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Q: socket connection failed, telnet OK my problem is that I can't connect two comps through socket (windows xp and windows7) although the server created with socket is listening and I can telnet it. It receives then information and does what should be done, but if I run the corresponding socket client I get error 10061. Moreover I am behind firewall - these two comps are running within my LAN, the windows firewalls are turned off,
comp1 [client]: 192.168.1.2 port 12345
comp2 [server]: 192.168.1.5 port 12345
router: 192.168.1.1
Maybe port forwarding could help? But most important for me is to answer why Sockets fail if telnet works fine.
client:
 int main(){
        // Initialize Winsock.
        WSADATA wsaData;
        int iResult = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsaData);
        if (iResult != NO_ERROR)
             printf("Client: Error at WSAStartup().\n");
        else
             printf("Client: WSAStartup() is OK.\n");
        // Create a socket.
        SOCKET m_socket;
        m_socket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);

        if (m_socket == INVALID_SOCKET){
            printf("Client: socket() - Error at socket(): %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
            WSACleanup();
            return 7;
        }else
           printf("Client: socket() is OK.\n");

        // Connect to a server.
        sockaddr_in clientService;

        clientService.sin_family = AF_INET;
        //clientService.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("77.64.240.156");
        clientService.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("192.168.1.5");
        //clientService.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("87.207.222.5");
        clientService.sin_port = htons(12345);

        if (connect(m_socket, (SOCKADDR*)&clientService, sizeof(clientService)) == SOCKET_ERROR){
            printf("Client: connect() - Failed to connect.\n");
            wprintf(L"connect function failed with error: %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
            iResult = closesocket(m_socket);
            if (iResult == SOCKET_ERROR)
            wprintf(L"closesocket function failed with error: %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
            WSACleanup();
            return 6;
        }

        // Send and receive data
        int bytesSent;
        int bytesRecv = SOCKET_ERROR;
        // Be careful with the array bound, provide some checking mechanism
        char sendbuf[200] = "Client: Sending some test string to server...";
        char recvbuf[200] = "";

        bytesSent = send(m_socket, sendbuf, strlen(sendbuf), 0);
        printf("Client: send() - Bytes Sent: %ld\n", bytesSent);

        while(bytesRecv == SOCKET_ERROR){
            bytesRecv = recv(m_socket, recvbuf, 32, 0);
            if (bytesRecv == 0 || bytesRecv == WSAECONNRESET){
                printf("Client: Connection Closed.\n");
                break;
            }else
                printf("Client: recv() is OK.\n");

            if (bytesRecv < 0)
                return 0;
            else
                printf("Client: Bytes received - %ld.\n", bytesRecv);
        }
        system("pause");
        return 0;
    }

server:
int main(){
WORD wVersionRequested;
WSADATA wsaData={0};
int wsaerr;

// Using MAKEWORD macro, Winsock version request 2.2
wVersionRequested = MAKEWORD(2, 2);
wsaerr = WSAStartup(wVersionRequested, &wsaData);
if (wsaerr != 0){
    /* Tell the user that we could not find a usable WinSock DLL.*/
    printf("Server: The Winsock dll not found!\n");
    return 0;
}else{
       printf("Server: The Winsock dll found!\n");
       printf("Server: The status: %s.\n", wsaData.szSystemStatus);
}

/* Confirm that the WinSock DLL supports 2.2.*/
/* Note that if the DLL supports versions greater    */
/* than 2.2 in addition to 2.2, it will still return */
/* 2.2 in wVersion since that is the version we      */
/* requested.                                        */
if (LOBYTE(wsaData.wVersion) != 2 || HIBYTE(wsaData.wVersion) != 2 ){
/* Tell the user that we could not find a usable WinSock DLL.*/
printf("Server: The dll do not support the Winsock version %u.%u!\n", LOBYTE(wsaData.wVersion), HIBYTE(wsaData.wVersion));
       WSACleanup();
       return 0;
}else{
       printf("Server: The dll supports the Winsock version %u.%u!\n", LOBYTE(wsaData.wVersion), HIBYTE(wsaData.wVersion));
       printf("Server: The highest version this dll can support: %u.%u\n", LOBYTE(wsaData.wHighVersion), HIBYTE(wsaData.wHighVersion));
}
//////////Create a socket////////////////////////
//Create a SOCKET object called m_socket.
SOCKET m_socket;
// Call the socket function and return its value to the m_socket variable.
// For this application, use the Internet address family, streaming sockets, and the TCP/IP protocol.
// using AF_INET family, TCP socket type and protocol of the AF_INET - IPv4
m_socket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);

// Check for errors to ensure that the socket is a valid socket.
if (m_socket == INVALID_SOCKET){
    printf("Server: Error at socket(): %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
    WSACleanup();
    //return 0;
}else{
    printf("Server: socket() is OK!\n");
}

////////////////bind//////////////////////////////
// Create a sockaddr_in object and set its values.
sockaddr_in service;

// AF_INET is the Internet address family.
service.sin_family = AF_INET;
// "127.0.0.1" is the local IP address to which the socket will be bound.
service.sin_addr.s_addr = htons(INADDR_ANY);//inet_addr("127.0.0.1");//htons(INADDR_ANY); //inet_addr("192.168.1.2");
// 55555 is the port number to which the socket will be bound.
// using the htons for big-endian
service.sin_port = htons(12345);

// Call the bind function, passing the created socket and the sockaddr_in structure as parameters.
// Check for general errors.
if (bind(m_socket, (SOCKADDR*)&service, sizeof(service)) == SOCKET_ERROR){
    printf("Server: bind() failed: %ld.\n", WSAGetLastError());
    closesocket(m_socket);
    //return 0;
}else{
    printf("Server: bind() is OK!\n");
}
// Call the listen function, passing the created socket and the maximum number of allowed
// connections to accept as parameters. Check for general errors.
if (listen(m_socket, 1) == SOCKET_ERROR)
       printf("Server: listen(): Error listening on socket %ld.\n", WSAGetLastError());
else{
    printf("Server: listen() is OK, I'm waiting for connections...\n");
}

// Create a temporary SOCKET object called AcceptSocket for accepting connections.
SOCKET AcceptSocket;

// Create a continuous loop that checks for connections requests. If a connection
// request occurs, call the accept function to handle the request.
printf("Server: Waiting for a client to connect...\n");
printf("***Hint: Server is ready...run your client program...***\n");
// Do some verification...
while (1){
    AcceptSocket = SOCKET_ERROR;

      while (AcceptSocket == SOCKET_ERROR){
        AcceptSocket = accept(m_socket, NULL, NULL);
       }
   // else, accept the connection...  note: now it is wrong implementation !!!!!!!! !! !! (only 1 char)
   // When the client connection has been accepted, transfer control from the
   // temporary socket to the original socket and stop checking for new connections.
    printf("Server: Client Connected! Mammamija. \n");
    m_socket = AcceptSocket;
    char recvBuf[200]="";
    char * rc=recvBuf;
    int bytesRecv=recv(m_socket,recvBuf,64,0);

    if(bytesRecv==0 || bytesRecv==WSAECONNRESET){
        cout<<"server: connection closed.\n";
        }else{
            cout<<"server: recv() is OK.\n";
            if(bytesRecv<0){
                return 0;
                }else{
                    printf("server: bytes received: %ld.\n",recvBuf);
            }
    }

the output from client:
PS C:\Users\Piter\documents\vs2010\projects\client_socket\debug> ./client_socket.exe
Client: WSAStartup() is OK.
Client: socket() is OK.
Client: connect() - Failed to connect.
connect function failed with error: 10061
PS C:\Users\Piter\documents\vs2010\projects\client_socket\debug> ipconfig

I have created listening socket using netcat and powershell (not sure in a proper way):
PS C:\netcat> ./nc.exe -v -l -p 12345
listening on [any] 12345 ...
Warning: forward host lookup failed for cf16.chello.pl: h_errno 11001: HOST_NOT
connect to [192.168.1.2] from cf16.chello.pl [192.168.1.2] 4473: HOST_NOT_FOUND

the third and fourth lines are what happened when created client in another powershell by:
PS C:\netcat> ./nc.exe 192.168.1.2 12345

ok.
when forced netstat not to resolve but use IP given, now it connects:
PS C:\netcat> ./nc.exe -n -v -l -p 12345
listening on [any] 12345 ...
connect to [192.168.1.2] from (UNKNOWN) [192.168.1.2] 4622

but my C++ still returns error 10061. there is no message in the powershell with server running - seems as my client doesn't connect at all - server says nothing, only client that there is error 10061.
any ideas?
please help  :D

A: You said that
comp1: 192.168.1.2 port 12345

comp1: 192.168.1.6 port 12345

I don't know which computer is server and client.
But your client code is as follow.
clientService.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("192.168.1.5");

You are connect to a wrong server. Please check your code.


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Harvey Alfred Branch (born February 8, 1939) is an American former professional baseball player. He was a left-handed pitcher who had a seven-year career in minor league baseball, but whose Major League tenure consisted of a single game in the uniform of the St. Louis Cardinals on September 18, 1962.

