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Digital Games Research
ECREA Section
Call for papers GaMeCo2019: Games, Media and Communication: Quo Vadis?
ECREA Digital Games Research Section symposium
Call for abstracts and panel proposals for the ECREA Digital Games Research Section Symposium in collaboration with the Gaming Matters Research Cluster of the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC).
7-8.11.2019, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
The 2010s are almost over, and game studies is preparing to enter another decade. The current decade has seen discussions on ludification and e-sports as well as the true breakthrough of terms such as gamification, signifying the pervasive and ubiquitous nature of games and play in contemporary societies. This symposium hosted by the ECREA Digital Games Research Section aims to look at where we have been and where we are going as a field – what could be the next steps? Where could we go from here, and what is going to happen to game studies in the 2020s? How does the multi-disciplinary field of game studies relate to the similarly multi-disciplinary field of communication studies? What kind of innovations are waiting around the corner when it comes to novel research methods or theorizing? What kind of phenomena are only beginning to receive attention, where are the remaining gaps in research?
We are inviting presentations, which may deal with any aspect of game studies or the intersection of game studies with the broader field of communication sciences. We especially encourage proposals that deal with innovations in research methods, empirical research, theory development, interdisciplinary collaboration, and other ways of renewing or re-inventing game studies. The presentations may also discuss work-in-progress research projects.
Possible topics include, but are not restricted to, the ones listed here:
Theoretical approaches and methodological advances in digital games research
The production, content, audiences and regulation of digital games
Digital game culture and gaming communities
Social interaction in and around digital games
Social and psychological aspects of digital gaming
Digital games in the field of education
Communication in and about digital games
Playful interaction in its various forms
Avatars, identification, and self-representation in virtual worlds
Digital game experience, gamer motivations, enjoyment and presence research
Digital games in comparison with other forms of media entertainment
Innovations in gaming, such as the use of virtual reality, augmented reality, and location-based gaming
Abstracts (max. 500 words + bibliography) should be submitted by (April 30th 2019) May 7th 2019 (deadline extended). Abstract should include the affiliations of the authors, a short bio of the lead author, and contact information. All abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair.
Decisions on the proposals will be made by the end of May 2019. There are plans to produce a publication, either a journal theme issues or an edited volume, based on selected seminar presentations.
Marko Siitonen (University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland)
Felix Reer (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany)
Teresa de la Hera (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
The conference will be held at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands thanks to the support of the Gaming Matters Research Cluster of the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC).
Submit your abstract
https://easychair.org/cfp/gameco2019
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Bransby Horses reveals plans for their Summer Fayre
Bransby Horses is hosting their 44th annual Summer Fayre on Sunday 2nd June 2019 11am – 4pm. Last year, the Summer Fayre attracted a record number of visitors and it is hoped the Fayre this year will be another success for the charity. For many in the area, it is a chance to visit the…
Impulse Hair and Beauty Salon in Retford overwhelmed by demand for knitted chicks and raise almost £1,000 for Bransby Horses
Residents have been flocking to Impulse Hair and Beauty Salon on Hallcroft Road in Retford to buy hand-knitted chicks and help raise money for Bransby Horses. More than 3,000 Easter chicks were knitted by supporters of the charity and the team at Impulse have since been selling the chicks, with chocolate eggs inside, to customers…
Head of External Welfare Ryan Rouse is recognised for Services to Equine Welfare
Ryan Rouse, Head of External Welfare for Bransby Horses has won the Horses And Ponies Protection Association Ken Cranage Memorial Award for Services to Equine Welfare. The award was created in memory of Ken Cranage, who was the well-respected President of HAPPA. Ken played an active role as HAPPA's Chief Field Officer and spent a…
Bransby Horses officially opens The Lodge!
On Friday 5th April, The Lodge was officially opened by the Founder of the Horse's Voice, Pat Dargue, and members of the Bransby Horses Team including CEO, Jo Snell. The Lodge will now be used for community events and activities throughout holidays as well as talks throughout the year. The Horse's Voice established in 1990,…
S&NWPCA donate to Bransby Horses following closure of Association
Scottish & Northern Welsh Pony and Cob Association (S&NWPCA) have kindly made a donation from the remaining funds of their Association to Bransby Horses, following the difficult decision to permanently close. S&NWPCA was founded in 1962 with the aim of promoting the Welsh Pony and Cob breed and was one of the first to be…
Lottie Finds Her Forever Home
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Valentino's lucky day
On Valentine's day this year, an aged stallion, named by staff as Valentino, was found tied to a tree on a village green. He had been without food and water for at least 24 hours and was reported by a concerned member of the public to the Bransby Horses External Welfare Team, who went to…
SEIB Giving grants Bransby Horses prize of £2000
Bransby Horses attended the SEIB Giving Awards on Friday 22nd March and are delighted to announce the charity has been awarded a grant of £2,000 towards 'Project Safe Haven', an ongoing project to fence newly acquired land for our horses to use, providing their safe haven. SEIB, provide insurance to numerous charities and have done…

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New BIFM chair Iain Murray said, "In addition to summarizing an organization's reason for being, a mission statement should have two key attributes – it should be short and it should be memorable. BIFM's new mission statement meets all three criteria.
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Author Interview, Books
World Book Day Interview; Sarah J. Maas
So today I am hosting the lovely Sarah J Maas on the blog with an interview for World Book Day!
You wrote on FictionPress.com before publishing your first book Throne of Glass, how did it feel when you finally published?
It was a bit surreal, to be honest! It took me ten years to go from getting the initial idea for Throne of Glass to actually seeing it on a bookshelf, so when that day finally came, it was almost like having an out-of-body experience! Just seeing physical proof that I had accomplished my lifelong dream was completely overwhelming and wonderful—and there are still some days when I wake up and pinch myself!
What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
Read a lot (and read widely). Write what you love (not what you think you should be writing). And don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't get published. Before I got published, I had plenty of people tell me that I couldn't get published or that I needed a reality check about my expectations—if I had listened to them, I never would have gotten where I am today.
How hard was it to transition from writing for FictionPress.com to writing a full-length novel?
Writing for FictionPress is super, super different from writing professionally. For one, most of the writing that is done on FP is written in a serialized fashion—meaning, you update the story whenever you've written more, and there's no real sense of it being an actual book, you know? So, when I pulled Throne of Glass off FictionPress, the first thing I did was completely rewrite the story—to make it into a book, with a beginning and middle and end, with rising tension and character arcs and resolved plotlines that were neatly wrapped up within a reasonably-sized length (the draft on FP had about 100k extra words that were NOT needed).
But I think what was actually the hardest was just not having an active audience reading every chapter as it was written and cheering me on…. to not be able to show them anything until the book was written, edited, and in print (which is a years-long process). Thankfully, my fans are still super-vocal and involved to this day (and still help me keep going).
When writing do you follow an extensive structure or is it more of a natural flow?
Honestly, I hate outlining—it takes some of the spark out of the story for me. But I do go into writing a book with a fairly solid idea of the major events that happen. One way I keep track (and it took me years to realize that I was unconsciously doing this) is by using my music playlists to structure/organize my book. Music inspires almost everything that I write, and I keep extensive & detailed playlists that are ordered into the structure of my book. So if I move a scene around in the manuscript, I'll move the songs in the playlist to the place where they now occur in the story. But other than that, I like to just sit down at the computer and see where the story takes me that day.
And finally, who is your favourite author or the one who has inspired you most?
I have so many favorite authors that I couldn't possibly list them all here! But I'd say that in terms of inspiring me on a personal level, J. K. Rowling continues to be a role model for me. Her imagination, compassion, kindness, and generosity are just…incredible. I wish that there were more authors like her in the world.
Thank you taking the time to answer my questions Sarah, it's been great getting to know you a little better!
If you already like Sarah's work or wish to taster some of her work for free, then all you need to do is download the World Book Day app!
TEENS SORTED FOR APP-Y ENDINGS THIS
New app launched with free, exclusive new stories from nine top YA authors
App powered by Movellas.com for download to iOS and Android devices
An eclectic and exciting mix of exclusive new stories from some of the country's hottest Young Adult (YA) writers has launched on a brand new app for World Book Day.
Available to download for FREE on iOS and Android devices in the UK and Ireland, the app has been developed in partnership with online teen reading and writing platform Movellas.com, with contributions from Sarah Alderson, Josephine Angelini, Dave Cousins, Will Hill, Sarah J. Maas, Patrick Ness, Dawn O'Porter, Chris Ryan and Alex Scarrow.
And joining the top line-up of YA writing talent are a clutch of aspiring young authors from the Movellas community, whose stories have been added to the app after receiving nominations from their peers.
From comedy, friendship and romance, to fantasy, horror and espionage, the app includes something for every teenage reader, whatever their favourite genres or interests.
Broadcaster, author and YA contributor, Dawn O'Porter said, "I'm proud to have my World Book Day story sitting alongside the cream of the country's young writing crop. I hope members of the Movellas community will be inspired by the new app to continue dreaming up exciting ideas and characters, and developing their own unique voice."
There are five exclusive stories on the app on release and a further four will be released on World Book Day on 7 March, and available to read on the app for two months.
Yvonne Biggins, Community Director at Movellas commented, "The opportunity to appear alongside their writing idols on the YA app has been a brilliant way to encourage teenagers to develop their own writing skills. Not only have we seen thousands of brilliant entries posted on the site but we've also seen even more voting and commenting on the stories."
Kirsten Grant, Director of World Book Day said, "The new app and our partnership with Movellas is just one way of getting great book content to Young Adult readers who have a hunger for new stories from top authors. Delivering content digitally and talking to teens in the spaces they like to visit and socialise also allows us to offer a taste of the brilliant fiction that's out there and hopefully, turn more young people on to reading."
A brand new space for teens has been developed for the World Book Day website, packed with book recommendations, activities and information on YA book events, while new initiative The Word Herd has launched to give young people creative ideas for sharing their passion for books with schoolmates.
Alongside the World Book Day YA app, a special 'Story Chain' game is also being hosted on www.movellas.com, where eight of the app authors have suggested the first line of a new story for members to continue.
Yvonne Biggins said, "Our partnership activity with World Book Day is seeing a brilliant response from our community, and I hope providing a platform for teens to engage in this way sees many more fulfilling our joint mission to keep up the practice of reading and creating throughout the year."
Visit www.worldbookday.com for more information, the latest news and to subscribe to the free monthly World Book Day e-newsletter.
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Alexa Y.
8 March, 2013 at 4:10 pm Reply
I love Sarah! She's totally an inspiration to me and my writing, and I'm so grateful that I've gotten to interact with her on Twitter. She's definitely one of the best <3
Faye (Daydreaming_Star)
10 March, 2013 at 3:35 pm Reply
I definitely agree! She writes amazingly but she's also so supportive and encouraging of others as well and is just such a lovely person!
It was an honor hosting her! :D
March Monthly Wrap-Up | A Daydreamer's Thoughts


