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News round up!
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on 03 Apr 2008 06:16 pm
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Just a quick news round up for you! Unfortunately Energy is very busy working hard on his dissertation at University and I'm working hard in the real world making sure your water is safe, so neither of us have had an opportunity to post some of the little news events that have been going on in the world of LP! So here they are!
Joe Hahn's short film 'The Seed' is now available to purchase on
for $1.99! A bargain I hear you cry! You can check out a trailer for the film on the
LPN widget
or at
Rob Bourdon is selling the drum kit he used at the 2007 MTV VMAs, with the proceeds going to Music For Relief. Go to
to find out more.
And finally, Mike Shinoda has been working with DC Shoes again to design sneakers in their remix series. This time he has designed two different shoes, the first of which will appear in the summer. Check out
for more!
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Czech Republic and Greece get Linkin Park tour
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on 03 Apr 2008 08:55 am
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Linkin Park will be performing at Velodrom in Brno, Czech Republic on June 17 and at Terra Vibe Park in Athens, Greece on June 25!
Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, April 4 at 9:00 am local time for the Brno show and Monday, April 7 at 9:00 am local time for the Athens show.
Look out for more Europe dates to be announced soon. For all other Linkin Park tour dates, visit www.linkinpark.com.
LPU presales take place today.
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Holly Brook is out and about, coming to the UK in MAY!
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on 02 Apr 2008 01:40 pm
Holly Brook
Apr 26 2008
Bowery Ballroom-with Jesse Malin
New York, New York
May 8 2008
Academy 2 - with Jesse Malin
May 9 2008
Academy 2 - with Jesse Malin
May 10 2008
Rescue Rooms - with Jesse Malin
May 11 2008
Barfly - with Jesse Malin
May 12 2008
Charlotte - with Jesse Malin
May 13 2008
Fibbers - with Jesse Malin
May 14 2008
Academy 3 - with Jesse Malin
May 15 2008
ULU - with Jesse Malin
She may not be with Machineshop any more, but by God am I glad she's out on the road. Brits unite!
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Leave Out All the Rest (in space)
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on 22 Mar 2008 12:25 am
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Bec hits us up with this document about the new LP video. I think bec and I are half expecting this to be an april fools. Click the read more for the full article...
When it comes to epic music videos, no one does it quite like the dudes from Linkin Park. And the forthcoming clip for "Leave Out All the Rest," the latest single from the band's 2007 LP Minutes to Midnight, will be no different.
Linkin Park spent last weekend standing in front of a green screen in a warehouse in Van Nuys, California, shooting the video directed by the band's DJ, Joseph Hahn, who also came up with the video's treatment. The clip depicts a day in the life of Linkin Park — that is, if they all lived in a futuristic flight vessel, floating somewhere in outer space.
[exclusive preview]
The past few LP videos haven't really got the fans going, is this one going down a similar path?
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Reseda Beach
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on 11 Mar 2008 09:09 am
Styles of Beyond
In last night's LP chat, Mike announced that SOB's album will be called Reseda Beach, and is in the mixing down stages.
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Ads or No Ads
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on 06 Mar 2008 01:53 am
Hey all, I've been re-evaluating the google ads, and while they once helped the site run, they're of little benefit anymore. This is a pain for me, especially next year when this could cause some serious issues with me paying for the upkeep of the site. It should be fine though...
So as of tonight the google ads have gone. As its replacement for a short while we've put up an advert for a comp that the people behind LP's website have asked us to run (something that we rarely do). It seems that you have to sign up to a random website, however the prize is pretty cool... a trip to the UK to see LP & JZ strut their stuff in Milton Keynes. So could be worth it...
As for that show we keep babbling on about, we'll be holding some kind of LPFuse event at the show (unofficially), and we'd love to meet as many of you as possible. Even looks like the staff will be wearing LPFuse tshirts. If we meet up, what would you guys like to do?
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SOB to join the Revolution?
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on 05 Mar 2008 10:30 am
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With their upcoming album due for release in the next few months, I think there is a good chance that S O B will join their label mates Linkin Park for the P.R. shows in Europe. It'd make sense, and gives Mike more of a chance to promote them and bring some more hip hop back to the LP setlists by performing some of the old Fort Minor routine.
What do you all think? Is this a good thing? Would you rather Jurassic 5, The Roots and Pharoah Monche joined them? Who would you like to see in Europe supporting Linkin Park?
Also, if Jay-Z is playing with Linkin Park, will they repeat a performance of Umbrella? After all, that was Rhianna and Jay-Z, and Mike's learning the parts.
Watch this space.
please note, this is jon and bt speculation, not fact
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New Joe Hahn Short on Itunes / MK Press Release & Kerrang Info
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on 05 Mar 2008 12:19 am
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On the latest Itunes newsletter, aswell as mentioning the new
LP Live @ SoHo EP
, they also mention two new upcoming Itunes items: the Given Up Video, and 'the release of an exclusive independent short film from the band's Mr. Hahn'. Could this be 'the seed'?
Also attached to this post is the press release for the first UK Projekt Rev MK Show (a PR UK MK show heheh :)). Included in this are a few new snippets like, JayZ will be doing a full set, and the contact details for getting your tickets. Remember the LPU presale starts tomorrow morning!
The other MK news is that
Kerrang are sponsoring the gig
, I will laugh if suddenly a LP gig gets a 5 star rating (although they did give Collision Course the album a really good review, strange for a rock mag).
Tomorrow's issue of the mag
will have the low-down on the gig, including the great quote from LP of: "Nothing makes us more excited than grid systems and Concrete Cows!", which will hit home with anyone who's visited Milton Keynes before...
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Europe receives Projekt Revolution
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on 04 Mar 2008 08:16 am
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The latest LP Newsletter not only confirms that LP are playing the Milton Keynes bowl, but that they are playing with Jay-Z.
To add to this, they've called their Europe tour, and this date, Projekt Revolution, with HIM and more bands to be announced.
Watch this space.
Energy - Is it just me or were we one step ahead of them? This is going to be an amazing show. MKBowl is an open air arena, and it literally is a whole in the ground. Circular venue with lots of vantage points for seeing. Some people love it (me), others hate it (Jaxxy), but it will be perfect for a PR Gig I'm sure.
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Given Up Video
Posted by
on 03 Mar 2008 09:53 pm
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Check out the link below to watch LP's new live video of Given Up.
It's very stylised, I love it. However it's caused some fans to really hate it. What do you think?
Click Here to Watch
Thanks to all who passed on the link
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MK minor update
Posted by
on 03 Mar 2008 03:50 pm
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For the UK readers. Our little spy was hunting for some info about the rumoured Milton Keynes Bowl, UK date and basically got a reply of:
"How the hell do you know about that? Nope nothing is planned"
Two very contradictory statements there. So decide what you want.
