpretation of one, around a laid-out area called the Field.
The Field
Pharaoh ran with the Bull in an area called the Field, outlined here in red. The Field was outlined with ritual Boundary Markers and was usually within an enclosed space such as a Temple or Funerary complex.
Running with the Bull
Pharaoh ran 4 times as the Ruler of Upper Egypt and 4 times as the Ruler of Lower Egypt
This is to prove the Pharaoh was fit to retain the sole rule of Egypt
As seen in this relief, Pharaoh's have been shown as running with a Bull which is believed to be a young Apis Bull or a representation of one.
Firing the Arrows & Concluding the Rituals
Pharaoh would then fire 4 arrows toward the 4 cardinal directions as a symbol of his power over Egypt and his ability to bring other nations under Egypt's influence and increase Egypt's wealth and prowess.
This was followed by elaborate concluding Temple Rituals which would include processions, offerings and acts of devotion which all went to enhance the rejuvenation of the Pharaoh and represented the strength and potency of the reign.
These are known to have been:
- receiving the Barque of the Goddess Wenut-Shemau, or Nekhbet
- receiving the Act of Homage to the Pharaoh by the "Great Ones of Upper and Lower Egypt"
The End of the Festival
The Pharaoh would have ended the Festival by appearing in public with his family to reclaim his Throne and on some occasions, evidence has shown that the Pharaoh was re-crowned before returning to his Palace.
The Public however were encouraged to celebrate, feast and rejoice with different regions celebrating in their own ways. As with all the great festivals, the state provided the people with food and beer for the entire event.
Different Heb Sed Festivals
Pharaoh Hatshepsut celebrated her first Sed Jubilee 30 years from the death of her father, Thutmose I. As despite not being immediately ordained as Pharaoh, she was given legitimacy to rule Egypt as her father appointed her to the highest administrative office in his government, giving her a co-regent's experience and allowing her to rule many aspects of his bureaucracy.
This Relief shows Pharaoh Hatshepsut as Pharaoh of Lower (left) and Upper (right) Egypt seated on the Throne of each and being handed the bow to shoot the arrows as Pharaoh of each Land.
Pharaoh Akhenaten celebrated his first Sed Jubilee in the 3rd regnal year. Thought to be due to his wish to remove power from the Priests of the Theban Triad and the high God Amun-Re. He considered this long-held power base to be corrupted and that the Priests had usurped their power from the ruling Pharaoh and Court.
Advertising the Pharaoh's Successful Completion of the Festival
Individual shrines commemorating the Festival were commissioned and dispatched to Temples and other public places throughout Egypt to announce the Pharaoh's successful completion of the Festival. The Pharaonic equivalent of a nationwide advertising campaign for the general public.


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In emerging economies, governments have prioritized food processing and agriculture infrastructure in recent years. For example, under the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) in India, around 15 identified projects in food processing and 20 projects in agriculture are expected to be implemented between 2020 and 2025, as per data from the India Investment Grid.
Dehydrators can aid the food processing process through the removal of moisture with varying heating sources such as radiation and convection. The thriving food processing industry will therefore escalate the adoption of reliable and advanced commercial food dehydrators to process foods, including dried products, without the loss of color, taste, and nutritional value.
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Deficiencies in Vitamin A, iodine, and iron are becoming more prevalent worldwide, particularly among pregnant women and children. Middle- and low-income countries bear the burden of micronutrient deficiencies. According to the World Health Organization, over 45% of child deaths are associated with undernutrition. With the growing burden of nutritional deficiency, the usage of dehydrators for herbal and nutraceutical product preservation applications will rise considerably.
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The third journey for The Penthouse series will begin.
According to SpoTV's report on the 26th, SBS's The Penthouse 3 will start its shooting on April 27th.
With the second season's closure at the end of March, they took a brief break and returned with news of the 3rd season. The 3rd season will be the finale for The Penthouse series, which started airing last October.
The show's scriptwriter Kim Soon Ok started writing season 3 as soon as season 2 ended. She has already given the actors the script of three episodes. The rumors say that the upcoming series will have fierce plotlines, characters, and twists.
The Penthouse 2 ended as Logan Lee seemed to die in front of Shim Soo Ryeon due to an explosion. The Penthouse 3 is set to air from June.
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How many BTU furnace do I need?
Most homeowners have difficulties figuring out what size of furnace do they need. Fortunately, calculating furnace size (be it natural gas, propane, electric or oil) is not rocket science.
To help future furnace owners out, we have developed a simple furnace sizing calculator.
You only need to know two things; your home square footage and the climate zone you're in.
After the furnace sizing calculation, you'll find how the size of the furnace is calculated. We also made 3 examples for:
- What size furnace do I need for a 1000 sq ft house? (Example 1)
- What size furnace do I need for a 2000 square foot home? (Example 2)
- What size furnace do I need for a 3000 sq ft home? (Example 3)
Below you will also find a chart with calculated BTUs and furnace tonnages for houses from 500 sq ft to 3,000 sq ft.
Note about furnace input vs output: Furnace BTUs you will find on the specs sheet are always the output BTUs (regardless of efficiency or AFUE rating). An 80,000 BTU 94 AFUE furnace will have a heat output of 80,000 BTU. Due to 90% efficiency (90 AFUE), the input will be 85,106 BTU.
You can freely use the calculator to roughly estimate the capacity of a furnace you need. Use this map to determine the climate zone (or climate region) you're living in:
Furnace BTU Calculator (Input Square Footage And Climate Zone)
The basic principles the furnace sizing calculator is based on are:
- Larger homes need more BTU than smaller homes (directly proportional to square footage).
- Homes in colder climates (Region 5) need to generate more heat than holmes in warmer climates (Region 1).
- Note: Furnace efficiency doesn't matter here. An 80 AFUE furnace (with 100,000 BTU rating) and an efficient furnace (94 AFUE 100,000 BTU) will both produce 100,000 BTU of heating output. It's just that an efficient furnace will need less fuel (propane, gas, electricity) to create this output.
To properly size a furnace, we need to use BTU heating needed per square foot for each climate zone:
Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 3 | Region 4 | Region 5 |
35 BTU per sq ft | 40 BTU per sq ft | 45 BTU per sq ft | 50 BTU per sq ft | 60 BTU per sq ft |
Essentially, homes in the far North (Minessota, for example) need almost twice as much heating load as homes in the far South (Texas, for example). We have elaborated on winter heating requirements (in BTU) and heating factor here.
Basically, BTU stands for British Thermal Unit. 1 BTU is enough energy to heat 1 pound of water by 1 degree.
For an exact estimation of furnace size, you should ask your local furnace installers or technicians. That's because the required BTU output doesn't only depend on the square footage of your home, but also on the number of windows, the home's insulation R-values (higher number R-value home require less heating), and so on.
Here are the 3 examples that illustrate how the calculator works.
What Size Furnace Do I Need For A 1000 Sq Ft House? (Example 1)
Let's say we have a nice 1,000 square foot home in Los Angeles, California. We need two data points:
- Home square footage: 1,000 sq ft.
- Climate zone: Los Angeles, California, is in Region 2.
We input both of these data points into the calculator. Here is what we get:
In short, we need a 40,000 BTU furnace.
