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Ghana VP sworn in hours after president's death
(AP) - John Atta Mills' election victory secured Ghana's reputation as one of the most mature democracies in West Africa...
President John Atta Mills' election victory secured Ghana's reputation as one of the most mature democracies in West Africa, a position further solidified Tuesday when the vice president took over only hours after the 68-year-old president died five months before finishing his first term.
John Mahama's swift inauguration underscored Ghana's stability in a part of the world where the deaths of other leaders have sparked coups.
"We are deeply distraught, devastated as a country," Mahama said after his swearing-in ceremony, where he raised the golden staff of office above his head.
Ghanaian state-run television stations GTV and TV3 broke into their regular programming to announce the president's death Tuesday afternoon. Government officials did not release the cause of his death, which came three days after his 68th birthday.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said "President Mills will be remembered for his statesmanship and years of dedicated service to his country," according to a statement from his spokesman.
"At this time of national mourning, the secretary-general renews the commitment of the United Nations to work alongside the government and the people of Ghana in support of their efforts to consolidate the country's democratic and development achievements," the spokesman said.
Rumors had swirled about Atta Mills' health in recent months after he made several trips to the United States, and opposition newspapers had reported he was not well enough to run for a second term.
Some radio stations even announced that he was dead during one of his recent trips to the States. When Atta Mills returned to Ghana, he jogged at the airport and blasted those who had falsely reported his death.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, "President Mills will be remembered for his statesmanship and years of dedicated service to his country," his spokesman said. Ban pledged that the United Nations would support Ghana's efforts "to consolidate the country's democratic and development achievements."
On the streets of Cape Coast, kilometers (80 miles) from Accra, people held radios to their ears on the street, listening to the funeral hymns playing on FM stations and waiting for more information about the president's unexpected death.
"His speeches were full of a spirit of love and peace," said Efua Mensima, 45. "He was soft-spoken. I wept when I heard of his death."
In a predominantly Ghanaian section of Ivory Coast's commercial capital, a group of 10 men tried to organize a bus to take them to Ghana for the president's funeral.
"The Ghanaian people were happy with this president and his program for the development of the country," said Nour Ousmane Aladji, 27, a taxi driver who moved to Abidjan in 2000.
Chris Fomunyoh, the senior director for Africa for the Washington-based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, said that Ghana's democracy could weather the death of a president.
In other nations in West Africa, the death of a ruler usually spells a coup, as it did in neighboring Guinea following the 2008 death of longtime dictator Lansana Conte, and Togo, where the military seized power after the president's death in 2005 in order to install the leader's son.
"Ghanaian democracy has been tested and its institutions function well," said Fomunyoh. "There's no reason to think that Ghana and its democracy will not handle this event properly."
Atta Mills was elected in a 2008 runoff vote that was the closest in the country's history — and his third presidential bid.
"People are complaining. They're saying that their standard of living has deteriorated these past eight years," he told The Associated Press at the time. "So if Ghana is a model of growth, it's not translating into something people can feel."
He went on to serve as president as Ghana began grappling with how to deal with its newfound oil wealth from offshore fields discovered in the last five years. The country of about 25 million saw a growth rate of more than 14 percent last year, though some analysts say the handling of his time in office was less than stellar.
The government got involved in a dispute with Kosmos Energy, the owner of the country's Jubilee oil field, a spat that resulted in a delay in the proceeds from the country's nascent oil trade, said Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council.
Atta Mills also was one of the only leaders in West Africa who didn't back plans for an intervention force during last year's near-civil war in Ivory Coast. Because of its shared border, Ghana became the main smuggling route for Ivorian cocoa.
The late president spent much of his career teaching at the University of Ghana. He earned a doctorate from London's School of Oriental and African Studies before becoming a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Atta Mills also served as vice president under Jerry Rawlings, a coup leader who was later elected president by popular vote and surprised the world by stepping down after the 2000 vote.
Richard Downie, the deputy director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said that Atta Mills may be remembered more for what his election in 2008 symbolized than for what he did as president.
He defeated the ruling party by the slimmest of margins, marking two successful handovers of power in Ghana, a benchmark used by political scientists to measure a mature democracy.
"It showed just how robust Ghana's democracy was, and it proved here in the U.S. what a success Ghana had become in terms of its political maturity," he said.
Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writers Sammy Ajei and Jon Gambrell in Lagos, Nigeria; Rukmini Callimachi in Dakar, Senegal; Laura Burke in Cape Coast, Ghana; and Robbie Corey-Boulet in Abidjan, Ivory Coast contributed to this report.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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The Secret Beyond Matter
Matter: The Other Name for Illusion
Conclusion: The Truth Cannot Be Avoided
An increasing number of people are coming to accept this truth, which changes people's fundamental ideas and makes them firm believers in God. Accepting this truth enables people to love and willingly abide by all the features of that pleasing morality revealed in the Koran, and removes all evil feelings-such as competitiveness, hatred and enmity-and replaces them with love, compassion and humility, which is the true nature of matter. Those who say, "How is it that it took me so long to realize a truth so obvious and simple as this?" are in the majority.
It is very important that anyone who understands this one truth should tell others about it. It enables people to definitively grasp other difficult subjects, such as destiny, time, death, the resurrection, heaven and hell. Everyone who does this will both enable others to understand the Koran better and more quickly, and will be a means whereby people turn rapidly to the true path.
God has given the glad tidings that when nothing is associated with Him, when only He is worshipped, when only He is accepted as the one deity and the one power, then the morality of the Koran will rule on the earth:
God has promised those of you who believe and do right actions that He will make them successors in the land as He made those before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their religion with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their fear, security. "They worship Me, not associating anything with Me." Any who disbelieve after that, such people are deviators. (Surat an-Nur: 55)
For the morality of the Koran to hold sway all over the world, the most important condition is for people to believe that there is no other power than God. The subjects discussed in this book need to be thoroughly understood in order to get rid of such polytheistic ideas as thinking that matter has an absolute existence outside God, that He can only permeate matter in an illusory manner, to see God as an entity just as abstract as intelligence, to imagine that human beings have a power other than God, that people can change their destiny if they choose, (surely God is beyond all these) or that time and place are absolute. Those who ask why the matter is so important and why we devote space to this subject at every available opportunity in all our books, should think some more about it.
God is the only being to exist absolutely. He sees and hears us as we read or think about this book and knows the secrets of our hearts. God surrounds us from every direction. God exists absolutely. It is we His servants who are abstract. This fact is a source of great joy and beauty to all who love God and realize that they are His servants. It cannot be right for Muslims to seek to avoid this truth. Muslims must accept the truth with all their hearts, not diminish themselves in the sight of God by ignoring it. God issues a warning to His believing servants in the Koran:
Do not mix up truth with falsehood and knowingly hide the truth. (Surat al-Baqara: 42)
We must not forget that the revelation of this truth will be a means whereby materialism will be overthrown, and spirituality and pleasing morality will rule the earth. People in materialist circles who realize this are very uneasy when this truth is revealed, and resort to the most ridiculous and desperate means to prevent it from reaching peoples' ears. This is because they know it will undermine the entire basis of their philosophy. However, the truth about matter has now been revealed in complete clarity and openness. This truth, which used to be just a philosophical speculation because of the lack of scientific evidence, has now been totally validated scientifically. Frederick Vester, for instance, who grasped the truth of the matter, has this to say,
The statements of certain thinkers that "man is an image, everything experienced is temporary and deceptive, and this universe is a shadow," seem to be proven by science in our day.52
All materialist squirming is to no avail. Now that knowledge can be communicated all over the world in the blink of an eye, this truth that they have tried to hide from peoples' eyes for hundreds of years is now being read, learned and explained everywhere, from Guyana to England, America to Indonesia, Singapore to Sweden, and even in the strongholds of materialism, Russia, China, Cuba and Albania. Materialism is falling apart with the greatest collapse in history. That is because it has today been realized that we can never approach the original of matter. If we can never have a direct relationship with matter, then there can be no materialism.