The venue is also having a lot of work done on it at the current time to improve it over the next few months.
Also I like what reader qwerty pointed out in the comments "Isn't JZ headling Glastonbury the day before?". If this MK bowl date turns out to be true, and JZ makes an appearance this could be one hell of a concert.
Lets continue to wait it out, as this may all be nothing.
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Live in Soho EP has exclusive version of My December
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on 01 Mar 2008 10:52 am
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Linkin Park's "Live from SoHo" EP will be available for purchase on iTunes starting March 4! LP's "Live from SoHo" EP was recorded live from their exclusive performance at the Apple Store in SoHo on February 20. Linkin Park performed their new single "Given Up" live on the EP, as well as a never-before-released version of "My December." Other tracks on the live EP include "Shadow of the Day," "Bleed It Out," "Wake," and "In Pieces."
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Joe....in a thong...
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on 28 Feb 2008 07:50 pm
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Here's an interesting article Energy asked me to put up. In it Mike and Chester talk about writing music and their current tour in the US. They also make some interesting/funny/disturbing comments about Joe's clothes on stage! Has anyone been to one of these shows? What was Joe wearing?! Leave a comment!!
Read the article here.
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LPU Mike Chat postponed
Posted by
on 28 Feb 2008 07:44 pm
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The LPU chat with Mike scheduled for Friday 29th of February has been postponed due to time conflicts. Keep an eye on
for an update on the time and date for the re-scheduled chat.
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"I will fix you"... LP in New Orleans. Rob and Brad, where'd you go?
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on 28 Feb 2008 10:41 am
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Wednesday February 27, 2008, 5:31 PM
Mike Shinoda, Dave "Pheonix" Farrell, Joe Hahn and Chester Bennington of the band Linkin Park used hammers to nail frames together as they worked with Music for Relief and Habitat for Humanity while rebuilding homes affected by Hurricane Katrina today in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Source and photos
Credit to Cheryl for throwing that my way, and whichever other site may have posted about it.
Whilst I give kudos to LP/Music For Relief for the charity work in progress, part of me thinks they could do less advertising for it whilst they're at it, and just work. I can't help but feel they're just doing promoting
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European Tour Dates
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on 25 Feb 2008 08:06 pm
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Linkin Park has put out a bulletin on Linkin Park's myspace.
Linkin Park will be performing at these Europe tour dates in June:
June 5 - Skive Beach Party '08, Skive, Denmark - Tickets
June 14 - Hultsfred Festival, Hultsfred, Sweden - Tickets
June 15 - Greenfield Festival, Interlaken, Switzerland - Tickets
Get your tickets now. Look out for more European tour dates soon.
Thanks to Sean (HybridMeteora) for giving me the heads up...
A rumored date that has started being thrown around is:
Linkin Park - Sun 29 June 2008, Milton Keynes National Bowl
Which would be amazing as it's 20 minutes from my house. I'm trying to confirm this date and I already have my spy looking for confirmation. Thanks Bec for the news of that date.
Do not try and buy tickets for these shows yet, as the only companies that are already selling them are dodgy sites which will take your money and run.
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on 22 Feb 2008 08:55 am
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Those lucky guys at the Madison Square Gardens show were treated to this spectacular second encore.
"Tonight I was at the NYC show ++ for Linkin park's SECOND encore
(as if one wasn't good enough, SO awesome) JAY-Z CAME OUT!!!!!
& they performed Numb/Encore + Faint/Jigga What
It was so spectactular!!!
Was anyone else there?!?!?"
Linkinparkfans on LiveJournal
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Given Up Tracklisting Details
Posted by
on 21 Feb 2008 06:08 pm
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Thanks to Xefuzioner for letting me know this was out. Resurrected on the LPU spotted that
have a tracklisting up for the given up single. Once again we're treated to two lives as the bsides. Very dissapointing, but they should be good lives at least... if you haven't already got them.
01: Given Up
02: Valentines Day [live From Frankfurt]
03: In Between [live From London Uk]
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Mike Responds to Release of Plaster
Posted by
on 20 Feb 2008 10:55 pm
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Mike's Blog Entry Here
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Given Up Single Info Clear Up
Posted by
on 19 Feb 2008 12:12 am
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Ok guys, I know
has the tracklist of the given up single as:
7'' Red Etched Vinyl
* 1. Given Up
* 2. Etched Logo
This does not mean there is a track called 'Etched Logo' coming out. I know LPtimes says otherwise, but this is a misunderstanding on their part. All it means is that the logo is pressed into side b of the vinyl. The LP logo will be printed on the vinyl, and the vinyl will be red. This is just how the other LP vinyls have been picture discs, instead this means that the vinyl may not have a b side, just a pressed in image on the bside.
As of yet I've heard no bside info about the single, if I do I'll let you know.
I'm hoping, like you guys, that we may get a studio track for a bside. The fact we've not heard about any bsides is a good sign. However if the bside is called 'Etched Logo' I will eat my hat!
(oh and the single should come out 3rd March!)
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Dr. Larke admits the policy was abused--that over the years, teachers have requested too much money before paydays.
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School board member Kenneth Echols can't believe what he's hearing: Superintendent Dr. Charles Larke blamed for issuing hundreds of advanced checks to school employees, and the amount rumored to be half a million dollars.
"We're having problems with our budget. With our reserve funds. And here we are taking $600,000 out of our budget," he said.
That $600,000 is now at the center of a financial investigation.
"You know, we shouldn't be in the business of making loans," Echlos said. "That's what it amounts to. And that's what we're doing. And there's no policy of the board that I know of that we do that."
But Dr. Larke is fighting back. He says he was given the administrative right to issue advancements, especially for new teachers.
"There's money there that's earned by them but has not been paid to them. And they may ask for a large amount... but it's their money," he told News 12.
And it's money he says employees request for different reasons, among them housing needs, medication, utilities, mortgages, and even funerals.
News 12 saw a copy of a request for $700. Larke says he approved it because the employee provided him with a copy of an eviction notice.
But even Larke admits it got a little out of hand.
"I complained about it to board members that I thought it was being abused," he said. "And I've complained about it to my staff, they can attest to that...that I've gotten tired of all these long, sob, sad stories."
Larke says more proof the board knew about the practice is the statement he made in a September 2005 newsletter that he would only grant two payroll advances per employee per year.
"And now you're telling me that some board members are not aware of the fact that we honor requests for advance checks? Come on."
"If he's done this and the board has not been involved and had no information, don't try to put the blame on the school board," Echols said. "We had no knowledge of it."
Until today, Larke thought he'd retire in March after 40 years in the Richmond County school system.
Now he's not so sure.
Ken Echols says if Larke did sign off on money that was not approved by the board, it could be grounds for termination.


