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Monster Energy's Phil Davis defeats Yoel Romero at Bellator 266 in San Jose | New
SAN JOSE, California, September 19, 2021 / PRNewswire-PRWeb / – Back to the Winner's Circle! Monster Energy congratulates Phil davis beating Yoel Romero in the front page fight at Bellator 266 within the SAP Center in San jose, california, Saturday evening. In the Main Event bout, the 36-year-old light heavyweight fighter from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went the distance to claim the split decision victory (30-27, 28-29, 30-26), spoiling Romero's top-tier debut in the Bellator promotion.
Bellator 266 – Davis v Romero was contested in front of an energetic crowd at the SAP Center in San jose, california. The main card was broadcast on Showtime and the preliminaries presented by Monster Energy broadcast live on YouTube.
The main bout marked the expected Bellator MMA debut of Cuban professional mixed martial artist Romero (13-6 MMA). The 44-year-old is a former Olympic wrestler and three-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) title challenger with a penchant for victories by knockout or technical knockout via punches.
Monster Energy's Davis (23-6 MMA) entered the Octagon in search of a win after losing to the current division champion Vadim Nemkov in the quarter-finals of the Bellator World Light Heavyweight Championship in April 2021. In his favor, Davis had never lost a fight at the SAP Center in San jose and went undefeated in four bouts at the site, seeking to extend the record against Romero.
The fight began with a tense first round in which both opponents tried to find openings for strikes and kicks in the legs. Romero moved slowly and arrhythmically, but always ready to explode in his strikes and powerful combos, while Davis stayed on the sidelines and landed calculated punches.
In round 2, Davis had to absorb some heavy shots from Romero but managed to change the dynamic midway through: with Romero swaying wildly, Davis picked up the tempo and unleashed a big punch to the head that visibly hurt. knocked out his opponent. Using momentum, he obtained the first (massive) takedown from combat just before the end of the turn.
In the third and final round, Davis put the "mixed" in mixed martial arts and doubled his fight. Repeatedly taking the bout on the ground, he dismantled the Cuban Olympic silver medalist with precise eliminations – a total of five throughout the bout – and followed it up with both ground and pound penalties. In the end, Davis's ground control and heavy hitting took the victory by split decision (30-27, 28-29, 30-26).
"You have to use wrestling. God bless wrestling, the best sport in the world!" Davis said after winning the main fight at Bellator 266. Speaking about his opponent, Davis said, "Dude, he's a monster. I've felt that power more times than I would have liked this. evening."
Davis successfully ruined Romero's debut in the Bellator franchise, perhaps to the disappointment of some SAP Center fans who had favored the Cuban. "I don't hear everyone clapping the other guy too often. It was good to be the bad guy for a while," Davis said after the fight.
Saturday night's win brings Davis back to the winner's circle with a Bellator MMA record of 10 wins, 3 losses. Davis, who trains with Alliance MMA, became the Bellator Light Heavyweight World Champion in 2016 and held the title until 2017. Stay tuned for Mr. Wonderful's next fight!
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Oh and it's funny as hell. I hope Barton and Lichtenheld pair up again one day. Publishers Weekly went so far as to call it "a genius concept," adding "Lichtenheld's…watercolor cartoons have a fluidity and goofy intensity that recalls Mad magazine, while Barton…gives the characters snappy dialogue throughout." This is, indeed, one of my favorite cartoon-style picture books of late. It's exceptionally fun.
Chris: "One day in October 2006, I was having a conversation at the office with a co-worker—a writer himself and an avid reader to his own children—who observed that writing a shorter book (say, a picture book) takes less time than writing a longer book. As a card-carrying children's author, and one who had been trying for years to get one particular picture book out into the world, I took umbrage. Oh, no, I said. It can take a long time, it's a lot of work, revisions, finding just the right words, etc.
And then that evening, from completely out of the blue, a first draft of Shark Vs. Train just spilled out of me. I wish more of my friends would tell me how relatively easy it is to write a children's book. Clearly, it inspired me.
Starting in fall of 2008, Tom and I worked together really closely – not just online and over the phone, but in person here in Austin. We spent a whole day together — first at Katz's Deli and then in the children's section at the Austin Public Library, adding and revising and scrapping ideas for dialogue and competitions and backstory. I've always been drawn to that sort of collaboration, and I've never had more fun as a writer than I did while working with Tom. Unlike Shark and Train, though, I think we managed not to disturb the other library patrons.
Tom had actually done character sketches of Shark and Train before Little, Brown even acquired the manuscript, and so I knew from way back that he completely got these characters and the sensibility of the book. His terrific illustrations show that clearly, but he added some other key elements to the story, too. Train's caboose became its own scene-stealing character, because of Tom, and the Evel Knievel-esque climax was his idea, too.
That's the question Chris and I had to answer before we could move on to showing all the ridiculous contests our shark and a train compete in. We had to introduce these two disparate characters to each other, and we had to do it in a way that clearly cast them as adversaries. Shark and Train, coming from completely different worlds, had to be born enemies.
Our first effort was a failure, but an interesting one. We wrote a graphic novel-style story where the train is noisily going over a bridge, which antagonizes a shark in the water below. This, theoretically, starts their feud. It's visually interesting, but far too contrived.
Then Chris came up with the idea of the toy box, and we knew we had a winner. It's universally believable and puts the ensuing story into children's imaginations, which is a world of unlimited possibilities.
SHARK VS. TRAIN by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld © 2010. Completed spreads used with permission of Little, Brown, New York, NY.
All other images used with permission of Tom Lichtenheld.
I am so happy to see this book coming out, as I was lucky enough to have an F+G and it is really falling apart at this point. The book's a hoot to read and is a great example of text and art working together to be more than the sum of their parts (sez me, anyway!). Thanks for the background and the sketches!
I am always in awe of writers who don't let themselves get pigeon-holed in one type of writing. How awesome is Chris Barton for swinging from non-fiction to insanely fictional and back again? Can't wait to see this one! Thanks for a very fun interview.
I snagged a copy of this from my fabulous colleague and couldn't put it down. I disturbed everyone in our little curriculum center with my snorts and guffaws. I can't wait to take this into a classroom for a writing lesson with older kids. Can you imagine the scenarios they'll come up? SVT is brilliant and a perfect pairing of text and illustration.
I've missed you Jules! Thanks so much for sharing this.
Greg, word UP to what you said about how the art and text work together. I second that.
Tanita, yeah, I'm rather in awe, too.
Tricia, ANOTHER excellent point about using this book for writing prompts with children. Hadn't even thought of that. Perfectamungo. I'd love to see you in action with that.
Shark vs. Train? A win-win!
Congrats, Shark, Train, Chris and Tom.
"a genius concept" indeed. Each page is full of humor and sly references like the "A Fonzarelli Leather Co." Will only people my age get that one? The book is the perfect blend of smart and whimsical. Love the outtakes. Thanks for sharing these.
Even though I don't have kids, the kid in me LOVES this book and the fantastic humor of the story. Also, sharks always remind me of certain people I have worked for over the years — people I am now able to laugh at (privately, of course). Thanks for the happy post, Jules!
All we need now is Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus: The Picture Book. Epic.


