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The biggest event in video games is E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which takes place every year in June in Los Angeles. The giant convention is a haven for gamers who want to see (and often play) the next big set of games before they're released, hang out with people dressed up as characters such as Sonic the Hedgehog or Kratos fromGod of War,or who have a hankering to spend several days deeply immersed in extremely loud dubstep from competing publishers' booths.
Though the convention has been industry-only for most of its history, it opened up to the public for the first time in years in 2017. If you've got a way of getting to Los Angeles and a few hundred bucks to drop on a ticket, you too can enjoy a gaming convention that formerly was open only to developers, publishers, journalists, and people working on the retail side of the industry.
It's a little late to try to get to E3 this year (although tickets are still available). If you're looking to get set for E3 2019, though, all you need is a little money and the wherewithal to prepare for the trip and purchase your E3 tickets months in advance. Here's all you need to know to get to E3 2019.
When tickets go on sale
First off, you'll need to prepare for your E3 preparations. For the last two years, tickets have first gone on sale in mid-February. You'll definitely want to snag your E3 tickets for 2019 as soon as they're availablebecause the first 1,000 tickets have been sold at an early bird discount the past two years.
Tickets run for $149 for the three-day "Gamer Pass" that the Entertainment Software Association sells for the general public. After the first 1,000 tickets are sold, though, the cost rockets up $100 to $249. There are no tickets sold for fewer days, so the best plan is to be ready the day tickets go on sale to snag one of the early bird ones.
When and where
E3 typically takes place in mid-June (this year it's June 12-14 for the public), and the ESA usually announces the exact dates for the next year soon after E3 ends. Unless something big changes, expect E3 to take place at the same venue as usual: The Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown L.A.The Gamer Pass gets you access to the convention center for three days.
The Gamer Pass also gets you access to the E3 Coliseum this year, which includes panels, demonstrations, worldwide first-looks at new games, and more. The Coliseum will likely be part of the festivities next year, as well.
What to bring
This year, the ESA is introducing a new policy to check bags for E3 entrants, and some items are prohibited. They include weapons, outside food and drink, alcohol, fliers and handouts, and large bags — so make sure you have somewhere to leave your luggage if you're traveling.
That said, you'll want a bag or backpack of some kind to collect giveaways and swag from the various game publishers and designers represented at E3. Note that if you're headed to the E3 Coliseum, however, no bags are allowed. Be prepared to stand in a lotof lines, so make sure you've got comfortable shoes. Finally, it's a good idea to pack your own hand sanitizer to use every time you touch a controller; keeping your hands clean can go a long way to avoiding picking up the various convention-borne illnesses.
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Easy, Pretty Cookies: Snowflake Cookie Cutters
I know we've been talking about Christmas cookies a lot these past couple of weeks (hey, it's the season!) but here's just one more pretty thing for your cookie baking adventures. If I was going to buy one new set of cookie cutters this year, this would be it.
I have a particular fondness for baking tools that help us novice bakers and decorators to make pretty things without too much fussiness or stress. These gorgeous cookie cutters come with three different size snowflake shapes, and two center cutters, so you can create cut-out snowflakes that are beautifully multi-dimensional. But you don't have to rely on your icing skills (mine are distinctly sketchy) or other craftiness to get that lovely look; the cutters do it all for you.
That's my kind of baking tool.
• Find it: Snowflake Cookie Cutters, $12.50 at Williams-Sonoma
Related: Recipe: Best Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
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A Brooklyn man has been arrested on charges that he bribed New York City police officers to obtain gun licenses, prosecutors said on Monday, in the latest fallout from a federal corruption probe that includes businessmen with ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Alex Lichtenstein, 44, was set to appear in Manhattan federal court on Monday after prosecutors said he collected thousands of dollars from individuals who may not have qualified for licenses and then bribed officers to approve their applications.
The deputy inspector in charge of the department's license division and a sergeant and an officer under his command were part of the scheme, a criminal complaint said.
Lichtenstein was arrested after he offered $6,000 per license last week to another officer, who wore a wire as part of the investigation, prosecutors said.
Lichtenstein told the officer he had obtained 150 licenses through another arrangement but needed a new connection, the complaint said.
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The complaint did not name the officers involved, but Police Commissioner William Bratton announced he had reassigned three officers in connection with the ongoing federal investigation.
Deputy Inspector Michael Endall, the commanding officer of the license division, was reassigned, along with Sergeant David Villanueva and Officer Richard Ochetal.
Union representatives for the officers did not immediately comment. Five high-ranking officers were previously removed from their posts as a result of the probe.
Investigators are examining whether officers received gifts and travel in exchange for unspecified favors. A source familiar with the matter has said the probe has centered on two businessmen, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg.
Rechnitz contributed to de Blasio's 2013 campaign, while Reichberg raised money for a nonprofit controlled by de Blasio advisers that supported the mayor's agenda.
De Blasio has said his administration did not commit any violations. His 2013 campaign committee is returning Rechnitz's contributions.
The investigation has also included former Chief of Department Phillip Banks, once the department's highest-ranking uniformed officer, and Norman Seabrook, head of the correction officers union, the source has said.
Banks' lawyer has denied wrongdoing. The others have either declined to comment or could not be reached.
The investigation previously led to the arrest of a former restaurant owner for running a $12 million Ponzi scheme. A separate source said that case was also linked to the probe.


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JERUSALEM — The Honourable Joe Oliver, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, issued this statement following his meeting with the Israeli Minister for Energy and Water Resources, Silvan Shalom:
"Minister Shalom and I had an excellent meeting, during which we discussed our shared responsibilities. In particular we both see tremendous opportunities for Canada and Israel to cooperate more closely on energy issues.
"Canada and Israel have a mutually beneficial opportunity to deepen our bilateral energy cooperation. In particular, Israel's recent discoveries of significant offshore gas provide the basis for further collaboration. It is my hope that this visit results in new partnerships between our two countries.
"During my last visit to Israel in June, 2012, Canada and Israel agreed to pursue further cooperation on energy issues, including offshore oil and gas exploration and development, new sources of oil and gas supply and renewable energy. Both countries also agreed to encourage enhanced commercial cooperation between interested companies in the energy sector.
"Canadian companies have expertise in energy-related services and technologies, which would be helpful in developing this sector in Israel. They are also interested in investing in Israel's offshore, and some are already involved in oil and gas exploration activities there.
"Israel's current state of oil shale resource development has similarities to the early days of Canada's oil sands and we are pleased to share Canada's experiences with respect to policy and regulation.
"Science, technology and innovation are important elements of our bilateral relationship, and our two countries have a strong tradition of cooperation in this area. I am pleased that last week we sent out a Call for Proposals under the Canada–Israel Energy Science and Technology Fund.
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- n. A central defender, a player who plays in the centre of defence, just in front of the goalkeeper
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Song is a centre-back with class but he's not what you call a centre-back who talks and wants to play there.
Arsène Wenger feels Per Mertesacker can be Arsenal's 'new Tony Adams'
They may have the worst defensive record in the Premier League away from home but this was not evident in the way they kept West Ham out at the last, with Christopher Samba an awesome presence at centre-back.
West Ham left with sinking feeling despite avoiding Blackburn defeat
Bocanegra's only excuse for a dreadful attempt is that, as a centre-back, he is not accustomed to being in such advanced positions.
Particularly, that is, at centre-back with Ledley King unable to play every game.
Can Tottenham Hotspur win the title? Former players have their say
When the Dutch centre-back annoyed his manager with a whiny autobiography and inconsistent displays on the field, he received a summary punishment – sold to Lazio.
Why Sir Alex Ferguson's rejects are tickled pink to be leaving | Harry Pearson
It must be said it was a lovely cross –delivered right to the head of the centre-back as he attacked the far corner of the six-yard box –but Villa's marking needs to be better than that.
That's why you can put me and Michael Carrick at centre-back and we're still going to win.
Manchester United adopt 'total football' approach to injury problems
"They played as midfielders and after they played centre-back," he said.
Fabio Capello's head turned by England's young ones | Kevin McCarra
The 27-year-old centre-back suffered the injury after Spurs' 5-1 home defeat by Manchester City on 28 August and it was then thought that he would be out for a couple of months.
Nor enough quality, was the candid assessment of the centre-back Chris Samba.
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"Pretending to growl like a bear, or lie still like a corpse, is a sophisticated performance, where the bear's growling and the corpse's immobility are naïve." –Gilbert Ryle
When he was around the age of 2 my son loved playing games of roaring with anyone willing to indulge him. Sometimes, if my performances were too convincing, he would become genuinely fearful - once or twice ending up in tears. It might be assumed that his fascination with roaring was simply the result of a desire to conquer his fear of facing up to a threatening adversary. I'm sure this is partially true but perhaps it's not the full story.
In 1958 two British philosophers, Elizabeth Anscombe and J. L. Austin, were involved in a debate over the nature of pretending. Simply put, the central problem went like this: how can we tell the difference between pretend anger and anger proper? There is a lot of detail to the arguments presented which I cannot hope to distil here but one particularly interesting aspect that neither philosopher fully addresses concerns the representational character of anger.
To make a display of anger, as many animals do when threatened, is to produce a representation of a violent intention; it is to make a symbolic representation that other creatures, even other species, are easily able to recognise and as such it has enormous evolutionary efficacy.
To make a convincing pretense of anger is to match all of the physical features of anger in what would be best described as a matching representation. When well executed, matching representations are identical to the things they seek to represent. Indeed, get a young child to feign anger and you're likely to get a real bite, scratch or thump for your trouble – though it might be argued – and I'm not too keen on testing the theory – that the bite etc. is not as determinedly forceful as it might otherwise be. I suspect this is why my son, and so many other boys (being the more violent members of the species) of a similar age are so fascinated with displays of mock anger because it is vital for them to be able to distinguish a mere representation of anger from the far more serious representational prospect of immanent violence, i.e. genuine anger.
As inordinate representation users we humans are extremely sensitive to and adept at employing contextual cues in ways that other animals simply aren't and we have developed highly sophisticated and sometimes extremely subtle ways of alerting one another to the representational status of our behaviour. The next time you encounter a dog, try making a matching representation of anger towards it and I'm sure you'll see what I mean.


