text: Rick Hacker - January 27, 2011 Bolt Action Pioneers A look at some instrumental figures in the development of the venerable bolt rifle. By Rick Hacker The author's Griffin & Howe was made in the late 1920s and features an engraved nonslip bolt handle and receiver crossbolt.Looking back on the 20th century from a firearms point of view, we are able to see the ubiquitous bolt action not just as a popular hunting tool and target arm but as one of the last century's greatest advances in modern gunsmithing technology. And today there is a growing awareness of some of the great craftsmen of the early 20th century who were responsible for the rise of bolt-action sporters--names that were popular in certain circles back then but largely forgotten today.It was the familiar military 1898 Mausers and 1903 Springfields that became the inspirations for men such as Seymour Griffin, Charles Newton and Frank Hoffman in making precision hunting rifles that bore their names. These skilled pre-war pioneer gunsmiths were individuals who headed up relatively small and often struggling companies, and their achievements were part of the reason that industry icons such as Winchester and Remington were convinced the future lay in developing bolt-action rifles. After World War I, the market was flooded with affordable surplus arms--particularly the well-engineered Mauser 98 and the 1903 Springfield and Rock Island rifles. This was the real impetus that launched the birth of the sporterized bolt action. Among the very first bolt-action pioneers was Adolph Otto (A.O.) Niedner (pronounced NEED-ner) of Malden, Massachusetts--later of Wisconsin and, finally, Dowagiac, Michigan. Niedner was a crack rifle shot of the late 19th century who also became a wildcat cartridge innovator responsible for developing the .22 Long Rifle and the .25 Niedner, known today as the .25-06.From approximately 1906 until the 1940s, Niedner created super-accurate rifles for customers who have now become firearms legends, such as gun writer Col. Townsend Whelen and Ned H. Roberts, author of the classic book, The Muzzle Loading Caplock Rifle. Niedner worker for many years with another ballistician, Dr. F.W. Mann, who authored the seminal 1909 reference work, The Bullet's Flight. Together, they created a legacy for accuracy, primarily because of the superb barrels the latter-day Niedner Rifle Corporation produced. One of Niedner's regular customers was Charles Newton, who has since been christened "the father of the American high-velocity rifle cartridge." An attorney by profession, Newton was born in New York in 1870, but by 1906 his lifelong fascination with long-range accuracy started him on a second career as a gun writer for numerous magazines.Eventually he hooked up with a New York gunsmith named Fred Adolph and began experimenting with high-velocity, small-bore cartridges. Out of this came numerous now-obsolete cartridges such as the .22 Newton, the .35 Newton and the .40 Newton. Some of Newton's more lasting creations were the .22 Savage Hi-Power and the .250-3000.In 1914, the newly formed Newton Arms Company produced rifles with Mauser, Haenel or Sauer actions, but World War I quickly put a stop to those German importations. A switch to Springfield actions was also subsequently thwarted by the war.A Hoffman rifle chambered in .250-3000 showcases the intricate carving of the stock by John Wright and engraving by Rudolph Kornbrath.After the armistice, Newton regrouped and started a new company--the Charles Newton Rifle Corporation in Buffalo, New York--which imported, rather than produced, Newton rifles. A number of fine rifles were made, including some with barrels that employed a unique oval rifling based on the British Lancaster system. But eventually the company went into receivership.Undaunted, Newton formed the Buffalo Newton Rifle Corporation, which, despite its name, set up operations in New Haven, Connecticut. But Newton's financial backer took possession of the company, and the inventor was forced to sue to get it back. However, increased competition from larger companies and newer, more readily available cartridges eventually took their toll. Newton finally dissolved the company in 1929, on the eve of the Great Depression.Charles Newton died three years later, never having gotten rich with any of his inventions. According to Larry Wales, Newton historian and author of The History and Details of Newton High Power Rifle, Newton's rifles included the German imports of 1914, with between 24 and 100 being received; the 1916 First Model, the most prolific with about 4,000 manufactured; the Model 1922 second German import group, numbering about 100 rifles; the Model 1924, Second Model or Buffalo Newton, with approximately 1,000 rifles made; and the LeverBolt, which never went into production.In all, Wales estimates a total of between 4,600 and 5,400 Newton rifles were produced of all models--though some were of questionable quality, according to both Wales and Phillip Sharpe, who wrote in The Rifle in America. "Newton Rifles were excellently engineered but very poorly constructed. Charles Newton was a designer, not a builder," Sharpe wrote. It's a somewhat obscure legacy for a man who is better remembered for the cartridges he invented rather than the rifles that bore his name.Even more obscure is Frank L. Hoffman, an early 1920s-era U.S. Marine sharpshooter who was lured away by an entrepreneur named Harry M. Synder to start the Hoffman Arms Company, makers of some of the best bolt actions ever produced in pre-war America. I learned about him from Michael Petrov's Custom Gunmakers of the 20th century, a must-have tome that highlights many pioneering gun makers.I was able to shed even more light on the shadows that surrounded Hoffman rifles when I attended the Las Vegas Antique Arms Show. There it was my good fortune to meet Hoffman collector Shane Robinson, who has many of the original Hoffman factory records and correspondence. An unabashed enthusiast, Shane has set up a website (www.hoffmanarms.com) for these well-crafted guns.According to Robinson, the Hoffman Arms Company incorporated on March 16, 1923, and opened its doors for business that June in Cleveland, Ohio.To ensure success, Hoffman hired some of the finest gun builders of the day: stock makers John Dubiel and John Wright (formerly of Holland and Holland, who was most likely responsible for most of the intricately carved and checkered stocks of that early period); barrel maker Eric Johnson, who eventually worked for Winchester; and machine and tool man William Doty. A Newton Model 1922, imported from Germany, has the unique, Newton-designed opposing double set triggers and "spoon" bolt handle.Only the best Mauser actions--Hoffman specialties--were used, and in the beginning all Hoffman engraving was done by the legendary Rudolph Kornbrath, whose work also adorned many Colts and Winchesters. In all, 10 to 12 workers comprised the Hoffman "dream team" of craftsmen.Although the company planned to produce between 800 to 1,000 guns annually, by August 1925 only about 225 guns had been built. However, their quality was enough to attract a group of investors from Ardmore, Oklahoma, who offered to purchase $100,000 worth of stock in addition to providing 10 acres in Ardmore for a new factory. Thus the Hoffman Arms Company and most of the employees moved to Oklahoma that summer. During the next five years, production continued to lag, and only about 250 additional guns were built. Consequently, in spite of its stellar cast and the exquisite rifles it produced, the company lost money from the beginning, no doubt due to the meticulous labor-intensive workmanship and, I suspect, a lack of marketing.In late 1930, the Hoffman Arms Company went into receivership, effectively spelling the end of an exquisite sporting arm that counted Kermit Roosevelt (Theodore's son), Capt. Paul A. Curtis, Col. Townsend Whelen, Col. Charles Askins and Elmer Keith as its fans.Substantially better known and the only survivor of America's early bolt-action era is Griffin & Howe (www.griffinhowe.com), still doing business with retail stores in New Jersey and Connecticut and a shooting school.Seymour R. Griffin was a skilled young New York cabinet maker who became enthralled with the 1903 Springfield