What about if we have a 1,000 sq ft home in the heart of Minnesota? That's Region 5. Here is what we get with the furnace sizing calculator:
We see that for a 1,000 sq ft home we need:
- 40,000 BTU furnace in California.
- 60,000 BTU furnace in Minnesota.
Here are the results for 1000 square foot houses in all climate zones:
Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 3 | Region 4 | Region 5 |
What Size Furnace Do I Need For A 2000 Square Foot Home? (Example 2)
2000 sq ft houses need double the furnace capacity compared to 1000 sq ft house.
Here are calculated 2000 sq ft home estimates for furnace size:
Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 3 | Region 4 | Region 5 |
In many cases, there is a dilemma if a heat pump would be better than a furnace. There are many advantages that heat pumps have over furnaces (you can read about them in our furnace vs heat pump comparison article here).
The key cut-off homeowners can use is the capacity. That's because even the best heat pumps can at most produce only about 60,000 BTU. Anything above that, you will need a big furnace that can produce a larger heating output; it's almost impossible to adequately heat a 2,000 sq ft home with a heat pump alone. If interested in heat pumps, can also check how many BTU heat pump you need here.
What Size Furnace Do I Need For A 3000 Square Foot Home? (Example 3)
Furnace size for a 3,000 square foot home range from 105,000 BTU to 180,000 BTU, depending on the climate zone you're in. Here is a table with calculated 3,000 sq ft furnace sizes for all 5 regions:
Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 3 | Region 4 | Region 5 |
We hope everybody will be able to use the furnace capacity calculator and get a good estimate of the size of the furnace they need for winter heating.
Chart For Furnace Tonnages And BTUs For 500 – 3,000 Sq Ft Houses
To help you out, we have calculated how many ton furnaces you need for small, middle-sized, and big houses. We choose Region 3 (with 45 BTU per sq ft) for these furnace sizing estimates.
This will answer the question of how many ton furnace do I need for my home for some homeowners:
House Size (Sq Ft): | Furnace Size (in BTUs): | Furnace Size (in Tons): |
500 sq ft home | 22,500 BTU furnace | 1.9 tons furnace |
600 sq ft home | 27,000 BTU furnace | 2.3 tons furnace |
700 sq ft home | 31,500 BTU furnace | 2.6 tons furnace |
800 sq ft home | 36,000 BTU furnace | 3.0 tons furnace |
900 sq ft home | 40,500 BTU furnace | 3.4 tons furnace |
1000 sq ft home | 45,000 BTU furnace | 3.8 tons furnace |
1100 sq ft home | 49,500 BTU furnace | 4.1 tons furnace |
1200 sq ft home | 54,000 BTU furnace | 4.5 tons furnace |
1300 sq ft home | 58,500 BTU furnace | 4.9 tons furnace |
1400 sq ft home | 63,000 BTU furnace | 5.3 tons furnace |
1500 sq ft home | 67,500 BTU furnace | 5.6 tons furnace |
1600 sq ft home | 72,000 BTU furnace | 6.0 tons furnace |
1700 sq ft home | 76,500 BTU furnace | 6.4 tons furnace |
1800 sq ft home | 81,000 BTU furnace | 6.8 tons furnace |
1900 sq ft home | 85,500 BTU furnace | 7.1 tons furnace |
2000 sq ft home | 90,000 BTU furnace | 7.5 tons furnace |
2100 sq ft home | 94,500 BTU furnace | 7.9 tons furnace |
2200 sq ft home | 99,000 BTU furnace | 8.3 tons furnace |
2300 sq ft home | 103,500 BTU furnace | 8.6 tons furnace |
2400 sq ft home | 108,000 BTU furnace | 9.0 tons furnace |
2500 sq ft home | 112,500 BTU furnace | 9.4 tons furnace |
2600 sq ft home | 117,000 BTU furnace | 9.8 tons furnace |
2700 sq ft home | 121,500 BTU furnace | 10.1 tons furnace |
2800 sq ft home | 126,000 BTU furnace | 10.5 tons furnace |
2900 sq ft home | 130,500 BTU furnace | 10.9 tons furnace |
3000 sq ft home | 135,000 BTU furnace | 11.3 tons furnace |
For example, the 6-ton furnace is sufficient for heating a 1600 sq ft home in Region 3.
You can check our articles about different types of heating furnaces:
- Gas furnaces (low running costs, powerful furnaces).
- Oil furnaces (powered by heating oil).
- Electric furnaces (low unit cost, high running costs, most convenient furnaces).
Another useful resource is connected with falling efficiency and mold infestation in furnaces. To prevent the loss of efficiency, HVAC UV lights for furnaces are used (here are the details).


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The name Mill 67 might still be unknown to many in Maine, but visit the Sanford pub and it's possible everyone will know your name soon enough. That's the impression Press Herald critic James Schwartz gets from the Cheers-like pub, which impresses with its attractive, comfortable atmosphere more than its comfort food. "Mill 67 is, quite simply, a knockout," the reviewer states in his latest Dine Out Maine column, awarding three stars to the young business.
The riverfront mill eatery, which opened in March of this year, won the Eater Maine 2014 award for Stone Cold Stunner, or best looking new establishment. Soak in the "spectacular" surroundings and stick to drinks, apps, and desserts, Schwartz recommends; skip the heavy and bland entrees. Boasting solid calamari, Washington Street Wings, and cast-iron cookies with ice cream, "this pub may remind you that a table full of good appetizers makes a fine dinner, and an evening in a stunning riverside setting, surrounded by good cheer and good friends, just can't be beat."


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The final panel contains a reference to this Questionable Content comic. After rereading it, I noticed the title of that comic. Just assume that the robot's video has bypassed Jenna Bush in the rankings.
The idea of a robot-driven car isn't all that far from reality. In fact, prototypes exist, and are street-legal in Nevada, California, and Florida, with a decent safety record thus far. Nonetheless, remind me to avoid roads in those states...


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Pete welcomes Mises.org editor Ryan McMaken to the show. Ryan has spent much of the last couple years addressing the immigration debate through the articles he writes. He joins Pete to cover what the law says, whether culture matters and what are some libertarian-minded solutions that could be implemented even in this statist paradigm.


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There is a certain truism in real estate—perhaps truer in the Hub than other places—that if the deal on rent seems too good to be true, it probably is. This is playing out particularly contentiously at Midway Studios in Fort Point.
The complex opened in 2005 as 89 live-work studios under the aegis of the Boston Redevelopment Authority and designed to be an affordable enclave for artists and craftsmen (and craftsmen who were artists). They could rent the rustic spaces on the relative cheap (scenarios of $1,825 for 1,500 square feet were not unheard of) and then buy them in five years. Just about everyone who moved in, then, expected it was a route toward property ownership.
Then, in 2006, the developer behind Midway Studios died and his executors told tenants that, well, they would actually have to wait 15 years before buying. The housing bonds that had financed part of the project required that waiting period, it turned out. That was the first bone of contention. It was followed by an attempt by the executors to convert the complex. They asked for $1,000 refundable deposits from those tenants who might buy—only 36 stepped forward. Maybe everyone who moved in wasn't a prospective buyer (the truism about what too good to be true can cut both ways, we suppose).
