Some background, I smoked the equivalent of half a pack a day for over 20 years. This is by far the longest I have quit. I credit it to both a sincere desire to not smoke and the use of nicotine gum. I'm now down to a maintenance dose of two gums per day.
Warning: next bit may be TMI sorry in advance.
Over the last 100ish days I've gained about 8 kg which is insane. I'm exercising more than ever but the weight keeps climbing. I have done a food diary and am eating the same weekly planned meals as I was before quitting (within reason of fluctuations like going out to eat with family/friends). I've noticed that I am defecating much less often (as frequent pooing used to be a side effect of my smoking) and the stool quality is better. I'm worried that something drastic has happened to my metabolism due to quitting smoking. Is this normal? Will the weight gain stabilize? I don't want to keep gaining weight while pushing myself to exercise 4+ days a week for over an hour each session. It's giving me something of a complex and I also don't want to end up with an eating disorder because exercise is not working.
Any tips on how you've managed post quitting weight would be really helpful.

Bonjour,
J'avais fait un post en début de semaine pour parler de mon histoire avec ma belle-mère, ma compagne, et mon enfant, en vacances.
TL;DR des précédents événements: Ma belle-mère a la mentalité et le comportement d'une ado de 11 ans, ma compagne est vampirisée par sa mère au détriment de tout le reste. Nous avons passé une semaine de vacances où ELLES ont imposé leur programme sans jamais prendre en compte mon avis, et au moment où ça a pété, elles ont fait mine d'être surprises.
Ma compagne devait voir des amis un soir, et ayant une contrainte pro l'autre soir, j'ai du gérer notre enfant les 2 soirs tout seul, au détriment des activités que j'avais déjà prévu.
Je passe les petites tensions pour arriver à hier soir. Elle rentre vers 21h30 et ne montre aucun signe d'affection ni de reconnaissance. Tel un robot, elle agit n'importe comment, fait les choses à moitié avec toujours un commentaire négatif à base de "et toi c'est pas mieux", et montre de la mauvaise foi (par exemple: je l'attendais pour manger. Elle est partie bouder dans son coin, je commence alors le repas. Quand elle est revenue, elle me dit "Ah mais genre tu m'attendais pour manger arrête de te foutre de ma gueule").
Ambiance extrêmement tendue.
Je lui propose qu'elle dorme sur le canapé si elle n'est pas contente. "Non c'est aussi mon lit merde !". Avant de se coucher, j'essaye de faire une mise au point avec elle. Mais chaque remarque que je lui fais reçoit un "et toi" en guise de réponse.
Je commence à craquer et lui balance pas mal de méchancetés à la figure. Des choses que je pense vraies mais qui balancées comme ça peuvent être méchantes:

• Des amis à elle lui font la tête, car elle leur a fait à plusieurs reprise des plans foireux, où elle annule au dernier moment une sortie. La plupart du temps "par flemme". Au point où son cercle d'ami est à présent restreint
• D'ailleurs, elle en a fait de même avec un cercle d'ami qu'on a en commun qui, maintenant, sont "mes amis" puisqu'ils ont fait une remarque sur le ton de l'humour quand elle nous a fait un mauvais plan.
• Sa mère avait 3 de QI et elle cautionnait son comportement. Elle a même eu plusieurs fois des comportement presque dangereux pour notre enfant, et que si elle cautionnait encore ses faits, on voyait où étaient ses priorités
• Toujours en parlant de sa mère, je l'ai invité à aller vivre avec elle et finir vieille fille avec elle, puisqu' apparement il n'y avait qu'elle qui comptait dans sa vie
• Je rebondis sur le sujet pour lui rappeler que tout comme cette dernière, il y avait TOUJOURS un drama dans leur vie, et qu'il ne se passe pas une semaine sans qu'il y en ait un: un oncle qui a fait une remarque et ça en devient une affaire d'état, une voisine qui a dit ceci, un collègue qui n'a pas fait cela etc.
• Je lui rappelle également qu'elle a un comportement irrespectueux pour notre enfant: elle claque les portes, parle fort, fait claquer ses chaussures sur le parquet, le tout avec notre enfant qui dors à quelques mètres.

A chaque fois, j'ai en réponse "et toi ?!". Mes amis ? Oh bah j'ai cas vivre avec eux si je suis pas content. Sa mère ? "Oui et la tienne blablabla". A noter qu'on la voit pas souvent la mienne, et encore moins en vacances. Les dramas ? "Et toi ?". Parler fort à côté de notre enfant ? "Et toi aussi tu parles fort".
Ok...
Ca ne sert à rien de parler, je me tourne de mon côté en lui expliquant que demain matin, c'est à elle d'emmener notre enfant à la crèche.
Cette demande était vicieuse de ma part je l'admet. Si je lui ai demandé ça, c'est parce que je le fais chaque matin, que je suis le premier à me lever pour gérer notre enfant qui se reveille plus tôt que le reveille (pendant qu'elle reste au lit puis se prépare tranquillement) et que pour une fois, j'aimerais bien que ça soit elle qui gère cette partie-là.
Ce matin, elle prend le relai tout en faisant la gueule. On se parle un peu, pour notamment parler des progrès de notre enfant, mais rien de plus. Au moment de partir, je lui dis que finalement c'est moi qui emmène notre enfant à la crèche, que c'est sur le chemin de mon travail, et que je suis prêt. Elle insiste: NON ce n'est pas prévu comme ça, elle s'est préparée exprès pour y aller (normalement en télétravail).
J'insiste à mon tour. Elle commence à partir, je pars avec eux. Au bout de quelques mètres, elle commence à bouillir et me demande "mais tu vas nous suivre comme ça jusqu'à la crèche ?!". Je lui répond alors que oui, moi aussi maintenant j'en faisais qu'à ma tête, que je changeais aussi mes plans au dernier moment puisqu'il semble que ça soit pas bien grave quand c'est elle qui le fait.
J'enchaine pour lui dire que j'attendais de sa part un minimum d'excuse pour la semaine de merde que j'ai passé avec elles, où elles ont imposés leurs choix. A présent, moi aussi j'allais adopter leur comportement et imposer MES choix, changer les plans au dernier moment sans même prendre en compte l'avis des autres.
Elle bloque durant 2 secondes, commence à avoir des larmes aux yeux. Elle se penche sur notre enfant pour l'embrasser et lui souhaiter bonne journée, et tout en pleurant rentre à la maison rapidement.
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Je sais que la rupture est proche. Je n'arrive pas à parler avec elle, elle n'écoute rien et a un comportement immature. Je remarque aussi qu'elle adopte de plus en plus les névroses de sa mère, notamment l'impression que le monde entier leur en veut, jamais se remettre en question ni s'excuser, toujours trouver ou créer un drama.
Cependant, je m'en veux quand même d'avoir fait pleurer quelqu'un. Suis-je un trou de balle ?

While some army rules scales with battle size like grey knights there are armies that grants a fixed bonus. So if I'm playing a 500-1000 point crusade battle the eldar player will still get all the 12 strand of fate dices or the marine player oath of moment bonus will be more impactful with a lower unit count. What do you guys think of the balance of the game in small battles? Since it's what I'm planning to play with my friends

