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Linux Linux is struggling on the desktop because it only has a small number of "great" apps, according to the Gnome co-creator. Miguel de Icaza, co-creator of the Gnome desktop, told tech journalist Tim Anderson at the recent Windows 8 Build conference "When you count how many great desktop apps there are on Linux, you can probably name 10," de Icaza said, according to a post on Anderson's IT Writing blog. "You work really hard, you can probably name 20. We've managed to p*** off developers every step of the way, breaking APIs all the time."
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RE[5]: I'll give it a try
by lucas_maximus on Fri 30th Sep 2011 14:27 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: I'll give it a try"
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You are being a pedant for the sake of it. It is pathetic.

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Windows Metro is beautiful and elegant. It works wonders on my HTC HD7, and I'm pretty darn sure it's going to work just many wonders on tablets later this year. However, Microsoft also expects us to use Windows 8's Metro on our desktops with mice and keyboards - and in that scenario, I can't really see it work any wonders. The Verge user Sputnik8 decided to see what Metro would look like applied to a more regular desktop. The results are... Stunning.
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RE[2]: Where's the awesomeness?
by saso on Sun 26th Feb 2012 16:53 UTC in reply to "RE: Where's the awesomeness?"
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I do have a 27'' monitor at work and I tile it up into sections where I have all the relevant windows group together. I also use virtual desktops when I run out of screen space, but I would love to be able to have a big 50'' high-res screen across the wall to able to have all of my windows open and visible at the same time. With Win8's Metro theme I'm stuffed - mighty Microsoft says "no more than 2 windows for you!".

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Legal Groklaw nails it: "In other words, [Apple and Microsoft] want to disarm the companies that got there first, built the standards, and created the field, while the come-later types clean up on patents on things like slide to unlock or a tablet shape with rounded corners. Then the money flows to Apple and Microsoft, and away from Android - and isn't that really the point of all this, to destroy Android by hook or by crook? The parties who were in the mobile phone business years before Apple or Microsoft even thought about doing it thus get nothing much for their earlier issued patents that have become standards. Apple and Microsoft can't compete on an even field, because the patent system rewards the first to invent (or now, after the recent patent reform, the first to file). Neither Apple nor Microsoft got there first. Samsung was there, since the '90s." To illustrate: Apple is demanding $24 (!) per Samsung device for design patents, while at the same time, Apple also demands that Samsung does not charge more than $0.0049 per standards essential patent per device. This is absolutely, utterly, and entirely indefensible. And then Apple and its supporters have the nerve to claim Samsung is ripping them off. Yes, this pisses me off, and no, that's not because it's Apple doing it (Microsoft is just as guilty). It's because this is plainly, utterly, clearly, and intrinsically unfair.
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RE[2]: Comment by El_Exigente
by darcysmith on Wed 1st Aug 2012 04:55 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by El_Exigente"
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FRAND doesn't mean that you have to give the same terms to licensing as you get. Apples patents are not FRAND. Perhaps a little critical thinking before you post?

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4-H News: 4-H to host growing project and variety show

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4-H Afterschool Flower and Vegetable Project
On May 5,  Owen County 4-H will be hosting the annual Afterschool Flower and Vegetable Project.
If you are interested in planting flowers and vegetables, this is the program for you. All youth age 9 – 18 are invited to attend.
Please call the Owen County Extension Office at 484-5703 by April 29 to sign up.
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Lady Rebels crush Ladycats

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The Owen County High School softball team opened up the season last week with two impressive victories.
The Lady Rebels opened up the 2013 campaign March 19 at home against Trimble County with an 8-3 win.
On March 21, they dominated Pendleton County.
The Rebels crushed the Ladycats 19-0 in just three innings in Falmouth.
It is the second-straight season the Lady Rebels have defeated the LadyCats in impressive fashion. Owen County won last year at home 15-0.

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Letter to the editor: Love sparked 'no' vote

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I thank God that we still have the freedom to vote in America. It is a privilege not shared by many countries whereby the people’s voice can be heard. Many Owen County voters exercised that privilege on Tuesday, July 26, to speak out on an issue that could profoundly affect our county and residents for years to come. I, for one, am very glad they did.

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Letter To The Editor: Support helps local kids get to church camp

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My name is Pamela Roy. I’m from Macedonia Baptist Church. I would like to thank you for allowing us to clean the roads to earn money for church camp. Church camp is so much fun. I always have a wonderful time learning about God and hanging out with my youth.

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Volleyball team gets pair of district wins

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The Owen County High School volleyball team spent a busy week against 31st District competition. The Lady Rebels played three consecutive nights against the likes of Carroll County, Gallatin County and Henry County.
The Lady Rebels began the week playing in Carrollton against the Lady Panthers. It was the third meeting between the two schools this season with Carroll County winning the previous two.
Sept. 18 would not be different with the Lady Panthers prevailing in four sets.
The Lady Rebels returned home Sept. 19 for a match with Gallatin County High School.

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  • Mayor: No truth to resignation rumor

    After rumors of his resignation began circulating last week, Owenton Mayor David “Milkweed” Wotier set the record straight once and for all.
    “What I have said is I’m not going to seek re-election, I don’t know whether someone took that the wrong way – but my full intention is to fill out this term,” Wotier said Sunday.

  • ‘Service Above Self’ for some OCHS students

    “Service Above Self” is a motto many Owenton Rotarians have learned well and now Owen County High School students are getting the same lesson with the creation of the Interact Club.
    Interact Club is an independent club based on the Rotary Club, which focuses on the motto of “Service Above Self.” While the Interact Club does focus on that same motto, it also includes a much more youth-focused mentality.