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Doug Balliett is a composer, instrumentalist and poet based in New York City. The New York Times has described his poetry as "brilliant and witty" (Clytie and the Sun), his bass playing as "elegant" (Shawn Jaeger's In Old Virginny), and his compositions as "vivid, emotive, with contemporary twists" (Actaeon). Popular new music blog I Care if You Listen has critiqued Mr. Balliett's work as "weird in the best possible way" (A Gnostic Passion) and "light-hearted yet dark…it had the audience laughing one minute and in tears the next…" (Pyramus and Thisbe). With a constant stream of commissions, a weekly show on New York Public Radio, and nearly 200 performances per year, Mr. Balliett has been identified as an emerging voice for his generation.
Raised in central Massachusetts, Mr. Balliett graduated from Harvard with high honors in 2007 and from Juilliard in 2012, with a Master's in Historical Performance. During this time he received compositional guidance from John Harbison, Elliot Gyger, and Philip Lasser. Primarily a composer of vocal music, Mr. Balliett has written for some of New York's best singers, including Grammy winners Estelí Gomez and Dashon Burton, members of the Trinity Wall Street Choir, as well as young breakout singers Charlotte Mundy, Davone Tines, and Ariadne Greif. Recent projects include the evening-length A Gnostic Passion, written with his twin brother and commissioned by CANTORI NYC, a cycle of songs based on stories from The Brothers Grimm which premiered at the Lucerne Festival, and a series of rap cantatas based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, which have been commissioned from musicians across America. He has held composer-in-residence positions with the Lucerne Festival Academy, the Chelsea Music Festival, New Vintage Baroque, the Millennials, and the Colonials. His works have been performed at many major New York venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Juilliard, the Stone, SubCulture, (le) Poisson Rouge, Galapagos, ShapeshifterLab, and Spectrum. Upcoming premieres include a double bass concerto for Juilliard faculty member Robert Nairn and a new cantata for members of Les Arts Florissants and Le Jardin des Voix, to be written specifically for William Christie's personal gardens.
Mr. Balliett has wide-ranging interests, many of which he shares with his twin brother Brad. The two host The Brothers Balliett on WQXR's Q2; a weekly show exploring new music. The brothers also curate a monthly series at Spectrum on the Lower East Side, featuring many major NYC new music luminaries. Mr. Balliett has given talks at the International Society of Double Bassists on historical performance, conducted many performances of his own works, and tirelessly composes poetry. Alongside his brother and composer Elliot Cole, Mr. Balliett is a member of The Oracle Hysterical, a half-band-half-book-club that has presented hip-hoperas, art-rock song cycles, rap cantatas, and other genre-bending works all over America and Europe. Their most recent endeavor took them to Chicago, where they performed their album Hecuba with the Chicago Composers Orchestra.
Trained as a classical double bass player by Todd Seeber during his time at Harvard, Mr. Balliett maintains an extremely active career as a performer. He has performed as principal or solo double bass with Ensemble Modern, the San Antonio Symphony, Alarm Will Sound, and many other ensembles. He has collaborated with musicians from all walks, ranging from baroque opera at William Christie's French estate, to tours with pop band Pink Martini, to appearances with MacArthur fellow Steve Coleman at the Newport Jazz Festival. Deeply committed to period instrument performance, Mr. Balliett is also principal bass of the Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, the Holy Trinity Lutheran Bach Orchestra, 17th century string band ACRONYM, and has appeared as principal bass of Les Arts Florissants, Boston Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, and the Washington Cathedral. He performs regularly on the viola da gamba and the violone.
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Chederick van Wyk (* 18. Februar 1995) ist ein südafrikanischer Sprinter.

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Erste Erfahrungen bei internationalen Meisterschaften sammelte Chederick van Wyk bei den IAAF World Relays 2019 in Yokohama, bei denen er mit der südafrikanischen 4-mal-200-Meter-Staffel in 1:20,42 min auf den zweiten Platz hinter den Vereinigten Staaten gelangte. Im Juli gewann er bei der Sommer-Universiade in Neapel in 10,23 s bzw. 20,44 s jeweils die Silbermedaille über 100- und 200 Meter hinter dem Brasilianer Paulo André de Oliveira. Zudem kam er mit der 4-mal-100-Meter-Staffel im Vorlauf nicht ins Ziel. Anschließend nahm er erstmals an den Afrikaspielen in Rabat teil und belegte dort in 10,31 s den sechsten Platz über 100 Meter und schied über 200 Meter mit 21,22 s im Halbfinale aus. Zudem gewann er mit der 4-mal-100-Meter-Staffel in 38,80 s die Bronzemedaille hinter den Teams aus Ghana und Nigeria.

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 100 Meter: 10,18 s (−0,6 m/s), 28. April 2018 in Sasolburg
 200 Meter: 20,44 s (+0,5 m/s), 11. Juli 2019 in Neapel

