#Michelle Viscusi

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Team Glock Michelle Viscuzi and the _PewView guy

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Glock Vs Staccato With Competitive Shooter Michelle Viscusi

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Michelle Viscusi posing on the range

Michelle has served as a Military Police in the Army, been a contestant on the TV show Top Shot and was selected as a professional competitive shooter for Team Glock. 

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Wow..Michelle Viscusi, Team Glock (Taken from Facebook)..

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Interviews, short stories, CENTRAL STATION, and more with Lavie Tidhar

It’s become abundantly obvious that this is Lavie Tidhar’s reality and we’re all just living it.

Tidhar was interviewed in FROM EARTH TO THE STARS, the ASIMOV’S author and editor blog, about his short story “Neom.”

Asimov’s Editor: What is the story behind “Neom”?

LT: I’ve been visiting the Red Sea for twenty years now (on the Egyptian side), and I was always struck by looking just across the water to the Arabian Peninsula, and that huge stretch of desert along the Red Sea coast is, of course, Saudi Arabia. Then I came across crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS)’s plan to build this sort of cyberpunk utopia called Neom there! I mean it has a promotional Youtube video and everything . . . And I’ve been recently very interested in the idea of future cities, and I knew I had to write about it. If only because I find the idea of a cyberpunk utopia so very terrifying . . .

And by Michele Chiappetta at RECURSOR.

Your novel CENTRAL STATION has received much acclaim. What inspired you to write it?

I was living in Tel Aviv back in 2010, and I became kind of obsessed with the old Central Bus Station area, as well as the new station itself, which is this crazy, enormous place with its own nuclear fallout shelter, if you can believe it. And, you know, most of my novels fall into this weird, political, alternate history, noir sort of thing, and I wanted to do something completely different — just write about these people and this place.

And I always loved mosaic novels, especially in science fiction. That’s where a lot of the classics are. But it always struck me as quite a difficult thing to do, from a technical point of view. So, that was the challenge.

I wrote it now and then over the next five years or so. Some of the stories got into various Year’s Best anthologies. A few got translated into various languages. And then one day it was done. I just didn’t expect anyone would actually read it.

On The Italian site STAY NERD, Andrea Viscusi views Tidhar’s work through the lens of CENTRAL STATION and the short story collection Terminale Terra.

The strength of Lavie Tidhar's stories lies precisely in this: not originality, understood as the innovative power of ideas, but the work of unification with which the author drew the constituent elements of science fiction and made it a playground. in which a multiplicity of actors and situations collide. CENTRAL STATION and Terminale Terra are not to be read for the research of mindblowing ideas, but for the naturalness with which the ideas are treated. Those who follow and know science fiction (above all literary, but not only) will be able to recognize dozens of citations and references, but those who are more distant can still appreciate the constant unfolding of stories of normal people in exceptional contexts. The enthusiast and the neophyte can therefore be considered both satisfied, even if for different reasons.

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Massimo Luciani on the Italian site NETMASSIO reviews the short story "The Memcordist."

"The Memcordist" is set in the same narrative universe as the novel CENTRAL STATION: the two works are autonomous but Pym is explicitly mentioned in the novel therefore among the stories of Lavie Tidhar is perhaps the one that most completes the novel. The various contrasts created by the author in my opinion give the story its emotional strength which is why I believe it is worth reading.

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Rich Horton’s “Memories of 2018″ for LOCUS includes Tidhar’s “The Buried Giant.”

“The Buried Giant”, by Lavie Tidhar (Robots vs Fairies) tells (literally – it’s an expertly framed story) of the dangerous adventures of a boy in a post-apocalyptic world who wants to be a “real boy” (i.e. robot), and in the process encounters a robot cat and a robot fox, and a dead girl and a manshonyagger. Powerful work.

Two new Tidhar stories appeared recently: “Venus in Bloom” (CLARKESWORLD ISSUE 148, JANUARY 2019) and “Dem Bones” (STRANGE HORIZONS 18 FEBRUARY 2019).

At TOR.COM, K Chess’ Five Fictional Books Inside of Real Books includes The Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante series.

The Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante series (from Osama by Lavie Tidhar)

Joe, a private investigator in an alternate reality, loves to read novels that detail the planning and execution of terrorist attacks—because global terrorism does not exist beyond their pages. A client who hires him to track down the series’ author sends Joe across the globe from Laos to Paris, London and New York, while shadowy operatives who want to keep the realities apart tail, assail, and finally imprison him. The Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante books are popular trade paperbacks with garish covers, released by an imprint that also publishes porn, but as Joe points out, they “read like the lab reports of a morgue, full of facts and figures all concerned with death.” The clinical excerpts Tidher includes from the books made me think about the chance casualties of these real attacks; it is Joe’s world that feels like a pulp.

And perhaps the most unexpected Tidhar sighting comes from the Stan Lee Wikipedia page under Fiction Portrayals.

In Lavie Tidhar's 2013 THE VIOLENT CENTURY , Lee appears – as Stanley Martin Lieber – as a historian of superhumans.

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

For more info about THE VIOLENT CENTURY, visit the Tachyon page.

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Team GLOCK Dominates in USPSA & IDPA Nationals

Team GLOCK Dominates in USPSA & IDPA Nationals

Team GLOCK Dominates in USPSA & IDPA Nationals SMYRNA, GA. – Oct 4, 2017 – (ArmsVault.com) – Members of Team GLOCK competed in back-to-back national competitions this past week and took home big wins. At the IDPA US National Championship on September 26th and September 27th in Cresson, Texas, team Captain Shane Coley and the team’s newest member Ashley Rheuark both took home national titles. …

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Team Glock’s Rheuark and Coley Earn Top Honors in Competition

Team Glock from left to right: Michelle Viscusi, Shane Coley and Ashley Rheuark. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)

Team Glock’s Ashley Rheuark and Shane Coley entered the 2019 competitive shooting season with a bang, taking first place at several competitions early in the season.

Rheuark took first at the 2019 Florida Open Championship in addition to defending her National Lady Title in the Tactical Division at the USPSA Multi-Gun Nationals in April with her Glock 34. Coley, Glock Team Captain, took first at the Alabama Section Championship then followed that up with Production Division win at the US Steel Challenge Nationals with his Glock 34.

“Steel Challenge has always been a challenging discipline for me mentally,” Coley said in a news release. “It is a different format that I have been working hard to succeed at for many years. With the support of Glock, I have been able to correct my weaknesses and prove that the Glock platform can compete in all forms of competitive shooting.”

Coley and Rheuark also both took wins in their divisions at the USPSA Area 6 Championship in Florida. Rheurak placed first in Carry Optics with her Glock 34 while Coley took first in the Limited Division with his Glock 24.

The team continues to compete looking to rack up wins for Team Glock.

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EU Leaders Tap Germany’s Von Der Leyen as Commission Chief

(Bloomberg) -- Ursula von der Leyen, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s defense minister and fellow conservative party member, was nominated by European Union leaders to become the bloc’s next chief executive after a brutal final round to weeks of horsetrading.The Council will also propose IMF chief Christine Lagarde to head the European Central Bank and Charles Michel as president of the European Council, outgoing President Donald Tusk tweeted. Spain’s Josep Borrell Fontelles will be foreign policy chief. Lagarde said in a tweet she would "temporarily relinquish her responsibilities as IMF Managing Director during the nomination process."Merkel, whose initial plans had suffered a setback on Sunday, came out with a German at the helm of the union. She abstained from voting in the 28-member council, after many of the German Social Democrats, her junior coalition partner, opposed the deal.Von der Leyen’s name emerged as a compromise after a Merkel-backed plan that would have given the job to the Socialists was rejected by her own center-right allies. It would be the first time a German holds the top EU job since Walter Hallstein was head of the Commission of the European Economic Community more than half a century ago.Her challenge will be to navigate a world of bruising trade wars, renewed geopolitical tension surrounding Iran, as well calls for increased transparency and representation within the bloc itself.A deputy leader of Merkel’s Christian Democratic party, von der Leyen must still be ratified by an absolute majority in the European Parliament to become commission president.A Political ModerateVon der Leyen, 60, is the only minister who has been in Merkel’s government since the German leader took office in 2005. As a trained doctor who raised seven children, she cut a compelling figure in German politics -- and for most of the 14 years of Merkel’s stewardship was considered a natural successor as chancellor.More recently, her once-bright political star faded somewhat. At the defense ministry, von der Leyen has faced probing questions about Germany’s military readiness, procurement projects that have run aground, and the prevalence of outside consultants.When Merkel abandoned the party leadership late last year, von der Leyen stayed in the background and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer took the job instead. Within the CDU, von der Leyen has been a champion of Merkel’s moderate course, backing pension increases, expansion of childcare and gender quotas that sections of her party had opposed. Those positions never helped her expand a base of support among conservatives.Brussels HomecomingA top post in Brussels would be a homecoming for von der Leyen, who was born in the Belgian capital in 1958 while her father, Ernst Albrecht, was a senior official in the European Commission. Albrecht returned the family to West Germany, where he served as state premier of Lower Saxony from 1976 to 1990.A strong advocate of trans-Atlantic cooperation, Von der Leyen was a latecomer to politics, entering the CDU in 1990. She had previously worked as a gynecologist in the Lower Saxon capital Hanover. While then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl promoted Merkel to his cabinet after East and West Germany reunited in 1990, von der Leyen won a seat in her home-state legislature in 2003 after her children were born.In Merkel’s government she served as family minister, labor minister and defense minister. Von der Leyen lived in California for years and is fluent in English and French.(Adds Lagarde detail in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Richard Bravo, Ben Sills, Nikos Chrysoloras, Ian Wishart, Viktoria Dendrinou, Gregory Viscusi, Alexander Weber, Marine Strauss, Jan Bratanic, Lyubov Pronina, Milda Seputyte, Jasmina Kuzmanovic, Raymond Colitt, Caroline Alexander, Arne Delfs and Ewa Krukowska.To contact the reporters on this story: Patrick Donahue in Brussels at pdonahue1@bloomberg.net;Stephanie Bodoni in Brussels at sbodoni@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, Richard Bravo, Raymond ColittFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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(Bloomberg) -- Ursula von der Leyen, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s defense minister and fellow conservative party member, was nominated by European Union leaders to become the bloc’s next chief executive after a brutal final round to weeks of horsetrading.The Council will also propose IMF chief Christine Lagarde to head the European Central Bank and Charles Michel as president of the European Council, outgoing President Donald Tusk tweeted. Spain’s Josep Borrell Fontelles will be foreign policy chief. Lagarde said in a tweet she would "temporarily relinquish her responsibilities as IMF Managing Director during the nomination process."Merkel, whose initial plans had suffered a setback on Sunday, came out with a German at the helm of the union. She abstained from voting in the 28-member council, after many of the German Social Democrats, her junior coalition partner, opposed the deal.Von der Leyen’s name emerged as a compromise after a Merkel-backed plan that would have given the job to the Socialists was rejected by her own center-right allies. It would be the first time a German holds the top EU job since Walter Hallstein was head of the Commission of the European Economic Community more than half a century ago.Her challenge will be to navigate a world of bruising trade wars, renewed geopolitical tension surrounding Iran, as well calls for increased transparency and representation within the bloc itself.A deputy leader of Merkel’s Christian Democratic party, von der Leyen must still be ratified by an absolute majority in the European Parliament to become commission president.A Political ModerateVon der Leyen, 60, is the only minister who has been in Merkel’s government since the German leader took office in 2005. As a trained doctor who raised seven children, she cut a compelling figure in German politics -- and for most of the 14 years of Merkel’s stewardship was considered a natural successor as chancellor.More recently, her once-bright political star faded somewhat. At the defense ministry, von der Leyen has faced probing questions about Germany’s military readiness, procurement projects that have run aground, and the prevalence of outside consultants.When Merkel abandoned the party leadership late last year, von der Leyen stayed in the background and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer took the job instead. Within the CDU, von der Leyen has been a champion of Merkel’s moderate course, backing pension increases, expansion of childcare and gender quotas that sections of her party had opposed. Those positions never helped her expand a base of support among conservatives.Brussels HomecomingA top post in Brussels would be a homecoming for von der Leyen, who was born in the Belgian capital in 1958 while her father, Ernst Albrecht, was a senior official in the European Commission. Albrecht returned the family to West Germany, where he served as state premier of Lower Saxony from 1976 to 1990.A strong advocate of trans-Atlantic cooperation, Von der Leyen was a latecomer to politics, entering the CDU in 1990. She had previously worked as a gynecologist in the Lower Saxon capital Hanover. While then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl promoted Merkel to his cabinet after East and West Germany reunited in 1990, von der Leyen won a seat in her home-state legislature in 2003 after her children were born.In Merkel’s government she served as family minister, labor minister and defense minister. Von der Leyen lived in California for years and is fluent in English and French.(Adds Lagarde detail in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Richard Bravo, Ben Sills, Nikos Chrysoloras, Ian Wishart, Viktoria Dendrinou, Gregory Viscusi, Alexander Weber, Marine Strauss, Jan Bratanic, Lyubov Pronina, Milda Seputyte, Jasmina Kuzmanovic, Raymond Colitt, Caroline Alexander, Arne Delfs and Ewa Krukowska.To contact the reporters on this story: Patrick Donahue in Brussels at pdonahue1@bloomberg.net;Stephanie Bodoni in Brussels at sbodoni@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, Richard Bravo, Raymond ColittFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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Senior Instructor Nick with Michelle Viscusi of Team Glock. #nraam2018 (at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas)