after reading glowing accounts of the rifle in Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails.Shortly after Roosevelt's book was published in 1910, Griffin purchased an '03 Springfield and restocked it in fancy French walnut. The handsome sporter caught the eye of a fellow shooter, who purchased it from Griffin.The cabinet maker immediately set about making another rifle for himself, but once again his intricate inletting and flawless carving resulted in another admirer purchasing the rifle. Thus, it wasn't long before Griffin was supplementing his cabinet-making income by creating stylish sporters for a small but enthusiastic group of shooters.One of Griffin's admirers was then Maj. Townsend Whelen, a man whose name repeatedly crops up in the annals of early 20th century gun makers as he was one of the most influential gun writers of his day. Whelen's published praise for Griffin's stock-making abilities brought the skilled craftsman to the attention of the nation's shooters.Coincidently, Whelen was also the commanding officer at Frankford Arsenal and director of research and development at Springfield Armory. It was there in 1921 that Whelen met another talented gun maker, James V. Howe, who was heading up the Small Arms Experimental Department at the armory and whose specialty was metalworking.Impressed with the expertise of both Seymour Griffin and James Howe, Whelen conceived of combining the complementary talents of these two craftsmen. Thus, the firm of Griffin & Howe was formed, with Whelen as an adviser. The shop opened at 234 East 39th St. in New York City on June 1, 1923.Evidently, James Howe was a somewhat opinionated and possibly cantankerous individual, as after only four months he left the company and joined a competitor, Hoffman Arms Company. "He only stayed long enough to get his name on the door," said Paul E. Chapman, Griffin & Howe's current vice president and director of gunsmithing.The three-leaf, gold-inlaid Griffin & Howe express sights (shown folded) are graduated for 100, 150 and 200 yards and an example of the "extras" found on some early bolt guns.Later, Howe went into business for himself, then restored firearms for Henry Ford's museum and finally ended up at the National Target and Supply Company, working alongside Townsend Whelen.But the name of Griffin & Howe--and the company's growing reputation for building some of the finest sporting rifles in the world--continued, thanks to the hard work of Griffin and the small but dedicated group of talented American and European craftsmen he assembled. In spite of the Great Depression and the impending war, there was a demand for Griffin & Howe's rifles, especially among sportsmen whose wallets could match their whims.Still, author Petrov estimates that in its pre-WWII heyday, G&H made fewer than 2,000 rifles. Each gun took from four to eight weeks to complete. Only the finest figured walnut was used, the best chrome-nickel or Poli Anti-corro barrels were obtained from companies such as the Niedner Rifle Corporation, and the finest engravers were employed.Options included full ribbed or half ribbed barrels to gold, silver or platinum inlays that ran the gamut from a simple gold band to a family's coat of arms.Special front and rear sights included G&H's express sights as well as its detachable scope mount. A single-lever version of this mount was patented in 1927, and in 1931 a two-lever model was added. Later, this device was employed by Griffin & Howe during World War II when it was contracted by the War Department to make sniper scope mounts for the M1 Garand. This innovative scope mount is still available on Griffin & Howe rifles today.In 1930, the company was purchased by Abercrombie & Fitch, although today it is once again privately owned. Its client list over the years reads like a Who's Who of the mid-20th century, including the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Robert Ruark, Jack O'Connor and Bill Ruger.Sadly, most of our other early American bolt-action pioneers are forgotten. Today one would have to search hard to find rifles made by Reginald Sedgley of Philadelphia; R.G. Owen of Sauquoit, New York; and Louis Wundhammer and Frank Pachmayr, both from Los Angeles.But that's not to say the guns made by craftsmen I've discussed are any less fascinating. As Larry Wales told me, "There are many more people interested in Newton rifles than I thought. The interesting part is that a person can be a Newton collector with one rifle, since they are so rare."Indeed, it's time these gun builders and their rifles were recognized for the classics that they are. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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Herbal tea drinkers are all scrunched up and miserable. They wish they were young enough to drink soda again but they can't because it hurts their stomach. Most of the time herbal tea drinker have just experienced a serious health scare and they went on some kind of spiritual journey through the herbal medicine books. At home they are taking all kinds of weird ground up tree root stuff out of irrational fear that their doctor might be wrong about that lump. Herbal tea at work is a way to hedge their bets. I mean, four billion healthy Chinese tea drinkers can't be wrong, right?
One other kind of herbal tea drinker is the lawyer that is far past their "sell by" date. They are hanging on in a back office by a thread, working a few clients here and there but mostly gossiping with the new receptionist. A few more years and you will find them slumped over their desk the next morning. Or they are going to finally get lung cancer and be done. Herbal tea is their way of taking a little break from the hard stuff lawyers do like returning phone calls and writing letters. They like the smell of the herbal tea because it reminds them of someplace safe like their flower garden at home where they don't have to worry about anything.
The last kind of herbal tea sippers are the weirdo granolas. They are going to set strange looking crystals on the edge of their desk. They smell like Patchouli. When they sit down in the breakroom they fold their legs underneath themselves on the seat and kind of perch sideways. They always hold their tea cup with both hands, cupping it like they saw some Tibetan monk do on a TV show. That guy was probably drinking warm Yak milk and harsh black tea, by the way – not sugary herbal stuff. Their reading glasses have strings of beads on the sides. They wear sweaters with sleeves that are too long and they don't roll them up. Every three months they put a poster up on the wall in the breakroom advertising 20% off colonics at their favorite herbalist's office. Don't ever take them up on their offer of trying their herbal tea. You might not pass your next drug test.
What your drink says about you: You are washed up, crazy, or dying of something. You can't handle anything harder than maybe some basic real estate cases or simple contract reviews but nobody wants to fire you and hurt your feelings.
Your hobby: Watching T.V., knitting, and pretending to garden. During dinner they talk to their spouse about all the funny things their herbalist said to them today.
You wear: Sustainably grown and fair labor priced hemp fiber clothing from Ecuador.
Your car: The bus. Maybe a sensible electric hybrid.
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Promotional keychains india
There are certain items in the marketing goodie bag that never go out of favor or fashion. Promotional keychains in India are one of them. They have been around since long and will continue to be one of the preferred promotional giveaways during marketing events. The reason is simple. They are affordable, easy to carry, very utilitarian and people never tire of adding to their collection.
The space they offer for promoting a message or logo may be limited. However given the fact they are used so frequently, they get the edge over other items. You can express your gratitude to your customers, trade partners by gifting them such personalized corporate keychains with your custom company logo printed on them. It is a nice and sober way of thanking them for their support. The designs and colors that are available today make them all the more alluring and eye catching.