Branch attended Alabama State University, stood  tall and weighed . He originally signed with the Chicago Cubs in 1958 and spent five years in their minor league system. In , after Branch enjoyed a second consecutive successful season with the Double-A San Antonio Missions — recording 216 strikeouts in 237 innings pitched — the Cubs traded him to the Cardinals on September 1 for right-handed pitcher Paul Toth.

Seventeen days later, Branch made his MLB appearance as the Cardinals' starting pitcher — against Toth and the Cubs at Wrigley Field. He yielded a solo home run to Ron Santo in the second inning, walked in a run in the third, and gave up a third run on a triple and a ground ball out in the fifth. He left the game for a pinch hitter, Red Schoendienst, in the top of the sixth inning with St. Louis trailing, 3–1. Branch was the losing pitcher in an eventual 4–3 Redbird defeat. (Toth got the victory.)  All told, Branch yielded five hits and three earned runs in his five innings of work, with five walks and two strikeouts. Those would also stand as his career MLB totals.

Branch made the Cardinals' 40-man spring training roster in  but was sent to the Triple-A Atlanta Crackers for the full season. After spending that year and 1964 in the minor leagues, Branch left the game.

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Daniel 8 - Worlds In Conflict
May 5th, 2019 by davegroberts
This is an amazing and very interesting passage of Scripture. I am sure you will agree. In this book of Daniel, from Chapter 2 to 7, we have had a wide angled panoramic view, and now, in Chapters 8 to 12 we zoom in on specific areas which were previously covered in Chapters 2 to 7. In Chapter 7, we have seen that the prophet Daniel had a dream of 4 animals, which were a winged lion, a bear, a winged leopard and a beast. So let us read together Daniel 8.
Daniel 8 - In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai. Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; and no animals could stand before him, neither was there any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.
As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn't touch the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power. I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him; and there was none who could deliver the ram out of his hand. The male goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.
Out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land. It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and some of the army and of the stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled on them. Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience; and it cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.
Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision concerning the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot? He said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. It happened, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end. Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright. He said, Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end. The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. The rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power. In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and do his pleasure; and he shall destroy the mighty ones and the holy people. Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in their security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days to come. I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king's business: and I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.
Here in Chapter 8, we look at the bear, which here is described as a ram, and a winged leopard that is described as a goat. Unlike his previous two visions which occurred at night, this one occurs during the day. Daniel was transported in the Spirit to Susa, a major city of the Babylon & Persian empires. He sat down beside the Ulai canal, nine hundred feet wide and connected two large rivers so that boats could easily pass from one to the other. Spiritually seated by the river, he lifted up his eyes. He saw a ram, a male sheep, that had two horns, and as he watched, one of its horns became larger than the other.
We can be in no doubt that this ram is symbolic of the Medo-Persian Empire, because it is told to us in verse 20. The horn that grew large was the Persian empire, which gradually took over from the Medes. The king of Persia also carried the image of a ram in front of him whenever he went into battle. It is natural for rams to be aggressive and to butt. The ram here goes in every direction, but east. Historically we know that the Medo-Persian empire did not gain much territory to the East. Suddenly - the dream changes. Coming in from the West, races a male goat that is travelling so fast that its feet do not touch the ground.
Verse 21 tells us that this is the Greek Empire, and the horn is its 'first king' Alexander the Great. In actual fact he named one of his sons, Alexander Goat. The feet not touching the ground signified the speed with which Alexander won battles over a vast area from Africa to India. The goat in verse 6 collides with the ram, breaks the rams' horns and humiliates it, crushing and destroying it. This reflects how the Medo-Persian Empire fell to the Greeks.
Then we read that the goat, at the height of its power, was broken by the unseen hand of God. Alexander the Great became inflated with pride at the speed and number of battle victories, but his arrogance was short lived and he died at the age of 32. The goat, Alexander, was replaced by 4 horns. These historically are - Macedonia under Cassander; Thrace and Asia Minor under Lysimachus; Syria under Seleucus; and Egypt under Ptolemy. Again, history has followed what Scripture said would happen.
In verse 9, Daniel notices that 'Out of one of them came a little horn.' From a small beginning it grew to great power, and its power stretched south and east, and then into the 'Beautiful Land' of Canaan. There is no doubt that this refers to that horrible man of history, Antiochus Epiphanes. He, as predicted, came from the Seleucid section and took Egypt with an immense army, following that by taking Elymais and Armenia. Then he invaded Canaan. This man, the little horn referred to, arose as the great persecutor of God's people.
There were 5 main things that we learn about his rule from this passage -
1. v10/24 - No justice. He persecuted the Jews. Stars being either leading Jews or authorities.
2. v11/12a - No righteousness. He exalted himself higher than the Prince of Peace, and blasphemed God by holding idolatrous sacrifices in the temple.
3. v12b/25 - No truth. He attacked truth consistently and practised deception. He would often wait until he had someone's trust before turning upon them.
4. v12b - No peace. Evil prospered
5. v25 - No mercy. He was struck down by the invisible hand of God.
It is documented that he fell ill in a small town in Egypt, and while on his sick bed, wrote to the Jews saying that he himself would become a Jew if only God would save him. God showed him no mercy, for the evil that he had performed on God's people and the attacks upon God Himself.
In verse 14, we are told that it would last about 2300 evenings and mornings until the sanctuary will be made holy again. Some scholars say that this is about 6.25 years. Antiochus Epiphanes rule lasted from 171 to 165 BC. Other teachers say that this is about 3.5 years. The temple was used for heathen sacrifice for the last 3.5 years of Antiochus Epiphanes life. The end of time referred to in verses 17 - 19, could refer to 2 things.
Firstly, it could refer to the end of Antiochus Epiphanes reign of terror over the Jews, when the Jews could expect the Messiah to come and end God's indignation with the Jews. Secondly, it could mean the period of the Gentiles, which is from Nebuchadnezzar's reign to the 2nd coming of Jesus. Whichever theory is correct, there are still applications that apply to our lives today.
Firstly, rampant evil and not peace will rule on earth until Jesus comes again. We look around the world and we see conflicts and wars everywhere - Iraq, Afghanistan, throughout Africa & Asia. There will be always people like Antiochus Epiphanes. People like Hitler and the slaughter of the Jews in the 1930's & 1940's; or Idi Amin in Uganda; or Pol Pot and the Khemer Rouge in Cambodia/Kampuchea; Stalin and the former USSR Communist bloc; Ceacescu and Romania. The submission to the state or government of all citizens, being forced to accept government decrees. There will also always be the limitation of freedom to worship. I can still see the remains in the mass graves in the destruction of Cambodia coming from my television screen, where even to think any kind of individual thought was suppressed and all books were destroyed. Or the pictures of the desecration of the millions of Jews during the 2nd World War. Or how about the persecution of religious peoples under the regimes in China, Romania and the former USSR.
And here in England, or the USA or even Australia, the threats to us and our Christianity are probably more subtle. We see the media laughing at people like Cliff Richard, Billy Graham and other well-known Christians, whenever they are in the spotlight. In many countries around the globe, where Christianity is illegal, suppressed or forced to fit into the confines of Government thinking. The attacks upon us here in the West are not so direct, but much more subtle. Frogs, when placed in a pot of cold water do not feel the subtle rise in the water temperature when the pot is placed on a stove with a low heat. Let us not be frogs. One day we are going to be attacked because we are Christians, and to think otherwise is clearly unbiblical.
Secondly, what do we do when it comes. It is natural for us when persecution hits us to ask why, but our reaction should probably be like the 2nd angel and ask "How long?" We shouldn't be surprised when persecution comes to us, and be like the Romanians who also asked, not why, but How long?
Thirdly, notice that the people who commit such atrocities, and are great powers here on earth, are described as 'little horns' and are just that, little. Little in comparison to our awesome God. He is the invisible hand, who merely sweeps them away with one quick brush of his 'invisible hand'. Is this not a God worthy of our praise and worship? These men could only harm the flesh, not the soul. Their power was brittle, like the horns on the goat and ram, and broken by the hand of God. Where is Hitler now? Dead and buried. Where is Stalin? Dust in the frozen ground. Where is Antiochus Epiphanes now? Dust blown in the wind. Where is Alexander the Great? Dust spread across the deserts he so easily conquered. All these men are dead, but where is our God? Alive forevermore!
Fourthly, we bow the knee not to a rampaging ram or a galloping goat, but to the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who is our horn of Salvation. When all other horns have come and gone, we still have our horn of salvation in Him. When all the rams and goats have crossed the stage of history, God has His Lamb (Rev 5:12-13). All through the Bible, and all history as we know it, there have been dominions and powers that have lasted only a short passage of time. The kingdom of Jesus, however, is not a passing fad or temporary kingdom but an everlasting one with Jesus Himself as the Lamb and Horn of Salvation. That is why we can take Jesus into our place of work and study and into our cities with power. Even if all our friends and family reject Jesus, we should still identify with Him. All other powers are simply passing in the wind. No other power will prevail, and His peace will rule upon earth. All that harms His people will come to nothing, and we will live forever with Jesus as our Horn of Salvation.
Fifthly and lastly, we need to deal with the 'little horns' of sin within our lives. Horns, throughout the Bible and history have been symbolic of power. Whatever sins are hidden in our hearts, we need to get rid of them and repent of them. For the longer any individual sin is within us, the more power it tries to control us with, if we do not hand it over to the Lord in prayer and action. The less we repent of sins, the less we grow in spiritual maturity and personal holiness. Let each one of us destroy the power of the 'little horns' of sin, by repenting and turning away from them, and allowing our Horn of salvation, destroy them by continuing to hand them over to Him. You may not be yet a follower, so I would urge you most strongly to accept His call upon you. You may not get another chance.
This Jesus Christ said he was coming back again. Not as a baby next time, but in full glory, power and majesty. He will be coming back to gather those who are in relationship with Him and to wipe the tears of suffering and joy from their eyes. Those who are found not to be in relationship with Him will spend eternity without Him. He gives each of us, innumerable opportunities to enter into relationship with Him. This Jesus wants to connect with you in an intimate, spiritual relationship - His eyes wander the earth looking for those willing to submit themselves to His authority. If that is you, then please do let us know, so that we can help you to start this relationship with the Living God, Jesus Christ. He calls you by name.