One tenant who did step forward, David Rogers, eventually worked out a deal with the executors that allowed him to lease the complex's prime theater space for his helmet-manufacturing company to cover financing obligations. This is the current and rawest bone of contention, one embittered further by a message that Rogers dashed off on Valentine's Day to tenants who didn't want his helmet company in the theater space. Per Geoff Edgers in The Globe:
The neighborhood "posers," he wrote, "are merely . . . drama queens who use art as an excuse to justify and rationalize their pathetic existence while mooching from others to sustain a living." He continued: "The majority of the people we are protecting are under 20 years old and have signed up for military service to earn money for college. They are not living off their parents, trust funds, welfare, or mooching off the American taxpayer like many of the residents of this building."
The message spurred a three-hour, packed meeting of tenants and BRA officials, and ended with many frustrations aired and Rogers refusing to apologize. (The BRA did pitch its idea for a smaller theater space in the building.) Brave local pols have sided with the majority of tenants, who appear to have been unified by Rogers' note. That, and surely no one wants to lose the deal on rent.


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Three men are currently being interviewed by Police following an armed incident between Morrinsville and Matamata late this morning.
Detective Sergeant Rod Carpinter of the Morrinsville Police said officers were called to an address in Morrinsville about 10.45am after a call from the occupants stating three men had entered the property, threatening them with a firearm.
"We understand one person in the home was struck with the firearm before the offenders fled in a red Commodore in the direction of Matamata.
"A responding patrol car has sighted the offenders' car and turned around to pursue it however by the time the officer managed to turn his vehicle around such was their speed the offenders were lost from view."
Mr Carpinter said the offenders have headed down Landsdowne Rd and other officers have set up road spikes at the intersection of Gunn and Peria Roads.
"The offenders have seen the road spikes and attempted to avoid them by swerving on to the grass verge, in doing so they have struck a power-pole bringing it down and coming to a halt with the live wires lying over their vehicle.
No-one was injured in the crash.
"Power company workers were called as well as members of the Waikato Armed Offenders Squad and the Police Dog Section. Working in conjunction with the power workers the three occupants of the car were extracted from the car and arrested."
Mr Carpinter said a search of the car is currently underway and so far a quantity of ammunition and drugs had been recovered.


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While there is definitely a theme comparing children's minds to adults' minds, it not usually framed as innocent "intelligence and ingenuity." The usual and textually supported interpretation of the theme is in terms of the enfant terrible, a description of children in Saki 's stories, like Vera, who willfully devise...
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means by which to torment or antagonize adults whom they seem to despise. Vera's supernatural fantasy would fall into the category of being devised to torment, specifically, to torment Framton Nuttel.
Saki is intentionally ambiguous (unspecific, allowing for multiple interpretations) as to Vera's motives and thoughts but (1) she knows of Framton's need for a rest cure, (2) deliberately acts the part of terrified girl when the three long "dead" men return, (3) and coolly invents another fantasy to explain Framton's sudden escape. Based on this, it is possible to interpret her motives as those of an enfant terrible who intentionally seeks to torment (out of boredom?). When we add to this the fact that she tells fantasies to her aunt and uncle, a strong case is built for attributing motives of antagonism toward adults.
Having said this, it is possible to see the more innocent theme of children with superior intelligence and ingenuity versus adults. Clearly Vera has a vivid imagination and the presence of mind to maintain her equilibrium and composer in the midst of inventing then reacting to a fantastic horror story of mental instability and ghosts or corpses returning from the dead. In addition to which, Vera calmly and coolly tells a second impromptu fantasy to give a likely and plausible explanation to her relatives for Framton's surprising departure. The theme of superior intelligence and ingenuity would focus on Mrs. Sappleton's and Framton's foolish and gullible behavior in believing and reacting to Vera's fantastic stories.
While on the one hand, Vera is "self-possessed" and tranquilly in command, on the other hand, the adults are nervous, excitable, credulous and generally inferior. While the adults can't think well enough to identify a hoax and lies (how often does Vera do this, actually?), Vera thinks well enough to use present circumstances and adult's ignorance of particulars to invent impromptu stories that are borne out by subsequent events and behaviors. This illustrates that children with superior minds are superior even to adults indicating that while adults may learn more information, skills and accumulate experience, a superior quality of mind is innate, expressed even in childhood, and an inferior quality of mind follows an individual even into adulthood.
"I expect it was the spaniel," said [Vera] calmly; "he told me he had a horror of dogs. He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly dug grave ...."


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This magic bottle spell can be worked on anyone's name you want to sweeten. Depending on what relationship the person has to you, what special items you put into the name-packet, the color of the candle you choose, and the hoodoo oil you dress it with, this trick will cause the person you name to like you more, to love you more, to favor your petition, to want to help you, to be sympathetic to your cause, or to forgive any wrongs you have committed.
It can be used to influence and sweeten a judge in a court case, a loan officer at the bank, a boss from whom you want a raise, a teacher in your school from whom you want a good grade, a lover with whom you want a reconciliation, an in-law who has been back-biting you, or friend who has cut you off because of a foolish quarrel.
You will need:
- a jar of sweetener
- a piece of paper
- a pen or pencil
- optional herbs, curios, and/or bodily concerns
- a candle
- a candle-dressing oil
Get a small jar of sweetener. This can be honey, Karo Syrup, Crystal Syrup, home-made brown sugar syrup, Log Cabin Syrup, Vermont maple syrup, Bre'r Rabbit Blackstrap Molasses or whatever you desire — as long as it is in a container with a metal lid. You can buy the goods in a pint-size glass Mason jar or pour the sweetening of your choice into a jar of your own at home. All that matters is that it should be a short, squat jar with a metal lid, filled up to the shoulder of the jar.
In the old days, when skin color was a lot more important to people than it is now, it was recommended that the color of the sweetener match the skin of the person you wanted to sweeten. Thus, for a white judge, you might use Crystal Syrup, and for a Latino loan officer you might use light brown sugar syrup, and for a dark-skinned lover you might use Bre'r Rabbit Blackstrap Molasses. Frankly, these days specifying a person's skin color is not as meaningful as it once was (for which we can all be thankful), and today many folks prefer to use honey for the spell, no matter what the target's skin colour is, because it is a natural sweetener and not man-made. I believe that if you just follow your own intuition and decide which sweetener you like the best, you can be confident that you have made the right choice.
Next, prepare your paper.
Again, in the old days, we would be told to use white paper for a white person, tan paper for a high-brown, and rough old grocery-bag paper for a person of dark color, but these days the type of paper you use can simply be a matter of personal style. Manu people prefer the kind of cream-colored parchment paper. I often use a smooth, tan-colored light-weight shopping bag paper because that is my choice, based on the way I was taught, which was that such paper is "pure paper."
No matter which kind of paper I use, I prepare my paper by tearing it neatly on all four sides so there is no machine-cut edge. Of course some folks trim their paper square with scissors — and the spell still works for them. So go ahead and prepare your paper just as you wish and that will suffice.