  • New program promotes positive well-being for young girls

    Registration is now open for the newly founded Owen County chapter of Girls on the Run’s spring season.
    Girls on the Run is a 501(c)3  nonprofit organization that inspires girls to recognize their inner strength and to celebrate what makes them one of a kind. Led by trained coaches, girls at the elementary and middle school level will learn to focus on health and fitness while preparing for a celebratory 5K event.

  • At the Library | February 7, 2018

    Age Reversing Workout

    Follow this workout video to engage every muscle in your body, liberate your joints and improve your overall health. Miranda Esmonde-White leads a classical stretch workout everyone will enjoy at 11 a.m., today (Wednesday).

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  • Community Events | February 7, 2017

    Sign-ups for Parks and Rec baseball now open

    Sign-ups for Owen County Parks and Recreation T-ball, baseball and softball have begun. Forms are located at Owen County Schools and at the Owen County Judge-Executive’s Office, and can be dropped off at these locations. The cost is $60 per child or $150 for family. Any questions can be answered on the Parks and Rec website, www.owencountyparksandrec.com

    LEPC meeting rescheduled for Feb. 20

  • Fiscal court eyes new vehicles, turns to fleet management service

    Owen County vehicles may be receiving an upgrade as the Owen County Fiscal Court discussed going to a company to help plan the cost of new vehicles, maintenance and the resell of vehicles in the future. The company chosen to help manage this is Enterprise Fleet Management, a branch of Enterprise Holdings that provides automotive fleet services that include fleet sales, financing, leasing, a maintenance program and management systems for companies throughout the United States and Canada.

  • Deadline passes to file for county election

    County Judge/Executive:
    Casey Ellis, D (incumbent)
    Franky Fitzgerald, D
    Veronica Gayle, R

    County Attorney:

    Josh Smith, D

    Mark Bess, R (incumbent)
    Doug West, D
    Lannis Garnett, D
    Gary Alcorn, D
    Marty Lilly, D
    Larry Osborne, R

    County Clerk:

    Laurel D. Stivers, D (incumbent)

    Circuit Court Clerk
    Margaret Forsee, D (incumbent)

  • Chamber president vying for county’s top post

    Three candidates are now vying for the county’s top-elected position after Owen County Chamber of Commerce President and Adult Learning Director Veronica Gayle filed on the Republican ticket Monday.
    Though a newcomer to politics, Gayle has served in a variety of leadership roles and is an active member of several community organizations.
    Democratic incumbent Owen County Judge-Executive Casey Ellis and Franky L. Fitzgerald, also a Democrat, filed in November and December respectively.

  • Rose shares ancient Owen Co. artifacts with society

    Like many 10 year olds the young Owen countian spent much of his spare time hunting squirrels. One day while hunting these wily little tree climbers, the boy ducked under a tree branch, and as he cast his eyes to the ground, he spied a perfectly formed arrowhead. That discovery of a single ancient artifact set Owen countian Bobby Rose on the path of a life-long journey into the world of stone points, axes and pipes and fueled his determination to preserve these ancient treasures of the past.

  • Owen Circuit Court | March 6, 2018

    March 6, 2018

    Johnpatrick Garilao Ada, 1991, probation violation, probation revocation hearing, admit.
    Randall Dale Allen, 1987, first-degree possession of a controlled substance, tampering with physical evidence, drug paraphernalia, continued to April 10.
    Michael Craigmyle Jr., 1977, probation violation, motion to revoke probation, continued to March 20.


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March 11, 2016

Hillary for Idaho Announces Leadership Council

Boise, ID – Hillary for Idaho today announced its state Leadership Council – a group of elected officials and community activists who are helping build a grassroots-driven volunteer team to support Hillary Clinton in advance of the Idaho Caucus on March 22. Clinton’s Idaho Leadership Council is led by former Governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, former Congressmen Larry LaRocco and Richard Stallings, Mayor David Bieter, and many more individuals who share Hillary Clinton’s commitment to breaking down barriers so that all Americans can reach their God-given potential.

“These leaders know that as President, Hillary Clinton will continue to fight on behalf of our families, just as she always has,” said Hillary for Idaho State Director Lauren Brainerd. “Hillary Clinton has outlined a bold, progressive agenda in this campaign and Idaho families can count on her lifelong record of delivering results that make a real difference.”

Idahoans interested in getting involved with Hillary Clinton's campaign in advance of the caucus on March 22 should visit www.hillaryclinton.com/Idaho.

Joining the Hillary for Idaho Leadership Council today:

Cecil Andrus, Former Governor of Idaho and Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior

Larry LaRocco, Former U.S. Congressman

Richard Stallings, Former U.S. Congressman

David Bieter, Mayor of Boise

Cherie Buckner-Webb, State Senator District 19 and Assistant Minority Leader

Maryanne Jordan, State Senator District 17 and Boise City Council Member

John Rusche, State Representative District 6 and House Minority Leader

Donna Pence, State Representative District 26 and House Minority Caucus Chair

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Tony Park, Former Idaho Attorney General

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Has India achieved its target of MDG(Millennium Development Goals)

Ques 33. Critically examine India’s achievements in meeting the targets of Millemium Development Goals.

Ans. At the Millenium Summit of the U.N of 2000, MDG were adopted and were targeted to be achieved by 2015.  Originally they were categorized under 8 heads but now the scope of the targets and indicators has been broadened.

Below are the results –

(a) The 1st target of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by measuring the percentage of people surviving on less than 1 dollar per day (poverty ratio). The poverty ratio was to be halved from 1990 to 2015. Abstractly this target has almost been met but practically the ground condition is discouraging as the number of people who suffer from hunger have still not reduced considerably because of increasing inflation and decreasing value of money.

