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this is for you cface, my penpal and internet lover.
Anyone famous yet?
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HAHAHA havent been on this shit in mad long but all yall suffolk *****s stay in suffolk. make it out to the boroughs then you can talk. gk runs shit for the island. the only thing you toys do for the li graff scene is ruin it by talking your shit on the net just cause your jealous about how gk gets up more then any of you little cheerio bred bitches. NONE OF YOU GET UP. and isnt that whats most important. take a serious look at yourselves and reevaluate your whole view at this game. or just stay on this website with your thumbs up your asses insted of painting i dont really care. big ups to people that get up or have gotten up in the past. and as for toys like mosh talking game like that you are just comical. i would feel bad for you making a fucking fool of yourself if it wasnt so humerous.
get your own style
Down pat...hahahah IVE GOTTA STOP SAID TOO MUCH ALREADY.
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HAHAHA you make me laugh. i wouldnt even know what your shit looks like anymore i NEVER see it
lol ive known that since i got on this forum lol..who wants free supplies when supplies are free anyway
Keanu doin his thingg** randy too
hahaha you mad? dude, lmfao!!!! Oh it's so funny to see you post this shit. Thanks for the laugh brotha. I'm done for today, and I'm not responding to you again. omg a dude with a tongue ring?! that's sthuper duper gay! hayyyyyy! i can see you punching your keyboard and monitor when you write these things. haha. pussy pussy pussy, i'm such a pussy. nanny nanny poo poo. lol dude im actually LOLing, thank you dude, your face is probably still red.
way to downsize your ranting post. and dude, the fact that you take EVERYTHING i say on here sooo seriously is a joke in itself. I don't have an ego, I just like to paint. no shit i have a long way to go, i only have been painting for 2 years. and i'm in no rush to drop a "burner." I'm satisfied with what I do. And that's all there is to it. I'm not in this for you duder.
Seriously, you never used to rob anyone, the only kids you robbed were 1st graders when you were in 5th grade, cool.
Cface seriously you're the coolest person I know! Your life sounds so sad and boring.
cface has ruined another thread because of his napolean complex. yay.
ICU vs BINER
KARMA vs KEANU
GONE vs DEPOS
MOB vs RANDY?the saga continues

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With a simple twist this Edwardian 14k yellow gold bracelet will soon be among your favorites. The slender shaft of the bangle is flexible and comfortable and fits most any wrist. Each terminal ends in a golden orb of cornflower blue and white enamel petal flower heads. Just the bracelet to wear every day flexing open and closed.
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Rockies SS Troy Tulowitzki Named N.L. Player Of The Month
Posted by Mike Rice
Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki has been voted the Budweiser Presents National League Player of the Month for April.
Tulowitzki paced the Major Leagues with a .477 on-base percentage and a .727 slugging percentage during 27 contests in March/April while ranking second in hitting behind teammate Charlie Blackmon. He posted a .364 average for the month, collecting 32 hits in 88 at-bats. The three-time All-Star also ranked among N.L. leaders with 24 runs scored (1st), 64 total bases (2nd), 22 RBI (T-3rd), seven home runs (T-4th) and nine doubles (T-5th). Along with his 32 hits, Tulowitzki drew 21 walks during the first month of the season, which was tied for the second-most in the Senior Circuit. His on-base and slugging percentages were the highest marks by a shortstop during the opening month of a season since 2006 (Derek Jeter, NYY, .505 OBP) and 2000 (Alex Rodriguez, SEA, .747 SLG), respectively.
The 29-year-old capped his stellar April performance by going a combined 5-for-9 (.556) with two homers and five RBI in a three-game set at division-rival Arizona from April 28th-30th as the Rockies took two of three from the D-backs. On the 28th, Tulowitzki reached base five times for the second time this year (also: 4/20 vs. PHI), going 3-for-3 with a pair of walks. The California native clubbed homers in back-to-back games (4/28-29) for the second time on the young season after going deep in three-straight outings from April 22nd-25th.
On April 18th, Tulowitzki collected five RBI, going 3-for-3 with a double and a home run in a 12-1 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Phillies. The five-RBI performance was the fifth of his career, which is the most among all active Major League shortstops. The performance fell two RBI shy of his career single-game high of seven, done twice (last: 9/15/10 vs. SD). The three-hit effort was one of five such outings for Tulowitzki last month. The seventh overall selection in the 2005 Draft currently leads all Major League shortstops in hitting, home runs, RBI and runs scored. This is his second career monthly award, having won previously for the month of September 2010.
Other players receiving votes included Adrian Gonzalez (.317, 18 R, 32 H, 9 2B, 8 HR, 24 RBI, .644 SLG) of the Los Angeles Dodgers; Miami's Giancarlo Stanton (.269, 19 R, 29 H, 8 2B, 8 HR, 31 RBI, .565 SLG); Tulowitzki's Colorado teammates Charlie Blackmon (.374, 23 R, 37 H, 7 2B, 3B, 5 HR, 18 RBI, .616 SLG, .418 OBP) and Justin Morneau (.343, 14 R, 35 H, 8 2B, 6 HR, 22 RBI, .618 SLG); and Milwaukee's Carlos Gomez (.293, 19 R, 34 H, 7 2B, 2 3B, 7 HR, 15 RBI, .569 SLG, 4 SB).
The Budweiser Presents National League Player of the Month for April 2014, Troy Tulowitzki, will receive a specially designed trophy, suitably engraved, in recognition of his accomplishment.
Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu has been voted the Budweiser Presents American League Player of the Month for April, the first such honor for the White Sox since Magglio Ordonez in July 2003. He joins Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig (June 2013) as the only two players since the award's 1974 inception to win in their first month in the Majors. Budweiser, the official beer sponsor of Major League Baseball and sponsor of 24 of 30 Clubs, is also the presenting sponsor of the National League Player of the Month Award.
Along with being named as the league's top player, Abreu also claimed the American League Rookie of the Month Award. Jose's teammate Gordon Beckham last won rookie honors for the White Sox in July 2009. The 27-year-old is the eighth player ever to win both the Player/Pitcher of the Month Award and the Rookie of the Month Award in the same calendar month, joining Florida's Dontrelle Willis (June 2003), Milwaukee's Ryan Braun (July 2007), San Francisco's Buster Posey (July 2010), Tampa Bay's Jeremy Hellickson (May 2011) and Chris Archer (July 2013), the Angels' Mike Trout (July 2012) and Puig (June 2013).
Abreu batted .270 (31-for-115) with eight doubles, one triple, 10 home runs, 32 RBI and 20 runs scored in 29 games, leading the Majors in homers, RBI, total bases (71) and extra-base hits (19) while establishing new Major League rookie records in all four of those categories. The Cuban native finished fifth overall in slugging percentage (.617), tied for seventh in multi-hit games (11) and was tied for 10th in runs scored.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Abreu's 32 RBI tied Joe DiMaggio (1936), Ted Williams (1939) and Albert Pujols (2001) for the third-highest total in Major League history by a player in his first 29 career games, and his 10 homers were the most by a White Sox rookie in any month. He is the first rookie since Minnesota's Kent Hrbek in 1982 (8 HR, 22 RBI) to lead the Majors in both homers and RBI through April and is the first White Sox player to lead all of Baseball in both categories in any month since Roy Sievers in July 1960 (Elias).
The right-handed-hitting Abreu, who also won A.L. Player of the Week honors for April 21st-27th, notched four games with at least four RBI, another Major League first for players in their first 29 games, including two multi-homer efforts in his first 10 games to become the third-ever to do so.