As always, you are free to voice, perform, fill, or whatever else you might want to call it, this script as you please, as long as you do not hide it behind a paywall. I would love to receive a link to the finished product, I enjoy seeing what other people make of my stuff.
Changes you can make: I do not put particularly much care into my titles, so feel free to name it something different. If you do, please put the original name in the description or something. I imagined the situation as F4M when I wrote it, but there are no references to either the listener's or the speaker's gender, so it should work either way. You can specify the speakers and listeners gender as you want. I usually try not to include too many sfx in my scripts since some VAs don't use them, but you can of course add or remove background- and ASMR noises if you want to.
Also, I am always open to feedback, be it about the script itself, specific phrases, or about the format and better ways to provide the script to VAs.
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Synopsis: You are having a nightmare, and your night is only going to get worse when you wake up… Or is it?...
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Speaker: *creepy* "Oh, Huuuuuumaaaaaannnn… Guess who came to visit again…" *chuckle* "You can't hear me right now, can you?... You are still sleeping soundly, but I am sure some part of your subconscious can understand me and is filling you with that delightful feeling of dread! Do you remember it? The sensation of not being alone in the room, of something being there with you, right when you are at your most vulnerable? The knowledge that it is creeping closer and closer with each panicked thought in your pretty head, until you can hear a foreign breath next to your ears, feel a single claw gently caressing your skin from your toes all the way up to your neck and then, finally, a sudden weight on your chest, as if something just sat down on you, helplessly pinning you against the soft bed beneath…"
[Listener wakes up]
Speaker: "Oh? Looks like that woke you up! Shhhhh… Don't try to struggle! It's useless, you can't move your body right now. Trying to break the sleep paralysis will only terrify you more… Hmm… On second thought, please struggle more! I enjoy the growing fear in your… What's that? You look even more teary-eyed than usual! Not that you would actually remember my previous visits of course, but am I really THAT intimidating? Looks like I really managed to step up my game this time!"
Listener: *cries*
Speaker: *laugh* "Oooh… Are you crying, my little human? This… actually looks kind of pathetic! What, is the wimpy little human afraid of the big bad monster in the darkness?"
Listener: *cries harder*
Speaker: *flustered* "D-don't cry harder human!... Look, I'm sorry for that, I might have gotten a little to into it." *whisper* "Shit, what to do…" *normal volume* "Umm… Would it help if I… I don't know, pat your head or something?"
Listener: *even more terrified*
Speaker: "Aaaaah, I'm sorry! I totally forgot about what I look like right now. Let me dispel the illusion… See? I'm not that different from you… Well, except for the horns and the tail, but try not to focus on them, okay?"
Listener: *stops crying*
Speaker: "Oh thank the flames, that seems to have calmed you down a little. Is it okay if I touch you now?"
Listener: *agrees*
Speaker: "Thank you, little human. There there… Let me also wipe your tears away… You know, your eyes are way too pretty to be hidden behind a layer of tears like that."
Listener: *request*
Speaker: "Oh no, I'm sorry! I can't really do anything about the paralysis once it starts. It just has to wear off on its own, but I promise that I won't do anything to hurt you in the meantime.:
Listener: *question*
Speaker: "How long will that take?" *sigh* "I don't really know, it differs from person to person. Five to ten minutes maybe?"
Listener: *question*
Speaker: "Oh right, I'm sorry for not telling you earlier. I am what you may call a Sleep Paralysis Demon, even though that name is not quite accurate."
Listener: *confused*
Speaker: "Why not? Well, it makes it seem like there are many kinds of demons that are completely different from each other, when in reality we are all fundamentally the same and only have different preferences and associations. I, for example, am associated with fear. I need to absorb it from humans in order to feed myself, and make use of sleep paralysis to do so. But I could also use any other technique, just as any other demon could induce sleep paralysis with a bit of practice. But I am rambling again, when we were talking about you! Why did you cry like that? I try not to distress my victims too much, but was it something I did?"
Listener: *answers*
Speaker: "Oh, so you had a nightmare… That certainly explains how scared you were."
Listener: *embarrassed*
Speaker: "What? Being scared of a nightmare is nothing to be embarrassed about! Why would you even think that?"
Listener: *answers*
Speaker: "Because that's what everyone says? Well, they are most definitely wrong about that! Don't tell me they also told you that it makes you weak!"
Listener: *confirms*
Speaker: *gasp* "No, it absolutely does not! I… I kind of really want to hug you right now… But you are still paralyzed and I don't want to do anything you don't want me too, so I'll need some kind of verbal consent."
Listener: *consents*
Speaker: "Thank you for trusting me so much. Let me just get in there… I believe they call this a 'big spoon'. When I am hugging you from behind, so I can use one hand to play with your hair and another to hold your hands. Like that! Please tell me if you are uncomfortable."
Listener: *answer*
Speaker: "Okay, I'll do it like that then… Do you want to tell me what this nightmare was about?"
[Pause, listener explains nightmare]
Speaker: "Oh no, honey, that sounds horrible! I am so sorry you had to go through that."
Listener: *question*
Speaker: "No, of course I am not making fun of you! As I said before, having nightmares is nothing to be ashamed of. No matter how stupid a nightmare seems in hindsight or to others, your feelings in that moment are completely valid! Everybody is afraid of something, and everybody is different in that regard. So just because I personally might not find your nightmare particularly scary does not mean I am going to belittle your feelings about it."
Listener: *denies*
Speaker: "Do you know what a nightmare basically is? It is your own mind torturing you to the best of its ability. It will find whatever you are most afraid of and turn it against you. And if it can't find anything, it will just make you afraid of something arbitrary. Trust me when I, a literal manifestation of fear, tell you that there is no place more terrifying than your own mind.”
Listener: *understands*
Speaker: “Yes, that’s right! It is not your fault for being afraid of a nightmare. I am glad you are finally showing reason. You just have to get through a nightmare, acknowledge your feelings in the moment, but not dwell on them too much. Let the fear pass and look forward to the next day.”
Listener: *relaxes*
Speaker: “Hm… You really needed to hear that, didn’t you? Your body and mind are much more relaxed now compared to earlier. Speaking of which, by the way you just subconsciously snuggled deeper into my embrace, I assume that the sleep paralysis has worn off?”
Listener: *agrees*
Speaker: *laugh* “Don’t worry, I won’t stop cuddling you just because you are no longer panicking. Unless you want me to, of course.”
Listener: *denies*
Speaker: “Good. Because I don’t want to stop just yet. Come here, let me hug you tighter.”
[Snuggling sounds]
Speaker: “I am sorry that no one told you before. That it is okay to be afraid of nightmares, I mean. Do you have them regularly?”
Listener: *answers*
Speaker: “I see… And are they always that bad?”
Listener: *confirms*
Speaker: “I’m sorry to hear that, honey… I wish I could have been there for you sooner. Speaking of which, I have a proposal for you, if you’re interested.”
Listener: *curious*
Speaker: “What is it? Well, I was planning on imprinting my sigil on your soul. Don’t worry, it doesn’t really mean anything, and it can be removed fairly easily if any of us wants to. All it does is create a certain connection between us. You will be able to summon me whenever you want, and we can both kind of feel each other. So, if you are having a nightmare again, you can summon me to comfort you like this again. Or maybe I even notice it beforehand and can come here to wake you up.”
Listener: *worry*
Speaker: “Oh no, don’t worry about me. It really is no bother. Remember what I feed on?... That’s right, fear. So if nothing else, I will at least get a meal out of simply coming to your side. Now, does this sound like something you’d like?”
Listener: *agrees*
Speaker: “Great, then hold still for a moment while I put my hand on your forehead. Aaaaaand… Done!”
Listener: *confused*
Speaker: “Of course you didn’t feel anything. You humans are not capable of using magic, so how would you be able to perceive it? I shared a bit of mine with you, so you can perform a simple summoning spell.”
Listener: *question*
Speaker: “Yes, kind of like a pact. It’s what we demons are famous for after all. Maybe infamous is the better word though…”
Listener: *question*
Speaker: “What are the terms of the contract? Well, my part is to answer your summon whenever possible and provide comfort, and your part is to definitely call on me whenever you need me. Simple, right?”
Listener: *agrees*
Speaker: *chuckles* “You don’t have to try to speak through that yawning. All of this must have taken a lot out of you, am I right? First having that nightmare, and then being woken by a demon. Now that the adrenaline is fading, it is only natural that all that tiredness comes crashing back down on you at once. It’s okay, just go to sleep. I will be sure to protect you… But… Just know, I probably won’t be here when you wake up. I will try to stay here as long as I can, but demons can only spend a limited amount of time in this world. So, don’t be disappointed tomorrow, okay?”
Listener: *agrees*
Speaker: “Good, then just get comfortable and close your eyes. Good night, and sweet dreams, honey.”
[Goodnight kiss]
[Cuddling sounds, eventually fading out]

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I've noticed that many users in this subreddit are young, and have limited knowledge of pre 2014 political events. I made this post to provide some context for BJP activities, and to dispel some myths about the purity of Indian Politicians.
With the Brij Bhushan Singh controversy, there has been a lot of confusion related to why the BJP would spend so much political capital protecting criminals. Singh has been accused before, and has admitted to crimes before, so just wash your hands of him and move on, right?
The larger problem with this strategy is that it opens Pandora's Box, and sets a precedent that criminals, harassers and other threats to society cannot be tolerated within the BJP, which would put many politicians under a lot of threat.
#”Stalk-gate, abuse of power, and Modi”
In 2009, the Gujarat Police stalked a woman continuously for months at the behest of a "sahib" who was obsessed with her[1]. They would follow her everywhere, and even attempted to stalk her beyond state border in Karnataka, which they couldn't.[2] After the controversy came to light before the 2014 elections, her father claimed that the Sahib was him, and that the Gujarat Government did this at his behest. However, this claim is contradicted by these snippets from link one:
“They said that in one of his conversations Shah had told Singhal to imprison a man who was meeting Madhuri and see to it that he rotted there longer than the suspended ATS DIG DG Vanzara who had by then been arrested in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.”
“Shah, his purported conversation with Singhal shows, was particularly interested in knowing about the men Madhuri would "meet or dated or was planning to get engaged to". One of these men included Pradeep Sharma, an IAS officer who was then posted at Bhavnagar as Municipal Commissioner.Sharma who, like his brother, former IPS officer Kuldeep Sharma, has been at odds with the Modi regime, had alleged in SC in 2011 that he was being targeted by the Gujarat government because he knew about the female architect's links with a powerful figure in Gandhinagar.”
The portal claimed it was also clear from these tapes that the focus of the surveillance was the woman's 'personal conversations and intimate meetings with her future husband'.
"They were both closely observed. In these tapes, her love-life is the most important matter of discussion between Sharma and Singhal. Both also made plans to photograph her would-be husband as cops tailed the couple wherever they went: restaurants, ice cream parlours...," it said.
These go beyond simple surveillance to keep someone safe, and especially beyond simple security that a father would ask for. Additionally, why would a random businessman instill such fear into Amit Shah, that he would scold police officers in fear of the Saheb finding loopholes?
Congress has alleged that Modi was the Saheb in question, as has the journalist who initially uncovered the story. Considering Modi’s massive influence over the Home Ministry at the time, the nature of the surveillance, and that Modi asked for special favours for this woman, it makes more sense[3].
# “Haren Pandya, and why people don’t blow the whistle”
After the 2002 riots, BJP MLA and Gujarat Revenue Minister Haren Pandya admitted in a press release that Modi had asked tope leadership in Gujarat to allow "people to vent their frustration and not come in the way of the Hindu backlash".[4] Haren Pandya blew the whistle on this, and eventually had to resign. He was found dead in mysterious circumstances soon after. Keep in mind, that Haren Pandya was not a common man. He was a sitting MLA, a sitting Revenue Minister, former Home Minister, and was part of the national executive of the BJP. Even his power and security was not enough to protect him, and Modi was not even Prime Minister at the time, just a Chief Minister. This was the Judge’s statement on the investigation into Pandya’s death : “What clearly stands out from the record of the present case is that the investigation in the case of murder of Shri Haren Pandya has all throughout been botched up and blinkered and has left a lot to be desired. The investigating officers concerned ought to be held accountable for their ineptitude resulting into injustice, huge harassment of many persons concerned and enormous waste of public resources and public time of the courts.” [5]
# “Checks and balances?”
Amit Shah, mentioned earlier for his role in snoopgate, is an important man to consider in this particular context. He has been accused of several crimes, as reported by his “myNeta” page. We will discuss the most noteworthy ones, in my opinion.
Amit Shah was allegedly involved in the encounter killing of a man named “Sohrabuddin Sheikh’, an accused terrorist who allegedly had plans to assassinate Modi. While this killing was being investigated, one of the main witnesses, Tulsiram Prajapati was also killed in custody. Amit Shah was the chief accused in that case. A special court was constituted to hear this matter. The judge in this case was JT Utpat. Amit Shah didn’t show up to court. JT Utpat pulled up Amit Shah for not showing up to the court, and was subsequently quickly transferred. [6] Following this, Justice Loya took over the court. He died soon, in a government guest house, with his family saying that he faced immense pressure handling the case prior to his death, and that they saw bloodstains on his collar.[7] The next judge to be assigned the case was MB Gosavi, who ruled in Amit Shah’s favour. It took him all of 13 days to come up with a favourable order for Amit Shah.
The CBI filed a separate chargesheet for the Tulsiram Murder case, which the CJI threw out, asking for it to be added to the main “Sohrabuddin Sheikh” case. The CJI subsequently became a governor, the first CJI to ever be made Governor[8]. Eventually, all the accused in the Sohrabuddin Case were acquitted.
This post has reached over a 1000 words now so I’ll stop. The point being that the two of the three top members of the BJP have, at best, a rocky relationship with due process, the rule of law, and respecting women. Perhaps this offers some useful context into the present controversy.
[1] : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/top-narendra-modi-aide-put-woman-under-police-watch-for-sahib-websites/articleshow/25842511.cms
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[2] https://www.deccanchronicle.com/131225/news-current-affairs/article/snooping-went-beyond-borders-gujarat-modi-wanted-know-about
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[3] https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/stalk-gate-narendra-modi-asked-for-contracts-to-be-given-to-woman-architect-claims-ias-officer-542171
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[4] https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/a-midnight-meeting-on-feb-27-and-a-murdered-ministe235982
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[5] https://www.epw.in/journal/2011/38/commentary/haren-pandya-judgment-dissection-botched-investigation.html
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[6] https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/days-after-he-pulled-up-shah-judge-shifted/
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[7] https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/from-nagpur-to-latur-retracing-last-few-hours-of-justice-loya-1780039
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[8] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/Former-CJI-Sathasivam-to-be-Kerala-Governoarticle60403652.ece