This important fact, which makes it easier to understand a number of signs and subjects in various verses of the Koran, completely demolishes the superstitious and antireligious belief that is materialism. This is a major development. God states in the Koran:
Rather We hurl the truth against falsehood and it cuts right through it and it vanishes clean away! Woe without end for you for what you portray! (Surat al-Anbiya': 18)
As is revealed in this verse, when the truth comes to replace falsehood, matter, which is the brain of materialism, which is a false ideology, also disappears. No materialist has the slightest chance of holding back or changing this fact.
52- Frederick Vester, Denken, Lernen, Vergessen, vga, 1978, p. 6


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I recommend to all the dissertation of Presvytera Jeannie Constantinou: Andrew of Caesarea and the Apocalypse in the Ancient Church of the East: Studies and Translation (Université Laval, Québec, 2008). There are several points of interest in her dissertation: 1.) the first complete English translation of Andrew of Caesarea's Commentary to the Apocalypse; 2.) the very clear summary discussion of the text types of the Apocalypse; and 3.) the extended discussion on the canonical status of the Apocalypse, with particular focus on its reception in the East. It's a subset of this third topic that I'd like to discuss here, particularly in light of my last post, titled Eusebius and "canonical".
In short, Constantinou describes a determined effort on the part of several Greek writers, culminating in Eusebius, who undermined the previously more positive reception of the Apocalypse in the East. The popularity of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History led to his position being valued more highly than it really deserved, a point that Constnantinou clarifies through tracking the scheme of Eusebius' quotations, particularly his practice of mining various authors, even heretics, for aspersions and doubts to cast upon the Apostolic authorship of the Apocalypse. Eusebius was so much an anti-chiliast that no dirty tricks were considered too low to accomplish his self-assigned task.
I will recommend to all readers that they read the discussion in full in Constantinou's dissertation, but I'll summarize here some of the points involved:
1.) Eusebius treats the Apocalypse in a very peculiar fashion in his list of canonical works in Ecclesiatical History III.25, where he divided the books of the New Testament into three categories, based in the recognition of Apostolic origin: "agreed-upon", "disputed", and "spurious." In the first category, describing those works which are generally agreed to be of Apostolic origin, are included the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, Paul's Epistles, First John, First Peter, and (note this!) the Apocalypse. In the second category, that of works whose authenticity as Apostolic writings is in dispute, are the epistles of James, Jude, Second Peter, and Second and Third John. (Note the similarity to the classical Syrian NT canon, exemplified by the Peshitta version, which also excluded these epistles.) Then comes the third category, of those works generally recognized as not being of Apostolic origin, and thus inauthentic or spurious: the Acts of Paul, the Shepherd (of Hermas), the Apocalypse of Peter, the Epistle of Barnabas, the Teachings of the Apostles (i.e., the Didache), and, shockingly, the Apocalypse of John.
In this case, Eusebius has trounced his own categorizations in order to cast aspersions onto the Apocalypse. As Constantinou shows in her historical survey, the Apocalypse was almost universally accepted as Apostolic at the time Eusebius wrote. This is reflected by his placing the Apocalypse in the first category, that listing of books which all or very nearly all Christians agreed were of Apostolic origin. Yet, this is not to Eusebius' liking. And, rather than placing the Apocalypse in the group of books of disputed authenticity, he instead includes the Apocalypse in the list of inauthentic books. There are two possible reasons for this: a.) Eusebius simply made a mistake and was sloppy in his categorization; or b.) this was a deliberate choice on his part. In the face of the broader sweep of evidence that Constantinou relates, it is clear that the latter is the case. Eusebius was, in the Ecclesiastical History, among other things, embarking on a program designed to damage the Apostolic reputation of the Apocalypse.
Eusebius quotes with favor both Dionysius of Alexandria, who shows a clear animadversion to the Apocalypse already in his letters, and invents out of whole cloth the tale of two tombs of Johns in Ephesus. Eusebius also approvingly quotes with favor Gaius the presbyter, from Rome, in relation to the Apocalypse. Yet Gaius was one of the Alogoi heretics, who denied Apostolic origin to the entire Johannine corpus: the Gospel, three letters, and the Apocalypse! Eusebius brazenly trots out Gaius in support for his anti-Apocalypse machinations. Perhaps betting on his good standing with Emperor Constantine, Eusebius was able to spread his idea of a non-Apostolic and therefore non-canonical Apocalypse throughout the Empire and beyond, as his original Ecclesiastical History was often copied and was even translated into multiple different languages for various Christian communities over the centuries. Unfortunately, Eusebius' ideas about the Apocalypse also spread far and wide, particularly in the East, where the Apocalypse finally settled into a solid and unquestioned recognition as Apostolic and canonical only in the modern period, in the seventeenth century.
Really, though, it's a cracking good story, and one ought to read of it in full, in Presvytera Constantinou's dissertation. It's really that good.


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The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1729)/Definitions
Natural Philosophy.
Def. I.
HUS AIR of a double density, in a double space, is quadruple in quantity; in a triple space, sextuple in quantity. The same thing is to be understood of snow, and fine dust or powders, that are condensed by compression or liquefaction; and of all bodies that are by any causes whatever differently condensed. I have no regard in this place to a medium, if any such there is, that freely pervades the interstices between the parts of bodies. It is this quantity that I mean hereafter everywhere under the name of Body or Mass. And the same is known by the weight of each body, for it is proportional to the weight, as I have found by experiments on pendulums, very accurately made, which shall be shewn hereafter.
Definition II.
The motion of the whole is the Sum of the motions of all the parts; and therefore in a body double in quantity, with equal velocity, the motion is double; with twice the velocity, it is quadruple.
Definition III.
This force is ever proportional to the body whose force it is; and differs nothing from the inactivity of the Mass, but in our manner of conceiving it. A body, from the inactivity of matter, is not without difficulty put out of its state of rest or motion. Upon which account, this Vis insita may, by a most significant name, be called Vis inertiæ or Force of Inactivity. But a body exerts this force only, when another force, impress'd upon it, endeavours to change its condition; and the exercise of this force may be considered both as resistance and impulse; it is resistance in so far as the body, for maintaining its present state withstands the force impressed; it is impulse in so far as the body, by not easily giving way to the impress'd force of another, endeavours to change the state of that other. Resistance is usually ascrib'd to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion: But motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.
Definition IV.