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Overall, 2018 saw 89% growth in overall viewing hours. Live viewing was up 65%.
Conviva, the real-time measurement and intelligence platform for streaming TV, today released its 2018 Annual State of the Streaming TV Industry report. The report sheds new light on market dynamics and challenges in context of skyrocketing consumption, growing consumer impatience, spikes in global live viewership, and shifting device preference.
Skyrocketing Expectations and Viewership: Across Conviva's customer base, 2018 saw 89% growth in overall viewing hours for the year, including 165% growth in Q4. With this growth, Conviva observed the convergence of heightened viewer expectations and waning patience. A global 7% year-over-year increase in the rate of abandonment translated to 14.6% of viewers leaving before their video started. The effect was amplified when viewers faced delays in situations where they expected the experience of traditional TV viewing, such as on connected TVs, watching live content, and via content aggregators (vMVPDs such as Hulu, Sling, PlayStation Vue, and DirecTV Now). As the number of viewing hours increases in this progressively more complex landscape, this is a trend that will be critical to watch and address.
Global Spikes in Live: Live content, up 65% in viewing hours, drove significant growth in global streaming. While not growing on the scale of video on demand, up 111% in the same time period, live content accounted for the largest global surges in viewership throughout 2018. Fear of missing out propelled viewers to increasingly turn to streaming for anywhere, anytime updates on news, hot topics, and sports which moved the needle at a global scale. Double-digit spikes in worldwide streaming consumption were recorded during coverage of political events including the U.S. midterm election, the World Cup, NFL Football, March Madness, and the Masters Golf Tournament. Despite increasing appetite and overall improvements in quality, expectations grew faster than progress. In 2018, 16.7% of viewers exited before the video started for live content, up significantly from 11.2% in 2017. With live events, the stakes are critically high while peak traffic makes it more difficult than ever to deliver a high-quality streaming experience.
Shifting Device Preferences: 2018 saw connected TV viewing hours balloon 121%. Connected TVs represented 56% of all streaming viewing hours for the year, emerging as the device of choice for the majority of viewers. The increasing popularity of vMVPDs, growing 74% faster in Q4 than publisher applications in the U.S., heavily contributed to the rise of connected TVs. 77% of all U.S. vMVPD viewing hours were via a connected TV in 2018. Despite the popularity and major quality improvements for connected TVs and vMVPDs, increasing viewer abandonment rate due to streaming delays was also evident here, at8.5% for U.S. vMVPDs up from 5.4% in 2017 and 6.6% for connected TVs up from 4.7%.
Among connected TV devices, Roku continued to lead the way in viewing hours, commanding 41% share of the growing overall viewership. The biggest gain year-over-year was achieved by Amazon Fire TV, which jumped to second place with 18% share, a 240% increase from their 7th place position the previous year. With heightened quality expectations in 2018, notable achievements included PlayStation with the least buffering and Apple TV with the best picture quality in addition to the shortest time for the video to start.
To see the infographic and full report, click here.
Conviva is the real-time measurement and intelligence platform for streaming TV. Conviva's Video AI Platform provides insight into streaming TV consumption, engagement, and viewer experience across every second, every stream, andevery screen. With a global footprint of 50 billion streams per year across 3 billion applications and 200 million users, Conviva serves more than 200 brands, including HBO, Hulu, Sky, Sling TV, Turner, Univision, and more. The company is privately held and headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with offices around the globe.To learn more, visit www.conviva.com.


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Q: Receiving TLS error when trying to initialize db I am running an init-container to run some migration scripts against a postgres docker db.
However sclalchemy fails as follows:

sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (psycopg2.OperationalError) received invalid response to SSL negotiation:

Is there something specific I need to configure on my init-container to overcome this?
Here is the corresponding part of my helm template:
template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        sidecar.istio.io/inject: "true"
        {{- if eq $processType "server" }}
        readiness.status.sidecar.istio.io/applicationPorts: {{ default 5000 .ctx.Values.port | quote }}
        {{- end}}
      labels:
        component: "{{ Release.Name }}-foo"
    spec:
      {{- if eq $processType "server" }}
      initContainers:
        - name: init-postgres
          image: "{{ Values.image }}:{{ Values.tag }}"
          args: ["create_db"]
          envFrom:
          - secretRef:
              name: "{{ Release.Name }}-somesecret"
      {{- end}}
      containers:
        - name: "main-container"
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Enjoying a midday meal on the sidewalk brings me back to days when life was much simpler.
When the biggest dilemma in my life was, "pineapple fried rice or spicy noodles from the guy".
I long to return to those days.
To return to my old friends.
To enjoy warn weather, and carts at every street corner.
Walking down streets seeing familiar faces smile and exchange a greeting, as we both are excited to pass through each others life for a mere second or two.
Speaking to my old friend, brings back great memories.
It's 11:00 am, and I am sitting here in the Library attempting to read my "Non-Profit and Governmental Accounting" book. As I read line after line, my mind cannot help but drift further and further away from this place.
I can't help but reminisce on my days in the city.
I have always thought that suburban societies breed discontent. I cannot say that it is a universal rule, but for I, it is more true than ever.
The Sunday before the couple of Sundays that have passed, was an important day in America.
The day of the American Football Superbowl.
I was as excited as everyone else, yet for a different reason. For the reason that I knew the majority of people would be sitting at home staring at televisions.
The Sun was shining, the weather was great. So instead I ventured out for a day in the city.
We had arrived and were on the look for a good place to get some food.
I walked, and walked. Without feeling that any of the places were "right".
I dislike places that look to clean. That look "planned".
I craved some where authentic. Somewhere that rang true from side to side.
As we turned the corner, I saw a place that looked intriguing yet I was reluctant to walk in.
I opened the screen door, and saw just a single worker standing behind a counter.
As I looked around, I saw the menu, scratched on a chalkboard to my side.
So we put in our orders and grabbed some chairs outside.
Water with a hint of Orange, really hit the spot.
We sat patently, waiting for our food to arrive.
Waiting gave us a chance to sit back and relax for a while.
I looked around, as wasn't really sure what that had meant, but they sure did look extra good.
Veggie melt for me, and a turkey for her.
With the first bite, I instantly knew what he meant. They were extra good.
A small menu, with just the right variety.
As we finished, we headed to the park, as I had my eyes set on a place I had seen only weeks before.
What better than a Stein of a Bavarian beer to enjoy a great afternoon in the sun.
As we brought our steins together for a cheers, I couldn't help but think of all my German friends from abroad.
I toasted to them all, as I wished I could have enjoyed another beer with all the Chula exchange students.
As the beer continued to flow, I felt the urge to have some more food as well.
A buttery, salty pretzel hit the spot perfectly.
The Stein, had me feeling like I was on cloud nine.
We walked around, and relaxed at a nearby park.
We went to the famous Chantal Guillon's Macaroon place for dessert.
Although not my cup of tea, they were an interesting way to finish off a day in Hayes Valley.
It's sometimes hard to remember how much these little things had brought me so much joy.
How a great restaurant or cafe, could make any day seem grand.
I spoke to a friend yesterday, and she put something in my head that initially I failed to understand, yet now it cannot leave me.
That "external force" that will put us in a state of change, is not always as far away as it initially seems.
My mornings begin with this.
My evenings end like this.
It's strange how we tend to never realize the beauties that have always been right beside us.