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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) - After a nine-day foreign policy trip, Sen. Barack Obama is turning his attention to the economy Monday with a key meeting that involves several notable figures.
Frmer Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Google Chairman and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will be among those gathering in Washington, D.C. for the meeting. Billionaire investor Warren Buffet will be phoning in, according to Obama campaign officials.
A release from the Obama campaign says the meeting will revolve around "restoring balance to the economy" to reward hard work and encourage entrepreneurs.
"This [is] more than just a discussion on how to meet the current challenge, but also how to build an economy for the 21st Century in which the broadest number of Americans can share in our prosperity," the campaign's release said.
The meeting comes as more gloomy economic data is expected to hit. Friday's unemployment report is expected to show another 70,000 jobs leaving the U.S. economy, according to analysts polled by MarketWatch.
"The bottom line is that we are not yet near a bottom in the labor market," Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist for Deutsche Bank, wrote in a recent report. "This should keep downside risks to the economy in place for some time."
Home prices also are expected to show a 16.4% drop during the month of May, according to Lehman Brothers. The Case-Shiller index showed prices dropped 15.3% during April.
Some sectors of the economy, however, may show improvement. The Commerce Department is expected to show real gross domestic product growth of 2.1% annually during the second quarter. In the first quarter, growth was at 1%.
And consumer confidence climbed during July as recent reports showed, although some analysts are concerned it may be temporary, or a "dead cat bounce."
"Following a steep decline in confidence a small gain is recorded before confidence resumes its downward slide," said Richard Curtin, director of the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.


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I'll admit that I'm not a huge fan of Halloween. We didn't really make a big deal out of it when I was a kid. After I moved to Ohio we happened to live in a neighborhood that doesn't get a lot of kids. Additionally, Akron does their trick-or-treat night on a night other than Halloween which had me fairly well confused for about 4 years.
Now that I have a son, I will use just about any excuse to make something for him. For this reason, I decided the Abate pattern was the perfect sweater to use for a gnome costume!
There wasn't too much involved. We had the boots and pants, Mary (ever the gracious and giving friend!) knit and felted the amazing hat, and I just cut out a few felt circles to stitch to his sweater. There was a beard too but he didn't like wearing it (and you really have to pick your battles with a 2 year old).
I love that the Abate pattern is such a quick knit. It took a total of 2 weeks with me working on about a thousand other things for work and The Book at the same time. I used less than two skeins of Stonehedge Shepherd's Wool Worsted. Last year's Abate was knit in a size 2 and this year a size 4! I did shorten the length by about a half inch and the sleeves by about an inch. I still need to add the drawstring. Maybe tonight...
Pattern: Abate by Alicia Plummer
Yarn: Stonehedge Fiber Mill Shepherd's Wool Worsted
Needles: US 8
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As we start 2016, we view US equities as neither cheap nor expensive. The S&P 500 is currently trading at around 18 times forward earnings. Market leadership has been narrow, with only a handful of mega-cap tech and internet names contributing most of the gains and masking underlying weakness in the overall market.
We expect this year to start in much the same way 2015 ended, with challenges still facing equities and volatility likely to remain high due to lingering commodity weakness and the subsequent impact this has on the broader US economy.
Interest rates will initially take centre stage, with expectations of further hikes no doubt continuing through the year now the Federal Reserve has moved to raise them from the historically low levels in place since the financial crisis.
The statement accompanying its decision indicates the federal funds rate could rise another 100 basis points this year.
Where rates ultimately finish in 2016 will be dependent on the level of wage growth, inflation and other readings on the economy. We expect they will likely still remain well below historical norms for some time to come. But as we switch to a tightening cycle, the importance of fundamentals in valuing stocks remains paramount.
Even if the US central bank engages in several rate hikes this year, financing costs will remain attractive for many companies, and we expect this to fuel further consolidation across industries.
Prime candidates for this ongoing M&A activity are within the healthcare, technology and media sectors. There could also be some potential for M&A to take place across the energy space as high quality assets owned by liquidity-constrained companies will, in all likelihood, eventually be monetised through disposals.
Energy was, of course, one of the worst performers in 2015 following the collapse in the oil price and therefore it is an understandable hunting ground for investors. We believe companies like Anadarko Petroleum and Core Laboratories have the balance sheets to survive and gain share as the shake-out across the exploration and production and oil services segments continues.
There has been an expectation that macro factors such as the weak oil price will continue to support US consumers in 2016 and, while we assess companies on their own fundamentals first and foremost, the strength of the US economy compared with other international markets makes us more confident investing domestically.
In particular, we have focused on the cable and media-related consumer stocks we own as an improving job market and low levels of inflation will continue to be supportive of consumer spending.
But investors should not get carried away. Commodity weakness and the uncertainty caused by an election year could keep spending gains in check.
As part of this caution, we believe the risk reward dynamics in the consumer staples sector remain unattractive, given the rich valuations of many of the global branded companies.
A more interesting area is the biotechnology space. We have owned biotechnology companies dating back over 30 years and continue to find tremendous opportunity in the sector. We remain impressed by the innovation and scientific breakthroughs occurring among biotech and pharmaceutical companies like Amgen, Allergan, Biogen and Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
In 2015, the sector experienced a pullback caused by political comments on price controls. But, if anything, this was as an opportunity to add to certain companies, especially as we believe continued clinical success, increased drug approvals and ongoing industry consolidation will provide further long-term opportunities in biopharmaceuticals.
Evan Bauman is managing director at Legg Mason ClearBridge and manager of the Legg Mason ClearBridge US Aggressive Growth fund


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Continuing the Westminster themed blog posts we find Niall Cottrell, proudly and somewhat emphatically waving the flag for menswear. What really struck me was how wearable the pieces were from each graduate in particular Cottrell's creations. I clicked on a picture from instagram thinking it was J.W. Anderson for profanity's sake! Mind you this was after a full day at the computer editing photos, as well as mindlessly writing in a zombie-lake state for several hours. I loved both the techniques as well as intensity of colour from this collection, which shrouded each figure in a warrior-like silhouette. What I also found interesting were a couple of one shoulder menswear pieces, something which we would typically associate with dressing the female figure. In many ways it challenged our perceptions of gender but in a way which was largely overt. Or rather it was hidden in plain sight amongst a sea of colour.
*Photos via Westminster Fashion
Monday, August 3, 2015
Niall Cottrell 2015
Labels: 2015 Collection, Asymmetrical, Coat, Fashion, Graduate Collection, Knitwear, London, London Fashion Week, Menswear, Niall Cottrell, Primary Colours, Red, Stripes, Style, Texture, Thread, Westminster
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I've been knitting and procrastinating on just about everything else in my life. I should be doing more with regards to the move. We had a Comcast remote die and it's been sitting here by the computer all week and I just haven't felt like calling Comcast. I should be making a list of the things I want to take to Korea and a shopping list of what I need to buy. I should do laundry more than once a week and the same with the ironing. Should of, would of, could of.
But all I seem to want to do is knit. I finished this blanket for our new grandchild. We find out on Friday if it's a boy or a girl. It is also the mommy of the new baby's birthday. How could our baby girl be turning 26!
I'm also fighting a virus that has kept my stomach upset most of the week and hot flashes have reappeared in my life. Thank goodness it's winter. It's snowed every day for the last 10 and it's snowing today again.
Still waiting on that final signature and it's driving Rocketman mad. I have an interesting story about Rocketman. Since we've been back from Korea, I've tried to find our safety deposit box keys to no avail. I had some car titles from the cars that I wanted to put into it. I called the bank last month to schedule having the keys redrilled. I tried three separate times and they always vowed they would call me back. Finally I had Rocketman take over and they listened to him right away and he met the drill guy at the bank yesterday.
Come to find out, we had closed the safety deposit box right before we left for Korea. Rocketman felt like a fool and so did I. Why didn't they check that when I called all those times. Luckily, the gal had some work for him or I think we may have had to pay the $150.00. I swear my brain just isn't working like it used to.