Definition V:
Of this sort is gravity, by which bodies tend to the centre of the Earth; Magnetism, by which iron tends to the loadstone; and that force, whatever it is, by which the planets are continually drawn aside from the rectilinear motions, which otherwise they would pursue, and made to revolve in curvilinear orbits. A stone, whirled about in a sling, endeavours to recede from the hand that turns it; and by that endeavour, distends the sling, and that with so much the greater force, as it is revolv'd with the greater velocity, and as soon as ever it is let go, flies away. That force which opposes itself to this endeavour, and by which the sling perpetually draws back the stone towards the hand, and retains it in its orbit, because 'tis directed to the hand as the centre of the orbit, I call the Centripetal force. And the same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolv'd in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits; and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to, and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines, with an uniform motion. A projectile, if it was not for the force of gravity, would not deviate towards the Earth, but would go off from it in a right line, and that with an uniform motion, if the resistance of the air was taken away. 'Tis by its gravity, that it is drawn aside perpetually from its rectilinear course, and made to deviate towards the Earth, more or less, according to the force of its gravity, and the velocity of its motion. The less its gravity is, for the quantity of its matter, or the greater the velocity with which it is projected, the less will it deviate from a rectilinear course, and the farther it will go. If a leaden ball, projected from the top of a mountain by the force of gunpowder, with a given velocity, and in a direction parallel to the horizon, is carried in a curved line to the distance of two miles before it falls to the ground; the same, if the resistance of the Air were taken away, with a double or decuple velocity, would fly twice or ten times as far. And by increasing the velocity, we may at pleasure increase the distance to which it might be projected, and diminish the curvature of the line which it might describe, till at last it should fall at the distance of 10, 30, or 90 degrees, or even might go quite round the whole Earth before it falls; or lastly, so that it might never fall to the Earth, but go forwards into the Celestial Spaces, and proceed in its motion in infinitum. And after the same manner that a projectile, by the force of gravity, may be made to revolve in an orbit, and go round the whole Earth, the Moon also, either by the force of gravity, if it is endued with gravity, or by any other force, that impells it towards the Earth, may be continually drawn aside towards the Earth, out of the rectilinear way, which by its innate force it would pursue; and be made to revolve in the orbit which it now describes; nor could the Moon without some such force, be retain'd in its orbit. If this force was too small, it would not sufficiently turn the Moon out of a rectilinear course: if it was too great, it would turn it too much, and draw down the Moon from its orbit towards the Earth. It is necessary, that the force be of a just quantity, and it belongs to the Mathematicians to find the force, that may serve exactly to retain a body in a given orbit with a given velocity; and vice versa, to determine the curvilinear way into which a body projected from a given place, with a given velocity, may be made to deviate from its natural rectilinear way, by means of a given force.
The quantity of any Centripetal Force may be considered as of three kinds: Absolute, Accelerative, and Motive.
Definition VI.
Thus the magnetic force is greater in one load-stone and less in another, according to their sizes and strength.
Definition VII.
Thus the force of the same load-stone is greater at a less distance, and less at a greater: also the force of gravity is greater in valleys, less on tops of exceeding high mountains; and yet less (as shall hereafter be shewn) at greater distances from the body of the Earth; but at equal distances, it is the same everywhere; because (taking away, or allowing for, the resistance of the air), it equally accelerates all falling bodies, whether heavy or light, great or small.
Definition VIII.
Thus the Weight is greater in a greater body, less in a less body; it is greater near to the Earth, and less at remoter distances. This sort of quantity is the centripetency, or propension of the whole body towards the centre, or as I may say, its Weight; and it is ever known by the quantity of a force equal and contrary to it, that is just sufficient to hinder the descent of the body.
These quantities of Forces, we may for brevity's sake, call by the names of Motive, Accelerative, and Absolute forces; and for distinction sake consider them, with respect to the Bodies that tend to the centre; to the Places of those bodies; and to the Centre of force towards which they tend: that is to say, I refer the Motive force to the Body, as an endeavour and propensity of the whole towards a centre, arising from the propensities of the several parts taken together; the Accelerative force to the Place of the body, as a certain power or energy diffused from the centre to all places around to move the bodies that are in them; and the Absolute force to the Centre, as endued with some cause, without which those motive forces would not be propagated through the spaces round about; whether that cause is some central body, (such as is the Load-stone, in the centre of the Magnetism, or the Earth in the centre of the gravitating force), or any thing else that does not yet appear. For I here design only to give a Mathematical notion of those forces, without considering their Physical causes and seats.
Wherefore the accelerative force will stand in the same relation to the motive, as celerity does to motion. For the quantity of motion arises from the celerity, drawn into the quantity of matter; and the motive force arisses from the accelerative force multiplied by the same quantity of matter. For the sum of the actions of the accelerative force, upon the several particles of the body, is the motive force of the whole. Hence it is, that near the suffice of the earth, where the accelerative gravity, or force productive of gravity in all bodies is the same, the motive gravity or the weight is as the body; but if we should ascend to higher regions, where the accelerative gravity is less, the weight would be equally diminished, and would always be as the product of the Body, by the Accelerative gravity. So in those regions, where the accelerative gravity is diminished into one-half, the weight of a body two or three times less, will be four or six times less.
I likewise call Attractions and Impulses, in the same sense, Accelerative, and Motive; and use the words Attraction, Impulse, or Propensity of any sort towards a centre, promiscuously, and indifferently, one for another; considering those forces not Physically, but Mathematically: wherefore the reader is not to imagine, that by those words I anywhere take upon me to define the kind, or the manner of any Action, the causes or the physical reason thereof, or that I attribute Forces, in a true and Physical sense, to certain centres (which are only Mathematical points); when at any time I happen to speak of centres as attracting, or as endued with attractive powers.
Hitherto I have laid down the definitions of such words as are less known, and explained the sense in which I would have them to be understood in the following discourse. I do not define Time, Space, Place, and Motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into Absolute and Relative, True and Apparent, Mathematical and Common.
I. Absolute, True, and Mathematical Time, of it self, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called Duration: Relative, Apparent, and Common Time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of Duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of True time; such as an Hour, a Day, a Month, a Year.
II Absolute Space, in its own nature, without relation to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative Space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces; which our senses determine, by its position to bodies; and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space; Such is the dimension of a subterraneous, an aerial, or celestial space, determined by its position in respect of the Earth. Absolute and Relative space are the same in figure and magnitude; but they do not remain always numerically the same. For if the Earth, for instance, moves; a space of our Air, which relatively and in respect of the Earth, remains always the same, will at one time be one part of the absolute space into which the Air passes; at another time it will be another part of the same, and so, absolutely understood, it will be perpetually mutable.
III. Place is a part of space which a body takes up, and, is according to the space, either absolute or relative. I say, a Part of Space; not the situation, nor the external surface of the body. For the places of equal Solids, are always equal; but their superficies, by reason of their dissimilar figures, are often unequal. Positions properly have no quantity, nor are they so much the places themselves, as the properties of places. The motion of the whole is the same thing with the sum of the motions of the parts, that is, the translation of the whole, out of its place, is the same thing with the sum of the translations of the parts out of their places; and therefore the Place of the whole, is the same thing with the Sum of the places of the parts, and for that reason, it is internal, and in the whole body.
IV. Absolute motion, is the translation of a body from one absolute place into another; and Relative motion, the translation from one relative place into another. Thus in a Ship under sail, the relative place of a body is that part of the Ship, which the Body possesses; or that part of its cavity which the body fills, and which therefore moves together with the Ship: And Relative rest, is the continuance of the Body in the same part of the Ship, or of its cavity. But Real, absolute rest, is the continuance of the Body in the same part of that Immovable space, in which the Ship it self, its cavity, and all that it contains, is moved. Wherefore, if the Earth is really at rest, the Body which relatively rests in the Ship, will really and absolutely move with the same velocity which the Ship has on the Earth. But if the Earth also moves, the true and absolute motion of the body will arise, partly from the true motion of the Earth, in immovable space; partly from the relative motion of the Ship on the Earth: and if the body moves also relatively in the Ship; its true motion will arise, partly from the true motion of the Earth, in immovable space, and partly from the relative motions as well of the Ship on the Earth, as of the Body in the Ship; and from these relative motions, will arise the relative motion of the Body on the Earth. As if that part of the Earth where the Ship is, was truly mov'd toward the East, with a velocity of 10010 parts; while the Ship it self with a fresh gale, and full sails, is carry'd towards the West, with a velocity exprss'd by 10 of those parts; but a Sailor walks in the Ship towards the East, with 1 part of the said velocity: then the Sailor will be moved truly and absolutely in immovable space towards the East with a velocity of 10001 parts, and relatively on the Earth towards the West, with a velocity of 9 of those parts.