Others receiving A.L. Player of the Month votes included Toronto's Jose Bautista (.293, 8 HR, 18 RBI) and Melky Cabrera (.342, 8 2B, 5 HR, 8 RBI); the Angels' Albert Pujols (.279, 9 HR, 23 RBI) and Mike Trout (.321, 8 2B, 6 HR, 18 RBI); Oakland's Josh Donaldson (.279, 10 2B, 7 HR, 23 RBI); and Abreu's teammate Alexei Ramirez (.351, 4 HR, 19 RBI). Starting pitchers Masahiro Tanaka (3-0, 2.27 ERA, 6 BB, 46 SO) of the New York Yankees and Yordano Ventura (2-1, 1.50 ERA, 31 SO) of the Kansas City Royals also received voting consideration for A.L. Rookie of the Month.
In recognition of his Budweiser Presents American League Player of the Month Award and his American League Rookie of the Month Award, Jose Abreu will receive two specially designed trophies, suitably engraved, for his accomplishments.


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Plain English at Halfords
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Plain English Campaign welcomes a rare opportunity to applaud the motoring industry today when Halfords Autocentres launch their plain English 'Glossary of garage speak'. This is the first guide of its kind in the motor industry to receive a Crystal Mark from Plain English Campaign.
The guide is a direct result of research carried out for the independent garage network. The research showed a high level of confusion linked to mechanical jargon and highlighted the need for simple and unpatronising language when dealing with motorists.
Gobbledygook on the BBC
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On Monday 7 March at 7.30pm, BBC Inside Out East Midlands will be full of gobbledygook and jargon as BBC presenter John Holmes travels to Derbyshire for an update on the story of Plain English Campaign.
Big steps to overcome the small print
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Plain English Campaign are applauding the consumer contracts team at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the regulatory body for traders throughout the UK. The OFT's year-long study of unclear terms and conditions in consumer contracts covered a range of customer complaints about things such as contracts for gym membership and the small print involved in buying football clubs' season tickets.
The findings from this year-long study revealed some new information, such as consumers being put off by the length of long-winded contracts. However, it confirmed our well-known fears about the unfairness of small print.
Power points for comparison
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Plain English Campaign continue to fight for clearer information in energy bills. We were pleased to support the comparison website, www.uswitch.com, when they asked for our review of yearly energy statements. These statements are a regulatory requirement, laid down by Ofgem, for all energy providers to provide an individual statement to their customers that shows the customer's consumption and costs over the past 12 months. But the results of the uSwitch public survey show that some energy companies have been slow to meet this regulation, and those that are meeting it could do with improving the clarity of the statements.
Losing your will to live - plain English instead of legal jargon
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Plain English Campaign have been watching the BBC 2 programme 'Can't take it with you' and clearly so have many other people, judging by the increase in queries received at the campaign office on the subject of wills and probate.
Let us know about any difficulties you have with understanding the wording of wills.
A few years ago, the outcry on this subject resulted in the Government calling for regulation among the growing number of will writers. Those without a valid legal qualification fall outside of the compensation currently available from The Law Society, in the event of disputes resulting from unclear will writing.
The Law Society are launching a campaign to press for better regulations in will writing. Plain English Campaign supports this and the need for plain English in all legal documents, wherever possible.
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hey guys i have a movie download website . i want to set a automatic audio player in my blog . will it disturb the visitors or the visitors will enjoy the song . should i do it or not ????
Hmmmmmm ... that sounds illegal.
i want to set a automatic audio player in my blog . will it disturb the visitors or the visitors will enjoy the song . should i do it or not ????
Don't do it. Let users choose to play content. If nothing else, think of those who open a few tabs at once. What a mess—several tracks playing at once. And then there are those on low bandwidth connections who may want to check out the page without downloading a file ... Just don't set things to autoplay.
I agree with Ralph, as a user, it's really annoying for us when we visit a website and then all of sudden there's a background music that plays automatically and it's intercepting with the songs that we're actually playing on our media players. If the users get annoyed, they will leave your website right away. Also, you need to consider the user's inclination to music. What if they don't like the song that's playing on your website? At least give them the freedom to choose which song they would like to listen to.
Syed,Thought I would give you one more vote. Definitely do not have audio start playing on your site. I have seen some sites that do this and it is one of the most irritating things in the world. You are likely to lose visitors by using this tactic.Best,
I would seriously avoid having an automatic audio player on my website.
Nothing is more irritating than to have random music running in the background without you even knowing about the same.
I would say you can have "Trailers" of 3-4 minutes accompanying a movie.
The users can click on them and check the trailer and then pause them.
Movie download is something which is illegal.
It can lead to legal implications.
i think it depends upon the users personal choice but yes keeping the broader picture in mind you should avoid it.
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This committee shall evaluate all curricula on an on-going basis and shall make recommendations to the vice president for Instruction and ultimately the president regarding all curricular matters. It shall recommend approval of and criteria for evaluation of all AA, AS, and AAS degrees as well as for the Technical Certificate, Advanced Technical Certificate and Academic Certificate of Completion. The council shall approve all prerequisites for courses as well as changes in grading procedures as well as changes in credits, content, or numbers. The Curriculum Council shall evaluate and approve all special topic courses. In addition, this committee will submit reports of its activities to the Faculty Assembly Chair.
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What I find most ridiculous is that when someone earns money, they get taxed for earning it, when they spend it, they get taxed again, usually a large amount. In some cases the tax on items is insane, especially things like cigs and alcohol, atleast a third of peoples money must go on taxes, I wouldn't be surprised if it was quite a bit more for some others. ( Yeah I could be wrong, but that's just what it seems like to me lol )
Of course everything is going to have tax on it, but it's the amount of tax on the items which makes it pathetic. Also, taxes have gone up so much even since I was a teenager, I can remember when a box of 20 cigs was about £3 something, now it's like £6?.
I quit smoking a couple of years back but I still think it's ridiculous that the price could increase so much mainly because of taxes, especially when I haven't ever really seen any improvements or benefits for this increase in tax and they're now talking about scrapping a shit ton of our Navy and making cutbacks in the forces, that's one thing I'd be happy to pay taxes for.
My town is the same shit hole it has always been, they still keep dumping low life scum to live here, they were talking about building an entire new section to the town so they can basically house scumbags there that they don't want elsewhere, they just worded that part differently, but that's basically what it is.
They were also talking about building a fuck load more traveler sites in the area around my town, yeah, thanks for that you cunts. Not that travelers are bad people in general, but they tend to bring more than a few bad apples along with them who go around thieving shit and mugging people, enough of that already happens.
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Take 16 riders, break them into heats with four riders each, and send them side-by-side down a boardercross course ending in a table where spins are mandatory. The goal is still to get across the finish line first, but since tricks count towards the final score, a rider in third could spin a 720 and potentially knock out a rider in first if he only did a 360. That's boarderstyle, a unique event created by crew at Monster Energy that debuted at The Show last year.
Two things were new this year: the addition of an upper rail section to the 32 gate course (which most riders skipped in favor of keeping speed since it wasn't mandatory) and the appearance of Terje in a race bib.
Terje's been making the rounds in North America this winter, competing at the Dirksen Derby, Red Bull Supernatural, and the Baker Banked Slalom to name a few. According to Instagram, he was in the Whistler area this week, but no one could be sure if he would compete as his name was on the guest list for parties at The Show last year and he never appeared. Dude is kind of elusive in that way, you know, like a sprocking cat.
Before the qualifying time trial window closed however, Terje materialized to take some runs and claim a spot among the top 16 fastest riders including Travis Williams, Joel Loverin, Mark Sollors, Spencer Lundin, Aaron 'Peanut' Johnson, Justin Lamoureux, Will Jackways, Chris Matheson, Scot Brown, Martin Jaureguialzo, Marcus Culver, Rube Goldberg, Nev Lapwood, and Jon Versteeg.
After six heats the field was down to the final four of Travis Williams, Will Jackways, Terje and unknown rider Martin Jaureguralzo. Although Travis had been first in each of his heats so far, Will and Terje came around the final turn together, making contact while fighting for position, only to hit the jump at the same time. Will stomped a backside 540 and Terje threw a backflip but reverted giving Will a slight lead. As the first across the line with a cleanly landed trick, there was no doubt Will won.
"It was crazy to beat Terje," said Will as he cradled his trophy. "He's without a doubt the biggest idol I had growing up. Even now I admire what he's doing. I'm stoked he came out to be a part of the event. To race against him in the final was cool. To beat him was just a bonus."
"I've done boardercross before but here you have to do a trick so there's a little strategy," said an unflappably calm Terje from behind his mirrored Oakleys (what is he thinking, dammit?). "It's a lot more fun."
For Terje, boarderstyle is a step towards revitalizing what boardercross was in the early '90s, with courses that were highly technical.
"I'd like to see boardercross as technical as supercross," he said. "The courses right now look boring and you end up with guys who weight 90 kilos with armor on their shoulders."
Terje sees boarderstyle as a work in progress however.
"This course was still easy and simple," he said. "They're definitely being creative though."
As to why Terje decided to compete?
"I was here," he said.


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Looking for some help/market research type stuff here. Having visited a couple of similar things down south, such as Fearless Fightwear and others, I'd been looking into opening an MMA clothing/gear/supplements/etc store somewhere here. Possibly somewhere like Partick, Clydebank, Maryhill or similar.
Does anyone have experience in this field?
To be honest, I'm really only trying to find out whether such a thing would be popular enough to justify here. Would you shop at one in your area?
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Shut up...you are HORRIBLE at what you do, and you really need to start sketching for the next 2 years before you even think about painting a freight. I bet when that train pulls out of the yard your shit gets burned at least a week later. No matter what excuses you have, it aint gonna fly homie, i could hand my little 11 year old brother a pencil and he could litterly burn your toy ass to ashes. So sit down, and let the big boys do there thing, learn your place.to the person that said i go out a hand full of times. hahah buddy i'm out atleast 3 times a week. freezing weather dont stop me, i got these sweet gloves that are mad warm and they were cheap, i got them at canadian tire. that Fuck over dose fr8 was a fucked up spot. if you notice in the picture how short i am compared to the train, theirs like a huge down slope there. i couldn't outline or double outline very good,the pink was done with those Shitty male upside down spraying cans i stold from that contruction site(flore pink). i had to jump to outline the K.
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Ride to Work Profile: "Scooterriffic"Friday, July 27th, 2007
Today's RTW Profile features another scooterist, another "Vesparado".
She lives in Adelaide, Australia, and I became aware of her by the frequent posts she puts up on the Modern Vespa forum. The photo you see below is a larger copy of the image she uses as her "avatar" there.
"Scooterriffic" prefers that her real name remain a secret, so I cannot publish that here. In her Ride to Work essay, she uses a lot of Australian slang, which I will do my best to translate. My comments will be in italics.
If you have any questions about what you read here, please address them to the comments section.
The face that graces so many posts on the Modern Vespa forum.
"Scooterriffic" says:
My normal ride to work is too short to bother describing. About two kilometres through a few leafy terraces, with a one hour stop for two double shot long blacks and a browse of the national broadsheet on the way to the office.
For the next few weeks it's a little different. I am house-sitting for a friend. Or more accurately, dog, cat and chook-sitting in a suburb by the sea to the north-west of Adelaide, increasing my commute to 40 plus k's a day.
"chook" means chicken.
This is the first time since I bought the Vespa that I have had to visit a service station more than once a fortnight.
Semaphore and the Port Adelaide area is a great part of town. Old pubs that haven't been turned into renovated meat markets selling boutique beers. No way! This place has a great sense of community and pride that comes from its working class roots, its footy team and its sense of its own history.
The journey begins here – typical working class cottage from the early
20th century. Timber and corrugated iron – now gentrified.
Two films have been shot down here; Bad Boy Bubby (in the 90s) and Look Both Ways (a few years ago.) Look them up to see more, but please don't take Bubby as being representative of a typical Australian life.
While gentrification hasn't passed the area by, it still hasn't been invaded by yuppies in SUVs who want to turn it into the overpriced bourgeois enclave they just moved out of.
The new apartments being built on what was once industrial wasteland may change this. People crazy enough to pay more than a million for a penthouse that includes the Adelaide Brighton Cement Works in its vista will be fighting hard to increase the value of their investment.
My days out here start with a ritual – get Barbara the labrador outside and the cats inside so she doesn't eat their food. Then head out the front and feed the chooks and check for eggs. Tell crying dog at side gate to shut up. She is currently working on a 1:20 scale replica of the Suez Canal in the backyard. I am ignoring it.
Then get the cats out, sometimes involving threats of physical violence if they decide to try and hide under the bed for the day.
Once this is all out of the way (and I have taken to washing my hair at night to make it all happen without having to get up at 5am) I push the Vespa out of the garage.
Barbara likes to go for drives, so it is not possible to exit the yard without her trying to work out how to join me on the scoot if I have the engine running.
I start her up in the back alley, known colloquially in Australia as "dunny lanes" because they were used by the night soil men to collect the ummm…waste products from houses in the days before plumbing.
I've just had a PM Tuning exhaust fitted, so hello neighbours!
Ever get the feeling they're out to get you? The road to outer harbour, avec jaws.
I head straight onto a road that leads from Outer Harbour, Adelaide's commercial port. The road is heavy with petrol tankers and B doubles, but it is a 60kph zone and vehicles are all well behaved. There are too many traffic lights and level crossings for those big beasts to build up any serious momentum.
Far as I can make out, a "B double" is what we typically call a semi-truck, or 18-wheeler.
A nice, gently curving road starts the journey, past a pub that actually had a horse grazing on the block next to it the first time I came down here. I am really only 15 minutes from the CBD, but it's another world.
CBD = Central Business District.
My ride takes me along most of the length of Port Road, the major arterial to this part of town. Peak hour is a doddle. It is busy enough and fast enough that the cagers are generally well behaved. It is one of the few places considerate driving is still practiced – for the most part – with vehicles making allowances for those needing to change lanes. We're all just trying to get to work.
Night time on this road is another story. But I might save that one for later.
I bypass the city. There is a real bottle neck through the northern end of Adelaide's square-mile CBD at the moment, as the tramline (our only tramline, from Glenelg Beach to the south west of the city) is extended along North Terrace. Lanes are closed down, right hand turns are limited. It's not anything I'm interested in before my vital heart-starter dose of caffeine.
The city bypass takes me around the outside edge of Adelaide's parklands. As I just mentioned in passing, our CBD was designed as a square mile, surrounded by parklands. A very civilised concept. Some public buildings have been built on this protected strip, but any attempts at further clawing back of public land are fought off tenaciously.
Big house, big palm tree. Not mine!
I am about to head through some of our wealthiest suburbs, in stark contrast to what I have just left behind.
Medindie is a postage stamp-sized locale full of very large houses. Very, very large. And palm trees, for some reason. A little flamboyant for such an old-money kind of place, I would have thought.
My journey around the parklands soon takes me past Adelaide's most exclusive boy's school. St. Peter's College is the size of a whole suburb. The doctors and lawyers of tomorrow are all in there.
From a traffic point of view, you don't have to slow down for children in the area, none of them walk to school. You just avoid the left lane because 99.9% of European cars will be turning in to the school gates.
To my right is the Botanical Gardens' "Glass Pasty" and the Adelaide Wine Centre, a piece of architecture that divides people. I belong on the "love it" team. And the plonk inside is alright, too.
Okay, I'm stumped too… What, exactly, is this "plonk" of which you speak?