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between stops on the train
Riding on the morning train from the east bay to downtown city, many times with being one of the only riders to board that early, I find most persons typically sit more near the front of the train. With me preferably choosing to be alone, I walk thru the emptier last cars of the train to be more single and alone. It won't stop again for anouther 5 minutes and when it does, it usually boards more near the front of the train. I head for the back and sit down waiting for the motion to begin. As soon as it does, I lower my pants and begin stroking with my legs wide apart while feeling the wheels roll down the tracks. I have done this enough times to know just when to finish, before the next stop. A minute before the stop... I aim down on the floor and make my wet markings there. I have enjoyed this for so long... it is unfortunate they now have cameras installed and my morning fun has ended. That is unless I get off at a stop and use the restroom to unload for the relief.


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With the record-breaking movie still making headlines, women across the country are still coming down with Fifty Shades fever. But for expecting mothers, their conversations about sex toys quickly turn to conversations about, well, baby toys. That's why Miami's SR Cooper created the "Fifty Shade of Pink" and "Fifty Shades of Blue" books.
This book celebrates the joy and humor of parenthood. The bestselling trilogy instigated a boom of "Fifty Shades" babies. And it turns out, True Love doesn't look quite like you expected. A must-read if reading the E L James trilogy made you a mom.
An executive in entertainment and technology, author Sandi Richter Cooper lives with her husband Matt and 100 shades of pink, Bella and Quinci, in Miami Beach.
Books & Books will help celebrate the new series at their Fifty Shades of Pink & Blue Launch Party on Thursday, February 26th at 7pm. Walk the pink & blue carpet before enjoying HipPOPs Pop-up Gelato Bar, Notorious Pink Rosé and Passion XO Blue Premiere Liqueur. Guests will also have the chance to win blue and pink Turchin jewelry and a 2-week summer camp session at Camp Lehrman, which are being raffled off to benefit the Calder J Sloan Legacy Fund. 100% of raffle proceeds to benefit The Calder J Sloan Legacy Fund.
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Beyond FACTS: THE COLOR OF JUSTICE
While I'm certainly no expert on race and society, I can't help but connect the desperate conditions of our inner-city schools (see the September 20 post on Jonathan Kozol's SHAME OF THE NATION) with the disparate rate of people of color who live in poverty, behind bars, or on death row in our noble country. This can't be corrected overnight, but it seems a few simple things can be done to put us on the right track to a viable long-term solution: Let's put funds back into neglected early eductaion, intervention, and counseling programs in our communities. Let's cut through the red tape that's made the No Child Left Behind goal a pipe dream. And let's give children in every demographic decent schools where they not only learn but are loved and learn to love. While we're at it, let's support abused women and their children and show the world how compassionate we can be. Maybe then we can some day reduce the number of people in our own country who feel so disenfranchised and abandoned that they become criminals.
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So I live in Pittsburgh and I was driving back from a nice week in Ithaca, NY. I was going to drive back Interstate 86 to Interstate 90 to Interstate 79 through Erie and stop in Waldameer to ride the Ravine Flyer quick since it is a nice driving break going in since it is just a ticket park and I can go in and out. I do this pretty often when I come back from there but as I was driving I decided to go a different way since I am random and cut down state route 15 to I believe it is 110 to I80 and I99 then eventually to State route 22 through Williamsport, State College and Altoona. I was chasing through a shower and it was still raining once I hit Delgrosso's so I had to skip that unfortunately. I was in luck though about 5 miles from the Altoona exit to go to Lakemont the rain had stopped. So I went in, ran up to the ticket booth and rode the Skyliner. What a fun ride, it is smooth, has some nice little pops of airtime, and it is very twisty and seems to just fly through the course. I was surprised, just a very relaxing ride. One of the coolest things about this ride is that it is right off the outfield wall of the ballpark for the minor league Altoona Curve. It was a very interesting setting for a roller coaster and it was really neat the view from the coaster and the view of the coaster looming over the outfield.
The sky was looking pretty nasty so I ran to Leap the Dips, the oldest roller coaster in the world. It started raining a little bit as I got on but it wasn't too bad. What a neat ride. I was expecting it to be slow and sort of dull but I was wrong! It was an extremely fun ride, very neat with the old style track without the under the track wheels (I forget the proper term for it) and the running steel plates holding the train on the track. I felt bad for the ride op having to push the train from the station to the lift but it would still be fun to run. No lapbar, no seatbelts. Pretty cool ride. The drops were quick and surprisingly steep with some nice pops of airtime. The ride coasts along very nice. Unfortunately the skys let loose right before I could get on the toboggan. I have been dying to ride one of those Chance Toboggans after seeing the SBNO one at Conneaut but it was just not meant to be. I probably spent about half an hour in the park and it was alot of fun. Not alot of people in the park unfortunately but it was nice for the people in it. On Skyliner when people would get off the ride, the people could get back on in the empty rows. Just a nice family park. I have one more wood coaster left before I have all of the wood coasters in the state (just Rollo Coaster at Idlewild).
I've been meaning to get to Lakemont Park for some time. I rode through Altoona in the offseason the one year and seeing Lakemont off the road I just had to go back and go to the park. Just a very nice little park and every area could use a nice little park like this you can go to and spend an hour or 2 or the night whenever you feel like. It is nice with the free parking and the tickets it is the kind of place you can just randomly go to and have a nice time. I was bracing myself on the coasters worrying they would be as poorly maintained as the Blue Streak at Conneaut (I had my only near death feeling experience on a roller coaster on there last fall), but the coasters were very smooth and felt very well maintained. I cannot wait to go back there again and enjoy the park fully when there isn't a storm coming and I am not in a rush.


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Ice bucket challenge. VMAs. Emmys. Wash, rinse, refresh page.
If you think your Facebook NewsFeed or Twitter timeline is becoming an echo chamber of the same material, you're right. According to a new Pew Research Center report on the role of social media in civil discourse, Facebook might not be the best place to have a lively debate on a difficult topic.
Why? People are more likely to self-censor on social media if they think they have a minority opinion. This is what the study's lead authors Keith Hampton, associate professor of communication at Rutgers University, and Lee Rainie, Pew director of Internet, Science & Technology Research, have dubbed the "spiral of silence." Instead, posts shared online are opinions with which their authors think their readers are likely to agree.
Take the debate over NSA surveillance. In 2013, 86 percent of Americans were willing to have an in-person conversation about the Edward Snowden-NSA story but only 42 percent of Facebook and Twitter users were willing to post about it on their profiles.
And, if people were actually comfortable with discussing the story in person, they were far more likely to actually have a conversation at work about the story if they thought their coworkers agreed with them.
Though the study did not delve into the direct cause of why people fall into the "spiral of silence," Hampton and Rainie hypothesize that people fear social isolation.
"People don't feel like speaking out when they feel like it's not met with a positive reception," said Hampton. "You don't want to lose friends or be on the receiving end of an embarrassing comment. That's the traditional line of ostracism."
In addition, Rainie speculated that when people look out onto their social media networks, they noticed a "broader level of disagreement."
"They're watching Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and they're aware of more arguments, more contentions and more disputes than they were aware of at first," said Rainie. "There's this capacity to watch constantly what's around you and it gives people a sense that there are more arguments [than their own]."
"If they don't want the hassle of a dispute, it gives them more incentive to keep quiet," Rainie said.
And what of the small fraction of Facebook and Twitter users willing to join in a conversation on a difficult topic?
"They're opinionated," Hampton laughed. "They're intense. They tend to be more knowledgeable. And they're interested in the topic."
While these social media findings are new, studies have shown for years that people are already prone to sharing their opinions with people who already agree with them. What's different about these latest numbers?
According to Tufts University professors Jeffrey Berry and Sarah Sobieraj, the tendency to self-censor is one of the byproducts of the "outrage industry," a climate of extreme political opinion media that has MSNBC on one side of the political spectrum and FOX News on the other. Berry and Sobieraj argue that political opinion media programs like "The Rachel Maddow Show" and "The Sean Hannity Show" have become more popular over time and more extreme.
When the hosts of such shows "vilify and belittle the people with whom we disagree and inflate our own sense of moral righteousness, different perspectives on the role of government … are inflated from policy preferences into litmus tests for human decency," Berry and Sobieraj wrote in their book, "The Outrage Industry." "This slippage between the critique of ideas and the critique of those holding the ideas likely limits our openness to other perspectives and the people who hold them."
If readers are using social media posts as the ultimate test of character, it's a wonder why all users don't keep mum.
But the problem with the "spiral of silence" is that it confirms the worst of conversing via social media — that it's all talk and less walk. The study showed that while Facebook and Twitter might be useful for participating in political issues or social campaigns like the ice bucket challenge, they aren't providing a forum for true deliberation, an activity Hampton and Rainie believe is necessary for a healthy democracy.