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If the House Speaker gets his way, regulatory change for the financial industry will come sooner than later.
Banks would benefit tremendously from the Republican plan to cut regulatory red tape in the financial services industry. Image source: iStock/Thinkstock.
At a retreat this week for Republican lawmakers, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told his colleagues that passing legislation designed to deregulate the financial industry would be a top priority in 2017. It remains to be seen exactly what the reforms will look like, but irrespective of the details, it's almost certain that Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will be a major beneficiary of them.
Banks are operating in one of the most inhospitable environments in decades. Interest rates play a major role in this, as the ultralow rates since the financial crisis have weighed heavily on banks' top lines by reducing the yields on loans and fixed-income securities. But a stringent and adversarial regulatory approach has been of equal importance.
In an effort to stamp out abuses that led to the crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 instituted a number of new, strict rules that banks must abide by. These include tighter capital and liquidity requirements, annual stress tests, and a ban on propriety trading. It also established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has gone on to fine financial institutions more than $10 billion for a variety of consumer abuses in the five-plus years of its existence.
Though even more significant than the letter of the law has been the way it's been enacted by regulators. The Federal Reserve in particular has wielded its newfound power aggressively, frequently failing banks in the annual stress tests and vetoing institutions' plans to raise dividends or add to their stock buyback authorizations.
The net result is that banks aren't nearly as profitable as they were before the crisis. In Bank of America's latest quarter, it returned only 9.9% on its tangible common equity. That's meaningfully below its own internal goal of earning 12% on its tangible common equity, and it's also almost certainly below its cost of capital, which I estimate to be 11.7%. This means that Bank of America is eroding shareholder value and as opposed to building it -- that is, after taking into consideration the opportunity cost of not pursuing alternative investment options.
What will help Bank of America more than anything is the ability to regain control over its capital plans. The nation's second-biggest bank by assets has increased its dividend only twice over the past eight years. That's led to an enormous amount of capital building up on Bank of America's balance sheet. Indeed, even though the North Carolina-based bank is smaller than JPMorgan Chase, it nevertheless has more capital.
BAC Book Value (Annual) data by YCharts.
This isn't a bad thing from a safety and soundness perspective, as many people believe that a lack of capital caused the crisis in the first place. I don't agree, as I think the abuses that fueled the crisis came from outside the traditional bank industry, from investment banks such as Lehman Brothers and mortgage brokers such as Countrywide Financial. The point being, undercapitalized commercial banks weren't the core issue a decade ago.
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VANCOUVER BOYS BOOK CLUB, IN REVIEW
Here it is, folks: The long-awaited book-by-book review of every book we read in the Vancouver, WA Boys Book Club. (2016-2017.)
This is a long one so I'm putting a break here. Click the "read more" link below these words if you want to read more.
Rules of Vancouver Boys Book Club:
-Every book must be under 300 pages.
-If you want to pick a non-fiction book, you have to get the other members to vote for it.
- The person picking the book must genuinely think that the other members of the club will enjoy his pick.
Rating System: Every book is rated on a scale from 0 to 1. A rating of 0 means you wouldn't recommend it, and a 1 means you would.
Overview of the Club Members, with commentary from the other club members:
Glasses Brandon. (His picks will be in this "dog shit" color.)
Glasses Brandon: I picked books that I love. Books that I have always wanted to share with good friends. I guess it was my mistake to assume that Jesse and JJ were good friends. Haruki Murakami and Colum McCann are two authors that I truly love, and it hurt to see them ridiculed by two barely-functioning stoner/alcoholics, but I guess that's what I get for sharing my passions. As for the reoccurring accusation that I only like books about mental illness: I have a mental illness myself so it is understandable that i would identify with that. And out of the 4 books about that, Jesse the ringmaster himself (what the hell is that supposed to mean? -ed.) liked 2 of them. I stand by my picks, all of them. It's a good thing I don't desperately crave external validation like Jesse does.
Jesse: If Glasses Brandon was in a suicidal 14-year-old girls book club, he'd be the Bell(a!) of the Ball, but unfortunately he was in Boys Book Club, with a coupla super-alphas, and his books always got the worst scores. Once, when he got fed up with our bad reviews, he said "I'm starting to think you guys just don't like literature," and JJ and I got so offended we started sputtering. I guess it's not literature if nobody wants to kill themselves! I guess there has to be a scene in which the lead character goes to a party and experiences ennui, like in the tedious fiction section of The dang New Yorker! (Plus, let's never forget, I've read INFINITE JEST.) But of course, here I go painting Glasses Brandon with a broad brush, just like he painted me and JJ. In the end, he actually had the most fire pick of the whole book club. (Monica Drake's CLOWN GIRL.)
JJ: Glasses Brandon enjoys reading A LOT, so he will make fun of you for doing other things like enjoying life. (Or sitting around smoking pot and watching THE WEST WING. -ed.) His picks are the type of novel I'm always on the fence about reading, but in Boys Book Club you try to read all the novels, and more often than not I'm glad I did.
Jesse: As you'll be able to tell by me getting the most points (although that doesn't even do me justice, because look at all the PERFECT 3/3 scores I racked up, too) (also, I was the only member who read every book AND had perfect attendance), my picks were the best picks. One valid criticism you could make is that I only picked books by white, male authors, but that's only because Bleeding Heart Glasses Brandon kept picking foreigners and women. Take that shit back to The Anarchist State College, freak-o!!! For far right, literature-hating guys like me and JJ, there's only so much spice we can take in our auth broth without whining about it. Other characteristics shared by my excellent picks were that they were funny and written in the first person.
JJ: Jesse's literary ego would make Harlan Ellison blush. (As punishment for trying to sound smart here, I'm not going to copyedit anything you wrote. -ed) A man who quips with infomercial-like speed, which really showcase the insecurity and fear that encompass his whole life. A man hanging on to the fringes of his character, Jesse is not quite a lost person, but one who never fully arrived. a half-baked space cadet who reads mostly in the bathroom (because of his Colitis). But we loved his energetic spirit, one that kept persisting, even after everyone stopped caring.
Glasses Brandon: Jesse is deeply uncomfortable with emotions. Most especially sadness, grief, suffering and other negative emotions he typically describes as corny or cornball or other dismissive words that do more to signal his insecurity than hide it. He is obsessed with everyone's scores, reading too much into my easy ones and not enough into his near-immediate zeros. Jesse likes jokes and will prioritize humor over plot almost every time. He also seems to favor protagonists with moral aloofness or sociopathic tendencies. Hill William was his best pick and Nog his second best. It just goes to show that you can find something to like in even the most diametrically opposed taste. Jesse makes a big deal about how he picked all white males because I "kept picking foreigners and women," but Murakami and McCann were the only non americans I picked and McCann has lived in NY for decades. As far as female authors go, I chose Margaret Malone and Monica Drake's books as my last two picks, so he doesn't really have an argument there either. In conclusion, I believe his male privilege picks were self-made. Take responsibility for yourself sir! Still, I loved two of his books and enjoyed many others.
JJ: I'm regarded as the muse of the of book club, a lot like heroin is to musical talent. Being the only real man in this club, I give balance to this would-be impotent group of guys. During book meetings after Brandon & Jesse were done massaging every inch of each other's literary egos, they would inevitably look to me for questions to pose during the book discussions. I was the spontaneous, womanizing, cigar smoking athlete who put these guys on my back and carried them to the in-zone (HA! -ed.) that is the finale of this book club.
Jesse: JJ's picks were "wild cards," I'd say, which is not to say he didn't pick all white male authors too. Since JJ only started to read "chapter books" very recently, his brain lacked an archive of books to recommend, so when it came time for him to pick he had to "judge a book by its cover" and hope for the best. (This lead to a fun discussion in book club about the physical aspects of books, and whether or not they should be mentioned in book reviews.) But like the ditzy office secretary who fills out a surprisingly good March Madness bracket, infuriating the Glasses Brandon-y statistics nerd who works next to her, JJ reminded us of the superficiality of ficiality. And he had the second most fire pick. (Jim Thompson's POP 1280.)
Glasses Brandon: JJ picked some surprisingly good books. It is a shame that he didn't finish so many of them. JJ is just beginning to grow his literary ego and a few centimeters is really not that bad. JJ always chose the best covers, so the books look beautiful on the shelf. He has many insights into book covers and paper type, and cooked us several delicious dinners. Also, it was nice to have someone asking what happened over and over again, because it made the rest of us have to prove that we actually read the books. Seriously though, he had some great picks and it was fun to read with friends(?) for the last 9 months. JJ is definitely not going to finish Anna Karenina.
NORWEGIAN WOOD by Haruki Murakami
GLASSES BRANDON: 1/1
JJ: 0/1
JESSE: 0/1
Jesse: This book is about a depressed college student who fucks a lot, and as a former opposite of that I found it offensive.
JJ: Norwegian Wood felt like what I imagine wondering through someone else's dream feels like. I felt sorry for the main character but couldn't tell why. Overall I'm glad I read it, but I wouldn't recommend it. The book has a very depressing tone, which spoke to Glasses Brandon's state of mind more than anything.
Glasses Brandon: As can be gleaned by Jesse's strong and reductive reaction to the emotional storytelling, the book is a moving and sincere rendition of grief in the face of suicide at a young age. While I may be faulted in this vaulted company of book readers (nice try, but that's not how you use the word "vaulted," dumbass -ed.) for my choice of "bleak, romantic books in which somebody has a mental illness," I counter that suicide is a powerful force in society, and one that is important to write about. It has taken the lives of 3 people I have personally known, 3 more that I have known of in extended circles, and my father's boss, which effected my father in a way that could rightly be called Murakami-esque. This is one of the best and emotionally true books I have ever read. They just can't see what I see. Maybe they need glasses?
TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis
Jesse: You could make a pretty good case that this is the best book of all time, because the style is "inimitable" and everyone loves it. In that sense, it's kind of a lame pick.
Glasses Brandon: True Grit is a great book. The young no-nonsense female narrator exhibits grit that is truly admirable in her pursuit of her father's killer. She shows wisdom beyond her years and endures a harshness of life that leaves out the romanticist notions that flood many western novels. The diction and style fit with the story and the brutality can be felt in many scenes, especially as they pushed the horse, Lil Blackie (RIP Lil Blackie!!! -ed.) to the limits of exhaustion.
JJ: This was a great read. I was surprised at how competent little Mattie Ross was. We watched the Coen Brothers movie after this book club and were relieved to see how true to the source material they kept the film. I also noticed a crazy resemblance between Jesse and Harold "Chicken Man" Parmalee.
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE by Neil Gaiman
JJ: 0/1 (Didn't finish)
JJ: I've always wanted to read fantasy, and after not reading my own pick, I still need to scratch that itch. It could be the book with the worst Title.
Jesse: I read AMERICAN GODS when I was 20 and loved it, but the Neil Gaiman books I've read since then have made me cringe so hard that the back of my neck actually gets sucked into my asshole--literally!--and this book was one of those. It's full of precious British "subtlety" that makes 11-year old girls feel smart, but isn't actually anything. Look at this:
She shrugged. "Once you've been around for a bit, you get to know stuff."
I kicked a stone. "By ' a bit' do you mean 'a really long time'?"
She nodded."How old are you, really?" I asked.
"Eleven."
I thought for a bit. Then I asked, "How long have you been eleven for?"
She smiled at me.
Blecchh. It's probably "unhealthy" to get this worked up about a book that actually is for 11-year-old girls, but I know you feel it, too. And the problem with Neal Gaiman is that unlike, say, R.L. Stine, adults treat his books like they're serious books, for adults. Look at this excerpt from The New York Times Book Review that they put on the back cover:
"Gaiman's mind is a dark and fathomless ocean, and every time I sink into it, this world fades, replaced by one far more terrible and beautiful in which I will happily drown."
This is the type of nambypancin' that makes cool kids hate books!!! Worst book of book club.
