stars should fall
down to Earth
to a sky ablaze
what is all
this world worth
and its endless days?
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seasons change
and sometimes it rains
you are gone
but the world remains
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I should hear
trumpets sound
and four horsemen ride
the sky is clear
and the ground
has not opened wide
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seasons change
and sometimes it rains
you are gone
but the world remains
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seasons change
and sometimes it rains
you are gone
why do I remain?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK1lVZuXRPU

Did you know that food and beverage loyalty programs are probably the oldest loyalty programs in the world?
But time changed, people changed, and so did loyalty programs. The wooden tokens were replaced by digital points. People became more transaction. And as ironic as it may sound, good food alone isn’t sufficient to guarantee loyalty today.
That’s why we have created this food and beverage loyalty program a full guide to help you create and run successful food and beverage loyalty programs.

What are Food and Beverage Loyalty Programs?

As the name suggests, food and beverage loyalty programs are customer retention programs that are designed by restaurants, cafes, diners, and other establishments such as food delivery companies in the food and beverage industry.
Likewise, grocery loyalty programs are reward programs that are offered by consumer packaged goods (CPGs) manufacturers, supermarket chains, brewers and soft drinks makers, and others.

Which Types of Food and Beverage Companies Should Use Loyalty Programs and Why?

The innovation of loyalty programs revolutionized many industries including the food and beverage sector. Many players in the industry can benefit a lot by leveraging sophisticated loyalty platforms and running loyalty programs.

1. Restaurants and cafes

Restaurants, cafes, and diners should use food and beverage loyalty programs to encourage frequent visits and enhance customer retention.

2. Fast food chains

Food and beverage loyalty programs are extremely beneficial for national and global fast food chains because of their large customer base and high transaction volume.

3. Bars and pubs

These establishments can leverage loyalty platforms to design and run high-quality loyalty programs for their patrons.

4. Bakeries and dessert shops

Bakeries and dessert shops can leverage loyalty platforms and food and beverage loyalty programs to promote new products, seasonal offerings, or limited-edition items to loyal customers.

5. Food delivery services

Can a food tech company do without digital loyalty programs? Certainly not! Be it Uber Eats or Zomato, all leading food delivery services use F&B digital loyalty programs and digital loyalty platforms to engage and retain customers.

6. Packaged F&B manufacturers

Packaged F&B manufacturers are among the major users of food and beverage loyalty programs.
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Top 3 Examples of Food and Beverage Loyalty Programs

1. My Starbucks Rewards

Launched in 2009, Initially launched as a visit-based reward program consisting of three levels—Welcome Level, Green Level, and Gold Level. In 2012, the global coffee chain major modified the reward program and introduced another “My Starbucks Rewards” four years later.

2. Amazon Prime’s Discount on Whole Foods Market

Amazon Prime, a subscription-based loyalty program from the US-based e-commerce company Amazon, also offers heavy discounts on Whole Foods Market.

3. Chipotle Extras

Chipotle Extras is an app-based loyalty program of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., also known as Chipotle.
Source: Loyalty Programs in Food & Grocery and Beverage Industry – A Full Guide

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New England Patriots News Link Catchup - Replacing McCourty at Safety: The Devin is in the details