Once you have got your paper together, write the person's name three times on it, one name under the other. For example, if the other person's name is John Russell Brown, it would look like this:
John Russell Brown
John Russell Brown
John Russell Brown
Then rotate the paper 90 degrees clockwise and write your own name across the person's name, also three times. If your name is Abigail Samantha Little, it would look like this:
Abigail Samantha Little
Abigail Samantha Little
Abigail Samantha Little
The result will be that the two names are crossed over each other, like a cross or a tic-tac-toe grid, and the other person's name will be under yours.
This is called crossing and covering their name. If the sweetening is being done for love, you can use a red ink pen. Otherwise, the color of the ink does not matter, and you can just as easily use a pencil.
Now all around the crossed names, write your specific wish in a circle. If you need a guideline, lightly sketch the circle-shape with a pencil and then follow around it when writing with your ink pen. You must write your wish in one continuous run of script letters, with no spaces — AND WITHOUT LIFTING YOUR PEN FROM THE PAPER. Do not cross your t's or dot your i's. Just write the words in one run and be sure to join up the end of the last word with the beginning of the first word so the circle is complete. Then you can go back and cross your t's and dot your i's.
To make it easy to connect the word together at the end, I have found it best to make my petition in the form of short commands, such as "help me favor me help me favor me" or "love me love me love me" or "forgive me come back forgive me come back."
If you make a mistake — for instance, if you lift your pen in the middle of writing your petition-circle — throw away the paper and start it all over again. You want it to be perfect.
Other Ingredients
Other ingredients can be added to the name-paper if you wish — a piece of court case root for a court case spell, two rose petals for a love spell, a lump of sugar for a family member, two clove buds for friendship, bayberry root or sassafras root for a money spell, a pair of Adam-and-Eve roots for love, two small Lodestones for sexuality, a pinch of deer's tongue leaves for a proposal of marriage, a square of camphor for cleaning out bad things of the past, and so forth.
If you are sweetening someone for love, then in addition to the name-paper and whatever optional herbs, roots, or minerals you choose, you must also get one of the person's hairs and one of your hairs. If the hairs are long enough, tie them together. Otherwise, just lay them crosswise to each other. In either case, place them on the name-paper.
Don't ask me what to do if you can't get their hairs 'cause I can't help with that. Either work the spell without the hairs and expect a much lower rate of success or get the hairs! Don't load the paper up with lots of other stuff thinking that if you can't get the hairs that six different love-herbs and two lodestones will be as strong as two hairs. They won't be.
Work the magick
Fold the paper toward you to bring what you want your way and speak aloud your wish as you do so. Turn the paper and fold it again, and again, always folding toward you, to bring what you want your way. Speak aloud your wish each time you fold the paper toward you. Fold it until it will not fold any more.
Open the jar of honey or syrup. To make room for the folded paper packet, you will need to eat some of the contents. Take out a spoon's worth, and as you eat it, say, "As this honey [or syrup] is sweet to me, so will I become sweet to John Russell Brown [or the name of the person you are working this on]." You can do this three times — taking out three small spoonfuls of sweetener and speaking your wish aloud each time. Push the folded paper packet down into the jar and close up the lid.
Dress an offertory candle (a 6″ long candle or a 4″ long one, nothing fancy) with an appropriate anointing oil or a combination of hoodoo or conjure oils. Use a white candle for general blessing and healing, a red one for sexual love, a pink one for reconciliation, a brown one for a court case, and so forth.
- For more details on candle colors and magick, visit this post: Candle Magick and Color.
- Details on anointing oils can be found here: Essential Oils For Ritual and Magick
Stand the candle on the lid of the closed-up jar and light it. You can melt the candle to the lid with hot wax if need be.
Let the candle burn all the way out. Do this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, for as long as it takes. Add each new candle on top of the remains of the last one. I have seen people's syrup-jar bottle spells like this done for court cases that were continued for so long and required so many candles that you could not see the jar under all the dripped-on wax!
From: Lucky Mojo
For this spell you will need Acacia Honey. No other kind of honey may be substituted. Acacia gum is perceived as being the tree's menstrual blood complete with similar romantic powers, therefore lending men a magical power that biology deprives them. Acacia honey is produced in France.
- Anoint the penis with acacia honey.
- Make love.
This action not only ensures that she will love only you, but allegedly guarantees fidelity as well.
Source: Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells
You will need:
- Glass jar
- Honey
- Sugar
- Water
- Wooden Popsicle stick
- Permanent Marker
Put a mixture of one third honey, water, and sugar in a glass jar with a screw top. Take wooden Popsicle stick (or equivalent), write the name of the person who is creating problems through negative thoughts or actions on one side, and the perceived source of the problem (witches, a particular person, etc.) on the other side.
Place stick in the jar and at least once a day, shake the jar vigorously. The person who is having negative thoughts will have an improved ability to relate to those persons or things he didn't like before. "He'll have sweet thoughts and won't know why."
If this person is someone who is causing you a specific problem, when you shake the jar say:
"Sweet, sweet thoughts of me, you will think, constantly."
It is said that each time you shake the bottle, the person will think sweet thoughts of you.
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For as long as Amanda Fisher can remember, she's been attracted to a particular style of traveling. "I'd always loved road trips and seeking out those off-the-beaten-path, hole in the wall places," says the 2004 UNC grad. "Barbecue is so good for that. Those places get you into the small towns and they get you off the main roads."
While she always took travel guides and maps with her on trips, Amanda acknowledges their limitations when hunger strikes on the road. "If you have a book on barbecue and it says, 'This place is in this town' and it's a tiny town you've never heard of, you would have no idea where that is in relation to you," she says. "You really need them all on a map."
Thankfully for us, Amanda did the hard work and, with the help of her EDIA Maps partner Paul Bright, mapped out all the barbecue joints, breweries, and most recently, all the fried chicken spots in the Tar Heel State. (The Carolina Fried Chicken Map also highlights South Carolina's best of the bird as well.) The result is a comprehensive guide that will make you want to hit the road and start eating. More than just a map, the flipside of the fried chicken version features insidery tidbits about each restaurant from what's good as a side to which bird is packing heat. (Even the fun facts will make the drive go by faster – did you know that 40% of NC and SC agriculture is attributed to poultry?)
Amanda, a native North Carolinian who lived in Charlotte for a decade but now calls L.A. home, still looks for those roadside stands and small-town spots. The flexibility of her job means that she can put one of her favorite pastimes first. "I wanted travel to be a bigger part of my life," she says. With her culinary maps, she's encouraging others to do the same.
Below are five Chapel Hill and Carrboro spots that made the Carolina Fried Chicken Map – how many from the full list have you enjoyed?
Crook's Corner
Traditional Southern-fried served picnic-cold with watermelon, deviled eggs, potato salad, heirloom tomatoes & cukes-n-onions.
610 W Franklin St | Chapel Hill
Sn 10:30-2 & 5:30-9 | T-Th 5:30-9:30 | F-S 5:30-10 Time-Out Grill
Chicken Cheddar Biscuit featured on Travel Channel's Best Sandwich in America.
201 E Franklin St | Chapel Hill
24/7 Mama Dip's
Get your Southern-fried or chicken biscuit plain or smothered in brown gravy.
408 W Rosemary St | Chapel Hill
Sn 8-9 | M-S 8-9:30 Acme Food & Beverage
Pecan-flour-crusted over mashed with mushroom gravy & butterbeans in herbed cream sauce.
