I'm not a Photoshop user but in Paint shop pro users can configure their own plugins location. AFAIK that's also true for Photoshop.

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I'm sorry
http://research.graphicon.ru/image-processing/gml-matting.html
http://research.graphicon.ru/3d-reconstruction/gml-texturizer-2.html

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GMLtexturizer from the same site is a Sketchup plugin, it creates textures from pictures and adds the correct height to buildings.

GMLmatting is another pretty neat Photoshop plugin, great for creating for example trees for SU.

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Cheers, sorry I'm a bit late

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According to Wikipedia Rooibos contains no tannins. Wine can contain a lot of tannins and phytates block just as much iron or more than tannins. So it's a bit strange, selective advice unless the doctor would know that your mother usually drinks an awful lot of tea.

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Yes, tannins do block iron absorption. But you'd have to drink an absurd amount of of tea and/or wine to block so much iron that it would cause a health risk. In the contrary, too much iron absorption creates free radicals in the blood that speeds up aging and even increases the risk of cancer.
BTW phytates also block iron absorption. And guess which food products are rich in phytates? Primarily cereal grains, legumes, and nuts.
Wanna ban these from your diet??? C'mon, givusabreak.

BTW I found out today that the English word "legumes" stands for something different than in French, where legume=vegetable. For those who didn't know, like me:
Legumes include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, soy, lentils, lupins and peanuts.
Cereals include maize (aka corn), wheat, rice, barley, sorghums, millets, oats, rye, triticale, buckwheat, fonio, quinoa.

As I said: eat balanced.

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http://www.strandtea.com/rooibos.htm , http://www.newlands.ca/Pricelist.htm and http://www.port-trading.com/order.html sell Rooibos in the US, Google told me.

Mountain dew diet contains: CARBONATED WATER, CONCENTRATED ORANGE JUICE, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRUS PECTIN, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVES FRESHNESS), ASPARTAME, POTASSIUM CITRATE, CAFFEINE, SODIUM CITRATE, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, SUCRALOSE, GUM ARABIC, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVES FRESHNESS), CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (TO PROTECT FLAVOR), BROMINATED VEGETABLE OIL, YELLOW 5

Sorry for the capitals, cut and paste from their website. I've never seen this stuff in Amsterdam, but the ingredients do not invite me to search for it.

The best ingredients for a good health are:
walk/bike a lot
eat 3 meals a day, no in betweens, no grazing
eat and drink natural, fresh ingredients
eat balanced with enough fibres

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Same error here, both in Firefox and MSIE

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Wow, but don't let it catch a finger, it looks like it has a strong bite.
Nice challenge: build a working SU model of this table.

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I'm not a professional woodworker myself but I can see some differences between an Altendorf F45 and a Sawstop. 1 size 2 weight 3 price but 4 the sawstop is much safer.

For the little woodwork that I do my DIY saw mounted under a DIY table is more than enough. And I can tell you, every time I turn it on, it scares me. I keep my distance from the blade!

Jim, if that's true, it should be made public to all US injury attorneys. They could file a law suit against DeWalt and so on for every cut off finger since the day they knew this brake existed.

Guys, it looks like an expensive piece of equipment, but it's really worth the investment.
A friend of mine was one of the best cabinet makers I've ever seen. I had a computer company in those days and we were making plans for CEO desks with invisible computers, hidden TFT screens and so on. In the early 90's that would have been a revolutionary concept. But we were not able to bring them to the market because he sawed off ALL his fingers, both hands. He probably tried to save the first hand in a reflex.

A colleague of a friend of mine turned his hand into hamburger meat some weeks ago. That was actually with a cup saw without centre drill. He was an experienced museum display maker and must have cut a zillion holes in this unsafe way.

As the experts say in this movie, experience creates a false feeling of safety.

You're all welcome to quote those lyrics, but for all honesty and for the youngsters in this forum I have to thank Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel for laying the foundations.

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Sorry, I should have added music
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/1153/soundofsilence.mid

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Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've left to talk SU again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left GG while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I sketched alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a lamp component,
I turned my mouse away from cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
TFT
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing msgs that Google never shares
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Pro's said oh,you do not know
Silence while our forum grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the masses bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the site flashed out its warning,
In the mess that it was forming.
And the Pro's said, the tutors of SUP
Are written on the Sketchucation board
Great rubies too.
And not heard in the sounds of silence.

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What if a dentist with Sketchup as hobby (or perhaps it could even be used to design dental work) would sign off in this forum as

Cheers
MZ
http://www.dentistinAmsterdam.nl

would that be spam? Nobody would click thal link unless you need a dentist in Amsterdam.
It would be spam otoh if he would post this signature in any odd forum without writing anything useful.
This thread is about visiting GG and I believe it's absolutely legitimate to use (not abuse) GG in this way. So I believe it's also perfectly on topic.

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He means that showing the URL of your website in public places creates a number of hits that push up the rating of the site on Google searches. That's how Google works: count how many websites link to your site, count how many people follow that link. More links and more clicks means higher in the search results.

Actually dropping the URL on many different sites is better for your rating than dropping it several times in the same forum/group, links are more important than clicks. Google caches every website, but it's not able to capture every click.

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I tried today to nose around on GG. I already am able to log into the GE group, but left it because nobody seems to read bug reports except other bug reporters. Evil Google...
But today I wasn't able to enter any Google group, not GE, not SU, just the weirdest messages like "Google is temporary offline, sorry for the inconvenience", "please check your login name and password and try again", error 404 !?!

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I don't blame you for trying, but please let me say:

nanananana

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NG's illustration is just that, an illustration, and IMHO a not very good one. I can hardly call it an "artists impression", it looks more like the style of a cheap fairy tale booklet. And it definately has a sea-sickness perspective, some strange barrel/pincushion distortion. It looks like the masonry is done by a couple of drunks, too drunk to lift a stone.

Why bother? People buy NG and that's NG's first goal. It's not an actual scientific journal, but a glossy for the masses who want to taste from every aspect of science in bite size chunks.

Well, actually I'm not very fond of NG's current behavior. I don't know much about archeology in general, but I'm closely related to someone who has some more inside information about the current archeological digs in Egypt. As most NG readers/watchers worldwide might have noticed, in each and every article/documentary about Egypt you see and hear Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. In the land of the blind is one-eye king.

Whenever there's an important find, he has to be there before the camera crews roll in. I understand that, that's part of his job. But always showing his face as if he were a film star, always hearing his comments, always seeing him brush off some sand as if he is actually making the discovery makes me (and others) sick. Not just because the sand he brushes away is always carefully put on top of the items he "discovers" to make good pictures, people want to be fooled.

But more importantly because he behaves on these sites like a mad elephant, opening sacophagus with a crow bar, putting his heavy feet on mummies in priceless brittle cartonnages, ruining beautiful bead nets covering mummies just to get nice tv shots for the masses. That's imho a much more serious matter than a bad illustration.

I do understand that when someone steps on your toes it hurts you more than when someone steps on your neighbour's toes.

Regards

Maggy

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The first three on my top ten list would be Jean Lemire, Grant Marshall and Dennis from the Dennis method (sorry can't find his last name right now). Thanks for the great tutorials and I hope you'll repost the best ones in this forum.

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