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• Alexandra Francisco reports that Patriots Cheerleaders Alexa Pillsbury, Sarah Tong, Haley Schmich and Jillian Acevedo all recently earned their college degrees. Here’s what is next for them.
• Taylor Kyles shares his observations from the second OTA practice: Attendance, Marte Mapu flexes his versatility, Antonio Mafi rising quickly, More.
• Matt Dolloff spotlights 6 Patriots who stood out at the second open practice of OTAs.
• Sara Marshall (MusketFire) The 4 most impressive Patriots through OTAs (so far).
• Richie Whitt (Patriots Country) So far, so good: Christian Gonzalez impressing during OTAs.
• Tom E. Curran explains how age is a cautionary tale when discussing talented Patriots rookie Christian Gonzalez, who is only 20 years old.
• Andy Hart says Rhamondre Stevenson wants – and needs – to be ‘the guy’ for Patriots.
• Mark Daniels reports how ‘very athletic’ Keion White brings more competition for Deatrich Wise, but the veteran is taking the rookie under his wing.
• Karen Guregian writes how Kyle Dugger is hoping to be a part of the solution to replace Devin McCourty.
• Alex Barth highlights DB Jalen Mills mentioning his brief release and re-signing with the team from this past offseason. “I’m here. I’m happy. I wanted to be a Patriot. I’m here.”
• Doug Kyed explains how the Patriots seem to believe in their highest-paid undrafted free agent Malik Cunningham.
• Mike Kadlick’s Patriots Mailbag: Is it ‘put up or shut up’ time for Mac Jones?
• Chris Mason’s Patriots Mailbag: Who will start on offense under Bill O’Brien?
• Sophie Weller posts the newly announced Patriots’ preseason dates and times.
• Harrison Reno (Patriots Country) Patriots new leading contender for DeAndre Hopkins?
• Justin Leger highlights Phil Perry making a passionate pitch for the Patriots to sign star WR DeAndre Hopkins.
• Alex Barth finds DeAndre Hopkins has scheduled his first free agent meeting, with the Titans.
• Mike D’Abate (Patriots Country) Bill Belichick is apparently showing great faith in Bill O’Brien and Mac Jones to fix last season’s woes on offense.
• Nick Stevens relays ex-Patriots staffers Scott Pioli and Eric Mangini on how they feel about Mac Jones.
• Riley Sheppard (Patriots Country) ESPN NFL Insider Dan Graziano says there is pressure for New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick to win this season ... or else.
• Chris Mason reports former Patriots safety Malik Gant dies at 25, family remembers ‘valued teammate.’ /How sad.
• One Patriots Place podcast: Clare and Murph are joined by Evan Lazar to talk all things Patriots. (65 min.)
• Patriots OTA 2 practice recap: Alex Barth joins Matt McCarthy to talk all things Patriots OTA’s and what he’s seen so far. (23 min.)

This is the first “big” job I have had since graduating college. My manager who hired me was an absolute dream to work with. He always made sure our team was okay, never loaded on too much work, and made sure everyone had a great time. Unfortunately, he was forced to leave by our director who refused to promote him out of jealousy because he was so well liked and successful, so he left for a better job.
Fast forward to our new manager and the team is in shambles. There is no communication, we are treated as drones, and he has no social awareness. Of course, he is best friends with our director and they make it a priority to make our work environment as miserable as possible.
The final straw was when they announced a restructure where everyone in our office who was friends with our director got raises and promotions, while the rest of us were left out to dry. When I had asked for a raise a month earlier, I was given a salary sheet of comparable jobs and told I was worth my wage.
On top of this, my grandmother was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer and I had no PTO available to go visit her, and even if I did it would have been denied due to being in “peak season” for our office.
That same day the restructure was announced, I cleaned out my cubicle. The next morning I left my two week notice on my manager’s desk. In our office a four week notice is required, but I couldn’t tolerate to stay any longer and I only needed one more paycheck to make it through. I did not have another job lined up, I simply told my boss that my time there was done.
Fast forward to one week later, I land a job with better pay, better benefits, and they are letting me start later so I have time to visit my grandmother.
On someone’s last day in the office, it is normal to bring a goodbye treat and a card for the person who is leaving. My director and my manager avoided me like the plague, didn’t bring in anything, and didn’t even give me a card. I walked out with the last laugh because my favorite coworker also put in her resignation the same day I left, and now the team will struggle during “peak season”.
I am so proud of myself for prioritizing my family and mental health over my job, and getting the fuck out of there.

Acts I to IV are available in my previous posts.