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I purchased a Mac with OS X at the end of 2002. I've since become a living meme for getting people dis-satisified with both Linux and Windows to use something a bit better.
I did it. I made the switch ... I bought a Macintosh today. I wanted to state a few of my reasons for making the switch from Linux.
My Mac Depends on Perl?!
Who would have guess that the prettiest OS depends on the ugliest scripting language?
Why don't more computer nerds choose Macintosh computers?
A little example of developing some simple scripts on my Mac, and how there are more than one way to do it with the Mac.
A list of Mac OS X software that I am using on my Mac.
I found a little goodie basket in the latest release of Mac OS X... a dig on Microsoft Windows.
A free way to back up your CDs to your computer and run them directly.
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Insert Love Scene Here
Posted on March 6, 2012 by Sharon Cullen
A few months back I wrote a tongue-in-cheek article about what romance writers really research. It was all about how people think our poor (ha!) spouses have to put up with our love-making "research". The funny thing is, that post gets the most hits per day than any other post I've written–even now.
While the love scenes take up only about 5% of my books (some authors are more, some are less) they are integral to the storyline. For those who don't read romance, they think the scenes are just thrown in there to attract readers but, in my opinion, love scenes are so much more than that. For most stories, they're the culmination of two characters finally coming together after an emotional, roller-coaster ride. It's the final hurdle they need to overcome to realize this love is real and here to stay. For other stories, its the catalyst that will forge the rest of the plot (especially if the love scene comes to soon for one of the characters).
So, while authors don't necessarily wear out their spouses researching ;-), they do recognize the importance of the love scene.
To write one is difficult, as most authors will tell you. You have to be in the right frame of mind (not that frame of mind!). It's emotionally and physically tiring to write them. I know some authors who write them out of order. Some who put INSERT SEX SCENE HERE and move on with the rest of the story, waiting until it's fully written before going back to well, um, insert sex scene here. I'm not that type of writer. I'm linear. I have to write everything in order, even if I know the last scene before the first scene.
The best thing I've ever discovered to help me with love scenes is Linda Howard's 12 Steps to Intimacy (and you thought I was going to say some adult only site). I can't even tell you where this article originated from (I searched the internet but couldn't find its origin other than Linda Howard wrote it and Ms. Howard doesn't have a website where it would be stored). But here are the twelve steps:
1. Eye to body
2. Eye to eye
3. Voice to voice
4. Hand to hand
5. Arm to shoulder
6. Arm to waist
7. Mouth to mouth
9. Hand to body
10. Mouth to breast
11. Hand to genitals
12. Genital to genital
Ms Howard has an explanation for each bullet point that's too long to go into in one blog post but they're pretty self-explanatory. These are what I refer to when I write my love scenes. They help because they force me to slow down, to not rush anything. Every gesture has to mean something, not just physically, but more important, emotionally. For romance it's all about the emotion, all about the journey the characters take with their emotions. The love scene should be no less than that.
But if you think this is a template, you would be wrong. It's a guideline, for sure. But what if you switch it up? What if you, say, put #12 before #1? What does that do to the characters? How do they feel about that? In a way, that's what my novella, Hands Off, is all about. The main characters immediately jump to #12 and while the love scene is long and encompasses #1-12 completely, it's the first thing that happens in the book. The characters don't take time to learn about each other, to experience, over a long period of time #1-11. So while the love scene is wham-bam right there front and center, it messes with the characters' emotions. So they put the brakes on, take a time out and decide from here on out it's all hands off so they can learn about each other. It's not an easy journey for them because they know what #12 is like–the mystery has been taken away–and they want it again. But first they have to get through #1-11.
I highly encourage any romance author to at least try out these steps with their characters. It's interesting to discover what it can do for them emotionally as well as physically (okay, we all know what it can do physically).
If you try it, let me know what you think!
This entry was posted in Writing and tagged 12 steps to intimacy, Hands Off, Linda Howard, love scenes, romance by Sharon Cullen. Bookmark the permalink.
15 thoughts on "Insert Love Scene Here"
Jennifer Lowery on March 6, 2012 at 8:45 am said:
I'm so one of those writers who writes Insert Sex Scene Here, lol! Wonderful blog with great advice, Sharon! Gonna give it a try 🙂
Neecy Kelly on March 6, 2012 at 8:50 am said:
I took a class very similar to that one. Loved it!
Great post,
Neecy
Sheri Fredricks on March 6, 2012 at 9:02 am said:
I needed a list like this! Thank you so much for sharing!
Marika Weber on March 6, 2012 at 9:18 am said:
I'm with Sheri. I needed this list. Thank you. I wish Linda had a website but she is probably one of the last writers to not have one. *sigh*
jerridrennen on March 6, 2012 at 9:34 am said:
Sex scenes are the hardest part of writing a book for me. I mean, how do you make each one fresh and hot? Once I get past those scenes everything is smooth saling until I have to write The End.
kristinaknightauthor on March 6, 2012 at 10:13 am said:
I'm a devotee of Ms. Howard's 12 Steps. I talk about them like some people talk about a 12 step program…but understanding them has really helped me to up the emotional intensity of not only the love scenes in my books but the overall emotional tension. Especially when I go 'out of order' – as I do a lot! 🙂
authortonikelly on March 6, 2012 at 10:21 am said:
I remember seeing Ms. Howard in a workshop for these 12 steps at Nationals a couple years ago. Still think these are a great rule of thumb. Thanks for the reminder!
ellaquinnauthor on March 6, 2012 at 10:51 am said:
Like you I'm a linear writer, except when my muse is messing with me, and I have to have lots of quiet time to write a love scene. Very helpful suggestions.
D'Ann Linscott-Dunham on March 6, 2012 at 11:00 am said:
I was lucky enough to get to hear Linda Howard give this speech in person. OMG! She is funny.
A friend, Julia Ross, histrical writer, once told me that if you could move one love scene from book to book, then you hadn't done your job. In other words, too generic. You had to make it unique.
Margery Scott on March 6, 2012 at 11:09 am said:
I'm one of those writers who really struggles with writing love scenes. Writing the physical action isn't really difficult, but getting the emotion just right is hard! I have Linda Howard's list, too and without it, I'd be lost.
Sharon Cullen on March 6, 2012 at 11:27 am said:
What another great topic. How to make love scenes unique. For me it's not about the mechanics but about the emotion. What is the character feeling inside? How does making love affect him/her? If you've done your job right as an author, each character is different and will react in a different way, therefore making each love scene different. Even within the same book.
When I write love scenes I think of action/reaction–not just physically but mentally as well. What are the characters overcoming that's brought them to this point? What, in each characters' history, will affect the way they connect to their partner? All of these are important questions to tackle while writing a love scene. If the scene is just stuck in there because it's a romance and a romance has to have a love scene, then you're not doing your job right.
Brenda on March 6, 2012 at 12:22 pm said:
This is great–thanks for sharing.
ChristineWarner on March 6, 2012 at 2:16 pm said:
Thanks for the reminder! I forgot all about the 12 points to Intimacy. No matter how many love scenes you write, it's always good to have that to look back on as a reference and make sure you used them along your story to build that tension and make sure your scene fits in the right spot!
Enjoyed your post today!
Cera duBois on March 6, 2012 at 6:41 pm said:
I'm a linear writer too and have stalled around on a manuscript until I felt ready to write those ever important love scenes.
Great post, Sharon!
Athena Grayson on March 8, 2012 at 2:04 pm said:
I have done that myself on some manuscripts–and others, it's the "insert action scene" because the love scenes are inspiring. 😀 For me, each love scene should have a "theme" to it–sometimes it's "discovery" as the characters unlock revealing intimacies about each other…and sometimes it's "dessert" as the characters find each other a decadent treat. Then, most of all, is when you carefully choose your words and where you can really paint wonderful imagery. And also, carefully choose your words so you don't accidentally put your characters in situations that defy the laws of physics or anatomy! If he's got a hand on her breast and another holding her hand, he can't have a third stroking her hair!
Interestingly enough, you notice that nobody EVER asks mystery writers how they research murder scenes? ;D