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Leap 2 has been totally rewritten to use the new industry standard OpenMeta tag conventions so that you can share tags across numerous programs. But not only that, Leap 2 has numerous user interface tweaks and improvements to make tagging, rating and browsing your files even easier.
A more natural way.
With Leap you find things based on your natural memory of that file. âHhmm it was a big photoshop file of a basketball courtâ or âSomething I tagged importantâ or âA word document somewhere in my documents folderâ. With the Finder though, it's more like âI think it might be called bball.psd and that I put it in the originals folder in images in the Project 29 folder which I think I put in Documents... nope, not there... where did I put it?"
Folders and rigid hierarchies might have made sense back when we had hundreds of files, but we're now swimming in images, files, movies and other data. That's where tags come in. Tags are keywords that you assign to a file. This makes it extremely easy to find documents, regardless of their location. Why hunt through an arcane hierarchy of folders and files to find the document we want? Apple's Finder first came out over 20 years ago and we think it's time for a new approach to finding, organizing and browsing your most important documents.
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Leap 2 is a one-of-a-kind piece of software, featuring a wonderful visual way to navigate your file and folder structures. If you have a problem finding files regularly, I'd highly recommend it. However, I've been testing the Leap 2 demo for a few days now and can't shake the feeling that it wouldn't be worth the cost to purchase for my workflow.
I use Evernote a ton, which has it's own tagging structure and allows file attachments and will sync to multiple machines and the web which I've found very useful. Leap is focused on indexing one machine, and if you heavily rely on a network drive you're out of luck since Spotlight (unless you have OS X Server) will not properly index it (and Leap uses spotlight for its searches). Leap will search it, but it's painfully slow since it's building the index on the fly every time. For the amount that I would use it, I'd gladly pay $20, but $60 is simply too much for something I've been using once or twice a day. Definitely give it a try first.
There are 2 great programs for file management: PathFinder and ForkLift. After trying Leap I consider it to be in league with those, with bigger focus on drilling down and finding files quickly.
Rich tagging
Blazing Fast search
Thought out UI
Sorting by date/name much more useful/accurate than competitors
No tabs/dual pane view. No more than 1 instance of a window at a time.
Made my life much simpler. I sure hope the developers are getting enough interest to keep developing this app, because there's a few tweaks that could make it even better. But if I had to give Leap a rating, it would be hard not to give it 5 stars out o 5.
Works with Tiger.
(The name and description could suggest that Leopard is required.)
Ever since I started tagging my files instead of organizing them by folders, this is the app that I've been looking for. Finder, Spotlight and Quicksilver just don't cut it.
This is one of the more innovative applications I have seen in some time. It makes both organizing and finding data much less painless. I have accumulated over 600Gb of disorganized documents, videos, pictures, and other stuff. It would have taken me a long time to organize that mess with finder and Quick Look. Within about an hour and half I was able to organize my mess with Leap and can now find stuff much faster.
The early beta version did crash on me too. However the later beta versions and the full production versions have never crashed on me.
It is pretty nice. It hung up a few times searching larger directories. Will continue testing though.
I'm glad it's still listed as Beta, because it crashed the first time I launched it. I suppose it was indexing all those files while I was trying to use it. If I can find some sort of crash log or something, I will send it on.
In the few minutes I used it, it did seem pretty cool. I like the way it builds automatic tags of the files. It scared me a little to think what kind of stuff it might find :)


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OAKLAND -- As well as Andrew Bogut has played late in the season, coach Mark Jackson continued to say that Warriors fans still hadn't seen the real, fully healthy Bogut yet.
Sunday night, that all changed. Everybody got an eyeful of the Grade A Bogut, and Denver's Javale McGee got the closest view on a driving windmill power dunk right over his noggin in the first quarter, when the Warriors center established a tough, aggressive tone in a 115-101 victory.
The dunk was replayed numerous times on the Oracle Arena scoreboard, and each time, the capacity crowd let loose a deafening roar, eventually taking up a Bogut chant for the revitalized big man.
But Bogut had more in store — he wound up with four first half dunks and 12 points, and was his usual stingy self protecting the key.
"That's what he is when he's healthy — a monster," said rookie center Festus Ezeli.
Before the game, Nuggets coach George Karl said, "They have a personality without (David) Lee and with Bogut. He does the little things that coaches always say helps teams win. He sets illegal screens, he pushes guys around, tries to traunt and flaunt ... a little like I used to play. But I wasn't 7-1."
Jackson said Bogut has taken it upon himself, particularly with Lee out, to take on a greater leadership role.
"This whole series, and especially when David went down, he realized it was do-or-die," said the coach. "We needed him to be special. We needed him to be the Andrew Bogut we traded for. Give him credit — he's done it. He's been mean, he's been nasty, he's played with our edge, he's been our enforcer. And I'm sure when he went up to dunk on McGee, he remembered McGee dunking on him. Just a big-time play by him."
Bogut was a little more nonplused about it.
"It was good to finally get some bounces go my way," he said. "It was a pretty big play for us, but at the same time, it was only two points. So I had to be careful not to get too caught up in the hype of the game. But it felt good."
The raw emotion he displayed, clenching his fists and screaming following his first dunk, definitely got the crowd going and his teammates fired up.
"Bogut was amazing," said Draymond Green. "He came out set the tone with some big dunks, but he also rolled to basket to get some key block shots, doing everything it took. It seemed he made all the right plays in the first half, and it was big for us. He got us going."
"Bogut is one of our leaders," said Carl Landry. "He's a captain, he's had playoff experience. When he plays like that, it makes us all want to go out and play tough and confident."
Bogut said he isn't feeling that much better physically, but the postseason has given him more emotional fuel.
"I'm OK, it's the playoffs," he said. "Everybody's a little banged up at this point in the year but you have a little more adrenaline."
Bogut played slightly less than 10 minutes in the second half and not at all in the fourth quarter and didn't score.
"He was fine, he wasn't tired at all," said Jackson. "We were getting good minutes from other players like Draymond. He did his job."


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Wikipedia co-founder to advise UK Government
Jimmy Wales will give his insight into how technology can shape future policy.
a href="http://www.itpro.co.uk/630061/top-10-facts-about-wikipedia" target="_blank"]Wikipedia[/a] co-founder Jimmy Wales is set to take up an advisory role for the UK Government.
Wales' agreement to take on the unpaid position was revealed at this week's South by South West (SXSW) conference in Texas, with senior advisor to David Cameron, Rohan Silva, tweeting the appointment.
The Cabinet Office confirmed the move to IT Pro.
Wales will work with the Cabinet Office to give recommendations on how technology can aid the policy making process within Government - something the current administration is working towards making a more open process.
The main thrust of the role is to take part in the Government's crowdsourcing initiative, encouraging more members of both the civil service and the public to give their views on Government policy.