Act V: Queenbreaker

Returning home
Claire and Owen fly back to the US and in the arrivals hall of Reno's International Airport, they are greeted by a group of journalists who question them about the Dolomites Crisis, the role they played in it and if it's true that Claire and Wu, known to be sworn enemies, really did saved the world together. One of those journalists is Cassandra Landis (a character which appeared in my JW rewrite and TRQ, and some sort of minor recurring antagonist for Claire). When Landis asks Claire treacherous and inappropriate questions in addition to implying that she's a mythomaniac, the former park director punches her in the face in front of the cameras, knocking her out.
The end of Biosyn
Due to the death of Dodgson, Murdoch and almost the entirety of the board of directors (and its only survivor, Nathan Quinn, quickly retired from the corporation); the disastrous results of Auronzo valley's siege and invasion; and the breaking scandals, Biosyn is left leaderless, its stock exchange's value collapses and so does the company itself. The Cupertino HQ and other Biosyn installations across the US and the rest of the world are seen being vandalized and its anti-locust seeds destroyed by farmers during a protest.
Queenbreaker
In the DSD headquarters, Gibbon is having fun watching a parody video of Claire punching Cassandra Landis when Bigelow, who just returned from Italy, knocks at his door. They discuss her mission's failure, with Gibbon announcing he'll strip of her status by moving her to a simple desk job. They also talk about the mysterious attackers who raided the Citadel (Gibbon plans to blame the grey guards for the killings committed by those as part of the US government's anti-Grey Guard propaganda campaign) and Claire's various exactions in Auronzo (and more particularly the Hunting Lodge slaughter and the annihilation of Biosyn's board of directors), along with the fact that she and Henry Wu apparently saved the world from a GMO locusts-induced famine. Gibbon adds that people as idealistic and determined as Claire tend to easily fall in the dark side, create terrorist organizations, and that as a supposed world-saviour and charismatic figure, people will support or join her in droves, which might be quite a problem, moreover that empires tend to fall in her wake ("Who's going to be next after InGen and Biosyn?" he wonders); that following the Malta betrayal, the WDMC and the DSD are having some sort of war, and should Vuillier send Claire upon the DSD, the result won't be pretty. Luckily for them, the CIA anticipated the problem she'll become and started to move their pawns in preparation of Operation Queenbreaker, intending to make her pay for what she did to their ally Biosyn and put a spoke in Vuillier's wheels. However, after seeing Franklin in a nearby hallway, Gibbon adds that their conversation must remain a secret for the moment.
Bigelow leaves and Gibbon starts watching another video: Dodgson's presentation about the chips and the recording of the battle between the Carabinieri and the chip-controlled animals.
The DSD collects the testimonies of various people involved in the Auronzo Incident, especially those of Pellegrino and her men. When Bigelow realizes that the tyrannosaur freed by Claire is the same which killed Maisie, she tells her boss and he is satisfied by her discovery.
Soon, another division of the CIA launches Operation Queenbreaker. Online, agents spread the rumours about Claire's misdeeds with even extracts from the Citadel's CCTV footage (sent by Lucrezia Pellegrino) being put on the social media and new caricatures being made (depicting Claire as a bloodthirsty vampire or a rampaging dragon which kills indiscriminately). Meanwhile, a shot in the arm is given to the investigation about Claire's fatal errors when she was park director of Jurassic World and the misdeeds she committed during the Lockwood Estate incident and her missions for the WDMC.
The trial of Claire Dearing
One morning, Claire is arrested and brought to court.
She endures a humiliating trial during which all of her crimes, proven or alleged (fake news were thrown into the mix) are discussed.
One of Operation Queenbreaker orchestrators' most treacherous moves are having Karen, Claire's half-sister, testimony against her, claiming she's responsible for the death of her son Gray (which died in this AU, killed by the Indominus); and using Drummond's, Bigelow's, and Kayla's testimonies about the Dolomites incident, where the three of them said that a Tyrannosaurus ate Maisie Lockwood, to imply that the Lockwood heiress died because of Claire, as she released the very same animal which ended up killing the teenage girl. As being responsible for kids' death is a big no-no for the public opinion, Claire loses part of its support.