110 E Main St | Carrboro
Sn 10-2 & 5:30-9:30 | M-Th 5:30-9:30 | F-S 5:30-10 Rise
Fried chicken biscuits & sandwiches topped however you'd like (honey & pickled jalapeños sounds good) or with black pepper milk gravy for dippin'.
Carrboro | Charlotte | Durham | Greensboro | Holly Springs | Morrisville | Raleigh | Wilmington
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Its Senior Citizens Day - take a moment to appreciate the seniors in your life, and to look towards your own golden years.
Today is Senior Citizens Day—take a moment today to appreciate the seniors in your life, and to look toward making your own golden years the shiniest that they can be.
Between the constant perceived threat of forgetfulness, wrinkles, and loneliness, aging is often seen as a process to be avoided. At the ripe old age of 21, I'm no firsthand expert on the subject, but I have a wonderful role model—at the tender young age of 70-something, my beloved grandmother is doing outdoor yoga, going for long bike rides, hitting up film festivals, and even travelling to Bhutan in the fall.
So for Senior Citizens Day, I'm going to take the time to remind her how inspiring I find her, and maybe even indulge in a joint activity or two. Whether you're appreciating your grandparents, your parents, a family friend, a neighbour, or even yourself today, there a multitude of ways to learn more about aging and celebrate the wisdom that comes along with it. Check out:
Of course, there are some aspects of aging that are beyond our control, but it doesn't mean that we are powerless in making it as rich of a process as possible, no matter where we currently are in our life spans. A recent Canadian study linked healthy behaviours in midlife (such as exercising regularly, eating lots of fruits and veggies, and limiting alcohol consumption) with better mobility, cognitive skills, respiratory function, and mental health, as well as lower rates of chronic diseases later on in life.
The choices we make now can really affect the outcomes we experience later. So today, appreciate the process of aging, whether by spending time with a special senior in your life or thinking about what lifestyle changes you can make to smooth your own transition into the golden years.
And Grandma, if you're reading this—you're the best!


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The Fagnano's problem is a famous optimization problem in plane geometry, whose solution is given by the inscribed orthic triangle of a given acute triangle. In this paper, we discuss how to solve this problem by the principle of reflection via a dynamic geometry approach. Compared with the method of solutions based on Calculus or Euclidean Geometry only, this approach can be easily adapted to study similar problems in other settings. We will also introduce a useful formula for finding the perimeter of the orthic triangle. Copyright © 2017 International Association of Engineers.
Original language | English |
Title of host publication | Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2017 Vol I |
Editors | S. I. AO, Oscar CASTILLO, Craig DOUGLAS, David Dagan FENG, A. M. KORSUNSKY |
Publisher | Newswood Limited |
Pages | 117-120 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789881404732 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Man, Y.-K. (2017). A dynamic geometry approach to the Fagnano's problem. In S. I. Ao, O. Castillo, C. Douglas, D. D. Feng, & A. M. Korsunsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2017 Vol I (pp. 117-120). Hong Kong: Newswood Limited.Keywords
- Fagnano problem
- Minimal perimeter
- Orthic triangle
- Periodic billiard path
- Dynamic geometry


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A new security report reveals that the APT38 hackers have started a new worldwide attack against financial institutions, as a result of this millions of dollars have been hijacked from financial institutions. It is estimated that the criminal collective has stolen over one billion dollars in their last campaigns.
Apt38 Hackers Latest Attack Campaign Now Marks Hits $1.1 Billion Stolen from Targets
The criminal collective known as the APT38 hackers have once again launched a global attack against financial institutions. The most worrying fact is that after it was started the experts estimate that they were able to steal at least a hundred million dollars. So far the generated income from the malicious operators total over $1.1 billion according to the released reports.
The criminals are speculated to be from North Korea however this is not certain. Several different hacking collectives appear to be directed from the country. The performed analysis shows that the performed campaigns are similar to the other groups from Korea. Ever since the first campaigns that started in 2014 the hackers were found to target primarily financial organizations from countries worldwide: Russia, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Mexico and the United States of America.
One of the distinct characteristics of the attacks is that the APT38 hackers are almost every time cyber heists in nature. They aim not to sabotage the targets but rather to carry out complex espionage. They hacking tools and manners that they depend on is a sophisticated plan of action and a very deep network penetration.
During the research on their planning and operations the analysts discovered that members of the collective have are active on the underground hacking forums. One of the posts that dates back to 2015 shows that then they have been looking for exploits. This means that the criminals are actively searching for ways to intrude into the target systems without being detected.
The typical intrusion follows this attack pattern:
- Information Gathering — The APT38 hackers will research as much information about the target organizations. This is not limited only to their internal structure, but also the mechanisms of their systems and how they handle SWIFT transactions.
- Intrusion — At this phase the actual hacking will take place. The criminals will uncover vulnerabilities by using the latest exploits, zero-day attacks and other sophisticated methods.
- Internal Reconnaissance — Once the target machine has been compromised the criminals will scan the network and deploy the malware in the designated way — to gather as much information about the network and system configurations as possible. At this point the stealth protection is also applied — the intrusion code will bypass the security systems.
- SWIFT Servers Espionage — The hackers will establish network monitoring tools that will spy on the SWIFT services used by the company. They have also been found to deploy both active and passive backdoors.
- Funds Transfer — Once the SWIFT systems have been compromised the implanted malicious code can process fraudulent SWIFT transactions and also alter the operations history and log files. The hijacked money will be wired to special accounts belonging to the criminals. Multiple transactions are done in order to not raise awareness to the operations.
- Evidence Destruction — This stage is done in order to securely delete the logs and all traces of infections. The analysis shows that the virus engine deploys and executes disk-wiping software which disrupts forensic attempts. At this point various ransomware viruses are deployed to the network in order to destroy the remaining evidence and delay the SWIFT services investigation.
The APT38 hackers are likely to continue their attack campaigns as they have been found to be very profitable. For more information you can read the in-depth report.


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If you're thinking of starting a t-shirt printing business, you're in for a fun ride! It's a quickly growing industry that is far from maxing out. The potential to grow as a business owner is unbelievable, and if you're a creative type, you'll have a lot of fun as you do!
To get your fantastic designs on t-shirts to sell, you'll need a printer worthy of your business. Which are the best Direct-to-Garment printer options? Here are a few printers we think you'll love and that will help your business succeed.
Brother GTX
Brother is one of the most dependable DTG printer companies around. They have been around the DTG industry for years and have built a well-known reputation for the quality of their machines. Their GTX model is one of their more affordable options and fits well in compact spaces like home offices.
Here are some of the specs we love:
- You can print a large 11×11 design on a dark-colored shirt in a lightning-fast one minute and twenty-one seconds. It's even faster with light-colored shirts.
- It prints up to 16×20.
- It's a low-maintenance machine in comparison with many options on the market. Their wet-capping technology and white ink circulation save time and money.
- Ink on t-shirts cures in thirty-five seconds.
The price-point for this machine comes in right around 22.5K, making this a hefty but reasonable investment compared to some options available on the market.