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Sos Video Game Museum: "A new space"
It has gathered nearly 2,000 members, showing in Bologna the other side of the video game, one that has no side effects. It has gathered in 500 meters in Via Vitoria a beautiful community of people, of different generations, who have been able to see and touch the history of the electronic and electromechanical game with their own hands, paying special attention to the production of the Bologna companies. in the sector. Despite its success, the Museum of Video Game Art is in danger of being closed. The imminent judicial auction of the property undermines the existence of the cultural and aggregating space, and despite numerous appeals to the municipality, Nicolò Molas Marcelo, President of the Insert Coin APS association, who together with the Bologna Nerd and Spazio Tilt and managed everything with their own power, has not received a response . For the two museums (the Museum of the Pinball Machine and the Museum of the Video Game) and for the area dedicated to board games and role-playing games that have in fact become something else, compared to their pure identity, transforming themselves into a point of reference and hospitality also for the weak, the forced conclusion is approaching due to the bankruptcy of the ownership of the building that it currently and in Right now, there is no other space available on the horizon. Moreover, even if one were to buy the property, the starting price of €130,000 is quite high for a non-profit organization supported by membership and volunteering.
But what are the three associations that ask Mayor Mathieu Lepore? "The auction will take place in June 2023 and we have to leave – says Mulas Marcello – a situation that we have known for some time and that we have already been alerted to, contact the municipality for some time and receive an answer to the fact that they will be alive ". The possibility of raising money through crowdfunding or understanding whether members can help in some way, even through a loan, is being examined.
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Losing weight is a great goal when done in a way that promotes rather than harms overall health. Weight loss mainly involves controlling calorie intake while a healthy lifestyle is more in depth and includes physical activity, stress management and smarter eating habits. A healthy lifestyle leads to weight loss through good nutrition and exercise habits. This list contains five small goals to improve eating habits and promote the creation of a healthy lifestyle in the New Year.
1. Reduce Calorie Intake. Body weight has a very important role in overall health. Overweight and obese individuals are at a higher risk of developing weight related health issues such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and certain forms of cancer. If you are overweight or obese, losing weight improves health. Weight loss is simple and only requires you to burn more calories than you consume (calorie deficit). Making smarter food choices is the best way to lower calorie intake. Healthy foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds are lower in calories and higher in nutrients than junk food such as sweetened beverages, sugary snacks and fast foods.
2. Eat Healthy Fats. Fats, like carbohydrates and proteins, are a macronutrient, and provide the body with energy. Many attempt to limit fat intake because of the irrational fear that eating it leads to unwanted weight gain. Fats do not cause unwanted weight gain, only excess calories do. It makes no difference whether excess calories come from fats, carbs or proteins; if you consume more than you burn (calorie surplus), weight gain follows. Rather than indiscriminately removing all fats, learn to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy ones. There are three types of fats: unsaturated, saturated and trans fats. Unsaturated fats are known as the healthy kind and found in non-animal, plant products such as fruits & vegetables, oils, nuts and seeds. These healthy fats protect against cardiovascular disease. Saturated fats are known as the unhealthy kind and found mostly in animal products such as meat, milk, cheese, dairy and eggs. Trans fat is known as the ultra-unhealthy kind and found in foods made with partially or fully hydrogenated oils (check the nutrition label). Unhealthy fats promote cardiovascular disease. Minimizing intake of unhealthy fats allows you to reduce calorie intake in a healthy manner. Unsaturated fats offer important health benefits and shouldn't be eliminated from the diet.
3. Eat Healthy Carbohydrates. Carbohydrates have also gotten a bad reputation, and like fats, are undeserving of their status. Again, no single macronutrient (fats, carbs, proteins) is responsible for unwanted weight gain; a high calorie intake relative to energy expenditure is to blame. Carbohydrates are split into two groups: simple and complex. Simple carbs, known as the bad kind, are found in processed foods and sugars: soda, fruit juice, sweet tea/coffee, doughnuts, white bread/pasta/rice, candy and other sugary foods. Complex, or healthy carbs are found in fruits, vegetables, oatmeal, brown rice, beans and 100% whole wheat bread/pasta. Simple carbs are digested quickly and don't provide a feeling of satiety. This leads to hunger and overeating throughout the day. Complex carbs are digested much slower, keeping you full and calorie intake low. A healthy diet replaces simple carbs with complex ones.
4. Eat More Fiber. Fiber has many health benefits including weight & appetite control, reducing the risk of certain cancers and lowering cholesterol levels. The typical American diet is very high in processed foods which strips out many nutrients including fiber. Foods high in fiber include fruits, vegetables, 100% whole wheat products (bread, pasta), brown rice, oatmeal and beans. Using fresh, whole grain and unadulterated ingredients in home cooked meals and picking high fiber snacks are the best ways to increase intake.
5. Enjoy Food. In the quest to improve eating habits, many often forget to enjoy the food they consume. While worrying about calorie and sugar content, they cut out every single unhealthy food they've enjoyed over the years. Unfortunately, this strategy does not work in the long term. Moderation is the key to enjoying unhealthy foods. Having a few pieces of chocolate or a slice of pizza won't kill a healthy lifestyle. If you love chocolate, it's unrealistic to create a chocolate-free diet. Making healthy choices most of the time allows you to splurge some of the time.
Overly ambitious New Year's Resolutions fail because the change required to make them work in such a small period of time is usually too much to handle for most people. Instead of broad, life changing goals, a resolution should have a much more narrow and focused target such as eating more fiber or reducing intake of bad fats.
None of the improvements outlined above are drastic on their own, but when combined, are important steps in creating permanent lifestyle change. Permanent lifestyle changes lead to countless benefits including decreased disease risk and increased energy levels to participate in the activities you love. A New Year's Resolution should be the beginning of more ambitious change rather than a one-time goal.


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Q: Different objects affect same constructor C++11 Having 2 different objects (or instances (I do not know if they have any differences)) of a class, will they instantiate the constructor individually?
For example; Having a constructor that makes a variable z equal to 0. A function of the class adds 10 to z. So when I use the other object to call the same function, z will be 20 (previous value plus 10) or will it be 10 (0+10)?
Many thanks!

A: If you have a class A and a class B
struct A {
  int x = 0;
  void inc() { x+=10; }
};

struct B {
  static int x;
  void inc() { x+=10; }
};

int B::x = 0;

int main() {
   A a1;
   a1.inc();
   std::cout << a1.x << '\n';

   A a2;
   a2.inc();
   std::cout << a2.x << '\n';

   B b1;
   b1.inc();
   std::cout << b1.x << '\n';

   B b2;
   b2.inc();
   std::cout << b2.x << '\n';
}

Output:

10
10
10
20

For instances of class A the member variable x is not shared. Therefore a1.x and a2.x are both 10 after the respective incrementation.
However, for class B the keyword static declares x as a class variable that is shared among all instances. So incrementation in what-so-ever instance always increments the class member. After the first incrementation via b1.inc()the value of B::x is 10 and after the second incrementation via b2.inc() the value is 20.

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If you think you're too busy to read this, then you're exactly who should . . .
More and more, we are encouraged to be present, mindful, and engaged. Some of us regard this as nearly impossible. We have lots of commitments, lots of tasks, and lots of people relying on us. Allowing ourselves a few minutes to "just be" seems like an indulgence.
Clearly, those are the feet of someone who is dead.
Take a second to imagine yourself pulling back the sheet and seeing the entire lifeless corpse. Notice how there is no breath going in and out of this body.
Close your eyes and consider this.
There is something deep within the human brain that causes (most) people to take a very deep breath when they encounter a non-breathing body. For some, this is not limited to humans; other formerly living creatures are included in the reflexive deep inhalation.
Did you take a deep breath? If not, have you taken one by now?
No matter where you are right now, you have time to fully exhale whatever air is in your lungs, sit up straight, and fill every tiny aveoli with air. Now hold that in for a count of five, then exhale slowly.
Take a minute to breath in to the count of five, hold it for five, and breath our for five.
I will presume you took that minute for yourself.
Since you did, you have proven through your very own breath that you are alive. You have been present and your list of commitments, tasks, and dependents hasn't changed, nor have any been compromised by the last few minutes that you have given yourself.
Whenever you feel overwhelmed (or even underwhelmed) you can use your own breathing to remind yourself of your vitality. And since you have to breath anyhow, you might as well, on occasion, make it count for more than subsistence.
Thank you, Jenna. You always seem to know what I need when I need it.
Miss you too! Have been feeling down, it's nice to "hear" a friend's voice.
I'm with you. I've been feeling so disheartened over the last week of or so. My mom always encouraged me to try to do something for someone whenever l was feeling really down, as if lifting someone else up (even a little) would help pull me out of my doldrums. That's why l wrote this post. So long as you feel a tiny bit better, then I've accomplished something really good today.
You have. Your mom gives good advice!
Thank you! Just read this very same message from hellobeautifulsoul . . . clearly a time of year when we all need to hear it. Happy to share!
I'm glad there's a movement toward reminding ourselves to live now.


