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It's a mid-afternoon special teams practice at Redskin Park. Ethan Albright is in his element. This is his forte, an hourlong celebration of kicking and punting and - oh yes, long snapping.
This is what has earned the 6-foot-5, 257-pound "athlete" a 13-year NFL career and the chance to play for coaching legends like Don Shula and Joe Gibbs. Sessions such as these devoted to the addendum of the pigskin playbook have earned this father of four a trip to the Pro Bowl and iconic status on the sidelines at FedEx Field. This is the NFL's second-longest tenured long snapper's time to shine.
Albright is shining all right, but not because he leads the pack or barks orders like Peyton Manning at the line of scrimmage. No, it's the glare off his shock of red hair, shimmering in the summer rays, that catches the eye.
He's down on one knee, chatting with punter Derrick Frost, his partner in fourth-down crime. By the look on their faces, the conversation has nothing to do with the kickoff drill the head hunters are performing in front of them nor the "skill" position players' punt-coverage exercise nearby.
"OK, good job. Take a break," special teams coach Danny Smith hollers, sending the special teamers scattering off in search of water.
Albright stands up awkwardly, readjusts himself and continues talking to Frost. Ten minutes pass. The long snapper tosses the ball to his punter. Practice ends. Albright, one of three returning Redskins players who last season earned a Pro Bowl selection, has hardly moved an inch.
"We have 43 days before the Giants game," he says. "We still have a long haul, and it's a long season."
Albright doesn't despise the drudgery of practice. It's just after spending so much time with his head hunched between his legs, he has gained a certain perspective. He has been around since the pre-special teams practice days, before long snapper morphed into a position all its own.
"You know Ethan's been doing this a long time," Smith says. "Ethan is a quality person that takes his trade very seriously, he works extremely hard at it and is excellent at doing it. I would say he is the best snapper in the National Football League."
No Redskins player can remember the last time a punter had to chase an errant snap or a holder had to dig a ball out of the turf for a field goal. Albright has remained consistent through the years.
Asked to name his favorite Ethan Albright story, center Casey Rabach declines.
"We would be out here for hours," Rabach says. "I can't tell you anything that wouldn't embarrass him too bad."
With Albright there is always a story. Like the one about how he got his nickname, the "Red Snapper ..."
"Got that my rookie year," Albright says. "I was with the Dolphins. In camp, veterans get bored. [Former Miami defensive end] Trace Armstrong was one of the veterans, and he started giving rookies nicknames. I came in, a red-headed guy in Miami, sunburned like crazy, and I was doing the long snapping. [One night at dinner] they are bringing all this seafood out, and he was right behind me, 'You're the Red Snapper.' It just stuck. Ever since then."
Perhaps it's because they're noticed only when they falter, but snappers tend to gravitate toward the eccentric.
Philadelphia Eagles snapper Mike Gammon was a prodigious juggler, Jon Dorenbos performed as a magician in Las Vegas before joining the Buffalo Bills in 2003 and San Diego's David Binn was once romantically linked to Pamela Anderson.
While Albright is relatively free of off-field quirks - "I juggle my four kids' schedules," he says - he has become a cult hero thanks to his low level of eumelanin, an ultra-sensitivity to ultraviolent light, and one number: 53.
That was Albright's player value rating in Madden 2007, the lowest for any player in the game. Albright, who is "not a big Madden video game guy," couldn't have cared less. But then some wise guys in the blogosphere went and penned a mock letter from Albright to John Madden - "You lose it more and more each year, old man" - and set it loose in cyberspace.
"I agreed with every word they had to say," Albright says sarcastically. "I thought it was funny."
Now there is a 4-minute, 22-second Albright tribute - an eight-photo montage of Albright set to DJ Khaled's "We Takin' Over" - on YouTube.com, and he hears the pleas of autograph hounds each day when he lumbers to the locker room after practice.
Over the years, Albright - who learned the art of snapping from his older brother in the backyard of their Greensboro, N.C., home - has developed a holistic approach to his trade.
He nourishes his 37-year-old body by visiting a chiropractor, lounging on "those little foam rollers" in the Redskins' weight room and having his kids walk on his back. He slathers himself with sun block - "SPF 85, Neutrogena's got the best stuff," he says - before every practice and, like an Eastern red bat roosting in a cave, hangs upside-down from an inversion board in his bedroom. While capsized, Albright takes a long look back at all the long looks back between his legs, and ruminates on those still to come.
"My job is just as mental as it is physical," he says. "If I go out there thinking, 'Oh God, I am going to screw this up, I hope it's good,' That's a disaster waiting to happen. I have trained myself like 'Hey, snap this one just like all the other ones and you will do fine. You've done the work, you've done the preparation, just stick to the routine and it will go right where it's supposed to.'"
