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Melanie Safka + Miley Cyrus
I have previously posted a link to a young Melanie singing Look What They Done to my Song, Ma. 45 years later, she got together with Miley Cyrus to sing the song again, and they both look like they had … Continue reading
Import Data from a Picture to Excel
The myOnlineTraininghub blog recently had a post entitled Import Data from a Picture to Excel which sounded promising, since I often need to extract data from Autocad files saved to a pdf. From the link, it seems that if I … Continue reading
Posted in Computing - general, Excel
Tagged Android, Excel, import data from pictures, Windows
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Wembley Tower 2
Following from the previous post, nearly all of the 68 designs for the Wembley Tower were in steel or iron, but there was just one with a truly unique design feature, it was to be built of concrete: If it … Continue reading
The Wembly Tower
Late in the 19th Century a group of Londoners decided that London should have a tower taller and grander than the Eiffel Tower. A competition was held, and construction started at the then rural area near Wembly, but construction and … Continue reading
Posted in Newton
Tagged Eiffel Tower, London Tower Competition, London Tower Competition Catalogue
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Concrete Stress Blocks
Back in 2010 and 2011 posts here looked at a comparison of alternative stress blocks in the then new AS 3600, and a procedure for calculating parameters for a rectangular stress block exactly equivalent to the Eurocode 2 parabolic-rectangular stress … Continue reading