(b) Second is to achieve universal primary education but for this primary enrolment should be achieved first which at present is more than 90 percent. This shows that considerable amount of progress has been achieved and it is said that in coming few years the enrolment would be 100% but enrolment does not means achieving quality education specially in view of the fact that at the start of secondary education the enrolment falls by around 1/3rd. So special emphasis needs to be given on enrolment in secondary education and the quality of education at primary, secondary and higher education level.

(c)Third target is to remove gender based disparities on primary, secondary and higher education level. On first two the progress is satisfactory but in higher education the progress is slow. A robust and well planned integrated national programme which considers State level factors should be implemented to streamline the education system as a whole.

(d) As in the yearbook the first, second and third target have been assessed to be “on track” while the 4th target of reducing child/under five mortality rate by 2/3rd is assessed to be “moderately on track”. Preventive factors should be focused on like nutrition and sanitation and a more integrated approach involving all stakeholders is required to counter this menace.

(e) Fifth target is to reduce maternal mortality rate by 2/3rd from 1990 to 2015 and is assessed to be “slow or off track”. Its achievements are even wore than the 4th target probably due to prevalent gender disparities.

(f) Sixth goal is to combat (HIV/AIDS), Malaria and other major diseases. Active policy and epidemiological factors has prevented the growth/menace of HIV/AIDS into dangerous levels and is assessed to be on track.For Malaria and other major diseases the assessment is “moderately on track” as these diseases are more affected by environmental concerns and to address them a broader approach is required than mere medical concerns.

(g) Target seven is environment sustainability which is “moderately on track”. Safe drinking water availability assessment is on track and for sanitation the assessment is “slow”.

(h) Eighth target is development through global partnership whose progress is satisfactory as private sectors is actively involved is the process of development.

So we can say that India’s performance on MDG’s is both good and bad. This assessment will also help India to formulate and implement policy decision accordingly.

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Transparent is rightfully the most critically acclaimed series on Amazon Prime; The Man in High Castle is the streaming service’s most watched; Catastrophe is its funniest; One Mississippi is the achiest; Red Oaks is its most under-appreciated; and Goliath is its most conventionally solid series.

Sneaky Pete, however, is Amazon Prime’s most addictive, most binge-worthy series yet, a show that manages to out-Netflix Netflix. Netflix had found the perfect formula in House of Cards and Orange is the New Black — great character dramas with lots of levity, quick-moving storylines, a mix of light and dark, and stakes that were character-centered — but until Travelers came along, the streaming service had put out a lot of quality television, but it hadn’t had a highly addictive series in a while.

Amazon’s Sneaky Pete once again achieves that perfect formula, and once it gets going, it’s impossible to stop watching (I had no intention of doing so, but I watched the entire 10-hour series in one sitting on Friday, finishing around 2 a.m. the next morning). After the sixth episode, viewers may as well block out the rest of their night, because it’s going to be difficult to pull yourself away.

The show comes from creators Bryan Cranston — who also plays the series’ villain — and David Shore (House), but it is the contributions of Justified showrunner Graham Yost that are most felt. Remember how in Justified’s best seasons, those hour-long episodes felt like 20 minutes? Yost brings that same crackling Ocean’s 11 energy to Sneaky Pete and a lot of the same actors, to boot.

The hook, as silly as it is, will grab you all the same: Giovanni Ribisi plays Marius Josipovic, a career con-man who — after being released from prison — steals the identity of his prison mate, Pete (the perfectly cast doppelgänger, Ethan Embry). Marius — who is being hunted down by Vince (Bryan Cranston) because of a $100,000 debt — uses all of the stories he’s heard from Pete about his upbringing and goes back to Pete’s grandparents’ house. They haven’t seen Pete in over 20 years — since Pete was 11 — and with the knowledge Marius gained about Pete’s life, he has little problem convincing Pete’s grandparents, Otto (Peter Geraty) and Audrey (Margo Martindale) that he is Pete. They take him in and hire him as an investigator for their bail bond company. Meanwhile, Marius has his eyes on the safe in the company office, which he hopes to break into, steal $100,000, and spare his brother — who has been abducted by Vince — from getting his fingers chopped off.

Complications naturally arise. For one, Marius develops a strong bond with Pete’s family, although Pete’s younger cousin suspects that Marius isn’t who he says he is. Marius also develops a strong emotional attachment to Pete’s older cousins, Taylor (Shane McRae) a police officer, and Julia (Malin Ireland), who is dating a lawyer (Jacob Pitt, aka, Deputy Tim from Justified) who is also trying to con Pete’s family.

The characters here are fantastic. Martindale is, as always, terrific as the grandmother with a dark secret of her own. Ribisi will grow on viewers a lot over the course of the series, as will Malin Ireland. The younger cousin, played by Libe Barer, is a spiritual cousin to Kaitlyn Dever’s character in Justified. Pitts is goofy-charming and so different than his Justified character that it took me a few episodes to realize it was him. Cranston is Cranston: He’s a ruthless kingpin criminal, but the character is basically dead center between his Breaking Bad and Malcolm in the Middle characters. He’s dangerous, but funny.

It’s a seriously entertaining show — full of little capers and stand-alone stories, not unlike Justified — but there are some real stakes involved, too, and a few bodies do eventually pile up (deaths, as they were in Justified, are usually seriocomic in nature). As the noose tightens around Marius’ neck, it becomes an impossible series to turn off because it’s so easy to invest in these funny, flawed characters, and we don’t want to see their lives upended. After 10 hours that feel like two, you’ll be aching to start another season of Sneaky Pete, even if it is two in the morning.