Each gameday begins with the same breakfast - a few eggs, some biscuits and a little fruit - and he sticks to the same sideline routine for every Redskins' offensive series. In the belief that it's bad luck to start thinking about punting too early, he watches the game on first down, then takes two practice snaps on second down and another on third down. This helps Albright keep his mind clear for the next test.
"I try to stay even-keeled," Albright says. "I don't want to get all jacked up. God, I'll snap it 100 yards."
"Once in a blue moon" Albright says, an opponent tries to rattle him. Like the time when he played for the Bills and ...
"We had a game against Minnesota when [Vikings defensive tackle John Randle] was just, 'All right, all right. I know what you did. I'm coming. I'm coming.'" Albright recalls. "I mean sometimes guys will talk and try and distract you, and I can just block that out. But my left guard was Ruben Brown, and he had been in the Pro Bowl like six years. He started laughing - this is in the middle of the game - he says, 'Ethan, I think you are going down this time.' That caught me off-guard, because [Randle] had my guard talking to me all of a sudden."
Albright prefers to help block after he snaps the ball. Other than his brief snapping duties, he never touches the ball. Except for when ...
"There was a year in Buffalo where I almost scored a touchdown," Albright recalls. "The punt returner fumbled it, and it bounced right up to me. I got it down to the 2-yard line."
After a few more fables, it is easy to see why Rabach, Smith and the Redskins' fans can't get enough of Albright. Or how spending four hours beside Albright, listening to tales and inhaling SPF fumes as Frost does each day, could be entertaining. Only one question remains: How long will Albright continue to put the "red" in Redskins?
"I am determined to go as long as the team lets me go," Albright says. "They will make the decision that they are done with me before I am done with them. I am living the dream job, man."


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The Pentax image is far harder cropped, but the Pentax camera's sensor has 16MP.
If we had used the V2 instead, the difference in available pixels had been smaller, and the end result more in favour of the Nikon, I guess?!
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MOUNT HOREB, Wis. – At first, Jeff Millard was undecided about who to vote for in November.
"I am not particularly happy with Obama," the retired auto-parts storeowner said of the man he supported in 2008.
His wife, walking beside him on the Military Ridge state trail, overheard him voicing doubt. She let him know it was not an option.
"What about my reproductive rights?" she asked, clearly upset. "No, we are voting for Obama!"
Discussing his uncertainty, the retired couple walked off along the popular recreational trail in this small town, once known for the National Mustard Museum and an obsession with all things related to trolls.
By all rights, President Obama should easily win this state, with its "progressive" activism and elected liberals such as former U.S. senator Russ Feingold.
Obama won the state within an inch of 14 percentage points in 2008.
Today, he leads Republican Mitt Romney in state polling. But, based on his Chicago campaign headquarters' reaction to any questioning that support, his lead may be as solid as quicksand.
The Badger State illustrates the political divide gripping segments of America, thanks largely to the reaction of organized labor and Democrat activists to Republican Gov. Scott Walker's collective-bargaining reform bill.
Since 2011, Wisconsin has endured an unprecedented rash of statewide elections, including recalls of GOP state senators, a February primary for local offices, an April presidential primary, a May gubernatorial-recall candidate primary among Democrats, and then June's gubernatorial recall election.
Despite millions of dollars spent by Washington Democrats and unions, Walker and Republicans shocked pundits by prevailing in most of those contests.
On Saturday, Obama made his first appearance in 220 plus days in a state that may be politically spent: Less than 19 percent of its eligible voters showed up for an August primary to choose both parties' U.S. Senate candidates.
An hour's drive southeast of here, Janesville was put on the national radar by Tobin Ryan's brother, Paul, the Republican congressman picked as Romney's running mate.
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After being released from jail, a notorious pedophile admits to abducting and murdering a child 25 years ago. Suspicious of his motives, the detectives reopen the unsolved case in an unusual attempt to prove his innocence. They end up reinvestigating the boy's disappearance with his left-wing activist parents.


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I made this paper craft for my baby brother, it took longer then I would have liked, but I'm still happy with it. I'll get better at these in time.
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I hope you know howmuch of a kid Gumball is
He's just like my brother.
A better word for Gumball is twerp, fits him right?
wow didn't know that, but it still fits lol
In my head at times me and my toon freinds babysit Gumball and Darwin, but we mostly watch our dvds, scare the two into leaving us alone to watch, and mostly read a bunch or snack on cereal and ice cream, or carrots or stay in the room we rented in their house, and read fan fiction, do our experements or let bender do his thing (though I want him to swich to just soda and stop drinking or smoking) ecedra on what we all do...