Glasses Brandon: Neil Gaiman is a good writer. He's given too much credit at times by gushing and goofy reviewers who come across as 12 year old girls glancing admiringly at their not-actually-very cool english teacher, but like that english teacher, Gaiman knows his subject. (English? -ed.)
I liked the ambiguity of the world. And the darkness. There is a scene in which the narrators father attempts to drown him. The character justifies his father's terrifying abuse in a way that a young boy probably would. I also identify with the powerlessness that he felt when confronted with the monstrous babysitter, and how no one in his family believed him. (That's because he was a DIRTY LITTLE LIAR, like Brandon. -ed.) And I liked that there were real stakes. That made it less "fruity," you might say.
It was an entertaining book and it definitely has a younger audience in mind. But Harry Potter did, too, and i liked the shit out of that.
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK by Matthew Quick
JJ: This book had a self-deprecating tone which had me laughing throughout, and I had a palpable (gross -ed.) attraction to the Tiffany character.
Jesse: As the official book club notekeeping journal reminds us, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK led to my most insightful book club question and comment:
"When does positivity become delusional?
When romance is involved."
This book, THE PLEASURE OF MY COMPANY and CLOWN GIRL form a good trilogy of "delusional narrator pining over an absent or disinterested love interest, " stories
Glasses Brandon: "When does positivity become delusional?" Is a great question to apply to this novel, but I think that Pat Peoples was delusional about many things (like the amount of time he spent in the mental hospital, for example). I loved this book because I identify with the character. I have Bipolar Disorder and the book does a good job portraying what that is like. The movie mucks it up. So as always, read the book.
MORE STORIES ABOUT SPACESHIPS AND CANCER by Casper Kelly
Jesse: This is a collection of short stories by the guy who made that TOO MANY COOKS video, and co-created the excellent TV show YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL. More than any other author, I feel like this guy understands me. He perfectly conveyed what it's like to be a creepy, overweight, kind-of-bookish-but-not-exactly-smart white guy in the 21st century. And, unlike most short story collections (like PEOPLE LIKE YOU, for example), this one had interesting story concepts. "Taking a Shit in the Future" is an immortal masterpiece.
JJ: This pick is the kind of gem that you find by joining a boys club book club. Funny, short stories with crazy premises, would have never found/read this otherwise. There were no stories about cancer though. This was a classic Jesse pick. I wouldn't be surprised to find out he's on the Casper Kelly Street Team, the way he constantly plugs this guy's shit!
Glasses Brandon: First of all, People Like You is very good. Not every story can have a joke every third line. This book was hilarious. It was all over the place, but totally believed in the worlds it was building and then immediately destroying. The story about taking a shit in the future was great, the story about the virtual realities slowly becoming the only reality was also very well done, and the story about being the last man on earth was the best. I also liked the dumb little interludes with the host of the book, because it was unique and ridiculous.
Jesse: I would've gotten rid of the interludes, actually.
POP. 1280 by Jim Thompson
DAVE (JJ's friend, who was brought in for one meeting to improve JJ's scores): 1/1
Jesse: Whoa, nelly!!! This 1964 pulp western will knock your socks onto your spurs, and call you a bitch!!
JJ: I was happy with this pick. The book was set it a small country town which felt fun to be in. The story moved quickly, with colorful whores, pimps, lawmen, murders and, a crooked sheriff who everyone thinks is incompetent.
Glasses Brandon: This book was not good. I have a hard time with books about evil and nonredeemable characters. It just felt like the story of an ADD sociopath who kept changing his mind and killing who ever stood in his way at the moment.
Jesse: This was the book with the best cover.
THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS by Colum Mccann
Jesse: This was the book with the worst cover, and the most annoying title. It had some great imagery--especially in the parts with the homeless guy, which should've just been the whole book--but it was too cornball, ultimately. Whenever I hear people wax romantic about New York, it seems cornball to me. Fuck New York!
JJ: This unfortunate book suffered from the trait of having two story lines. The writing which focused on the present was so much more gripping and interesting that when it moved on, I just wanted to get back to the homeless guy living in the abandon underground subway. The novel did however do a good job of connecting the two timelines at the end.
Glasses Brandon: The cover is not material for a book review. Cornball is apparently a synonym for emotional in this universe. While others may have found "the parts with the homeless guy," to be the most interesting. Removing the link between Treefrog and his grandfather would have missed a wealth of the story. Without Nathan's story of working in the tunnels, Treefrog would've had no reason to be down there at all. He also wouldn't have learned all of his high climbing and acrobatic skills, first on the rooftop of Nathan and his apartment building and then later in the highrises of the city. Omitting the early parts would've lost the background that treefrog's story exists in. The tunnel is a safe place, safe from the abhorrent and pervasive racism of early 19th century new york, safe from the harsh life on the streets, safe from (I'm gonna cut you off here. -ed. )
THE BURGLAR IN THE CLOSET by Lawrence Block
JJ: This was a pitiful waste of a pick. The authors photo on the back was badass though and I just pictured him as the main character.
Jesse: This was the only book to get all zeroes, and the one that ruined my perfect record, but I maintain that it's not even that bad. It's just not recommend-able. There's danger in playing it safe, I learned.
Glasses Brandon: This was not a good book. It felt like a made for TV movie, that was made for tv back in the 70s. Entertaining? Maybe. Obvious and too easy to figure out? Definitely. There were funny bits, like the two cops and the absurdity of being stuck in the closet while people are having sex.
Jesse: What's so absurd about that?
THE COLOR OF MAGIC by Terry Pratchett
JJ: -
Jesse: My funny foreign dad is obsessed with these Discworld books, so I have been very careful to not display the slightest amount of interest in them, ever, but you can't deny a really good joke and this book has a few.
Glasses Brandon: My dad does not read these kinds of books, so I have always had the freedom to like them without embarrassment. I liked it, because it was funny and absurd. There was also a consistency to the silliness that I liked as well. The magic trunk that kept saving them was really cool too. Anyways, I liked it, don't remember all that much about it though.
JJ: This was another swing and a miss regarding finishing a fantasy book.. starting to consider fantasy is not for me. Pretty crazy world though, seems like enough material for like, forty more novels.
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE by Phillip K. Dick
Jesse: This book wasn't funny at all, but you have to give it up for the alternate-history-within-an-alternate-history plot device. My favorite character was The Man In The High Castle, and my least favorite character was Hitler.
Glasses Brandon: Hitler was not actually in this book, so i guess Jesse liked everybody. (Hitler IS in the book. -ed.) This was a great book, it was something I have been meaning to read for a long time. Alternate history ideas are always really cool. And it was interesting to see the power play between the Japanese and the Germans. It was also interesting to see censorship at work in a place like that. The trade in historical relics was a really cool side story too.
JJ: This book was a drag
HILL WILLIAM by Scott McClanahan
Jesse: On on a bleak winters day in early 2017 when I was feeling unlikeable and pissed off, this little tale of white trash sex, animal cruelty and child-on-child violence calmed me down and made me feel good. I picked it for book club two weeks later, and two weeks after that book club was feeling the vibes, too. I'm going to read all of Scott McClanahan's books now, and probably read all the books that the New York Tyrant publishes. (They also published Eugene Marten's FIREWORK, which is one of the most fire works of fiction I've ever read.) (And also has some weird kid stuff in it.)
JJ: Just say that I liked it.
Glasses Brandon: This was the best book Jesse chose. And it was freaking great. The portrayal of the miserable life in Coal country and the little vignettes that the author steered us through were powerful and terrifying. The brutal violence of children was stirring. It didn't make me feel good, I just couldn't believe some of the stories. He made you feel the way the characters would in that situation. And the way he explained how the character looked up to the older one and never questioned his brutality until he was older. Then in the later stages, the description of uncontrollable anger was very vivid.
I will also read more of Scott McClanahan's books. This shit was fucking great.
DISPATCHES by Michael Herr
Jesse: Michael Herr has a messy and beautiful writing style. I read this in the backyard, in mosquito weather, to give it extra realism, but I think that made it too realistic!! I definitely got the impression that I would've died in Vietnam. JJ and Glasses Brandon DEFINITELY would've died.
Glasses Brandon: The scenes in Micheal Herr's deceptively long novel about Vietnam were beautiful, powerful and horrifying. The scenes that really hit home were the ones about the soldiers who didn't want to leave. They would sign up for extra tours and find themselves unable to board the transport when they were shipping out.
Jesse: I should've read this when it was first assigned to me in LOOKING BACKWARD: AMERICA IN THE 20th CENTURY.
PEOPLE LIKE YOU by Margaret Malone
Jesse: This book would've been right at home in the New Yorker Fiction section. Too much ennui!
JJ: It seemed like a way for the author to work out her frustrations rather than entertain the reader.
Glasses Brandon: For someone that hates the New Yorker, Jesse sure seems to know a lot about it. People Like You is a collection of short stories by an author I saw at Wordstock. The stories were great. There was a great deal of disillusionment and sadness etc. but I really liked the story about visiting vegas for christmas.
Jesse: That was my favorite story, too. I'm a sucker for a depressing setting Christmas.
THE STENCH OF HONOLULU by Jack Handey
Jesse: This is my favorite book of all time. That's all I'm going to say!
JJ: Best Book of Book Club. True Funny Lives Inside this Book.
Glasses Brandon: There were lots of jokes, but a distinct lack of story. The jokes made up for it in the end.
THE PLEASURE OF MY COMPANY by Steve Martin
Jesse: This was the third most fire pick of book club, and the second best cover. The narrator is an extremely lovable combination of creepy and upbeat, and I rooted for him in a way that I never root for non-evil people in "romantic comedies."
Glasses Brandon: This was a pleasure to read. The narrator had some extreme emotional and anxiety issues, but was well meaning and was able to overcome many of his foibles. He was initially mistrustful of many people, but came to find out that they weren't so bad. The line "you don't have to say anything. I already like you" would be beautiful music to the ears of any anxious romantic.
CLOWN GIRL by Monica Drake
Jesse: I was worried, going into this, that there wasn't going to be enough physical comedy or clown props coming into play, but by the time I was 1/4er of the way through the first chapter I could see there was nothing to be worried about. The narrator is very serious, but finds herself getting into absurd, goofy situations over and over again as a result of her interesting profession, and that's my favorite type of book. Like Charles Bukowski's POST OFFICE, kind of. Have you read POST OFFICE? This isn't the same writing style as POST OFFICE, but it's the same sort of appeal, to me. I would definitely want to meet the narrator in real life, even though she wouldn't like me at all. This was the most fire pick of book club.
Glasses Brandon: This book is really really good. Drake captures the world of clowning in a gritty and realistic way. Jesse said, "This book is what Fight Club was trying to be." The grittiness does not feel forced. Instead it feels like Nita is constantly walking the line between clown art and prostitution. She wants to skirt the corporate gigs and remain true to her artistic roots, but is pushed further and further into desperation.
"For all I knew, Jerrod was a murderer. But he was a man who laughed like a boy."
(Weird choice for a quote. -ed.)
NOG by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Jesse: NOG poses an important question: do you have to sacrifice some of your morality in order to attain inner peace? It's hard to say what NOG's answer is, but I think the answer is yes. And when you think about it, that's the way it should be. Morality and inner peace must each come at a price...and the price of each is each other. Man, I am HIGH right now!
Glasses Brandon: This book was good. It was confusing and crazy and I did not understand it that much. But I really liked the journey it took me on. It was like he was passing in and out of consciousness as he traveled. And sometimes I felt like there was more than one protagonist. The rubber octopus was really cool and so was the crazy ping pong game. Worth reading.
JJ: This was a rough one.. I'll chaulk this up to seeing the end of book club and not finished strong. (You are unfathomably bad at english. -ed.)
.....And that's all we read, folks!!! See you next time.
GLASSES BRANDON'S BOOKS: 10
JJ'S BOOKS: 11
JESSE'S BOOKS: 14 (with four "perfect score" books!)
Posted by Tesse Wolfson at 12:24 PM
Thomas August 1, 2017 at 10:07 PM
I like these a lot even though I have never heard of any of them and probably read my last fiction book in high school.
Good luck getting Jesse to ever open up emotionally, guys!!
Tesse Wolfson September 13, 2017 at 9:28 PM
God dammit, I'm not that closed off emotionally!! Why does everyone keep saying I'm closed off emotionally? (This is a perfect example of me being emotionally open!!!)


The knee is the largest joint in the body consisting of four bones, multiple ligaments and muscles, which act as shock absorbers during movement. Several large fibrous bands of tissue, called ligaments, support the knee on both sides. They provide strength and stability to the joint. The four ligaments that connect the thighbone (femur) and shinbone (tibia) are the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), medial collateral ligament (MCL), and lateral collateral ligament (LCL). The ACL and PCL limit tibial movement forward and backward and also limit flexion and extension of the knee. The MCL and LCL provide stability to the inside and outside of the knee.
Contact sports or high-impact activities that feature rapid, twisting movements can place extreme forces on the knee, which can lead to injury.


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Why Batch Analytics Is Not Going Anywhere
Despite the growth in streaming, don't expect it to disappear any time soon
AnalyticsBig DataData Science
Alex Lane
The idea in business that taking the wrong action is better than no action is something that seems to have been universally accepted, although it is easily countered by the equally true saying 'fools rush in'. But if you run your life on aphorisms, you're inevitably going to run into contradictions every now and then.
The idea that speed is the new currency has seen organizations increasingly look at ways they can gain insights from the vast stream of data being collected in real time. Subsequently, they are moving away from the batch processing traditionally favored in big data and towards streaming analytics. But is it always the best option?
In a recent OpsClarity Inc. survey of 4,000 big data professionals, 92% of respondents said they plan to leverage stream-processing applications this year, while 79% will reduce or eliminate investments in batch-only processing. Batch analytics is high latency analytics whereby a large volume of data is processed all at once, yet there is a delay between collection and storage of data sets, the processing for analysis, and reporting. Streaming analytics, on the other hand, is low latency analytics, defined by Forrester as 'software that can filter, aggregate, enrich, and analyze a high throughput of data from multiple disparate live data sources and in any data format to identify simple and complex patterns to visualize business in real-time, detect urgent situations, and automate immediate actions.' Speaking to us recently, Slim Baltagi, Director of Big Data Engineering at Capital One, used the comparison that batch analytics was like drinking bottled water while streaming was like drinking straight from the hose.
With batch processing, events are collected together based on the number of records or a certain period of time and stored somewhere to be processed as a finite data set. This can lead to unnecessary latencies between data generation and analysis and action on the data, which means it can lose its value. This could actually result in additional costs and reduce a company's competitive edge. There is also an implicit presumption in batch analytics that the data is complete, which may not be the case.
In streaming analytics, the system remembers the query and every time the data changes, the answer adapts accordingly. This allows for high volumes of data processing in very little time. Most data is available as a series of events, for example, click streams, mobile apps data, and so forth, that is continuously produced by a variety of applications and systems in the enterprise. Streaming analytics does not rely on typical enterprise sources, instead it uses social media data, sensor data, and the like. By connecting to external data sources, applications can integrate certain data from both internal and external sources into the same central hub.
The benefits of streaming analytics are many. For one, the speed at which data is processed, analyzed, and fed back into local systems greatly accelerates decision-making. The data has the potential to identify costs before they spiral, errors before they swell into a problem, and risks before they become existential threats. With zero data waiting time, the data is also more accurate, as nothing gets lost, overseen or outdated, as the velocity and volume of data is not an issue. Essentially, it offers everything that batch processing does, only a lot faster, so that action can be taken in time to exploit the information - whether this be visibility into what customer behaviors, potential new products, or fraud detection.
There are, however, disadvantages with streaming analytics. Systems based on streaming analytics require more resources at the beginning, although they do become more cost-effective as time goes on and there are many open source stream processing tools available, including Apache Storm, Spark Streaming, and Apache Flink. Since streaming analytics occurs immediately, companies also have only a small window to act on the analytics data before the data loses its value, which is not something all companies are capable of doing. There is also an issue around a lack of experts in streaming analytics, which is still a fairly nascent technology. Forrester analysts Mike Gualtieri and Rowan Curran in a Q3 2014 Forrester report on Big Data and Streaming Analytics noted that, 'The streaming application programming model is unfamiliar to most application developers.' The dearth of Data Scientists is a much publicized problem, and since streaming analytics is still a recent technology adoption is slow by most developers due to their lack of expertise.
There are now more mobile devices than people in the US, and as the IoT grows there is going to be a huge growth in the number of sensors. Streaming analytics is only going to become more important for ensuring that this data has value. Organizations will need to adapt their existing data management and analytics processes for the IoT age, but they need to be careful. They need to select the best data processing system for the job at hand rather than going for what's trendy, as whether batch or stream is required depends on the types and sources of data and processing time needed to get the job done. Not every job requires low latency analytics. They also need the infrastructure in place, or risk causing more harm than good. While streaming analytics is undeniably growing, and with good reason, batch analytics is not going away any time soon.
Is Big Data Still Overhyped?