Known as 'Jimbo' online, the new advisor co-founded the internet encyclopedia website with Larry Sanger back in 2001. He is a member of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and on the advisory board of the MIT Centre for Collective Intelligence.
IT Pro contacted Wales for comment but he had not responded to our request at the time of publication.
A government spokesman told the Telegraph: "Mr Wales will act as an unpaid adviser to Government to support its agenda to open up policy-making to the public.
"He will advise Government on developing innovative new ways technology can be used to give the public a greater say in the policy-making process."


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The results followed a rare decision by the AP to reconduct the voting. The initial round of balloting had ended Dec. 13, a day before the shootings in Newtown, Conn., with the election ranked No. 1, followed by Superstorm Sandy. The original entry for mass shootings, focused on the rampage at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, placed sixth in that voting.
2012: The year in review
- Newtown voted top news story
- 2012 weather proves disaster for deniers and nation as whole
- 2012 was year of storms, real and emotional
- Styles that made our heads turn
- Adele is chosen as entertainer of year
- Top business story in '12: Sluggish global economy
- 10 things that happened in 2012 that have never happened before
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- A look back at San Bernardino-area sports in 2012
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- Redlands community saw many ups, downs in 2012
- Redlanders who made a difference died in 2012
In the new poll, updated to include Newtown, the mass shootings received 68 first-place votes out of 173 ballots cast for the top 10 stories, compared to 65 first-place votes for the election - one of the closest results since the AP launched the poll in 1936. On a scale of points ranging from 10 for first place to one for 10th place, the shootings tallied 1,448 points, compared to 1,417 for the election. The second balloting ran Dec. 17-19.
Superstorm Sandy was third, far ahead of the next group of stories.
Here are 2012's top 10 stories, in order:
1. MASS SHOOTINGS: Armed with a high-powered rifle, 20-year-old Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
2. U.S. ELECTION: Mitt Romney outcampaigned an eclectic field of Republican rivals, and bested Obama in their opening head-to-head debate. But on Election Day, thanks in part to a vigorous get-out-the-vote operation, Obama won a second term with a large lead in electoral votes and a solid advantage in popular votes.
3. SUPERSTORM: As a prelude, the storm named Sandy killed more than 70 people in the Caribbean. Then its high winds and high waters slammed into more than 800 miles of the eastern U.S. seaboard, killing at least 125 more people, and causing damage calculated at well over $60 billion - the second-costliest storm in U.S. history after 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
4. OBAMACARE: By a 5-4 margin, the Supreme Court upheld the core elements of Obama's much-debated health care overhaul, which even he embraced as "Obamacare." To widespread surprise, the decisive vote came from John Roberts, the generally conservative-leaning chief justice appointed by Republican George W. Bush.
5. LIBYA: Even amid yearlong turmoil in Libya, it was a jarring incident - a Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, widely blamed on a group with suspected links to al-Qaida, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stephens and three other Americans.
6. PENN STATE: It was a daunting year for Penn State and its storied football program. In January, longtime coach Joe Paterno died, his legacy tarnished by the sex-abuse scandal involving his former assistant, Jerry Sandusky. In June, after a wrenching trial, Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys, and was later sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison. In July, the NCAA imposed severe sanctions, including $60 million in fines, a four-year postseason ban on football and a reduction in football scholarships.
7. U.S. ECONOMY: By many measures, the economy was on a welcome upswing. The unemployment rate dipped to a four-year-low of 7.7 percent, stock markets rose, builders broke ground on more homes, and November was the best sales month in nearly five years for U.S. automakers. But overshadowing the good news was deep anxiety about the economic consequences if Obama and the Democrats failed to reach a tax-and-spending deal with the Republicans.
8. FISCAL CLIFF: Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner engaged in high-stakes negotiations over a deal to avert the so-called "fiscal cliff" that would trigger automatic tax hikes and spending cuts.
9. GAY MARRIAGE: For supporters of same-sex marriage, it was a year of milestones. Obama, after a drawn-out process of "evolving," said in May he supported the right of gay couples to wed. On Election Day, Maine, Maryland and Washington became the first states to legalize gay marriage via popular vote. And on Dec. 7 the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases that could further expand same-sex marriage rights.
10. SYRIA: What began in 2011 as an outbreak of peaceful protests escalated into full-scale civil war pitting the beleaguered regime of Bashar Assad against a disparate but increasingly potent rebel opposition. The overall death toll climbed past 40,000, as the rebels made inroads toward Assad's bastion of Damascus. The U.S. and many other nations were supporting the opposition, albeit wary of outcomes that might help Islamic extremists gain power in the region.


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Definition of elicit in English:
verb (elicits, eliciting, elicited)[with object]
1Evoke or draw out (a reaction, answer, or fact) from someone: I tried to elicit a smile from Joanna the work elicited enormous public interest
More example sentences
- They say they are interested in eliciting strong reactions to their work but, as people, the deepest emotion they seem willing to display is this kind of bland amusement.
- If some students disagree with an incorrect answer, elicit the correct response.
- Prolonged question and answer sessions will eventually elicit the response the teacher is looking for.
obtain, bring out, draw out, extract, evoke, bring about, bring forth, induce, excite, give rise to, call forth, prompt, generate, engender, spark off, trigger, kindle;
informal worm out
1.1 archaic Draw forth (something that is latent or potential) into existence: a corrupt heart elicits in an hour all that is bad in us
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- However, the extension to minority groups elicits the potential for internal (cultural or economic) autonomy.
- But eliciting the yet-unrealized potentials of an ecosystem is one thing; firing silver bullets at it is quite another.
- Action potentials are elicited when tiny pores in the nerve cell membrane, known as sodium channels, open up in response to a stimulus.
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- The elicitation of such norms of behaviour is likely to have considerable overlap with questions about attitudes and beliefs, since norms and values can be construed as having elements of both.
- Development of 'yes' and 'no' finger signals, independent of conscious volition, can occur quickly and allows for the elicitation of deeper, less conscious responses.
- It seems that the elicitation of responses under these conditions is mediated by an alleviation of the effects of negative attentional processing (reflected in distracting worries or negative thoughts).
elicitor noun
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- An increase of two signal molecules, generated by the host cell, is typically induced by the invading pathogen or by elicitors (oxidative and nitrosative burst, respectively).
- SA-treatment inhibits wound- and JA-induced responses in the same plant, and application of JA partially reduced the efficacy of chemical ISR elicitors.
- Plasma membrane-bound NAD H oxidases are widely accepted as responsible for reactive oxygen species production in the regulation of defence strategies upon infection with pathogens or stimulation by elicitors.
Mid 17th century: from Latin elicit- 'drawn out by trickery or magic', from the verb elicere, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + lacere 'entice, deceive'.