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I have been watching videos on the dangers of aspartame and I took a look at what the ingredients were in the Ice Breaker mints I have....and what a shocker.. aspartame! I wonder if it would be best to switch over to Altoids instead.
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I hate the taste of aspartame. Rumsfeld? It figures. Did that SOB ever do one G/D thing right in his life.
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If people are so concerned about getting fat, why not stop eating salt?
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ok, so where is the japanese angle? this turned out into a evil rumsfeld evil aspertame thread.
title is misleading. should be revised.
can someone verify that Japanese don't drink diet drinks?
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It is small; we have 3 hens living in it.
My husband added some hook & eye latches and barrel latches to the doors for added security ( to preempt any activity by raccoons, foxes, weasels).
He also added 1 door to the coop. THe interior does not have a door at the ladder/ramp that leads down to the ground. At night, we send the hens in and latch this door that he built.
ALso, if you buy a standard sized waterer, you will find that it does not fit easily through the bottom screened door. It fits, but not easily.
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I have had hens in my city setting for two years, and I needed another coop for two additions to my flock. I ordered the coop on a Tuesday, and it was on...Read complete review
I have had hens in my city setting for two years, and I needed another coop for two additions to my flock. I ordered the coop on a Tuesday, and it was on my doorstep by Thursday night. Not bad for free shipping. The coop came with minor damage--just a few wood gouges--but was fine. Assembly was easy and quick; however, it took me a lot longer than others because I chose to reinforce the underside with predator-proof hardware cloth. Anyone with chickens knows that predators can burrow underneath and get inside to eat your chickens while you are sleeping. Overall, I found this to be a good "starter coop," with the following important recommendations: 1) it is unequivocally fit for a MAXIMUM of two adult [mid- to large-breed] hens or maybe 3 bantam-sized hens. Put too many hens in a close confinement, and that's when cannibalism occurs. 2) create floor protection with half-inch hardware cloth to keep predators from burrowing underneath. 3) the roof and nesting box offer no air flow, and chickens are susceptible to respiratory problems, so I urge anyone getting this coop to create a roof vent and ALSO to knock out the plexiglass window and replace with half-inch hardware cloth, as well as create a raised, vented roof for the nesting box area. Trust me, the first time one of your hens goes broody and spends 21 days in that little oven of a nesting box, you will know why. 4) secure the nesting box floor panels with screws! They just lay in the bottom, and they are lightweight enough that any predator (dog, raccoon, possum) merely has to bonk their head up under the floor from outside, and, wa-la! They're in. 5) install sliding bolts to secure both doors. The little hearts are cute, but not nearly enough to keep something from getting in. I would not recommend this coop for wide-open outdoor situations, such as a farm or large lot that does NOT have supplemental fencing. I have a fully fenced backyard, solar lights around my coops, and keep my place as neat and tidy as possible to discourage predators, but if you are in an area with large dogs, coyotes, or foxes, they can easily work through the lightweight wood that this coop is made of.
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We received the product 2 days before we were told we would. Putting it together was real simple, took about an hour. The chickens love it.
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Assembling this coop was very easy, especially after viewing the instructions online. It took a friend and I (we are two old women)about an hour. Another friend commented that even without chickens, it makes a very attractive yard ornament. :)
My only complaint is that there were several boards that had cracks. These I plan on gluing together. I will replace the latches on the doors as I think a coon could get in with no problem.
Other than that I am very pleased and will be picking up a couple of hens today. This is my first experience with chickens at age 77 and am I having fun!
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Being a first time chicken farmer I was quite leery about buying a coop, especially buying one online. For my comfort I called customer service and talked to a representative. She was absolutely wonderful. She answered all of my questions. She did in politely and never once did she try to rush me off the phone. She was wonderful!
I did order the coop and it came exactly on the date that was told to me, which was super fast. I got it in a week from purchasing it.
It was simple to put together. Two women put it together within an hour. My chickens adore it. They love to snuggle together and sleep inside the little house. I think it's great for a first time chicken farmer as well as a well experienced one.
Easy to build, great price, and chickens love it! What more can I say but it's worth it! I just might buy another one!
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Awesome Coop !!!! Chickens love it
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All the check's in my naborhood waht to come over to my house just to coop up with me.I know I will get alots of eggs.
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It,s all very nice, has what it needs.
I like that you can remove top to clean.
only one thing I would have liked, was the choice to have larger
run available. I can't say how the girls like their home, because we're having all of our fencing redone in june, so, we'll wait until next spring. Their cute home will be ready and waiting!!