Absolute time, in Astronomy, is distinguish'd from Relative, by the Equation or correction of the vulgar time. For the natural days are truly unequal, though they are commonly consider'd as equal, and used for a measure of time: Astronomers correct this inequality for their more accurate deducing of the celestial motions. It may be, that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated and retarded, but the True, or equable progress, of Absolute time is liable to no change. The duration or perseverance of the existence of things remains the same, whether the motions are swift or slow, or none at all: and therefore it ought to be distinguish'd from what are only sensible measures thereof; and out of which we collect it, by means of the Astronomical equation. The necessity of which Equation, for determining the Times of a phænomenon, is evinc'd as well from the experiments of the pendulum clock, as by eclipses of the Satellites of Jupiter.
As the order of the parts of Time is immutable, so also is the order of the parts of Space. Suppose those parts to be mov'd out of their places, and they will be moved (if the expression may be allowed) out of themselves. For times and spaces are, as it were, the Places as well of themselves as of all other things. All things are placed in Time as to order of Succession; and in Space as to order of Situation. It is from their essence or nature that they are Places; and that the primary places of things should be moveable, is absurd. These are therefore the absolute places; and translations out of those places, are the only Absolute Motions.
But because the parts of Space cannot be seen, or distinguished from one another by our Senses, therefore in their stead we use sensible measures of them. For from the positions and distances of things from any body consider'd as immovable, we define all places:
and then with respect to such places, we estimate all motions, considering bodies as transfer'd from some of those places into others. And so instead of absolute places and motions, we use relative ones; and that without any inconvenience in common affairs: but in Philosophical disquisitions, we ought to abstract from our senses, and consider things themselves, distinct from what are only sensible measures of them. For it may
be that there is no body really at rest, to which the places and motions of others may be referr'd.
But we may distinguish Rest and Motion, absolute and relative, one from the other by their Properties, Causes and Effects. It is a property of Rest, that bodies really at rest do rest in respect of one another. And therefore as it is possible, that in the remote regions of the fixed Stars, or perhaps far beyond them, there may be some body absolutely at rest; but impossible to know from the position of bodies to one another in our regions, whether any of these do keep the same position to that remote body; it follows that absolute rest; cannot be determined from the position of bodies in our regions.
It is a property of motion, that the parts, which
retain given positions to their wholes, do partake of the
motions of those wholes. For all the parts of revolving
bodies endeavour to recede from the axe of motion;
and the impetus of bodies moving forwards, arises
from the joint impetus of all the parts. Therefore,
if surrounding bodies are mov'd, those that are relatively
at rest within them, will partake of their motion.
Upon which account, the true and absolute motion of
a body cannot be determin'd by the translation of it
from those which only seem to rest: For the external
bodies ought not only to appear at rest, but to be really
at rest. For otherwise, all included bodies, beside their
translation from near the surrounding ones, partake likewise
of their true motions; and tho' that translation was
not made they would not be really at rest, but only
seem to be so. For the surrounding bodies stand in
the like relation to the surrounded, as the exterior part
of a whole does to the interior, or as the shell does to
the kernel; but, if the shell moves, the kernel will also
move, as being part of the whole, without any removal
from near the shell.
A property near a kin to the preceding, is this, that if a place is mov'd, whatever is placed therein moves along with it; and therefore a body, which is mov'd from a place in motion, partakes also of the motion of its place. Upon which account all motions from places in motion, are no other than parts of entire and absolute motions; and every entire motion is composed out of the motion of the body out of its first place, and the motion of this place out of its place, and so on; until we come to some immovable place, as in the before mention'd example of the Sailor. Wherefore entire and absolute motions can be no otherwise determin'd than by immovable places; and for that reason I did before refer those absolute motions to immovable places, but relative ones to moveable places. Now no other places are immovable, but those that, from infinity to infinity, do all retain the same given positions one to another; and upon this account, must ever remain unmov'd; and do thereby constitute, what I call, immovable space.
The Causes by which true and relative motions are distinguished, one from the other, are the forces impress'd upon bodies to generate motion. True motion is neither generated nor alter'd, but by some force impress'd upon the body moved: but relative motion may be generated or alter'd without any force impress'd upon the body. For it is sufficient only to impress some force on other bodies with which the former is compar'd, that by their giving way, that relation may be chang'd, in which the relative rest or motion of this other body did consist. Again, True motion suffers always some change from any force impress'd upon the moving body; but Relative motion does not necessarily undergo any change, by such forces. For if the same forces are likewise impress'd on those other bodies, with which the comparison is made, that the relative position may be preserved, then that condition will be preserv'd, in which the relative motion consisits. And therefore, any relative motion may be changed, when the true motion remains unalter'd, and the relative may be preserv'd, when the true suffers some change. Upon which accounts, true motion does by no means consist in such relations.
The Effects which distinguish absolute from relative motion are, the forces of receding from the axe of circular motion. For there are no such forces in circular motion purely relative, but in a true and absolute circular motion, they are greater or less, according to the quantity of the motion. If a vessel, hung by a long cord, is so often turned about that the cord is strongly twisted, then fill'd with water, and held at rest together with the water; after by the sudden action of another force, it is whirl'd about the contrary way, and while the cord is untwisting it self the vessel continues for some time in this motion; the surface of the water will at first be plain, as before the vessel began to move: but the vessel, by gradually communicating its motion to the water, will make it begin sensibly to revolve, and recede by little and little from the middle, and ascend to the sides of the vessel, forming it self into a concave figure, (as I have experienced) and the swifter the motion becomes, the higher will the water rise, till at last, performing its revolutions in the same times with the vessel, it becomes relatively at rest in it. This ascent of the water shews its endeavour to recede from the axe of its motion; and the true and absolute circular motion of the water, which is here directly contrary to the relative, discovers it self and may be measured by this endeavour. At first, when the relative motion of the water in the vessel was greatest it produc'd no endeavour to recede from the axe: the water shew'd no tendency to the circumference, nor any ascent towards the sides of the vessel, but remain'd of a plain surface, and therefore its True circular motion had not yet begun. But afterwards, when the relative motion of the water had decreas'd the ascent thereof towards the sides of the vessel, prov'd its endeavour to recede from the axe; and this endeavour shew'd the real circular motion of the water perpetually increasing, till it had acquir'd its greatest quantity, when the water rested relatively in the vessel. And therefore this endeavour does not depend upon any translation of the water in respect of the ambient bodies, nor can true circular motion be defin'd by such translations. There is only one real circular motion of any one revolving body, corresponding to only one power of endeavouring to recede from its axe of motion, as its proper and adequate effect: but relative motions in one and the same body are innumerable, according to the various relations it bears to external bodies, and like other relations, are altogether destitute of any real effect, any otherwise than they may perhaps participate of that one only true motion. And therefore in their system who suppose that our heavens, revolving below the sphere of the fixt Stars, carry the Planets along with them; the several parts of those heavens, and the Planets, which are indeed relatively at rest in their heavens, do yet really move. For they change their position one to another (which never happens to bodies truly at rest) and being carried together with their heavens, participate of their motions, and as parts of revolving wholes, endeavour to recede from the axe of their motions.
Wherefore relative quantities, are not the quantities themselves, whose names they bear, but those sensible measures of them (either accurate or inaccurate) which are commonly used instead of the measur'd quantities them'elves. And if the meaning of words is to be determin'd by their use; then by the names Time, Space, Place and Motion, their measures are properly to be understood; and the expression will be unusual, and purely Mathematical, if the measured quantities themselves are meant. Upon which account, they do strain the Sacred Writings, who there interpret those words for the measur'd quantities. Nor do those less defile the purity of Mathematical and Philosophical truths, who confound real quantities themselves with their relations and vulgar measures.