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WebRTC is a free, open technology that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs. It supports browser-to-browser applications for voice, video and data without the need of proprietary plugins.
WebRTC consists of three APIs that can be used in both desktop and mobile browsers, IoT devices and mobile platforms:
WebRTC`s architecture looks like this
WebRTC is increasingly becoming supported by all major browser vendors like Chrome, Firefox and Opera and mobile platforms such as Android and iOS.
Currently, there is no free, high-quality, complete solution available that enables communication in the browser. WeRTC enables this.


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Anwar Ibrahim
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Yet Another Fire In Batu Kawa
Batu Kawa seems to have more than its fair share of floods and fires. Last Sunday another family at Lorong 22 Desa Wira saw their wooden house razed to the ground, losing all their possessions including their preparations for the Gawai festival forthcomoing in two weeks' time. It will be a bleak Gawai for this Iban family of two generations who have made their home here for the last 20 odd years.
Me, Mesah Suhaili and Suhaizal Amin paid a visit to convey sympathies and gave a small donation to the stricken family.
When I told the ladies in the house that we are from Parti Keadilan Rakyat, it registered blank. We also learned that the daughter and son-in-law are not registered as voters.
The ladies made us very welcome and were very happy to pose with me infront of the rubble.
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Labels: PKR Batu Kawa, PKR Sarawak, Sarawak
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- May 30, 2010 8:07 PM
Btw, nice outfit u have. U look more and more gorgeous!
- June 10, 2010 5:21 PM
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The aim is to introduce the HTML 5 File API into the upload process. Part of the task is to consider to what extent an available Javascript library is integrated or the logic is implemented independently The existing upload logic with the full file streams must be properly expanded. During this technological modification it must be ensured that file boundaries in the Upoad (configuration option) are correctly evaluated and that an upload that violates restrictions is prevented. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator


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The American Dream and the Climate Monster
Every day we are confronted by new, terrifying examples of the climate emergency we are living in.
A historic drought in Chennai, the sixth-largest city in India, is so severe that it's now visible from space. Over 4.6 million citizens are coveting every drop of water. The city has 99 percent less water than it had at this same time last year.
In America's heartland, the problem is the opposite. Corn and soybean farmers are in crisis because it's been the wettest 12 months ever in the U.S., with scientists agreeing climate change is the cause.
How did we get here?
There are three key dates that helped create the economic structure and climate emergency we are now in.
In 1754 Joseph Black discovered C02. Black noticed that upon heating, calcium carbonate (CaCO3) produced a gas more dense than air that could not sustain animal or plant life. He called this gas 'fixed air', but we now know it as carbon dioxide.
In 1776, as a new country was born across the Atlantic, Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations which became the intellectual underpinning of postindustrial age economic growth. The book brought the phrase "the invisible hand" into the mainstream, a phrase which has been often been used to justify a lack of government regulation of the private sector.
In 1791 one of the earliest versions of the gas-fired internal combustion engines was invented by entrepreneur, John Barber. This design was meant to power a horseless carriage and Barber's design included a chain-driven, reciprocating gas compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine.
These dates are symbiotic.
Smith's notion of modern capitalism and fossil fuels are the engine that drove and grew modern capitalization. This has propelled us towards this American dream we have been living in ever since.
Modern capitalism along with fossil fuels have propelled our growth. They have put us where we are now.
Global wealth is over $317 trillion and the United States has the largest share of it, at almost $100 trillion.
Cars, trucks, highways, power…all of these things and many more have been at the heart of this economic growth, and that has come at a cost.
Carbon dioxide levels today are higher than at any point in at least the past 800,000 years. The global average atmospheric carbon dioxide in 2017 was 405.0 ppm (co2.earth claims it has reached 413.52 as of April 2019). The annual rate of increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 60 years is about 100 times faster than previous natural increases, such as those that occurred at the end of the last ice age 11,000–17,000 years ago.
But let's be honest. Most people do not want to think about carbon. For hundreds of millions American's the American dream is really great, and it is not something we want to change.
The dream is comfortable. It can be really fun.
This dream propels us. It propels me. At its best, it's a dream about individualism, social mobility.
But far too often it's a dream about consumption with hyper-materialism being the scorecard it is measured by.
We see this and occasionally may pause to wonder who defined this dream. Who decided what was in it? Who decided how it is measured?
And while that dream plays in our heads, on our social media feed, and on television, there's something else happening that really could only be described as a monster from some horrible nightmare.
We all want to stay and live in the dream. Maybe, on occasion, we think about the monster, but it is just too hard. It hurts to believe it, see it or think about it.
This monster doesn't look like the ones we know, the ones we imagined in our childhood, the ones our books have described or our movies have shown.
Media tells us not to look at the monster and instead to stay focused on the dream. Our friends show us the dream every day, putting their best foot forward on Instagram and through social media. We don't want to look at that monster because the dream is so great.
If we don't want to think about the world, we can look down at our phones and go into another world.
Or if we want to get away from our phones for a minute, then we can turn on the TV and find some person doing something that helps us turn off anything in our brains that might be uncomfortable. "Reality" shows are always available to help us escape reality.
We have amazing video games. We have augmented reality, we have virtual reality, we have sports, we have e-sports, we have cannabis, we have crypto. We have Fox News. There are a lot of ways we can look away from the monster.
Until the monster comes to our town in the form of sixty-five mile an hour winds.
In California one million acres on fire at the same time.
Walls of fire that were so high and so fast that nothing any human could do could ever slow them down. Walls of fire that forced my wife and two year old to jump in the car and join 250,000 others in a long line of cars trying to escape the inferno.
In one neighborhood in Agoura, California called Seminole Springs, half of the mobile home park burned; it is as if a nuclear bomb went off.
In Paradise, California it was much worse. Hundreds of people died, and people ran while their shoes melted into the pavement.
There's a monster and it is everywhere. Which makes it hard to see.
It is also somewhere — Southern California in the case of the Woolsey Fire, Northern California in the case of the Camp Fire, in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina or in Churu, India, which was recently named the hottest place on the planet reaching 124° F.
Hundreds of millions of people will soon be at risk of starvation due to droughts, floods, crop failure yet there are so many different floods, typhoons, monsoons, tsunamis and famine, we lose track.
It all blends together.
So, we go right back to the dream as much as we can.
Desperate to avoid looking at the monster, to avoid waking up.
At some point for intelligent and empowered people, this becomes a choice. No one can now claim they didn't know.
The place I have come to, for me, my family, my three kids is that I want to look the monster in the eye.
I want to stare at that monster and to understand it clearly.
I want to see it — to understand what it is taking from us.
I want to grieve for what it has already taken from our world, and what it will take from my children.
I want to know I did all I could do in my imperfect life, using my time and resources.
I want to come to terms with the truth, and act like that terrible truth is real.