Words that rhyme with elicitcomplicit, explicit, illicit, implicit, licit, solicit
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MessiahCarey wrote: This is entertaining.
For two reasons.
#1. Lord GEMMA? I think you meant Lord Grunge. ;-)
#2. I almost got a job at an ISP in Bolton. Yes, I said an ISP. Weird, huh?
That show was dope...you coming to the RI show?
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you made me and my best friend Alyssas year when you rode past on your bike in Moline and said hello:) it was a great start of the concert :) btw you loooked badass on your bike :)
wooooo... bwahahahahah... bleh.. :skull
My first thought was 'Oh my God, this is my neighbour! What a hell is she doing in a Green Day concert?!'... but I callmed down, when I realised that he's just Tré :P Billie is hiding behind the drums, too... xDD
oh, you've got fabulous lags! they're better than mine, I think:D
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Happy Easter Tré! This outfit is just amazing!
AHAHAHAH happy easter my jesus :')
Happy Easter Honey!
your legs are SO SEXY! XD like your brassiere..
Everyone knows drummers can only count to four but who knew they were so flexible..? Happy Easter, Tre xox
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dont worry,Billie. There will be more summers :))
hello how are you in cute billie. i send you many greet and to make and tree
Dude, I love the picture:)
Hello, I love your music, for me is relaxing and you came to Portugal and I unfortunately you can not see): from Porto to Lisbon is a good distance, but I heard through the radio (: well maybe a few years back another time and I think this time I will not miss this concert, there will continue to do the excellent work they have always done.:
you look so depressed :(
Good pic! Lost your razor? too much stubble
yes,I always say the same: Sleep when the school starts!
Awe, His hair is so Fluffy ^^ I CANT STOP STARING AT HIM XD
yes, me too^^ He's so cute!!!
Summer never ends with you, Billie..
Black photo? Beautiful pic, Billie, I LOVE YOU!
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I'm trying to accomplish two goals with my swimming. I'm shooting for over 100 miles swam total for the year but also train adequetly for olympic tri's. My question is, I'm swimming anywhere from 3000-4000 yards per workout, usually twice a week, sometimes three. From the tri perspective, is that too much or as long as I'm keeping good form and trying to improve the pace, is that sort of distance ok?
Generally, the more you swim, the better you'll get, but how you swim is more important. You should be doing a variety of intervals, paced workouts, and drills. Extra swim mileage won't add too much wear and tear on your body (as long as your form is good). One of my athletes is only in the pool for 2500 yds, once a week, training for olympic distance races and she has no substantial swim background to speak of. Another one of my athletes is in the pool 5x a week, for about 2500-3000 yds with a masters group and he learned to swim in high school. Everyone is different and everyone has different goals. So ultimately, if you are seeing the results you want then keep doing what you are doing.
Thanks for the info, confirmed what I was thinking.
I train for Ironman, and generally do 2-3 1.5-2K workouts per week (20-35 minutes) and then one longer-ish (3500-4000) swim on the weekends. That works well for me.
Also, you should read the new SwimSmooth book - it has a ton of solid workouts and good info. Hope that helps!
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You sound like me: fewer swims but more yards to get the time in. If you are looking to maximize distance for your goal, then this works. Personally, I have found that I get more improvement out of frequent shorter swims, but that's not always practical...good luck!
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - University of Minnesota apple breeder David Bedford didn't like apples growing up.
Back then, the main apple variety on the market was Red Delicious, and he didn't taste another kind until college.
But for the past 32 years, he has tasted 500 to 600 apples a day during the apple harvest, which is currently in its peak.
"If (Red Delicious) was my only choice today, I wouldn't be an apple breeder," he said. "I wouldn't be eating apples if that was all that we could achieve."
The university's 124-year-old fruit breeding program is one of three left in the country and has released 26 new apple varieties - five of which Bedford released, the Minnesota Daily reported.
Susan Brown, Bedford's counterpart at Cornell University, said his accomplishments in the field - including the release of the Honeycrisp, Minnesota's state fruit - have earned him the respect of the tight-knit apple breeding community.
Brown, who said she tastes just as many apples as Bedford, said it can take a toll.
"It's safe to say that at David's house and mine there's not apple pie," she said.
Bedford's wife, Shilon, confirmed this and said her kitchen remains pretty much apple-free.
"I'm careful," she said, "mostly because of the volume of apples he has to eat."
When he became head apple breeder in 1980, Bedford inherited the crosses of the breeder before him.
He was "fresh out of grad school" and expected to evaluate thousands of apple trees in different stages of evaluation. It had just been the coldest winter in 50 years, and many of the university's trees were damaged.
His predecessor had marked one variety for disposal because it had significant winter injuries. Bedford said the land where the tree was growing was pretty low and that it was unfair to throw it away.
"I'll just give it a couple more years and see what this apple turns into," he remembers thinking.
This apple variety turned into Honeycrisp. The jump-start to Minnesota's apple-growing industry was almost thrown away.
Bedford said the experience was a good lesson because he knows he must throw away thousands of apple varieties to find the winners. But he doesn't want to throw away another Honeycrisp.
Cornell has released 66 apple varieties in the almost 120-year-old program. Brown has been part of five of these releases in her 22 years. She said Bedford is good at communicating with all audiences, from schoolchildren to scientists.
"I think that that's important in our field," she said, "to be able to convey research to an array of audiences."
Bedford clearly remembers the day he tasted his first SweeTango Minneiska apple in 1999.
Thirteen years later, he looked up at the original tree it was picked from. Though it once stood among 3,000 others, the tree now stands alone.
Bedford said it usually takes a minute to decide whether a tree should move on and "get a number" - or move on to the next research phase - which has happened 2,092 times in the program's history.
But Bedford said when he tasted SweeTango, he gave it a number immediately.
Since it was a cross between Honeycrisp and Zestar - both apples bred and released by the University - SweeTango had a good chance of being a winner.
Apple breeding is not always that simple. It's sexual propagation, so even if two trees have the same parents, they could look and taste completely different. Bedford referred to trees with the same parents as a family.
"If you can imagine having 77 brothers and sisters," he said, "you will have some that look like you, but a lot of them won't."
SweeTango is special to Bedford because it was the first apple variety he was entirely responsible for. The process can take up to 30 years.
Shilon Bedford said David's hardworking and organized nature has kept him focused during the long days of apple tastings and long years of waiting.
The Bedfords have also raised sled dogs for the past 30 years. David Bedford would go on winter camping trips with the dog team to places like the Boundary Waters, Lake Winnipeg and Hudson Bay.
The couple's last remaining dog died earlier this year, but they continue a dog-sledding equipment business.
On a recent day in the orchard, Bedford walked up to the first tree of the day and chose an apple that appeared to be ripe. After rubbing it off on his shirt, he took a bite, nodded his head as he chewed and spit it out.