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the True motion of particular bodies from the Apparent: because the parts of that immovable space in which those motions are perform'd, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions. For instance, if two globes kept at a given distance one from the other, by means of a cord that connect them, were revolv'd about their common centre of gravity; we might, from the tension of the cord, discover the endeavour of the globes to recede from the axe of their motion, and from thence we might compute the quantity of their circular motions. And then if any equal forces should be impress'd at once on the alternate faces of the globes to augment or diminish their circular motions; from the encrease or decrease of the tension of the cord, we might infer the increment or decrement of their motions; and thence would be found, on what faces those forces ought to be impress'd, that the motions of the globes might be most augmented. that is, we might discover their hindermost faces, or those which, in the circular motion, do follow. But the faces which follow being known, and consequently, the opposite ones that precede, we should likewise know the determination of their motions. And thus we might find both the quantity and the determination of this circular motion, ev'n in an immense vacuum, where there was nothing external or sensible with which the globes could be compar'd. But now if in that space some remote bodies were plac'd that kept always a given position one to another, as the Fixt Stars do in our regions; we cou'd not indeed determine from the relative translation of the globes among those bodies, whether the motion did belong to the globes or to the bodies. But if we observ'd the cord, and found that its tension was that very tension which the motions of the globes requir'd, we might conclude the motion to be in the globes. and the bodies to be at rest; and then, lastly, from the translation of the globes among the bodies, we should find the determination of their motions. But how we are to collect the true motions from their causes, effects, and apparent differences; and vice versa, how from the motions, either true or apparent, we may come to the knowledge of their causes and effects, shall be explain'd more at large in the following Tract. For to this end it was that I compos'd it.


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The data center gets all the press, but there are plenty of other areas where IT professionals and users of IT services can dramatically reduce an organization's effect on the environment. Here are 10 ways to get started:
1. Reduce the amount of data kept in online storage. Online disks spin around the clock, and they need to be cooled. Disks may be full of multiple data copies or ancient files that are rarely opened. Archive historical files to off-line media for storage in the data center.
2. Consolidate IT assets into a single location for shared use. Eliminate private parts and spare equipment caches in favor of a single pool of shared assets. Look here before buying anything else to save money and reduce the amount of electronic equipment that will eventually require disposal.
3. Make use of power-saving features. Ensure that all hardware you install has the power-saver function enabled and that users are locked out of changing it.
4. Buy power-efficient and environment-friendly equipment. Require that all new equipment is compliant with Energy Star and the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) and has an 80Plus power supply. 80Plus power supplies are at least 80% efficient and thereby save electricity. RoHS certification ensures that electronic components contain minimal levels of toxic substances.
5. Use less paper. You save not only the cost of the paper, but also the cost of toner and disposal. Review reports online, and print only the pages you need. Send electronic documents for discussion to each meeting attendee, and require them to print their own copies if they attend. Where practical, order manuals on CD for online access.
6. Discourage those "document pack rats." Every office has one or more people who feel compelled to keep a paper copy of every memo and e-mail they've sent or received. This fills rows of file cabinets, drawers, suspended files and folders. Make an electronic document management system available and reduce the amount of physical storage available. This reduces paper usage and frees floor space.
7. Link the cost of resource consumption with those who consume it. When IT pays for a pool of material that everyone draws from, no one feels accountable for minimizing its cost. Among other things, green linkages show which departments are consuming laser cartridges and paper, generating equipment for disposal, or consuming the most electricity.
8. Make office recycling convenient. Establish a collection point for batteries, old cell phones, paper and spent laser or ink-jet cartridges. Work out in advance who will pick up the full containers for recycling.
9. Consider "real" needs when upgrading equipment. Not everyone needs the latest and most powerful workstation. Only upgrade systems when justified by the business need or to replace equipment that isn't energy-efficient. Consider using low-cost and energy-efficient thin clients and desktop virtualization instead of full-powered PCs.
10. Encourage others to follow your lead. Peer pressure is powerful. Promote the idea of a greener IT in conversations with co-workers. The best encouragement you can give is to lead by example.
Many consider the data center to be the most obvious place to start a green effort, but the energy and resources consumed by each individual quickly add up. Many small changes repeated by the many users of IT resources can make a huge difference in the organization's overall impact on the environment.
Webber is a senior project manager at Insight Corp. and a senior adjunct faculty member of DeVry University's Keller Graduate School of Management. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wallace is vice president of application engineering at Result Data Consulting Ltd. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Webber and Wallace are co-authors of the upcoming Green Tech: How to Plan and Implement Sustainable IT Solutions, as well as Quality Control for Dummies and IT Policies and Procedures: Tools and Techniques That Work.


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The Extra 300 is a purpose designed, unlimited aerobatic competition aircraft. It is capable of competing effectively at international level, and one of very few to have achieved a Standard airworthiness certification approved by the Federal Aviation Administration. It is the culmination of nearly twenty years of design and construction techniques developed by its designer, Walter Extra. Tech One debuts its newest indoor 3D plane. It comes with a lot of EPP, carbon fiber and fiberglass parts. The model weighs only 150-165 grams and flies almost as good as Depron 3D planes but is many times more durable than its Depron equivalents. The color scheme is very clear and easy to see in flight.
The color scheme is simply innovative and unique, very "aggressive" and dynamic, but elegant too, with very intense colors. The fuselage and some other parts are painted on both sides, even where is milled. The almost ready to fly kit is composed EPP fuselage and wing parts, carbon rods, super lightweight fiberglass horns and everything necessary to complete the plane. It also comes with the motor, esc, servos, and prop ready to install into the plane. You will need a radio system, battery, and charger to complete the required electronics. Specifications: Fuselage Length: 920mm(36.2in.) Wingspan: 830mm(32.7in.) Flying Weight: 130-150g (with battery) Motor : AS2204 KV1700 ESC : 6-10Amp Propeller: 8043SF prop or 8040 HD prop Servos: 4-6g micro servo *3pcs
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One of the area's more, shall we say, interesting dining establishments recently was not a newly opened theme restaurant or even an established eatery, but the Del Mar Race Track, where thousands of evacuated refugees from San Diego's raging fires found solace, comfort and more than sustenance.
"The food was great and the experience uplifting," said Mark Sherman of Del Mar Heights, who got what he termed "our first reverse 911 call" to get ready at about six pm on Monday, October 22, followed by the evacuation order a couple of hours later.
"This was not your New Orleans nightmare," he said. "About a thousand evacuees at the shelter were all cooperative, supportive, and well managed by the uniformed Army and National Guard personnel."
The shelter was located under the stands of the racetrack, where, during summer, guests with far less on their minds leisurely stroll through the Del Mar Fair Art Show.
Once inside, the Shermans were directed to the far end of the area reserved for people without pets. "We were assisted to cots carried by a military escort," Sherman said. "They provided toothbrushes, etc. The pillows, blankets and sheets were all new and still in the package, I think from Wal-Mart."
The couple got to sleep at about two am and awoke at about six to the smell of fresh coffee. "People were lining up for breakfast," he recalled, "coffee, fruit, milk, cereals, hot bagels and cream cheese from Garden State Bagels, then trays of Krispy Kreme donuts. My two 'emergency' Nature Valley granola bars and the water we brought was a joke. They had enough water to bring life to the desert and enough granola bars, pretzels, chips, candy, and snack food to feed Iraq for a year."
But the cuisine didn't end there. Lunch began with hot dogs and McDonald's burgers and Happy Meals for the kids. "Then came barbecued brisket, baked ziti, and cole slaw. For dessert there were quart baskets of fresh organic strawberries as well as other fruit, including quart jars of sliced mango. Much of the food was provided by Costco. We must have really looked old, because we were also offered cans of Ensure – to keep us alive, I guess.