This hilariously rude monkey doesn't care what you think of him.
The baboon was captured holding his middle finger up in the air to a car as it sped away.
Wildlife artist, Leon Fouche, 34, couldn't believe his eyes and he reckons he'll never see anything like it again.
Leon took the picture in Kruger National Park, South Africa, he said: "It seems like it's a case of 'monkey see, monkey do'. When I pulled up next to the baboon he lifted his arm with his middle finger extended – I couldn't believe my eyes.
"It almost seems like the 'hand signal' was intended for the vehicles who had just been viewing him and were now driving away.
"I was visiting Kruger Park with my girlfriend for a period of about four weeks to take photos of wildlife to use as inspiration when producing my original wildlife artworks.
"It happened literally as I pulled up next to the baboon. When I saw what he was doing I stopped the car as quickly as I could being careful not to startle him, aimed my camera and quickly took the shot.
"Fortunately the baboon held that pose for a good few seconds. I'm fairly sure I'll never see something like this again in my lifetimes. Perhaps in a zoo, but not in a wildlife reserve.


Through My Eyes: Post Wedding 1: Fake Eyelashes.
Post Wedding 1: Fake Eyelashes.
We have thousands of photos to go through and select those that we like, so do bear with us as we find time to upload them okay.
Our first challenge was getting a laptop that has a DVD reader in it and we finally got to borrow an external DVD reader from the seven-months-to-go-groom-to-be, Nehemiah.
We have four CDs to copy all these images from, and boy so many photos to see!
While I wait for the photos to be copied over, I shall share with you guys girls/bride-to-be on this one thing that sort of bothered me during my wedding day.
Yes, it's exactly what the title says.
I do not wear fake lashes on normal days. I think in my entire life, I have only worn like for a few times only and other than the fact that they make your eyes feel heavier, they are actually fine.
On my wedding day, my makeup artist, Sam puts on the fake lashes on my eyes and it felt normal. As heavy as I remembered it would be.
It didn't bother me until when she puts on the veil over my head and face.
It was a struggle and the struggle was real.
I could not open my eyes when the veil was over my face. It was so difficult for me to open my eyes without my hands pushing the veil from the inside.
I cannot be pushing the veil from inside everytime I blink, right? Especially not when I walk down the aisle. The only way to handle this is not to blink as often.
The many years of cannot-blink-or-you-lose game with buddies finally have its use afterall. Heh.
So, that's basically what I did until the man opens my veil and I felt alive awake again.
My eyes were like half-closed most of the time okay! It's impossible to have my eyes opened normally because the veil was heavy on the lashes.
I even asked Sam to trim off some of the lashes because they were probably too long. She said if she were to cut some more, then my own real lashes would be gone too.
You see the photos below and you will know what I mean.
Those long eyelashes. This version that she gave me was supposedly the shortest version and I wanted shorter so that it will look more realistic.
Once the veil goes down, my eyes went down too. Hah.
Brides who have been through this, I feel you, and for brides to be, I don't know what is the solution to this. I'm sorry.
I had to tilt my head down so that I don't feel the pressure of the veil pressing towards my eyelids, that actually made me feel as though the fake lashes were going to fall off.
Or I had to tilt it higher than normal if I want to look at people's face or the screen during worship, or Ben when he was sharing. I got photos to prove this point, but I'll just share one. Hah.
Oh, and I did mention about it being heavy right? So, some photos, you can actually see my eyes like half-opened but the truth was I was trying so hard to make my eyes fully-opened. G.
I dare not move when the fake lashes were not touching the veil, but that made my neck hurts so boo.
Look at this photo below! My eyes were like half-closing already. So are Vanessa's. Maybe she sleepy la.
Oh look! She slept already! Tough being the maid of honor okay please. Or maybe her fake lashes also too heavy for her eyes already.
I wouldn't recommend fake lashes to brides la, but then again, without it, your eyes won't look bigger so I also don't know what to do.
I looked at photos that shows my eyes like that I wanna pengsan!
The first thing I did when he lifted up my veil was I touched my lashes to make sure it doesn't come off with the veil. That would be a disaster!
Imagine the fake lashes stuck on the veil when he opens them. It would be a story to tell though. Hah.
So, here's a little sharing to spare me more time to sort out the photos and upload them sooooon.


CENTURY CITY—May 1, 2017—The Hollywood Reporter has selected O'Melveny partners Matthew Erramouspe, Daniel Petrocelli, and Stephen Scharf for inclusion in its 2017 Power Lawyers feature. The special report, published April 26, 2017, profiles the top 100 attorneys in the entertainment industry, who all "play a vital role in keeping Hollywood's wheels turning." In addition, the report highlights the firm's recent work hosting a series of immigration intake clinics in collaboration with nonprofit Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and valued Hollywood clients.
Erramouspe's Power Lawyers profile notes his work helping client Alibaba "up its relationship with Hollywood to the next level" through a long-term partnership with Amblin Partners, which involved the internet giant taking a minority stake with the intention of teaming on co-productions. "It's a larger step than just doing a one-off investment," Erramouspe said of the transaction. Co-chair of O'Melveny's Entertainment, Sports, and Media transactions practice, Erramouspe is a dealmaker and trusted advisor who counsels clients in all business and legal aspects related to the financing, acquisition, production, and distribution of content and live events.
In selecting Petrocelli as a Power Lawyer, THR points to several litigation successes he achieved over the past year on behalf of high-profile entertainment clients, including Sirius XM, Fox, and Kesha. Petrocelli, who serves as chair of the firm's Trial Practice Committee, has a national trial practice representing clients in major litigation in a wide variety of areas, including sports, entertainment, intellectual property, unfair competition, and criminal defense.
Scharf's profile describes his deal work helping Hollywood clients enter the Chinese film industry, including advising Imax Corp. on the creation of the Imax China Film Fund. Scharf, who is co-chairs the firm's Entertainment, Sports and Media transactions practice, continues to be widely recognized as one of the most creative dealmakers in the entertainment and media industry, particularly with respect to complex transactions involving the finance, production, and distribution of motion pictures, and the formation, capitalization, purchase, and sale of entertainment companies.


Last week the Senate Law and Justice Committee held a Public Hearing on SB 5461, I want to thank those people who were able to send in their testimony, and those who were able to sign in to support the bill, however due to conflicting schedules and weather, No one was able to give personal testimony in support of this paramount bill that would relieve men and families currently forced to support non genetic children.
Regardless of a lack of personal testimony, Senator Mike Padden, (Chairman of the Senate Law and Justice Committee) has scheduled SB 5461 for an Executive Session on February 16th. This Executive Session is when the Committee will vote whether or not to pass the bill out of Committee onto the Rules Committee. The cutoff deadline for SB 5461 to pass through the SLJ is on Feb. 17th, so this Executive session is extremely important!
Please call and/or email members of the Senate Law and Justice Committee listed below and respectfully request their support in passing SB 5461 out of Committee. This is just as important as the other requests for action! Because no one was able to personally testify, it is more important than ever to contact these law makers and let them know you still support SB 5461 passage!