This, I guess, is the "glass pasty" she is talking about. Nice scooter, btw…=gc=
If I've managed to set off before 7.30am, I will get a pretty clear run without much traffic. I will have made it to this point by about 8am (and dontcha just love the way so many people seem to head out of their driveways at 8am on the dot?) – I've got time for my coffee ritual!!
Up the Norwood Parade to Buongiorno, where they understand I drink coffee like a wog, not a skippy, so when I say strong I really mean it.
Both "wog" and "skippy" are a bit ambiguous in web definitions. Please elaborate?
They know my name, they know what I order. Except for the depths of winter, I sit outside, adjacent to a table full of old Greek guys who meet up every morning to take the piss out of each other. Sometimes one or other of them will bring me a rose. I love all of this stuff. Why would you go to Starbucks?
Actually, in Adelaide, you can't. They haven't invaded here yet!
On the way home…feeling peckish? No it's not a soprano in a coffin, it's a wog in a box.
A quick read of The Australian and a bit of a chat with some of the other locals, and I'm off. Work is only a few minutes away from here, and I've had a great ride to start my day.
I once heard someone describe the difference between driving and riding to work; driving to work, your work day starts when you get in the car, but your time on
two wheels is your own.
I agree completely.


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Photo: Deputy County Executive and CIO of Oakland County Mich., Phil Bertolini.
County collaboration, innovation and creative thinking take a front seat when facing bigger problems and smaller budgets as demonstrated by winners of the seventh annual Digital Counties Survey, conducted by the Center for Digital Government. The survey determined how well county governments used digital technologies to become more efficient and better able to serve their citizens. Categories included new Web technologies, online self-service, IT measures for environmental sustainability and dealing with the economic downturn.
Oakland County, Michigan
Oakland County, Mich. -- winner of the 500,000 or more population category -- started experimenting with podcasts. The response was immediate and people downloaded the podcasts by the thousands. Podcasting led the way to government blogs and other interactive forums for citizens and county employees. The Blogin Café, a blogging technology showcase at the county's Arts, Beats and Eats festival, was aimed at generating an interest in blogging by citizens of all ages. A huge success, the Blogin Café helped more than 2,600 citizens voice their opinions on a variety of topics.
"It's one thing to put a technology or service out there and it's another thing to get people to actually use it," said Phil Bertolini, deputy county executive and CIO. "With Web 2.0 technologies, you have so many different abilities to interact with your constituency. We have this whole new generation of consumers that have really grown up with these technologies and they want information and services delivered differently."
"At one time we had a 92-year-old woman come in and say 'I don't know what a blog is but I'm interested' and ended up writing her very first blog. What this showed us was that there was a definite interest in these new technologies," Bertolini said.
Roanoke County, Virginia
Photo: Technicians (l to r) Jack McNeil, Jennifer Chitwood and Tim Ginger are responsible for troubleshooting and maintaining Roanoke County's fleet of 1000+ computers, printers and peripherals.
Bill Greeves, director of IT for Roanoke County Va. -- winner of the 150,000-250,000 population category -- talked to Government Technology about the county's decision to use a hosted system for its customer relationship management (CRM) system.
"I think that it's becoming a much more popular trend these days to start looking at software as a service for some of our bigger, more critical systems," said Greeves. "It's still a pretty recent development because up until a couple of years ago, there were a lot of concerns about connectivity and information security. But in the last couple of years, several vendors have come forward with some really nice, secure and functional solutions."
With a newly gained confidence in hosted systems, Roanoke County also decided to host its financial system externally.
"It's a hosted system, which means we don't have to fund infrastructure costs or worry about upgrades to the applications," said Greeves.
The Digital Counties survey is great way for local governments to see what others are doing and look at some best practices being implemented nationwide. "One of the best things about working in government," said Bertolini, "is that it is not so much competitive as is it collaborative."


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to transfer to the Crow Indian Tribe of Montana the equitable title to all the buffalo owned by the United States on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, the legal title to such buffalo to be held by the United States in trust for the use and benefit of the Crow Indian Tribe. The Secretary of the Interior is further authorized, in his discretion, to grant to the said tribe the unrestricted title to any or all of such buffalo.
The Secretary of the Interior is further authorized, in his discretion, to grant to the tribe or tribes of any Indian reservation the unrestricted title to any buffalo now or hereafter held in trust for such tribes and deposit to the credit of such tribes either in their local treasury or in the Treasury of the United States the proceeds of sales of any buffalo previously held for the use and benefit of such tribes.
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The Chicago Bears came into the 2012 season ready to let loose a pair of young safeties – third-year player Major Wright and second-year player Chris Conte – as the club's starters. The duo started five games together in 2011 and it was expected they could both grow together and raise their levels of consistency.
Chicago selected Brandon Hardin in the third round of this year's draft to push both of the starters for playing time. Unfortunately, he was placed on injured reserve before the start of the season.
Looking back on the 16-game season, neither starter disappointed, yet it was Wright that truly took his game to the next level. Veteran Craig Steltz served as the club's primary backup at both free and strong safety. Injuries mounted with this group late in the season, forcing second-year player Anthony Walters to make his first career start in the season finale.
Let's break down each player's performance in 2012.
Major Wright
After missing nine games due to injury his first two years in the league, Wright was fully healthy this year. In fact, Wright was on the field for 1,044 of the defense's 1,069 total snaps – the most snaps of any defensive player.
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Inconsistency plagued Wright in 2011, his first year as a starter. He missed a number of tackles and was sketchy in coverage. This season, he vastly improved in both areas of his game.
In 2011, opposing quarterbacks had a 109.8 passer rating when throwing at Wright, according to Pro Football Focus (PFF). In 2012, he nearly cut that number in half, finishing with a 61.9 QB rating against. Last year, receivers he was covering caught 71.4 percent of passes thrown to them. This year, Wright cut that to 62.2 percent.
He finished the season third on the team in tackles (71) and tackles for loss (5), and second in interceptions (4), one of which he returned for a touchdown.
Yet Wright was even better against the run. The Bears faced an unbelievable stretch of top-tier running backs this season. In the nine weeks from Week 5-Week 14, Chicago's defense faced Maurice Jones-Drew, Chris Johnson, Arian Foster, Frank Gore, Marshawn Lynch and Adrian Peterson, twice. Despite that gauntlet of opposing ball carriers, the Bears finished eighth in the league against the run (101.7 yards per game). Wright, who often served as an extra linebacker in the box, deserves much of the credit for the defense's success against the run.
According to PFF, Wright had 25 stops this year – tackles that constitute an offensive failure –up from 13 last season. When lined up in the box, Wright's run stop percentage ranked seventh best amongst NFL safeties.
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This year, Wright developed into a quality all-around safety, one who can serve as a starter on the back end for many years to come. The 24-year-old's contract expires following next season.
Chicago has been searching for consistency at safety for more than a decade. The team finally found it in Wright. Now would be a great time to lock him up for another four years.
Chris Conte
Conte started nine games as a rookie in 2011. He carried that experience over well this season. He started the first 15 games in 2012 before missing the final contest with a shoulder injury. He played 869 of 1,069 total defensive snaps.
In coverage, Conte was very consistent. He has firmly grasped what his role is as the club's free safety, which is to keep the defense in front of him. He gave up just one touchdown on the season, with opposing QBs completing 63.0 percent of passes for a 76.8 rating. In 2011, Conte's QB rating against was 110.0.
While he's improving as a pass defender, he struggles against the run. He's often the last line of defense, so this is concerning to say the least. A missed tackle by a defensive lineman could result in a 10-yard gain. A missed tackle by Conte may result in a touchdown.
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Of 88 qualifying safeties this year, Conte ranked 73rd against the run, according to PFF. Much of his run support issues stem from bad angles taken when attacking ball carriers. It's an area of his game that must improve going forward.