Here's the second part of Act IV. Sorry for the double post but I had no choice due to the website's limitations.
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Act IV: The Clouds Burst (2/2)

To the Panic room
Frightened by the new attack, Biosyn's board of directors leave the auditorium and, guided by their escort, they head for the panic room. Meanwhile, the employees finally manage to rush out of the burning cafetaria and while some surrender to the Italians and the Austrians, others rush to the metro station or the garages in order to flee to the Biosyn village, and a fraction try to make a run for the panic room but their way is blocked by a group of guards.
On their way to the panic room, the board of directors is partly caught in a stampeding crowd. Zoe Murdoch is pushed on the ground, trampled and left behind while Nathan Quinn abandons his fellow board members.
The wage of treachery
While she also started heading to the garages, knowing that Dodgson must be there, Bigelow is attacked by Massoud. They fight but despite her skills, Massoud is a stronger opponent and he overpower Bigelow. But just as he is strangling her, the grey guard is tased by Kayla and falls unconscious. The smuggler helps the CIA agent get up and they hurry to the garages.
The raiders
Meanwhile, the mysterious soldiers have reached the laboratories, killing everyone in their path, be they Biosyn guards and mercenaries, scientists who tried to save their work, or besiegers (including Luis Olivares).
They cross the different labs. In Dr Lesser's, Wu hides from them as he is still locked up. The raiders ends up reaching their objective: The locusts' lab. When they see the nine empty rooms, the raiders seem worried and frustrated, implying they came to do something with the locusts. They then has the remaining group gassed and we see the locusts taking flight and then starting to drop dead on the floor. While some of the raiders then raid and destroy the rest of the Locusts' lab, other squad members then free the animals contained in the cages of another lab.
In the lower levels
While crawling and climbing in the vents towards the top of the Citadel, Claire sees Owen running past her as he rushes to the kennels. But the alarms' blare prevent The Raptor Whisperer from hearing his fiancée.
In the lower levels, Mia Everett is trying to capture Victoria, intending to save her from the chaos and Biosyn's clutches, but the young Achillobator attack her, biting and clawing at her throat. Grievously injured, the scientist fall and Victoria lets her bleeds to death. When Owen finds Mia, she just has the time of uttering a few words before passing away. The Raptor Whisperer sees a number of animals running in the hallways, including Victoria. But just as he plans to catch her, Biosyn employees are being chased by some of the most dangerous escapees (like the dilophosaurs). Some of those animals prevent The Raptor Whisperer from going after Victoria and he is forced to hide in the first room he can find.
Tu quoque mi fili
On their way to the garages, Ramsay and Dodgson have an argument, during which the first say he no longer want to follow the second due to his recent fits of madness (filling Maisie's head with lies; the locusts' threats; literally declaring war with the Italians and the Austrians; behaving like a dictator...), even though he believed in his vision when he was recruited years ago (Ramsay genuinely believed that Biosyn's breakthroughs could improve the world etc...). When Ramsay admits having helped Wu with discovering the truth about Charlotte's videos and breaking Maisie out of the Citadel, Dodgson seems genuinely hurt by the betrayal of his son-like figure. One too many, after those of Wu, Drummond, and Pellegrino. Their argument worsens, up until they come to blows. At one point Dodgson pulls out a pistol and shoots Ramsay in the belly by accident. While the younger man bleeds out, the CEO is dazed and runs away while predators' growls can be heard nearby.
Near the garages' entrance, Dodgson is found by Bigelow and Kayla. The CIA agent asks about Ramsay and he answers that he didn't make it due to an attack on the way. The three take the last available vehicle and exits the Citadel, driving into the valley. Their objective is the same mountain path towards which Maisie and Drummond are heading.
Duel
On the way to the courtyard, one of the mysterious soldiers has a sword fight with a grey guard (Cesare oand Papadopoulos). During it, his opponent tear a part of his sleeve, revealing a tattoo which depicts a snake hieroglyph (actually a symbol of the god Apep). The soldier manage to climb aboard their helicopter, which take off and leave the valley with one of the attack helicopters. Confused, the grey guard wonder who those attackers were.
The dam busters
Meanwhile, the other has moved to the other end of the valley, where it's in the middle of a fight with one of the Special Forces' helicopters, just by the dam. During their battle, the dilapidated dam is destroyed and its unleashed frozen waters follow the valley's main river, flooding everything in their path, including the battlefield on the road and the area just in front of the Citadel. A number of animals, Carabinieri and Biosyn employees aboard a fleeing vehicle are carried away and many of them drown while Dodgson's vehicle is almost caught by the waters.
The flood reaches the south-eastern limits of Biosyn's lands, where it's momentarily stopped by the wall found there and which separates the Sanctuary from the nearest village. But under so much pressure, the wall breaks down and the flood continues, destroying parts of a riverside village after that, catching some of the inhabitants.
With its main power source gone, the electricity goes off within Biosyn's lands and the surrounding areas, deactivating the invisible fences and stopping the metro full of passengers in the middle of the tunnels.
Road accident
While in the part of the valley spared by the flood, Dodgson's vehicle nearly collide with a loose black billy goat (the same which ran away in the prologue) and in its attempt to bypass it, it tumble down a slope (with Bigelow being ejected in the bushes in the process) and ends up on its roof (like the vehicle carrying the original trio and Maisie in Trevorrow's version).
Aftermath
The attackers gone and most of Biosyn troops neutralized or routing, Vuillier, Dougal, Nyamu, Viscontini, and the surviving grey guards, the officers of the Carabinieri and the Special Forces, along with Pellegrino and Nathan Quinn starts organizing the evacuation of the remaining Biosyn employees and taking the wounded (as the grey guards' medic, Papadopoulos will tend to them) to a provisional secure location within the Citadel (the auditorium could be such a place). In the control room, all the technicians but a few were killed or badly injured by the helicopter's attack while the grey guard's team dispatched there is in a hardly better state as Isabella Perez was also injured. Al-Damiri orders their comrade to take her out of the tower, and give similar orders to the uninjured technicians, asking only one to stay just in case. The Egyptian grey guard and the remaining technician then assess the damage.
As power need to be put back on for various purposes (allowing the three grey guards continue their search in the archives; deactivating the valley "aerial defense" to let helicopters come in the Citadel and evacuate people; reactivating the metro; reactivating the invisible fences to prevent the animals from leaving the valley...), people are sent activating the emergency generators.
They want to send men after Dodgson's but while the valley's known exits are watched, they fear he knows a secret one.
Dodgson's demise
When Bigelow awakes amidst the bushes, she notices that the vehicle is surrounded by a group of Nasutoceratops (or some other buffalo-sized herbivores). Inside the crashed vehicle, Dodgson and Kayla regain consciousness and know they have to wait for the herbivores to leave before exiting the vehicle. Suddenly, the herbivores get agitated and leave. They caught the scent of a predator and the latter shows itself: It's the InGen-bred Acrocanthosaurus.
Ensue a scene where Dodgson, just like his novel version with Sarah Harding, tries to save his own skin by pushing Kayla from the vehicle so the Acro can eat her instead of him, deeming her expendable, but the opposite happens. When the CEO is shaken between the jaws, his precious hard-drive falls on the ground and Bigelow sees this and tries to reach it before it's crushed by the animal. Kayla tries to hold the CIA agent back, saying she'll get herself killed and that the hard-drive isn't worth it. Bigelow rushes towards her objective anyway. When it takes a still screaming Dodgson in the woods, the acro steps on the hard-drive, destroying it.
The black billy goat responsible for the road accident watches Dodgson being devoured by the dinosaur.
Meanwhile, a depressed Bigelow is looking at the destroyed hard-drive and Kayla is forced to shake her so they can move away and head for the mountains in order to leave the valley.
Drummond's confession
Walking above the surface and not in the tunnels in order to not reiterate the traumatizing experience with the pectinodons even if it's equally dangerous due to the other valley's predators, Drummond and Maisie are heading eastward, following the peripheral rim of mountains.
During their trek, Drummond tells Maisie about the Hunting activity in the Sanctuary and how its profits financed his research at Biosyn, explaining part of his self-loathing. He admits he's glad that Claire put an end to it, even if he wished less blood was spilled.
To add some light amidst those dark hours, the teenager and the palaeontologist have a peaceful encounter with some dinosaurs (probably herbivores).
While watching them, Drummond tells Maisie about his late wife's wish of having children, implying to the teenager that she has a roof under which to sleep if she doesn't want to return to Orick and leave the Lockwood name behind her in order to finally have a normal life.
At the opposite end of the valley, they see fire and smoke rising from the Citadel and wonder what happened there.
Zobie la Mouche/Whac-a-Mole
Another danger is spotted near the Citadel. Coming from the now-flooded area at the base of the building, comes Brontes, one of the Argentinosaurus.
After the battle and the flood, he just seeks a place to have some rest and thinks the Citadel's courtyard would be a decent choice. The characters in the atrium hide as he crosses the now destroyed hall. It's seen during that scene that the sauropod has many scars on his skull, implying some human abuse (probably for medical experiments). The sauropod's suite of small carnivores take off from it and land in the atrium, investigating the hall as they caught the scent of dead or wounded humans.
On his way, Brontes sees something moving on the ground. It's Murdoch, who's trying to crawl away despite the injuries she got after being trampled by a crowd. Brontes looks at her with curiosity and then crushes her under his foot. Murdoch now squashed, Brontes loses interest in her and enters the courtyard while some members of his suite eat the remains of Biosyn's vice-president. The Argentinosaurus stands in the middle of the courtyard, just in front of the tower's entrance, and starts to sleep while standing (a bit like elephants). A part of his suite is on the lookout, hearing noise all around within the Citadel.
Distracting Brontes
Our protagonists are bothered as Brontes and his suite are preventing them from going after Dodgson by the shortest way and reaching the archives' entrance. They can either make a long detour through a series of hallways or confront the dinosaur. As time is running against them, they take the second option and while some of the grey guards (Cesare, Massoud, Kapakas) are attracting Brontes and his suite towards a ruined part of the Citadel (and from the control room, Al Damiri help them by shooting on the beast), Vuillier and Nyamu run to the tower and reach it in time. At the archives' entrance, they join Chapuy and his two comrades.
Burning the Hydra's heads
In the dark hallways, Claire stumbles upon Betty Chapman (or whatever her real name is), who's pushing a cart with hydrogen cyanide canisters. At that moment, the audience also notices for the first time that Chapman has the same snake hieroglyph tattoo on her arm as the soldier who had a sword fight with the grey guard.
Claire first intends to stop the guard and bring her to the invading force so she can be put with the other Biosyn employees, but Chapman tells her that they should be allies as she's also an enemy of Biosyn. Claire demands precisions and while pushing the cart, the guard reveal that she infiltrated the company and was the one who sabotaged the Sanctuary in the last few months, by temporarily deactivating the invisible fence and allowing one of the Quetzalcoatlus to escape in order to accelerate the destroying of Biosyn's reputation, and sending intel to the raiders, whose objective were to destroy the locusts before their shipping abroad. When Claire asks who she and the raider are, Chapman only gives an enigmatic answer (something like "Chaos in the service of a greater good"). When she tells Claire that Wu made those locusts, the former director of Jurassic World thinks about finding the geneticist and follow through with her threats from three years earlier.
On the way, Claire has to scare off some escaped predator which wanted to attack them. Chapman tells her she's heading to the panic room, where the board of directors so foolishly trapped itself. The felon guard explain Claire they can't take the risk of having the board members leaving the panic room and escaping the valley and that she could help her giving a deadly blow from which Biosyn will never recover while they still can. Claire agrees to help her and looking at the canisters, she remembers what Doctor Karim Depéret, one of InGen's geneticists, told her during the Lockwood Estate incident, that Hydrogen Cyanide is a poison.
The emergency generators
As having a full suspenseful scene dedicated to restoring power like in Trevorrow's version would be too much of a retread of JP's bunker scene, the scene where power is restored is either much shorter or happening off-screen.
However, the emergency generators alone are not enough to provide power for all the needed tasks (the invisible fences and the aerial defense system are quite energy-intensive) and another black-out occurs. Power is once again put back on but our protagonists are forced to make choices. In order to keep the invisible fences on and the archives' power running, they are forced to keep the "aerial defense" system on and stop the evacuation's helicopters from going and coming between the Citadel and the camp outside the valley in order to not trigger pterosaurs' attack.
Dracul
Reaching the part of the Citadel where the panic room is located, Claire and Chapman bring the cart to a maintenance tunnel, prepare the canisters and neutralize the guards in front of the panic room, using darkness to their advantage. They block the door, preventing the board members from escaping. They return to the maintenance tunnel and Chapman lets Claire introduce hydrogen cyanide in the panic room's aeration, poisoning the board members. Finally, the Chapman gives Claire a box of matches. She takes it, lights a match, throws it in the right vent and while the gas catches fire, the two women run away. The panic room is destroyed in a violent explosion which finishes the board members off. It's heard and felt within most of the Citadel.
A wounded Biosyn guard sees Claire fleeing the panic room's area and notices the blood on her clothes. When he discovers what's left of the panic room and the board members (charred corpses at best), he utters with dread the following word: Dracul (Dragon in Romanian. The guard, a minor character, is established to be a Romanian immigrant in an earlier scene depicting the daily life of the facility's employees).
Claire tries to find Chapman after that but the other woman disappeared like a ghost and is not seen for the rest of the Dolomites Incident.
In the Archives
Vuillier, Nyamu and the three grey guards with them are still searching the archives for every incriminating document.
Reuniting
After discovering that Victoria and other animals escaped the citadel through a door and are now in the valley, Owen heads for the control room, aware that it must have some sort of tracking system. On the way, he reunites with Claire and soon, they are found by Dougal. As the Argentinosaurus is still posing a threat in the central courtyard, they pass under it in order to access the tower. They climb to the control room, meet Al-Damiri and the last technician there, get access to the tracking system and Victoria's current coordinates. They find a tracking tablet and Claire volunteers to stay in the control room and be their eyes.
While Owen and Dougal grab some capture equipment in a room near the kennels, Claire searches through the CCTV footage and finds Wu in Maisie's cell, within Dr Lesser's lab. She heads for the laboratories, telling the others she found the geneticist.
Following Victoria's signal thanks to their tracking tablet, Owen and Dougal leave the Citadel and head for the nearby forest, crossing the flooded area between the two.
Wu-ing for redemption
Claire reaches Dr Lesser's lab and opens its cell. Wu steps out but his old enemy brutally grabs him and interrogates him about the locusts. As he once again fucked up, she's about to strike him when pity hold her hand back. Wu tells her that they can still cancel Dodgson's apocalypse, by passing as the CEO himself and giving Biosyn's abroad agents the order to destroy the locusts, and just begs her to offer his help. After a moment of hesitation, Claire help the geneticist stand and give him his cane, the one Lockwood offered to him at the end of TRQ. Together, they then head immediately to the central tower and once in Dodgson's office, Wu turns the CEO's computer on but discovers it's empty. Claire's aggressiveness starts to return when Wu remembers that Dodgson kept some of his most precious information on paper and not necessarily on his computer as he feared being hacked. They start searching the office and the adjacent bedroom. Wu notices a framed picture of Dodgson as a child with his mother at some science fair (in an earlier scene, before he sent the containers, Dodgson could be seen closing the frame while Wu just stepped in his office). Wu opens the back of the frame and discover that Dodgson hid small pieces of papers between the picture and the frame itself. When he sees one paper with Hexapod Allies written on the top; a series of names, phone numbers and email addresses below; and a series of secret codes for the different orders on the back; he knows they put their hands on the jackpot. Wu and Claire hack Dodgson's email account (the password is Liddell, the maiden name of Dodgson's mother) and write the message to the agents involved in the Hexapod Allies operation, including the secret code for the Destroy order, but when they want to send it, the computer notify them that they can't due to internet connection issues. Wu realizes it's because the antenna on top of the control room might have moved following the helicopter's attack. Someone has to climb on the roof to properly realign it and since Wu can't because of his lame leg, the task goes to Claire.
Tracking Victoria
In the woods, Owen and Dougal hear Victoria's calls for help. The young Achillobator still thinks her mother might show up.
