City Museum St. Louis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6HGojPfuLw Regards, Bob

Dear David, So glad you said that. I was wondering what to give a guy with brand new house. Regards, Bob

Being Welsh (although from Cardiff, so not very Welsh), I would say that the people are different too, particularly in South Wales. More open and friendly, and very quick to start a conversation, particularly in the valley towns. I think you always find that in a people brought up on difficult and dangerous work, such as coal mining and steel making. Most of my father's brothers were coal miners, and many with biblical names (uncle Aaron, for example) I'm glad my thread has brought back many happy memories. Kind regards, Bob

thank you watkins, my brother will love it

@petercharles said: With the cap now appearing to contain the oil, the existing pollution is now suggested to being dispersed quicker than some environmental "experts" were suggesting! I am amazed how this spill has been stopped and how the oil has come out of the surface so quickly. Amazed do not know what to say except that it could be good now to start the stop of getting oil out from the remaining platforms. Nature seems to be strong enough yet

Thanks, very interesting

yup, there was a thread for reference pictures and design collections - couldn't find it either... just like the makers of this wonderful collection give the right name: nothing but http://www.stairporn.org/ btw, how would you go about modelling the shower-egg? extrude edges plugin, curvyloft, subdivide and smoothe, ... cheers alex

does it mention the recent discovery of how they may have moved the blocks? in one of the tombs they found these strange half circle wooden blocks. they found you could strap them to a stone block...making it into a cylinder. forget dragging it.. roll it... wish I could find a link about it.. ah from Wiki "Dr R H G Parry[3] has suggested a method for rolling the stones, using a cradle-like machine that had been excavated in various new kingdom temples. Four of those objects could be fitted around a block so it could be rolled easily. Experiments done by the Obayashi Corporation, with concrete blocks 0.8 m square by 1.6 m long and weighing 2.5 tons, showed how 18 men could drag the block over a 1-in-4 incline ramp, at a rate of 18 meters per minute. Vitruvius in De architectura[4] described a similar method for moving irregular weights. It is still not known whether the Egyptians used this method but the experiments indicate it could have worked using stones of this size. Egyptologists generally accept this for the 2.5 ton blocks mostly used but do not agree over the methods used for the 15+ ton and several 70-ton blocks."

More here on the bridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Bridge Regards, Bob

Wonder how the background was done...

1.2 is available now via http://modelfunction.com Major improvements are: New language 'lang.xml' file enables changes menus and commands text and language. When the designer saves the template, a jpg thumbnail created by plugin and saved in the same directory where the template file is saved. New "aiming" function that assists the designer to change axis of a component to axis of 'node'.

That's a slick animation. @tomot said: I would hope Verlux don't consider this as a do-it yourself-home-handy-man-project. I think they may be leaning that way though... Last pair I installed had instruction sheets with "Tools needed for this project..." on the front.

@unknownuser said: For many generations we've endured a rapidly increasing density of hot, non-flammable and otherwise inert gas (like CO2); and unless we do something about all the politicians producing it, we're doomed. ...The only thing worse than organized religion is organized politics!

also article here http://www.scribd.com/doc/25039214/BURJ-KHALIFA-World-Tallest-Building

There is a toolbar button for weld Jim, Gaieus - thanks! Weld_button.rar

Yes that is a nice site. I have been a member there for years.

@solo said: Me wonders what a person stores in those drawers. Quick render. Tuna?

Nice work. Looks like a good job for the Domino.