I am sitting alone and feeling the need to reflect, as many of us do during the last days of each year. This is one of the few times we allow ourselves to think mindfully throughout the year. We sit quietly along the riverbanks of what is: looking back critically but not judgmentally- to purge, let go, and break old habits; looking hopefully ahead to set goals and plan our personal evolution. I want to take advantage of this time within me, and perhaps take advantage of this time within you. Join me on the riverbanks, won't you?
It seems to me that much of 2012 was both dark and heavy, on a personal and global scale. Maybe it was the Mayan calendar prediction gone awry. Maybe it was the pain and suffering I felt and/or caused in personal relationships with people I love the most. Maybe it was the tremendous grief I witnessed one of my close friends experience. Maybe it was the oxymoronic disconnecting effect of exponential technology growth. Maybe it was the senseless acts of violence that are becoming disturbingly commonplace.
All this heavy darkness can make one feel burdened and lost. The hopelessness that results from the above list is enough to crush almost any spirit. Almost. But not mine. As an American Studies major, I pay semi-quiet but steady attention to media, art, entertainment, politics, pop culture, trends and technology. What I observe is a group of humans who are losing their human-ness. Distracted by the internet, divided by politics, diluted by the mind scum we call television, desensitized by life-like violence in video games, distorted by fashion magazines, diseased by processed foods, we are becoming exact replicas of the anti-heroic, post-apocalyptic, gun-happy, self-centered, blood-sucking, cannibal-vampire-zombies that Hollywood rubs our faces in. I am so so so guilty of all of this.
But. The silver linings of these dark ominous clouds are time and awareness. Hope is alive as long as I am. And as I pay my therapist to point it out to me, awareness of any problem results in personal accountability and responsibility. My awareness means I am not allowed to sulk in the inevitability of humanity's demise. My awareness challenges me to take action in hopes of creating a better world. Do I want to live in a dark, heavy place full of dark, heavy people? No! Therefore, I am lighting up 2013 as far as my physical and spiritual body reaches. My light will offer compassion to friends, foes, family and strangers alike. My light will provide forgiveness and love to those who have felt or caused pain (myself included). My light will illuminate the dark corners of my small universe and cut away any anchors that prevent a smooth sail to still waters. My light will reject fear and seek substance. My light will be a productive and efficient user of time and technology. My light will reflect via positive thinking, quiet meditation, careful selection of words, eager education, anonymous good deeds, and a dimply smile. My light will set my soul ablaze by connecting to its life-force with undying gratitude and purpose: music, kindness, love, and creativity. I will drink in all these gifts from the divine well inside me until I spit bright shining drops of heaven like a chubby cherub fountain back into the thirsty lungs of the universe. My light will be a burning wick for candles in search of a flame. My light will oppose weight with the buoyancy of a thousand bright orange life jackets. My light will orbit planets, guide ships, nourish plants, and make unapologetic time for itself.
Be aware. Be light. Be love!
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LISA EDELSTEIN Biography - Actors and Actresses
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Name: Lisa Edelstein.
Born: 21 May 1966 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Lisa Edelstein (born May 21, 1966) is an award-winning American actress and
playwright. She currently stars as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on critically-acclaimed FOX
drama, House.
Lisa Edelstein was born to Jewish parents Alvin and Bonnie Edelstein in Boston,
Massachusetts, USA. Her father is currently a pediatrician in New Jersey. One of
three children, she was raised in Wayne, New Jersey and attended Wayne Valley
High School, graduating in 1984. She moved to New York City at the age of 18
to study theatre at New York University's Tisch School of the Fine Arts. While
living in New York, she became involved in the club scene known only as "Lisa E.",
and caused enough of a stir in the community to be dubbed New York City's "Queen
of Downtown" by writer and fellow celebutante James St. James, who briefly
refers to Edelstein in his 1999 book Disco Bloodbath.
After being dubbed a "celebutante" by Newsweek magazine during her club kid days,
Edelstein used her newfound celebrity to write, compose and star in an
original musical called Positive Me, in response to the growing AIDS crisis of
the 1980s. After a brief stint hosting Awake on the Wild Side for MTV in 1990,
she spent the early '90s appearing in guest roles on several popular comedies,
including Mad About You, Wings, The Larry Sanders Show and Seinfeld, where she
played George Costanza's frustrated girlfriend.
Bigger roles in TV dramas soon followed, among them the lesbian sister on ABC's
Relativity in 1996, Sam Seaborn's date turned high-priced call-girl on The West
Wing in 1999, a male-to-female transsexual on Ally McBeal in 2000 and Ben's
girlfriend on Felicity in 2001. She also continued to land guest star spots on
shows such as ER, Frasier, Just Shoot Me, Without a Trace and Judging Amy. She
has lent her voice to several animated programs including King of the Hill,
American Dad, Superman: The Animated Series (as Mercy Graves, Lex Luthor's
bodyguard, a role she later reprised in several episodes of Justice League) and
the 1997 video game adaptation of Blade Runner. Edelstein's film credits include
What Women Want with Mel Gibson, Keeping the Faith with Ben Stiller, As Good as
it Gets with Jack Nicholson, and Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy.
In 2004, she was cast as Dr. Lisa Cuddy, the Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro
Teaching Hospital and frequent character foil to titular character Gregory House
(Hugh Laurie) on FOX's hit show House, M.D..
On January 14, 2008,Reuters reported that she will star in Lifetime Movie
Network's Special Delivery alongside Brenda Song.
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Peter Cheung's Hot List: The Most Iconic Moments In Hong Kong Fashion
Words by Tatler Hong Kong
Sparking Joyce
Choosing Chinese
In The Mood For Maggie
Heavenly Scenes
A Marriage Of Music And Fashion
Chanel Something Different
Diagnosis: Iconic
Pop The Trunk
Buongiorno, Giorgio
Streetwear All Season
Cover Peter Cheung takes a look back at dynamic moments in Hong Kong fashion through the decades (Photo: Moses Ng for Tatler Hong Kong)
Peter Cheung, Tatler Asia's regional advisor on engagement, PR and business development, gazes back lovingly at dynamic moments in Hong Kong fashion
During my career in fashion, I have been witness to some incredible moments on Hong Kong's timeline of style. After the Seventies and Eighties brought prosperity to the city, its reputation as one of Asia's luxury destinations grew too, leading international retailers to flock here and the rise of world-class homegrown brands. Here are my most fashionable Hong Kong moments of the past 30 years—from pop music to pop-ups.
See also: A Legacy Of Style: Chelsea Chau-Kuok On Her Mother-Daughter Fashion Bond
Above Photo: South China Morning Post/Getty Images
When she launched her eponymous store in the Seventies, Joyce Ma (right) single-handedly changed how Hong Kong people dressed by introducing the best of international fashion and designer labels to the city. Her ultimate statement was the opening of the 17,000-square-foot Joyce boutique at The Galleria in 1992, setting a global benchmark for the lifestyle meets- fashion concept store and establishing a regional mecca of style. Only someone as visionary as Ma had the foresight to house the very best of designer fashion, beauty, floristry and the "place to be seen", Joyce Caf., all under one roof.
See also: JOYCE Launches Podcast That Explores Creativity In Luxury Fashion
Above Photo: Getty Images
As well as being David Tang's China Club glory days, the Nineties also saw the famed Hong Kong businessman open his fashion brand Shanghai Tang, first in the Pedder Building in 1994. Tang's instinct for colourful and whimsical, yet still luxurious, collections both gave Hongkongers a renewed sense of pride in wearing Chinese-made clothes and made the shop a must-visit destination for tourists. The brand's Imperial Tailoring Atelier brought back the glamour of old Shanghai, with actress Gong Li as its muse.
Sadly the store had to close and relocate in 2011: I still cringe at the thought that it was the (now also closed) US chain Abercrombie & Fitch that took its place.
See also: Victoria Tang-Owen On Family Legacy And Her First Collection As Shanghai Tang's Creative Director
Above Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung
In the Mood for Love, the Wong Kar-wai film that put him and Hong Kong cinema on the map, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. Tony Leung was awarded best actor, a first for any Hong Kong star, but what everyone around the world fell in love with was the art direction by William Chang Suk-ping. The stunning Maggie Cheung embodied retro Sixties style: her hair, make-up and her perfect figure in those precisely tailored cheongsams cemented her as an international fashion icon.
See also: 14 Great Hong Kong Movies to Add to Your Netflix Watch List
Above Leslie Cheung performs Big Heat at his Passion Tour in 2000
Cantopop star Leslie Cheung's final Passion Tour from 2000 to 2001 bent all the rules of gender and sexuality: in a collaboration with Jean-Paul Gaultier, Cheung pushed the boundaries with heaven and hell-inspired couture looks. Flicking his long hair extensions, stomping his rhinestone high heels and playing up his cross-cultural drag attire, Cheung cemented himself as the ultimate idol in fashion and showmanship.
The show was lauded for its concept, styling, staging, props and lighting, the likes of which haven't been seen since (sorry, G-Dragon).
Living up to her reputation as the "Madonna of Asia", Anita Mui changed her image hundreds of times throughout her career and her unconventional wardrobe choices never disappointed. While battling cervical cancer, she embarked on her final tour in November 2003 and used fashion to communicate. Mui emerged for the show's finale in a wedding dress designed by fashion designer and long-time collaborator Eddie Lau Pui-kei to dedicate the show to her fans by "getting married" to the stage. Fans rightly knew it would be her last live performance: Mui passed away the following month.
See also: The Best Luxury Fashion Items To Look Out For On Amazon Prime Day 2020
Above Photo: Courtesy of Chanel
In 2008, a bizarre, pod appeared on top of the Star Ferry Car Park in Central. Zaha Hadid was behind the design of the Chanel Mobile Art pavilion, built to house the Karl Lagerfeld-commissioned "sensorial voyage" of 20 artworks inspired by the brand's quilted 2.55 bag. The pod travelled next to Tokyo and New York, but it was Hong Kong that was first to clap eyes on this major fashion and art statement.
While fighting off Sars in 2003, Hong Kong became a ghost town, not dissimilar to this year's lockdown. However, Dior met the crisis with a spirit of optimism and became a textbook example for the industry's revival with the opening of its flagship Tsim Sha Tsui boutique—an event I helped to organise. Falling on the same day the city was declared Sars-free, Dior's grand opening had more than 2,000 guests clamouring to get in, warranting a second day of celebration. Fingers crossed we see a revival like this in Hong Kong again soon.
The biggest physical brand statement was the enormous Louis Vuitton trunk in Tamar Park to celebrate the brand's 150th anniversary in 2004. The largest temporary entertainment venue ever built in Hong Kong, the trunk was illuminated using then-state-of-the-art lighting and was visible across the harbour and beyond. Kick-starting the trend for large-scale fashion and luxury events in Asia, the Hong Kong party welcomed more than 3,000 guests for an unforgettable night that was rumoured to have cost HK$40 million: a record budget for an event at that time.
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As the luxury industry was getting back on its feet in the wake of Sars, the introduction of the independent visa for mainland Chinese visitors to Hong Kong brought a new group of consumers to the city, sparking a war between brands vying for their attention. Events became bigger: guest lists would exceed 1,000 at larger parties.
However, instead of gimmicks, noise and size, Giorgio Armani in 2004 hosted a Milanquality show with a very small audience below the HSBC Main Building in Central. The awe-inspiring show coincided with Armani's first official visit to Hong Kong and set a trend for other designers to make personal appearances in the city.
Above Photo: Courtesy of Dior
Whether you love it or hate it, streetwear is here to stay. From the growth of staple brands like A Bathing Ape and Off-White to this season's insanely expensive Dior Air Jordans (US$2,200), I have marvelled at streetwear's staying power.
Founded by Edison Chen and Kevin Poon, Clot, Hong Kong's homegrown streetwear label, has had fans clamouring for its sought-after collaborations with brands like Nike, Visvim and Stüssy since 2003 and now sells globally with shows at New York and Paris fashion weeks. Suddenly, my suit and tie seem very uncool...
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I stood frozen, terrified, wondering what the hell I was thinking when I signed up for this. Why, oh why did I so publicly announce that I was going to do this? Silently hating the people around me who had no hesitation. Damn fearless 5 year olds.
Here I was, 44 years old, and I was going to learn to swim. More importantly, I was going to conquer a lifelong fear of water, not to mention I was going to do it under public scrutiny in a swim suit.
My search for adult swim programs did not provide me with many options. Sure, there were the local recreation centers that employ lifeguards who double as swim instructors, but I needed something more. I needed a 1:1 instructor who understood my terror. Who knew why I couldn't breathe when water hit my chest. Who CARED about my decision to be there more than they cared how the fat middle-aged lady looked in her swimsuit. After several phone calls I found it – a local private swim school where, for an hour twice a week, one lane of their pool would be mine to master.
The down side was that private lessons for adults were held along-side child group lessons. There would be a lot of eyes on my plus size floundering. Parading into the pool that first night took courage. Courage I drew from my first yoga class years before. I never thought I could do yoga until some patient friends encouraged me and a compassionate instructor led me through it. I just knew everyone's eyes would be on me, judging me. Yet, to my surprise they were not. I found an accepting and patient culture in that class. Now yoga is something I love – and I knew if I could walk into that yoga studio for the first time, that I could walk into this pool.
So I mustered up my courage and went.
It took months. The first several weeks were spent doing nothing more than learning to be ok with being in the water, then, eventually getting my face in and my feet off the floor. Learning, as my instructor would say, that I control the water, the water does not control me.
The day she looked me in the eye and said "…you need to go to a bigger pool, there is nothing more I can do for you here", I cried. I cried because she was my lifeline. I cried because I had conquered something so unspeakably terrifying for me that no one but me would ever truly understand. I cried, because I succeeded. On the way out of the pool that night, more parents than I can count, who had watched me – or in my mind "been judging me" – for months stopped me. Some hugged me; some told me how I had inspired them to learn to swim, many said how I gave them courage to do something specific they were avoiding. They celebrated with me, for me. The eyes that I felt so scrutinized by weren't scrutinizing me at all; they had been cheering me on.
May is N ational Water Safety Month. Join me in conquering your own fear and in educating yourself on water safety. The life you save could be someone you love. Perhaps your fear is not water! It may be a yoga inversion, being seen in public in a swim suit, exercising after an injury, etc. I understand that your fear is very real. Believe in your inner strength! Most importantly- if you challenge it head on, let me tell you first hand that the freedom you feel from doing that will change your life. And you just might inspire someone else to conquer theirs.
Brenda is a software executive with a passion for travel, family, and the outdoors. Finding yoga in 2003 brought a new dimension to self-exploration and learning to work through physical challenges and she enjoys practicing often. "10-minutes-matters", has become her new favorite reminder to get back to the mat! She spends her non-travel time volunteering as a mentor to teenage moms, enjoying her 2 adult children and grandkids around a campfire and 4-wheeling with her husband of 25 years.