This video by derwoodvw shows just how far technology has come – in this case weapons-making. It focuses on the latest version of the Shuty MP-1, which has the charging handle moved to the opposite side and utilizes the new Gluty lower designed by Warfairy specifically for the Shuty MP-1. The Gluty lower allows the MP-1 to accept Glock 17 magazines. The Gluty lower has had over 3,000 rounds fired with it and the new upper has had 1,200 rounds fired through it. Like any semiautomatic, the Shuty MP-1 can fire bullets one after another fed in by a magazine, in this case 9mm rounds.
The first version of the Shuty was first released on video last summer. Apparently, it was the first 3D-printed semiautomatic handgun. The second version was actually a hybrid firearm that was made of mostly 3D-printed components and some parts from a standard AR-15. The MP1 also has a Glock barrel, hammer, firing pin, bolts, and springs — all parts that can be bought fairly easily and aren't officially and/or fully regulated.
Before shooting it, he explains that there have been a few small modifications to the gun, such as some reinforcing to the upper and fine-tuning to the timing on the ejector so that it never jams. He goes on to do some pretty cool test shooting using the Shuty MP-1. The gun actually looks more sturdy than some production guns.
The latest version of the Shuty improved on the previous design in just about every way imaginable: it is smaller and more streamlined, has fewer metal parts, and the gun itself has fewer parts for easier and more efficient assembly. The Shuty MP-1 may be a hybrid 3D-printed gun, but it definitely doesn't look like it. As you will see in the video, the MP-1 fires quite smoothly and according to the creator, it shoots great, too.


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La Copa Corona MX Apertura 2017 fue la edición 51 de la Copa México que inició el ciclo correspondiente a la temporada 2017-2018. El torneo comenzó el 25 de julio y concluyó el 21 de diciembre.

Como principal singularidad del torneo, fue la primera vez desde que reinició el certamen copero (2012), que coincidieron los cuatro clubes más populares del fútbol mexicano (América, Guadalajara, Cruz Azul y Pumas). Además, se encontró el retorno a esta competencia de Tigres UANL, ausente en las cinco últimas ediciones, debido a su participación en la Copa Libertadores 2015 y en la Liga de Campeones de la Concacaf de 2015-16 y 2016-17.

Debido al sismo ocurrido en la Ciudad de México el 19 de septiembre, el torneo sufrió diversos cambios, pues la final estaba pactada para principios de noviembre, pero tuvo que recorrerse hasta finales de diciembre por los cambios en el calendario en otras competiciones y además porque el equipo finalista Pachuca participó en la Copa Mundial de Clubes de la FIFA 2017.