Over the years, he's developed a precise method for evaluating apples from the trees that receive numbers. He rates them on 20 different characteristics ranging from flesh color to flavor and then gives them an overall score on a 9-point scale.
"I don't eat many apples," Bedford said. "I taste many apples."
He cut the apple in half and sprayed it with an iodine solution to evaluate its ripeness. The apple was perfectly ripe.
Unfortunately for this tree, it would not receive a number. Bedford sprayed the tree with orange paint, marking it for recycling.
He said it wasn't a bad apple - it was "pleasant," in fact - but it wasn't good enough, either.
"If we're going to take it on," he said, "it better be amazing."
Sharon Pew works with Bedford and just started helping him taste the apples this year. She said it takes a lot of patience because apple breeding is such a long process.
"At the end of the day," she said, "your tongue gets to a point when you've had enough."
Pew said Bedford has been helping her realize when that is. When Bedford retires, someone like Pew will have to take over as head taster and will inherit the trees he leaves behind.
Bedford said he'll never see new varieties released from many of the trees being planted now because he'll retire before they complete the decades-long process.
As long as the process is, Bedford said the anticipation makes success sweeter.
"It takes a lifetime to find the one or two good ones," he said. "But once you find them, it's worth it."


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Get ready for some mighty mariachi.
The internationally acclaimed Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan is coming to the Bay Area.
The troupe performs Saturday at the City National Civic in San Jose. The show also will feature special guests Yolanda Del Rio and ballet folklorico group Los Mesitzos de San Jose.
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan was founded in 1898. Over the years, it has appeared in more than 200 movies and recorded dozens of records. It has also collaborated with such stars as Juan Gabriel and Linda Ronstadt.
Show time is 8 p.m. and tickets are $68-$153, www.ticketmaster.com.
Future is one of hip-hop's rising stars.
The tremendously talented Atlanta rapper is currently touring in support of his second major label release, "Honest," which features guest appearances by such superstars as from Pharrell, Wiz Khalifa, Drake, Kanye West and Lil Wayne.
It's no lie to say "Honest" ranks high among the year's best albums.
Future performs Monday at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco. Show time is 8 p.m. and tickets are $29.50-$30, www.axs.com.
Looking for something fun -- and musical -- to do this Fourth of July weekend?
One tuneful option is the 24th annual High Sierra Music Festival, which runs July 3-6 at the Plumas-Sierra County Fairgrounds in lovely Quincy.
Sure, it's a bit of a hike from the Bay Area. But this year's lineup might be worth the effort.
The top names on the bill include Widespread Panic, STS9, Lauryn Hill, Beats Antique, Lord Huron, the Del McCoury Band, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Lettuce and Punch Brothers.
Other acts include Greensky Bluegrass, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Hard Working Americans, Darkwave (John Medeski, Skerik and Adam Deitch), the Budos Band, Incidental Animals, the Polish Ambassador (with special appearance by Wildlight), Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Travelin' McCourys, Bill Frisell, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, Stanley Jordan Trio, Bombino, the Mother Hips, Typhoon and the Dead Winter Carpenters.
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Go ahead, eat more pasta — It's for a good cause
Perhaps you're familiar with Maggiano's Little Italy regular two-for-one deal: You order one of their classic pasta dishes, and you get one more to take home free.
However, for every classic pasta ordered this month, Maggiano's will donate one meal to Feeding America, the national hunger-relief charity. This buy one, get one, give one campaign ends tonight. It's network of food banks and charities, such as the North Texas Food Bank, provide food to more than 37 million people every year.
Steve Provost, president of Maggiano's Little Italy said in a statement: "In celebration of our six millionth Classic Pasta given away, we invite guests to enjoy our gift of Classic Pastas, while helping us provide one million meals to those facing hunger through our partnership with Feeding America."
According to a national study by Feeding America, about one in six Americans is at risk of going hungry. Maggiano's, owned by Dallas-based Brinker International, hopes that through their campaign, they can donate 1 million meals.
"The fall season is synonymous with giving and gathering around the table with family and friends, and it is only fitting to combine these two traditions to help the 50 million Americans who are struggling to put food on the table," said Matt Knott, interim President and CEO of Feeding America.


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1. Finding ways to IBM: 08:05
Looking at http://crazedmonkey.com/toronto-transit-map/ , it seems that I have a couple of ways to get up to 3600 Steeles Ave E, Markham:
- Take the subway to Yonge and then the 53 bus to IBM. Get off at Pharmacy Ave. and walk to IBM.
- Take the subway to a train station, then the GO train to Milliken, then the 53 bus west a couple of stops. Requires the GO train.
The general impression I get is that taking public transit up there sucks horribly. It's close to 8200, so I might be able to hitch a ride with W-, but I'll need a way of getting up there on my own as well. Makes me wish I'd started my driver's license process sooner.
First, I need to find a carpool. Second, I need to test ways of getting up there by TTC. Third, if it means spending three to four hours commuting each day (sniff!), then I need to find productive ways to spend that time. That's a _lot_ of time.
Hmm. Some hauling may be required. I should ask Gabriel what his commute's like.
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As part of my research for WickedCoolEmacs, I'm exploring Org, the PIM that's now built into Emacs 22. I like the way it handles outlines, and the remember templates are handy too. I also like the dynamic agenda views.
I miss some things about Planner, though. I miss the way I can just move tasks around in Planner, grouping them together as I organize my day. I miss the way it was easy to publish a day view that included my tasks and my notes. I miss little conveniences like +2tue . Maybe I can hack some of those in. I want to avoid turning org into something it isn't, though.
I need to find people who live org and how they do it. John Wiegley's excellent blog post on using org-mode as a day planner is a good start. Who else is a power user of org? Must read the mailing list to find the tips and tricks people have shared...
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Danny O'Connor headlining Sept. 12 Fight To Educate at Verizon
Light welterweight prospect Danny "Bhoy" O'Connor (21-1, 7 KOs) returns to the ring Thursday night, September 12, to headline the 12th annual Fight To Educate (FTE) Pro-Am boxing event, at Verizon Wireless Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. This year's attending Boxing Legends are two-time world light welterweight champion and International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee, Aaron "Hawk" Pryor (39-1, 25 KOs), former World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight champion Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (29-5, 23 KOs), and two-division (welterweight & light welterweight) world champion James "Buddy" McGirt (73-6-1, 48 KOs).
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6 Face Yoga Poses That'll Make You Look Like You Had a Facelift
OK, we might be exaggerating just a little. But these new face yoga poses promise to relax your fine lines into smooth submission. Worth a shot? We think so
Face yoga is a series of exercises that promise to do for your face what yoga does for your body: relax and tone muscles. Is one of your eyebrows raised as you read this? That's face yoga. (Kind of.) So, I set out to investigate if making these targeted (not to mention ridiculous) facial expressions can really prevent -- and even reverse -- wrinkles and sagging.