Heavyweight boxer Kenneth Bishop, left, refers to his opponent kerston Manswell as baby food and promised to knock him out during the weigh-in ceremony for the upcoming pro boxing card carded for the 9th of February at the Woodbrook , Youth Facility, yesterday.
Hard-hitting T&T lightweight boxer Prince Lee Isidore will clash with Venezuela's Antoni Armas for the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) International title tonight at the Woodbrook Youth Centre, from 7 pm. It will be a 10-round contest.
Both fighters weighed in a 135 pounds yesterday at the National Boxing Gym at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo, not too far from where tonight's feature encounter of a five-bout card will be taking place. But after not being in the ring for the past months, the T&T fighter is more than eager to display his skills, despite not knowing anything about his opponent.
He admitted this in an interview yesterday, saying he believes knowing about your opponent can be unnecessary sometimes. "Not knowing makes it easy, as you will not overthink the fight. You will stick to what you know and adjust accordingly." Isidore who only resumed training only when he found out about the fight said- "By not knowing sometimes, you learn little quirks that fighters have, but to me it's unnecessary. I am never really the type of person to look at fights, because any good fighter will always try to get better, and not try to look the way they looked the last time."
The Isidore, Armas encounter is the feature fight on a mouth-watering card that comprises former T&T heavyweight boxer Kertson Manswell up against Keneth Bishops. The latter who labelled his opponent as baby food two weeks ago, this time teased the bulky-born fighter with a bottle of Gerber baby food.
Manswell, who last entered the ring in 2018 at an MMA contest with T&T's Jeremy Rudolfo of TT, shook off the jest with a mean look that highlighted his intent today.
Also on the card T&T's 2012 Olympic boxer Carlos Suarez who turned pro two years ago, will come up against Venezuela's Dallan Llovera in a six-round flyweight fight, while Iwan Azore and Kevon Diaz will face-off in a middleweight bout.
Also on the card will be an equally interesting encounter between Nigel 'Cow' Edwards and Joel Mc Crae in a catchweight contest of over 180 pounds. The bout replaces the Sheldon Lawrence and Selwyn Guy fight which was considered a mismatch by officials of the T&T Boxing Board of Control.
On the heels of calls by the T&T Boxing Association (TTBA) for the removal of the Board after a card a month ago was called off, in what TTBA officials said was victimisation, a staff at the boxing board told Guardian Media Sports that in seeking to ensure international best practice in the sport, that Guy was considered unfit to fight.
The decision was based on a number of factors, such as the boxer's age (over 50), the last time he fought which was back in 2014 and was knocked down, Lawrence's age and lethal punching power, and advice from international boxing pundits.


Kandee Johnson's epic makeup transformations continually blow minds, and her latest video does not disappoint. The vlogger teamed up with fellow YouTuber Lilly Singh for an unbelievable makeover. In honor of the year's two biggest celebrations — Halloween and Drake's 31st birthday, of course — Johnson transformed the comedian and How to Be a Bawse author into the Canadian rapper.
Starting with a bare-face Singh, Johnson describes how she's going to "Drake-ify" her — a process that ends up taking three hours for the face makeup alone and includes "erasing" her eyebrows in order to redraw them.
After completing the face makeup and shading, the transformation is almost complete. But applying the facial hair and drawing on the hair line is what puts the look over the edge. "Started as a woman, now we're here. Started as a woman, now my whole beard here," Singh sings along to the tune of Drake's Started From the Bottom, getting herself into character.
Once the full transformation was finished, Singh decided to play around with her character a bit more with a parody video of her own. On her channel, which has more than 12 million subscribers, the 29-year-old rewrote a number of Drake's hits into Halloween-themed tunes. The hilarious video follows the vlogger as she goes on a trick-or-treating excursion as the rapper.
Like most of Singh's videos, the parody, posted on Monday, has already hit close to a million views with a large reaction from her highly devoted fan base. "Lilly, you deserve a YouTube Oscar if that exists," one person commented, accurately summing up how everyone feels about the entire epic transformation.


Homeschool Complete Unit Studies by Debra Arbuthnot are designed to provide a fun-filled unit that covers grade-level skills in all subject areas. Subject integration builds understanding and helps students transfer knowledge from one area to another, tying learning together. Themed units help students retain the information better.
Ms. Arbuthnot's unit study begins with an introduction and includes detailed lesson plans built around a five-day week, with four days of instruction and one day for additional activities. Subject areas in the unit study include language arts, math, science, social studies, fine arts, fitness, character development, and Bible. The unit study will give guidance for the subject matter and help teach problem solving and higher-level thinking skills.
Some of the helps early on in this soccer unit study include an introduction about unit studies, a page of teaching suggestions and helps, and a list of the skills that will be developed through the soccer study in each of the subject areas. You will also find a list of materials needed, divided by materials needed weekly as well as for each individual lesson. Most of these are household supplies and should be easy to gather for the study. There is also a page of literature titles that should be gathered before beginning the lesson, as more than one title is needed for most lessons.
There are several pages to be printed off to assist with different activities. These include things like a hundreds chart, base ten squares, letter blocks, a calendar, and sight words, to name a few. After these helps, comes the meat of the program - the lessons.
There are 12 lessons on soccer in this unit study. Each lesson includes the teaching guide for that lesson and any printable worksheets that are needed. The teacher's guide for the lesson lists the skills that will be gained. There is suggestions for a calendar time and then the activities, divided by each subject area. For lesson one, there are activities in language arts, math, and art. These activities include reading a biography, reading a fictional story, learning multiplication facts and practicing them, and designing soccer jerseys.
To show some of the other skills worked on in other lessons, lesson four is a good example. In this lesson, student will work in language arts, social studies, math, science, and physical education. Some of the language arts and social studies activities involve reading a book about well-known soccer players, researching and writing about a soccer player, and learning vocabulary. The math and science skills explore scientific method, physics of a soccer balls being kicked, practicing multiplication, and writing simple math equations with addition and subtraction (one example was 15 + 3 = 18 from a word problem about soccer balls). The physical education skills revolve a bit more around soccer with practicing kicking a soccer ball and dribbling around a set of cones but also includes playing red light/green light.
This unit study on soccer came to me as a download. It includes 165 pages. Below is the layout of the entire download with the worksheet pages both included in each lesson and also combined an the appendix at the bottom. This makes it easy for any type of mom; ones that like the whole lesson together and ones that like to print the worksheets at one time.
Complete Unit Study: Soccer is definitely a complete study, covering all of the areas you would want to discuss if you were using this for your entire school day. There is even a page that tells you how to begin your day with reciting the pledge, doing calendar work, reciting Bible verses, and more. If you are looking to have everything written out for you and all your work figured out, this is the unit study for you. It is extremely detailed and will take all the research work out of a unit study for the teacher.