An installation of selected works from Fei Disbrow's In Absentia series, 2015 – 2017.
The interdisciplinary practice of multimedia artist Fei Disbrow is rooted in process. Employing familiar materials such as Tyvek, Mylar, paper, fabric, thread, buttons and grommets, Disbrow screen prints, collages and sews literal images and forms together, adapting them into organic and lyrical shapes. Her deliberate use of void and negative space conjures an anthropomorphized, abstracted residue that implies a corporeal presence.
Mutation is key to Disbrow's process methodology and conceptual framework. As a body of work progresses, she extracts elements from one series and mutates them further in the next, cropping, adding, shifting scale. Each compositional mass floats in negative space, as a notion might hover around in one's mind, akin to thought bubbles-in-waiting. Viewers are invited to circumnavigate the flat and multi-dimensional aspects of these compositions and impose their own narratives onto the work.
Whether through the development of familiar, dissected corporeal forms or through the use of materials that evoke the body, Disbrow's work connects altered notions of the body and its component parts to the space(s) in which it exists. The result is compelling, at once evocative of something abstracted yet somehow familiar. Her compositions live in the realm of the familiar gone astray: they challenge one's sense of self by rooting in the cellars of the mind, sparking points of connection and illuminating curiosity.


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Q: How do I re-run npm build in React and Django? So I'm learning React and Django, and executed npm run build to run the React App in my Django server (port 8000). Then I turned the React app off(ctrl+C), and now I'm trying to run it again. So I thought I should execute npm run build again, but it didn't work. I have the Django server running, but I have no idea how to start the React app.
I know this may sound unclear, but this is the best I can explain as a beginner. How do I turn the React app back on?

A: Why do you need to run both of them in same port, It is better to run react by npm start, And run python.exe manage.py runserver 8080
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Professionals in sports medicine treat people who suffer from sports-related injuries caused by exercise and other sports activities. There are professionals who are expert in sports medicine such as medical doctors, athletic trainers, physical therapists, and massage therapists. These professionals are in charge of the people who are into sports and who are into other sports-related activities. Treatment of musculoskeletal sports conditions that are non-surgical can be treated by these professionals. Physicians who are specializing in sports medicine can focus primarily on the evaluation and treatment of the medical conditions that are usually affecting the athletes such as acute illness, acute injury overuse injuries, chronic medical conditions like hypertension, amenorrhea and heat illness.
The disability and time away from school, sports, and work should be minimized by the physician in sports medicine and at the same time they should help their patients maximize the functions that they are able to do. There are a lot of board-certified physicians who start their practice with general sports medicine and who later on became eligible to take the sports medicine subspecialty qualification examination. In most cases, people have a difficult time distinguishing orthopedic surgeon from a sports medicine physician since they are more or less expert in the same field. However, there are actually some distinct differences between these two even if they both play an important role in the treatment of injuries derived from sports that affect the musculoskeletal medicine. An orthopedic surgeon is one who treats musculoskeletal sports condition in the operating table while a sport medicine physician is one who is needed when the patient will not need any operation. Most of the sports injuries that are acquired by patients are non-surgical so these patients can either see an orthopedic surgeon or a sport medicine physician who can give them referrals on the appropriate rehabilitative care that they should have.
There are a lot of people who believe that working with a certified sports medicine physician will help them a lot in gaining strength, endurance and flexibility. There are still coaching activities that athletes need as well as fitness tests that need to be performed, and nutritional advice that should be taken in that is why sports medicine physicians are important to provide all of these to their patients. Athletes are different from other people since they need to be fit and to be conditioned to perform well that is why it is the main focus of sports medicine practitioners to make sure that their patients are healthy by giving them all the preventive medicines that they need.
Whenever a person will get into an injury or have a disease, there is a tendency that this person will not be able to function well, and it is in this regard that the Orthopedists should make sure that the functions of the patients will be restored.


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FLAGLER BEACH — The skull and upper jawbone of a whale that washed ashore in Flagler Beach this week have been brought to the Georgia Aquarium's Conservation Field Station at Marineland for further research.
The biologists who examined the remains think it may be from a humpback whale but they're waiting to confer with large whale specialists, said George Biedenbach, director of conservation programs at the field station.
They'll take measurements and look at DNA samples and whale specialists should be able to figure it out for sure, said Jim Hain, a senior scientist and program leader with the Marineland Right Whale Project.
An adult humpback whale can grow to an average length of 40 to 60 feet — about the length of a railroad car — and weigh as much as 44 tons, according to whalefacts.org. One of the largest ever recorded humpback whales measured in at 89 feet long.
The remains were found near the Flagler Beach Pier about 4 p.m. Wednesday, said Hain. Frank Gromling, a member of the Marineland Right Whale Project volunteer network, took photos and alerted Hain, who determined it was the upper jaw of a whale.
Gromling, who has written a book on right whales, said he received a call from someone who saw the skull and knew of his participation in the project.
"My initial reaction was, 'This is cool; I know what this is,'" he said Friday.
Though he recognized the remains as coming from a whale, he didn't want to say anything because he is not a scientist.
Tom Pitchford, a scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, also responded and collected samples, Hain said.
"For that thing to wash up on Flagler Beach is kind of unique," said city Police Chief Matthew Doughney. "It adds to the mystique of our city."
The only bad thing about it, Doughney said, was that he didn't get a chance to see it himself.
The skull was the source of much discussion at the Funky Pelican, the restaurant located at the pier.
"It was quite interesting," said manager Karen Mikulski. "Everyone was interested. Everyone had a comment: it was a shark, it was a dolphin, it was a prehistoric animal."
Some thought it might have come from a tyrannosaurus rex, she said. Others suggested it might be an alien.
The discovery generated a lot of business for the restaurant. Its deck overlooking the beach was full, despite the "terrible" smell emanating from the remains, according to Mikulski.
The skull was secured overnight and on Thursday morning, said Hain, a group of staff and volunteers from Marineland and the field station cleaned the jaw, placed it on a litter and loaded it into a truck. Field station staff and volunteers participate in the Southeast Marine Mammal Stranding Network.
The collection effort attracted a crowd of curious onlookers, with staff and volunteers taking time to explain what was going on.
Gromling, who stayed with the skull until Hain arrived, was impressed with the community involvement in securing it.
"That's the cool thing about the Right Whale Project," he said. "It has helped educate people that there are whales right here."
He said he has been volunteering with the project for 18 years.
The remains were relocated for further examination. The ultimate decision about whether the remains are taken somewhere else, or whether they're allowed to remain at the field station for use as a possible educational display, will be up to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and depend in part on current research and display requests.
Similar events occur every two or three years, said Hain. They've seen the remains of pygmy sperm whales, a fin whale and several juvenile right whales over the years on beaches in St. Johns, Flagler and Volusia counties.
— Staff writers Shaun Ryan and Dinah Voyles Pulver contributed to this report.