During the last session of her trial, Claire knows it's a lost battle and pleads guilty for the crimes she did commit (adding she'll "do it again" for the greatest good if needed) before delivering an ominous speech, in which she talks about the opposition between civilization and barbarism (how barbarism is Man's natural state. She uses herself as an example), Man and nature, how dinosaurs changed her, and why they fascinates and frightens us at the same time (according to her, it's because they are the avatar of a barbaric world to which the entirety of mankind once belonged. By submitting and exploiting them, it's like if Mankind tried to reassure itself about its superiority over Nature). She claims having seen the future, declares that the World of Men is ending and a new age is coming, that soon, the entire planet will become a new Isla Nublar, and that modern civilization will know the fate of Jurassic World. Having heard enough, the judge interrupts her and announce the verdict: She'll have a life sentence (in an earlier scene, a death sentence is discussed by the judge and some orchestrators of Operation Queenbreaker, with the judge saying he can't sentence her to death as it will spark massive outrage with possible disastrous consequences).
While Claire is escorted away, Vuillier contacts the WDMC's allies within the Costa Rican government. Outraged by what the government did to his de-facto wife, Owen tells his boss that he intends to accept whatever job the WDMC has for him in Europe or anywhere in the world but the US.
Sometime later, while public opinion is divided on the result of her trial (while some think she deserved this and is nothing but a bloodthirsty madwoman; others see in this trial nothing but political scheming), it's announced to Claire that she'll be extradited to Costa Rica, the official reason being that the biggest of her faults and the deadliest one (triggering the fall of Isla Nublar) happened on Costa Rican territory and that they thus want her locked in one of their prisons. Claire is transferred to Costa Rica.
The fate of Auronzo Valley
Negotiations about Auronzo Valley ends and a decision is approved by both the UN and the Italian government. It will become a true sanctuary co-managed by the WDMC and the local government.
Due to Claire's imprisonment, Vuillier proposes the position of sanctuary manager to Owen and the latter accepts, taking the position after his and Sigurd's emigration to Italy.
Nyamu's solution
While conversing with Nyamu, Vuillier laments that Claire is going to rot in jail while she deserves better. Nyamu suddenly has an idea. He tells the WDMC director that Claire might still work for them, in a place where her ruthless nature could be used for their benefit and be appreciated, a place where she'll be "out of sight" of Odegaard and far from the CIA's claws.
A few weeks later, in the Women's prison of San José, Claire receives the visit of not only Vuillier but also Rodrigue Santagar, their ally within the Costa Rican government (and a character we met in TRQ) Santagar tells her that in exchange for the help she and Owen provided four years ago, the government proposes her to transform her prison time in community service. When she asks the nature of this "community service", they tell her it consists in joining the Grey Guard and remaining exiled in the Five Deaths for ten years. Despite her lack of military or law enforcement background, the Guard's marshal and its council of captains voted in favour of her recruitment as they heard of her prowess during the Fall of Jurassic World, the 2019 incidents and her missions as a field agent for the WDMC. Claire accepts, as she could be still acting in favour of dinosaurs, in addition to taking less chances of being assassinated in prison on the CIA's orders.
Gibbon learns this and when someone ask him if he's worried about this decision, he answers that the grey guards have a dangerous life and that with luck, she'll get eaten by a dinosaur or murdered by a poacher soon enough, before adding that they'll keep an eye on her. He's satisfied that the WDMC pretty much abandoned North America, leaving the DSD in charge of every De-extinction-related issues there.
Into the West
In October, Claire is brought by Santagar and a couple of police officers to Caldera's harbour near Puntarenas, where a cargo ship named The Wanderer is waiting for her and the other new recruits for the Guard. Seeing Owen and their son Sigurd on the dock, she gets emotional and the Costa Ricans let her join them for a moment. She bids them farewell, with Owen promising to visit her in the Five Deaths whenever he gets the chance, and then, escorted by the recruits' overseers, she embarks on the ship.
Owen and Sigurd watch The Wanderer depart and head west, into the sunset.