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Nairy Baghramian

Nairy Baghramian, an artist of Iranian origins, was born in Isfahan in 1971, and lives and works in Berlin. Her work reflects on traditional statuary, and questions the differences between ornament and function, industry and craftsmanship, and between mass-produced items and artistic objects. Her works often explores the theme of instability: fragile and poetic, they often seem on the verge of collapsing or breaking. For her, looking at a sculpture is a quintessentially physical experience, conditioned by the surrounding space.

Her recent exhibitions include those held at Tamayo Museum in Mexico City (2015), at Serralyes Museum in Porto (2014), at Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (2013), Galerie Buchholz, Köln (2012), the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (2012) and Kunsthalle Basel (2006).

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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

MFT Camp Create - Foiling

Happy Tuesday!

I want to share a card with you that I created for the MFT Camp Create series.

This card is inspired by the Fantastic Foiling post.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how this card came together.

The technique spotlighted is foiling.  I do not have a minc machine or toner sheets.  So I used an old fashioned way of foiling...double sided tape and die cuts.

I used an older MFT die set, Fall Foliage.  I cut the leaves out of Neenah card stock with double sided tape adhered to it.  To foil, I just burnished the silver DecoFoil to each leaf.

For the panel, I clear heat embossed a small stamp from the Fall Foliage Stamp set.on to a Neenah card panel  Then, I ink blended Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey, Gathered Twigs, Frayed Burlap, and Fossiled Amber Distress Ink.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set and stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black Ink.

After the panel dried, I adhered the foiled leaves to the corners.  I used MFT Blueprints 21 to size the panel to my card front.  When I die cut the panel, I had an unexpected result.  Since I have an older Fiskars Fuse machine with a black shim mat, I added a piece of white card stock on top the panel and die so that the mat did not leave any unwanted color or marks.  As a result, the die cuts that were not covered by the die look frosted.  It looks fantastic!

I added the panel to a Whip Cream card base and added a few Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins.

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WAP – WARNING! Air Pockets

[25x30x40 cm, 165 parts, about 90Mb]

The Mechanism. WAP is a paper automaton whose main mechanism is Redtenbacher`s variation of the Cartwright straight-line mechanism, a twin gear driving a common slider crank. If the two gears have different but almost equal number of teeth, the up and down motion of the bar is then an addition and subtraction of two sinusoidal functions. The straight line generation, determined by the vertical motion of the bar, was a very important problem in the early history of mechanics. In WAP, the “random” motion of the unlucky airplane is generated at the center of the beam, that is free to spin. At that point, the two sinusoidal movements originate the oscillation that, together with the up and down motion of the bar, results in the air-pocket-like shaking up.

(further information at http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/index.php)

Cartwright mechanism

Redtenbacher's variation

Redtenbacher’s variation

The main mechanism in WAP is based on two gears with ratio equal to 1.2 (18/15 teeth). The entire cycle is completed after five turns of the handle.

Ferdinand Redtenbacher (1809-1863). The transformation of mechanical technology from a mainly workshop-based profession into an engineering science, particularly in the area of design of machines and mechanisms, is closely related with the name of Ferdinand Redtenbacher. He was of eminent historical importance for Porträtthe evolution of mechanical engineering to a technical science in the nineteenth century. Redtenbacher’s role as the originator of mechanical engineering as a science in Germany is fundamental and of general interest since the introduction of science into engineering is a “sine qua none” for the development of a powerful high tech industry. As a professor and the director of the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe, Germany – today the University of Karlsruhe (TH) –, Redtenbacher’s influence therefore helped establish the German manufacturing systems engineering even today. (from Wauer, J., Mauersberger, K., Moon, F. C., 2010. Ferdinand Jakob Redtenbacher (1809–1863), in Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science, History of Mechanism and Machine Science, Ceccarelli, M. Ed., Springer Netherlands).

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27 Responses to WAP – WARNING! Air Pockets

  1. Dan says:

    Great model and video! Thank you!

  2. maxlrainer says:

    Wow, it’s really amazing. Your most sophisticated model since “Wandring in the sky”. Tank you very much Pino.

  3. Pascal says:

    Awesome. Thank you very much for sharing it. i have already done some of your automatas. i will have a lot of pleasure making this one.

  4. michael42er says:

    A fantastic model and realistic video. I’m looking forward to the build. Very interesting is the inclusion of the variation of the Cartwright mechnism. Thank you Pino for the elaborately designed model with free download.

  5. David says:

    I have to make it, but where are the instructions.

  6. michael says:

    Great model I am building it but I am slow(careful)just one question
    several times you say print the back,what does that mean.Any help appreciated

    • paperpino says:

      Hi Michael!
      Just print the back of that page. Some parts are colored on their back, too.
      I mean, the page after the one where it is written “print back” is the back of that page.
      Clear? I hope so…

  7. This is the first time I’ve made your models, it is fantastic, thank you very much for sharing it.

  8. Nghia Zer says:

    Awesome model! Thanks you very much to sharing it.
    May I translate instruction to Vietnamese (my native language) and repack it in to new PDF file to sharing it in our fanpages 🙂

    • paperpino says:

      Thank you Nghia Zer for your appreciation!
      Yes, of course, you can translate and repack the project. Please, when ready, send it to me the pdf file (it will be the first time I see one of my model in Vietnamese version… 😉

  9. michael says:

    Hi,I have finished wap it looks great.I had some problems,mine not
    yours,the sun ended up on the opposite side(oops).All in all a great fun build thanks

  10. Rodrigo García says:

    Hi Mr. Paperpino.
    I’ve only just started in the world of papercaft and have been fascinated with his designs, is a real inspiration to me.
    Maybe one day not too distant to make my own model
    Thanks for sharing your talents.
    Grettins from Mexico city

  11. benhu261hcm says:

    I’m making it !
    So amazing , so hard but i love it
    Thank you very much ^^ ………

  12. Tim Davis says:

    Nice! Now I have WAP sitting on the shelf next to WITS! Thanks for the very nice models!