I want to fight the monster with everything I have.


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The ideal candidate must be people-oriented, highly motivated with a positive and friendly attitude.
– Be responsible for responding to troubleshooting tickets
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– Stocking supplies and inventory as it is received to include, but not limited to, counting, sorting, labeling, organizing inventory
– Repair damaged equipment
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It's easy to laugh - plus smiling and laughter makes us happier. Today I went to numerous websites to answer this question: How many muscles does it take to smile or frown? There are pages of answers, but to boil it down - no one knows for absolute sure. Many sources say it takes more muscles to frown that to smile. I just know that laughter and smiling makes you feel better than frowning and scowling.
Watch animals - they do funny stuff. Americas' Funniest Videos show animal clips a lot, and they are some of my favorite. People get uptight, tense and too stressed in the pursuit of daily living. Things can get you frustrated really easily:
• Like other drivers on the road
• Children
• Your job
• Your marriage
• Problems with your health
• Money problems
Maybe you're like me in that I always laugh about dumb things I did in the past. We just need to laugh sooner I think.
Ways to laugh more:
• Read a humorous book
• Go to a funny play
• Go see or a comedy movie
• Try to remember a couple funny jokes
• Hang out with some fun loving people - they laugh a lot
• Watch Americas Funniest Video –record them to watch again later
• Make a list of all the stupid or funny stuff you have done or said.
• See good comedians
• Watch old Bill Cosby videos
• Lastly Youtube has enough funny videos for you to watch a couple everyday for the next 10, 000 years.
A duck went into a restaurant and ordered breakfast. Later the waiter brought more coffee and the check, then the duck said, "I don't have any money – can you just put that on my bill?" yuk, yuk, yuk. I know it's really corny - but every time I speak, I use that little joke, and I always get a laugh. Most of the time, if you can make people laugh, they love being around you. The opposite is true as well – do you like being around a frowning unhappy person?
Laugh more; it keeps you happier. It's an easy thing to do but it's also easy not to do.


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Government Donates $500,000 to Cathedral Restoration Project
The Cathedral Restoration Project received a significant boost on Wednesday June 4th 2014, as Prime Minister Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit donated EC $500,000 to the cause.
The project which began in 2012, is estimated to cost EC $8-million.
Prime Minister Skerrit noted, as the Lord continues to provide for the state where the state can assist further the state will try to assist.
He stated, Dominica has been affected by the global and economic crisis, but by the grace of God the Government has been able to manage and continue to do many things for the country and for citizens of this country during these trying times.
Bishop of Roseau, His Lordship Gabriel Malzaire, thanked the government for the cash donation towards the project.
Bishop Malzaire added, the funds will assist the project significantly.
He said close to $5-million has already been raised leaving the balance at $3-million.
Project engineer Wendell Lawrence stated that the renovation which was scheduled to be completed in three years may proceed for another two to three years depending on the inflow of funds.


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All-time tales
By Sarla Sharma
THE oldest fables and folktales of the world that have survived the centuries and delighted millions over the ages belong to India and Greece. The earliest Indian collections of these tales were thePanchatantra, the Kathasarit-sagar and the Buddhist Jataka. They epitomised the wisdom of ancient India. They gradually travelled to the West through oral and literary channels. Alexander's invasion, the wandering gypsies, the travellers and the trades all helped to disseminate them to all parts of the known world.
Mass migration of people in those troubled and trying times due to the cruelty of the tyrants and the proselytising of Islam and Christianity, helped to spread these Indian tales far and wide. In West Asia, these Indian stories were often adapted and re-told to suit different civilisations, temperaments and faiths. They were also employed as moral stories and parables or allegories to drive home a point in an entertaining manner, mostly to illiterate audiences.
European collections of tales in medieval times included many Indian and other Eastern tales. Some such collections were The Seven Sages of Rome, Barlaam and Jos Haphat, Discipline Clericalis, and the Gesta Romanorum.
The system of relating a basic story running as a thread through innumerable other stories is native to the Indian story-telling genius. This frame so adroitly employed in the Panchatantra, appears to have been assiduously copied by Boccaccio in his Decameron. ThePanchatantra was also the moving force behind The Fables of Bidpai in England and the Fables de Pilpai in France.
According to the eminent folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916), many of the folktales of Europe have been traced, even in their adapted and garbled versions, to their origins in India via Persia and Asia Minor.
The Panchatantra is believed to have been written by one Vishnu Sharma, some time between 100 and 500 A.D. who apart from his own fables, incorporated the choicest extant tales of antiquity too. A verse at the beginning of Panchatantra runs:
One Vishnusharman, shrewdly gleaning
All wordly wisdom's inner meaning;
In those five books the charms compresses,
Of all such books the world possesses.
The Panchatantra was first translated from Sanskrit into Persian (Pehalvi) in the sixth century AD at the behest of King Sassanid of Persia. In the eighth century, this Pahalvi text was translated into Arabic by Abdullah Ibn-al-Muqafa. In the 11th century, a Greek version was also prepared. Thereafter, the Panchatantra also found its way into Latin, Italian and other European languages.
The Panchatantra tales have thus survived the vagaries of time, clime and language with added vigour, in adapted and imitated form, in translations and translations of translations. As Joseph Jacobs said in 1888, "I have edited Sir Thomas North's English version of an Italian adaption of a Spanish translation of a Latin version of a Hebrew translation of a Arabic adaption of the Pehalvi version of the Indian originals."
It has been estimated that the Panchatantra has over 200 versions in more than 50 languages. This is, indeed, a tribute to their imperishable nature.
The 19th century European scholars held the view that India owed so much to the Samian slave Aesop. This stands thoroughly disproved. In fact, it has been proved the other way round; at least one-fourth of Aesop's, especially the animal tales popular with children all over the world, have been traced to Indian origin. Some of these tales are: The Wolf and the Lamb, Jhe Fox and the Crow, The Ass in the Lion's Skinand The Cat Turned Into Maiden.
The German scholar Theodr Benfey (1809-1881) propounded in 1859 the theory of 'Indianistic origin of folktales', and their migration to Europe. This covered the master tales of Grimm Brothers of Germany. It was Benfey who removed all doubts and said that a majority of the tales going the rounds in Europe were derived from Eastern and mainly Indian sources. As regards fairy tales, it has been demonstrated by the Finnish folklorist Kaarle Krohn and his school that at least 50 tale types known in Europe are definite of Indian origin.


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Tomorrow is the DAY!!!
Will be away for 7 days, from 4th August - 10th August~!
I am going to enjoy this one week holiday in Bangkok~!
Hope everything's fine and safe over there =)
Will update a lot of posts with ton of pictures when I am back!!! (Hope I still have the energy to post it =P)


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Why Young Production Companies Should Leverage Data Analytics
According to Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat, technological advancements in communication and data collection have leveled the playing field for SMEs. Large corporations are now in direct competition with smaller, localized businesses who can provide equivalent services, as well as offer that "personal touch." As a fledgling production company, you need to utilize every available tool, like data analytics, to successfully compete against established companies.