"Anyone for pudding? Would you like chocolate or butterscotch? Anyone need a bottle of hand sanitizer? Not a problem." Baby food, diapers, even pet food were in abundance. TV monitors, used during the track season to display the races while people place their bets, kept everyone abreast of the fire developments.
"At about noon," Sherman noted, "the newscasts announced that our Del Mar Heights neighborhood was being released from mandatory evacuation, so we packed up and came home. There were many more displaced people at Qualcomm Stadium, closer to downtown San Diego. They too were all well fed and cared for. They had what we had, plus Yoga classes, massages, and local bands playing music.
"We can't say enough positive things about the San Diego Office of Emergency Preparedness, who had to handle the situation by themselves on short notice because the Red Cross was unavailable, already committed to caring for fire victims further north in California.
"Of course, the downside to this 'party,'" he said, "was that well over a thousand families have lost their homes and face daunting challenges. We're the lucky ones, having dodged the bullet and having just to contend now with cleaning up the soot and unloading two cars full of 'stuff' we chose to save to be re-stuffed into drawers and hung back on walls."
Unfortunately, dear friends of the Shermans lost everything when their Valley Center home burned. They have seven children, the youngest being eight-month-old twin girls. Three of the wife's brothers also lost their homes. The families have already received considerable donations of clothing, toys, and household items from their friends and their church, but anyone wishing to contribute cash can make out a check to Linda and Jim Juaregui and send it c/o Mark Sherman, 13515 Mira Montana Dr., Del Mar, CA 92014.
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Every holiday season, children take part in the great Christmas tradition of building gingerbread houses. By houses, I mean four cookie walls held together by Pillsbury paste and doused in red and green sprinkles. These homes are arguably more shanty than house, particularly when placed next to the grand creations of Henry Hargreaves and Caitlin Levin. The two food stylists have banded together with Dylan's Candy Store to create seven unbelievably lifelike gingerbread recreations of famous art museums around the globe.
Just glancing at the black and white photographs you'd almost believe that you're looking at an actual photo of the Guggenheim—until you realize the famous spiral designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is actually black licorice, and the shiny sparkles that adorn the building isn't freshly fallen snow. It's sugar. "We wanted them to be like architectural photographs of the buildings," Hargreaves says. "And the black and white added a bit more gravitas and seriousness than having the candy in color."
>After a day or two, Hargreaves says some of the houses tend to get stinky.
Hargreaves and Levin began by investigating which museums they wanted to recreate. "They needed to be architecturally interesting," he explains. "Just as interesting on the outside as on the inside." They decided on the Guggenheim, Louvre in Paris, Tate Modern in London, the Karuizawa in Nagano, Museum Aan de Stroom in Antwerp, the Maxxi in Rome and Museo Soumaya in Mexico City.
"We actually bit of more than we could chew," he says. Originally, they wanted to do 12 museums, but the process turned out to be more painstakingly detailed than they had anticipated. "I can't let this be just good. it needs to be perfect, or at least as close to perfect as we can make it."
To create the highly-detailed replicas, the duo crafted foam core models of each museum, scaled to a gingerbread-appropriate size, which turned out to be around 3 feet for most replicas. The foam core was used as a pattern to cut out gingerbread parts that would later be assembled and decorated, which proved to be harder than they expected. "Gingerbread is kind of a pain in the ass to work with," Hargreaves says. "It dries and shrinks and cracks; it's always moving."
The Tate modern for example, was photographed only a day after they constructed it, but after just 24 hours, one of the sides had already shrunk by an inch and the icing was falling off. Other candies proved to be similarly temperamental. The artists used coco-covered cotton candy for the trees instead of lollipops, to mitigate the Candyland effect.
Problem was, as you well know if you've ever eaten the fluff of sugar on a hot day, cotton candy can get pretty messy. "Basically as soon as you do anything with cotton candy it starts to shrink down to sugar," he says. "We were racing against time with that."
Hargreaves and Levin were given free reign in Dylan's Candy Store to figure out what candies would be best suited to act as bricks or stained glass. They ultimately ended up using melted rock candy formed in a mold to create the precise texture of the Louvre's glass pyramids and the Maxxi's slated glazing. Lego candy was used for the brick facade of the Museum Aan de Stroom and the hexagonal aluminum tiles covering the Museo Soumaya were recreated with candy balls.
Sounds delicious, right? Not exactly. After a day or two, Hargreaves says the houses tend to get a bit stale, and some even stinky. "In theory it's interesting because the everything is edible," he says. "But I don't really foresee these being eaten."


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Do you love children?
I do.
I remember a time when I didn't, though – I found them snotty, and whiny, and tiny, and annoying. This was probably when I was a snotty, whiny, tiny being myself.
Having now matured into a (slightly) less whiny adult, I find myself rather happy in the company of children.
They're quite wonderful, these tiny people. They say the funniest things, look at every single thing in wonder, and teach us to really live when we forget.
Also they're so darned cute. And I happen to know and love some particularly adorable ones. I mean just look at these faces.
Sometimes they wear yellow glasses and eat cake. That makes me happy.
Other times they take a break from pillow fighting and smile for the camera. You can't help but smile too.
When you're stressed, they tumble over boxes and chatter with you non-stop until you forget your worries. You realise you want to tumble over boxes too. (It looks like so much fun, right?)
And then, once in while, they dress up and look so adorable, it melts your heart. You realise they're growing up too fast.
Children are quite wonderful. But when you throw cooking into the mix, they're unstoppable.
They love getting their hands dirty, they aren't afraid to experiment, and they will try anything once. Tell me that's not the very definition of a fantastic cook.
Which brings me to an exciting announcement 🙂
There's a fabulous new treat for all the young chefs out there.
Dorling Kindersley India and Vikas Khanna have created a one-of-a-kind cookbook for children that's being released on 14th November, 2013.
The book is a fantastic mix of modern recipes, step-by-step images, and easy-to-follow instructions. It's a wonderful book for any child who is interested in cooking – both for those who are already cooking and want to expand their skills, as well as those who've just taken a peep into the kitchen and like what they see 🙂 This book will give them just the encouragement they need.
I'm giving away a copy of this book to one of you fabulous people. It'll be signed by Vikas Khanna too! 🙂 All you need to do is drop me a comment below telling me who your favourite little person is and why you love them. Entries will be accepted till 30th November, after which I'll pick one winner by a random draw.
If you can't wait to buy Young Chefs, go to Penguin India and get it now!
Thank god for children. For the silliness and the laughter and the fun.
There's so much to learn from them 🙂


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Langhorne Borough is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The population was 1,622 at the time of the 2010 census. The mailing address "Langhorne" is used for Langhorne Borough, but it is also used broadly to describe the majority of surrounding Middletown Township, which for the most part uses Langhorne's ZIP code of 19047. Sesame Place, while physically located in surrounding Middletown Township, has Langhorne as its mailing address. Langhorne also includes the northeastern part of Lower Southampton Township, which uses the ZIP code 19053.
Neighborhoods in Langhorne, Pennsylvania
Bella Tori at the Mansion, Bucks Area Homes, Buddy's Barber Shop, Colonial Drive Lights, DeLuca Homes, Diane Thomas, Dollar General, Dorilyn Terrace Apartments, Elmwood Terrace, Firefighters' Park, Happy Hour Tavern, HeatherGate at Oxford Valley, Herbert Hoover Elementary School, Holly Hill, Idlewood
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We have been in our home for over four years now, and one area that has seriously been neglected is our yard. I have planted the beds next to the house in the front and back, but have done little more than mow the rest. We have an acre and a third, and so there is quite a bit of lawn to mow. One of the first decisions we made was to not mow the entire yard.