  13. Mike Parker says:

    I love this model! The range of movements is amazing, and the colors and details are really well done. I am looking forward to building this. thank you very much for making this available.

  14. Chris Knowlton says:

    I built the WAP and it was very enjoyable. Your part fit is perfect which makes the building fun and the result satisfying. The way you have designed each part is quite amazing. The assemblies that I thought might go together with some dificulty are easy because of the methods you used in creating them. It is a fantastic piece. Thank you.

    Chris Knowlton

  15. Aaron says:

    A4 sized paper is kind of hard to find over here in the U.S.. Will I run into gears not meshing correctly if I scale down to 8.5 x 11″ I’ve done a couple of your other projects but none of them had gears like this. I suppose I could just give it a go, but ink is expensive.

    Your thoughts would be appreciated
    P.s. I think it scales down just under 95% if I remember correctly

    • paperpino says:

      Hi Aaron.
      I am not sure to understand your problem correctly.
      When you resize, you should not adapt to letter page, but you must resize to a percentage of the original. I think 95% could be fine.

  16. lu laviu says:

    thank you very much for this free model n.n Greetings from Argentina!

  17. Aryan says:

    I am downscaling it to 25%! I only made the air pockets generator(it is so hard to make this in 25% scale). I will finish it in to two days.

  18. Christine says:

    Absolutely beautiful automata!

    Just one question: how can I open a rar document?

  19. Dragon Lin says:

    I love this creation very much. I really would like to make it for fun. Thanks for your sharing.

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Friday, May 6, 2011

A tribute to #1 Hubby

On the eve of his 30-something birthday, I feel that it is only fair to post something dedicated to #1 Hubby that is slightly nicer than my last post.

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The other day, I dedicated my ranty-tanty soapbox post to #1 Hubby and his knack for not having a knack with solo-parenting.  He morphs into my 4th child the very second he's left alone with the 3 that I actually gave birth to.

All of that  malice  disappointment was wiped out with one single act.

The toilet roll holder was pulled off the wall by one or all three of the kids (destruction and demolition are the only times they come together to work as a team).

I'd been lamenting it for a  week or three  few days in the lead up to Easter, mostly because I was estimating the nagging time and effort that would be required on my part, to get #1 Hubby to Bunnings (kinda like Walmart or Home Depot for you USA types) to source a suitable replacement.  Being that his work sees him in or around Bunnings on a daily basis, it should've already happened before I had time to sit and ponder, while I sat and....y'know....

So, imagine my shock and delight when - upon returning from the hellish extended Easter break - I couldn't locate the toilet roll while blindly reaching around behind the toilet with my knickers around my ankles.  Getting slightly pissy (metaphorically speaking), while flailing and failing to maintain balance, I finally spotted the toilet roll.  On the holder.  Attached to the wall.

For the first time in living history (or, at least, the first time in our 15 years together) #1 Hubby has fixed something with only ONE SINGLE MENTION from yours truly.  No nagging required.  No reminding.  No threatening or badgering.  And...the best part?  NO BRAGGING ABOUT HIS MAMMOTH EFFORTS AFTERWARDS!

That's right, he did not even expect me to drop to the ground and worship at his feet for his 15 minutes of home maintenance (I was going to say "drop to my knees and show my gratitude" - but that would've sounded totally wrong, and no toilet roll holder is worth that much thanks).

So #1 Hubby, on the eve of your birthday, as I prepare to leave you at home with the kids while I go out for the night, this is my promise to you :

I promise to call you at an unreasonable hour to come and pick me up (sound familiar?)

I promise to shower you with drunken gratitude while you shhh me (sound familiar?)

I promise to promise you lovin' for your birthday

I promise to let you watch sport all day, and 'drink' your cake without reprimand

Happy Birthday for tomorrow #1 Hubby.  I know I'm a day early, but I predict I shall be feeling a bit under the weather tomorrow, and possibly less perky and jazzed and enthusiastic about anything other than coffee, greasy food and silence.

  1. Oh wow, I am VERY impressed!! Go #1 Hubby!!!! Happy Birthday to him for tomorrow!

  2. Yaaaaaaaaay for not feeling well tmw.... um, I mean Happy Birthday #1!

  3. Happy Birthday #1 Hubby/#4 Child! Good work with the toilet roll fixing.
    As I say to Mr Hat, "I wouldn't nag you if you just did it the first time I asked!"

  4. Ah, well done # 1 hubby, well done! Oh yes, and Happy Birthday!

  5. Just popping over from FYBF.....

    Hilarious and SO true!

    Great post, happy birthday hubby!

  6. Print and frame this post - just for future reference ;) Happy birthday #1 hubby!

  7. That's my regular catch phrase too

  8. I should make it his birthday card for every single year to come. A reminder that I did once publicy praise him!

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Monday, June 14, 2010

“I press on…” -Phil. 3:14

Surviving is way underrated. There’s a lot to be said for just hanging in there in the midst of difficult situations. As I’ve counseled hundreds of families over the years at Shelterwood, I’ve spent countless hours with grieving parents. These loving moms and dads have been through heavy trials with their teenage sons and daughters. But they are true survivors who refused to give into the difficulty. They believed and loved when no one else would.