Epson F2100
Epson is a well-known standby in the printing world for a good reason. They've created a name for themselves in the DTG world printing world and their name is synonymous with quality. Epson's machines produce strikingly clear images and detail quality is no problem for many of the printers in their lineup.
Here is what we love about the Epson F2100:
- A quick-load platen reduces load times for each project.
- A fabric-wiper, in-line cartridge cleaner, and self-cleaning system saves time with hassle-free daily maintenance.
- The printheads on this machine were designed specifically for DTG printing.
- Each machine comes with a 1-year on-site warranty with phone support and an optional extended on-site service package.
This particular model is one of the more affordable printers on the market coming in right around 18K. That's still quite an investment, but this machine can accomplish a lot.
Richo Ri 6000
While not as widely known as Brother or Epson, Richo has come to the fore in the printing world with top of the line machines that offer quality printing projects for any DTG need. You won't be disappointed.
The Ri 6000 holds its own alongside the major DTG printers for the following reasons:
- It's easy to set up and start using.
- It can print a 10×12 image in twenty-seven seconds.
- This can handle a max printing area of 14×18, making all your printing projects a possibility.
- The Ri 6000 can handle the brightest, most vibrant inks in the industry.
- The printers are reliable machines, and the company stands by its products.
This is a more expensive printer than our other two options, coming in at 35K. Don't let that scare you.
Which Will You Choose?
No matter which of these three printers you choose, you won't go wrong. All three printers offer solid options for growing your t-shirt printing business. When deciding on a machine, keep in mind the initial price, in addition to the value points each printer offers such as ease of maintenance, total printing size, and warranty options. We hope this has helped you narrow down your decision! Which one will it be?
If you are interested in even more technology-related articles and information from us here at Bit Rebels, then we have a lot to choose from.


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Western Sahara – 1 September 2015
Algerian Journalists Committee for Breaking Siege On Saharawi Struggle
Algerian Journalists Committee in solidarity with Takbar Haddi has invited journalists across the world to act so to break the silence and siege imposed on the struggle of Saharawi people, in a petition addressed to the United Nations.
In a press conference held in the Saharawi media center in Algiers on Thursday, the Committee called for action to ensure the respect for international legitimacy in Western Sahara and the right of the Saharawi people to freedom and independence.
Zimbabwe Reaffirms Firm Support to Legitimate Saharawi Struggle
Zimbabwe Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi on Tuesday reaffirmed his country's firm support to the legitimate struggle of the Saharawi people for freedom and independence, said a statement of the Saharawi embassy in Harare.
In a meeting with Saharawi Ambassador Deich Mohamed Saleh, the minister indicated that Zimbabwe is clear that Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara is illegal and contradicts the resolutions of the United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU).


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Blurry vision can be caused by all sorts of factors, from digital eye strain to eye conditions such as myopia. Although people experiencing blurry vision may struggle to see clearly or manage their usual tasks, most cases are due to refractive error.
10 common causes of blurry vision include:
- Refractive errors (myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism)
- Eye strain
- High blood sugar
- Eye trauma or injury
- Migraines
- Detached retina
- Age-related macular degeneration
- Concussion
- Eye infection
- Optic nerve inflammation
If you are concerned about blurry vision, get your eyes examined by your eye doctor as soon as possible.
What is Blurry Vision?
Blurred vision is an overall lack of sharpness resulting in the inability to see fine detail. It varies depending on the individual and the cause. Blurry vision can affect:
- Your entire line of sight or just parts of your vision
- Your peripheral vision
- Vision in one or both eyes
Other Symptoms that may Accompany Blurred Vision
Along with blurred vision, you may experience other eye symptoms that can range from mild to serious, such as:
- Pain
- Redness
- Double vision
- Eye discharge
- Headache
- Nausea
- Itchiness
Top Causes of Blurry Vision
Refractive Errors
Refractive errors include conditions such as near-sightedness, far-sightedness, or astigmatism. If your blurry vision persists, consult a doctor and receive an eye exam to find a treatment that is suitable for you.
Eye Strain
Digital eye strain can cause your eyes to become tired or sore after spending too long looking at a digital device. To avoid digital eye strain and blurry vision that can be a result, you should follow the 20/20/20 rule.
High Blood Sugar
Blurry vision can be a sign that your body is having a hard time regulating its blood sugar levels. If your blood sugar levels are too high for a prolonged period, it can lead to more serious eye and health problems. If you are concerned about your blood sugar levels, book a diabetic eye exam as soon as possible.
Trauma or Injury to the Eye
Eye injuries that can cause blurry vision include bruises, punctures and scratches. They can result from accidents, exposure to chemicals, or foreign objects in the eye.
If you have an eye injury it is important to see your eye doctor right away as eye injuries can cause serious eye damage and vision loss.
Migraine attacks are a neurological condition characterized by intense headaches. They are often accompanied by nausea, sensitivity to light and blurry vision. Migraines are usually treated through medication and lifestyle changes, but it is best to consult a doctor if you are experiencing symptoms.
Detached Retina
A detached retina is a serious eye condition where the retina pulls away from the vital blood vessels it needs to perform. If you are experiencing any of these symptoms seek medical attention immediately as rapid reattachment is needed to avoid permanent vision loss:
- Gray or black specks floating in your vision
- A "shadow" on the sides or middle of your field of vision
- Flashes of light that can occur in one or both eyes
Age-related macular degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease that can affect the retina, which can cause blurred vision. According to the National Eye Institute, AMD is more common in older adults, and it can occur in one or both eyes.
A concussion occurs when a person experiences an injury to the head. Along with blurred vision, symptoms of a concussion can include:
- Changes in mood
- Confusion
- Amnesia
- Headache
- Dizziness
- Drowsiness
Eye infections
The following eye infections may cause blurred vision:
- Keratitis– the inflammation or infection of the cornea
- Orbital cellulitis– another bacterial or fungal infection that can affect the eyelids and the eyeball
- Uveitis– the inflammation of the uvea, the middle part of the eye, which also contains the iris
Optic Nerve Inflammation
Also known as optic neuritis, optic nerve inflammation causes distorted or blurry vision. Optic neuritis usually heals on its own but if you are suffering from a severe case, your doctor may prescribe steroids to speed up the process.
What to do if You have Blurry Vision
If you have blurry vision, most cases are due to an uncorrected refractive error. However, if the sudden and persistent blurred vision occurs it could be serious. You should discuss this issue with your ophthalmologist or optometrist as soon as possible, even if the effects have passed.
When to See a Doctor
If you have any of the following symptoms it could mean you have a serious eye condition, which may cause permanent eye damage and vision loss. You may need emergency eye care or medical attention if you are experiencing any of the following:
- Severe eye pain
- Eye injury
- Signs of a stroke such as a facial droop, one-sided weakness, or difficulty speaking
- Significantly reduced vision, especially in only one eye
- Loss of one area of your vision
Visit Us at Calgary Family Eye Doctors
If you're noticing any of the signs above, don't hesitate to contact us at Calgary Family Eye Doctors. We're here to help you maintain and preserve your ocular health.


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Smart launches 'Smart Play: Squad Up' – a Call of Duty: Mobile tournament
PHP 1 million cash and in-game prizes are up for grabs!