This is what the backyard looked like when we first moved in. We used the existing broom grass (I think?) as a guide to where we weren't going to mow. A large portion of the backyard is a drainfield, so we know that the best thing they say to do is to grow grass, and keep it short. But frankly, I am not interested in a large mowed lawn. I think they are akin to a desert. I did not want to spend the time, the money, and the frustration on keeping a lawn. I am way more interested in creating a diverse habitat for birds, small creatures, and bugs to find food and shelter. Plus, I was hoping to have some color and texture out there to keep things interesting.
So four years later, and we do not have much to show for it. This year, I decided I wanted to being adding plants and flowers. Eventually, I hope it will all fill in with wildflowers, perennials, and grasses.
To start, I began taking out the trees that had started to grow. There were some fairly large ones (scrub pines grow really fast). But a few mornings out in long pants, my large brim hat, and a machete took care of most of the trees and wild blackberry bushes. Although I do like blackberry bushes, around here they are considered a pest because they take over really quickly, are very prickly, and very difficult to get rid of. I just chopped them down, but you need to dig up the root systems if you don't want them to keep coming back. I expect to go out there every once in a while and cut them back, and I don't mind having some that bloom and produce berries (see food for the wildlife).
Some friends of ours were very generous and let me have some of their daylillies that were encroaching in their vegetable garden. We dug up several clumps, and Mr. Lucky and I spaced them out along the edge of the meadow.
Many of them bloomed this year, although rarely at the same time. I think they endured a bit of shock being transplanted from a slightly more shady, and more soil rich spot to my clay filled back yard. I'm hoping that next year they will come back stronger.
My boss very generously gave me a bunch of very fancy daylillies from the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden sale. Even though they all seemed to survive, and some of them had buds, but I didn't see any of them bloom. (It is possible they bloomed while I was in CA, but no one saw it).
Mr. Lucky and I also bought a few plants to add to the mix, including a purple bee balm (I love our red version, Mondara), and some "Jethro Tull" Tickseed.
As soon as I planted the tickseed, a butterfly landed on it. :) Exactly what I wanted to see! You can see in this shot it looks as though an animal has trodden on part of the plant. The blooms lasted for about a week or two, and I deadheaded the plant quite a bit. It continued to have a few blooms for several weeks, but nothing really showy. I'm really hoping this will take off and spread out.
Something had either dug up or trampled on part of the bee balm too, but most of the plant survived. It was more compact than I was expecting, and maybe eventually I'll move it around. I loved the color of the blooms though, and I really wish I just had massive mounds of this stuff.
We also bought a salvia plant. There are so many varieties, and I love most of them. They are supposed to be easy to propogate as well- which I will try next spring. We have a very large salvia in the front, which I am also going to try to bring some of it to the back next year. I love how tall this plant gets- and the bees love it.
Just this year I've also noticed a lot more of these dragonflies around- the Widow Skimmer. I think they're beautiful and they are natural bug control!
In this shot, you can see some of the daylillies blooming along the edge of the meadow. You can also see a few trees I still need to take down. I hate taking down trees because I love them, and the shade they produce. I would be very happy to have a mostly wooded lot. With these crazy storms we've been having however, we had a number of trees come down in the front yard. They were mostly scrub pines that don't really have root systems. I don't care for them as much, and would love to have a large variety. Just this year I noticed we have several Willow Oak popping up in the front, and a Tree of Heaven.
There are also some weeds that I think are pretty growing in the meadow- these kinds of wildflowers I encourage.
As the summer gets hotter, I have a feeling that there won't be much blooming. I'll feel lucky if things don't die off completely. I tried to plant some propogated roses and salvia- but I have a feeling it was way too late in the season and I didn't water them enough.
For Christmas last year I did get some seed bombs, in the hopes that I would have some wildflowers pop up- but I don't think I've seen anything from that either. Every year I will just keep adding more and more until it becomes the riot of color I want. :)
Another aspect to growing a meadow that really appeals to me, is that it is an ecosystem in flux. Things will come and go, groups will spread, and some plants will naturally settle in. Things are always evolving in a meadow, and I think that makes it interesting. I love all sorts of gardens, from the most structured and formal to the completely wild. I look forward to helping my meadow evolve.
To be continued…


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About two thirds of the way through Andersen Prunty's The Beard, protagonist David Glum watches helplessly as the arm of a man who may or may not be his father (but probably is) turns without cause or provocation into a two-by-four. This, however, is par for the course for the beleaguered Glum. In the opening chapters of the novel, he sees a herd of elephants abduct his grandfather, tries and fails to publish a novel, eats a psychotropic sandwich, rides a bus driven by a silent figure whose head resembles an onion, and decides to return home to Ohio to grow a beard (though not necessarily in that order). Things, however, start to get strange when Glum's mother dies and he discovers that his family has been hiding the sacred eternal flame of a (possibly imaginary, definitely angry) tribe of (not-quite) Pacific Islanders in their attic. To say that Prunty is a shining star of the Bizarro movement would, at this point, be redundant, but I'll say it anyway: Andersen Prunty is a shining star of the Bizarro movement.
Throughout The Beard, Prunty proves himself a natural at creating mind-bending landscapes that operate according to a warped brand of dream logic that's especially effective in his treatment of characters. As in a dream, his protagonist is at the mercy of forces that are both far beyond his control and, paradoxically, frequently of his own unconscious making. Likewise, the notion of identity is highly fluid throughout the novel. Glum's father, for example, is initially described as an overweight, malicious bore but, in the blink of an eye, becomes (or, depending on how you look at it, is replaced by) a skinny, relatively friendly gentleman who turns out to be the kind of father that Glum always wanted. Within the framework of traditional storytelling, such sudden transformations might be decried as inconsistencies, but in the bizarro realm, they're the whole point of the story. To put it in another way, Prunty is playing games with the conventions of storytelling–and cackling like a madman as he plays havoc with his reader's expectations.
Among the more egregious "violations" of the rules of traditional storytelling is Prunty's fondness for deus ex machina — as when the arm of Glum's father turns into the aforementioned two-by-four, or when a team of semi-invisible bodyguards semi-appears to defend Glum from sniper fire. Yet as these examples suggest, Prunty elevates deus ex machina to an art form by making each occurrence more outlandish — and therefore entertaining — than the last. Indeed, half the fun of reading The Beard is turning the page to see what Prunty will do next as the god of his fantastically twisted realm. My sense, moreover, is that Prunty and writers like him aren't playing with the conventions of traditional storytelling just for the sake of zaniness. Rather, they're drawing attention to the artificiality of all stories by heightening our awareness of those elements that are most contrived. Glum's quest to return the sacred flame to its rightful owners, for example, mirrors the plot of The Lord of the Rings trilogy almost perfectly, but the execution of the details reminds us that both stories are, in the end, stories. In so doing, The Beard also (and appropriately, given the double entendre inherent in the title) gives the lie to all efforts at storytelling. To wit, it's all artificial, so we might as well go wild and have fun with it.
Of course, Prunty's work, like bizarro fiction itself, is an acquired taste. Perhaps this is why he offers The Beard as a free download at Smashwords. My advice for the uninitiated is to check it out, kick the tires, and, if you like what you read, then buy the book–or any of Prunty's seven other books that are either currently available or on their way. If weird is your cup of tea, then Prunty is your man.


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Needle Minder - Prism
This minder was made from a simple plastic prism button - it's a simple white design but will make your work glitter and shine!
I make my minders with super strong rare earth magnets and a super tough two-part epoxy adhesive. These suckers are durable and can clip through up to 4 layers of aida, or more of a thinner material!