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No. 23 Texas A&M, Arkansas very different with same record
by: STEPHEN HAWKINS, Associated Press
Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher reacts after Texas A&M quarterback Kellen Mond (11) returns to the sideline after throwing an interception against Lamar during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, in College Station, Texas. (AP Photo/Sam Craft)
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — While No. 23 Texas A&M and Arkansas both have 2-2 records and lost their SEC openers, the programs are in entirely different places under their second-year coaches.
The Razorbacks have lost their last 12 SEC games, and 16 of 17 overall. They are coming off a home loss to San Jose State that coach Chad Morris called "unacceptable" —the Spartans from the Mountain West had dropped 24 consecutive games against power conference teams since 2006.
Texas A&M's losses this season are 24-10 at top-ranked Clemson and 28-20 at home against No. 7 Auburn last week.
"You gotta be process oriented. That's part of our program," Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher. "Whether you all believe that or not, it does get frustrating and I understand for fans and everybody else. But as players, we have to understand why the results are there."
When the former Southwest Conference rivals meet as SEC foes for the eighth time Saturday, Texas A&M is heavily favored to beat the Razorbacks for the eighth year in a row.
"Take the previous games out of play, this is a big game for both teams," said Morris, a 1992 Texas A&M grad with a degree in mathematics who did not play football there. "These are two teams back against the wall, and I think you're going to see the best of both."
Fisher's SEC first victory was 24-17 over Arkansas last season. The Aggies went into that game with the same record as now (2-2, 0-1 SEC), the losses then to Alabama and Clemson — the teams that have split the last four national championships. A&M went on to win nine games overall, capped by a 52-13 bowl win over North Carolina State.
This will be the 76th meeting between the Razorbacks and Aggies, and ninth in the home of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys.
FORMER AGGIE
Nick Starkel has back-to-back 300-yard passing games with three TDs in each game since taking over as Arkansas' starting quarterback, though he threw five interceptions against San Jose State.
Starkel transferred to Arkansas after graduating from Texas A&M during the summer. He set Aggies bowl records when he completed 42 of 63 passes for 499 yards with four touchdowns in a 55-52 loss to Wake Forest in the 2017 Belk Bowl. But in Fisher's first season in College Station last year, Starkel was Kellen Mond's backup quarterback.
Ben Hicks, another transfer who had previously played for Morris at SMU, started the first the Razorbacks' first two games before Starkel took over as starter.
"I've always said that Nick's a very good player, a great young man. I don't know much about their quarterback situation, but doesn't surprise me," Fisher said. "He's a very talented guy that could play a lot of places in this country and, like I said was a very good player here."
MOND MOMENTS
Mond is 16-9 as Texas A&M's quarterback, and is one shy of becoming the eighth Aggie with 40 career touchdown passes. He needs only 109 rushing yards to join Johnny Manziel, Reggie McNeal and Stephen McGee as the only players in school history with 5,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing.
SLOW STARTS
In both losses this season, the Aggies had only three points through three quarters. They scored 17 points in the fourth quarter against Auburn last week.
"I think you've got to relax and make the plays. There's opportunities and there's plays to be made," Fisher said. "Whether it's a missed throw, a drop, a missed block, you just got to execute, and sometimes I mean this, sometimes you try too hard. You press yourself into perfection and you can't."
JERRYWORLD
The Dallas Cowboys are owned by Jerry Jones, who was a captain for Arkansas' 1964 undefeated team. Jones' alma mater beat Texas A&M at AT&T Stadium the first three years that the series was played there from 2009-11. After a game on each campus, the series returned to the showplace stadium in 2014, and the annual matchup is set to continue there through at least 2024.
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The Grafton Architects firm wins the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture
Starring: Grafton Architects,
Photographer: Iwan Baan, Ros Kavanagh, Dennis Gilbert,
City: London,
TAGS: Event, Award,
The Grafton Architects firm, founded by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, has won the Royal Gold Medal 2020, the highest UK recognition awarded to an architect. The prize is personally approved by Queen Elizabeth II and is awarded to an architect or architecture firm that has had a significant influence on the progress of the discipline.
The Royal Gold Medal is the highest UK recognition awarded to an architect or architecture firm that had a significant influence on the progress of the discipline. A prestigious award with a high symbolic value for Britons, as it is personally approved by Queen Elizabeth II. On October 2, 2019 the Royal Institute of British Architects announced that the Royal Gold Medal 2020 would go to the Grafton Architects firm. The Irish studio was founded by architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara in Dublin in 1978. Since 1992, architects Gerard Carty and Philippe O'Sullivan have been co-directors of the firm. The Royal Gold Medal award ceremony will be held in early 2020.
"Grafton Architects are impressive role models. Their work, philosophy and ambition are of profound importance, not just in their home country and the UK but across the globe. They show us all how architecture, practiced humbly and humanely, can make the world a better place.".
It was with these words that RIBA President Alan Jones announced that Grafton Architects had won the prestigious prize. The candidacy of the Irish architecture firm was supported by many important personalities from the academic, art and architecture sectors, together with well-known architects and clients. A further recognition of the influence and high quality work done by the Grafton Architects studio. In more than forty years of activity, the Irish firm has challenged its architects with very different projects in terms of dimensions, functions, contexts and other elements. From small residences in rural areas to university projects in important urban centres, while never neglecting their focus on teaching and education, as well as the valuable contributions to international cultural events. Among the latter, the curatorship of "Freespace", the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale held in 2018.
In Grafton Architects' impressive portfolio, the many university buildings designed and built in different parts of the world, commissioned following international design competitions, certainly hold a special place. Such projects include the Medical School at the University of Limerick , which won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2013, and the new UTEC - Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia faculty in Lima, which won the first edition of the RIBA International Prize, in 2016. The firm is currently working on the commission to design the new Marshall Building for the London School of Economics, the Town House Building at Kingston University in London, the new School of Economics for the Toulouse 1 University Capitole, the Institute Mines Telecom University Building in Paris-Saclay, the City Library - Parnell Square Cultural Quarter Project in Dublin (with Shaffery Architects) and the new headquarters of the Electricity Supply Board in Dublin (with O'Mahony Pike Architects).
Grafton's architects have always been recognised for their humanity and generosity in all the various areas in which they have been involved, principles that cut across every aspect of their profession and which were stressed in Yvonne Farrell's and Shelley McNamara's address at the award ceremony:
"Like architects around the world, everyone in Grafton Architects works hard to give each project the attention needed to hopefully enrich people's lives. For us, architecture is an optimistic profession, with the opportunity to anticipate future realities. It is of the highest cultural importance because it is the built enclosure of human lives. It translates people's needs and dreams into built form, into the silent language of space."
Images courtesy of RIBA, photo by Brunetti (3), Dennis Gilbert (4-5, 18), Grafton Architects (2, 6-14, 19-20), Iwann Baan (21-25), Paolo Tonato (1), Ros Kavanagh (15 – 17).
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Jobvite Honored by G2 and Brandon Hall Group
These awards cap off a banner year of innovation and recognition for Jobvite.
Jen Ribble December 22, 2020
Back in September, we shared the exciting news that G2 had awarded Jobvite with nine badges in its 2020 Fall Reports. Well, the Winter 2021 results are in, and they're better than ever!
In addition, we've won two coveted Technology Excellence Awards in the Brandon Hall Group's annual Fall Technology program for 2020.
G2 Winter 2021 Honors
At Jobvite, we're committed to helping people and companies grow. Our customers have been generous with their feedback about our fully-integrated, end-to-end talent acquisition suite, sharing their positive experiences on sites like G2 and Trust Radius.
Based on hundreds of those reviews, G2 has named Jobvite a "Leader" in 11 total categories in its Winter 2021 Reports — more than any of our competitors! These categories include:
Candidate Relationship Management (CRM)
Enterprise Recruitment Marketing
Mid-Market Video Interviewing
We're thrilled to once again be named a Leader in our core competency, Applicant Tracking System — both in the overall category and the Enterprise and Mid-Market divisions. Our offering received high marks for Career Page Configuration, Job Posting, and Applicant Data Management. And despite the vast number of providers in this category, we've moved up in the rankings since the Fall 2020 Reports!
Candidate Relationship Management was another area of excellence, as Jobvite ranked #4 in the overall category and #2 among Enterprise providers — our first year being recognized in this division! Some of our customers' favorite features include our Cloud capabilities (93% satisfaction rating), Interoperability (90%), and Dashboard (89%).
Jobvite received some of its highest ratings in Recruitment Marketing, where we were named a Leader both overall and in the Enterprise and Mid-Market divisions. In fact, 93% of customers rated us 4 or 5 stars for recruitment marketing! We received exceptionally high marks for our Employer Branding (95%), Social Recruiting (94%), and Digital Strategy (93%) — all above the average ratings for the category.
Rounding out our G2 badges, Jobvite was named a Leader for our capabilities in both Onboarding and Video Interviewing. Now more than ever, video interviewing is critical to the talent acquisition process — so we couldn't be happier to learn that 97% of customers rate us 4 or 5 stars, 94% believe our offering is heading in the right direction, and our Mobility capabilities received a 100% satisfaction rating.
Recognition from Brandon Hall Group
The Brandon Hall Group's Excellence in Technology Awards recognize achievement in human capital management, highlight what's happening in the field, and share best practices by industry leaders. As ongoing disruptions force organizations to prepare for the future of work, the awards focus on the technologies, processes, systems and tools employers need to succeed.
Jobvite was awarded two prizes in this year's Excellence in Technology competition:
Gold award: Best Advance in Unique Talent Acquisition Technology
Silver award: Best Advance in Talent Acquisition Technology
Award winners are chosen for their unique differentiators, value propositions, and measurable results, as evaluated by a panel of industry experts and Brandon Hall Group analysts. Jobvite's winning entries highlighted our innovation in AI, automation, and analytics, as well as our proprietary EVOLVE Talent Acquisition Framework.
We're honored to be viewed as a leader across so many facets of the talent acquisition journey — and we've got so much more to come. Jobvite has more exciting announcements in the works for 2021 and beyond. We can't wait to share them with you!
To see more Jobvite reviews, check out our pages on G2 and Trust Radius. A full list of 2020 Excellence in Technology winners is available here.
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Q: Finding submodules of a specific module We consider the ring $R= \left\lbrace \left(\begin{smallmatrix}a&b&c\\0&d&e\\0&0&f\end{smallmatrix}\right) : \mbox{all entries are in } \mathbb{R} \right\rbrace $.
And let $M$ be the $R$-module of all $3 \times 1$ matrices in $\mathbb{R}$.
I am looking for the submodules of $M$, so I started by looking for the subgroups... But I need some more help !
Besides, is there something to be said about $M$? The way I see it, it's not free... but can we say something else about it?