They find her and try to capture her but fails. They wander deeper in the woods.
Realigning the antenna
Claire climbs on the control room's roof and communicates with Wu through the radio, she ends up finding the right antenna.
However, just as she begin fixing it, the Argentinosaurus' suite start harassing her as the sauropod is just below. From the auditorium's entrance, Viscontini notices that. Learning through Wu what Claire is doing, Viscontini orders the grey guards to attack the Argentinosaurus so his suite will turn away from Claire to instead defend him. Wu also urges the AISI head to send men after Theo, Maisie and Drummond, as they're carrying very important data about the locusts, enough to destroy Biosyn.
Defying a Titan
Round two between the grey guards and Brontes start, and most of Claire's harassers go help him. This time, the sauropod actively chases his human attackers across parts of the Citadel, destroying walls and roofs with his sheer weight, letting out deafening bellows, passing his neck and head into breaches to try get access to the characters while his suite can reach them where he can't. Massoud ends up grabbed by the herbivore mouth and then thrown against the tower or any other surface, killing him instantly. An additional idea could be the titanosaur provoking small "earthquakes" when he strikes the ground with his forefeet, destabilizing Claire on top of the tower (she even almost falls).
Depending on the pace, there could be at the same time a suspenseful scene in the archives involving some creatures from the labs or the kennels. If the archives are low enough, maybe they'll get inundated because of the flood and the threat could be a semi-aquatic creature contained in the Citadel or brought by the flood (like the temnospondyl; while Nothosaurus, which had a small appearance in my JW rewrite, could be an alternative choice, with individuals housed in the kennels).
Prometheus' fate
After giving a few kicks while repelling her last harassers, Claire manages to properly realign the antenna and Wu successfully transmit the Destroy order to the Hexapod Allies agents. We cut to them as they destroy the locusts in their containers. When he receives their confirmation, the geneticist is relieved. But just as Claire is about to return to Dodgson's office, she sees a *Variraptor (*if it's chosen as Brontes' suite. If not, it will be some relatively large feathered coelurosaurian from the labs in order to make the parallels with Prometheus work) getting to its entrance first. Wu just has the time to barricade himself in the bedroom adjacent to the office but he knows the door won't hold long. Something (Brontes passing his head through a window and trying to attack her?) prevents her from reaching the office. She tells Wu to hold while she tries to save him but he asks her to instead save herself, wishing her a long and happy life. He bids her farewell and wait for his death while Claire escapes the tower. The raptor ends up breaking through the door and it pounce on Wu. While the predator starts devouring him, his cane falls on the ground and its amber pommel shatters.
Owen's decision
Just as the Owen and Dougal are about to start a new attempt in capturing Victoria, a pack of Achillobators (the same one which allied with Claire in the previous night) shows up and our duo hide while the raptors spot Victoria. At first, Owen fears they'll hurt or even kill her. He thinks about intervening, even if he might risk his own life, but after sniffing the young and scared Achillobator, the pack leader gently guides her towards her pack. Owen and Dougal watch the raptors disappear in the darkness. Dougal ask Owen if he'll do something but the Raptor Whisperer says nothing, willing to let Victoria live with a pack and without unnecessary human interference in her life. They head back to the Citadel.
The tower and the tyrannosaur
Kayla and Bigelow arrive by one of the observation towers, the one closest from the mountain path they're heading to. Nearby, the Special Forces' helicopter shot down by that of the raiders and the surrounding vegetation still burns. Just as they are about to climb to its observation bay in order to raid the tower for anything useful before starting the mountains' ascent, they are surrounded by a pack of small carnivores (just like Claire with the dilophosaurs in Trevorrow's version). Before they attack, a horn blast is heard. It's Drummond and after the palaeontologist insists with his portable horn (similar to the one Nigel Marven use against the velociraptors in The Giant Claw), the small carnivores scatter. He asks the two women if they're friends or foes, if they count among Dodgson's friends. Kayla answers that since Dodgson tried to sacrifice her to an Acrocanthosaurus, the answer is no for her, before adding that it ate Dodgson instead. Drummond is glad to hear that and he tells Maisie she can come. The teenager, hidden until there amidst the vegetation, joins them. Having heard Dodgson complaining about Maisie's escape, Bigelow is aware she must be very important but still wary, Drummond whisper to Maisie to not say a single word about the flash drive she's carrying. The two duos talk about their objectives and discover that they're the same. For better chances of survival, they decide to head together for the mountain's path.
But a tyrannosaur, the same one which Claire released earlier, makes its appearance while they're walking away from the tower. It saw them and they know that they better seek refuge in the tower than attempt to run from the predator. At first, they try to stay still, in order to not trigger its attack, but when he notices that the predator wouldn't mind eat one or two of them, Drummond tells Maisie and the two women to run. While they rush to the tower, he distracts the rex by agitating a burning branch. Afraid of the fire, the rex seek to avoid the branch and see the three other humans climbing the tower's ladder. The predator bypass Drummond and in its dash towards the tower, it sends the palaeontologist flying away with its tail. As such thing would have easily killed someone, Maisie fears the worst for him and when his motionless body falls into a ravine, the audience think it's over for him. Maisie panics while the rex has its jaws locked around the ladder's protective cage. What follows is pretty much similar to the Giganotosaurus' attack on the tower scene from Trevorrow's version, except that the final outcome will be quite different. As the observation towers' power has been turned off from the control room in order to save power for more urgent systems, our three protagonists can't have the observation bay rise to the top of the tower, where they would be safe from the rex. To make matters worse, another threat arrive.
I haven't decided which yet but the idea I'm having now is a group of pterosaurs, probably pteranodons, which targets our trio and chase the rex away from the tower by pecking at his head. Another manages to grab Maisie and take her out of the tower. However, the pterosaur let her go before it can be above the canopy due to some incident (another harassing it probably) and Maisie falls into dense bushes at a certain distance from the tower, out of the two women's sight. In the meantime, a mist has started descending from the mountains. Bigelow and Kayla exit the tower and begin searching for Maisie in the area, fearing she got herself hurt in the fall. To cover a maximum of ground before the mist reaches them, they decide to split up.
The end of a line
We see Maisie managing to stand up and while she got bruises**,** she seems relatively fine and still in walking condition. Now lost and alone in the middle of the woods, she's very scared though and starts screaming to help. In the silent forest, Kayla hears her voice and follows it. Just as the mist is about to reach Maisie, the smuggler sees the teenager in the distance and calls for her. But when she hears heavy footsteps and a rumble coming from just behind Maisie, in the mist, her heart stops and she's aghast when she sees the tyrannosaur's silhouette closing to the girl's. Before Maisie can flee, the predator open its maws, grabs her and swallow her whole before disappearing in the forest's shadows (the scene is meant to be a mirror of one from my JW rewrite, where the death of a little girl during the pterosaurs' attack on the main hub is concealed by smoke while Claire watch helplessly). Thus ends Lockwood's line, indirectly destroyed by Claire Dearing.
Bigelow arrives in her turn and sees the smuggler kneeled on the ground, speechless, too shocked by the scene she just saw. Understanding what happened, the CIA agent has an "Oh. Shit..." face and tells Kayla they have to leave the valley while they still can, as she doesn't know what the Italians will do with it once it's taken, even fearing that it might be firebombed in order to destroy the perpetrators of the various incidents of the past months.
While the two women head for the mountain's path and the mist passes away, Drummond is seen climbing out of the ravine and starts to call for Maisie, in vain. Seeing the destroyed observation bay empty, he looks around for clues about Maisie's or the women's whereabouts. He ends up stumbling on the rex's tracks and follows them up to the spot where the teenager last stood. There he finds Wu's flash drive and seeing some blood stains around, he realizes she is no more. This deeply saddens him and this loss and failure just add another load on his self-loathing, as he would have gladly died between the jaws of the king of the dinosaurs if it could have saved Maisie's life. Instead of trying to follow Kayla and Bigelow, he goes in the opposite direction, towards the valley itself.
Leaving the Sanctuary
While looking to reach the auditorium, Claire is forced to hide in one of the labs from dilophosaurs roaming in the area.
In the archives, Vuillier and Nyamu finally put their hands on the documents they were looking for and take them. They and the grey guards' archives team then leave the room and head to the auditorium, in order to reunite with Viscontini and co. On the way, they have to pass between the legs of Brontes while he's distracted by the grey guards. When they reach the auditorium, Viscontini tells them that helicopters are waiting for them. One of the aircrafts is on its way to pick up the Owen and Dougal.
Escorted by the Carabinieri and the Special Forces, the surviving Biosyn employees are evacuated from the Citadel and when the grey guards retreat from their confrontation against Brontes, Vuillier asks them if they've seen Claire coming back but they answer that no. He contacts her and she tells him that she's being delayed.
We see her evading the dilophosaurs which were about to discover her and leaving the labs. Now, start for her an Uncharted-esque race through the Citadel where she has to cross various obstacles and avoid/outrun the loose creatures within it (including the dilophosaurs mentioned above). Still pissed, Brontes targets her and chases her up to her extraction point. Before the Argentinosaurus can close his mouth on her, she jumps into one of the helicopters where Owen and Dougal are waiting for her. The two men help her get inside and their helicopter fly away from the Citadel while the sauropod lets out a mighty bellow.
The protagonists leave the valley and the helicopters which drop them off at Biosyn employees' village, which has been taken over by the Italians and the Austrians in the meantime.
A bitter dawn
While the first sun rays reach the valley, Drummond stumble upon the monstrous Acrocanthosaurus Quasimodo in the area devastated by the flood, in sight of the now destroyed south-eastern wall. Surprised by the waters near the road battlefield, the predator was carried on a certain distance before ending up blocked by rocks and then impaled by a tree. When the palaeontologist finds him, he's dead. Disgusted by the animal, Drummond first tries to ignore him and continue towards the wall, intending to reach the village beyond it, but he turns back and carefully approach him. Tired from his night-long trek, Drummond sit on a rock just next to Quasimodo's head and still quite shaken by Maisie's death and the disaster, Drummond start to ramble about various topics (about the evolution of palaeontology since the San Diego incident, his wife, working at Biosyn, Theo's and Maisie's death...) before breaking down in tears and he can't hold himself from calling Quasimodo a Manmade abomination which deserved to be destroyed by Nature. While looking towards the destroyed wall, the palaeontologist start to regret those harsh words and pulls out a flask of whisky from his bag. After drinking a sip, he puts it back in the bag and just sit silently by the dead animal for a few minutes, up until some Quetzalcoatlus land nearby. The gigantic pterosaurs walk up to the dead Acrocanthosaurus and ignoring Drummond as a way bigger meal is just in front of them, they start feasting. While they do so, Drummond follows the flood's desolation towards the Citadel and he is soon spotted by the men tasked with finding him.
Of rivalries and world-saving
In the morning, Claire steps out of the accommodation assigned to her and Owen within Biosyn's Village. She sees Drummond giving Wu's flash drive to Vuillier before taking his leave. After joining her boss, Claire ponders about her relationship with Wu, on how both destroyed Jurassic World five years ago and how they pretty much saved the world that night. She and Vuillier have a respectful moment of silence for their deceased enemy.
In the abandoned citadel, it's revealed that one of the locusts survived. It's seen crawling on the ground, towards one of the vents. But just before it could reach it, a Mononykus (freed from one of the cages during the raid) swoops on it and devours it.
League of Dragons
As she is crossing the village, Claire passes by one of the remaining Biosyn guards. It's actually the Romanian one, the one who saw her by the panic room. Frightened as hell, he moves away from her while yelling "Dracul! Dracul!", still traumatized by the past night's events. Claire briefly wonders why he is yelling and running away before she gets surrounded by other Biosyn guards and Lucrezia Pellegrino. The Citadel's head of security explains that he called her a dragon because of what he saw and some of the guards start throwing insults at Claire, calling her a monster and a butcher, and she realize that they and their superior want to avenge those she killed. Pellegrino adds that by sending dinosaurs on people who oppose her, Claire is no better than Dodgson on that matter.
Nearby, Owen sees his fiancée surrounded and when one of the Biosyn guards throws a stone at Claire, he gets furious, tackles him on the ground and starts to beat him up. As another guard pulls out a knife (which he hid when they had to give their weapons to the authorities) and is about to stab Owen, the surviving grey guards suddenly intervene, getting the couple out of the Biosyn ambush and then confronting the attackers, standing by Claire's and Owen's side. The grey guards retort to their opponents that their comrades could have denounced the Sanctuary's illegal activities, surrendered, deserted or arrested Dodgson while they could but did nothing, before adding that without Claire, they would have all eaten nothing but locusts in a near future. The Biosyn guards feel insulted however and as an ugly fight is about to break out between both groups, the Carabinieri are forced to intervene and assign them to opposite parts of the village.
The press, who just entered the Biosyn's lands, has witnessed the confrontation and so did Vuillier and Nyamu. The latter tells the Frenchman that since Claire pretty much saved the world, Odegaard could give her a well-deserved break, literally and figuratively.
Debate
In the village's equivalent of a community centre, a meeting about the incident's consequences and what to do with the Sanctuary and its animals is held. Among the attendees, are:
- The WDMC and the people directly affiliated to it: Claire, Owen, Dougal, Vuillier, and Nyamu.
- Representatives of the Italian government: Viscontini, Giovanni Pazzi, and a few local politicians.
- The surviving Biosyn executives and top researchers: Drummond, Pellegrino, Quinn.
During the meeting, we learn that:
- Dodgson was found, or at least five or six pieces of him.
- Some of the Sanctuary's denizens managed to flee the valley and are now somewhere in the Italian countryside. Among the escapees are Victoria and her new pack of Achillobators.
- Exterminators led by the surviving grey guards are about to be sent in the amber mines to slaughter the pectinodons down to the last individual and the species will be soon classified as a pest in Italy, Austria and probably other countries.
Several solutions for the valley, its denizens and the Citadel are discussed:
- Cull the animals, cleanse the valley of Biosyn's traces, and give it back to the inhabitants expropriated by the corporation when it decided to have the entire valley and some of the surrounding lands for itself and no one else.
- Abandoning the valley, let the animals fend for themselves and hope that "life will find a way", even if it poses huge risks for the local populations and ecosystems.
- Dispatch the surviving animals to zoos and other entities which can legally house dangerous captive animals. Proceeding like this will allow de-extinct creatures to no longer be in the ownership of a single entity like Biosyn or InGen.
- Round up the loose animals, cleanse the battle's and the flood's damages, and turn the place into a real Sanctuary for de-extinct animals. Not a "Kruger with dinosaurs" like the Five Deaths but more like a non-profit place with enclosures (akin to many sanctuaries for wild animals across the globe). It will be a public-private joint-venture, with the sanctuary co-managed by the UN's WDMC and the Italian government while private partners will help finance it (Nathan Quinn propose to be one of those but Vuillier, Dougal and a few others distrust him and prefer to not have some of Dodgson's former collaborators on the project). And in order to ensure good relations with the local communities, jobs will be offered to the area's inhabitants and some lands given back to them. Shall this solution be adopted, Vuillier proposes to have Claire Dearing as its manager, Owen Grady its head warden, Rod Drummond its chief researcher, and Laurenzo Cesare as head of security, if they accept. Pellegrino storms off at this moment, disgusted that they're about to leave her without a job and rewarding Claire, an unrepentant psychopath in her eyes. In a moment of consultation amidst the meeting, Claire tells Vuillier she'll probably refuse becoming the sanctuary's manager if this solution is adopted, telling him that she has the feeling that her future lies elsewhere and that she'll continue work as a field agent if he don't mind. Vuillier, who clearly saw how Claire evolved since she started playing spies back in 2019 and decided to close his eyes on her exactions, suggest her to settle for a quieter less-violent life and declares that managing the Sanctuary could be the ultimate redemption for her. Still shaken by the amount of violence she had to commit in order to stop Biosyn and desiring to spend more time with her son, she ends up being persuaded and accept the idea.
The different solutions are being debated for weeks if not months within the Italian government and the UN.
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End of Act IV.
See you tomorrow for the final Act and the Epilogue.