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The Board convened on Monday, December 24, 2007 at 9:30 AM with all members present: Pickar, Huegel, Boge, Schueth, Mattke. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Pickar. Mail was opened and distributed.
Motion by Boge, Seconded by Schueth, to approve agenda for December 24, 2007. All Ayes, Motion Carried.
Motion by Schueth, Seconded by Boge, to approve meeting minutes of December 17 & 18, 2007. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
CPC Sheila Kobliska met with the Board for Review of the Case Management Report July through November of 2007.
Jeremy McGrath met with the Board to discuss current issues and future of the ambulance business within the county.
Steve Lynch met with the Board to present the 2007 Compensation Board recommendations as follows: Supervisors $2000; Sheriff $8000; Auditor, Treasurer, Recorder each $4200; Attorney $8000. The recommendation was received and placed on file pending consideration within the context of the total FY 2008-09 County Budget.
Head Custodian Dave Gorman met with the Board to discuss Courthouse north door maintenance and water quality at Community Services Building.
Assessor Doug Welton met with the Board for review and discussion of the 2007 valuations for the FY 2008-09 Budget, with discussion following. Combining all property classifications and utilities, there was a net increase of $82,932,866 valuation over the 2006 valuation year.
Motion by Boge, Seconded by Mattke, to approve request for NICC Special election administrative recount as per Iowa Code Section 50.50. Roll Call: All Ayes. Motion Carried.
Motion by Huegel, Seconded by Schueth, to adopt Resolution approving expenditure of $1000 on Laborshed Survey from Local Option Sales Tax Economic Development Fund. Roll Call: All Ayes. Motion Carried. Resolution 12-24-07-38. Authorizing An Expenditure Of $1,000.00 For Chickasaw County Laborshed Survey. WHEREAS, the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors desires to promote county and area wide economic development and expansion; WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors has considered the $1,000.00 funding request by the Economic Development Director of Chickasaw County for their participation for the Laborshed Survey, and has decided there is merit for joining the partnership, for the following reasons: 1. Approximately half of Chickasaw County''s residents live in the unincorporated area.
2. Laborshed survey defines available workforce for industries considering locating within the county. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors, this 24TH day of December 2007, to adopt this resolution for an expenditure of $1,000.00 to be paid from the Economic Development Fund of the Local Option Sales Tax, as approved by board motion. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of Chickasaw County that the County Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to issue a warrant for $1,000.00 for Chickasaw County''s participation of County Laborshed Survey. Passed and adopted this 24th day of December 2007. AYES: /ss/ Virgil M. Pickar, Jr., Chairman; John L. Huegel, Vice-Chairman; Arnie J. Boge; James J. Schueth; Sherry Mattke NAYS: NONE ATTEST: /ss/ Judy A. Babcock, Auditor
Motion by Boge, Seconded by Huegel, to approve Chairman Signature on Certification of Cost Allocation Plan by Cost Advisory Services Inc. Roll Call: All Ayes. Motion Carried.
The Board allowed claims.
Motion by Boge, Seconded by Huegel, to adjourn at 12 Noon. All Ayes, with Motion Carried.
Virgil M. Pickar, Jr., Chairman
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Judy A. Babcock, Auditor


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What is over coaching?
Excessive input from the coach while the players are playing in such a way that the coach's input becomes debilitating to the player's ability to perform to the best of her ability and stifles her development. In short, the coach is playing instead of the player, making all of her decisions for her.
What are the symptoms of over coaching?
Over irritated people that do not really enjoy the game. players coaches, and parents.
Is over coaching a problem? does it happen frequently?
I see this as a problem. Too often, coaches (and parents) feel an undue pressure to win games and therefore over coach the players. As a result, at game time, and during practice, there is a constant barrage of comments directed at the player, making it impossible for the players to enjoy themselves and express themselves on the field.
What are the effects on players and coaches of over coaching, both long and short term?
Mostly, the players end up quitting. they do not want to subject themselves to this "hostile" environment. they rebel against the pressures and hyper supervision of the adults. If they do hang on, as they get older, they lack creativity in their play, or the ability to solve the games problems by themselves. Thus, their development is retarded and they are no longer able to meet the demands of the game at the next level.
How can a coach know if he/she is over coaching?
Usually, the players give big time signals that they are not enjoying themselves. Their body posture speaks loudly towards this end. They will also be very nervous while playing, and, perhaps more telling, when faced with a difficult game situation, they are unable to met the demands of the game. Also, they rarely will ask questions to the coach in fear that they will again be told what to do. They might stop coming to practice and games, or, need to be forced to participate.
At what age is over coaching most prevalent? younger players or older?
It is prevalent at all ages, but, I find it mostly in the 10‑14 age group. Here, they are just starting to become players, and, the coach's expectations become a bit more demanding. Too many egos get involved.
Why do coaches tend to over coach?
Pressure to win, or an ego that is tied in with the success of their team.
What can be done to remedy the situation?
Clubs and leagues need to monitor the situation carefully and remove the coach from their responsibility if necessary. The players need to come first. We must all remember that the game belongs to the players, and that the game is the best teacher.
What do you think about the state of youth coaches in general? Are they generally qualified to be coaches, in your opinion?
The state of coaching has drastically improved over the past 12 years that I have been involved in coaching education. We now have some former players becoming coaches… this is always good to see people that are willing to give a little back to the game that they love. On the other hand, there are still a lot of coaches out there who have the wrong perspective. They are coaching for the wrong reasons, and as a result, the players do not enjoy participating.
And, there are the true gems, that is, people who have it all: a knowledge of the sport, a former player, an ability to communicate effectively, is in tune with the developmental needs of his or her players, and, has the ethics to keep things in perspective… this person is rare to find. But, there are more and more around… much more than there were 10 years ago. This is not to say that you have to have played at a high level to be an effective coach. In fact, I would rather have a coach that is in tuned to the developmental needs of his or her players, than have an ex-professional with unrealistic demands, who is out to win the championship that he or she never won as a player! Like everything… there needs to be a balance.
Can you give me a concise example of a scenario when over coaching could happen, and how that particular situation could be fixed?
During the game: coaches sub a player whenever he or she makes a mistake and lectures him or her on the sidelines how to fix the problem, instead of having the player work through some of his/her mistakes on the field, learning as they go. The coach constantly yells out to the players what to do during the game, before they do it. such as "shoot!", "hit it to the corner", "take her on". Instead of coaching "after the fact" such as, "hey, do you remember the last time that you had the ball in the box, and there was only one defender between you and the goal?… well, next time you see that, try beating that defender and getting a shot on goal" sometimes, comments are very appropriate, but, if the coach finds himself chatting constantly, they should force themselves to sit back and relax. I know a club down in Maryland, that makes their coaches bring a lawn chair to the game and sit in it. They allow their coaches to get up only twice per half… not a bad idea.