Epilogue

Finally, the epilogue arrives. It consists of a montage of various scenes while Vuillier or Owen gives a speech which sums up the saga's whole story since the first Jurassic Park. Here's its structure:
- Introduction with our character declaring that the world has changed: Footage of the Sanctuary's raptor pack walking in a single file on top of some ridge while they cross the Alps. Their leader stops at some promontory and looks west, towards some lowlands. An attentive viewer will quickly glimpse Victoria in the file. We then cut to a forest where some wolves are eating a carcass when the Achillobators arrive. Both packs growl at each other and a fight is about to break out when a now adult Victoria suddenly arrives and stands by her pack. Outnumbered and intimidated by the larger predators, the wolves decide to abandon the carcass and flee, letting the dinosaurs take their meal; of a small fishing vessel somewhere in the Pacific being attacked and sunk by a Mosasaurus (while the adult featured in JW died, some of the WDMC characters talk about possible Mosasaurus sightings in the earliest parts of the story and mention the fact that a juvenile was also housed in JW when the park fell); of a military aircraft having an accidental and fatal collision with an InGen Pteranodon.
- The rise of InGen and the first de-extinction successes: Footage of the abandoned Embryonic administration on Sorna and Jurassic Park: San Diego; of Drummond wandering in the now deserted Lockwood Manor, exploring its museum and observing the model of Jurassic Park's visitor centre.
- The Fall of Jurassic World and InGen: Footage of the ruins of JW on Nublar and the former InGen HQ in Palo Alto (a location seen in TRQ).
- The downfall of other genetic engineering companies: Footage of some Mantah Corp complex (not the one from Camp Cretaceous' seasons 4 and 5. In this AU, the Mantah Corp island doesn't exist, thank goodness!); abandoned Grendel Corporation facilities in India and Cameroon; Biosyn's logos being removed in the Citadel by workers and other cleaning/doing repairs within the Biosyn facility.
- Loose de-extinct animals in the world: Footage of some Nasutoceratops in the Indian countryside; of a Spinosaurus (the one we saw in Biosyn's possession and which was carried out of the Sanctuary by the flood) swimming in the canals of Venice, arousing awe and wonder in locals and tourists; of a Biosyn Quetzalcoatlus flying over the countryside somewhere in Europe; a pack of InGen Compsognathus in some dark alley in sight of Hollywood, diving head first in the trash; a pair of Pectinodon in the jungles of Cameroon...
- Losses: Footage of the funerals of the Carabinieri who fell during the Battle of Auronzo; of Vincent Chapuy and a couple of other grey guards featured in this story in a memorial hall within Caer Draig (The Grey Guard's headquarters on Isla Sorna), melancholically looking at the names of those who died during the Maltese and Dolomites incidents (we also glimpse the names of some grey guards from the JW rewrite); of Drummond paying a visit to Maisie's and Theo's sepulchres in Lockwood Estate (Maisie has a plaque in her family's mausoleum while Theo has an empty grave outside near that of Iris', who died during the 2019 incident) ; of some room/hall/wing/laboratory in Stanford University being renamed after Henry Wu.
- The challenges and battles to come: Footage of Dougal and other WDMC field agents parking near the entrance of Mount Saint-Michel, running past fleeing tourists before looking up, toward the abbey at the top of mount, over which a Quetzalcoatlus (the same from earlier in the epilogue) is circling; of some unnamed genetic engineering company/ies creating new de-extinct creatures; of illegal exploitations and black markets.
- The importance of good collaboration: Footage of Guillaume Vuillier and his assistant Peggy Zubiri in the WDMC's new headquarters in Gland, Switzerland; of Drummond and Cesare welcoming Owen and his son Sigurd in Auronzo and watching dinosaurs in the valley together; of Kayla being shown her new plane and her and Bigelow going on some new adventure together (it's implied that Kayla now works for the DSD and that Gibbon changed his mind about Bigelow and decided to send her back on missions).
- The rampant Greed and Corruption: Footage of Senator Christine West in Washington, addressing questions about her close ties with Biosyn (she's in the middle of a corruption scandal) and walking away before being shot by a unknown sniper; of Giovanni Pazzi being dismissed from his position as Minister of the Interior after some whistle-blower (implied to be Viscontini) revealed that he was corrupted by Biosyn and warned Dodgson about the government's intents of taking Auronzo valley from him and arresting him.
- The looming threats and how Mankind's fate stand on an edge: Footage of Isaac Gibbon and other US government officials plotting in secret and DSD scientists working with embryos; of Claire, now in grey guard attire, standing at the top of a watchtower on some Isla Sorna ridge, looking at the ocean where she suddenly spots a suspicious ship in the distance (her eyes are seen ferociously locking on it); the final sequence, set at night, shows a Biosyn tyrannosaur looking at a town in the distance and letting out an otherworldly roar.
The End
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Thanks for reading!
I'm aware that I might have taken a few controversial story decisions but I think that's part of the fun of rewrites like this one, do what filmmakers can't due to various reasons.
Please, let me know of your thoughts. I'll be happy do have a debate about my work.