A few weeks ago, Jeanie and I were traveling through Oklahoma City on our way to Amarillo. We decided to stop and visit the Oklahoma City Memorial that honors all those involved in the April 19, 1995 bombing. We walked and toured the Memorial and we were touched by the tragedy.

An American elm on the north side of the Memorial was the only shade tree in the parking lot across the street from the Murrah Building, and commuters would come into work early to get one of the shady parking spots provided by its branches. Photos of Oklahoma City taken around the time of statehood (1907) show this tree, meaning it is currently at least 103 years old. Despite its age, the tree was neglected and taken for granted prior to the blast. Heavily damaged by the bomb, the Tree ultimately survived after nearly being chopped down during the initial investigation, in order to recover evidence hanging in its branches and embedded in its bark.

The force of the blast ripped most of the branches from the Survivor Tree, glass and debris were embedded in its trunk and fire from the cars parked beneath it blackened what was left of the tree. Most thought the tree could not survive. However, almost a year after the bombing, family members, survivors and rescue workers gathered for a memorial ceremony under the tree, noticed it was beginning to bloom again. The Survivor Tree now thrives and an intricate irrigation system keeps the tree healthy. Hundreds of seeds from the Survivor Tree are planted annually and the resulting saplings are distributed each year on the anniversary of the bombing. Thousands of Survivor Trees are growing today in public and private places all over the United States; saplings were sent to Columbine High School after the massacre there, to New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, and various other times.

Parents, as difficulty and trial come your way, never let go of the hand of God and “hang in there” as the battle rages. I had a dad say to me once, “Joey, no matter what it takes, I’m going to hang in there with my boy. When I look back on this life, I want to look back with no regrets. I may be broke, but I’ll know I gave everything I had to love and save my son.”

All we can do as parents is love the best we know how and survive under God’s grace. Like the Survivor Tree in Oklahoma City, you might be battered and scarred, but you stand tall as an example to struggling parents.

You too are spreading seeds of hope and love to people around you as you hang on to survive with your teen.

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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Missing Maisy

“Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him” -Gen. 2:18-20 We had to say good-bye to our precious lab, Maisy, today. She had become very sick. After her blood work, it became evident that the culprit was chronic kidney failure. The Vet wasn’t sure why it developed. “It was probably genetic and she was probably born with it,” he said. Though she was only four years old, she had become a big part of our family. She joins the spirits of our previous three wonderful labs: Josie, Kipper, and Maggie. We will miss her. Maisy was a good friend. Some say dogs are “man’s best friend.” You may not remember, but in Genesis Chapter two, after God created man, He acknowledged, “It isn’t good for man to be alone.” So God said He would “make a helper suitable for him.” We presume he is describing Eve. He first creates the beast of the field and brings them to Adam to name them. One of those animals was certainly a dog. But God observes that none of the animals was “a suitable helper for him [Adam]. So God fashions a woman to fill the void. The animals came close, but Eve was the missing piece. Still, dogs and cats and guinea pigs fill a huge void. Maisy filled a huge void for us and her absence has left a hole in our family. I remember one afternoon I was finishing up a backyard project in the rain. Maisy was always involved in every outdoor activity. I had to run back and forth to our storage building and was getting soaking wet. Maisy ran every lap with me, back and forth from the garage to the storage building. She was soaking wet herself. I remember thanking her for staying beside me. Maisy was a real mess. I’m not sure we’ve ever had a lab who got into more trouble than Maisy. As a puppy, she was into anything chewable in our garage and yard. One night, she chewed all the wiring for our garage door opener. Another night, she chewed the brake lines on my Chevy. I had the lines replaced and sprayed them with a special “keep dogs away” product and, a week later, she chewed them again. Any plant in the yard was fair game to dig up and deposit in the far reaches of our backyard. She chewed all the telephone lines under our deck and even found time to leave her mark on our deck railing. As she got a bit older, she settled down, but her marks are still all over our house! She definitely brought life to our home, even though she drove me crazy. Maisy was intensely loyal. Every morning, rain or shine, hot or cold, she stood at attention by the back door, ready to begin the day. Like all the labs before her, she loved to go on walks with Jeanie. She was never much of a squirrel chaser, but she had a great bark that alerted everyone to her presence. One of my favorite times with Maisy was leaving the house for work and returning home after a long day. She was always there as I left the house and walked me to my car. And as the garage door went up on my returning home, she would squeeze under the door to hurry out to greet me. I will miss her greeting. We do miss our sweet Maisy. I don’t miss her destruction of our yard, but I do miss her. On second thought, maybe I do miss her mess. I miss everything about her. But I’m glad she’s not in pain anymore. And I’m glad we got to have a season with her. We’re not interested in another dog right now, but as we’ve done four times before, I’m sure we’ll be looking for a pup in the near future. After all, though Jeanie and I have each other… …it’s not good for us to be alone. By Eric Joseph Staples ©

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Is there a new extension .pr0tect appended to files stored on your PC? Have you found it impossible to open them? If both answers are yes, Pr0tector Ransomware must be inside your computer. This computer infection illegally enters systems and, like other ransomware-type infections do, it encrypts users’ files by appending a new filename extension to all of them. Ransomware infections usually use strong encryption keys, so users, in most cases, cannot unlock their files easily. Cyber criminals do that on purpose, of course. They know that they will not get money from users easily, so they lock users’ files and then offer to purchase an unlock key which can decrypt files in the blink of an eye. Of course, this key for unlocking files might be extremely expensive, so sometimes users better lose their files than pay thousands of dollars to cyber criminals. In this case, we suggest keeping your money in your pockets too because nobody knows whether the “private key” will be sent to you after you transfer money to the developer of Pr0tector Ransomware. The final decision is in your hands, but, no matter you decide to send them money or not, do not forget to fully delete Pr0tector Ransomware. This ransomware infection will not be removed from your computer even if you pay money and get the key for unlocking files, which suggests that it might lock files one more time if its executable is opened accidentally by a user again.