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Friday, 27 June 2014
Wrist surgery
Labels: doll repair, dolls, J-doll, Monster High, tutorial, type 4 Pullip body
I took some extra time to prepare this post because I wanted to turn it into a more global tutorial. I was just about ready when Blogger had this annoying glitch for a couple of days. What was up with that? It drove me crazy! I half prepared another post while saving this one for a time when people could actually see it, but now it's fixed, and I know I kept the suspense long enough. I'm happy to say I got to the bottom of the blackening issue, then made a new wrist replacement, and another one for a different (not broken) doll. I now present you a full tutorial for fixing broken wrists/elbows/knees on any doll that uses the kind of joint seen in the first picture. The beauty of it is that it uses common materials and can be adapted for any size and colour!
Saturday, 14 June 2014
28th World Doll Day
Labels: Barbie, dolls, holidays, Monster High, photography
Today was the 28th World Doll Day, a holiday started by a doll enthusiast, Mildred Seeley, to celebrate our hobby. I found out about this not long ago thanks to Confessions of a Doll Collector's Daughter's post. She included Mildred's letter to her friends where she described how she wanted this day to be (go read it!). I'm happy that we get our own holiday, but I was caught very unprepared this year. I have nothing to give, not even
Friday, 13 June 2014
J-Doll upgrade, part 1: A look at the broken wrist
Labels: doll repair, dolls, J-doll, type 4 Pullip body, work in progress
When you are trying to keep a blog, nothing goes according to the plan. I like to think of myself as a fairly organized person. Yes, I'm slow and overwhelmed with ideas, but generally, I make lists, never skip steps and my stuff has to be in the right place or I flip out on the person who moved it. I take pictures for the blog that I put in labeled and numbered folders, signifying the order in which I intend to write the corresponding posts. Yet there's always some event that disrupts the perfect queue and this is how my promised continuation of the hair care saga has been in drafts for months and also, how today's post came into existence.
One week ago one of the girls from the doll meeting messaged me with good and bad news. Her new J-doll came in the mail, but one wrist was smashed to pieces. She knew mine had a wrist problem as well and asked if I'd fixed it. I had to admit that no, I was reluctant to move it and break it any further. Unfortunately, things don't fix themselves if you do nothing about it. I bought a doll, not a statue. I decided I've had enough of that.
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Managing super fine doll hair?
Labels: dolls, hair, Monster High
Hubby caught me snapping the photo above this evening in our kitchen and now he wouldn't let me go to sleep until I write my new article :) Luckily for my killer headache, it's going to be a short one. I want to share a little discovery I made while trying to fix Scaris Ghoulia's fried hair that will maybe get us closer to understanding how this hair fiber works.
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Tribulations come in and out of season, it's a time of testing and growth. Somehow we are supposed to be joyful in some of the most toughest and most trying times in our lives.
God has asked us in
Romans 5:3-4
And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Ok so we are supposed to be joyful in hard times because we it produces our character and builds our faith and hope in Christ. I can understand that and I believe that is one of the hardest things to do especially when things are SO BIG it seems impossible to ever get out. Just think when money is tight, car starts to fail, we get laid off, and life's necessities need to be replaced what do you feel? Joy right? (WRONG!) Least for me I get stubborn, upset, confused. Well came across this scripture in my friday bible study and this was our discussion.
Job 1:7-12
And the LORD said to Satan, "From where do you come?"
So Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it."
Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?"
So Satan answered the LORD and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? 10 Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!"
And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person."
So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
Our smallgroup came to this realization! As a father takes pride in his son/ daughter succeeding in life, so God rejoices in our accomplishments and relationship with him. GOD BRAGS about his servant Job to Satan, GOD is excited and thrilled in his son, and wishes his enemy to see his son's success. This made us look at the verse in Romans differently all of a sudden. Romans talks about being joyful in tribulations, and it suddenly hit us. God bragged about Job, Satan in return wanted to test his faith, which brought tribulations upon Job. See we can take joy in tribulations because it comes after God smiles at you, and says "Satan see my son/ daughter?" Satan says yes, and God brags about your love for HIM. See trials come what seems to be after God bragged about you, so be JOYFUL in the trail because God thinks very highly of you, and LOVES YOU!


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Things are really taking on a life of their own at Bobbles & Peanuts! I am almost up to 1300 fans on Facebook, and I have recently had a lot of orders as well as several people cashing in on their winnings in several of the giveaways I have sponsored over the last few weeks! Lots of items going to lots of different people! I also have some new modeling pics of my things--one of a flower/headband set and one of a child's scarf--CUTE
While the giveaway is on I am working like a mad-woman to make new things--lots of new bows and flowers! I really want a FLOOD of new stuff to show off once this is all said and done!
The 1000 fan Bobbles & Peanuts Giveaway is on NOW on my Facebook page and ends March 24, 2011. The same day the giveaway ends I will be ending my promo for the tutu/clip combos--sale price $30 SHIPPED! I will have to start having separate prices for small, medium, and large, so right now this is a GREAT deal--especially with Easter right around the corner!
Hear that--it is Spring knocking at the door--COME IN PLEASE!!


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LA CRESCENTA -- Areg Hayrapetian's eyes lit up as he explained his
science project: "The Effect of the Number of Divisions on the Accuracy
of the Area."
It's a mouthful to say and a bit complicated to explain but
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Green.Autoblog.com eVOLVE SAE World Congress article and photos
Click here to read Sebastian Blanco's blog entry discussing the eVOLVE hybrid wheel technology written during the 2013 SAE World Congress in Detroit, MI (April 16-18, 2013).Green.AutoBlog.Com eVOLVE SAE article
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Lacks Wheel Trim Systems to participate at SAE World Congress 2013
Click on the link to go to the SAE World Congress website, where Lacks Wheel Trim Systems will be showing its Chromtec and eVOLVE hybrid composite wheel technologies. The Chromtec wheels will be on display in booth #325 at Cobo Center and the eVOLVE hybrid composite wheel technologies will be shown in the Windsor Room adjacent to the show floor (W2-62) on April 16-17 only. SAE World Congress 2013 (April 16-18). For information on the VIP Invitation Only eVOLVE hybrid composite wheel technologies, contact Lacks Wheel Trim Systems at email@example.com.
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Fall Fishing From Shore With Kids!
Fall is a great time of year to grab a bucket of minnows and take your kids fishing! Pan fish, Bass, Walleye, Whiper, Pike and many other species are feeding before ice on and they are crusing shallow structure for an easy meal. Slip bobbers and a fat minnow will be irresistable to most fish right now and it will give you and your kids a few unforgetable hours. This weeks podcast we talk about making those memories in Fall Fishing From Shore With Kids!
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You probably visualize that table light on your bed's nightstand, which drops some light on your going to bed reading. Or perhaps you believe concerning the light resting on the console table in the corridor, which greets you just prior to you leave the residence or get in.
While table lamps are commonly the most usual light components in our homes, we ought to not forget flooring lamps. Taller than their table lamp or desk light counterparts, floor lights could supply a variety of advantages that could boost the style of any type of area:
1. Strength
Today's flooring lamps, such as Tiffany tarnished glass flooring lights, are much sturdier compared to flooring lamps of the past. In the past, flooring lamps were notorious for tipping over quickly, thus producing a fire danger. Today's floor lamps have to satisfy something called the UL "tipability requirement," requiring their bases to be hefty sufficient.
2. Complete spectrum lighting
This permits the lamp's customer to enjoy the complete range of light, consisting of light that the nude human eye could not spot, such as infrared light. In particular, this feature supplies artists who utilize a range of media, with a type of fabricated sunlight to help expose how specific colors will certainly show up in sunshine.
3. Attractive styles for any kind of size or style of a space
You probably do not wish to pair up paisley lamp shades with checkered wallpaper. Thankfully, floor lights, such as modern floor lamps, as well as mission design flooring lamps are available in a variety of styles, which complement the decoration.
Today, themes have become the "in thing" when producing decor for a specific space. Floor lamps vary from standard designs as well as shades, to even more modern ones. As well as with retro designs, the old is new once again!
4. Perfect as both a job or a reading light
Table lights can only supply a small variety of illumination, as well as sometimes they hardly develop adequate light for reading, which raises your eyestrain. A flooring light supplies a larger array of lighting. Whether you are enjoying TV, functioning on a puzzle, or reviewing the newspaper, a flooring light can give the ideal quantity of light, therefore lowering your energy bills.
5. Flexible brightness.
While the illumination of many table lamps is limited to "off" and also "on," flooring lights tend to supply a broader range of brightness. Whether you require minimum lights for analysis or more illumination for your children' parlor game, a floor lamp normally gives a variety of illumination settings.
6. Decreased eyestrain and glare.
Your eyes unconsciously choose up the flickering of such lights, boosting eyestrain and glow. While the light of a table lamp brightens outwards, the light of a floor light illuminates downwards.
Today's flooring lamps, such as Tiffany discolored glass floor lamps, are much sturdier than flooring lights of the past. Floor lights vary from conventional styles and also shades, to more contemporary ones. A floor lamp offers a bigger range of lighting. Whether you are enjoying TV, functioning on a problem, or reviewing the newspaper, a floor lamp could offer the ideal quantity of light, hence decreasing your energy bills.
While the light of a table lamp lights up in an outward direction, the light of a floor light illuminates downwards.