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WVU Women's Soccer Will Not Repeat As Big 12 Champions
William Hirsch
The West Virginia University Women's Soccer team will not repeat as Big 12 champions. Texas Christian University ended the Mountaineers' chances of repeating as such in penalty kick in the Big 12 Semifinal.
The lone TCU Horned Frogs goal came from Allison Ganter in the 51st minute of the match.
TCU was able to hold the lead until WVU's Amadine Pierre-Louis tied the game at one a piece with just 13 minutes remaining in the match.
As the final whistle blew, the game was still knotted at one and the decisive goal would have to be decided in Overtime.
Overtime came and went with nothing to show for it.
Making all five penalty kicks, TCU will play in Sunday afternoon's Big 12 Championship game. The Mountaineers were unable to convert on it's third penalty kick of the night.
West Virginia will now be forced to wait for their NCAA Tournament seed and in which region they'll be place. There is still a possibility the Mountaineers could host the first round of the NCAA Tournament but their chances of doing so would be substantially better had tonight gone a different way.
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Editor's note: For years, the essential sci-fi blog SF Signal published Mind Meld, a regular column that featured a monthly roundtable discussion of the tropes, themes, politics, and future of genre fiction. On the sad occasion of the closure of that site, we were happy to offer the feature a new home. Future installments of Mind Meld will appear monthly on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog.
We read a lot about the boundaries between literary and genre fiction blurring with more books being marketed to broader audiences. Yet some readers say they prefer the boundaries to remain in place, allowing for easier sifting to find what they really want to read.
Usman Malik is a Pakistani writer of strange stories. His work has appeared in several Year's Best anthologies, has won the Bram Stoker Award, and been nominated for the British Fantasy, World Fantasy, and Nebula awards. He resides in two worlds, but you can find him on Twitter @usmantm.
The role of genre boundaries in publishing almost always has to do with marketing. I suspect the transition to this model probably occurred when indie booksellers were replaced by chain bookstores. Historically, you could enter your local bookstore and tell the clerk you wanted a horror novel 'just like the ones that fellow Stephen King writes' and your bookstore owner or manager would lead you to what they believed you were looking for. That is not what happens most of the time these days, especially not at chain bookstores. Sure, a clerk can do that if you ask them to, but most people like to browse at their own pace (or already know the book they're looking for) and genre labels come in very handy there. Therefore, whether we like it or not, they will stay around for a while.
At the same time, pulp genre novels are being subsumed by 'commercial literary' novels, at least as far as sales are concerned. If you look at the NYT bestsellers list, you will notice many of those books are what most people would call literary, yet they stick around for months on the list. Powerful marketing push is one explanation. The other, which I suspect makes a bigger difference, is the variety and loyalty of readership. Readers want new visions, new stories, new worlds, but at the same time many of them do want them written well, told well. The audience is always smarter than one might think and they like to be cognitively engaged, which is why this is such a good time to be a writer, especially if one is from a different culture. There is room for everyone at the table (whether that room is equitable or not is another subject).
As far as literary movements go, there does seem to be a trend in mainstream publishing and the broader American literary scene, whereby the tropes of speculative fiction or genre fiction of any sort are gaining wider respectability in what used to be realist circles. The fact that Iowa Writers Workshop is now welcoming self-identified science fiction writers into their MFA program speaks volumes to me. This can only be good for publishing. Fresh perspectives and exciting new fusions of theme, voice, and tone can only be good for us all.
Zachary Jernigan is a critically acclaimed author of science fiction and fantasy. His first and second novels, No Return and the Nebula Award-nominated Shower of Stones, are available in print and ebook editions from Night Shade Books; both are compiled in Jeroun: The Collected Omnibus, due out November 2016. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Crossed Genres, and Escape Pod.
It's a sort of complicated issue, I think. I grew to love science fiction and fantasy by browsing used bookstore shelves, so I understand how awesome it is to have the sort of books you're likelier to identify with right in front of you.
I see the blurring of the lines as an awesome development that can't advance rapidly enough. I mean, sure, if all I had was a used bookstore at this point I might be a bit annoyed about the blurring. I'd stare over at the literary fiction section, wondering, Hey, maybe there are some good books over there, but knowing I'm too lazy to look for them.
The adaptations are already occurring, through the influence of the publishing world but even more through the influence of invested readers. As a result of social media, blogs, and genre/fan sites — not to mention retail sites such as Amazon — it's now easier than ever to scratch your particular literary itch. Having multiple ways to find what you want, tailoring it to your needs at any given moment, is the future.
Is there something lost in that? Sure. You might never read that book that has been sitting, moldering in a dusty corner of the used bookstore, but there are always more books, each one chock full of surprises.
What I don't have an answer for is how to blur the lines purposely in the potential reader's mind. Some writers (*points to self*) like to write really out-there sf&f and literary fiction combined, all in one — space operas with dragons but also, hopefully, a good dose of subtlety, depth, and ambiguity. Sometimes, that can seem like a no man's land, the avenues for promotion scant.
What adaptations need to happen for authors to reach potential audiences for both SFF and literary fiction?
Delilah S. Dawson is the author of the Blud series, the Hit series, Servants of the Storm, Star Wars: The Perfect Weapon and Scorched, and a variety of short stories and comics. As Lila Bowen, she writes the Shadow series, including Wake of Vultures, winner of the RT Fantasy Book of the Year for 2015, and its imminent sequel, Conspiracy of Ravens. Find her online at whimsydark.com or on Twitter, @DelilahSDawson.
Genre is a lot like the candy aisle at the grocery store. There used to be plain M&Ms, and they were delicious. But then we tried Peanut M&Ms. And then our unholy hunger for new tastes begat Mint M&Ms and Birthday Cake M&Ms. Once they started feeding us a steady supply of mash-ups and new, delicious flavors, it became impossible to return a world with limited choices. If we went to the store tomorrow and found *only* Plain M&Ms, there would be riots. I'm pretty sure that works for genre, too.
For those who still want the Plain M&Ms, they're always going to find it. Every bookstore has a SFF shelf, and certain publishers are known for continuing to provide more traditional fare. For those who want to mix it up, however, the internet is the place to go for recommendations, new voices, and genre-bending e-books and novellas. If traditional publishing doesn't have what you want, small press and indie publishing is there to fill niches at a faster pace. And, much to my delight, traditional publishing is becoming more open to SFF that pushes boundaries, incorporates diverse voices, and defies genre. Personally, I love that the more traditional version of Fantasy, primarily white, hetero, and male-led, is being supplanted by more current voices that still plumb the depths of exciting worldbuilding and dynamic character. Some of my recent favorites are The Fifth Season by Nora K. Jemisin, The Devourers by Indra Das, and Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear. My own Wake of Vultures, written as Lila Bowen, is a pulpy Weird West monster hunt with a trans, mixed race lead. Just a few years ago, this book might've been impossible to sell to a traditional publisher, but my editor just bought two more books in the series.
The good news is that whatever you like, you can find it. The best news is that whatever you dream up next will find readers. Whether they find it on the SFF shelf in a physical bookstore or by searching for exactly what they're looking for online, someone needs the book you were meant to write. When in doubt, ask a bookseller!
Django Wexler graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not writing, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts. You can find him at @DjangoWexler on Twitter or www.djangowexler.com.
Genre, as always, is tricky. I think the idea that the boundaries are getting blurrier isn't really true; the boundaries are blurry, but they've always been blurry, and constantly in motion. When we come of literary age, we get an impression of the genre landscape and internalize the idea that this is just how things are, but if you look back you can see that the classifications which seemed natural and eternal are in fact pretty new. Even as little as forty years ago, things were very different — there was no clear distinction between fantasy and horror in some contexts, YA as we know it today didn't exist, the term 'urban fantasy' meant something else entirely, and so on.
It's important to remember that genres are tools, not holy writ. The purpose of genres is to help readers find things they're going to like (and to help bookstores sell them) so it makes sense that genres are going to change as the market changes. I feel like there are two big, ongoing stories in the market as far as genre fiction is concerned: the general acceptance and popularity of genre work outside of its traditional niche, and the increasing diversity within the genres.
By now it is probably cliché to say that this is the age when geek stuff became cool. More accurate, I think, would be to say that big chunks of genre work that were fenced off from general consumption by a "geek" label have lost their stigma, and been adopted pretty enthusiastically. TV and movies are the most obvious examples: superhero movies, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones are all properties that would once have been considered niche at best, not big-budget fare. It makes sense that this would carry over into the world of novels as well. There have always been literary writers who dabbled in SF or fantasy, but it often felt somehow transgressive; I think that's changing, that it's something you can be increasingly matter-of-fact about and trust your audience won't balk.