Sistema de competencia
La competencia de la Copa Corona MX es organizada por la Liga Bancomer MX y Ascenso Bancomer MX. Participaron en la Copa Corona MX A17 un total de 27 clubes: 17 clubes de la Liga Bancomer MX y 10 clubes del Ascenso Bancomer MX los cuales se eligieron de acuerdo a su clasificación en la temporada de la respectiva liga.

Por lo que hace a los clubes de la Liga Bancomer MX, participaron todos los clubes de esta división, a excepción del club recién ascendido (Lobos BUAP).

En cuanto a los clubes de Ascenso Bancomer MX, participaron solo 10 clubes de esta división, descontando a los clubes Cafetaleros, Correcaminos, Venados, Murciélagos y Tampico Madero, quienes ocuparon los últimos cinco lugares en la tabla general de clasificación de la temporada 2016-17, y también a la nueva plaza del Ascenso Bancomer MX (Atlético de San Luis).

Fase de clasificación
Se integra por 4 Jornadas a jugar en 6 fechas, en las que los clubes jugaron solo con rivales de su grupo en series ida y vuelta. Los 27 clubes participantes se dividirán en 9 grupos de 3 equipos cada uno.

Los equipos de cada grupo jugaron 2 juegos ida y vuelta que se califican de la siguiente forma:
 Por juego ganado se obtendrán tres puntos
 Por juego empatado se obtendrá un punto
 Por juego perdido cero puntos

Si al finalizar las 4 Jornadas, tres o más Clubes estuviesen empatados en puntos, su posición en la Tabla General de Clasificación será determinada atendiendo a los siguientes criterios de desempate:
 Mejor diferencia entre los goles anotados y recibidos
 Mayor número de goles anotados
 Marcadores particulares entre los Clubes empatados
 Mayor número de goles anotados como visitante
 Mejor ubicado en la Tabla General de Cociente
 Tabla Fair Play
 Sorteo

Para determinar los lugares que ocuparon los Clubes que participaron en la Fase Final de la Copa Corona MX A17, se tomará como base la Tabla General de Clasificación al término del Torneo.

Fase final
Participaron por el título de campeón de la Copa Corona MX A17, los primeros lugares de los 9 grupos y los 7 mejores segundos.

En esta fase los equipos se enfrentaron a un solo partido resultando vencedor el que anote el mayor número de goles en el tiempo reglamentario de juego. En caso de empate en goles o que no se haya anotado ninguno, para decidir al ganador del encuentro se ejecutarían series de tiros penales.

El partido se lleva a cabo en el estadio del club que tenga mejor ubicación en la tabla general de clasificación del torneo de Copa.

La fase final se jugó de la siguiente forma:
 Octavos de final
 1 vs 16 → CF1
 2 vs 15 → CF2
 3 vs 14 → CF3
 4 vs 13 → CF4
 5 vs 12 → CF5
 6 vs 11 → CF6
 7 vs 10 → CF7
 8 vs 9 → CF8
 Cuartos de final
 CF1 vs CF8 → SF1
 CF2 vs CF7 → SF2
 CF3 vs CF6 → SF3
 CF4 vs CF5 → SF4
 Semifinales
 SF1 vs SF4 → F1
 SF2 vs SF3 → F2
 Final
 F1 vs F2

Información de los equipos

Equipos por Entidad Federativa
Para esta edición, las entidades federativas de la República Mexicana con más equipos en la Copa México fueron Jalisco y Ciudad de México; con tres equipos cada una.

Estadios

Sorteo
El 6 de junio a las 20:00 h; se llevó a cabo el sorteo de la Copa Corona MX.

 El Bombo 1 está conformado por Guadalajara como campeón defensor en este certamen, además los 4 mejores ubicados en la tabla de la temporada 2016-17 de la Liga Bancomer MX, y los 4 mejores ubicados en la tabla de la temporada 2016-17 del Ascenso Bancomer MX.

 El Bombo 2 está conformado por los siguientes 4 mejores ubicados en la tabla de la temporada 2016-17 de la Liga Bancomer MX, y los siguientes 5 mejor ubicados en la tabla de la temporada 2016-17 del Ascenso Bancomer MX.

 El Bombo 3 está conformado por los clubes que ocuparon últimos 8 lugares en la tabla de la temporada 2016-17 de la Liga Bancomer MX, y el mejor de los clubes restantes en la tabla de la temporada 2016-17 del Ascenso Bancomer MX.

Fase de grupos

Grupo 1

Grupo 2

Grupo 3

Grupo 4

Grupo 5

Grupo 6

Grupo 7

Grupo 8

Grupo 9

Mejores segundos

Tabla de clasificados

Fase final

 Campeón clasifica a la Supercopa MX 2017-18.

Octavos de final

Toluca - Atlante

León - Querétaro

Monterrey - Universidad de Guadalajara

Morelia - Tijuana

Pachuca - Zacatepec

Santos - Necaxa

América - Cruz Azul

Guadalajara - Atlas

Cuartos de final

Chivas - Atlante

Pachuca - Tijuana

América - Querétaro

Monterrey - Santos Laguna

Semifinales

Pachuca - Atlante

Monterrey - América

Final

Monterrey - Pachuca

Ficha

Estadísticas

Clasificación juego limpio
 Datos según la página oficial.

Máximos goleadores
Lista con los máximos goleadores del torneo, * Datos según la página oficial.

Asistencia
Lista con la asistencia del Copa Corona MX, * Datos según la página oficial de la competición.
 Fecha de actualización:

Véase también
 Copa Corona MX
 Torneo Apertura 2017 Liga Bancomer MX
 Torneo Apertura 2017 Ascenso Bancomer MX
 Torneo Apertura 2017 Liga MX Femenil

Notas

Referencias

A2017
Fútbol en 2017
Deporte en México en 2017

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The activity appears focused on abuse of social media, through American-looking posts and sites, instead of big cyberattacks or disrupting voting systems. So far, it's more modest than the influence campaign Russia is accused of carrying out in 2016, and Russia is not alone — it's just one source of online manipulation ahead of Tuesday's election.Russia denies interference, and may not be able to affect the outcome anyway, but has reason to be interested in the election result.
One Russian has been charged so far by U.S. officials of interference in 2018 election campaign: Elena Khusyaynova, a bookkeeper with the Internet Research Agency, the "troll factory" accused of manipulating the 2016 U.S. campaign.
It is unclear how many Americans saw postings financed by Khusyaynova's activity.
The Russian troll factory's owners, the Federal News Agency, registered three domain names in April aimed at the U.S. market, according to the SPARK-Interfax database. The websites all lead readers to a site called USAReally, aimed at showing American audiences news that has been "hushed up" by the mainstream media.
Its Russian roots aren't hard to find. Its Russian chief editor, Alexander Malkevich, is openly critical of Democrats and says "America won" when Donald Trump became president.
Its readership remains small, in the tens of thousands, which Malkevich blames on "censorship" by Facebook and Twitter. It is trying to amplify its voice via links on other media.
It's unclear how many people saw the content, which is no longer available on Twitter itself.
In August, Facebook and security firm FireEye revealed influence campaigns on the social network originating in Russia and Iran. Experts say Russia's alleged actions in the 2016 U.S. election may have encouraged Iran to follow suit.
Microsoft executives said recently that the company had detected attempts by Russia's GRU military intelligence agency to hack into the campaigns of two senators, and disabled Russian-launched websites disguised as U.S. think tanks and Senate sites.
It's not clear whether Russians are again targeting U.S. voting systems. U.S. officials have said that before the 2016 general election, Russian agents probed at least 21 state election systems.


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Peter Henning (* 1959 in Hanau) ist ein deutscher Journalist und Schriftsteller. Er lebt seit 2005 in Köln.

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Peter Henning studierte Germanistik und Philosophie in Frankfurt am Main. Seit 1985 ist er als freier Journalist für verschiedene deutsche Zeitungen und Rundfunkanstalten tätig, später wurde er Leiter des Literatur-Ressorts bei der Schweizer Weltwoche. Seit 2015 unterrichtet er als Lehrbeauftragter der Universität zu Köln am germanistischen Seminar Kreatives Schreiben.

Peter Henning ist Verfasser von Romanen, Erzählungen und Gedichten. 1984 erhielt er den Kulturpreis des Main-Kinzig-Kreises, 1996 den Literaturpreis der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung. Für das Romanprojekt "Die Chronik des verpassten Glücks" erhielt er ein Osteuropa-Stipendium der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, Stuttgart.