Pr0tector Ransomware might differ from similar ransomware-type infections the way it looks, but it definitely does not differ from them the way it acts. First of all, as you already know, this computer infection locks pictures, images, documents, and other important files it manages to find on the system. Following the successful encryption of files, it drops a ransomware note (READ ME ABOUT DECRYPTION.txt) on Desktop. This document contains all the information users need to know. It first explains to users why they cannot access a bunch of their personal files: “Your files were encrypted.” Second, users are told that they can buy the private key for unlocking files by writing and email to or with a unique ID provided in the ransom note. Undoubtedly, nobody is going to give you that “private key” for free. You will, actually, have to pay money to the author of Pr0tector Ransomware to get it. You will get payment instructions and find out how much you have to pay for the decryption key if you write an email to cyber criminals, as instructed. It will not be cheap to get files back, and you have no guarantees that you will get an answer from cyber criminals after sending money to them. As a consequence, you should not pay them money, but try to recover the encrypted data for free.

If you have found your files containing .pr0tect extensions and now are sure that you have encountered Pr0tector Ransomware, you should know that there might still be a way to get those files back. Specialists say that users can easily recover their files if they have backed up their files before the entrance of the ransomware-type infection. Of course, if this backup is located on the computer, it, most probably, has been encrypted too, so only a backup located outside the system can help you to get files back. If you are sure that copies of your files do not exist, you should let those encrypted files stay on your PC for a little bit longer because there is a possibility that a free decryptor will be released very soon.

Most probably, you have allowed Pr0tector Ransomware to enter your PC by opening an attachment from a spam email. Of course, it could have found other ways to enter your computer too, for example, it could have been dropped by a serious malicious application. In any event, do not let Pr0tector Ransomware stay on your PC. You will not need to do much because this program does not drop any of its files and does not make any modifications. It just works from the place it has been launched, so your only job is to find and erase a recently downloaded/launched malicious file.

Delete Pr0tector Ransomware in a manual way

  1. Launch the Windows Explorer (tap Win+E).
  2. Check the following directories one after the other with the intention of finding the malicious file (type the directory at the top of the page to open it):
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  • %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
  • %TEMP%
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  2. Empty the Trash bin.
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  1. pik-Nik Mar 31, 2017

    there's no malware file provided in the article...
    can you provide sample or hash of the file perhaps?

  2. ch00sy Apr 6, 2017

    please share hash or sample

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AMC New Hampshire 4000-footers

Showing Skip Rogers's first ascent dates for climbed peaks (48 out of 48, or 100%)

RankPeak Elev-Ft Range (Level 6) Prom-Ft Ascent Date
29.Bondcliffs4265Twin Range185Unknown
36.Cannon Mountain4080Kinsman Range720Unknown
9.Carter Dome4832Carter Range2821Unknown
44.Galehead Mountain4024Twin Range264Unknown
15.Middle Carter Mountain4600Carter Range700Unknown
35.Middle Tripyramid4120Central Sandwich Range240Unknown
2.Mount Adams5799Northern Peaks861Unknown
13.Mount Bond4698Twin Range298Unknown
32.Mount Cabot4160Pilot Range2661Unknown
14.Mount Carrigain4680Pemigewasset Ranges2223Unknown
12.Mount Eisenhower4760Southern Peaks335Unknown
24.Mount Field4320Willey Range1681Unknown
23.Mount Flume4328Franconia Range408Unknown
17.Mount Garfield4480Franconia Range800Unknown
38.Mount Hale4054Twin Range614Unknown
21.Mount Hancock4400Pemigewasset Ranges1200Unknown
46.Mount Isolation4003Montalban-Rocky Branch Ridges203Unknown
39.Mount Jackson4052Southern Peaks332Unknown
3.Mount Jefferson5712Northern Peaks753Unknown
6.Mount Lafayette5240Franconia Range3320Unknown
18.Mount Liberty4459Franconia Range379Unknown
7.Mount Lincoln5089Franconia Range169Unknown
5.Mount Madison5366Northern Peaks466Unknown
4.Mount Monroe5372Southern Peaks254Unknown
10.Mount Moosilauke4802Moosilauke Area2932Unknown
41.Mount Moriah4049Carter Range922Unknown
24.Mount Osceola4320Osceola-Tecumseh2000Unknown
34.Mount Osceola-East Peak4156Osceola-Tecumseh316Unknown
42.Mount Passaconaway4043Central Sandwich Range803Unknown
27.Mount Pierce4310Southern Peaks230Unknown
46.Mount Tecumseh4003Osceola-Tecumseh1723Unknown
40.Mount Tom4051Willey Range331Unknown
1.Mount Washington6288Mount Washington Massif6148Unknown
45.Mount Waumbek4006Pliny Range1289Unknown
48.Mount Whiteface4000Central Sandwich Range560Unknown
30.Mount Willey4255Willey Range255Unknown
28.North Kinsman Mountain4293Kinsman Range253Unknown
32.North Tripyramid4160Central Sandwich Range1320Unknown
11.North Twin4761Twin Range281Unknown
43.Owls Head4025Franconia Range825Unknown
20.South Carter Mountain4420Carter Range220Unknown
26.South Hancock4319Pemigewasset Ranges159Unknown
22.South Kinsman Mountain4358Kinsman Range2398Unknown
8.South Twin4902Twin Range1502Unknown
16.West Bond4520Twin Range160Unknown
37.Wildcat D4062Carter Range287Unknown
19.Wildcat Mountain4422Carter Range1034Unknown
31.Zealand Mountain4240Twin Range200Unknown

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Note that this list is not the same as the mathematically-derived New Hampshire 4000-footer Threshold List also hosted on this site. This is the official AMC list, which appears to have a couple of inconsistencies in the way peaks are included on the list related to prominence data on the USGS topographic maps.