With more and more people playing games on their phones, mobile esports has seen a meteoric rise over the past few years. To further support the growing esports scene in the country, Smart Communications, Inc. has launched Smart Play: Squad Up, the Philippines' biggest non-professional Call of Duty®: Mobile – Garena tournament.
This Call of Duty: Mobile tournament is aimed at the growing Filipino playerbase of the game, and it will offer massive prizes, including up to PHP 1 million Pesos as well as in-game items.
The tournament is open to all Smart and TNT subscribers. To join, interested participants must submit a screenshot of their registration to Smart Free Games For All and sign up at www.matchroom.net/smart/squadup. Smart subscribers can register to Free Games For All via the new GigaLife App, which is available now on Google Play and the App Store.
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Participatory Spirituality for the 21st Century
This dude also deserves a thread, a postmetaphysical visionary of an integral paradigm different from the trademarked variety. And quite "spiritual" to boot, if by that we mean creating a more equitable and humane lifeworld in which all can thrive and aspire to their highest potentials. From the integral capitalism thread:
Have you discussed Jeremy Rifkin's notion of "distributed capitalism," based on emergent peer-to-peer technological models, which he discussed in his book, The Empathic Civilization? I skimmed the thread and didn't see mention of it, so I thought I'd add it to the mix. Here's a brief article on it.
(An interesting notion of his, which is not directly relevant to this thread but possibly relevant to this forum, is Rifkin's notion of an emergent "dramaturgical self" as a stage of self-making beyond the "existential postmodern self." I haven't explored it in depth -- I've just been reviewing his book for a class -- but I'll look into it more and will comment further if it's relevant.)
Thanks for these links. I've heard of Rifkin but have yet to read him. I agree with most of what he's saying but he is stretching the definition of the term capitalism beyond its intended meaning. Recall its meaning from the beginning of the thread. Private ownership of the means of production with profit flowing to the top is antithetical to shared, open and distributed ownership of resources and information and P2P relationships, much like selfish concern and cosmocentric morality are so in a moral hierarchy. Rifkin is right to make the connection between the worldview and economic-communication systems, and that the internet correlates with an empathatic, biospheric view necessary for such shared resources and environmental consciousness. But again, capitalism was all about the exploitation of natural resources as if they were infinite with little to no regard for the environmental consequences. Rifkin laments this destruction and rightly analyzes the consciousness and systems that created it, capitalism, yet by keeping that name in his new view of P2P distribution is a functional misfit.
One can also view him speak on his new book at YouTube. Just watching the first couple minutes it seems to be the same info in the text linked above.
I also had posted this video on his work here on IPS awhile back.
Now I understand hybrid systems during transition phases. For example we have hybrid gas-electric cars which are better than just gas-driven. But we know that it is a transition to a full electric car when we develop the technology and infrastructure to make it feasible. That is, we know we must completely leave behind using a limited resource like petrol for a more sustainable energy source. So with economic systems. There are hybrids of capitalism with open source and of course it is a step in the right direction. But like with petrol we know that at some point we will leave capitalism behind in a more equitable, humane and environmental consciousness with correlative political economy.
So for me it says something about our consciousness to which economic system we attach. Given the I-I agenda of a kinder, gentler capitalism it appears to be on the transition of rational-pluralistic and it calls that integral. Hence you get no language or values about open source, distributed networks or P2P. Whereas I think what Rifkin is describing, that ecologic empathy that is growing out of the informational-pluralistic into the internet P2P network, is what we might call integral. And it is open source, not private property. But again, it is currently a hybrid in transition but we know where it is going and what must be left behind.*
*As to worldview and moral level replacement, see the previous thread on ladder-climber-view. Like I said, I don't think it's a strict or clean dividing line between one level and the next, with transitions containing mixes and hybrids. But we see the trajectory of where it's going and what it will eventually leave behind.
You can find Rifkin's website here. Following is an excerpt from the synopsis on his lecture "The age of access":
"The new information and telecommunications technologies, e-commerce and globalization are making possible a new economic era as different from market capitalism as the latter is dissimilar from mercantilism. In the new century, markets are slowly giving way to network ways of conducting business, with far-reaching implications for the future of society....The notion of exchanging and holding on to fixed property becomes an anachronism in a society where everything is continually evolving."
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For the most part it is a rehash of his earlier material. One new aspect I found interesting is 3-D manufacturing, and the technology that allows for it. As usual I appreciate that as a result of the third industrial revolution (TIR) "the traditional, hierarchical organization of economic and political power will give way to lateral power organized nodally across society."* All the TIR tech and accompanying philosophy he talks about is NOW, not some future fantasy. I'd think it would behoove integralites of any stripe to get with the real frothy (foamy?) edge, eh? Perhaps the TIR is also the super-integral, translucent (no color-coded) third tier?
* We see this same meme propagating philosophically in the likes of Deleuze and Latour, for example. Hence my recent posts about an alternative (developmentally superior?) lateral imaging of "complexity" as foam or rhizomes instead of hierarchical and ever-enveloping spheres or holons.
I'm not sure if the spheres reference is to Slot, but he also uses the foam metaphor. That's the basis, especially, of the second book in the series.
Re: Rifkin's article, yes, the reason I posted it was the mention of the 3-D printing and the lateralizing of production. I relate this also to the Autopoetic Cooperative project, which is basing itself in part around the "Global Village Construction Set" model.
My reference to spheres was more generic to those who see them as nested hierarchies rather than overlapping, branching rhizomes.
I posted this in the IPE thread (Rifkin on the emerging socio-economics) and much commentary followed. I decided to move it over to the Rifkin thread again, perhaps reinvigorating the thread to discuss the possible problems enacting his vision for all. Problems to which perhaps Rifkin is unwittingly contributing?
Although in this article Rifkin is off-base, in that he agrees with Germany's Merkel that "stringent austerity programs will have to be enacted in the member countries to reduce government debt." He argues that alone is not enough, that they'll also need to implement his 3rd revolution tech. But we've seen how the austerity program is causing greater harm, that it is not at all necessary, and that due to austerity there will not be sufficient funds to support his programs. I wonder if he has more recent thoughts on Germany's austerity and how it is actually thwarting his 3rd revolution?
In this more recent interview he notes Germany is moving forward with his agenda. But while their economy is strong enough to pay for these innovations their foreign austerity policy on other nations is thwarting any change they will be able to afford it.
In Rifkin's 5/29/12 speech at the European Commission he noted that while austerity must be part of the solution it must not "compromise the guiding values of the European Dream which include...the advancement of quality of life for every citizen." Yet this is the very thing attacked in the US austerity policies, taking from the poor and middle class to give to the rich. I'm not familiar with European austerity measures but if they are anything like US policies then it most certainly violates these values.
This one on Spain notes that the poor are hit the hardest while the rich sacrifice little.
This report on the EU as a whole notes the following:
"Poverty has increased by 2 million since 2010, and the analysis of the NRPs demonstrates how macroeconomic focus on austerity, driven by economic governance, is directly undermining benefits and public services."
Layman Pascal commented: "Trees cutting at their own roots to save water in a drought."
Good metaphor, but it still contains the fallacy that there is a lack of wealth (drought). Many have made the case (with stats) that there's plenty of wealth to go around (a real oasis) but it resides with the top 1%, which are making record profits (one example). That it's not distributed is the cause of the drought for everyone else.