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Jimmy Morales, a former TV comedian, on 25 October 2015 swept to power in Guatemala's presidential election. He will take the office on 14 January 2016.
In the presidential election, Morales won more than 67 percent of votes. On the other hand, the ex-first lady Sandra Torres received less than 33 percent of votes.
In 2015, Morales was nominated as the presidential candidate of National Convergence Front (FCN/Nation). Initially, he was considered an outsider. However, he finished first in the first round of the election and qualified for the runoff.
Morales, who identified himself as a nationalist, supported death penalty and opposed abortion, came out with a slogan of Neither corrupt nor a thief that attracted the masses.
His success came after both former vice president Roxana Baldetti and outgoing president Otto Pérez Molina had to step down and were arrested on fraud and corruption charges.
Jimmy Morales born as James Ernesto Morales Cabrera on 18 March 1969 earned fame as a TV comedian when he starred in the popular TV series Moralejas (Morals).
He joined the FCN party in 2013 and became its secretary-general.
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Who: TV comedian Jimmy Morales
What: Elected as Guatemala's President
When: 25 October 2015


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Eric Davidove's video has helped me to recognize many of my online colleagues as 'Superlearners'.
Teemu Arina sees the original concept of 'superlearning' as very much a one-way, school 1.0 phenomenon. In referring to the original concept, identified in the book by Ostrander and Schroeder
"...superlearning as a concept is so school 1.0, where you acquire as much information as possible, so that you can reproduce it in various contexts…and bore yourself to death in the meantime."
But I see many elements of networked learning in this revised application of the word that applies directly to many of the learners in our classrooms today... teachers included!
Note: The original post has been edited based on information provided by Teemu Arina. As I can't seem to locate a strikethrough tool on Blogger, I've italicized the updated information. RL.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Are you a Superlearner?
Posted by Rodd Lucier at 4:24 AM
Labels: networked learning, social, superlearners, teemu arina
2 comments:
- Teemu Arina said...
Hi, actually what I critisize is superlearning (see amazon for the book), that was introduced in the 70's. What Eric is talking under the same title is contradictory to the original meaning of superlearning. His approach is exactly the right one.
- May 29, 2008 at 11:57 AM
- Rodd Lucier said...
Thank you for the clarification Teemu.
Considering the video in context with your previous online writing, the post to which I referenced took me aback. Thank you for putting it in its proper context.
I trust that the revision of the above post more accurately reflects your thoughts.
- May 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM
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Mesa Mommies
My name is Althea and I have a 22 month old baby girl named Monroe. I am active in the community and always know what family friendly events are happening on the east side. I would love to have a group of women with children around the same age to share play groups and stories with. If interested join so we can get this started. Please let me know the age of your children and what days and times work best for you!
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Welcome to Outering Schools
It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to welcome you to our website. Outering Schools is a mixed boys and girls group of schools. The schools offers the 8-4-4 system as envisaged in the Kenya government education curriculum.
Considering the fact that Education is the best gift you can give to your child and the most valuable asset one can have, we welcome you and your child to Outering Schools.
Our aim is to build the capacities of youths from Njiru/ Embakasi Area of Nairobi and equip them with life-skills, self reliance and self sufficiency techniques though through education for improved livelihood and participation in nation building.
About Outer-ring High School
Outer-ring High School is classified by the ministry of Education as a mixed day school for boys and girls established in year 2004 with 9 students only. The school offers the 8-4-4 system as envisaged in the Kenya government education curriculum.
The following are the subjects offered in the school (create a link to curriculum policy). This shall remain so until such a time when the management shall change the system with availability of resources and market demand.


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Disruptors and the Disrupted: A Tale of Eight Companies — in Pictures
The fear of disruption is often exaggerated. In reality, organizations that are threatened by new technologies and new players usually have more time than they realize to craft an effective response. For further insights, read "The Fear of Disruption Can Be More Damaging than Actual Disruption."


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I have made this box for Eszter and I already know what she will keep in it.
For making this box I used a retired Sizzix XL Bigz die:
I cut out the box from chipboard. I had to strengthen the folding lines with sellotape because the chipboard could easily tear at the folding lines.
I got some real music sheets from my mother-in-law for creative use and creative purposes.
I coloured the music sheets with Ranger Distress inks (Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet).
After I covered the box with the music sheets inside and outside as well. For this I used decoupage glue (Mod Podge) what I put under and on the music sheet.
I sanded the edges with a sandpaper.
To the edges and some parts I smeared some gesso, then I put a layer of acrylic medium.
When the acrylic medium was dry I put all the embellishments on the box (the laces, the leaves, the roses...)
What I used:
Sizzix Bigz XL Die, Box (656278)
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Long has been my journey of collecting. As a child I collected the usual things kids collect: baseball cards, coins, pretty rocks. As I grew into a teen I started picking up vintage items at junk stores (or so we called them then), and when I got into college, I literally scavenged abandoned houses, behind old buildings, through trashcans and rubbish heaps. Back then, in the late '60s, early '70s, it seemed to fashionable to me, to decorate my college apartment with old rusty milk cans and vintage crates. Somewhere in my early adulthood, I started looking more seriously at things I could afford that were a little more substantial. Although I never did collect antique furniture, due to finances, I did pick up a few things through the years that serve a more functional purpose, other than just cute collectibles to line my bookshelves.
I bought this trunk in the year or two before I got married. I remember the antique store where I bought it in South Pasadena. I paid $65, which seemed a lot of money for me. It was probably half a week's salary at that time. It's totally plain, weathered, not in the greatest shape. There is nothing decorative about it, except for the lovely curve of the lid. The wood is a light golden brown, the hardware is black and utilitarian. There are lots of scuff marks on the bottom (our family probably did ourselves with many moves, climbing kids, vacuuming, etc). It is cracked, and one of the leather side handles is gone. But it has held a variety of treasures, old clothes, seasonal wear, costumes, blankets. Today it sits in our bedroom, filled with some vintage clothing of my Mom and Dad's, plus some old clothing of my own I want to save. A few baby dresses. My holiday socks.
The inside is nothing special. No hidden compartments, no interior shelves or trays, even the lining paper is torn and shabby. Just a plain old trunk. I love it.


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The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program collaborated on an exhibition that was the Smithsonian's first major showcase of contemporary Asian American portraiture. Through the groundbreaking work of seven talented artists from across the country and around the world, the exhibition offered provocative renditions of the Asian American experience. Their portraits of encounter offer representations against and beyond the stereotypes that have long obscured the complexity of being Asian in America.
The artists featured were CYJO, New York; Hye Yeon Nam, Atlanta and New York; Shizu Saldamando, Los Angeles; Roger Shimomura, Lawrence, KS; Satomi Shirai, New York; Tam Tran, Memphis, TN; and Zhang Chun Hong, Lawrence, KS.


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Okay. Are you sitting down? Then stand up!
Didn't you hear about this report into the health hazards of sedentary work?
The Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute has found that the problem with sitting is not just about burning calories. It's far more than that. The research has found that using our muscles helps our body to process glucose. That we need the signals from moving our muscles in order to avoid huge highs and lows of glucose levels that lead to diabetes.
The research found that moving every 20 minutes for at least 2 minutes is enough to keep processing of glucose – and also found it doesn't matter if the movement was brisk or ambling. This breaking up of sitting time can lower glucose and insulin levels by as much as 30 per cent, helping people avoid diabetes.
Phew! That's good news for me. I do craft and emails standing up because I'm always on the run and get interrupted at least every twenty minutes to wipe a bum, get someone a snack, break up a fight, wipe a nose, do up a shoe lace...the list is endless....so I should be glad every time I'm interrupted, huh?
The report made me think about the eccentric old man in Oxford Circus, London. Does anyone else remember him? When I was in London in the early nineties (and if you could see me now you would see me do my particular "memories of London" face - which is a cross between an I've-just-eaten-a-rotten-lemon crinkled nose and a forlorn you-must-be- kidding-look of disappointment. Yep, I hated it!) I came across a man who stood with a billboard proclaiming we eat more vegetables, less protein and declared, almost as an after thought – less sitting! I kept his booklet for years.
Stanley Green displayed his billboards and sold pamphlets of his philosophy for 25 years.Peter Ackroyd wrote in London: The Biography that Green was for the most part ignored, becoming "a poignant symbol of the city's incuriosity and forgetfulness." Well I was a tourist there, so I was quite curious and found him memorable. His philosophy was around a belief that protein caused excess of sexual passion.
Green's letters, diaries, pamphlets, and placards are now at the Museum of London, and some other artifacts went to the Gunnersbury Park Museum.
When I heard the report into sitting and diabetes, old Stanley popped into my mind. Well Stanley Green – you were right about the sitting being bad for you! Now everyone - stand up and walk about for two minutes.