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So I bought the other Boomer & George Chicken Coop and then thought I'd need a second but wanted something different. Without really examining the specs as I did the first time I bought this one. So the weaknesses: Roof doesn't open making cleaning tough. There is no removable pan which also makes cleaning the roost area tough. The pen does not work well with the trailer wheels. There is no door to enclose the roosting area to prevent night-time predators. Ventilation in the roosting area is only via the opening to the chicken run. The latches that close the door is not very secure. Just a wooden blocker screwed in.
In my opinion, go with the other Chicken Coop by Boomer & George. It's 410 cheaper; has a opening roof; removable tray and vented roosting area.
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So I bought both this coop and the other B&G Nesting Coop for 6 chickens. First off the other coop is much bigger and the top-opening panels make cleaning and arranging so much easier. This coop does not have a door to close off the roosting/nesting area from the caged area. Problem with this is the chickens are less safe and you must be weary of predators digging under the coop and entering the sleeping area.
If it was me I would have bought the other coop twice. It has a removable cleaning pan and a larger roaming area and the top-opening ceiling. For $10 more it's a no-brainer.
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I have 4 hens and it was small for them so I had to fence off part of my yard and just leave the door open so they could have room. I have had it now for a year and a half and the past year it has rotted to where I can't even move it cause the roof is about to fall off, the doors won't close, and the part over the roosting nest just rotted and splintered so I can't use it any longer. I paid close to $300 for it back then and for it not to last a year, that was a waste of money. I can make one cheaper that will last longer than this did. I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS TO ANYONE.
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Nothing like a piece of fabric tape and some zip ties to keep coolant in a leaky hose.
The black pepper radiator seal saved me once. Most any convenience store will have pepper but not all have radiator sealant.
A raw egg cracked into the radiator will also seal it up.
Needed a smaller main jet, no spares or stores open. Put a notch in a toothpick and jammed it in the big jet. Sold the car with wood jet in place. Blew a recovery tank on a Jeep Cherokee. (The tank with the rad cap on it). By-passed the tank using a deep socket and couple of hose clamps. Pulled the upper rad hose and filled it up. Made it home. +1 on the pepper in the radiator. On pinholes, it lasts a long time.
My buddy goes down in the gravel on his Triumph Sprint. We pull the fairing and the upper radiator hose where is runs into the cylinder head is spitting coolant right where is leaves the flange. We remove the small piece of hose that is split..about 1/2 inch and stretch the hose slightly to make up for the lost length. No leaks now.
2 days later, he crashes again. This time the bike is on its side for an extended period of time and there is a pool of oil under the bike. We get it upright and add oil to the proper level. The battery will not crank the bike...I guess that the engine is hydrostatically locked. We put it on the center stand and put it in 4th gear. We rock the engine backward and forward gently until it will go thru a complete revolution. The battery now moves the engine and we kill ever mosquito within about 5 miles. I don't have to pay for a beer for the remainder of the trip.
When I was in high school, my friend and I figured all his Dodge Omni needed to go really fast was the Holley 4 barrel off his brother's Monte Carlo.
Well, we didn't have two nickels to rub together but we did have all night, a drill, and a piece of wood with which to make an adapter.
It actually ran. It made no power, but it revved to the moon.
So we're driving around one night, the engine quit and the gas pedal went to the floor on its own. The carb had fallen off because our wooden intake adapter broke off. The carb was still firmly lag screwed to the wood, though.
There was an old wiring harness in the back, so we yanked off a big piece of wire and tied the carb back onto the intake manifold. He actually asked me to hold my finger on the knot, like when you tie a bow on a Christmas gift.
It ran even less good after that, but it got us home.
A friend of mine was in the middle of nowhere, Iowa, in his VW bus when the power suddenly went to nothing and a big chuff chuff noise emanated from the back where that engine-like oil leak resided.
Turned out a spark plug had blown right out of the head, taking the threads with it.
He put a bunch of wraps of teflon tape on the plug, screwed it back in, and made it across Iowa and Wisconsin no sweat.
Bar soap works very well to plug holes in gas tanks.
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Back in my younger days, me and 3 friends were driving my beater '65 mustang (200ci inline 6) back to Fayetteville from Myrtle Beach. Just outside MB I took off from a light, the drivers side motor mount broke, and the entire engine torqued up and to the right, ripping the top radiator hose neck right out of the radiator. :eek1
It's now dark on a Sunday night, on the side of a 2 lane highway, but we have assorted tools and crap and about 3 cases of beer in the trunk. After drinking several beers to allow the engine to cool down some, we took stock of the situation.
We used a couple of bent coat hangers and some duct tape layered with that yellow "gorilla snot" weatherstrip adhesive to sort of reattach the hose neck to the radiator. We then used some scrap wire and another bent hanger to "tie" the 2 halves of the broken motor mount together. We topped off the radiator with beer and urine and hit the road.