And let us not forget that the very real, dire economic situation for the rest of us was directly caused by the 1% committing crimes, ripping off our economy and then crashing it while they get bail-outs, bonuses for failure and are now way better off than ever before. There's plenty to go around but our budget priorities choose to serve austerity for the lower 98% while the top get way more than they could ever use, except to buy elections that enact laws to make them even richer while everyone else gets poorer.
Coming back to Rifkin, his ideas are the next step in my opinion. But I think perhaps he's a bit naive to think that Merkel and Germany have the best interests of everyone in mind when they implement his ideas, instead more likely thinking of their own best national interests. That Germany is demanding austerity for the struggling EU nations, who are struggling because of the financial crimes per above, and that austerity is only serving to further impoverish them instead of help them, seems more indicative of my hypothesis.
I'm reading The Third Industrial Revolution and the following reminds me of something I said earlier in the forum:
"Hydrogen had long been sought after by scientists and engineers as the Holy Grail for a post-carbon era. It is the lightest and most abundant element in the universe—the stuff of the stars." (49).
Recall this forum post and following:
"Ah yes, my alma mat(t)er. But I prefer to (de-re)phrase it the saectum saectorum (from sanctum sanctorum), given my atheist bent, meaning the most common of the common. (In real terms this would be hydrogen.)…. Pannikar's use of saeculum is interesting referring to mystery. That's why I chose my de-re Latin phrase based on that usage, as intoning resonantly in that language creates a mysterious aura about it (as in Church). It is not just the common usage of common but that which is most common, like the most holy. Hydrogen is the most common and prevalent element in the universe, the very foundation of All but particularly stars. It's the fuel of cosmic combustion and yet the most mysterious phenomenon of All. On a practical level, this is why hydrogen fuel-cell tech is on the forefront of clean, efficient energy. And no surprise that Rifkin plans to store energy as hydrogen once generated from his smart buildings. Hydrogen, the saectum saectorum, is the key to our sustainable future. It is quite literally hot stuff."
Btw, Rifkin's agenda fully answers Bryant's latest rantings against academia as purely intellectual stuff, since Rifkin's ideas of a new energy infrastructure are currently being implemented in the EU. And it is ushering in a new political economy based on renewable energy, distributed capitalism and democratic sociological restructuring within an emerging and viable P2P paradigm. And all of which far surpasses kennilingus conscious capitalism, still based in the old political economy and social structures.
One of the things Rifkin emphasizes in the book is that all of the pieces of the TIR must be generated, developed, coordinated and implemented simultaneously for it to work. I.e., it is an integral paradigm touching on and integrating all quadrants/zones. He observed that even with more investment in renewable energy sources it was still organized top-down with large-scale, centralized control as part of the old paradigm. While he recognizes that this is necessary as a transition step the goal is to have small-scale distributed renewable energy generation in every home and office building, thus supporting the P2P paradigm.
Thus I criticize kennilingual conscious capitalism for investing nothing in the P2P paradigm, or in trying to change the economic base and energy infrastructure. I said it may very well be part of the transition process to such a distributed metaparadigm, but due to its focus on primarily the consciousness of individual development to the exclusion of corresponding equivalent enactments in the other quadrants/zones it cannot get very far at all per Rifkin above. To the contrary by not touching on the other paradigms it seems to mostly just reinforce its own insular agenda and profit motive while giving the social tools to corporations to continue and expand its oil-driven, top-down, 1% lifeworld.*
* See "Integral Global Capitalism" and "Giving Guns to Children."
In discussing the energy smart-grid that is now being developed and implemented Rifkin noted that its focus is different in the US and the EU. In the US the energy lobby simply refuses to make the grid lateral and P2P, instead demanding it be centralized and top-down only so that they maintain control and profits. A member of that lobby admitted as much directly to Rifkin. Whereas in the EU, while acknowledging large, centralized investment is necessary to start, their energy lobby is also investing in the lateral capabilities to implement the P2P energy and profit sharing inherent to the TIR.
Their energy companies are realizing that they no longer have to be major producers of energy but can transition into being service agents managing energy usage along the grid for those millions of self-generating homes and offices. It's a completely different mindset and worldview. I'm reminded of Ray Harris' astute observations in "Left, right or just plain wrong?"
"Will an integral political economy be capitalist in character or be a totally new configuration that transcends any previous political economy? Is the integral movement really challenging the cultural norms of society or is there a bias that accepts individualism and capitalism as a given? Is the integral movement coloured by being largely an American phenomenon? Shouldn't the integral movement be truly international and integrate multiple cultural perspectives?"
And as we've observed in the "global capitalismism" thread, kennilingus maintains all of the infrastructure of centralized capital instead of distributed capital, as well as the centralized, top-down governance and proprietary property structure inherent to that economic form instead of the P2P meme. And all the while claiming an integral, postformal structure of consciousness but surrounded with all the accoutrements of formal enactment.
Perhaps we need to define ourselves by what we do and how we do it--our actual enactments--instead of our grand theories of everything? Then we'd get a better picture of our actual development? Like regressives in the last election that truly believed they would win by landslide, perhaps kennlingus needs a Nate Silver to give them an accurate picture they obviously don't want to see. Harris tried but was dismissed as MGM. I don't see that has changed much, ergo no Rifkin in their diet. Or P2P. Or OOO, etc.
See Dierkes' blog post "Free market philosophy is not integral."
When I first saw Chris's post (via a link on Facebook), I thought of you and many of your posts here, Theurj. :-)
Bryant's post on networks was disheartening. He notes 3 types of network: centralized, decentralized and distributed. He rightly criticizes centralized version as transcendent. But then he wrongly criticizes distributed networks as communist anarchy, a leveling where everything is equivalent. He instead promotes decentralized networks that maintain hubs, gravitational regimes of attraction through which other nodes in the network must pass. He rightly notes that one such immense hub is fossil fuels, required to build anything.
So far so good, except this is what Rifkin means by a distributed network. There will still be electric companies as hubs but their function will change to more of a being a service provider and less of being a power provider, given the nature of the smart grid. And the node of fossil fuels will not immediately be eliminated but there will be competing hubs in the renewable energy sector, thus diminishing oil's dominant hub. And depending on governmental hubs and which policies are enacted, that will determine to what degree and on what timetable this transition occurs.
Rifkin notes this is a process of democratizing the economy, making it distributed capitalism, where a major regime of attraction, energy, is put more directly in the hands of the people when they can generate their own electricity. Yes, this form of democracy still requires the hubs of representatives in government, managers in offices, and energy companies as hubs that monitor and distribute the energy created by individuals. There are still hubs in the network but those hubs are transformed into more equitable hubs intent on fair distribution instead of unfair accumulation at the top 1%. One would think Rifkin would be an exemplar for Bryant's democracy of objects, instead of apparently some form of "anarcho-communist fantasy." Tell that to the EU, which is implementing this fantasy into a reality as we speak.
Note: A search of Bryant's blog for Rifkin reveals zero hits. So I'm not saying he directly criticizes Rifkin but rather apparently the type of distributed networking he promotes. He can prove me wrong if he so chooses.
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