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Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Follow the link for a pretty unpleasant photo of my face ...
Thursday, 16 July 2009
One more thing
On another note, I've recently rediscovered The Band's self-titled 1969 beauty. Click here for the album recording of Rocking Chair, and here for a storming live version if you've got any tears left. Warning: this song will make you miss your home.
A new era
So, to kick off the new era ... a good old-fashioned, well-out-of-date, 'look what I did yesterday' post.
That's because what I did yesterday was to go and watch Friendly Fires at the Roundhouse. Last minute free tickets (life is good). Positioned upstairs in the seating area with the executive set (life is distinctly mediocre). Coursing with jealousy because I'm not fronting a successful band yet (life is short).
Frontman Ed Macfarlane is a gem, cavorting all over the stage like one of the greats. It's said that Twitter harbours a Eureka! moment - the instant when it all becomes clear and you become a hooked, slavering addict. From then on, you might as well sellotape your iPhone to your forehead. Last night was the night when, for me, Friendly Fires' brand of synthesised dance-pop suddenly made sense. Music like this is what Franz Ferdinand were thinking of when they said they wanted to 'make music for girls to dance to', and kicked off the latest wave of guitar music. Because, believe me, the girls were dancing.
Afterwards, in the pub toilets, I happened across a sheet of poems nailed (blu-tacked) to the toilet wall. I haven't been so moved since the end of Forrest Gump. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you My Pet Fish by That Perfect Fumble:
My pet fish
Had no friends
My pet fish
Set no trends
My pet fish
Had odd lusts
My pet fish
Liked small busts
My pet fish
Touched some babies
My pet fish
Got shot in the face,
in the woods, by the
villagers, like a dog
with rabies.
They strung him up
And burnt his corpse
And with eyes of red
into my face of sad,
They told me to think
of another name for
my Dad.
Utterly brilliant. That Perfect Fumble, aka Keir Mills, can be found on Myspace here.
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Thursday, 9 April 2009
Blog eat blog
On top of that, it's a blog of a newspaper article about blogs saying that blogs are better than newspapers - is that a first?
Don't write off the bloggers
As debate surrounding the GMG board's decision to recall its satellite north-west titles to central Manchester intensifies, it's important not to let righteous fury over job losses obscure several wider truths about the mismatch between printed and online media. Properly harnessed, the internet is more suitable for news distribution than the traditional media on almost every count. Shutdowns to fund the stuttering nationals are a shame for local journalists and readers alike, because regional newsrooms are the only places where a face-to-face contact with the target audience is still absolutely pivotal. That said, I don't believe that the lost titles are necessarily irreplacable or even (despite the view expressed in the Guardian's editorial last week) that they will take very long to replace.
A year ago last month, the BBC's Manchester Blog Project drew to a dignified close, having made minor stars of several writers and contributed hugely to the growth of a now-prolific blogging community. As a model for the inclusion of reader-generated content by a mainstream media organisation, the experiment was quietly revolutionary. Two coordinating journalists agreed to follow a select pool of writers – "one or two participants in each each of the ten boroughs of Manchester" – writing on pre-established third-party blogs; periodically, they would swoop to gather relevant activity into summary posts bristling with hyperlinks. In return, the affiliated bloggers benefited from bespoke tutorials, staff mentoring and, of course, the massive surges in traffic which followed a mention on the mother blog.
So far, so what? Well - as news corporations everywhere curl up to protect themselves, they leave an information vacuum into which a generation of citizen journalists might feasibly step. With Manchester's boroughs starved of real local coverage, my guess is that this online community could be about to re-emerge with their old Beeb-issue weaponry. It makes sense. When the GMG closures were announced, Jenny Maddox of the NUJ said: "Places like Rochdale, Stockport and Salford are losing the distinct voice they were given by their locally based papers." The qualities that are most crucial, according to these desperate, cliff-edge laments – distinctive, localised, democratic – are precisely the ones that bloggers possesses in abundance. Readers in the north west who find themselves suddenly distrusting their weekly generic Arts/Ents pullout wrapped in region-specific PR rewrites could do worse than look to the Manchizzle or The Marple Leaf, which both perform a 'collect' service for local writing, events and information. And if the model works in Manchester, there's no reason it can't work elsewhere. It's already reached the Isle of Wight.
Newsblog networks, including commentary, reviews, listings and local interest stories written by amateur journalists – say, "one or two participants from each of the ten boroughs of Manchester" – would be greener, quicker to adapt to criticism and more likely to deal with residents' real concerns. The web's informal nature might even suit local journalism better. Unlike the printed news-sheet, the blogpost is not jealous: gossipy and hyperactive, it thrives through its relationship with other blogs, choosing not to hide – as newspapers sometimes do – the fact that it is engaged in a reciprocal give-and-take with a variety of other sources. On one hand, it is postmodern. On the other, it embodies the oldest information network known to local communities: word of mouth. "Basically", wrote the MBP's coordinators in their signing-off post, "we did what bloggers do through their blogs and comments and links - we had a conversation."
Newspapers, which once facilitated and amplified public conversation, now run the risk of being drowned out by the web's million babbling voices – especially if their talk is all leftwing. Raymond Williams wasn't the first to point out that the political skew to the right in the mainstream British press is entirely logical. Real revolutionary voices struggle to find an outlet in print because, simply put, no intelligent profit-seeking corporation wants to advertise to those who are sceptical about capitalism. Since blogging rarely pays, compromising oneself is rarely a problem: in fact, the blogosphere represents the only sustainable arena for local and national hard-left reportage precisely because it's the place where comment, and speech, are free.
Over on the Organ Grinder Blog, Sarah Philips asks: "Are there any sites out there already successfully nurturing a sense of community?" The answer is yes. Sad though it is, readers in places such as Rochdale, Stockport and Salford may soon not need "locally based papers" to give them the "distinct voice" they crave. With unparalleled local knowledge, a bit of borrowed editorial savvy and a sophisticated information network already in existence, the bloggers of Greater Manchester might be about to prove a harsh business decision on the part of GMG also a foolish one. They could even change things for the better.
Sunday, 15 March 2009
What a load of fookin' nonsense
A Salford-based academic claimed this week he had found the funniest whoopee cushion noise after more than 30,000 people voted in an online poll.
Are we seriously expected to believe that - one week after the 25th anniversary of the miners' strikes and days before two of British football's most decorated (and most Northern) teams, meet at Old Trafford in a top-of-the-table clash - this story is the most pressing issue on the Northern news agenda? Or is it simply another embarrassing misjudgement on the part of a publication keen to maintain superficial contact with its socialist origins?
As Raymond Williams pointed out, the British press is highly unusual in that it is one of the most metropolitan in the developed world. The giants of the mainstream American media, such as the New York Times or the Washington Post, do not even attempt to disguise their own regional provenance, or bias. At the same time at least one emerging media power, India, provides a healthy counter-example in that the country's three largest newspapers - The Times of India, The Hindu and the Telegraph - are published 1000 miles apart in New Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata respectively.
Britain's newspapers have ignored both of these devolutionary possibilities. No mainstream daily beside the Scotsman has operated outside the capital since 1964 when the Manchester Guardian moved south. At the same time, no plan to regionalise any title - to call the Times, for instance, the Times of London, as it is known abroad - is ever seriously mooted.
The implications of this run far deeper than you might imagine, and are at the same time far cruder. 'Oirish' imitations are out but the Gallaghers labour under routine stereotyping. Do they really say 'fookin' instead of fucking, when large portions of the population utter vowels in different ways? Isn't the very concept of a caricaturing a regional dialect logically at fault in a national publication, written in theory by people from all over the country, for people all over the country? Or, at least, shouldn't all accents be technically as imitable? The covert, and therefore dangerous, assumption at work here is that a home counties accent is normative - that old chestnut. A regional point of view is dressed up and passed off as a national one, made to represent the population at large.
The BBC - so long guilty of confusing 'England' with 'London' - is attempting to remedy this by relocating to Manchester. But the print media big-hitters will never follow the Corporation beyond the M25. Newspapers rely increasingly on advertising to survive, and as they move onto the web within the next decade, advertising will become the sole source of income for what, for many, is the sole source of information. In order to compete in financial terms, a media heavyweight needs to be operating in the national centre of consumption, leisure, banking, advertising ... in the capital of capital. It needs to target the most affluent of the population, the biggest spendthrifts, the biggest savers.
Just one other reason why the Guardian's tokenistic namechecking of its regional socialist roots - see, in addition to the Northener, the 'Comment is free' piffle and culture of C. P. Scott memorabilia - is so offensive. The Guardian has not, for a long time, been a newspaper which caters particularly well for the demands of the non-metropolitan news consumer. At the same time, it is no longer aimed at the committed anti-capitalist. True socialist newspapers, as Williams again points out, are now impossible - because who wants to advertise to those opposed to consumerism? As the excellent MediaLens blog has it:
We did not expect the Soviet Communist Party's newspaper Pravda to tell the truth about the Communist Party, so why should we expect the corporate press to tell the truth about corporate power?
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Bland
2009 marks the 40th anniversary of rock's weirdest record. So how has it aged?
Come on, admit it. It's still on the to-do list, right? Everybody knows that, deep in the late 60s, a lunatic called Captain Beefheart locked himself in a country mansion with four friends and came out with a fish on his head. Or something. Cue whoops of wonder from those in the know, subsiding over forty years into a quiet kind of respect. At parties you nod sagely. Trout Mask Replica? Mindblowing. Great album, great man.
Now don't get me wrong. I will listen to other Beefheart releases until my girlfriend is blue in the face. The Magic Band's thumping debut, Safe as Milk, is my soundtrack to 2003, and my very own summer of love between high school and university - no other collection of songs I know is as good for staggering red-eyed around a smoke-filled bedroom. But I'm going to come right out and say it: has anyone ever actually listened to the whale that is Trout Mask Replica in its entirety? No you haven't. No you haven't because it's impossible. Beefheart's monstrous masterpiece is assured its place in the rock and roll Hall of Fame because nobody, not even the janitor, dares to go near it, for fear of losing their hand.
That is where I come in. I have braved this swill of tepid hippie vomit on the shore of Don Van Vliet's engorged psyche, and I have done so purely in the name of journalistic curiosity and money. Plus I needed to give the Hall of Fame the once over. The Man wants to find a plinth for Leo Sayer.
So to my task. Within the first minute of pressing play, I'm hunting for facts on the web to quell my rising panic. (Did you know it was billed on its release as 'music from Venus'?) The album's opener, Frownland, is barely music. Jagged, atonal riffs march all over the Captain's chunnering surrealisms. The drummer sounds like he learned to play immediately prior to recording on a whack-a-mole machine. The guitarist … is there a guitarist? A human one? Oh. The only thing that maintains my interest is Van Vliet's remarkable voice, but even that quickly deteriorates into repetitiveness and inaudibility. Try as I might, I can't keep my hand away from the 'skip' button.
Perhaps I simply lack an imaginative connection with the past.
Let's try and historicise this record. 1969 was a grim year for the hippie ideal, with Hendrix arrested narcotics and Brian Jones found dead in his pool one month after Jagger forced him out of the Stones being too 'free' with his rehearsal attendance. Over at Apple, the world's greatest band was tearing itself apart a row over business management. The
Against this backdrop, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band ('Zoot Horn Rollo', 'Rockette Morton', 'Drumbo' and 'Antennae Jimmy Semens') retreated to Van Vliet's LA house and practised fourteen hours a day for eight months. That's 3,400 hours playing time - astronomical whatever planet you're on. By the time they reached the studio, the band knew Beefheart's space-jazz set so well that they cut the record more or less live. What at first, then, seems to be random self-indulgence, the kind of rambling jam that should never have been committed to vinyl, is in fact a scrupulously choreographed opera, designed to be heard in its sprawling, headache-prompting entirety.
Is this the greatest antidote to the three-minute pop song ever set down? I hastened again to my CD player, hovering over song nine (Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish): the furthest I'd managed to get without skipping. I pressed play and waited. That song spent itself noisily in a flurry of word-associations ('…Squirmin' serum 'n semen 'n syrup 'n semen 'n serum/ Stirrupped in syrup…') and still I waited, until, out of nowhere, came a sort-of riff and a set of lyrics of which I could make both head and tail. China Pig begins:
A man's gotta live
A man's gotta eat
A man's gotta have shoes to walk out on the street
I don't wanna kill my china pig.
And suddenly things are starting to make sense.
Is China Pig an anti-capitalist parable using the motif of a piggy bank? I haven't a fucking clue. But that, I think, is what's important. What I may have figured out is that, amid the death throes of the longhair dream, Don Van Vliet attempted a one-man crusade against accessibility, against the consolidation of music and commercialism, and thus against a future world where, thumbs poised above the iPod 'skip' button, listeners would manifest their dwindling attention spans daily in a million Nick and Norah's infinite playlists. After all, 1969 was also the year in which Brotherhood of Man, chirping madly, took their first in-sync steps towards Eurovision stardom.
Jean Cocteau once wrote that 'Critics judge the artwork and are not aware that the artwork judges them'. Rather than Trout Mask Replica seeming dated, I think it's me who is showing my age – an age, that is, in which albums have become singles collections - a shorter, snappier and easier litter of songs destined to be wrenched apart forever in cyberspace. Well, I won't get fooled again. Don Van Vliet, you're weird - your velvet jacket is covered in dust, and the fish on your head smells like Satan's flip-flop - but you might just have a point. The Man won't like it, but you continue to remind us that there's far more to life, and to music, than accessibility.
Sorry, Leo.


