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Showing your art? Have you ever wondered how to get the the right measurements to hang a picture, or a group of pictures?

Use the handy gallery wall layout calculator here to find all the measurements. A simple three step process let's you have perfect picture frame spacing and heights. It works for any wall layout. It's great for gallery or home use where you want precision for your art.

Try it out here and if you like it go to hangcalc.com for a progressive web app (pwa) version that you can download and install to use anywhere, or just use it in your browser.

Making bread or batters? Here's a bread dough and batter calculator and recipes using baker's percentages. No more guessing with a dough and batter composition calculator. Convert pound and ounces to grams and the other way around with a useful measurement conversions calculator.

Experiment and make your own perfect cake, bread or pizza dough formula!

2,500 years ago Buddha made some remarkable intuitive understandings about life. He identified three poisons of human character: greed, hatred and delusion. These poisons are ever present today, including in some of our leaders. Ideas from 2,500 years ago are still relevant. Can an updated view of the Dhamma / Dharma better inform how we should live today?

A common core idea across all forms of buddhism is conditioned or dependent arising (paṭiccasamuppāda in Pali / pratītyasamutpāda in Sanskrit). Here is a brief explanation of why it is so important and how it underlies buddhism's understanding of the world.