Skip ahead to see the 6 face yoga poses that'll prevent signs of aging.
Some plastic surgeons and derms say sorry, face yoga is absolute nonsense. "The earlier you start face yoga, the earlier you'll get wrinkles," says cosmetic facial plastic surgeon Jeffrey Spiegel, MD. "You don't get wrinkles from loss of elasticity in your muscles; you get wrinkles in your skin. And repetitive movement creates creases in the skin. It's like folding a piece of paper." Translation? Even if you have the facial muscles of the Incredible Hulk, all that flexing and stretching is also stretching out your skin, ultimately causing wrinkles.
But proponents of face yoga say that it can relax your face, which ultimately smoothes those tension-filled expressions we make every day without even realizing it. And just relaxing those usually contorted facial muscles can give you a natural face lift. Who needs Botox to freeze muscles into a smooth, relaxed state when face yoga can do something similar?
"Relaxing the facial muscles, especially where we hold tension -- like the jaw, brow, and forehead -- can counteract the wrinkle-causing grimacing we do on a daily basis," says Annelise Hagen, a New York yoga instructor and author of "The Yoga Face: Eliminate Wrinkles with the Ultimate Natural Facelift."
"Since the muscles on our faces can't lift weights or go on the treadmill, when you apply pressure with your fingertips or make certain facial expressions, you're toning and strengthening the muscles," she says. "I would never say face yoga eradicates all lines, but it can definitely change the downward drift."
Alright, so the jury's still out on just how effective face yoga is. But I was convinced enough to try it myself. Here are the six face yoga poses that seem to do more good than harm.
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I've seen these yoga exercises before and the pictures a above are not correct. You should not be crinkling your skin while doing these. Particularly in the "bullfrog" doing it the way the model is will just increase your lip lines.
by Green4good Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 08:58PM Report as inappropriate
very cool
by LittleBunny Monday, January 7, 2013 at 12:18PM Report as inappropriate
Hmm, I'm not so sure about this. I feel like it will only increase wrinkles over time.
by heather_hejna Friday, November 2, 2012 at 07:52AM Report as inappropriate
I have a facial book of different poses that has been proven to work for years and none of these are in it, or the other I found online before. These are more of a pain, makes me rather get needles in me. Who really recommends these articles and do you have any before and after pictures for gallery proof.
by Lani702 Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 10:24PM Report as inappropriate
Seriously? I feel like these would give you wrinkles.
by Chris213 Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 08:19PM Report as inappropriate
Facinating, going to try these
by kimihavens Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 01:10PM Report as inappropriate
so fun, hopefully it works.
by lilas Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 02:31PM Report as inappropriate
looks like fun, i like yoga ^_^ now its for my face lol
by Sohee Monday, September 17, 2012 at 01:23PM Report as inappropriate
Hmmm... Interesting and worth a try. Thanks!!
by muellsrus Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 06:20PM Report as inappropriate
its better than chemicals
by passion4christ Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 03:13AM Report as inappropriate
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Saturday, 22nd September, 2012, 05:36 PM #1
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What I learned from Boardgames: The hidden power of the character sheet
I had to chance to play a boardgame called Eclipse recently. Its a fairly recent game that has grown very popular over the last few years.
What is so interesting about the game is that it has a large number of tracking elements, however, they are all tracked on your player card using little wooden pieces. The interface is so streamlined that I can manage a large number of different tasks seamlessly with very little mental effort.
It got me thinking of the possibilities for Dnd.
While we all don't use minis and boards for our games, probably everyone uses a character sheet (and I would imagine those who didn't wouldn't really have an issue with one).
Could we instill some design elegance into that paper part of the pen and paper game we play....and allow us to track some complex elements.
Could we take it a step further and make the character sheet truely a "player card" or would that be too boardgamey for the masses?
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Saturday, 22nd September, 2012, 05:52 PM #2
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In RPG's there is a lot of information that is persistent from game session to game session. A card with tokens on it works well for things that are reset at the beginning of each game. While there are a few things in RPG's that sometimes work that way, there are so many more that don't.
I do agree that the character sheet should be elegantly designed. It needs to be as simple as possible. I think it needs to be one sheet (for core rules, with few if any modules).
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Saturday, 22nd September, 2012, 06:05 PM #3
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Character sheets: That piece of paper that players will wring and crumple in their hands more and more the worse the situation gets, staring at it from top to bottom as if it would save their precious player character's life.
Wood pieces would not be an ideal element in that kind of situation.
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Saturday, 22nd September, 2012, 07:02 PM #4
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I like the concept of "character sheet extension" that this guy has done a few years ago (click picture to enlarge)
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Saturday, 22nd September, 2012, 08:24 PM #5
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I kind of agree with @Gargoyle that there are aspects of RPG character sheets which work against "boardgameization". Having consistent stats across sessions is one of them, but other factors include numerous variables requiring writing (how many feats are there?), and costs of color printing. I don't think they're insurmountable, but they are limiting factors...at a certain point in this thought experiment you may need to concede that *simplification* is more desirable (and achievable) than "boardgameization".
Ok, so there are lots of great examples of super-simplified character sheets out there already. Let's check some of them out!
Official D&D Adventure System Character Cards
D&D Encounters-styled Character Sheets
D&D for 8 Year Olds
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Saturday, 22nd September, 2012, 09:26 PM #6
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I like this idea. I'm imagining a something from a PC based or online character generator that can be reprinted when it wears out and customized for the specific character. It could have a track for hp and short tracks for the various buffs and debuffs the PC might be subject too. A wizard would have all of his spells, with the currently memorized ones marked with a chip, and a psion would have a track for whatever he calls his power points.
I can see how this would be very quick to refer to. The only downside I see is that if you bump the sheet you can entirely lose track of what your character's condition was.
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Sunday, 23rd September, 2012, 02:09 AM #7
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It's an interesting thought.
I think there are a few criteria that you'd want a sheet-dependent mechanic to fulfill. The mechanic should track something that changes over the course of a single session (even round to round). If it lasts over the course of several sessions, you might as well write it down. The number of tokens you can accidentally jostle should be kept to a minimum. It should be a mechanic that involves several defined and separate states, perhaps along a continuum, to take advantage of the spatial layout that you are working with.
Off the top of my head I can't think of an existing mechanic that fulfills these criteria well, so I'll make up a new one!
Let's say that we had a game, like D&D, that had HP. If you go to negative hp you are unconscious and have to make death saves, and if you fail 3 death saves you die for good. Let's further say that at after failing each death save you suffer some penalty, so it's good to keep track of how many have happened.