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Kr – Relative Permeability.
Krg – Relative Permeability to Gas
Kro – Triphasic Relative Permeability to Oil
Krog – Relative Permeability to Oil in presence of Gas
Krow – Relative Permeability to Oil in presence of Water
Krw – Relative Permeability to water
Kw – Brine Permeability
LTPF – Low Tension Polymer Flooding
‘m’ – Cementation exponent
MEOR – Microbial EOR
MICP - Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure
MMP – Minimum Miscibility Pressure
MSF – Multi-Stage Flash
‘n’ – Saturation exponent
Nc – capillary number
No – Oil Corey
Np – Cumulative oil produced (material balance)
Nw – Water Corey
N2 – Nitrogen
Pb – Bubble Point Pressure
Pc – Capillary Pressure
Pd – Dew Point Pressure
PG – Petrophysical Groups
Phi – Porosity
Ppg – Pounds per gallon
PSA – Particle Size Analyser
Psi – pound per square inch
PVT – Pressure Volume Temperature
RB – Reservoir Barrel
RI – Resistivity index
ROS – Remaining oil saturation
RRT – Reservoir Rock Types
SAGD – Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage
SARA – Saturates, Aromatics, Resins, Asphaltenes
SCAL – Special Core Analysis
SDM – Semi dynamic method
Sg – Gas Saturation
So – Oil Saturation.
Sorg – Residual Oil Saturation after gas flood
Sorw – Residual Oil Saturation after water flood
SP – Surfactant Polymer Flood
SRB – Straight Run Benzene
SRB – Sulfate Reducing Bacteria
SS – Steady State
STB – Stock Tank Barrel
Sw – Water Saturation
SWAG – Simultaneous WAG
Swc – Connate Water
Swi – Irreducible Water Saturation
Swin – Initial Water Saturation
TAN – Total Acid Number
THAI – Toe-to-Heel Air Injection
TSR – Thermochemical Sulfate Reduction
UCG – Underground Coal Gasification
USBM – US Bureau of Mines, Wettability indices
USS – Unsteady State
WAG – Water Alternating Gas
Wi – Cumulative water injected (material balance)
Wp – Cumulative water produced (material balance)

