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'TomDC', I'm sorry for your affliction! It is well known that many artists die young ! Counting me among them, I put in advance my soul to a ‘secure shelter’… The Death tried to pick me up in evident and multiple times, but I was saved miraculously…

Especially CHILDREN, they recognize not only the FACE of someone, but also the ‘state of the SOUL’ and ‘state of the SPIRIT’ of a person...! For example, a bad man smiles almost in vain to a child, because a baby can not be easy tricked.

Thanks TIG, I'll give it a whirl... I wasn't thinking about creating it in SU particularly Alan but that's a good idea! Cheers,

Give LightWorks a try it's free. http://www.lightworksbeta.com/

@krisidious said: it's an Australian Snowy Gum... I believe. Indeed it is! And they are stunning by themselves or on mass! We have another very funky one - Red Gum (which isn't actually a gum at all), they grow in the funkiest of places and the funkiest of shapes. I've been trying to get a friend to do a photographic book of some of the weird ones I've found on sides of cliffs and other weird places. One of which is on a wind blown headland where nothing escapes the general canopy, the tree to keep growing has gone up to the canopy, then back to the ground, then back to the canopy and again!! The wierdest thing though was to see a gummy that has grown just lighly touching an overhang with a hanging swamp above. The touching tree has provided a capilliary escape for some of the neutriant rich water and over the years the trunk has become coated in an inch think layer of flow stone for about 3/4 of it's girth!! The most amazing and incomprehendable thing I've ever seen! Nature and time are an amazing mix!

Thanks Mike for that link! I was a bit confused, because in a visit trough U.S.A., I saw written over a cashiers, this text: “In God we trust; all others pay cash!”

For everyone's info the EPA has implemented rules you should read if you plan renovations or selling especially if your home was built before 1978. This is covered in US code Tile 40 section 745 titled "Lead-based paint poisoning prevention in certain residential structures".

No need to apologize mate, all is fair in a good debate. I also am guilty of pushing hard, kinda like shouting above the noise at times. Thanks for the sentiment and lets always play the ball and not the player, something that I have sometimes forgotten.

Trivial Pursuit oriented!

I don't think this would just appeal to kids, in fact when I was a kid, we always had a puzzle going that anybody , family, neighbours, whoever, could sit and work on. AS well in larger scale being applicable to the love kids have for fort building. I see this as having a lot of appeal. Great fun. Congratulations

@unknownuser said: @ Mike L. I have not expressed that some 'form of faith' do not be RESPECTED, but to be CHECKED/tested... I can understand that this is what you meant but it is not what you said. I often find that ideas, messages, true intentions can be misread / misunderstood in text form, particularly if the author is not writing in his / her native tongue. Anyway, I think Eric's picture (above) is definitely worth a 1,000 words. This question, of course, is unanswerable by humans! I originally asked it to see what the various views would be but the thread has turned into something that most feel is going nowhere. With this reason in mind, I am now regretfully locking the topic. Mike

It's an incredible image ... Hard to believe something so beautiful has so much BS going on ... A piece of trivia and an interesting feature: If you locate the Great Salt Lake, you'll notice a line that transits the lake a bit north of midpoint. The water color on both sides is vastly different. That line is a railroad causeway what was build in the late 30's or early '40's IIRC. The causeway hinders the distribution of dissolved minerals in the lake and hence the water on the north side is much more saline. There are several mineral companies that "mine" the upper part of the lake due to it's higher mineral content. Cheers.

Works fine thank you.

In the Bible, children are blessed! For example, at Numbers 6:23-27, it is written: 23 “…'This is the way you shall bless the CHILDREN of Israel. Say to them: 24 The LORD bless you and keep you; 25 The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; 26 The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.' 27 So they shall put My name on the CHILDREN of Israel, and I will bless them.”

thanks pilou I was never a good friend of anatomy studies. Against this I was never shy to touch human beings. This is the only reason to try sketching, sculpting this subject. meanwhile the new fiber mesh can be exported as splines!!! You may use this $20 app http://www.mariussilaghi.com/fibermeshsplinesstanalone.htm or just save these and do this trick LOL (the benefits of being a mac user ) [image: fibersToSplines.jpg]

@Roger: As of now oil is the number 1 input of the world economy. Availability of oil (and water) and good weather all enable food production and feeding the billions (hence Mike's point at several threads). When big farm companies talk about their efficiency they report how many gallons of corn syrup they produce per gallon of gas. In industrialized nations 10 to 15 % of the energy expenditure goes to food http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture. As for the current economic woes of the western world, I consider it as the balance shifting a more natural position. Rich ones getting poorer, poor ones getting richer; some kind of global equalization. Average energy expenditure of an industrialized western nation's citizen is several times that of the rest of the world (15-25). I think this will balance itself out very soon.

If you could see Australia these days it is far from just black and white australian.... we've become quite a multicultural society.... As for the themes, civic celebrations certainly do encourage an indigenous theme as well as our diversity. Unfortunately there was an ugly incident in Canberra [National Capital] yesterday where a violent protest took place from a group of Aboriginals that saw our Prime Minister and Opposition Leader rush away from an award ceremony under the protection of riot police. What makes it worse is that the majority of the protesters are not of aboriginal descent; rather half-cast, oxygen thieves that have nothing better to do than make trouble. It does nothing for the ongoing plight of equality and acceptance... http://video.news.com.au/2190366897/Inside-protest-chaos