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at net.minecraft.class\_757.method\_3192(class\_757.java:616) at net.minecraft.class\_310.method\_1523(class\_310.java:1048) at net.minecraft.class\_310.method\_1514(class\_310.java:681) at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main([Main.java:215](https://Main.java:215)) at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.game.minecraft.MinecraftGameProvider.launch([MinecraftGameProvider.java:462](https://MinecraftGameProvider.java:462)) at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.Knot.launch([Knot.java:74](https://Knot.java:74)) at net.fabricmc.loader.impl.launch.knot.KnotClient.main([KnotClient.java:23](https://KnotClient.java:23)) 

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I was rewatching the Friends’ video and thought I’d put down the bits that surprised a laugh out of me - but more interested in what got a surprise giggle from others. Given that Dylan is the joke, alas I don’t have time stamps 🥰

• 6 days (and four months)
• “starting at season 4” - there was a genuine fear this chaotic arsehole would do that for approximately 0.6 seconds
• “pretty funny, right? 😏”

It’s about here I got distracted with my phone, so I need additional input..

• “it’s a dumb bit, but so am i” /sniffs aggressively/
• ~i’m not sure about that~ 👀😐🫨
• “it’s a moo point” 🐮
• rUn

As a disclaimer; I should mention for this story I will be using the real first names of the people involved because I don't believe giving a first name basis will dox or infringe the privacy of anybody mentioned in this story.
This took place back around the fall of 2020 around late October. One night three of my friends Nate, Charles, Jordan and I decided to meet up at a local park around midnight just located within my friend Jordan's neighborhood to have one of our relentless hot-boxing smoke sessions.
Since this was our senior year of high-school and with the pandemic and political animosity going on at the time; like many other kids we were basically stuck at home for the most part attending online classes and barely getting out of our houses since most public places were closed.
Because of this . . We all ended up smoking weed to kill time and basically have a little bit of fun, so having these "hotbox" sessions wasn't anything new to us since we've been smoking since August of that same year. I recently stopped smoking altogether due to unrelated issues but I digress.
Back to the story.
About an hour after our smoke session the four of us reluctantly agreed to start driving out of the park and around town for a while with my friend Jordan being the driver, Nate in the front passenger seat with Charles and I in the back. Stupid, I know.
20 minutes into our drive being the intoxicated idiots that we were, having the windows cracked. We decided to put on Dead Space ambience music just for shits and giggles as we were making our way out of a residential area and onto a two-way main road that led out into the rural part of town.
To give you an idea of the scenery; we were driving through one of those semi-rural suburban neighborhoods you’d find out in the middle of nowhere. For those of you who live in the rural south or the midwest, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
Since it was completely pitch black and we were practically in the middle of nowhere bumping creepy ambient music while approaching a dimly lit intersection, it began to give off an eerie liminal vibe that was kinda fitting for the season.
As we approached the intersection my mind began to green out and race about the unknown beyond the darkness that enshrined our surroundings.
"Heh it'd be really fucking terrifying if we came across a humanoid like the wendigo or something" I said to myself.
At that point we had reached the intersection and since I was looking to my left I immediately noticed a figure emerging out of the pitch black.
As the figure got under the street light, I realized that what I was looking at was a woman in pigtails dressed in a really classy, clean outfit with a tan blouse and high heels.
I instinctively sobered up and took this as a bad sign from all the stories I’ve heard and just knew something was wrong because who the hell would be out at 1 A.M. in a classy outfit out in the middle of nowhere
In a matter of seconds my worst fear came to life as this woman began to approach the car and I really didn't want any of us taking any chances with this woman.
I started to freak out and told my buddy:
"Jordan . . There's a woman coming at us . . . Turn the car NOW!"
Our friend Nate noticed a second figure dressed in all black slowly emerge from the rear end of the car just about 15 feet away by our right side slowly approaching.
This only instilled more fear in all of us about the situation that was happening before us.
Charles instantly caught on and saw what we were seeing as this woman practically began running at us screaming
"HEY . . HELP ME PLEASE . . STOP"
Charles then began aggressively slapping Jordan's shoulder in a panic Shouting at my friend:
"JORDAN BUDDY TURN THE FUCKING CAR".
Jordan, still zooted of the weed, was confused for a split second before he saw that this woman and the man in black were mere FEET from the car.
In a panic He yelled:
“AH SHIT . . NAH BRO!” as he peeled the car to the right and in the opposite direction from where this woman and man came running from.
We all sobered up a bit being creeped out and confused as to what just happened but laughed it off because of how intoxicated we all still were
Needless to say we still question why the woman was running at us screaming and what the intentions were from the man dressed in all black behind the car.
My morbid curiosity gets the better of me sometimes and I’d like some theories as to what could’ve happened to all 4 of us during that night.