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He finished 2012 with 68 tackles (fourth on the team), two interceptions, nine passes defended and a fumble recovery. He is signed through 2014.
Craig Steltz
Steltz played 113 snaps on defense this year. Defensively, he is stout against the run but lacks speed in coverage. He did not play enough snaps to have much an impact on defense but he was once again one of the team's main contributors on special teams, and he's a leader in the locker room.
He finished the year with 13 defensive tackles and two forced fumbles, to go along with seven special teams tackles. He was signed to a two-year extension last offseason.
Anthony Walters
Walters made the team's practice squad as an undrafted free agent last season. He was elevated to the active roster in mid September, appearing in four games before landing on IR with a hamstring injury.
He made the 53-man roster coming out of training camp this season, serving exclusively as a special teams contributor for most of the year. He ended up playing 112 total snaps in the final two games and started the season finale due to injuries to both Conte and Steltz. As expected, he struggled in the starting role.
Walters got good experience this year and will likely challenge Steltz for the club's third safety spot in next year's training camp.
Brandon Hardin
Hardin missed his senior season in 2011 due to injury but his blend of size and speed was too much for GM Phil Emery to ignore. Emery selected Hardin in the third round this year and the club moved him from cornerback, where he played in college at Oregon State, to safety.
The transition did not go smoothly. Hardin struggled in the preseason before a neck injury landed him on injured reserve, forcing him to miss his entire rookie season. He'll need a strong preseason to find a spot on next year's roster.
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Situated in Avon, this condo is within 3 mi (5 km) of Beaver Creek Resort, Eagle Vail Golf Club, and Beaver Creek Golf Course. Beaver Creek Resort and Beaver Creek Nordic Center are also within 3 mi (5 km).
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The Seasons at Avon features a sauna and a fitness center. The condo offers a coffee shop/café. This 3.5-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center.
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Maps of hot spots areas convey powerful messages to their readers. These messages are conveyed by various symbols:
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Each way of depicting hot spots is connected with useful theories on why crimes occur in hot spots, each of which suggests different types of police action. Recognition of these links in mapping practice can lead to better
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i guess, i was juicin and not thinking straight. now i just change caps with my cell phone light.
i guess, i was juicin and not thinking straight. now i just change caps with my cell phone light.
May 9 2005, 01:00 PM
Worst thng to ever happen was wen I was doin a throwy and the cap I used didn't fit the can I was usin and it was freezing out and the paint sprayed out all over my hands and jacket my hand was so cold it felt like it was burning and needles to say the throw didn't come out well
i could think of a few others but heres one:
around about my 2nd/3rd years of graff i was still quite toy looking back and i went out by myself a lot as i still do, what happened was i did a small rooftop on one of the busiest roads where i was living at the time and i had just finished my shit throwy and as i checked back saw a paddy, as i was still young and energetic i run and jump off the roof, causing me to fuck my ankle got up and ran the hardest i every have, seriously i like a rocket..i went into a small park through alleys and then ended up hiding under a car only within about a 100 m radius of where i first saw the cops. and the story end with me hiding under the car for 45 mins and finally walking off my ankle to my home whilst in a extreme paranoid state
worst thing that happnd to me was i jumped up this rooftop near some appartment buildings only about two stories high and then some person came out and yelled get the fuck down from there in the middle of my throw so i politly said gimme a few more seconds then i jump down and begin to run but HOLY SHIT i swear about 11 little like 13 year old kids started chasing me so i jumped some fences and ran towards this sketchy industrial area.....i felt like jackie chan evading an entire gang of hoodlums tehee
dropped my marker cap off a 70 foot tower. nothing to major.
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I was doing a piece on a rooftop,When I heard one of the armed guards coming up the stairs. Needless to say I Jumped off a 4 story building onto a roof about 12-15 feet below. Landed. felt the wooden beams of the roof start to snap, then I fall another 7-8 feet. When I got up I was covered with bruises and all bloody. it's all worth it now, because I have some awesome scars on my legs from it. I just tell people they are from a bike accident.
Either that or I was up on a wall (about 9 feet) when I stepped on a ledge which was too weak to support my weight. The ledge broke and I had to grab onto this barbed wire entwined spiky pole. It hurt like the dickens. I had bloody shins and hands all in day of writing
Climbed a barbed wire fence and ended up snagging my shoe as I was crawling over the top... caused me to lose my balance and fell on a broken bottle. Luckily I only had to get about 12 stitches.
this one time me and my boy where in this neighborhood we had no business being in, we started hitting everything with paint as we walked. all of a sudden a cop car rolls up with its lights on and we both split. Im running through back yards and in between houses. I had no idea where my boy was or where the hell i was, and of course we didnt have cell phones. I start to hear more sirens and cops, so to not look suspicious and blend in i ran up on someones stoop and just chilled on their patio furniture. I could see cops taking pictures of the tags and shinning their lights into backyards. They rolled right by me not saying anything because i looked like i lived at the house, best on my toes move ive ever made. I saw my boy like 20 mins later all dirty and shit haha. Never went back to that town again.
A week later in a different town i got piss drunk and went to tag a fence, apparently i walked right by a cop car and he saw me tagging from like 20 feet away, i was so hammered i didnt even see him. As soon as i finished my tag i heard "Dont you fucking move" Faggot cop got me, Karmas a bitch
bombing is a poor mans game, if you live above the poverty line we hatin!
haha one time i was walking to my paint spot, i hit up a tag and was walking back to do a piece under this bridge, and there was this dude just sitting there watching me, so i went and hid in the bushes for about 10 minutes, he was still there just sitting there. so i thought fuck this and grabbed a tree branch, i started walking towards the bridge and he approached me and was like "WOAH MAN I THOUGHT U WERE A GHOST" and i didnt really say anything to him, i think he was high. so i dropped the branch and went on my way. it was about 2am too.
One time I was doing some stuff beside the freeway. Had to be fast because lots of cars driving by. When I was running back my head got caught in a blackberries bush. I kept running so my forehead got cut open by the thorns.
This other time a taxi driver saw me coming from the railroad tracks. I'm assuming he called the cops because they came by ~4 min later, (they didn't see me).
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i ran out of paint
early morning under a bridge where the tracksrun through and im halfwaythrough my fillin when i realize i should take out my headphones incase workers that come from just down the way or the bull. literially not even 5 minutes after I hear a screeching coming down the tracks and before i know it theres the bull in his truck. didnt have more than like 2 seconds to grab my shit and run up this little landing and jump in the dirt. he alost stoped at my fill but slowly proceeded by as i had already known he must have seen me run. my car was parked all the way on the other side of the bridge that you half to walk through a swamp to get to so as the truck slowly lurked past i waited till the time was appropriate then i jumped up and threw on what i could of the outline and started running towards the swamp I wouldhave to get through and as I make my way through the weeds and Isee my car i notice there is another officers truck parked faceing my car with 2 dudes in it watching inthe weeds where Im coming from. i quietly make my way back into what i could as to my right was a highway and to my left, a wall of un-trekable swamp. so i dig my self into the weeds hoping to just wait them out. after 45 minutes they are still there and now they have got out of their trucks slowly making their way towards the dence brush im in. I decide to get close to the ground and dig as far in the tall grass as possible until I find my self in a little open area surounded by tall grass, tight nit trees and thickk mud. beforei know it i see vests glittering through the bushes and hear them talking slowly and quietly listening and looking. by this point i am shitting my fuckin pants as i have nowhere to run but to stay put and burry my self in the thick mud. any little sound i made in the mud seemed amplifyed. so i had to be still and cover my mouth as it was cold and my breath would show up and they couldent have been more then a few feet from me by now. i had started thinking they had realized i wasnt there and had got away until one of them picked up my headphones snagged in the bushed. he came within feet of me and at one point i thought he looked right at me as he brushed a branch away leaving me in perfect vision. the stoped and had a smoke not even 10 feet away then kept heading down the swamp and over to the bridge. when i thought right i lept up and made a mad dash to my car, leaving a nice hoodie and headphones behind caught in the bushes. all 2 hours after the truck initally came.