I couldn't accelerate too hard without torquing the motor over and undoing our work, so we trundled along like a turtle, driving slow and drinking beer. We had to stop a few times to "refill" the radiator since our repair wasn't pressure-tight, but we managed to get it back home, billowing a steam cloud of beer and piss.
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Trying to get the clutch oil jet out of your LC8? Once you get it unscrewed, stick a wooden matchstick into the hole. It is small enough to slip in, and large enough to grip it.
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Long sticks/wires/rods can reach into the black holes of the engine compartment or hold things that require the hands of a 3 year old.
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The welds on my R100GS/PD shift lever broke in Durango Co. I went into a body shop (since I am a body man) I knew they had a mig welder.
They owner tried to sell me the place, building, tools, wrecker, antique mig welder and all!
He seemed a bit put out by my choking after he told me the price.
Friend of mine had a 78 HD Sportster. Yea, I know an AMF POS. However this was 1980. We were out on a ride whn all of a sudden he comes to a stop. I'm thinking..not a freaking again.
Turns out one of the voltage regulator wires chafed and shorted burning the wires. There was about 2 inches of wire left on 2 of them coming out of the regulator. I was thinking it was toast, but what the hell, had to give it a shot.
I took the wires out of the rear turn signals, spliced it up, a bit of electrical tape and it ran. Got him home.
Ever heard the old joke...Why do HD riders like riding with BMW guys?
Got somebody along to carry the tools.
Funny...now the HD guys don't need tools. Seems its the BMW's breaking down ...
I have built/repaired all sorts of vehicles with whatever is at hand.
Asprin in Battery cells will work for awhile but will eventaully fail. I have done this on many ocasions and have even tested the results with proffesional tools! Batteries have ben made to last 6 months longer... Just a band-aid fix, but will work to get to the next pay check some times.
Drainplug fell out of my R100R at 80MPH in S. MN. and shed al lof the Amsoil onto my rear tire No fastener on the bike has the same size and pitch! Spare spark plug is the same size....wrong pitch...But will work with teflon tape for a few hnred miles until a proper fix is made and no threads were wrecked!
Snaped a rear axel in my FJ40 Land cruiser deep in the woods...
Removed the tire/wheel and replaced the drum brake and chained a tree to the frame behind the front tire and made a travois (sp) under the rear axel...
Drove out of the woods maybe 5 miles with this. 3rd gear and up to 30MPH
I have pics somewhere.
I never freak out, just think and adapt.
And not a wrench in sight large enough?
Use two smaller wrenches and jam them into the larger space.
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It got me over Cottonwood Pass and down to Buena Vista. MC mechanic in town could only get 1/4 turn tighter w. his allen socket.
Driving my Toyota from Tucson AZ to Rapid City, SD in August. 30 miles after refueling in Los Cruces, NM, said Toyota sputters and dies, like it ran out of fuel. I pull over, scratch my head for a while wondering WTF? I removed the air cleaner, and the site glass window in the float bowl, and it is by the O-Jesus, dry as a bone. Hmmmm. Full tank of gas, none getting to carb. Bummer. Scratch head some more. Light bulb comes on. I fly model planes. How do we get fuel to the motor? Run a little pressure into the fuel tank! This Toyota has a non-vented cap, and a charcoal canister under the hood. Hmmmmm. I found the line from the canister to the tank, and detached it from the canister. It wouldn't really reach anywhere, so I attached the radiator overflow hose to it, and some windshield washer tubing fit into that very nicely. I blew into the conglomertion of hoses, like blowing up a ballon, but stopped abruptly when I heard a "Poink!" from the tank. Fifteen seconds later, fuel is pouring out the site glass hole in the float bowl, that I hadn't thought to replace yet! Glass back in, Air filter back on, hose careully taped up and through the driver side window. I'm on the road again, running perfectly fine, except having to put a lungful of air into the tank every 15 miles or so!! The Hitchikers I picked up south of Sante Fe thought it was weird, but WTF, it worked! To hold the air, I closed the window on the tube, pinching it shut.
The short version: I blew my Toyota from Los Cruces to Rapid City.
OK, you win. Nothing more to see here, folks. Contest is over...
Yup, I have done way strange stuff. but that is just too cool in a sort of Damn, who'd a thunk kinda way
i mighta used air from the spare tire like old VW washer fluid but you da man for that there trick.
I am going to tell my students about that tomorrow in class.
Thinking outside of the box with knowledge from inside the box!
Driving my old Volvo sedan in pouring rain.... klunk.... and the wipers quit. I investigated and found the wiper motor had broken mounts and there was no roadside repair possible so I disonnected the motor and ran a rope throgh the windows and tied them to the wiper blades and made it home in manual mode.


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Udinese checked AC Milan's rise up the Serie A table by holding the Rossoneri to a 1-1 draw at San Siro.
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Art Nouveau - Autumn by ellaineWatch
©2008-2016 ellaine
Done for another tutorial for The Official Corel Painter Magazine, that will be published in the 20th issue (at the end of August), and it will be the cover, yay!
It was really fun to do and I hope that you will like it
Credits for the pose and red dress go to the awesome `lockstock - [link]
Done in PainterX
Wallpaper version: [link]
Love the shades of red! Awesome.
This is my favourite art period, in many ways! Your work is a stunning compliment to the style! Thank you!
I Like It!
Hi! I love this painting and would like to ask if I can make a silver pendant inspired by it? I'm a jewellery maker. I would be very happy if you have nothing against it .
Well, I'm glad you like it, but first of all this picture is copyrighted by the magazine it was done for, second - why would I have to let you sell something made of my work?
I'm not a seller but even I know that it may increase your future sales my dear
There's nothing like a link to your profile and/or work in a right place.
Besides I wouldn't expect simple copy of your artwork, not in THAT case.
There's nothing like a link to your profile and/or work in a right place.
Besides I wouldn't expect simple copy of your artwork, not in THAT case.
Ok I understand. Generally I never make copies of anything and I don't mean making a copy of your work in silver. By inspiration I mean being inspired by the idea of an autumn lady, the pose and the Art Nouveau style. I'm sure that If I never asked about it you would never though that this a copy your work, but as I respect copyright law, and I'm myself very pissed of when someone copy my work, I thought that it would be right to ask. I didn't know that you would see it this way, especially that I asked about making a pendant inspired by your work, and not making your picture in silver.
Very nice!
Wonderful warm colors. Great attention to form... just lovely.
This is so elegant and beautiful.I'm very fond of the style and colour scheme.
I saw this in the magazine at my local Barnes and Noble! How cool for you! I adore art nouveau, Mucha especially, and I thought this was a beautiful piece, and I still do. How awesome to find you here! ^_^
To jest piękne Kocham zarówno jesień jak i secesję...Kolorystyka szalenie mi się podoba.
Aaaa...no i pozdrawiam rodaczkę
Aaaa...no i pozdrawiam rodaczkę
absolutely gorgeous! i love the art nouveau style.
Ach, swietny tut, swoją drogą. Miałam zamiar się przy nim pobawić w wakacje, ale w końcu czasowo nie wyszło.
I totally love this piece. The red is vibrant, but doesn't detract from the softness that's so important in the art nouveau style.
Do you ever do commissions? Drop me a line if so please. More Info on my profile.
Do you ever do commissions? Drop me a line if so please. More Info on my profile.
That's fantastic. I love the detail you've put into this, from the subtle highlights of the leaf she's holding to the bark in the background.
This is so beautiful! I love Art Nouveau/Jugendstil!
Just bought The Complete Guide to Digital Painting and tought I saw that painting somewhere
This is a great, clean piece of art. When I get some monies saved up, I'm gonna buy this, I think. This, and "Dark Cabaret."
Beautiful image. I love the flow of the hair, the great frame, and the art nouveau style that you used for this piece.
very true to the style and spirit of mucha and art nouveau, well done
Beautiful lineart, congratulations for the cover.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing
ha, wiedziałam, ze gdzieś to widziałam w empiku! Dzięki temu artykułowi wreszcie zabrałam się (wreszcie!) za rysunek w tym stylu
I was going to say 'this reminds me of Mucha!' But then I saw that everyone else had this same idea. xDD
Very beautiful job, though. The background is amazing.
Very beautiful job, though. The background is amazing.
Beautiful job! I love the subtle textures that you've incorporated into it. And congrats on the cover!
That is absolutely beautiful (and I would totally buy it if it were a print *coughhintcough*). Love the color and she's gorgeous.
Thank you very much
Well, I don't know if I can make it a print since it's a commissioned work, but I can ask the people from the magazine and give it a try
Well, I don't know if I can make it a print since it's a commissioned work, but I can ask the people from the magazine and give it a try
The remarkable poster in this style. Good work
I read your tutorial in the Corel Painter issue--and was astounded by the simplicity of it! It's such a beautiul piece, and I'm grateful for the chance to learn something from it myself ^w^
Śliczne, jak ja tęsknię do jesieni...
Ooo super Najbardziej podobają mi się włosy i listki w ramce, no i to jak pokolorowana jest skóra^_^
Beautiful. Colours are so rich and autumn-like, and she has a quiet and charming smile.
Bardzo ładne. Kocham secesję
Bardziej bym powiedziała,że to inspiracja pracami Muchy niż całego Art Nouveau...
Strasznie mi się podoba dobór kolorów w tej pracy Ta czerwień......
Strasznie mi się podoba dobór kolorów w tej pracy Ta czerwień......
Taki tytuł ma tutorial, a Mucha jakby nie było jest z AN najbardziej kojarzony, więc nie widzę problemu
A dziękuję, jesiennie miało być.
A dziękuję, jesiennie miało być.
Jesień w środku lata XD...
Płacą, to trzeba robić to, czego wymagają (magazyn ukaże się pod koniec sierpnia). Dobrze, że nie zima.
Uprasza się o jeszcze większą ilość detali na włosach.
Uprasza się o jeszcze większą ilość detali na włosach.


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I know we sell one of the vehicle tracking systems at Pep Boys- but, I think it only gives location based off of GPS readings. Other than that, I really don't know. Sorry.
This is a discussion on Vehicle Tracking System within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; I have a need to track where one of our vehicles goes. I am looking at vehicle tracking systems and would like to get one ...
I have a need to track where one of our vehicles goes. I am looking at vehicle tracking systems and would like to get one that will tell me where the vehicle is at any time, whether it is running or not. I am interested in the experiences of the group on this subject. I appreciate your input.
"I've noticed that everyone that is pro-abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan
"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." Thomas Jefferson
You are only paranoid until you are right - then you are a visionary.
I know we sell one of the vehicle tracking systems at Pep Boys- but, I think it only gives location based off of GPS readings. Other than that, I really don't know. Sorry.
"Gun control should mean hitting your target every time."
Please try to remember- I have a very dry sense of humor. It usually sounds mean, but isn't meant to be.
A few results using the search string "Vehicle Tracking System" on Google. You may find one that fits your needs.
GPS Vehicle, Fleet, and Teen Tracking Systems
GPS Tracking | Vehicle Tracking System | Satellite GPS Fleet Tracking
GPS Tracking Devices | Spy GPS Tracker Device | Vehicle & Car Tracker
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."
How mush do you want to spend? I have a lot of experience with this. PM me if you want with the specifics (what it is for which I assume is legal). If you tell me what the reason is it would be easier.
You want a birddog that is "active", I think most involve a fee since it utilizes cell phone towers for the "instant reporting".
Off-topic but related, I think an iPhone will do the same thing, for instance my wife and I each have an iPhone, we can get an app and activate our phones so we always would know where the other is. After being married for 36 years we trust each other, but it would be fun to do, plus handy if either of us lost our phone.
The "passive" birddog's are cheaper and essentially record to be downloaded later. They work well.
Helpful hints on pushing back and strengthening the 2A:
on a budget you can always buy a cheap tablet, put avg antivirus on it. and after registering the account, hide it in the vehicle and use the free tracking software to monitor it.
A 1911 is Not an obsession, it's simply a recognition that it's THE Gun. :-) All others are runner ups. And hey, if all else fails, aim for the nose and fling it to knock out your foe. Let's see y'all do that with a kel-Tec. ;-)
I'm not saying we should kill all the stupid people. I'm saying remove all the warning labels and let the problem sort itself out.


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This is a logo I did for Eurohorsie IV, a massive Ponygoons meetup that will be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands this year. Here are the Cutie Mark Crusaders dressing up as typical citizens.
Looks pretty cool, remember me on some Eurodance ore Hardcore CD cover from the Netherlands.
XD didn't expect to see the cmc like that.
I don't think that the visit to Rotterdam did them well though XD.
Also, I did not know there was a meet up coming up soon.
Thanks for the heads up.
Unicorns are for gangsters!
looks like a new installment of GTA
The cutie mark Rotterdammerts
To Rotterdam!
To earn the feyenoord cutie-mark XD
Hah, het lijken wel chavs uit Engeland.
This is so cool!!! I love the smoking Sweetie Belle!
Good that they are living in Ponyville and not in Rotterdam.
So gold chains and sneers are a common site in Rotterdam?
More like faux-gold, but kids really look for opportunities to point out how expensive their jackets are. The sneers; mostly for comedic effect but we are a city of no-nonsense people.
oh this is so badass and epic


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By RICHARD EDER
Published: September 24, 1999
As the years go by you fall into the habit of believing that apples do not taste as sharp as they used to and that candy bars are not as big. They do not, in fact, and they are not; thanks respectively to fruit genetics and marketing margins.
But why have my books lost their smell? The smell, when I was 5, of a nubby ''Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'' in the solid and likewise whiffy oak shelves of the Little Neck branch of the public library, circa 1937. The smell of the cracking new textbooks, cool to the touch, at the start of each school year; and of gray, green, red or blue Modern Library volumes at $1.25 apiece: a weekly ticket (what my allowance allowed) to a wind-in-the-face journey more displacing than any roller coaster; one that linked the great world, past and present, to one 15-year-old's future.
Offset print instead of hot type? Different glues and binding? Less redolent paper formulas? Or simply, after many years and thousands of journeys with thousands of books, a dimness of the senses, not the mind; a dulling of the uncontainable excitement at embarkation even if the journey once begun begins to recover it. The idea gradually takes hold that it will be round trip and no longer one way; that no longer will life change utterly.
Still, what does a computer smell of even when you are young? Perhaps -- that perpetual snuffling hum -- it is smelling you. What does a printout smell of, other than chemical air?
''New York Is Book Country'' makes its annual festive return this weekend. The slogan may annoy a resident of Somewhere Else: once again the city is proclaiming itself a metonym for the universal. To be a great city, of course, it is necessary in some respect to be greatly provincial. Look at London until it lost its nerve and Paris anytime. In any case, ''Book Country'' is wonderful. This is what books are: a country, and in a way the computer screen and the misnamed electronic book never can be.
A book is a made thing, first of all. (''Of the making of many books there is no end,'' one U.P.S. man scripturally intoned as he carried in a load.) It displaces space instead of haunting it like the text on a screen. As a book reviewer in a cubbyhole I know a lot about such displacement, occasionally falling over a stack and once, like the pedant in Anatole France's ''Penguin Island,'' up-ended when a whole bookcase-full rained down on me.
Books begin as concrete tribal magic: objects held by the parent to provide a small bedtime wall and draw out of it the spell of a story. They are not static objects; they reassert themselves as spell-givers with each pause to turn a page. Hard to imagine a bedtime computer; still less one capable of that repeated incantatory page turning. For the child, books are concrete before they are abstract: sensuality before sensibility.
Just about the first material encounter with a book I can recall took place very early one Sunday morning when I was 5 and tiptoed ''The Little Engine That Could'' into the bathroom to see if I could work my mother's magic with it. A dark blue razor blade lay on the basin and suggested a darker magic. What great villainous fun to try slashing the pages. Fun it was -- the pages were stiff and shiny and the blade ribboned creamily through them -- until something slipped and an impressive quantity of blood spurted out, followed by dawn rescue and rebuke.
Book as magic spell, book as magic object, book as danger and transgression: an iMac could hardly ignite the same mind-body extravaganza or forge the same mind-body links. That the links are essential seems unquestionable.
I don't need Tolstoy or Sappho to appear on the Charlie Rose show or be profiled in The New York Times Magazine, but I can't eliminate the notion of the writer from the writing. The poem ''London'' is a treasure to me but so, differently, is William Blake. I don't mean as biographical figure or as identifying denominator beneath a collection of poetic numerators. It is the very essence of the country that art creates for us that it consists of patches, each with its own name, gravel and slope like the tiny domaines of fine Burgundy, and not just particular novels or poems or paintings (or bottles). There is something besides price at stake when a painting is identified as a Masaccio or a Chardin. It is no more beautiful than it was before, but the country is larger.
We need landmarks as well as land: we require to think of Donne, Marvell, Keats and Seamus Heaney and not just six or seven dozen beautiful poems.
Up to this point, surely, the computer manages. On its screen it spells both Keats and La Belle Dame Sans Merci just as well as I and the Oxford University Press do. What fails is the corporal link. We don't literally hold the writer when we hold the book; nevertheless it is a thing we hold. We don't hold the baker, but we hold -- not taste, not chewiness, not nourishment -- a loaf of bread. Religious creed apart, there is a living metaphor in the words, ''This is my body.''


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Good Morning! At Smithville, MS, the current temperature is 35 and it feels like 35. Highs will continue to range between 41 and 63 with lows between 16 and 46. There is a 50% chance of showers today and a 40% chance of showers early tonight. Saturdays high is 41 and a low of 16 with winds out of the North-Northwest at 15-25mph with higher gusts. Going into Monday/Monday night, North MS and other parts of the South may see winter weather. Increasing moisture and lingering cold air may bring an accumulation of snow and/or ice to portions of the Midsouth especially along and north of I-40. It is too early to determine the amount of accumulation, but the system will bring the best chance for winter precipitation since early December. It will be interesting to see if this turns out to be right or not. At the Regional Rehab Center in Tupelo, MS, the current temperature is 35 and it feels like 35. Todays high is 52 with a 50% chance of showers. Tonights low is 30 with a 40% chance of showers early. Saturdays high is 39 with winds out of the North at 15-25mph with higher gusts. Hope yall are having a great Friday and I'll have another post tomorrow. Continue to pray for the tornado victims and those affected by damaging weather events.
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