• Density
• Viscosity
• Interfacial Tension
• Porosity

AOF – Absolute Open Flow
AOV – Air Operated Valve
ARPR – Annual Reservoir Performance Review
BHCIP – Bottom Hole Closed In Pressure
BHP – Bottom Hole Pressure
BHT – Bottom Hole Temperature
BS&W – Bottom Sediment and Water
CFDP – Conceptual Field Development Plan
CGR – Condensate Gas Ratio
DST – Drill Stem Test
EOFL – End of Field Life
EOR - Enhanced Oil Recovery
FBHP – Flowing Bottom Hole Pressure
FE – Flow Efficiency
FFM – Full Field Model
FHP – Flowing Head Pressure
FIT – Formation Integrity Test
FVF - Formation Volume Factor
FWHP – Flowing Well Head Pressure
GOR – Gas Oil Ratio
GPL – Gas Petroleum Liquids
GTL – Gas To Liquids
II - Injectivity Index
IMPES – Implicit to Pressure Explicit to Saturation
IOR - Improved Oil Recovery
IP – Injector to Producer Ratio
IPC – Installed Production Capacity
IPR – Inflow Performance Relationship
ITS – Inflow to Surface
keff – Effective permeability
LGR - Liquid Gas Recovery
LNG - Liquified Natural Gas
LPG – Liquified Petroleum Gas
LPR - Low Permeability Reservoir
LTDP – Long Term Development Plan
MDH – Miller-Dyes-Hutchinson Method
MDT – Modular Dynamic Tester
MICP – Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure
MPFM – Multi-Phase Flow Meter
MWAG – Miscible WAG
NFA – No Further Activity
NGL - Natural Gas Liquids

I've been attempting to fight this thing (mostly presenting as anorexia) since just about when it started ~10-11 years ago. Either on my own or outpatient. I just completed the highest level of care I've tried in a partial hospitalization program. This place had positives and negatives. I feel a lot more able to manage my anxiety disorder, but the eating disorder still has such a hold. I feel confused, have really low self-esteem about my body, have less interest in food than when I entered the program, and have immediately started restricting in places.
I told them when I admitted that a big problem was that I didn't understand what a normal meal should look like (especially in terms of volume), but there was such a focus on the physical side of things (I wasn't 'underweight' going in, but they had a focus on weight restoration) as well as an assumption that I lost hunger cues (I never have) that they started me at a very high volume/calorie meal plan and increased from there. Now I still don't really know what a normal meal looks like. And rather than a desire to try new things in recovery, I have an ambivalence toward food.
My outpatient nutritionist, who's connected to the program, just told me how many calories they discharged me at, despite me telling her many times over the past several months that knowing calories is highly harmful and triggering to me.
I feel like when I went in I was desperate and willing to fight and after leaving it doesn't feel worth it to give up this shitty coping mechanism. It doesn't even feel like fear so much as just not having the energy/will to try. I feel like a failure and I don't know if this is normal so soon after this level of treatment or if I'm really a failure. I'm worried a lot of people in my life looked at this as the answer for me and are expecting that I'd be at least mostly recovered and I wonder if it's my fault that I'm not.

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As per the title, just wondering how others with emetophobia are approaching the birth plan / labour?
All the pain relief options my midwife has listed so far are all common in causing nausea / vomiting. Feeling like I don't really have any pain relief options left.
I am not sure on the placenta active or natural management, the injection to encourage placenta delivery is apparently great at reducing hemorrhaging but can induce vomiting and nausea.
What are you guys doing for meal prep post partum? I've never been comfortable reheating food as I had a few bad experiences when younger.
I'm also worried, as most medical professionals never really take my phobia seriously. They always say like "ah no-one likes vomiting" and kind of brush it off. Just was hoping to get in the zone when labour comes but I know if I feel sick or vomit I will hyperventilate, panic and go downhill.

if i dont do on ground housing or get a meal plan do i get the fafsa money for that? my aid and scholarship is around $34k, say i have $14k in housing and meals, but i’m doing neither…and my tuition is 18k, do i get the left over as refund because i won’t be doing on ground housing?

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• Weight Management: Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is essential for your physical appearance. Consult with a healthcare professional or a registered dietitian to develop a personalized weight management plan.
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As you may know or not, some player gets a higher OVR (that you won't see in-game) if they are played in a different position, according to eFOOTBALLHUB. An example would be WC Modric who is a 94 DMF, but if you play him at CMF or AMF then his in-game rating will be 99. In this post, I will analyze POTW and POTM players who get +5 or more if played in a different position. I will analyze 8 players. I will rate every players by tiers. Those tiers will be S+, S, A, B, C, D.

I know the title can be a bit misleading, but the goal of this analysis is to show if these players who get a higher rating in-game if played in a different position are really OP or even worth it.

Make sure to read every analysis to fully understand

SCALVINI : 88 CMF ➡ 95 CB Tier = C

Scalvini is a terrible choice either at CMF or CB. I would even that he is quite unusable. The problem with this card is that wherever who want to play him, either at CMF or CB, it's a lose-lose situation. If you play him at CMF, then bad news for you because he is a terrible passer (79 low pass and 78 lofted pass), his stamina is below average (78 stamina) and he has no passing skills like OTP or Through passing. If you play him at CB, then bad news for you because his defensive engagement is so low that you shouldn't even look at him (78 defensive engagement), his other defensive stats are below average, his heading stat is bad (77 heading) and he has only one defensive skill ( Aerial Superiority). It gets even worst : he has standard form and only two skills, Aerial Superiority which is kinda useless for him because he is already really tall (1,94cm) and LRS. On the other hand, there are three good things about him : He is very tall, he has 86 physical contact and his speed is ok.
Conclusion : Don't get impress by that +7 ovr, he is garbage.
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MESSI DLF : 96 CF ➡ 101 SS Tier = s+

Wow just wow, easily his best card of Efootball 2023 Mobile. Huge buff compared to his base card. His stamina has always been a huge deal for some players, but this card has 77 stamina while his base card has 70 stamina so you see here a major buff. The Messi card with the best stamina with auto-build is Big Time Messi (80 stamina). His dribbling, finishing, OA and balance stats are S+ tier class. This card has the best passing stats among Messi card. His kicking power is decent. Moreover, he's slow for a winger but fast for a CF, SS or AMF. Luckily, he can play multiple position (AMF, SS, RW, CF). He's short, which doesn't suit very well for a CF but his height is okay for an AMF or SS and perfect for a winger. Also, he has DT, LRS, FTS, OTP, Through Passing, Pinpoint Crossing and many more which suits very well for the positions he can play.
Conclusion : If you got him then congratulation you have one of the best cards in the game. IMO, the best DLF in the game is Cruyff and this Messi Potw is second.
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Modric : 94 DMF ➡ 99 CMF/AMF Tier = S+

For many, he is the best card in the game, and I understand why they say that. His stats are exceptional. He has 90+ low pass, lofted pass, ball control, tight possession, dribbling and balance which makes him a passing god and a dribbling god. He has insane curl stat : 89 curl. His OA is 83 which S+ tier for a DMF and CMF but A tier for an AMF. His defensive stats are more than average for DMF, decent for a CMF but way above the average for a AMF. His speed is average. He isn't the strongest physically, actually he is quite weak. He has decent finishing and kicking stats. His stamina is a bit low for DMF and CMF but perfect for an AMF. He can play DMF, CMF and AMF which make him versatile. He is too short for DMF, imo, as he will lose a lot of aerial battle (They're important in the game right now), but for CMF and AMF his height is okay. He has unwavering form. He has all the skills needed for a CMF or AMF.
Conclusion : Don't use him as a DMF as he's missing a lot of defensive skills and you are good to go.
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GUNDOGAN : 94 DMF ➡ 99 CMF Tier = S

This card is actually very very similar to WC Modric. As they are very similar, I'm going to compare him to Modric. He is faster than Modric. Stamina : Gundogan 87 > Modric 86. Passing : Modric 90 low pass and lofted pass < Gundogan = 93 low pass and 90 lofted pass. Balance : Modric 90 > 78 Gundogan. Gundogan has standard form while Modric has Unwavering form. He cannot play AMF while Modric can. They have similar kicking power stat. They are both weak physically and average defensively. Gundogan has excellent finishing stat for a DMF : 85. Also, he has FTS. Like Modric, he has every skill needed for a CFM or AMF. Modric only has one defensive skills : Interception. Gundogan has zero defensive skills which makes him unusable at DMF imo.
Conclusion : Very similar to WC Modric but standard form and no defensive skills.
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Wirtz : 94 CF ➡ 99 RWF Tier = S

Nice playstyle. A bit too short for CF but luckily he can play RWF and AMF. He has standard form. He is extremely fast : 86 speed and 90 acceleration. His OA is quite low for a CF but quite above average for a RWF and AMF. His passing stats are far better than 99% of DLF : 90 low pass and 82 lofted pass. He has the third best passing stats for a DLF in the game after Messi DLF and Gibbs-White DLF. His dribbling stats are excellent. His balance is decent. His stamina is average. His finishing is just awful. He lacks a crucial skill : FTS.
Conclusion : Standard form, no FTS, awful finishing, excellent dribbling, passing and balance stats.
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Eze : 93 CMF ➡ 98 LWF Tier = S

This card is excellent but lacks a few things. He is really fast : 85 speed and 90 acceleration. His kicking power is good : 84. Physically, he's weak. His balance is really good : 90. His stamina is a bit low for a CMF, but he can also play AMF, LM and LWF which are positions that don't require high stamina stat. His defensive stats are trash, so think twice before using him as CMF. His OA is decent : 82. His dribbling stats are amazing. His passing stats aren't that great for a CMF or AMF, but if you plan using him as a Lm or LWF then his passing sudenly becomes a bit OP. His finishing is good : 81. His curl stat is bad : 79. He is a Hole Player which is one of the best playstyle in the game right now. He is a bit short for a CMF which can lead to many aerial battles lost. He has unwavering form. He can perform the special double touch aka roll over or ball over. The worst thing about this card is that he doesn't have OTP and Through Passing which are two key skills for a midfielder.
Conclusion : No OTP and Through Passing, Unwavering form, can perform the special double touch, he has FTS and Pinpoint Crossing and he is fast.
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Raphael Guerreiro : 91 LB ➡ 96 LMF Tier = A

He is a Full-back finisher which means that one he will leave open space behind him often times and two he'll be very offensive. He is perfect for cross spamming which is pretty much dead now : 90 lofted pass, 87 curl and 82 kicking power. He is a bit slow for a left back which will be harder for him to catch fast winger like Big Time Coman however as a LMF his pace is just fine. Stamina is really important for a LB but he only has 84 stamina which isn't the biggest deal, but I'll recommend using players with 90+ stamina. He is quite weak defensively and physically. His passing and dribbling stats are really good for a LB and a LMF. His OA is decent. His balance is S tier. He doesn't have 90+ in any team playstyle. He is missing every defensive skills except acrobatic clear while being a LB which doesn't really make sense.
Conclusion : He can't defend, His pace and stamina are concerning, he has OTP and Through Passing, he has unwavering form. He doesn't have 90+ in any team playstyle.
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Dilrosun : 88 CMF ➡ 93 LWF Tier = B

He has roaming flank which doesn't activate at CMF. He is short. He is really fast. He has no stamina for a CMF, but for an LWF it's fine. His dribbling isn't the best neither the worst. He, simply, can't pass. Decent OA, nice finishing stats. Good kicking power and balance. Standard form. No OTP.
Conclusion : No OTP, standard form, Super sub, really fast, no stamina, can't pass, good dribbling, decent OA and can permorm the special doube touch.
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Conclusion : Efhub may give a higher rating to certain player like WC Modric 94 if played at another position however it won't guarantee a good result necessarily for multiple reason like a lack of skills, the height, the stats oand the form of the player.

* Soon, I will make a post about POTW/POTM players who have in-game an higher ovr if played at another position. In this post, I was analyzing players who have +5 ovr if played at a different position, according to Efhub. Next time, I will analyze players who have +4 played at a different position ,according to Efhub (like Potw Kimmich).