Went out tagging with a girl. First time out too. Well long story short, cops, guns, and dogs.... I dont go out taggin with chicks anymore...
2007 Mission...runnin the tracks, hop a fence and my entire shirt, pants rip the fuck in half. (luckly my car was like 10mins up the road) and i end up losing my left shoe to top the rest of the night off. WTF.
Hiding on a train as they are loading and unloading the line beside me for atleast an hour.workers pass by the train i was stashed like a rock literally curled up in a ball then the train started moving and as i was curled up into a ball i look up seen i passed a worker so i said my peace to some cans i had and i dove right into the stones and hid under a tanker then waited about 10mins for a clearing and dove to the bush where a homie was hiding, we chilled for atleast an hour and a half then we got up and started to dip while another speeding train comes. we dipped into the bush let it pass and we peaced. that night i lost 4 full MTN cans 3 full and 2 half full painters touch cans. but what ever lol...
a few years ago me and my boy where out bombing a big as wall on the side of the turn pike and on the way home we tagged up trash cans and shit. We wher eoutside of this guys house bombing his cans and next thing i no all the lights outside come on and me and my homie freeze and duck behind the cans. next thing i see is a guy open his front door and walk out onto his lawn with one of those HUGE yellow boat spotlights and a revolver the size of my arm me and my boy ran as fast as we ever have in our lives we get about 2 hours down (neighbor hood is big most people have a few acres) and there is a pitbull chasing us he came up 2 me and i jumped over him and then he cam up 2 my boy and my boy smacked him hard as fuck in the nose with a can, that slowed him down. then i heard a wistle and look behind us and alllll the way down to street in front of the guys house 2 guys are stadning outside and the dog goes running back to them and we kept running and peeled the fuck out. we hid our ship in the woods and layed low for about 5 min. then we took the back roads staright home lol. wasnt really a bad night and we had a black and really fucked shit up but it was one of the scariest nights bombing. we went back and picked up our shit the next day and ealy morning looked at the havoc we cuased and all in all it was worth it lol


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Currently the Associate Professor of Viola at The Hartt School, she has also been on the faculties of New York University, the University of Houston Moores' School of Music, Florida International University, and the Harlem School for the Arts in New York. She has given master classes, lectures and clinics across the U.S., United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Iceland, and the Dominican Republic.Ms. Porfiris is a member of the Hartt String Quartet and the Miller-Porfiris Duo. As a founding member of the Plymouth Quartet, she was in-residence at the Ojai Festival, Mainly Mozart, Point Counterpoint, and the Internationale Quartettakademie Prag-Wien-Budapest. She was the recipient of Austria's prestigious Prix Mercure, a prize winner in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and the Primrose International Viola Competition, and a laureate of the Paolo Borciani International Quartet Competition. She was awarded the National Music Leadership award in 2007 by the Texas chapter of music sorority Sigma Alpha in recognition of her dedication to the promotion of music and string playing at the high school and university level.
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It's something every entrepreneur hopes to get for their business but also something many find difficult and elusive to achieve.
Before moving to my current in-house position as the Public Relations Manager at Shopify, I spent my entire professional career at a handful of PR and IR (investor relations) agencies in both Toronto and New York City. Having worked on numerous B2B and consumer tech accounts in various stages – from startups to Fortune 500's like IBM and Oracle – I've learned that for many businesses, PR is a mystery. They see competitors in the press and they can't figure out the magic formula to make it happen for themselves.
For most small businesses and online entrepreneurs, PR is a work in progress. Unless you're working on a big launch, which are usually not regular occurrences, it's about building a relationship with media outlets and the appropriate reporters.
Below are six strategies that you should keep in mind when looking to get your name in the press, as well as five tools to help you make it happen.
1. Know Who You're Pitching
I've never believed in the numbers method - that is, sending a pitch out to more than 50 reporters with the hopes that one or two are bound to bite. From what I can tell, most reporters can smell a generic, blasted out pitch by the time they reach the second sentence. It's not realistic to assume that even five reporters cover the exact same beat and have the same writing style, much less all 50 of them.
Make sure you research each reporter you're reaching out to. Read past coverage, go on their Twitter and see what kinds of articles they're tweeting and retweeting, read their bio and tailor each email you send.
Going that extra mile will yield greater results, and even though your success rate may not be 100%, a targeted and tailored pitch is more likely to garner a response – even if it's a "sorry, I'm not interested."
2. Have the Story Already Written in Your Head
Before you pitch a journalist, you need to formulate and understand your story and be able to communicate what is newsworthy about it.
Imagine the headline and have the framework of the article laid out. Remember, you're selling the reporter the story so you can't expect them to come up with the idea. Reporters are busy people and the more you can spoon feed them the better.
It's always best to be short and concise in your pitch, most reporters have stated that they don't read past the third sentence. Efficiently communicate the: who, what and why they should care.
3. Offer an Exclusive
Reporters, like everyone else, love to have their egos stroked. If you're looking to garner coverage in a tier one business publication like The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times, going the exclusive route may be the best strategy.
By offering an exclusive, that specific reporter has the first right of refusal. An exclusive also guarantees that they will break the story ahead of any other outlet. You just have to make good on this deal otherwise you'll likely burn this bridge and any future opportunities with them.
Once the exclusive goes live, you can issue the press release across the wire and cast a wider net, reaching out to other reporters who would be interested in covering the news, which will result in more coverage.
4. Throw an Event
Everyone loves free food and drinks, and reporters are no different. Whether it's a store opening, a launch of a new product line, or a pop-up shop, throwing an event and inviting a few local journalists to attend is a small investment that can result in big ROI.
The event doesn't have to be a grandiose affair but should be closed off from the general public and when the reporters arrive, there needs to be a greeter who can show them around, provide introductions and literally cater to their needs.
If the reporter has a great time, they'll be more likely to write a positive review, take meetings in the future and attend more events. Also remember, swag bags never hurt and be prepared for photo opportunities as media will often come to an event with a photographer as images help liven up a story.
And of course, if you're a launching a new product, make sure to have product samples tastefully displayed and available for people to touch and feel.
When holding an event, it's often helpful to create a media advisory that clearly illustrates the "Who, What, Where and Why" of the event. You can then submit the media advisory to local news desks who will often add it to their internal calendars.
5. Relationship Building
A healthy relationship works both ways. It can't always be about you and your company and your story. Get to know the reporter and what they're interested in and what they're currently working on.
As the saying goes, "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Putting in a little effort goes a long way. It doesn't always have to be something big. For example, if you receive an out of office that a reporter is out on vacation, when you do reach them, ask them about it. Or, if you notice on their Twitter that they've admitted to having a weakness for a certain cookie brand, send them a box with a handwritten note.
Having said that, make sure to be tactful when using this approach as you don't want to come across as sending a "bribe" or making the relationship feel transactional.
6. Piggyback on a Trend
Most reporters aren't looking to a feature story on one company as it will seem too much like an advertisement. Instead, journalists are mostly looking to write larger trend pieces, so it is best to figure out how your story can fit into a larger theme or event.
See if there is a hole in the market and how your company is filling that gap. For example, Beardbrand, an ecommerce company that sells beard related products for men, was able to get themselves included in a New York Times article about the current barbershop renaissance that's going on right now.
Tools for Getting PR
In order to pitch the right journalists, you first need to find them. Here are some tools to help you discover media that cover your industry and connect with them.
