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So i was a newspaper copy editor for a number of years and asked several people in the industry the following question but never got a definitive answer.

How do you differentiate the the first hour of 1 a.m. and the second hour of 1 a.m. at the end of daylight saving time? For example: my wife just had twins, the first girl was born Nov. 3 at 1:59 a.m. and the second girl was born five minutes later at 1:04 a.m. That sequence is understandable but how do you clearly express one time of birth without referencing the other?

So LA is planning to go "car-free" for the 2028 Olympics and part of that is Metro borrowing 2,700 buses. That seems like insanity to me. How can you temporarily expand your fleet for a month with the required drivers, support staff and training knowing that they'll be out of work at the end? On top of that LA is a notorious shit show when it comes to traffic and safety. Thoughts?

So I just got to Sunbreak and was able to forge my first MR weapon and full armor set. Now I'm thinking of whether to take the time and farm all the decos that I should probably have but passed over in the base game or just try to push ahead with what I have until I hit a wall. Thoughts?

I was browsing Twitter and ran across this. A pretty much word for word adaptation of Terry Pratchett's short story of the same name. Wonderful to see after the recent "inspired by" garbage of the recent BBC adaptation.

Troll Bridge.

I kinda over did it this year. I usually finish the year at about 70 books read but with the pandemic and me finally getting into ebooks (thank you public libraries) I went way over what I thought I would. I'd vehemently denied using ebooks until this year but got curious about a month into COVID. Hopefully next year calms down a little bit and I can go back down to 70ish books. Well here's my list, the highlights of my year are in bold.

1. French Exit by Patrick deWitt
2. The War Prayer by Mark Twain
3. The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
4. Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi by John Scalzi
5. Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
6. Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines

A member in r/books created a post asking for people's opinions about "this 52 books a year trend" and it got me wondering how people on r/52book feel about what we are doing. Good? Bad? Gassy? Aroused?

Personally, I've enjoyed the challenge since I started doing it. For me it's mostly about documenting what I've read and using the weekly update to hunt down new books to read. I already read a lot before I started doing the challenge but having a goal got me reading even more as it shifted my priorities when it came to how I spent my free time.

Feel free to post either here and/or on the original post [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/foyygb/do_you_see_this_52_books_a_year_tre

2019 was a productive year. My favorite book of the year was The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins. My least favorite book was Combat Strategies for Apex Legends Players: An Unofficial Guide to Victory by Jason R. Rich, which I read in 15 minutes at a Barnes and Noble.

1. The Greater Good by Sandy Mitchell
2. Old Soliders Never Die by Sandy Mitchell
3. Room by Emma Donoghue
4. Black Klansman: A Memoir by Ron Stallworth
5. Map of Bones by James Rollins
6. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
7. Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
8. Black Order by James Rollins
9. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
10. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
11. Rogue Protoco

The Command Zone just released a video that included members of the Commander Advisory Group and the Rules Committee discussing the Banned List. Note that the video was made before yesterday's announcement but is still relevant.

Link.

For those who are unable to watch the video, the top 4 cards that those who responded believe should be banned are Cyclonic Rift, Sol Ring, Mana Crypt and Iona.

I don't agree with any of what was said but I though it should be brough to the attention of the cEDH community.

So currently I'm level 76 and I've got my main team of Lucky, Rok, Blood Mage, Zytima and Blood Priest to level 70, 6 star with max equipment. I'm currently working on Succubus, Xaart and Azariel. Kage is also slowly but surely getting there.

My question is what should I spend resources on next? Start 7 starring characters? Finish off Suc, Xaart and Aza to be able to run the holy trinity team? Raise the levels of my main squad?

I'm enjoying my current team but it's having problems whenever it misses and now that opponents in my arena shard have started to level past 70 that's starting to happen a lot more.

Thanks.

I just hit 52 so I thought I'd share my list so far. All first time read throughs. Probably going to slow down some. Hoping to hit 75 by the end of the year.

My top three were City of Thieves by David Benioff, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario and Writing to Deadline: The Journalist at Work by Donald Murray.

• The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
• Engaging the Enemy by Elizabeth Moon
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• Victory Conditions by Elizabeth Moon
• The End of the Day by Catherine Webb
• Feed by M.T. Anderson
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indi

I hit 52 books a couple days ago and I thought I'd share my list. All first time read throughs. It was a fun ride. Hoping to hit 75 by the end of the year.

My top three so far were The Sellout, I.O.U. and On Writing Well.

• The Crystal Shard by R.A. Salvatore
• The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Life by David
• Borgenicht and Joshua Piven
• Flying Dutch by Tom Holt
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
• The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program by Stanley D. Frank
• Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book by Shel Silverstein
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the
• People Who Cook by Anthony Bour

The growing buzzword in this subreddit seems to be "optimization." Articles discuss how "three + colors it's far easier to optimize manabases." One decklist's description from the most recent tier list begins, "Fully optimized Hermit Druid combo deck. It wins by turn 3 95% of the time in a vacuum." Alternative decklists of popular generals are downvoted into oblivion without explanation because they aren't the "optimized" versions.

But what does "optimization" mean exactly? For many in this subreddit is seems to mean making the best goldfish decks and then ignoring everything else. To me, saying anything is optimized without extensive criticism, playtesting and discussion of the meta is mi

Barely made my goal. All books listed were new to me with no rereads. Will be scaling it down in 2017.

*Season of the Sandstorms by Mary Pope Osborne

*The Psychology of Poker by Alan N. Schoonmaker, Ph.D.

*The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia B. McConnell, Ph.D.

*Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey

*Do Your Ears Pop in Space?: And 500 Other Surprising Questions about Space Travel by R. Mike Mullane

*Aloha from Hell by Richard Kadrey

*Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey

*Blood Follows by Steven Erikson

*Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore

*The Art of Money Getting by P.T. Barnum

*Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg and