My Goal – “Learn something new today.” – Guilloché or Guiloché

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My Goal – “Learn something new today.” – Guilloché or Guiloché

It is a very odd word indeed. “Guilloché”. Sometimes it is written “Guiloché”.

Have you heard of this before? It would make a great Scrabble if you had the right letters and clean out your complete letter base!

“Guilloché” is also known as or used in these ideas or machines..
-  Rose engine (metalwork)
-  straight line engine turning Tour à guilloché (metalwork)
-  Holtzapffel lathe, named after the founder of an ornamental lathe manufacturer John Jacob Holtzapffel
-  Decoration lathe (metalwork)
-  damaskeening (watch movements and horology)
-  Geometric lathe (security printing)
-  Cycloidal engines (security printing)
-  Ornamental turning or ornamental lathe (woodcarving).

I have seen this on very old antiques and furniture. I have used it while working with tools that need a good grip on it. In fact in my garage I have a Lathe that my dad bought 69 years ago now, and it will make the “Rose Engine” affect or Guilloché.

Amazing! But as of two days ago I had no idea what Guilloché was about. But now I can make something that is Guilloché.

That still doesn’t really let you see what it is all about – does it?

Here is one of my example Guilloché that I have created for this posting. Yes I did make this by hand – with my hands on my computer.

The possibilities are endless. I wish that I was younger and could have known about this many, many years ago! Oh boy!

So why bother doing this in my retirement? Shouldn’t the young people be able to do this easier than you can? Maybe. But it is fun knowing something that 99% of the young and old friends of mine have no clue about!

I will be using this method in creating wings for some of my Angels and Fairies that I am now drawing. Doing this tedious drawing by hand takes time… but by letting the machine do the work… it is only a few clicks away.

My dad told me a long time ago, “Murray, don’t be afraid to learn something new.” I have lived by these words for the better part of my 68 years of life.

I have added one more great saying that I picked up in the last years as well. “Learn something new each day, it will keep you young!”

So Guilloché is my latest and greatest achievement this week… at least in the last two days and here it is for the public to see.

But then I have been working on another new thing as well. Here is my very first graphic illustration done completely in the key board. Up to now I have hand drawn my illustrations with a pencil and pen on my paper. This little fairy is 100% computer drawn – still with my hand but none of the traditional art equipment.

Wahooo!!!! It worked well.

Today I am about to do one more new thing. It will take a little bit of reading, along with a whole lot of hands on and a few headaches along the way. But I can’t wait.

What are you learning today?

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilloch%C3%A9

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“Facebook can be depressing – this week for sure – BUT…”

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“Facebook can be depressing – this week for sure – BUT…”

Sheesh! All my friends (or acquaintances) on Facebook.. that hardly ever post anything are now on cruises or lulling around a pool in the warm sunshine – in the south. And they are posting their photos and stories and stuff from warm places.

Not cool! Here I am stuck in a cooler part of Canada. I have no reason to head south or west or east. I sure am not going to head NORTH!

I am stuck because I have no “Kids” at home anymore. My grandkids are still around and it is there school break – not mine.

I feel cheated in some ways. My wife and I should have 16 kids instead of 2. And if we could have had the last one when we were 58+ we could get a way on a school break this week as well.

Whoa… that would make the little guy 10 years old when I am 68… and 14 when I would be 72.

Maybe that wasn’t such a good thought. Yet I have some friends that are doing just that.. they are old and their kids are young!

God has a reason that we have kids young. They require the time and energy from their mom and dad… that I can’t give.

But another thought just popped up. Hey, it is cool. After this very fast school break week is over – in just 6 or 7 short days from now… my break will still be on. In fact it will last all this year – right up to December 31st… then I will pick up on another break starting on January 1st 2013.

Every day is break day now!

The thought of being able to enjoy what I do now is so good. Each day is filled with pleasant activities. Each week is gliding along toward a great spring. Then summer will be here to lull around in our local park with our lawn chairs, picnic basket, and my wood carving. We will stay from midmorning until late afternoon… the breeze will be cool under the shade of the large trees…

After this week is over, just about the time that most of my Facebook Friends head back to their office… I am going to post photos showing me doing nothing – absolutely nothing at all. I will show them what it is like to enjoy something so simple… Oh boy this will be fun.

Enough poking fun at them… sorry Friends of mine.

I really am enjoying the delights of retirement, the good books and time to read them, the business of Wood Carving and Lace Making, the interaction with very interesting people. I simply am loving life – just the way that it is.

It is doubtful that you are reading this when you are so far away… I hope you have a great time in the warm climate… and I hope you now have many wonderful memories.

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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My CAC and the My Involvement in Our CAC

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My CAC and the My Involvement in Our CAC

Yesterday I quickly explained that I was on a “ride-a-long” with someone from the Parole Office. I did this as part of the CAC – the Citizen Advisory Committee to which I have served with in Peterborough, Ontario for 13 years now.

You can look at the Link given below in the Resources area of my Blog to read more about the CAC.