Those seasons have so many good episodes and it had a really nice direction, with so many dang good episodes (with first nine being so flipping fantastic, I wouldn't mind if the show ended after those episodes) and a premise that is fun, entertaining and hilarious.
By the time Season 5 came, while not bad, it showed that the series was changing direction with Mandy being introduced and starting an arc that kinda went against the show's original premise and it got more dramatic (drama isn't really something I can tolerate for long periods of time).
Season 6 came and... ugh... the show became story-driven. You can't watch episodes out of order anymore (sure, the first four had arcs, but once you got the context, you could watch those episodes in any order you want), it introduced a baby (CeCe, who while cute, doesn't have much of a purpose (I'm gonna get downvoted (-_-))) and Missy.
Yup. In the first four seasons, she was a kid whose teasing came across as funny and while she did become older, she still was great and funny. Season 5 didn't really do much difference for Missy but Season 6 just made Missy rebellious (I WISH I could stop talking about this), and her 'I hate you' line to Sheldon (which might just make this season the weakest) made me realize that Young Sheldon wasn't the same show.
At least the other characters hadn't changed to me. But sadly, Young Sheldon is now a Chinese drama wannabe and not a sitcom that I could enjoy and if Season 7 turns out to be worse or the same as Season 6, there is no point in me sticking around. And I'm expecting a hella lot of downvotes for my unpopular opinion. Cheers!

How do people combine gym strength training and cycling? I try to go to the gym twice a week and during this time ride my bike four times a week. Maybe getting back into doing short races (90 minutes). I try to do at least one vo2max training a week, often 30/30s for 4 times 10 minutes. Besides that either very low intensity 2/3 hour rides or some sweet spot sessions. TSS around 500 a week. Just curious what other people’s experience is combining the two. Still need to do a proper 20 minute FTP test for this season. Wasn’t motivated during Corona but got the itch back since two months.

Come let us take back our sins
And let's make the reasons anecdotes and anecdotes
Let's start from yesterday until before we got wet with rain
That love whose names we knew after a long time
I will say do you remember
And you say do you remember
If you forgot
-
She likes to list my boring defeats
She intertwined her fingers before she started crying
Do not give solutions to some mistakes
It only shows me its shadow
Always standing on her leg
I don't know why I have dreams
It comes in the form of prose poems
Don't ask her how she is
I know her condition from her four seasons
I was one of its causes
You planted it for me, since the birth of my first grief
To die together at the end of the valley
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https://aqelayash.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_354.html

Come let us take back our sins
And let's make the reasons anecdotes and anecdotes
Let's start from yesterday until before we got wet with rain
That love whose names we knew after a long time
I will say do you remember
And you say do you remember
If you forgot
-
She likes to list my boring defeats
She intertwined her fingers before she started crying
Do not give solutions to some mistakes
It only shows me its shadow
Always standing on her leg
I don't know why I have dreams
It comes in the form of prose poems
Don't ask her how she is
I know her condition from her four seasons
I was one of its causes
You planted it for me, since the birth of my first grief
To die together at the end of the valley
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https://aqelayash.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_354.html

Hey all, I'm currently researching sleeping bags for use in Northern Wales, where I'll be moving in the fall. Ideally I would want a three season bag that I could extend with layers for use in the winter too (temperatures don't go far below 0 Celsius but can go to - 10 at times in the mountains). Weight and packed size are important obviously. I would only be doing longer weekend or week long trips from spring to fall, and probably just go for one or two nights in winter.
I've been looking at Western mountaineering megalite, which looks very good to my eye. But I'm slightly concerned about whether it's ideal for the humid climate, as I heard that the outer shell isn't hydrophobic, and I've heard that synthetic down might be better for these conditions. If anyone has any input on that or on what I should look for, that would be much appreciated.
A bit of extra info: my budget is around 600 euros. I have a nemo alpine sleeping mat with an r rating of seven as well as a hilleberg four season, double walled tent with good ventilation.