The AMC list does not include Mount Guyot, which appears to have the necessary 160 feet of clean prominence (200 feet optimistic). But it does include South Hancock, with 159 feet (199 optimistic) of prominence. Perhaps the AMC has better survey information not present on the USGS maps.

     Official AMC 4000 Footer List

Selected Guidebook(s) for this List

       AMC White Mountain Guide, 28th Edition (Smith, Daniell)

Caution: These books feature many of the peaks on this list, but may not have information on all of them.

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People For the American Way sent the following letter to Senate Judiciary Committee members to express our serious concerns about Kevin Newsom, President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. You can download the letter here.

Dear Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Committee Members:

On behalf of the hundreds of thousands of members of People For the American Way, I write to express our serious concerns about Kevin Newsom’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. His record merits further examination.

Newsom is a longtime member of the Federalist Society, having joined in 1999. He has been on their executive committee on Federalism and Separation of Powers since 2007, and he was president of the organization’s Birmingham chapter from 2012-2015. Newsom’s active presence as a leader within the Federalist Society should come as no surprise, since it is one of the primary groups to which President Trump has farmed out the selection of judicial nominees. He also became a member of the Chamber Litigation Center in 2014, pursuing the pro-corporate legal agenda of the Chamber of Commerce.

Newsom, a former attorney general of Alabama, is currently a law firm partner who represents large corporate interests in civil litigation. He also represented Alabama in an amicus brief in Caperton v. Massey Coal Company, an important case recognizing the corrupting impact of money in politics, including independent expenditures. Newsom argued that a litigant’s constitutional rights were not violated even when the judge hearing his case owed his position to the other party’s enormous, disproportionate, and unprecedented campaign spending on his behalf.

Rather than focusing on an individual’s constitutional right to a fair and unbiased judiciary, Newsom focused on the “vital principles of federalism,” as if the states would be the truly injured party if the Court found a constitutional violation. Even in the face of campaign spending clearly making it impossible to ignore the obvious appearance of corruption, Newsom argued that “constitutionalizing” recusal rules was “unnecessary,” “unwise,” and “incapable of principled application.” In an article written after the Court found a constitutional violation, Newsom called the ruling a “broadly-worded and seemingly open-ended federal constitutional sword [for litigants] to wield.”

In an era when unlimited spending on elections is having an increasingly corrosive impact on the health of our democracy, the nominee’s record in Caperton is ominous.

Newsom has also written controversial articles on his own behalf that raise additional issues meriting further investigation.

For instance, in his 2004 article “Discrimination, Retaliation, and Implied Private Rights of Action,” Newsom posited that Title IX does not provide for a private lawsuit by an individual retaliated against for exercising their Title IX rights. Fortunately, the Supreme Court subsequently disagreed.

Newsom is also deeply hostile to substantive due process, which the Supreme Court has recognized as protecting the right of women to choose an abortion and the right of same-sex couples to marry. In his 2000 article “Setting Incorporationism Straight – A Reinterpretation of the Slaughter-House Cases,” he wrote:

Most obviously and importantly, my reading would permit courts to lay aside the historically confused and semantically untenable doctrine of “substantive due process,” a doctrine that has for years visited suspicion and disrepute on the judiciary’s attempt to protect even textually specified constitutional freedoms, such as those set out in the Bill of Rights, against state interference.

He goes so far as to claim that Roe v. Wade had its genesis in Dred Scott:

Nonetheless, courts invoking substantive due process … would do well to remember that all roads lead first to Roe, then on to Lochner, and ultimately to Dred Scott.

Although lower courts are bound by Supreme Court precedent, that statement could be interpreted as a call for lower court judges to chart their own way on issues like abortion and marriage equality. If not outright defiance of precedent, he may be calling for conservative lower court judges to impose their policy preferences onto their decisions and find ways to uphold limitations on certain fundamental rights.

It is perhaps ironic that the Federalist Society, working through President Trump, has nominated someone who so casually and inaccurately hurls comparisons to Dred Scott, since then-Senator Jeff Sessions played a key role in blocking a qualified African American from consideration for this judgeship. The vacancy that Newsom would fill has been open since 2013. After years of consultation with Alabama Senators Sessions and Richard Shelby, President Obama nominated district court judge Abdul Kallon to the seat.

No African American from Alabama has ever served on the Eleventh Circuit (or its predecessor court, the Fifth Circuit, which used to include Alabama). In fact, Kallon is only the third African American in history to serve as a federal judge on any level in Alabama. And though Senators Shelby and Sessions supported Kallon’s district court nomination, they used their blue slips to block Judge Kallon from even having a hearing.

So instead of Judge Kallon, we have Kevin Newsom, a nominee who—through no fault of his own—would only perpetuate the exclusion of African American Alabamans from the federal courts that decide their rights.

We are deeply concerned about Newsom’s record of hostility to fundamental constitutional rights. His jurisprudence would shut out more than half the population from the full protections of the United States Constitution, with abortion rights and marriage equality among the rights at risk.

We hope to learn more about the nominee both during the hearing and through follow-up written questions for the record.

Marge Baker
Executive Vice President for Policy and Program


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