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Our first official video not on YouTube. At SHOT 2018, Andrew and Michelle Viscusi, Team GLOCK shooter, discuss the newly released Glock Gen 5 models as well as the Glock 19X. We also had the opportunity to shoot the new guns, which were the G26 Gen 5, the G34 Gen5, and the 19X. Turn on our Post Notifications on Instagram or subscribe to our blog for future video updates.

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Starstruck: The Celebs of NRAAM (PHOTOS)

The National Rifle Association’s Annual Meeting always brings out the celebrities. From YouTubers to politicians to movie stars, you never know who you might find mingling on the showroom floor. Guns.com played paparazzi this past weekend in Indianapolis, snapping pics of the stars we encountered on the NRA floor.

Guns.com reviewer Kristin Alberts snuggled up to Glock spokesman Chuck Norris. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

22Plinkster snapped at the Federal booth. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Iceman Chuck Liddell didn’t knock us out for this pic. (Photo: Daniel Terrill/Guns.com)

Ted Nugent giving us a big smile. (Photo: Daniel Terrill/Guns.com)

Hickock45 and his son John Hickock. (Photo: Ben Phillipi/Guns.com)

Lena Miculek of the Miculek dynasty hanging out at Hoppe’s. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

The Gun Collective’s Jon Patton checked out a CMMG rifle. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Max Michel, center, and, Kyle Lamb, right, discussed training tactics. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Team Glock from left to right: Michelle Viscusi, Shane Coley and Ashley Rheuark. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)

Genevieve from Beyond the Unknown said a quick hello to Guns.com. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Team Ruger shooters Maggie Reese Voigt and Beth Walker. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Competition shooter Mandy Bachman manned the IDPA booth at the show. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Semi Armed Life podcast hosts Mike and Alana were found perusing the Savage booth. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Jessie Harrison signed autographs for fans. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Shooting star and Springfield Armory front man Rob Leatham. (Photo: Daniel Terrill/Guns.com)

Cam Edwards in the midst of an interview. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Former NRA president and current NRA Board Member David Keene. (Photo: Daniel Terrill/Guns.com)

The Gun Collective Panel boasted a lot of YouTube stars. From left to right: Adam Kraut, Kentucky Ballistics, 22Plinkster, Military Arms Channel, Talon Sei, Mrgunsandgear, We Like Shooting’s Shawn Herrin, TFB TV’s James Reeves, Tactical Toolbox and John Lovell from Warrior Poet Society. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Rob Pincus looking dapper on the showroom floor. (Photo: Ben Phillipi/Guns.com)

Taran Butler and crew stopped by the Sig booth to chat. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

He’s at every show so we consider him a celebrity, the Alien Gear Holsters Alien posing with a fan. (Photo: Ben Phillipi/Guns.com)

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