If you do any hand stitching, needle minders are a must have! They clip right on your work (or your lapel) with magnets, and will keep your needle from getting lost in the couch, or carpet, and finding it with your foot - ouch! On a big project, I'll use several minders to clip the fabric out of the way. Needle minders make life easier!


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If you saw my post about a Motorized Camera Slider, this is a bit of an update, but it's really more about the process than the end product, so if you're interested in that, read on!
I was originally using the improved camera slider V2 from our pal Marcus, and it worked well enough, but I wanted something different, so I tweaked what he had.
Marcus created his original file (I think) with Alibre Design, and since I couldn't open it, I just worked with the STL file he provided. I loaded that into OpenSCAD and grabbed a slice of it using this method.
Once I had a line drawing of the original slider end, I could use it to make my own. I imported the DXF File into Inkscape, my standard for 2D (and 2.5D) illustration.
In reality, the only parts I really used from the original were the approximate size of the piece, and the two holes for the rods. I could have measured things, but loading up a file as a template was easier. I guess I could have got all fancy at this point, but I just kept it simple.
Once I had my SVG done in Inkscape, and exported a DXF file, it was a matter of doing the old linear_extrude method, like I did for my snowflakes, etc. I saved out an STL file and I was ready to print.
Here's what the final piece looks like. One of the issues I had with the design Marcus created was that the rods only went part way into the plastic. There were screw holes to tighten down some screws onto the rods to hold things in place, but I never put any in. They might have also helped with the twisting issue this design has, but I may explore the idea of a two-piece design that clamps tight with the plastic. Or not… the nice thing is, it's easy to experiment.
If I wanted to, I could probably make these ends out of wood, which would require just a drill press, or maybe out of a nice heavy metal, which might require drilling, or maybe milling. Both processes are a little messy, potentially more expensive, and require equipment you might not have. The nice thing about 3D printing these is that I can iterate a design quickly, and at a very low cost. I can even make them mostly hollow to save on time and materials during testing, and then make stronger, more solid versions when desired.
You may notice the carriage has some zip ties on it. Those are holding the LM8UU linear bearings in place. My original carriage was way too stiff, and without exact alignment (which you may not get with DIY plastic parts) it didn't slide without some binding. The bearings were 58 cents each (I got a 10-pack from an ebay seller.) The bearings are a little noisy, so if you plan to shoot video with sound, you might have some issues. (Maybe more expensive bearing would make less noise?) As for the rods, they were about $15 each (pricey compared to the other parts) from VXB.com. There are cheaper alternatives depending on length, size, quality, etc. I went with 8mm because those are standard RepRap sizes.
At some point I may play with carriage designs as well. I actually did an early version that used felt instead of linear bearings (another trick from the RepRap world) which makes things cheaper and quieter, which may be desirable in some cases. And of course, I need to revisit the whole "motorized" part of this thing.
Until next time!


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Cemetery rules could be lightened for small graveyards
When lawmakers return to Springfield next week, they could take up a bill to ease tough regulations on smaller cemeteries run by volunteers, townships and small towns.
However, one lawmaker said his reading of the bill is that it also would reduce oversight of large, for-profit cemeteries that were the original target of the regulations passed in 2010. Rep. Dan Brady, R-Bloomington, a funeral director by profession, said the bill didn't surface until the closing days of the veto session, giving lawmakers little time to digest its details.
"I wanted the opportunity to be able to review the bill further," said Brady, who filed some procedural requests to slow up the approval process. "There's a lot of things the for-profit folks are either getting (removed) or reduced down. I'm still trying to analyze it."
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago, could not be reached for comment.
Onerous costs
Senate Bill 1830 is supposed to correct what some lawmakers view as excessive regulations imposed on small cemeteries in the wake of a scandal involving a Cook County cemetery that had been disinterring bodies and then reselling gravesites to new customers. Investigators found bones and caskets in heaps on the grounds.
Lawmakers imposed new recordkeeping and licensing requirements on cemeteries with the goal of preventing a repeat occurrence. But almost immediately, small cemeteries complained about the cost of the new regulations and their ability to comply.
"One size doesn't fit all in Illinois when it comes to the cemetery issues we have," Brady said. "It (the regulation law) was more designed for the large, for-profit cemeteries."
The bill creates a full exemption from most regulations for cemeteries of less than three acres, cemeteries that are family or religious burial grounds or cemeteries where there have been no burials in 10 years.
A partial exemption is created for cemeteries where there are 25 or fewer interments a year, if they are public or religious cemeteries.
"It is good for the smaller cemeteries and the not-for-profits that are doing things the right way," Brady said.
However, he said the lengthy amendment also appears to ease requirements on for-profit cemeteries in areas like documenting financial resources and licensing and registration requirements for sales staff.
"It's all kinds of things you don't really have a chance to wrap your arms around when it's the last day of the veto session," Brady said.
Bill has support
The Illinois Farm Bureau is in favor of the bill.
"We have a number of members who are involved with rural cemeteries," said Bill Bodine, associate director of state legislation. "Some of them are very, very small. They have only a limited amount of funds to work with. Some of the additional rules and requirements of the (regulations) would have been difficult for them, both from recordkeeping and cost of keeping the information."
Rep. Rich Brauer, R-Petersburg, said he's heard from smaller cemetery authorities asking that the regulations be eased. He said the bill appears acceptable.
"I don't see (big problems)," Brauer said. "Right now, it seems like they've reached a compromise."
Sen. Larry Bomke, R-Springfield, said the original regulations have to be made easier on smaller cemeteries.
"It was going to put the smaller operations out of business," Bomke said. "They could not possibly comply with the requirements."
Doug Finke can be reached at 788-1527.


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Days before Windows 7 is set to hit general availability, Microsoft has officially announced the release of two Windows 7 compatibility tools over at Microsoft.com/Windows/Compatibility: the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and the Windows 7 Compatibility Center.
We've been watching the former ever since it hit beta in May 2009 and the latter since a placeholder page went up in June 2009. Now they're both final, and they're here to let you know whether you're Windows 7 compatible or not. Microsoft is also offering compatibility help from experts via the Microsoft Answers Forums and the Windows Help & How-to team. Microsoft says both tools will be regularly updated with more products over time.
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
The Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor is now available for download on the Microsoft Download Center (8.3MB). This tool is meant for those who are upgrading Windows on their current rig. It will examine your PC's processor, memory, storage, graphics capabilities, and lets you know if you can run the 64-bit version. The tool tells you your upgrade options and informs you about any known compatibility issues with the most commonly installed software programs and devices connected to your PC. If an issue can be resolved, it suggests next steps for you to take before installing Windows 7. The tool checks against the following Windows 7 system requirements:
- 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1GB RAM (32-bit) / 2GB RAM (64-bit)
- 16GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20GB (64-bit)
- DirectX� 9 graphics processor with WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) 1.0 or higher driver
Windows 7 Compatibility Center
The Windows 7 Compatibility Center helps the user easily check the compatibility of thousands of devices and software programs for 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows 7. Microsoft determines a product's compatibility status for the Compatibility Center by looking at whether it has earned the "Compatible with Windows 7" or "Certified for Windows Server 2008" logo and whether the software publisher or device manufacturer states that they currently (or plan to) offer product support for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Most of the time, the user won't need to do anything to ensure compatibility but in case they do, the website won't just tell you what will or won't work; it will also provide links to drivers and software updates to help fix the issue. If you don't see a product listed on the site, Microsoft is letting users submit a suggestion.
Microsoft's determination to get these tools out before the launch of Windows 7 is admirable and also a sharp contrast to the launch of Windows Vista. Both equivalent tools for Vista arrived long after the operating system hit general availability.