At the same time, genre fiction has expanded considerably. I can mostly speak to fantasy, which is my home genre, and which has struggled for a long time to get out from under the shadow of Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons. There have always been fantasy authors doing new, strange things, but they were often overshadowed by traditional quest narratives with orphan farmboys saving the world from the Dark Lord. Now, though, the genre is getting much more diverse — both in the social sense (though there's still a long way to go there) and in the types of stories becoming big successes. So you can have George R. R. Martin's anti-quest fantasy and Brandon Sanderson's bold high-magic romps, but also work that touches on real-world issues, from Max Gladstone's finance-as-magic to investigation of colonialism in Seth Dickinson or Robert Jackson Bennett. It's no wonder that some writers have been approaching the genre/literary divide from the other side of the line, too.
Basically, I think it's easy to get too hung up on genre definitions, and to forget that they're intended to be helpful aides rather than straightjackets. The boundaries will definitely shift as we go forward, and that's okay — they always have!
Yoon Ha Lee's space opera Ninefox Gambit came out from Solaris Books in June. He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat. You can find him online at yoonhalee.com and on Twitter as @motomaratai.
At this point in my life, I've come to see the distinction as largely being one of marketing. Marketing is the flip side of sifting: readers are looking for books that offer certain tropes or moods or themes or types of reading experiences, and the people doing the marketing are trying to connect books to the audiences that will appreciate them.
A solution I've seen to this problem I've seen in fanfiction (e.g. the repository at Archive of Our Own, http://archiveofourown.org/) is tags. An author might tag a work with things like genre and tropes and characters. I could see this being adapted for original works, maybe with crowdsourced tagging–for example, a consensus might develop that a certain novel is "steampunk" and has a "female protagonist" with "noir" sensibilities and bonus "Cthulhu mythos" elements (improbable as this particular combination sounds), and that would enable people to find what they want to read by multiple criteria.
Caroline M. Yoachim is the author of dozens of short stories, appearing in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Asimov's, and Lightspeed, among other places. Her debut short story collection, Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories, is coming out with Fairwood Press in August 2016. For more about Caroline, check out her website at carolineyoachim.com.
Categories are tricky. There's no clear definition of what is or isn't genre fiction, so it makes sense that the boundary between literary and genre would be blurry. Honestly, I don't see genre fiction and literary fiction as being mutually exclusive categories. I think it is possible for a story to be very literary and still have genre elements. Kelly Link comes to mind as a writer whose stories are both literary and genre. I've seen Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife shelved in Science Fiction, Literature, and even occasionally in Romance. There is something very arbitrary and artificial about assigning books into a single category and making a strong divide between literary and genre fiction.
That said, categories are useful in being able to find the types of stories you want to read. I like that I can go to the Science Fiction and Fantasy section of a bookstore to find certain kinds of stories and/or a certain style of writing. People who enjoy Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books might also like Naomi Novik's Temeraire series.
The problem I have isn't what I see on the shelf when I go to a certain section of the bookstore–it's what I miss. The border cases, the ones that could be sorted either way, run the risk of not being seen by a subset of potential readers, simply because readers are looking in the wrong place. Even in non-border cases, having books sorted strictly into categories can cause readers to miss out on things they might enjoy. Someone who liked Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre might like Tina Connolly's Ironskin—there are definite similarities between these books, but because one contains fairies/magic and the other does not, they get sorted into different categories.
One nice thing about the rise of online retailers is that books need not be sorted into one category to the exclusion of all others. A book that is both genre and literary can be tagged with both labels, and found by readers who are looking for either type of story. I think increasingly readers are finding books not by browsing physical bookshelves, but by searching online for keywords or categories. This allows readers to adjust their search terms to cast a broad net or a narrow one–searching for 'epic fantasy' turns up books by George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, J.R.R. Tolkien, and many others, but searching for 'silkpunk' turns up Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings and little else. As we move away from the limitation of having to place books as physical objects in a single place, we no longer need to be as strict in the way we categorize or in the types of categories we use.
Haralambi Markov is a Bulgarian critic, editor, and writer of things weird and fantastic. A Clarion 2014 graduate, Markov enjoys fairy tales, obscure folkloric monsters, and inventing death rituals (for his stories, not his neighbors… usually). He blogs at The Alternative Typewriter and tweets at @HaralambiMarkov.
I don't think the boundaries between literary and genre works will fall overnight, leaving lost readers stranded in a landscape decidedly hostile towards their reliance on classification. That is the extent of my clairvoyance, however, it's worth noting we live in exciting times. You see books such as the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer receive an ecstatic mainstream welcome and the backing from a major publisher. The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne has a firm footing in both genre and literary. A Lament for the Afterlife by Lisa Hannett follows conventions of its own making, while The Shore by Sara Taylor, a literary mosaic novel about a tragic family line, veers further and further in genre territory the further you progress.
Over time as a reviewer, I've seen how marketing coupled with the rhetoric surrounding genre vs. literary (and often, genre vs. genre within the broader spectrum of speculative fiction) has led to calcification within certain genres. I've read books that are carbon copies of each other; seen genres turn self-referential within their tight confinements. Whenever you read about the proliferation of clichés and abuse of tropes without a meaningful contribution or commentary, you're observing the effects of calcification. This isn't to be read as either condemnation or overgeneralization, since I'm merely making an observation based on my limited experience as a reader with scattered interests at best. Ultimately, the scope of the subject at hand is so massive, a person can give you just a piece of the whole mosaic.
What I can tell you is that right now, boundaries are growing flexible. They're growing porous. Ideas steal over from one side of the line to the other, growing new wings. Flying on different winds. It's a slow process, but one gaining acceleration. As the nature of the written sent on its path to publication continues to defies easy definition, we'll see marketing depart from its go-to cues to indicate where a book fits in a genre. Instead, we'll see a focus on the singular nature of the work itself.
Lee Kelly is the author of A Criminal Magic and City of Savages. An entertainment lawyer by trade, Lee has practiced in Los Angeles and New York. She lives with her husband and two children in Millburn, New Jersey. Follow her on at @leeykelly and on her website at NewWriteCity.com.
The way I've always understood the definitions, "genre fiction" is defined as escapist fiction, novels that thrill or provide another form of entertainment, while "literary fiction" is meant to show us more about the human condition, and provide a means to better understand our world. Genre fiction is plot-driven, and literary fiction, character driven.
But don't many of us really want both in a novel? I do. I want stories that excite and enchant, that send me to the furthest reaches of fantastical galaxies, explore the most intriguing "what if" scenarios, and yet, ultimately, show me more about who we are (or who I am) in the process. And I want stories fundamentally about the human condition to surprise, delight and maybe even terrify me. I want the strange to feel familiar and the familiar, strange. And I think that's the problem with those above definitions, and why I think the blurring of these boundaries might actually (at least in part) originate with readers and writers.
Writers are first and foremost readers after all, and writers write what we want to read: character has become just as paramount in genre fiction as in literary fiction, and ever more "literary" writers are turning to speculative fiction devices (time travel, two Earths, alien invasions, etc. etc.) as clever ways to wrap up but ultimately gift us truths about humanity.
Which means, what, exactly, for those "genre" and "literary" fiction definitions? I personally think those definitions will persist: people who walk into a bookstore want direction, a lay of the land, and that means signage, which means books will, by necessity, always be labeled. Maybe we'll see a shift to broader, more catchall categories (maybe Commercial Fiction and Dramatic Fiction?), but ultimately, there will still be some sort of "either/or" divide. Which might mean, as more "literary genre" novels and "speculative literary" novels are being published, more books might miss out on a portion of their potential readership because of how they are shelved.
Broader marketing strategies by publishers help combat this, but personally I think social media will become even more important to our reading community in bridging this divide, as books' "content boundaries" continue to blur, but formal book categorizations stay in place. Readers now share and critique books in ways we've never been able to before, and make connections and comparisons based on personal interests versus targeted audience marketing or labels. I have faith that this means books will be found by readers who want them, regardless of where they are shelved or how they are labeled.
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