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 Licht und Schatten. Schmanke, Hanau am Main 1984, ISBN 3-924464-00-6
 Parkgeschichten und andere. Schlender, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-88051-041-5
 Als Herausgeber: Einpacken und abhauen. Byblos, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-929029-32-4 (Reisegeschichten)
 Tod eines Eisvogels. Roman. Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Köln 1997, ISBN 3-462-02609-7
 Aus der Spur. Eine Erzählung. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-39656-0
 Giganten. 18 Geschichten. Residenz, Salzburg [u. a.] 2002, ISBN 3-7017-1303-0
 Linda und die Flugzeuge. Roman. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-23994-9
 Die Ängstlichen. Roman. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3351-03267-8
 Leichtes Beben. Roman. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3351033569
 Der schöne Schatten. Meeresnovelle. Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88747-269-6
 Ein deutscher Sommer. Roman. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-35103-542-6
 Die Chronik des verpassten Glücks. Roman. Luchterhand, München 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87446-3
 Mein Schmetterlingsjahr. Ein Reisebericht. Konrad Theiss, Darmstadt 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-3687-3
 Die Tüchtigen. Roman. Luchterhand, München 2019, ISBN 978-3-630-87447-0
 Die Tote von Sant Andreu. Roman. Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-88747-375-4

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 Erzählungen und Rezensionsbeiträge von Henning im Online-Magazin faust – abgerufen am 23. Oktober 2018
 Deutsche Welle: Peter Henning - Meine Liebe zu den Schmetterlingen Fernsehinterview (2018) zum Buch Mein Schmetterlingsjahr

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First, a confession. I am inclined to be influenced by the reputation of products. In the event that I see everyone is purchasing something I have a tendency to go along for the ride. My reasoning? Well, if everybody wants it, it has to be fantastic, right? Obviously, that's not often true but sales volume could be a good indication of quality. Luckily for you, I actually have some sales information for Hot Legs Workout. First, I have a thing called Gravity which comes directly from the payment processor. It gives us a rough hint of sales volume. Hot Legs Workout has a gravity of 0, which is pretty low and could mean a low quality product, something I'd hate to see you waste your money on. Now, this gravity figure may not mean much to you. Hence, dear readers, I have compared the gravities of every product on this website and created a sales rank! A rate of 100 implies that it is the most popular product here … and all the way down to 1 with the worst seller. So how about Hot Legs Workout? Basically, it gets a sales rank of 42.75, which indicates it's definitely below average – I would recommend you see if any options do better.
Of course, I opt to give my readers more than just sales stats. You want to know about a product's quality. Unfortunately, my time restrictions (and bank balance!) don't allow me to try every product personally. So I use another stat – the refund rate.This stat comes directly from the payment processor, when it was available for a brief time. Hot Legs Workout scores 3 /5 which is the average score and implies we either don't have any refund data or the refund amount is at a satisfactory level – should be Okay to proceed here.
The Hot Legs Workout Web-page – what does it reveal?
Okay, what else can I say to you? Well, why don't we take a look at the domain that this product is purchased from (hotlegsworkout.com)? There are a few stats available that will give usa better idea about how reliable the product is. For starters, we know the site has 6 pages – the idea is that the more pages it has, the older and more trustworthy it is. So, in this case, 6 is definitely not that many and could mean this site is new. But, obviously, you couldn't just judge a site by the number of pages it has. They could all be rubbish! Instead, let's learn something from Google's book and take a look at the amount of other websites that are backlinking in to this one. Lots of links from quality sites indicates that this one is sure to be quality too. So hotlegsworkout.com has 34 backlinks with an authority score of 23.89/100, which means it has some links coming in, but it's still substandard (tread carefully).
We're nearing the end of this review now, but I still believe there's a few more data to be found. I've hunted high and low and created a list of all the other products this vendor is selling, and also any specials they have on at the moment. Let's take a look… So, it seems Hot Legs Workout has 1 special product(s) on sale.


In November of 2003 I immigrated to United States of America after getting married in Sweden to Jerry Zwahlen a farmer from Lincoln County. Since my license to work as a nurse in USA was not finished I had some free time to do something else than study for the license and I choose pottery since that was something I always wanted to try out but never had time for earlier. I went to an evening class in Danville and learned to work with the clay, believe it or not but it took me at least 3 lessons to learn to center the clay on the wheel before I even could try to do something with it. I also had some lessons from Marianne Brown in Lawrenceburg. I was juried in to the Sheltowee Artisans, an Art Guild in Somerset, in 2005.
I like to do pottery that can be used for a purpose, mostly bowls, mugs, vases and of course I also do some things that are just for fun. In Sweden we have a little red hat figure called a Gnome or Tomte, I love them and want everybody else to like them too.
My clay is from Highwater Clay and I use their speckled clay, I fire in a digital electric kiln it is easy to get the right temperature in. My glazes are mostly mixed from dry mixture but my hand painted Gnomes are all done with already mixed glazes. I fire to cone 6 when I glaze fire and cone 06 when I bisque fire.
I have always liked to work with my hands so it felt natural to start working with the clay. My motto is: From the earth through my hands to you. It really fits all the things I do because I also weave on a big floor loom that I had shipping from Sweden. I love to use natural materials when I do my entire handicraft so that it comes from the earth fits very well.
I have my studio in the basement of our house at 4115 Hwy 643 in Ottenheim, Lincoln County. Anybody who wants to come and see my pottery or get a gift for someone is welcome to call me. I try to be open Saturdays between 9:00 am-3:00 pm for anyone who wants to come out to check out how pottery is made on the wheel, best to call first if you have a long drive (606-669-9855).


A couple of weeks ago I still had long hair. Okay, okay, I know some of you that follow me on Instagram will contest that it is by no means short now.. But I did voluntarily have 15 centimeters of my precious locks cut off. Exhibits can be found on my Instagram. I blame Pinterest, because with all of those mid length hair pictures in my feed it was nearly impossible not to take one of the pictures to the hairdresser and have her change my hair style. My hair is naturally quite lifeless and a bit frizzy (my untamed manes are not a pretty sight), so I often opt for styling tools to add some life to it or to maintain the frizz. After years of using a styling iron, I've been converted to the religion of The Curling Wand during the Summer. Curls are the bomb! But of course I couldn't just stop there.. I had seen this hot roller set in action on YouTube and I had my mind set on it.
When I got to browse around on this pretty extensive webshop called Fonq that also sells a decent amount of curling sets, I knew exactly what I was going to pick for this article. Time to see if we'd get along just as well as all those hair styling gurus on YouTube. First of all I was a bit surprised at how easy it is to mess it all up by not dividing your hair properly. Rollers and clips all over the place. The right way to do it is to start by dividing your hair into two equal parts, and then roll in section by section, securing every roller with a butterfly clip. Yes, this requires some patience. I'll admit that I don't always have enough of it. The set I chose by Babyliss also has some metal clips which were nice to use whenever I couldn't fit in any extra butterfly clips when there were too many in one area. I think you're probably on to the fact that I seem to be incapable of really dividing the rollers equally. I always seem to have a huge concentration of rollers in one place, but I'm sure your skills might well be better.
Most sets have rollers in different sizes, which obviously make different kind of curls. I like to use the biggest ones, since my main goal with these hot rollers was to obtain some more volume and to look like I've just paid big bucks for a blowdrying session. It's more about the volume, and less about the curls. The rollers heat up inside of the box & get quite hot, I found that sometimes I had to drop one because I was afraid to get burns on my fingers. The trick is to keep your fingers on the plastic edges at all times! It's recommended to leave the rollers in until they've cooled down, which is about fifteen to twenty minutes. Moving around too swiftly will definitely result in hot rollers everywhere, so watch some tv, read a book or read some blogs while waiting it out. Then unwind the rollers very gently, don't pull!
The result on my long (very slightly layered) hair is, if I may so, quite nice! I got quite some compliments about the amount of volume in my hair when using the rollers, even when the curls had already vanished the day after. If you really want the curls to stay exactly like this all day through, I recommend using a lot of styling mousse before styling your hair as well as finishing off with a decent hairspray that has some holding power. So why the little rant about my shorter hair in the first paragraph? Right. I can't seem to make these hot rollers work in my shorter hair. It just doesn't look the same.. It's all poofy and nineties-like. Unless I'm doing something seriously wrong here.
In the hot curling rollers section of Fonq you can find these sets in different sizes & shapes. I got the BabylissPRO Ceramic set (courtesy of Fonq.be), but in hindsight I might have been happier with two sets of huge volume rollers. Either way, I found them way easier to use in long hair than I thought! If you have any tips on how to make these work for shoulder length hair.. Hook me up!