A: As the matrices are upper-triangular you have the following submodules:
$$M_0 = 0 \qquad M_1 = \begin{bmatrix} \ast \\ 0 \\ 0 \end{bmatrix} \qquad M_2 = \begin{bmatrix} \ast \\ \ast \\ 0 \end{bmatrix} \qquad M_3 = M = \begin{bmatrix} \ast \\ \ast \\ \ast \end{bmatrix}$$
Try proving that these are in fact all possible submodules.


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It's been a few years since we've had one and we no longer have enough active people to fill every day but I thought perhaps a thread where anyone can post a video or thought for the season wouldn't be amiss.
And this adorable little number I stumbled on.
I always enjoyed the advent calendar. Here is one of my all time favorite videos. I've watched it two dozen times and love it more with each watching.
Everyone is welcome to add something, really.
In the meantime here is how we get a fireplace in my house.
And a little belly dance from Ozma of Japan (I used to read her blog).
Well I wanted to post yesterday but didn't make it. Chanukah was from the 12-the 20th. So happy belated Chanukah.
In the second century BCE, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who tried to force the people of Israelto accept Greek culture and beliefs instead of mitzvah observance and belief in G‑d. Against all odds, a small band of faithful Jews, led by Judah the Maccabee, defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land, reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the service of G‑d.When they sought to light the Temple's Menorah (the seven-branched candelabrum), they found only a single cruse of olive oil that had escaped contamination by the Greeks. Miraculously, they lit the menorah and the one-day supply of oil lasted for eight days, until new oil could be prepared under conditions of ritual purity.
To commemorate and publicize these miracles, the sages instituted the festival of Chanukah.
However I believe I'm in time to wish those who celebrate it a Happy Winter Solstice.
Thank you, m'dear. We stretch out our midwinter celebration over nine days of candle lighting (the nine darkest days of the year with the Solstice at the center). Happy holidays to all that are hanging in there with OD.


The other day I was thinking, if you actually say EEU out loud, it kinda sounds like Ew. Problematic? I dunno, maybe. I mean the full name is quite a mouthful, so I imagine it'd mostly be referred to as EEU. I mean, how often do we fully type out Everybody Edits? It's almost always EE/ee.
The name sounds kinda cool, but it's 10 syllables long, but sorta feels like 11-12. Ev-er-y-bo-dy Ed-it-s U-ni-ver-se. S's at the end kinda create a half syllable. I guess it's hard to create a short name if Everybody Edits is in the title, as it alone is probably the longest a game name should be.
You are trying to make a statement that doesn't hold any ground, the hits you are getting with EEU are pretty small relative to what EE pops up,which is a popular mobile network and a popular twitter account (both the same people), iincluding other pretty popularly searched names.
You will not find a search result that will lead to nothing unless you type in pure gibberish. So saying that because Google shows something the name won't work doesn't make any sense.
Well I think most people say E E as two letters, so E E U doesn't sound like Ew. Saying EE U or EE Universe seems fine.
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EEEW!!! Should we make a joke out of this?
"The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed."
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Universe is a good name. Personally, I think I may have come up with either the name Sandbox or Online, but Universe is probably better thematically.
While true, they are trying to rebrand the game to make it easier to find.
what if it was condensed into: Everybody's Universe?
If you guys have access to these channels go ahead and upload the vid there, that might attract some old players back.
Or EE Uni. To make fun of Unity.
You know a community has been starved for information when the name of something gets as many woots as this thread got.
You know I think I just noticed the game's name is Everybody Edits! With an exclamation point. Would EEU be "Everybody Edits Universe!" then? With or without, it'd probably need a "the" before Universe to follow proper grammar.
I have two name ideas I'm quite fond of, following this: "Everybody's Universe!" and "Edit the Universe!", both using one word of the original game, as I personally think the full name of EEU is fairly lengthy. Both feel sequel-esque as they carry the meaning of the current EE (the latter moreso), but now with a UNIVERSE to edit and play around in, rather than just editing in general. The former feels more inviting, with the sense that everyone is welcomed here. That this is your universe too!
Also I feel "Universe" at the end of a game title refers to the game's.. well, universe. Like when talking about the Mario games you might say they take place in the Mario universe. Get what I mean?
This is not to say I dislike Everybody Edits Universe, but it's long and "Edits Universe" doesn't roll off the tongue too well (for me at least). Just some ideas.