Introduction
When it comes to owning a guitar, protecting your investment is crucial. A guitar case serves as a shield, safeguarding your beloved instrument from the perils of daily life. Whether you're a professional musician or a casual strummer, having a reliable guitar case is essential. In this article, we'll explore the importance of a guitar case, discuss various types available, delve into factors to consider when choosing one, recommend top options for different budgets, provide tips on caring for your case, and highlight the benefits of using a guitar case.
Importance of a Guitar Case
A guitar case is more than just a storage solution; it is a vital accessory for any guitarist. It offers protection against physical damage, dust, moisture, and temperature fluctuations. By providing a secure environment, a guitar case helps maintain the structural integrity of your instrument and prolong its lifespan. Whether you're traveling to gigs or simply storing your guitar at home, a case ensures peace of mind and ensures your guitar remains in optimal condition.
Types of Guitar Cases

1. Hardshell Cases: These cases are made of rigid materials like wood, fiberglass, or molded plastic. They provide excellent protection against impacts, falls, and other accidents. Hardshell cases are ideal for professional musicians, frequent travelers, and those with valuable or vintage guitars.
2. Gig Bags: Gig bags are soft, lightweight cases made of padded fabric. They offer basic protection against scratches, minor bumps, and dust. Gig bags are a popular choice for casual guitarists, beginners, or those looking for a portable option.
3. Hybrid Cases: Combining the best of both worlds, hybrid cases feature a soft exterior with a rigid frame. They offer enhanced protection while being more lightweight and portable than hardshell cases. Hybrid cases are a versatile option for musicians who require a balance between protection and convenience.

Factors to Consider When Choosing a Guitar Case

• Guitar Size and Fit: Ensure the case is designed specifically for your guitar model and size to provide a snug and secure fit.
• Durability and Build Quality: Look for cases made from robust materials with sturdy hardware to ensure longevity and reliable protection.
• Portability and Transportation: Consider the weight, handles, straps, and wheels if you frequently travel with your guitar.
• Climate and Environmental Conditions: Choose a case with proper insulation and humidity control features to protect your guitar in varying climates.
• Storage and Additional Compartments: Evaluate the storage capacity and compartments for accessories like strings, picks, cables, and sheet music.

Top 5 Guitar Cases for Different Budgets

1. Budget Option: XYZ Soft Gig Bag - An affordable gig bag with decent padding and storage options.
2. Mid-Range Option: ABC Hardshell Case - A sturdy hardshell case with excellent protection and a reasonable price.
3. High-End Option: DEF Flight Case - A premium-quality flight case with robust construction and advanced features for professional musicians.
4. Versatile Option: GHI Hybrid Case - A versatile case that combines durability, portability, and enhanced protection.
5. Vintage Option: JKL Vintage Leather Case - A stylish and protective case designed specifically for vintage guitars.

How to Properly Care for Your Guitar Case

• Regular Cleaning: Wipe the exterior and interior of the case with a soft cloth to remove dust and dirt.
• Humidity Control: Use humidifiers or dehumidifiers depending on the climate to maintain optimal humidity levels inside the case.
• Handling and Storage: Avoid dropping or mishandling the case and store it in a safe and dry place away from direct sunlight.
• Zipper and Hardware Maintenance: Lubricate zippers and check the hardware regularly for any signs of wear or damage.
• Proper Strap Usage: Use the case's straps or handles correctly to prevent unnecessary strain on the case and potential damage to your guitar.

Benefits of Using a Guitar Case

1. Protection: A guitar case shields your instrument from physical damage, accidents, and environmental factors.
2. Mobility: A well-designed guitar case allows for easy transportation and protects your guitar during travel.
3. Organization: Cases often come with additional compartments and storage options, keeping your accessories organized and easily accessible.
4. Security: A guitar case adds a layer of security by deterring theft and unauthorized access to your instrument.
5. Resale Value: By keeping your guitar in pristine condition, a case helps maintain its value should you decide to sell it in the future.

Conclusion
Investing in a high-quality guitar case is a smart decision for any guitarist. It not only provides essential protection for your instrument but also offers convenience, organization, and peace of mind. Whether you opt for a hardshell case, gig bag, or hybrid case, prioritize factors like fit, durability, portability, and storage options. By properly caring for your guitar case and utilizing its benefits, you can ensure the longevity and safekeeping of your prized possession.
FAQs

1. Q: How do I determine the size of my guitar for selecting the right case? A: Measure the length, width, and depth of your guitar body and compare it with the specifications provided by the case manufacturer.
2. Q: Can I use a gig bag for air travel? A: While gig bags can offer basic protection, it is recommended to use a sturdy hardshell or flight case for air travel to ensure maximum safety.
3. Q: Should I remove the strings before storing my guitar in the case? A: It is not necessary to remove the strings unless you plan on storing the guitar for an extended period. Loosening the strings slightly can help relieve tension.
4. Q: How often should I clean my guitar case? A: Regularly dust off the exterior and clean the interior whenever you notice dirt or debris accumulating.
5. Q: Can I use a guitar case for other stringed instruments like ukuleles or mandolins? A: Some guitar cases have a universal fit and can accommodate similar instruments, but it's best to check the specifications and dimensions to ensure a proper fit.

I have been eating really well these past few days, having lots of balanced and yummy meals whenever I was hungry, physically or mentally, without counting calories.
However, I struggle with keeping meals down. I haven't purged in almost 2 years, and it's not a mental thing. My body just doesn't seem to accept the food properly quite often. I'm used to nausea after eating, but now it's worse. I can't really move my body for 30-90 minutes after a meal or else I'll have stomach issues. I think it's because I'm eating more than I'm used to.
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Does that mean that I'm eating too much? It feels like a lot but I'm not bingeing, I think I'm currently eating as much as my(f) best friend (m), so it's not insane amounts of food. Should I stop honouring mental hunger? Did you experience this?
(Edit to add that I'm eating what my dietitian suggested, but she didn't specify quantities so I do have professionals checking in on me regularly but sometimes y'all have amazing tips)

Boost Confidence and Leave a Lasting Impression with an Enhanced Physical AppearanceIn a world where first impressions matter, investing in your physical appearance can boost your self-confidence and leave a lasting positive impact. Whether you desire a significant transformation or seek to refine your existing features, this detailed and informative article will provide you with valuable insights and practical tips on improving your physical appearance. From skincare routines and healthy habits to fashion choices, weight management, grooming techniques, and nurturing a positive mindset, we will explore various aspects to help you unlock your true potential. Embrace a Healthy Lifestyle: To enhance your physical appearance, prioritizing a healthy lifestyle is crucial. Incorporate the following habits into your daily routine:

• Balanced Diet: Opt for a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains. Avoid processed foods, refined sugars, and saturated fats. Consuming an adequate amount of water will also keep your skin hydrated and supple.
• Regular Exercise: Engage in physical activities that you enjoy, such as jogging, yoga, or swimming. Regular exercise improves blood circulation, helps maintain a healthy weight, and promotes overall vitality.
• Weight Management: Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is essential for your physical appearance. Consult with a healthcare professional or a registered dietitian to develop a personalized weight management plan.
• Sufficient Sleep: Aim for 7-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep each night. Satisfactory sleep allows your body to repair and rejuvenate, resulting in a fresh and vibrant appearance.
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So I'm currently attending school in a non-US country, and while you can do wire transfers to the local banks here, the wire transfer fee from my bank is not reimbursed, but the ATM fees are reimbursed, as are the international exchange fees. I checked with both of my banks and they said it was fine to do this, so the only cost for me to pull money out of the ATM and deposit it into my local bank is my time.
This is my first time experiencing a rainy season. I'm originally from Kansas City, so while we have storms and tornado season, the idea of "yeah it's just going to pour rain for the next two weeks" is still really weird to me, and because of that I'm really bad at planning around it. The entire first half of today was dry, but when it started raining I realized I needed to pull money out now or I wouldn't be able to do it for a couple weeks unless I got lucky.
Thankfully, the radar showed light rain for about an hour, so I left my dorm and took my bike. We're not allowed to ride our bikes one handed with an umbrella, so I left that at the dorm too. All I had was my backpack (with all my various books/normal carry stuff) and my bike. No coat, because even though its raining it's still miserably hot and humid.
I'll spare the details of most of my trip, but on the way back I saw a McDonalds and ducked inside to get some food. While eating I started working through some flashcard decks on my phone, and quickly lost track of time. An hour later, when I left, it was REALLY raining. I thought I would be okay to just bike back in the rain, but it is SO MUCH RAIN and I wear glasses, I simply couldn't see.
Out of desperation at a stop light, I pull my sun parasol out of my backpack and decide to use it. It's basically just a thicker, smaller umbrella so it should be fine, right? I then make the decision that I'm going to ride back to my dorm on my bike, one handed, the other holding the parasol. Because, hey, what's the worst that could happen?
This went really well for a while! However, when you're doing something brand new on a bike and you already have balance issues, your body will involuntarily tense when something unexpected happens. Like hitting a bump harder than you planned. This is normally completely fine! Unless your parasol isn't just an auto-opening one, but it auto closes too!
Yes that's right friends, I hit a bump too hard, tensed, shut myself in my parasol, this scared me even more so my other hand gripped the back brake HARD and then I just...loudly squealed to a stop (yay bike disc brakes!) and then just.. tipped over. I understand I could have put my legs out to stop the last part but I'm an idiot and was also just very confused by everything that happened as quickly as it happened.
Thankfully there was a very nice lady across the road who saw this happen, and quickly came over to help me between politely restrained fits of laughter. Once she was sure I was okay, and realized I could speak a reasonable of the local language, she explained that she had done this exact thing once before. She also told me its incredibly funny to watch from outside, but apologized for laughing.
I honestly somewhat wish there was a video, because I'm sure it is very funny to watch it happen.
TL;DR I tried to go out to run errands through the rainy season and shut myself in an umbrella and fell off a bike in front of a complete stranger.