I am 1 of about 500 people across Canada that does this task. From what you can read on the CSC Web Site(the Link below) our groups across Canada number about 100

Yesterday with the Manager of the Parole Office, Nancy, we visited different business in the downtown core of the Peterborough. It was introduction day for Nancy and also some of the key businesses of our city. In the next few weeks our Parole Office will be closing where it has been for a number of years. During April it will take up its new facilities… moving a short distance to the east and a bit north.

The meetings yesterday went very well and we connected with some great leaders in our community. Very positive was the best way to say it.

As a Citizen why bother to get involved with this group. I mean it is a Federal Government Department, what do they care about what people think or not? I mean doesn’t the Government pretty well do what they want when they want?

The above reflections are pretty much what some people think.

I can testify to fact that the Federal Government’s “Correctional Service Canada” does care what people think.

They also care about community safety and they care about Offenders that are charged, tried, convicted and then become inmates at the Federal Institutions across Canada.

And maybe most important they care about the Victims of the Crime that was committed by the Offender. Along with that care is the community at large, the community that the Ex-Offender returns back to after he is released from prison.

My small role is to help in the community when the man or woman returns to the place they used to live. Or in the case of some as they settle into the new community where they may come to serve the residency clause that the Parole Board may require when he is released – living the Halfway House.

The CSC Web Site states this about me and the other 499 folk that help them… quote…
“Citizen Advisory Committees (CACs) contribute positively to the correctional process by interacting with staff of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), the public and offenders, and providing impartial advice and recommendations to CSC.
Citizen Advisory Committees and Volunteers are vital to the proper functioning of the Correctional Service of Canada.” End quote.

In this role I connect with our Parole Office Staff as they carry out their duties in our community. I get to know them personally and listen carefully to what they are dealing with.

I can testify to the fact that the Peterborough Parole Office and its staff have an excellent record of dealing with the men that come back from prison. I can say that because I have witnessed what they do personally for the past 13 years. And it is good.

Does that mean that there have been no problems with men that have come from Prison and back to our community? No not at all. There have been problems. Men have done things that have broken the conditions that they were to live under. The Parole Staff then very efficiently and quickly deals with the situation and the man has a ride back to prison.

One of the Parole Officer’s goals is to keep the community safe. They personally live in the community and raise their families here, why wouldn’t they want the same things that the community wants.

My small task is to watch all of that happen.

This new move always has the potential to be difficult for the community. Change is not easy. It also has the possibility of being hard on the Staff. They will be making a move of their lives from one area to another – almost like a whole new job for a few months… yet they still have to maintain the high level of service they offer to the ex-offender and the community.

The last thing they want or need is for the community to be upset with the transition taking place.

That was our reason for the meetings of yesterday.

My role is a quiet one… and yet at times I do make presentations and often speak about what is happening around me. I don’t give out names and details but I can tell you what is taking place in our community to keep it safe.

Yes, I am excited about what I do in this volunteer role. It may be just about the best thing that I have ever taken part in.

And YES – Peterborough has the greatest staff of Parole Office Personnel that there is in Canada… but I am a little partial I admit.

Finally – thank you to our Parole Office Staff members across our Nation. As a citizen I have witnessed firsthand what you do… and it is good! And I have also witnessed what the CSC Staff inside the Institution does as well. They are simply amazing as well! Thank you to all of you!

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Resource:
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/cac/index-eng.shtml

Ride-a-long with a Parole Officer

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As a CAC member I am doing a ride-a-long today with a Parole Officer… more later.

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Where is the needle on your Worry Meter?

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Where is the needle on your Worry Meter?

A solar storm is taking place now and in the next few hours…I could be nuked somehow and it could affect the power grids all over the place.

Apple Computer company released its new iPad that is faster and better than all before, but not as good as the one that will come next and the one that will come after that one… and it is $499 (only) but I am still dreaming about owning the first iPad or the second iPad2…

Poor Peyton Manning got the short end of the stick and he is out of the Colts locker room. Poor guy was crying when he was saying good bye… but if he stayed someone was going to pay him $28 million signing bonus or something.

My MP in the Canadian Parliament embarrasses me because he can’t give a straight answer and makes everyone in Peterborough look stupid.. or something…

The Government is changing society with its new Legislative Bills and they are caught up screaming about what happened in the last election… while stuff is slipping through… and answers to questions asked are given really weird twists. I think it is called “Baffle Gab”. Many people have lost faith in the politicians…

The American Political world is reported more in Canada than our own political stuff is… are we soon to be American… maybe after the Solar Storm hits us… maybe…?

My mind swirls with weird stuff today… and I am not sure where to look for sanity!

How about you?

Where is your worry meter’s needle today? Mine was getting close to “I don’t give a Ding Dong anymore!”

But there is hope… and this is so off the wall… I cleaned up a pile of old books and some other things too that came to me very quickly one day. WOW!

I found my favorite Water Bottle that I have been looking for over the last two months!

And in the book pile I found a treasure chest of material that will help me immensely in the next stage of my business! What a find!

I turned from the crappy news that has come my way and am delighted in my new finds.

The Worry Meter’s needle just moved to a better spot… to “Today is going be okay…!” and “Tomorrow will be much better!”

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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My Silent Movie World – “The Artist”

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My Silent Movie World – “The Artist”

I was shocked into a world of the almost silent. The screen was filled with nothing but black and white images. But it wasn’t completely silent in that there was movie music woven all through the show.

Does that sound complicated for you.

Last evening my wife and I saw “The Artist”, a movie about the silent movie days and the transformation to the newer talking movies (sound movies).

During the silent movie era people might have had a live orchestra playing down front as the action on the screen took place… or they may have had a single piano player spicing up the movie with his ability to entertain.

Last night we were whisked back to the ear between 1927 and 1932. My mom was 5 years old way back in 1927 – so it really predates her 91 years.

I listened to the people around me in the theatre. There was dead silence for the most part and yet some did laugh out loud at the appropriate places. And the audience was 90% people my age… with a mixture of the sharper young adults.

I doubt I could get my grandkids to sit through this one. Not nearly enough noise and action. This one required a person to think the entire way through the story that you knew was going to go a certain way.

BTW – every Old Car buff needs to see this movie. This show was loaded with dozens of vehicle from the early days of the automobile.

My head is still feeling the sense of the silent movies. Oddly enough I can hear the music this morning early.

You gotta go… it is not likely to be back in the theatres again real soon… you gotta go…. Before the lack of blood a guts and explosions blows this one away…go!

Take a look at the Trailer http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2003082265/

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist_(film)
http://www.cineplex.com/Movies/MovieDetails/The-Artist.aspx?loc_cookie=PETERBOROUGH+-+ON
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655442/
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2003082265/

Pass it on – Mission Impossible

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Pass it on – Mission Impossible

This morning I am attempting to do the impossible. I generally am very positive in all that I say and do… but this one is going to be a hard nut to crack.

Although I have not met the audience I know some simple facts about them. They are older people. The name of the group is “Learning and Leisure” and they meet once a month in a United Church in the north end of the city.

I have to be there and set up by 9:15 AM and the doors open at 9:00 AM. I have got to move my butt to get it all done.

The meeting time and the speaking part that I have is not all that long. In fact the planning, scheduling, preparing and getting my thoughts together has taken 10 times the amount of time that I will actually be allowed to speak. Oh boy.

Impossible was my word… in a few minutes time I intend to get a group of Senior people, all set in their ways, many with reoccurring physical problems and many with very full lives… to consider changing their ways of thinking… and doing things with the youth in their families.

I am going to ask them to consider doing something to let their grandkids, and great grandkids know what Grandpa is really all about.

I am asking each man and woman present to consider doing something to pass on their personal interests and abilities to their next generations.

No problem – right?

Don’t believe that for a minute. There are huge problems with this challenge.

The first challenge is that the Grandparent of 2012 is too busy to do such a thing. Their lives are more complicated now that their own aging is in charge of their whole life. Their early warning signs of ailments and the natural aging process with its breakdown of body parts, has limited them.

Add to this, their own family is so busy and the grandkids are so booked up that time with Grandparents is limited to impossibly complicated family visits that nothing of interaction happens between the younger and older group – at all.

If the teen does come over, he or she will be plugged into their electronic device continually. What they do now has separated them forever from their siblings, parents and grandparents. Even if the teen (grandchild) tried to talk to Grandpa about what they do or are interested in… Grandpa simply wouldn’t understand.

And that is only a few of the family obstacles that we face today.

There is a need to connect our aging present to the young person’s future, before we are gone.. or they are.

How will I do it?

On the table there will be stuff from the past… things that these people may know about… things that their parents and grandparents used and knew about… but they no longer use personally. The humor of that alone will strike my first point home…

On the table will be things that I love doing and that I now try to teach the next generation… my Tatting… my Wood Carving… my stuff of now…

And then finally… I intend to have the reverie of the moment broken by having my Cell Phone go off in the middle of what I am talking about… and I will answer the phone and return the text messages while I am speaking…

How inconsiderate on me to interrupt my own train of thought with the Irreverent and Unholy. Horrible Cell Phone – in a Senior’s meeting!?!

If their grandkids come over for their visit… their Cell Phone will come along as well… and so will their Text Messaging!

If the entire group is not mixed up entirely by the end of this meeting… I have missed my mark and goal.

My alternate title for my message today was possibly… “The irrelevant grandparent…” or “Grandparents – the Dinosaur of 2012”

There is quite a buzz going on right now with the Seniors that are coming to the group today… questioning what Murray Lincoln is going to talk about. The man that is my contact told me last night that, “I couldn’t remember what it was about… so I just told them that it will be good… and that they should come along.”

This should be fun.

Addendum…
I write this following my wonderful experience of speaking to this lively Learning and Leisure group. Their group launched in 1975 and has been going strong ever since. I was very impressed with the people that I met. And when I get a little older I may consider driving across the city to attend this group on a more regular basis.

Thank you Learning and Leisure folk for a great morning together.

BTW – the second presentations yesterday was amazing! We learned about the Victoria’s Quilt program where this amazing group of quilting folk make and supply quilts for cancer patients. Now this I can get involved with for sure! I intend to write more about this later.

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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