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Dundee Botanic Garden Likely to Go
"I reiterate our commitment to students, to staff and to the wider community in taking these measures forward"
Sir Alan Langlands, University Principal
Craig Murray, the new
Dundee University court has agreed by 11 votes to five to accept a plan to reduce the university's ongoing budget deficit, currently estimated at more than £1.5m. Savings are being sought through job cuts, department closures - and potentially through the sale or closure of the Botanic Gardens.
Like other Scottish universities, Dundee is growing, but it also faces mounting financial pressures.
Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, has spoken out against the plan. "This tendency, particularly at Dundee University, to expand the layers of bureaucracy while looking at cutting academic tradition, is not something that benefits students or the wider community."
Mr Murray echoed concerns raised by the UCU that an artificial financial crisis had been created by a campus development programme that has seen millions spent on new buildings.
"I am very worried about the university's desire to cut staff and cut the languages department," he said. "I'm not at all sure the financial situation justifies it.
Finance director Peter Cooper resigned earlier this month after the announcement of the budget shortfall.
Efforts have begun to try to involve the city council and Dundee Partnership in the garden to keep it open.
Andrew Morrison, chairman of the Friends of Dundee Botanic Garden said, "Any cuts would have a devastating impact on the garden.
"Staff would have to be made redundant and the education and events programme would have to be reduced or even stopped altogether."
In its official statement, the university said the botanic garden used to play a key role in supporting the teaching of plant sciences and in related research, but this is no longer the case.
It added, "While some modest use is made of the gardens for students and staff, they can no longer be identified as essential to the university's core activities."
However, BGCI can report that the Dundee garden is participating in the UK's GSPC Target 8 project (ex situ conservation) by working on two UK threatened plants - Astragalus alpinus and Astragalus danicus.


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As you can see here on my card, I chose a light, airy color palette, but designed a cluster of bold, bright yellow with the bold pop of black to create a focal point, somewhere the eye naturally travels because of the interest you have created. I used a bold sentiment stamp with a visually interesting font - from LJD Grand Greetings set. Another important aspect in creating the focal point on a card is to keep the rest of the card simple, and not too busy. You don't want anything else to distract the eye away from the focal point.
Great lesson MFT, one that I suppose I already practiced, without ever realizing! :)


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David J. Ursillo, 72, died Wednesday January 3, 2018. He was the beloved husband of Patricia A. (Deignan) Ursillo.
He was a son of the late Giovanni and Edna (Williams) Ursillo. David was part owner of Norwood Findings, of Warwick, a company started by his father.
Besides his wife, he leaves his son Bradley J. Ursillo, and his son-in-law, Raul Medina. He was the brother of Jeffrey Ursillo, Robin Borassi, and the late John Ursillo.
His funeral will be private at the convenience of the family. Information and condolences at TheQuinnFuneralHome.com


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The Clock Starts Ticking for Kiefer Sutherland in New '24' Teaser
Kiefer Sutherland films a scene for his upcoming mini-series 24: Live Another Day on Sunday (March 9) at Charing Cross in London, England.
The 47-year-old actor was joined on set by his co-star Mary-Lynn Rajskub.
Set and shot in London, the suspenseful event series once again will follow the exploits of heroic agent Jack Bauer (Sutherland). Four years ago, Jack was a fugitive from justice. Now an exile, he nevertheless is willing to risk his life and freedom to avert yet another global disaster.
Check out a brand new teaser clip for the series below!
The Clock Starts Ticking for Kiefer Sutherland in New '24′ Teaser
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I'm pleased to release this exciting book trailer for Welcome to the Apocalypse - Pandora (Book One)
Play it with the music loud. It's a catchy tune!
Felicity is a Canberra based author, and she also writes a lot of interactive fiction which is something I've never ever attempted and wouldn't know how to do.
|No, this isn't Felicity. It is one of her publicists.
|Another one of Felicity's publicists.
|Will the real Felicity Banks please stand up, or sit down in this case.
Now that she's escaped the bounds of high society, iron manacles cannot hold her for long.
|Maya from Space 1999
Thanks for letting me reminisce about my childhood.
D L Richardson
L Richardson is an author of paranormal books for teens, and author of apocalyptic
and dystopian sci-fi books for adults. Lover of coffee, music, and animals.
Lives in Australia with her husband and dog. WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE -
PANDORA avail now: for fans of Robopocalypse, The Hunger Games, Ready Player
One, World War Z.
Avail at online retailers in ebook and print.
|author O.N Stefan