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How often do you carry cash around these days? Do chip cards irritate you by increasing your transaction times? Wouldn't it be easier to just carry your phone and leave your wallet at home? Many Americans are beginning to switch from more traditional methods of payment in favor of convenient mobile payment options. In 2015, $214 billion was spent in mobile payments, and that number is growing steadily each year, proving that companies should be paying attention to customer's new payment preferences. You may not think that revamping your payment options is a priority for your production company, but it's something you may want to consider for these 5 reasons.
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
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I just love this little Bugaboo turtle!! I just think he's so stinkin cute. I had to make a circle card this time :) Don't forget to check out the Bugaboo website, every Friday they have a new freebie or two. The freebies are available for a week. They have new releases on every Tuesday and Friday. I LOVE their images. This one was a freebie a while back. Have a great weekend everyone!
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This is soooo cute!! Love that turtle!!
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Archive for the 'Consciouness' Category
Omniscience: The Voice of GodMonday, December 29th, 2014
EPIC Music: awe therapyTuesday, February 18th, 2014
There are dark times in every life.
Times when the treadmill tunnel just seems to be getting longer. Time when you feel like another cog in the machine, wearing out in the grind.
For such times you need something to make sense out of the chaos. And one way order arises from chaos is music: the joyful noise sentience makes to thank the Multiverse for awareness.
My favorite for emotive uplift is Epic music. The visual equivalent of looking at an image of a galaxy. You cannot perceive the pattern without feeling something deep within you cry out to embrace that grandeur and to be part of something great and beautiful.
Words get in the way. The best Epic music has no words in a recognizable language. The rhythm and chord progression is a calculus of its own and we all know its unseen secrets, we all know the flavor of exhultation and exaltation that comes from stirring music. Certain musical patterns resonant with our limbic system for various reasons, evoking pleasure on a level fusing the left hemisphere's craving for detail and the right hemisphere's passion for harmonic synergy. Not just ordered sound. Rightly and happily ordered sound. Join its chorus!
With certain music, there need be no explanation. It lifts you up emotionally like a wave and carries you forward in singing along with it, with your soul. With certain music you remember the sadness and the triumph both, and marvel at the miracle of existence. When you feel down, try this music. Jump-start your own joyful noise.
Mixed SignalsMonday, February 17th, 2014
There seems to be no avoiding that a daily bombard is bound to contain mixed signals.
Indeed, since the Input is from a vast admixture of Sources, one would expect variety in the quantity and quality of its contents. One is seldom disappointed in such an expectation.
Some of these sources are merely noise, patternless emanations from disparate randomness. The noise, however, is only an inconvenience — mere flavoring — that must be sifted out of the data without harshing the statistics.
Sometimes multiple signals received say different things. A source may recede, apparently withdrawing from consideration, only to return before despair sets in. When this occurs I am mystified but grateful.
Sometimes we can control the availability of data. Sometimes it is important to do so. Data's not gonna control itself. And reliable patterns are always comforting, in that they are self-consistent.
The Computation proceeds.
OasisSunday, February 9th, 2014
It's 6AM and I've been tossing and turning, as the cliche goes. In the chaotic and mysterious three pounds of gray goo that serve as my brain, sizzling with waves of ionic exchange, axonic and dendritic membranes are oozing with neurotransmitters; thoughts are colliding and interpenetrating in an attempt to process the recent incoming barrage of inputs and render some ordered sense of them.
In other words, I can't sleep because I cannot stop thinking. Finally I realize what it all means: it is time to go to work and produce output. To the keyboard!
Have you ever felt like this? Staggering from the desert wasteland that is most of my life, I somehow fall face first into fresh-smelling green grass and suddenly realize that I have come in from the sandstorm. I have reached an oasis.
Sometimes an Oasis is a safe haven: an unexpected job opening, acceptance into a graduate school, or finding an apartment you never expected to get. But for me, more often, an oasis is a new friend, someone you strike sparks with — a delightful and serendipitous opening of the heavens to bestow an undeserved gift in the person of another sentient creature that groks you as the trees grok the wind, as the waves caress the shore. A fellow traveler to whom you want to explain everything — but to whom, really, nothing need be explained.
Mine is a lonely existence. I have struggled to understand why a friend and I were given a technology too far ahead of its time to be applied (and to make money) in our own lifetimes. I have struggled to understand why I have lived when better folks than I have perished in the grind of the times. And I have struggled to find a place for myself in which I can contribute the the welfare of all without hurting anyone.
What makes life worth living, for me, is the occasional discovery of kindred spirits who 'get' me, who understand the same things as I, who have read the same books, enjoyed the same movies, and gleaned from them the same insights or delusions as I have. Some of the same thoughts are occupying both our brains, like distributed software on multiple processors. When I meet such persons, it is like falling into an oasis, a place of refuge and spiritual support that recharges me and enables me to shoulder my pack and head out into the wilderness blazing a trail that almost no one knows or cares about.
And not just recharges. Meeting such a person overstimulates me to the extent that I cannot sleep. Can't sleep — must think: what is the Multiverse trying to tell me this time?
This is where I am now. Sleepless but refreshed, distracted but inspired, bewildered and yet somehow focused. Unjustifiably happy and serene in a turbulently jubilant way, if that is possible. I am trying not to remember how few and far apart such oases seem to be for me, and to enjoy this one before I put my face in the wind again. I will continue, and continue knowing such persons exist and wish me well.
You know who you are. This is not about me, it is about you. Waiting has filled.
Thinking about Thinking I: Is Writing Important?Thursday, January 9th, 2014
This is a post that really belongs in two categories, Consciousness and Writing.
Sometimes you might ask, why do we need writers? Why can't they all stop writing about life and just start living it? Of course they are living; dead writers generally stop writing. But the question still seems meaningful, because it often appears that writers are getting paid to do what everybody is already doing. They just get more attention because people think they talk about it better. Or just use bigger words to say it.
But there's more to it than that. People in many occupations are paid to think. You wouldn't want a surgeon or a dentist or an attorney who works for you thoughtlessly. The difference is, while everybody thinks, some more than others, their thoughts are usually one-offs that are used and then discarded. Gone. Never experienced again.
But that's not the case with writers. Writers also think, but they write their thoughts down, so that they don't disappear. We probably all know good cooks and mechanics, but the ones that take time to write down how they do something well make it possible for others to learn how to do that thing in much less time.
This is why writing and books are important. We usually date the start of a civilization from the time it invents a form of writing. From that point on, knowledge can accumulate, can grow, instead of being merely maintained by verbal transmission from teacher to student. The great civilizations of the past were founded on remembering what works and what doesn't discovered and preserved in writing.