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How I have gone as long as I have without delving into the subject of die casts? I really don't know, but for this week's column, we are going to discuss it. Racing as a sport is half man, half machine. When it comes to collectibles, they both get virtually equal billing. One of the biggest collectibles in racing is the legendary die cast car.
Die cast cars began as an industry in the early 20th Century, but the early cars were very basic, with a simple body design and rolling wheels. They were of very poor quality, lacked detail, and often broke for no apparent reason. An zinc-based alloy named Zamak solved this problem. In 1953 Jack Odell, co-owner of Lesney Products in England had a moment that revolutionized the industry forever. His daughter went to a school that allowed the students to bring toys, provided they were small enough to fit in a matchbox. He created a small die cast steam roller that could easily fit in a matchbox. For the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, he created a similarly sized model of her Coronation coach. After selling 1 million of these small coaches, he realized he was on to something, and thus the Matchbox line of die cast cars was born. In 1968 Mattel launched the Hot Wheels brand, which, like Matchbox created cars in 1:64 scale, or S-Scale for railroading. In 1997 after being sold numerous times, Mattel bought Matchbox and has been fostering the brand ever since.
Dave Blaney #77 Plinker Arms Ford Fusion I would love for the side design to be more simplified. It is a decent scheme, but the door design is too busy, and it is very distracting. I give this scheme a C-, bad design, good color scheme.
Ryan Truex #83 Borla Exhaust Toyota Camry This is actually a great scheme, with the oversized exhaust design that starts on the area where the real exhaust starts, and extends to just under the numbers. The number has been redesigned since last year and they work very well. I give this scheme an A.
Andy Granatelli-Former CEO of STP, partially responsible for STP's sponsorship of Richard Petty.
Bruce Pepper-Brother of ThorSport Racing GM David Pepper.
Now comes the best news of the new year so far…THE ROLEX 24 AT DAYTONA STARTS LATER TODAY! The TUDOR United SportsCar Championship starts off the racing season later today. Fox will carry the first part of the race starting at 2PM/1PM CST, and Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2 will carry the race as well. You had better believe I will be watching and enjoying it.
On the first anniversary of the founding of The Driver Suit Blog I felt it appropriate to analyze the first two NASCAR driver suits I ever bought. I started in the driver suit hobby in March of 2010, with a Bill Sedgwick Die Hard driver suit from the Craftsman Truck Series in 1996. I purchased this specific item for a number of reasons, first, it was well within my price range, and second, I wanted a low-end example that I can look at and get a general feel for aspects that I will see in other driver suits.
Some of the stuff I learned from this particular suit helped me understand the very basics of design aspects on race-worn driver suits. Some of the aspects I discovered from that were completely different and it was through subsequent research that I began to understand driver suits more. I have kept it for as long as I have is because I love the suit, and I even though I have had it for almost 4 years, I still find aspects about it that interest me.
The suit is custom designed for Darrell Waltrip's Craftsman Truck Series team. Sedgwick drove the #17 Chevy C-1500 for the entire 1996 season, whereas Waltrip drove the #5 truck for a very limited schedule. Sedgwick had 3 top 5's and 8 top 10's in the 23 of the 24 races that year, and led a total of 8 laps. Sedgwick was released at the end of the season.
The triple-layer suit is custom designed for Sedgwick, with the Sears Die Hard logos on the collar and shoulder epaulets, Sears Die Hard logos across the front and Sedgwick's name on the right chest, no arm gussets, no adornment on the belt, TV logos and safety stripes on the legs, TV logos on the sleeves, and a huge logo across the back. I purchased a press kit for this suit, which I covered in December, concerning this suit, and I realized that the suit Sedgwick is wearing in the promotional photo is the same suit that is in my collection. I keep the press kit in my authentication binder with the rest of my COA's and LOA's The other suit I bought, my first Winston Cup suit was a Lake Speed suit from 1997, this one is a bit different. In 1997, Speed was racing for Melling Racing, which in 1997 was a shell of its former self. Melling had 34 victories and the 1988 Winston Cup Championship, but by 1997, they had no real sponsorship, and had not won a race since 1991. During that season Lake Speed didn't score a top 5, top 10, or victory, and only led 3 laps in the 25 races he raced in that year. Due to the lack of sponsorship, Speed didn't have the luxury of having a custom-made suit that season so he wore what appears to be a store bought suit. It looks like the suit was purchased either from a store or a catalog, and customized for Lake's use. There are no large sponsor logos on the collar, shoulder epaulets, torso, sleeves, or legs. The legs have a cuff cut, as opposed to a boot cut like the Bill Sedgwick suit has.
Everyone who has a hobby or an interest started somewhere. With me, it was with these two driver suits. No matter what you do in your hobby, or how high you fly in your hobby, you were a rookie, and you started from somewhere. Never forget where you came from. These two suits are a reminder of what I was, and I love these two.
Before we get to paint schemes, I need to say something to my readers. When I started this project one year ago, I never thought it would take off as much as it did. I have a group of really awesome readers and followers. I also owe a special thanks to Paul Lukas of Uni-Watch, because if I had never written my two articles for Uni-Watch in 2013, I would never have done the research I did for them, and I would never have had the frustration of not finding research from the collector's perspective, and The Driver Suit would never have been born. To all my readers, from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you! Stay Tuned because 2014 will be even better than 2013!
Jamie McMurray #1 McDonald's Chevy SS Same great design as last year, same A grade.
Danica Patrick #10 Go Daddy Chevy SS Not only does Go Daddy continue to use the worst shade of yellow in NASCAR, they also have given the worst shade of orange a more prominent role in the car. Givng this car an F is a very fair grade.
Clint Bowyer #15 5 Hour Energy Toyota Camry Same scheme as last year, same B+ grade.
Kyle Busch #18 M&M's Toyota Camry Same scheme as last year, same A+ grade.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. #88 Diet Mountain Dew Chevy SS Same scheme as last year, but I never gave it a grade. So here is my analysis Not a great scheme, too much needless design on the side of the car, and the silver background is just brutal. The red lettering on a green background is unattractive at best, and all in all, this is a D- grade.
Carl Edwards #99 Aflac Ford Fusion This has a terrible color scheme, with lime green, neon blue, black and white. The wing design is not only ugly but would work better starting at the door and working behind.
Chicago hit -15 on Monday, and due to the fact I work outside, I was in the middle of it. The temperature was much more hospitable in Daytona Beach where Preseason Thunder took place at Daytona Motor Speedway. Thursday's testing session was rained out, but Friday's session took place.
The two major things that happened at Preseason Thunder were that #1 NASCAR was testing a new spoiler for restrictor plate racing. This new spoiler is a half-inch higher, which in theory will make the cars much more stable in the back end. NASCAR is hopeful, but not fully sold yet, so the new spoilers have the word TEST stamped into it.
it is hard to put into words how much I love that suit. Seriously, I hope Brad Keselowski wears a suit like that for the whole season.
*Joey Logano was wearing a Puma driver suit for this session. He was wearing an FMF suit in 2013, so it looks as though he's got a new deal.
*Jimmie Johnson, who is running a very nice 2014 scheme, ran a very impressive testing scheme, which I honestly hope gets used on track sometime in 2014.
*Dale Jr. was using a neat looking font on his numbers, again it would look really good on the regular car.
*Aric Almirola had the best thing I have ever seen on the back of a race car, no questions asked!
*Last year, the Ford Fusion had a grill design that led to grills popping off during races. The design was changed so that the whole nose, grill included is now one piece.
*There was a major announcement concerning qualifying. After the Daytona 500 there will be a new qualifying format. That format has yet to be announced. The Camping World Truck Series and the Nationwide Series will have a brand new qualifying format starting at Daytona. Again, these formats have yet to be announced.
*For the Daytona 500, Trevor Bayne will wear a special helmet with a wood grain design based on an old Ford design.
Tetsuo Fuchigami aka George Tet-first Japanese Sprint Cup driver.
Ernie Derr-Winningest Driver in IMCA history.
There was also a tragic incident at the Dakar Rally where a writer and fan were killed.
"Press Kit" Does NOT Mean Ironing a Uniform!
Hope you all had a great holiday season, whatever you celebrate. I turned 32 on Thursday, and am celebrating the first year of the The Driver Suit Blog. Ok, enough sappy stuff, on to this week's column.We've discussed photo-matching before, but here is something regarding photo matching that many people don't know about, using press kits to photo match a suit. Press Kits are defined on Wikipedia as "a prepackaged set of promotional materials of a person, company, or organization distributed to the media for promotional use." In sports, these are usually distributed to the media, prior to the start of the season, and usually contain information about players, statistics on players, history of the teams, photos, and the occasional gift.
The first NASCAR box break of 2014, I open 4 boxes of 1994 Finish Line Gold, and the results speak for themselves!