At the very top of your sheet you could have four boxes on the character sheet border. The first reads "Healthy : No Penalties". The second reads "1 Failed Death Save : -2 to physical skill checks". The next reads "2 Failed Death Saves : -3 to physical skill checks, -1 to attack rolls", and so on. You could even leave another box or two empty in case feats or character classes increase the number of death saves a character can take.
To track this mechanic, you take a paper clip and attach it to your sheet so that it is within the "Healthy" box. If you fail a death save, you move the paper clip over to the "1 Failed Save" box. And so on.
The benefit of the paper clip over tokens should be obvious; it's harder to dislodge!
You could adapt a mechanic like this to other uses. A class like the current playtest sorcerer, where every time you use a class ability you "drift" along a continuum into some other state involving some kind of transformation. You could use it for the 4E disease track (though that happens rarely enough that you might not track it directly on your sheet). You could use it to track something like the fighter's combat superiority dice, especially if that number fluctuates up and down over the course of an encounter instead of just refreshing fully every round (maybe psionic power points?).
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I think the trick to solving this situation is to have two character sheets.
The first is the one you use to build your character, it contains all of the formulas and detailed information. The second is a summary 'card' which only shows totals and current status.
There are several ways to achieve this, depending upon player preference.
Most players I know like to pick up their character sheet during the game to read it more easily. This means tokens can't be on the same piece of paper that their stats are on. So for this type of player, they can have their normal character sheet, and a separate status card. You'd only write on the status card if you had to keep a status effect between game sessions. The rest of the time you'd just put tokens in to the relevant box on the card.
It would show a number of boxes along the lines of:
... and so on.Code:Status Effect | EOYNT | EOSNT | Save --------------------------------------------------- Dazed | | | --------------------------------------------------- Stunned | | | ---------------------------------------------------
Where EOYNT means 'end of your next turn'; EOSNT means 'end of source's next turn'; Save means 'save ends'
Obviously the boxes would need to be big enough to put poker chips, tiddly winks, or some other marker on. OR, if you've got nice thick card, you could punch holes in the card and use wooden 'pins' into the holes. This would prevent the accidental jostling issue, but would be hard to get unless it was sold by WotC.
Other benefits include being able to write the actual effect of each status onto the same card.
What this doesn't handle well is -3 to Attacks, or +2 to AC, because the numbers change depending on the power. Sometimes writing really is the most elegant solution. This could be done in the same card style however. Forget the tokens. Just mark up the card with pencil or laminate it and use whiteboard markers. Tick a box when that effect is in play, write -3 in the AC row, erase when the status ends. You can even include an extra column to record who the source was if you want to.
Slobster's paper clip idea is excellent, but I see a flaw; Every possible status you want to record would have to be near the edge of the page. This limits the number that you can record, unless you have a really long piece of paper.
While thinking of the above, I started wondering about tracking hit points in a similar manner. I can imagine having two or three bowls full of tokens in front of each player. Move tokens from 'HP' to 'Damage' as you get damaged. Put in different coloured tokens for temporary HP, and so on. This has one seriously major problem though - It takes up too much valuable table space.
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But what really makes something like that work is if you use the interior of the card to mark the major changes, and allow those to change what the outside tracks means. Think of a game modeling something like "fatigue points" (e.g. Endurance in Fantasy Hero) that move up and down all the time. In the interior, you indicate the normal status and the range that the band along the top of the card handles. Then the card moves from 1-10. So your paper clip along the top is showing the "ones digit" only in the current fatigue number.
Basically, use the clip for things that change often, but incrementally, but don't try to be a purist about it.
Another possible technique for checking a longer track is to stack the tracks, then merely indicate which track by some other marker. The different colors of paper clip works well here, though you can mark rows or columns if necessary. For example, picture four or five columns down the right sight of a standard character sheet, tracking 25 hit points (or mana points or whatever). Use one clip for the outside row, which is 1-25, then another color for 26-50, and so on. Or just use one clip and mark the column with a different clip.
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Most Savage Worlds character sheets have an element of this. They have areas for easily tracking wounds and power points. Most people use some sort of token for them. Similarly, people usually use physical tokens for tracking bennies (similar to hero points or action points), which are a resource that replenish each session.


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ARLINGTON, Texas -- The A's are having to make do without center fielder Coco Crisp more than they, or he would like.
After he came out of the All-Star break with his neck feeling good enough to allow him to start six consecutive games, the Oakland leadoff hitter has missed two of the last three starts, including Sunday.
Crisp is flying back to Bay Area on Sunday night for further tests on his neck injury.
"His neck is bothering him again,'' manager Bob Melvin said. "It has been for a few days. It's still the same thing he's been dealing with. It's a lingering thing that sometimes it's an issue and sometimes he feels good.''
The A's believe rest would be the best cure, but they don't want to put him on the disabled list and lose him for 15 days. For one thing, he's a huge part of their offense. For the other, the neck problem comes and goes.
"Rest is probably the best thing for it,'' Melvin said. "It's always a balance with that and the fact that there are days when he feels pretty good. I know in the last couple of days it's been bothering him some.''
Callaspo, who played one game on an injury rehabilitation assignment Saturday with Class-A Stockton, missed only 10 games, thanks mostly to the four-game All-Star break. He was not in Sunday's starting lineup against the Rangers.
To make room on the roster, first baseman Nate Freiman was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento. Callaspo, a switch-hitter, will go back to being the A's right-handed option against left-handed starting pitchers, two of whom the A's will face this week against the Astros.
"We do have a couple of lefties in Houston, but Callaspo is able to play some first base,'' Melvin said. "Unfortunately for Fry, he was the guy. But he' always does a nice job for us. Always prepared. A very hardworking kid. He was impactful for us last year, and I wouldn't be surprised to see him back here at some point.''
When he's not playing first base, Callaspo will play some second base, but Melvin can't say how much. Some of that has to do with Eric Sogard, whose bat has begun to show signs of life in the last week.
"It will be a day-to-day thing,'' the manager said. "We always try to run our best lineup out there, whether it's matchups, whether it's somebody that's hot. That will be the case again.
"It looks like (Sogard) is a lot more comfortable at the plate. You don't want Callaspo sitting. But he can play some first, some third, he can DH. So he has a few more avenues to play than Sogard does.''
Doolittle hasn't gotten one of the bobbleheads yet — and he would like to — but he's heard about them.
"They spelled the name wrong,'' he said, breaking into a grin. `D-O-O-L-I-T-T-E.' I'd still like one, though.''
There must be something in the air. It was earlier in the week that the Rockies gave away jerseys with the name of All-Star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki on them. Only they left out the second `T,' so it read `T-U-O-L-O-W-I-Z-K-I.' ''
"It feels good; it was just a momentary thing,'' Jaso said.
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