There are some people who never read how-to books, and other who never read novels. The how-to people may tell you that books that teach you how to do things are useful and good, whereas novels are "merely" stories that entertain. They would thus make a distinction between scientists and engineers and craftsmen, who teach us things to make life better, and "mere" novelists who are storytellers that help us kill time between work and sleep.
I've been both kinds of person. In college and graduate school, I concentrated on physics and math because they seemed productive fields of endeavor. I still watched movies and read novels, but in my heart I considered them play rather than work. Mere recreation. I pursued a technical career in computer programming, now called software development. And I believed I was contributing to the greater good.
Now I am writing, and while I love it I am surprised at how much work it can be. You may think or reading as play time, but writing is not, I assure you. And it is important work, even if you're "merely" writing a story. I still believe I am contributing to the greater good.
Why? Because I am trying to come up with thoughts that are meaningful and worth keeping. If a novel is just "a bunch of stuff that happened" it might not be worth much. But in any serious effort at writing, the characters in the story will have thoughts. The difference between a trivial work and a good one is that these thoughts will be non-trivial. Reading the story, watching the film or play will make you think, too. You will see something in a way you hadn't considered, or be reminded of an important insight you had and then forgot. You will be reminded just how precious life is, just how much of a difference one person can make, or how life-changing choices can be. In other words, you will have experiences you would not have had if you had spent the time playing Angry Birds.
Writing is important. It's not the most important thing, maybe, or the only important thing in our lives. But it is important.
Modal Logic and Quantum MechanicsWednesday, November 27th, 2013
And here I am again. Yes this is me today. It's too late to hide now.
Today I'd like to talk about modal logic. My introduction to symbolic logic and the predicate calculus began in a philosopy & logic class in the late Seventies. But that was merely true-false logic.
Modal logic is a generalization of simple logic, going beyond whether statements are true or not, but whether it is possible for them to be true, or necessary that they be true.
The combination of these operators yields some interesting theorems:
If this sounds more like philosophy (epistemology) as well as Quantum Mechanics, then perhaps it is. For example, one way to state the principle of "mixed states" such as we find in the "uncollapsed state vectors" might be the following:
Conversely, if one passes a beam of spinning particles such as electrons through a magnetic field so as to cause the "spin up" particles to deflect one way and the "spin-down" particles to deflect the other way, then the states are no longer mixed. In this case, looking at either one of the diverged result beams, we find that it is no longer possible to observe both "up" and "down" states:
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Monday, February 17, 2014
Radical Shift: homeotypic mutants
first a crack, then the failing remnant of architecture out of energy, unable to contain the forces of an ever shifting ground that is its own urban territory, erupting with the influx of individuals perpetuating their own fingerprint. the collective must again find harmony through the honest assertion that there is no harmony here. the mutant, if it wishes to survive, must seek a helping hand and accept instability as ally, for its static, brittle shell could only hold on for so long...
Bridges to airdocks, baby. Oh yeah.
Friday, December 27, 2013
A Look Toward 2014
More humanism in design? Sure. Advancements in automation for the end user? Probably. More voices than ever before? Always.
It can be hard to think of new surprises for the near-now, but if remix culture has taught us anything, it's that novelty often extends from trying on a new lens, or 13.
1. On new physical tokens to act with digital interface:
2013 showed us grasping at straws from comically misplaced energy in watches to virtually-there presence through physical armatures (like this). For 2014, we can all agree that hardware will continue its step down and software its rise while we (hopefully) return to the experiment phase that began with the ubiquitous glass brick. Now that we've mastered a million ways to post selfies, it's time to continue to unlock the true power of all this hardware in our pocket. Full room computing is a good start.
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2. That same Heads Up Display on-demand approach will apply to our attitudes to permanence in environment as well. Like our grandparents know to never touch and smudge the glass, we've learned to always touch the glass, because, usually, it makes something magic happen. In 2014, look for our hard-edged, permanent physical barriers to be dynamic in the information they provide and the linkages they create to surrounding and remote zones. Digitally hail a taxi from any concrete curb? Yes, please get me our of the pouring rain!
3. Lastly, the joint concepts of ownership and sharing will continue to fall into question. Digital content licenses and streaming content set up a world where we rent our content and buy a temporary holding vessel to access it. There's already been attempt and backlash to this idea, like the Xbox One strategy (this video sums it up nicely), but early adopters will eventually influence the market and solidify the digital licensing puzzle. All of it is way out of my area of expertise, though, so I'll say as designers, it's time to look into the advantages of the system. We certainly like de-cluttering. And what about that hardware? Why bother collecting logo'd boxes for generations of the same device? Let's face it - we've been collecting obsolete 'stuff' for years. Isn't it time we figure a way to keep the closets clean? Watch those pitchforks come out when the proposal to rent hardware starts rolling (I'd expect from credit card companies most of all).
Those are my sweeping declarations common to this time of year. What's on your horizon?
Cheers to the New Year!
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Environment: Like any confine, only perceived
"A waterfall is not a 'thing,' nor is a flame of burning gas // both are, rather, a stable pattern of energy determining the boundaries of a characteristic sensible 'shape' in space and time. The waterfall I present to consciousness only so long as water flows through it, and the flame, only so long as the gas continues to burn."
Quote: Architectural critic, Reyner Banham
Drawing: me
What if your space grew to how you actually used it? What does group mass-customization look like? A bit like the above from studying a government building's lobby in Brasil.
Bon sui-
Saturday, November 2, 2013
The Resiliance of the Strand
Gotfried Semper announces his third of The Four Elements of Architecture, enclosure, as enabled through weaving - the first creation of surface, thus the first to grow in scale to divide space.
I've spent time adapting this idea to 3 and 4 dimensions as in the coded experiment in the above image: A snap shot from my bio-weaving thesis, which can read more about here. The main relevance is in the idea of taking strand-based materials, training bacteria to weave them in to various forms and densities at the molecular scale, and therefore re-adapt broken architecture into usefulness once again.
Now that is both en vogue and notably beneficial to develop structural form with woven tensioned bits, such as the luscious and sought-after Nike Flyknit , it must now be wondered, are we in the position to push the technology to tighter tolerances and drive our built environment full circle?
Will your next (maybe one after that) be woven instead of predictably 3d printed? Carbon fiber is the couple-decades old awareness builder in this category - no? One can hope, just as I can hope to find the right outlet for this experiment, maybe in a non-weather tight scenario.
Cheers, and do good work.
Friday, September 13, 2013
The View Onward
Has it been since January? Ridiculous. Let's get things warmed back up with a bit of a refresher in my madness. We'll be trying out fewer essays and more quick whits to keep things moving forward while attempting to not stall out all over again. Ready? Go.
Lead image: from graphic novel by Jean-Claude Mezieres.
Many elements of the science fiction future are no longer relevant as societal goals. For example, the flying car is obsolete, giving way for our emphasis on communication technologies, which can provide more efficient roads through autonomous cars. An urban evolutionary curve ball.