Followerwonk is a tool from the folks at Moz that lets you search people's Twitter bio's (among other things).
For example, if you wanted to get covered by TechCrunch, you could search for "techcrunch" and then browse all twitter accounts that contain that keyword in the bio section, sorted by number of followers. Once you have a list, you then want to find which reporters have written about your industry or your competitors in the past, as they will be most likely to cover your story.
Muck Rack
Muck Rack is an easy way to connect with journalists. You can find the right person to pitch by searching keywords, company names, competitors, beats, outlets, media types and more. It also allows you to receive email notifications when journalists tweet or link to articles matching your search terms.
Cision is a media database that provides information on reporters including: location, email, phone numbers, social media profiles and areas of focus. You can easily generate lists based on verticals or reporter beats, helping you to find the most appropriate targets.
ProfNet connects journalists to sources and vice versa. When a journalist is writing a story and needs an expert source, they submit their inquiry to ProfNet and it then gets distributed to a list of subscribers. It's a great way to stay informed on current stories that reporters are writing and to be introduced to new targets.
HARO (Help a Reporter Out)
HARO is a service reporters can use to request information for a story. It's similar to ProfNet but since the basic subscription service is free, many reporters get inundated with pitches based on their inquiries. Again, it's a great way to stay current on any stories that reporters are writing but due to the volume of responses they receive, it is crucial that the pitch provides exactly what they requested.
Further reading:
- How to PR Like a Pro: A Guide to Getting Media Attention
- How to Get Press for Anything
- Deconstructing PR: Advice From A Former VentureBeat Writer
In the end, PR isn't a science, it's more about relationship building and really understanding who you're pitching and the demographic you're trying to reach. No matter what you're trying to achieve, whether it's selling clothes online, trying to get investors for your startup or earning media coverage for your business, providing a personal touch and catering to your audience will help you achieve your goal.
About the Author: Janet Park is the Public Relations Manager at Shopify. Get more from Janet on Twitter.
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The team sketch battle.
hahaha ok and the handy thingy? is it just your handstyle alphabet?
ATTN: To those who are thinking of entering the team battle
GO AND MAKE A TEAM and get crackin!!
i have a team and we will be entering,infact were pretty much finished.
i wish i had a team for this battle.. lol maybe
next time i will have a team
o yah.. im back.. so anyone wanna battle
you know what to do... cant play halo3 or
soul calibur 4 so i might as well sketch
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Ehhh, Proper isn't down.
baze im down i got 11 hours of straight sketchin n nothing but seatbelt signs to destract me...
whats good with the battles baze?
baze i love you.. but yah.. lets battle
just tell me what to write and when
and im there.. tez join it... and proper
how you gonna make me get off halo3
saying you was sketching again.. and
not join.. lol.. you is a puss.. love ya tho
whoa whoa whoa.........
add me.............MEUR.......simple so do it.........halo 3 bebe
when in the flying fuck are you going to actually poll a battle on time?
or at least the "six" battle
Anyone know if we are allowed to go Illegal for sketch 10?
How cute, Baze is drunk.
WORD/PHRASE: Drawing Online (Roolete's word)
SPECIFICS: One entry per person. Paper or wall.
DEADLIINE: Thursday August 14th
RULES: No digital modifications. All skill levels welcome, but polling depends on the number of entries.
MOD IN CHARGE: Proper
i need somone to make a poll for a paint battle between me n i got clout i duno how this shit works
Yeah .. looks like Me Tezer and Cher ? ... Hmm .. ill be down aslong as it gets polled ... we wasted our time the other time the team battle was on....i aint gonna waste it again...aslong as a fair amount of teams are in then im game...not last time where it was Me , Trash .v. Mewt Fezat and Hare i think it was.


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The new Metallica song has cropped up online. The group debuted the song "The Lords Of Summer" during a concert in Bogotá, Columbia Sunday night. A clip of the performance is now on YouTube.
Last week Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told "Rolling Stone" the band would debut a new song at the Bogotá show, saying they had "something lined up that is fairly representative" of where their "creative headspace is at right now." But the rocker added that performing the song in concert is no guarantee that it will be included on their next album.
Ulrich explained that Metallica played two songs during their 2006 tour that were works in progress for 2008's Death Magnetic, and neither of them were included on the disc as they were performed. Metallica's next album will be their follow up to Death Magnetic.
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By James and Morris Carey Syndicated Columnists
The annual cost of termite damage and associated preventive measures in the U.S. is estimated at $5 billion. Why discuss termites now? Because spring is typically when large numbers of winged termites (known as "swarmers") emerge inside homes.
This, along with other signs such as pinholes in walls and wood trim, bubbled paint in walls and ceilings, and sawdust on floors and window sills are a dead giveaway that termites are invading your home.
Once termites are discovered, it can be difficult to determine how long the colony has been established in the home. However, colonies typically take more than five years to grow to a size capable of causing damage. We as homeowners spend an average of $3,000 to repair termite damage.
The cost of repairs for termite damage is sometimes so slight that homeowners choose not to repair it after eliminating the infestation. In other cases, termite damage can cost the thousands of dollars previously mentioned.
It is extremely rare that a home ever has to be demolished because of termite damage. Don't fall apart if a termite contractor tells you that you have an infestation. Ninety percent of all infestations are localized and small.
Keep your eyes open. The presence of winged termites (they look very much like winged ants) inside a home almost always indicates an infestation warranting treatment.
Termite swarmers are attracted to light and often will be seen around windows, doors and light fixtures. They can be differentiated from winged ants by their straight antennae, uniform waist and wings of equal size. Ants have bent antennae, constricted waists and forewings that are longer than the hind wings.
By the way, swarming termites emerging from tree stumps, woodpiles, railroad ties and other outdoor locations are not necessarily cause for concern, and do not necessarily mean that the structure itself is infested.
Take a few precautions to prevent termites. Stack piles of wood away from the house — not against it. Make sure that dirt around the house is at least six inches away from any wood portion of the home. When building a fence be sure to include a layer of sheetmetal flashing between the exterior wall covering and any adjacent fence or gatepost.
If you have a crawl space it is wise to inspect the foundation walls for pencil-sized tubes of mud, a sure sign of termites. Another great preventive measure is to rake the crawl space removing all cellulose debris from the surface. To a termite, sawdust is a steak dinner.
Wet wood also attracts termites. If water spills into your foundation vents, the soaking wood immediately becomes an attractant to the local termite population. Keep your crawlspace dry and be careful not to water your foundation vents with your sprinkler system. You may end up sabotaging your home.
We firmly believe that doing it yourself is a great way of saving money and becoming one with your home. Having said that, we would like to suggest that you never try to eliminate termites on your own.
If you paint a room and the paint peels you can be pretty sure you goofed in some way. If you fail to properly eliminate termites (or other structural pests) you could allow thousands of dollars in additional damage to occur before realizing that you failed at the task.
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Women's Basketball vs Wichita State
Panthers take on Wichita State.
Panthers take on Wichita State.
Wrestling takes on Purdue.
UNI tennis takes on UMKC.
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Panthers take on Missouri State.
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Men's basketball vs. Loyola
From early hits to late classics including "Let It Be," "Hey Jude" and "Can't Buy Me Love," this masterful, note-for-note performance will take you back to a time when all you needed was love and a little help from your friends!
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TWS: So Danny what've you been up to?
Danny: Well you know I kinda just been a little bit of a couch monkey for a while, went down to So Cal , just hanging out and having a great time and also working out, cuz I had surgery on my knee, a little meniscus repair. But it's all good now, it's healed up, it was a six week recovery and now I'm back in it.
TWS:When did you hurt your knee?