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Poet Traci Brimhall has appeared a number of times in our Recent Winners pages over the past few years. She has found notable success in the realm of contests, receiving awards including a fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing that took her to Madison for a year of teaching and writing; a grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund; the First Book Award from the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, for Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010); and the recently announced Barnard Women Poets Prize for her second collection, Our Lady of the Ruins. (The volume, selected by Carolyn Forché, will be published by W. W. Norton.) We asked Brimhall, who is currently a doctoral candidate at Western Michigan University, a few questions about how she approaches contests and what advice she has for writers considering competitions.
How many contests have you entered? How many did you enter before winning your first award?
I entered seventeen contests before I got the call that my first book, Rookery, won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. My records for my second book, Our Lady of the Ruins, are less accurate. Although I submitted to a handful of contests, the first response I received was the acceptance from the Barnard Prize, so I don't have the other contests listed on my submission spreadsheet. I believe it was seven or eight contests, plus some open reading periods.
So you've also submitted book manuscripts to publishers, outside of a competition?
I sent out Our Lady of the Ruins to a few open reading periods. I was certainly less aware of them when I first started sending out Rookery, but now that I've started screening for a couple of different book prizes, I think first book contests offer the advantage of limiting the pool of submissions. With open reading periods, a manuscript goes up against poets with two, three or ten books under their belt. That does not necessarily mean their work is stronger than yours, but the fish in that pond are certainly bigger.
When I was still in my MFA program [at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York], I started paying attention to publishers. If a book took the top of my head off, I looked at the press. If I read a poem in a journal that made me clutch my pearls, I would look up that poet's bio and see if they'd published a book, and, if so, where. When I started looking at submitting my work to a contest, I'd already been paying attention to where poetry I admired was being published, and that's about all I looked for in a contest. Of course, I read many poets with brilliant work from presses that I knew wouldn't be interested in what I was doing, but on the whole, I just wanted to metaphorically sit at the table with poets who left me in awe when I read their poems.
Part of it is knowing when you're ready to break up with the work. With Rookery, I felt ready to move on, but I kept coming back to the manuscript to tweak poems or reorder. So I broke up with the manuscript a section at a time. I looked at the poems in each section and then wrote breakup poems where I tried to have it out with my obsessions so I could be done with them once and for all. Of course obsessions follow you wherever your work goes, but I did feel like I put my obsessions' belongings on the lawn and told them to get lost. Each breakup poem became the final poem in each section of the book. With Our Lady of the Ruins, I felt like that manuscript broke up with me. As much as I wanted—and still want—to keep writing those poems, the magic is gone. And who knows why. I was living in my car when I wrote most of them, and maybe the change in my life and my energy affected the way I was writing. Maybe I'd said all I needed to say. It was interesting to discover that the second manuscript functioned very differently than the first. Compiling and ordering one book didn't seem to teach me what I needed to know for the second. I hope I can be lucky enough to have my own work surprise and move me a third time.
How do you select individual pieces to submit to a competition—if this is ever something you do?
I've never had much luck with individual poem contests. I don't often submit to those because the contest fees are usually about fifteen dollars, and if I have a manuscript ready or one that's about to be ready, I'd rather spend twenty-five dollars sending that out. If I didn't have to budget in order to afford contest fees, I would probably submit to a lot more places, but fifteen dollars is four small lattes or a new book, and I'd rather have coffee and poetry than a small chance at winning a contest.
The most satisfying thing lately has been the validation after a lot of discouraging feedback. I had a teacher tell me to throw away the poems in the second book and start over. I've had editors respond with a strong negative reaction to poems from the second book. One even said I didn't have any talent. Of course I wrote the poems anyway. I love those poems. I loved writing them. I look forward to reading them thirty more times in galleys and then beyond that. But it's hard to hear that poems I believed in were received poorly, and it was amazing to get the email from Saskia Hamilton at Barnard that said Carolyn Forché selected the book for the prize.
It's definitely surprised me that not everyone is happy for other people's good news. My good news has changed some friendships and even ruined one. Sometimes the good news doesn't feel worth it, because my greatest joy in poetry after writing a good poem is the community. Being a poet means that I share something in common with thousands of amazing strangers around the country, and whenever I travel for a reading or conference, I meet people who are passionate about the same things I am. A few years ago, I was told to think my competition is Shakespeare, Keats, and Dickinson, not anyone publishing in literary journals. If that's my competition, I don't ever have to worry about winning anything, I can run the race for the goddamned pleasure of it. And isn't the pleasure of it why people start writing in the first place?
I really do think it's a great way to try and find a home for your work. Since judges change most years, you can always try again, whereas if an editor at a press says no, that's probably a fairly firm no. Many contests are judged blindly, often without acknowledgments pages, which means they're truly looking at just your poems. I also enjoy submitting in general, whether it's a manuscript or individual poems. I like the sense of possibility it gives me. The more you send out, the more times you will probably hear no, but then one day, you'll get that letter or that call that finally and joyfully says yes.
In the video below, vocalist Jennifer Lien performs Brimhall's poem "Aubade With a Broken Neck" from Rookery.


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By Russ Burlingame - April 7, 2020 06:46 pm EDT
What happens when you give 88 people a week to remake Back to the Future Part II? Well, you can find out tomorrow when Project 88's Back to the Future Too debuts on YouTube. The movie, created by fans and assembled by The Last Blockbuster director Taylor Morden, will have a streaming online premiere on Wednesday, April 8 at 8 p.m. ET. With casts and crew included, Morden told participants on Facebook that over 300 people contributed to Project 88, from 9 different countries (this writer included). He also said that a mutual friend had passed word of the project along to Robert Zemeckis, director of the Back to the Future trilogy.
The project launched on March 19. Morden divided the film up into 88 segments and asked fans to pick one to work on, then gave the crews a week to turn something around -- whether it's live-action, puppets, animation, or something else -- before it was time for him to start editing. Not all of the crews were done within a week, but by the end of March, Morden was already in the middle of putting together most of the scenes. As of last night, he said that he had all of the pieces in place, and just needed to give the film time to render.
"This project went so far beyond my expectations it's crazy!" Morden told ComicBook.com. "We ended up with over 300 people from 9 countries participating! It has been really amazing piecing it all together and seeing what everyone came up with. But, the best part is hearing how much fun people had working on it. I really hope it's half as fun to watch as it was to make, because people need something fun right now. Being able to help people think about something positive, when everything on the news is so dark, is all I was hoping for, and we more than achieved that!"
With a rapidly-changing cast (given the nature of the project), a franchise like Back to the Future is one of the few ways a project like this could work. Many of the people making the scenes (and watching it once it's finished) are likely to be people who have seen the films over and over again, so as long as the delivery is right, it's unlikely people will be confused about what's going on.
You can check out the official synopsis for the project below, and find more details and behind-the-scenes goodness at the Project 88 website and on Facebook.
Project 88 is a quarantine inspired, fan-made remake of Back to the Future Part 2. It was launched during the Covid19 pandemic of spring 2020 as a creative outlet for people during these challenging times.
The idea was to split the movie into 88 scenes and find people from around the world to recreate those scenes using whatever they had on hand during the various stay-at-home and physical distancing guidelines that were in place at the time. Each team was given 1 week to complete their scene.
We were blown away by the creativity that this spawned! We ended up with over 300 people from 9 different countries contributing to the project! This "movie" contains actors of all ages and experience levels (including some fun cameos from the original actors of Back to the Future 2), puppets, animation, original music, cats, dogs, and even one scene performed entirely by bananas.
The best part of this process is that so many people told us after completing their scenes, that it was the best part of their week, or that it helped them take their minds of all of the craziness that is going in the world for even just a few hours.
We really hope you enjoy the "movie" and that maybe it inspired you to do something fun and creative as well!
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