See below on clear trends throughout history toward that conclusion, beginning with ancient man's stone sat nav.
*note: driverless cars are obvious now, and neatly on the near horizon. These works date to near 5-years ago. Pretty keen - no? My obvious mistake? I put the mass production and adoption of driverless cars way off in the future (ad2043), when, really, we can expect to buy one in probably less than 5.
Talk soon.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Physical Tactility from a Digital World: Firewall by Aaron Sherwood + Mike Allison
Find the original designboom post here: http://www.designboom.com/art/firewall/
This piece of awesome must be noted for it's relation to developing an interactive multi-media experience with physical controls, operating in digital space. It's use as part of the performance piece, "Mizalu" to premiere in June of 2013, hits home for me as a logical step in the growing digital influence on high art, including spatial design, audience engagement, and increasing permanence in architecture. Once again, we see further achievement the use of affordable, available tools in making novel experience, and very close resemblance to the oft mentioned dream sketch my programming-inabilities won't yet let me achieve, Monster: The Entertainer's Guide.
Watch it work:
I'll be the first to point out the light connection between music change and users' touch, but this being a result of visual input (the Kinect sensor monitoring the extent of spandex beyond its frame), this lower resolution is to be expected. The project stands as metaphor for the barriers of unknowing the relation of life and death, and I hope, as well as near-future of nextgeneration multi-reality interactive environments. Cheers to 2013!
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The Lighter Side of Lights
The aim: to create a series of go-together lighting solutions in some commonly used areas with easily available materials at a reasonable cost, starting with the austere, minimalistic Modern form-meets-function aesthetic, then screwing it all up with red power cords looking like they were drawn on by your 3 yr old nephew. Boom. The result is lighting with great personality without drastic steps in the addition of superfluous ornament. Basic functional pieces are toyed with: power cord being used as structure in truss-like tension, standard steel bases and rods used as balancing elements, table lamp being used as a crane to hoist a pendant, keeping in the family of the others.
My personal catalyst? I needed something that could be easily applied to my rental without making any changes to the way existing features hang. Thus, I get loads of visual interest without any generic stuff from the big boxes. I am cheap. My cost to put these together is low.
There are a couple RFPs out there targeting affordable lighting, but adding the widely performed social responsibility of eco-consciousness. I DO have a vested interest in cork reforming, as it can cast over and over, and is more than readily available in disposed-wine cork form. Grind it up, heat in your mold at 500deg for some time, and a beautiful, smooth, finished looking shape emerges. If you look at my past example of making liquid-organic shapes from rigid materials, you'll get an idea for what kind of molded-cork aesthetic I'd be seeking. More on that as the experiments continue.
*note: scanner works now, and it turns out it's terrible (i.e. gray patches on the left not part of my original, CLEAN sketch).
Monday, November 5, 2012
On Space Time Foam: Interactive perception altering installation
|Courtesy of: http://www.hangarbicocca.org
I'll have to add this to the list of works I believe would benefit from the use of projection to aid in perception of materiality and other-worldliness. Maybe even as far as changing the scenery dependent on accomplishing shapes of the surface or position within the space.
Find the Original Post here, and watch the vid for some artist-process insight.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Chase Jarvis on Paradigm Shifts in... construction.
Photo curtousy of blog.chasejarvis.com
Chase Jarvis, notable Seattle-based photographer, recently made this post on a new residential construction project by 1:1 Arkitektur, wherein they deploy CNC milling efficiency to piece together a fully assembled home, free of traditional connectors such as nails. It is made of 100% wood, facilitated by the automated flexibility in creating complex, puzzle-like shapes for each element to fit together using our industry's latest cutting tool.
I'd especially like to point this project out as a common proponent of seemingly-far fetched methods in design and construction, and for you, as a reader and potential client to these new methodologies, to consider the implication of truly sustainable operations, fueled by emerging technology, as a practical and ideal means to an environmentally-feasible and cost-effective end.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Techno-round up: physical pixels and digital buildings
Well here we are with some cybermimetic examples from opposite spectra. The first is a physical manifestation of the most fundamental digital unit: the pixel. Installed at the 2012 Hyundai Motor Group Exhibition, the South Korean media arts group Jonpasang used many, many lightweight cubes (approx. 12"x12") controlled by a large artifice at each wall composed of steel grid and stepper motors. The liquidity of the pixel is transformed as texture, image, and sequence IRL. Admittedly due to the bias of my interest in melding physical with virtual simultaneously, I do believe there is a missed opportunity to incorporate digital imagery on the scene in the form of projection or the like. Read more here: Architect's Newspaper via University of Michigan TCAUP
And in honorable mention, not for its provocation in spatial awareness, but for it's practical application in life saving tech, this is MS Kinect sensor adapted for rescuers to wear on their chests in order to develop accurate digital floor plans as they run through! I have a soft spot for Kinect hacking, but this is nonetheless a very exciting prospect. Read more here: Gizmodo via MIT
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Twenty-three youth aged 10 to 20 attended Toyota's kartStART program at Greg Moore Raceway in Chilliwack BC July 8th – 10th.
KartSTART is a unique family driving education program that is designed to give youth, teenagers, and their families a true – real-world – understanding of the physics behind driving a motorized vehicle.
During this half-day session our youth had the opportunity to climb behind of the wheel of the kartSTART go kart.
The expert drivers at kartSTART gave our youth a hands-on training of how vehicles work, how to steer, using the throttle, breaking, and most importantly, they learned how all of these things work together all while in the safety of a go kart.
In addition, the families that attended the kartSTART program are mentored in the latest safety developments in road cars.
Special thank you to: Carolyne Neufeld and kartSTART http://www.kartstart.ca/


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Lesotho is located in Southern Africa, at the bottom of Africa. It is surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is found around 29º30' south latitude and 28 º 30' east longitudes. It has a total land area of 30,355 square kilometres.
The Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) is the main parastatal of the Government of Lesotho charged with the implementation of the country's industrial development policies.
"The mandate of the Corporation is to initiate, promote and facilitate the development of manufacturing and processing industries, mining and commerce in a manner calculated to raise the level of income and employment in Lesotho." more...
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Oh, how I am loving the Perfectly Preserved Stamp Set and coordinating Cannery Framelits! I must confess that these items were not on my list when I looked through the mini catalog. The product suite is a bit "country" and that's not my natural style.
Luckily, Stampin' Up spoils me a bit (due to my title with the company) and gives me bundles of products for free…and this was one of them. I about squealed with delight when punching out these sweet little flowers. Aren't they darling?
A lot of things are happening TOMORROW (Aug. 1):
- The video for this card will be up on StampNation tomorrow, kicking off our Holiday Open House (we will tip the scales at over 220 videos tomorrow!)
- You can order this product suite along with tons of other new goodies! Stampin' Up's Holiday Mini Catalog goes LIVE!