Danny: I hurt my knee at X Games, just doing a cab-10. I landed flat and my knee just locked up. But now I'm good to go so I'm just gonna hang here in Tahoe for another week, cruise runs, and then after that I'm gonna go try and do some filming.
TWS: Filming for the Burton movie?
Danny: Yeah for the Burton movie for sure.
TWS: And Mason, what about you, what've you been up to?
Mason: Oh man, I've been chillin for about a month. I broke my uh…Well I mean I didn't break my rib, that's not what it said in the X-rays, but I know I fractured it.
Danny: You didn't break it you pussy.
Mason: Yeah I know I'm definitely a pussy, it's a pussy injury 'cuz you can't do anything, you can't even sleep right.
Danny: You can't claim broken rib, when you didn't even break it.
Mason: Yeah well it wasn't like real break, but all the doctors I talked to were like…."Well you can't even tell from the X-ray if it's fractured, and from what you're telling us, that's probably what it is." And they were just telling me all the muscles and all the ligaments just get ripped off and all this other nasty stuff.
So that's why I've just kinda been chillin'. I had to compete hurt at Killington to try and get some FIS points, for the stupid Olympics…well sorry, the Olympics aren't stupid, but the qualifying process is just absurd, you know. It sucked to have to go compete hurt, but I had to to handle my business up there. Then took it mellow for like another two weeks, and just rode for my first day..
TWS: How'd that feel?
Mason: It felt good man, cuz I was kinda nervous 'cuz I still kinda feel some pain a little bit, but not really when I ride. So,yeah I had a super good day shredding at Mammoth and then drove up here, staying with Danny and shredding the pipe today for the 20 Tricks video and we're just having some fun.
TWS: What do you guys do to deal with down time when you get injured?
Danny: I just try and take as much time off as I need to get strong. Work out, ice it, and just try and take care while you're hurt, you know, get healthy, eat right, all that.
Mason: It sucks being hurt. It sucks to not be able to snowboard 100 percent, and not feel as confident as you want to feel. But… coming back after being away for a month or so, you know it's nice to come back and shred. Everything's just fun. Going traveling from place to place all winter sometimes you just don't get those days to just ride and snowboard for yourself. So it's always nice to get back at it and have it be so fun again. And Cali is so nice right now. If you haven't been to Cali to shred yet, you better get out here.
Danny: Yeah there's like 360 days of sunshine. (Laughs)
Mason: No, seriously Mammoth has 300-plus days of sun. And there's a huge base there right now, biggest base in the country, there's so much snow there.
Danny: Biggest base in the country huh? You're sure about that, you're claiming that?
Mason: Yeah for sure, I'm claiming it. It's based out.


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Cyprien Gaillard
Google "Cyprien Gaillard" and one of the first results is an image of the French artist's handsome Gallic mug, a rough-hewn blend of Ryan Gosling and a young Paul Henreid. When it comes to the business of art superstars, good looks are hardly an impediment to success, especially when coupled with overstuffed ambition; just ask Matthew Barney, former J.Crew model and Gaillard's stablemate at Gladstone Gallery.
Gaillard's career goals have been certainly lofty, and he's quickly bounded up the ladder of success. Although his work has been limited to only a couple of group show appearances in our fair city, he's been a big deal just about everywhere else. In 2010, for instance, he won the Prix Marcel Duchamp in France, while in Germany he nabbed both the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst and the A.T. Kearney Young Artist Award. This mantel of veritable Oscars explains, perhaps, the MoMA PS1 showcase for his New York solo debut. But there is no denying the impact of the result, titled "The Crystal World."
Compared with Barney's ormolu-encrusted Conceptualism, Gaillard's aesthetic sports clean lines. While he juggles several mediums from his base in Berlin (including painting, drawing, photography and sculpture), his rep is mainly based upon a series of video and film installations that explore the uneasy nexus where nature, history and the built environment come into conflict. In these cinematic extravaganzas, shot outdoors in locations around the world, landscape becomes a delirious vista of modernist tower blocks and strange goings-on framed in dreamy long shots worthy of David Lean. In 2009's Desniansky Raion, for example, a rumble in the concrete jungle unfolds against a backdrop of brutalist architecture, as rival gangs of punks go toe-to-toe in a Ukrainian housing estate. These scenes are intercut with ones of a French high-rise undergoing a controlled implosion. The piece is exemplary of Gaillard's knack for generating kinetic kicks through filmed pageantry.
So is another epic from '09, Cities of Gold and Mirrors. It conjures Cancun, Mexico, as a chimerical realm of Mayan ruins and fortresslike hotels surrounded by dolphin-filled moats. This mirage is the setting for a gaggle of American college students, who pound back brewskis as a bandanna-masked cholo dances sinuously nearby.
Gaillard prefers the grainy diffusion of home movies to, say, the deep-focus approach of Andreas Gursky. But like the German photographer, Gaillard depicts a planet subsumed by late capitalism, a vision to which he adds a pinch of Debord, a dash of Baudrillard and a generous helping of the reverence for the sublime found in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (with gangbangers and spring-break revelers substituting for mist-shrouded mountains). Transforming the environment into a gigantic drive-in movie, Gaillard is essentially rebooting 19th-century romanticism for the global age—with the emphasis on global.
His work also borrows a bit from the chthonic minimalism of Robert Smithson, most notably in the objects on view here. A room full of vitrines enshrines pieces of excavator machinery as if they were pre-Columbian artifacts. Myriad Polaroids arranged in a series of diamond-shaped mosaics take viewers on a tour d'horizon, from Angkor Wat's temples to limestone caverns deep underground. These last items in particular reminded me of Smithson's spelunkings at the Palenque Hotel.
The art world's quick embrace of Gaillard's work suggests that his panoramic mise en scènes appeal to the financial overlords greasing the art market—who, after all, like to think of the world as a boundless terrain of free-market opportunities. So while some people (especially the artist) might argue that Gaillard's efforts are critical, they're less of a challenge to the status quo than a reflection of it.
Still, Gaillard manages to raise interesting questions about the ways in which the past is used to foreclose on the future. Cities of Gold is pretty clear about picturing Cancun as a moribund tourist trap, where the remains of a vanished civilization become visual Muzak for hedonistic pursuits.
Apropos to to this issue, I was struck by a very peculiar leitmotif in Gaillard's work: Chief Wahoo, the grinning mascot-logo of the Cleveland Indians baseball club. This indelicately racist caricature crops up in a couple of places—on a banner behind an airplane crossing the Mexican sky in Cities of Gold, and as a boldly disruptive pictorial element, splashed across an otherwise conventional landscape painting.
I have to confess that as a native son of the industrial powerhouse turned Rust Belt joke, the sight of the good chief plucked at the heartstrings, rekindling memories of opening day at Muni Stadium (yes, this was way before Progressive Field). Not a great reason for endorsing the show, admittedly. But as I later learned, Gaillard maintains residencies in both Cleveland and Cancun. However much this improbable pairing of addresses smacks of tourism or even cultural imperialism, it speaks to a weird sort of commitment, linking two locales that for different reasons suffer the same indignity of lost glory.
It also hints at an understanding that global capitalism is basically an exercise in waste management, hollowing out whole societies before recycling them at a much more favorable profit-to-cost ratio. More than just a pretty face, Gaillard reveals the real meaning of landscape today.—Howard Halle
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Billie Joe Armstrong Plays Show With His Son
Green Day front-man Billie Joe Armstrong joined his son, Joey, for a special show last week in Oakland, California at 1-2-3-4 Records. They played under the name "Two And A Half Men."
The Armstrongs were joined by Jason White, who has played guitar on tour with Green Day since 1999.
The trio played several Green Day songs at the show, according to Restless Press. The younger Armstrong plays in his own band, Emily's Army.
A few moments are captured on Joey's Instagram.
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