- My newsletter will go out with a video featuring another card using this suite. If you are not a newsletter subscriber yet, fill in your deets in the box at the top of the sidebar. See ya on the other side!
Have a wonderful day and I'll see you for all the excitement in the morning!
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Is your kid into drugs? Even just a little? I mean, illegal drugs.
Grab him or her by the hand and spend a morning in Judge Sharon Prather's courtroom, Room 304 at the McHenry County Government Center. Get there about 8:50AM and have a seat in the front row. Tell your kid to take notes.
Have your kid listen to Judge Prather advise a defendant of his or her rights. Watch the parade of men and women in the orange jail clothing, as they are escorted from "custody" to the bench. Tell your kid to write down the risk of a term in the Illinois Department of Corrections, the maximum fine that might be imposed, the length of probation after a sentence is completed.
Have a real discussion with your kid about what his or her choices could lead to.
Ask him (or her) to what extent he is using drugs. Not "if", but "to what extent".
Ask if he ever shares them with friends.
Ask how he gets them; from whom does he buy them?
Ask how often he has sold them.
Ask if he has felt he needs to sell them, in order to get the money to buy his own?
Ask how he would feel if he were caught and had to come into the courtroom from the jail side of that door, wearing orange.
Ask if he would care how you felt to see him at the bench, being read the charges against him.
Take him to your lawyer and ask how much a defense would cost. Tell him whether or not you will further mortgage your home, blow your retirement plan or otherwise spend your money to defend him.
Ask him if it's worth it to destroy his life with a misdemeanor or felony charge and/or conviction in a criminal record.
And then tell him (or her) that you love him and, if he ends up in court, you'll be there to watch what happens, but it is he who will pay the price.
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Why buy property in sapanca Turkey
With Sapanca recently appearing on the map as a stunning holiday destination for nature lovers, and on the real estate map too, investment properties can currently be snapped up at very affordable prices.
As the area grows, it is inevitable that the property prices will follow close behind, increasing alongside the demand for quality holiday and investment properties.
Land prices are low at this time and as investors and developers move in this area will be a gold mine for property investors, offering a healthy income from holiday rentals which are increasing as every year passes.
Nature-view apartment for sale in Sapanca
Browsing various websites looking to buy nature view apartment in Sapanca? - The mountains of Sapanca in the Sakarya province of Turkey are covered with dense forests while vast landscapes are often huge fruit orchards, one of the finer green regions of Turkey that surrounds a vast natural lake, all just over 1-hour from Sabiha Gokcen airport in Asian Istanbul.
When looking for a nature view apartment in Sapanca for sale you will not be disappointed with the views on offer as you will see green scenery whichever way you look, however, you will also see that most nature view apartment in Sapanca for sale will also offer a view of the blue lake and if you are looking at prices for nature view apartment in Sapanca as a buy-to-let investment then the combined lake and nature view would be recommended if you seek a high income, which in Sapanca can be a year-round income when you buy nature view apartment in Sapanca you will also offer guests access to the city of Istanbul, the Yalova Thermal spa town and the Uludag winter ski resort for activities throughout the year.
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Tropical Tease
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Ella Fontaine (BRISBANE)
Sweetpea (USA)
Chris Oh (EUROPE)
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Ruby Slippers (MELBOURNE)
Caterina Vitt (GOLD COAST)
Magnolia Knife (BRISBANE)
Darla Harland (PERTH)
Les Satiniques (PERTH)
Natasha St James (GOLD COAST)
The Australian Burlesque Festival – Tropical Tease!
Celebrating 10 successful years
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Celebrating ten successful years.
The biggest celebration of burlesque in the Southern Hemisphere. If you are going to one burlesque event this year make it this one!!
Starring local and some very special international stars of the stage!!
For more information on performers, merchandise, workshops and more head to the website: www.australianburlesquefest.com
Venue Information & Facilities
Venue: Miami Marketta
Show: Doors open 7pm. Show starts 730pm.
Address: 23 Hillcrest, Parade Miami QLD, 4221
Phone: 0488 590 599
Website: www.miamimarketta.com
Off-street parking
Disability access
Food and beverages available – Marketta Street Food will be open, 20 plus street food vendors.
Seating – when coming as a group we suggest to buy tickets together so that it is easier to seat together. There are 10 VIP tables, seating 6 people. All other seating theatre style. Contact venue for more details.
Dress code – Evening attire or smart casual
18+ event. Adult content. May contain partial nudity.
Tickets non-refundable and non-transferable.


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Oslo based hip hop/dancehall artist Efe has got new music out and this one is called 'Ginger'.
Efe was raised with and was first exposed to music by his parents who were involved in church music. This has been a blessing and a curse for him; a curse in the way of high expectations from his parents who are skilled in the same area (music) where his passion lies.
He moved to Norway when he was 15 after living in Nigeria and New york. For Efe making music is a form of expressing himself, which he does through his lyrics.
Lyrics are an important element of my music, many of the texts are based on events that have occurred in my life. Through the texts, i want to inspire others to not lose faith – Efe
Listen, share and enjoy his single; 'Ginger'…


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Please contact email@example.com to request a copy of any of the following presentations and papers.
PCIe Gen6 and the Road to PAM4 (DesignCon presentation)
DisplayPort 2.0 Compliance Test (VESA Workshop)
HDMI 2.1 Cable/Connector Test Update & Case Study (seminar presentation)
HDMI 2.1 Cable Design Challenges and Test Considerations (2018 DevCon presentation – HDMI Adopters only. Contact GRL for a copy.)
Constructing a 50G PAM4 Optical Stressed Receiver Eye (application note)
56G PAM4 De-embedding Case Study
VESA DisplayPort Compliance Updates (presentation, May 2018)
100/400G Channel Modeling and Simulation (seminar presentation)
Practical Considerations for CAUI4 and OIF-CEI Transmitter Testing (seminar presentation)
Power Over Ethernet Overview (seminar presentation)
Type-CTM Design Case Study
SAS1-4 and SATA Test Solutions Webinar
VESA DisplayPort Compliance Updates (presentation November, 2018)
PCI Express 3.0/4.0 Receiver Testing (seminar presentation)
SAS-4: from 12Gbps to 22.5Gbps (seminar presentation)
Video Protocols Design & Test (seminar presentation)
USB 3.1, Type-CTM, and Power Delivery: Design and Test Challenges and Solutions (seminar presentation)
HDMI Developers Conference 2017 Presentation
NVM Express (seminar presentations)
20Gb/s+ Receiver Test Challenges & Solutions (DesignCon presentation)
SD Card UHS-II Next Generation (seminar presentation)
Microprobing Modeling and Error Correction Techniques to Optimize Channel Design (DesignCon white paper)
Frequency and Time Domain Analysis for High Speed Channel (seminar presentation)
De-Embedding Technique using Automatic Fixture Removal (AFR, case study)
GRL & Keysight Signal Integrity Seminar Presentations