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The rules of progressive games like video poker, blackjack, or Caribbean stud poker allow players to compute the best playing strategy based on the frequency for each payout versus the odds of hitting that payoff. Because progressive jackpots keep growing, the jackpot eventually reaches a break-even point. At this point, the jackpot wager becomes a positive expectation bet for the player with a return greater than 100%. So what does that mean for you? You can develop the best betting strategy on progressive jackpot games when their jackpots exceed the break-even point.
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We also recommend setting betting limits prior to playing so that you don't bet more than you can afford. Many online casinos allow players to set up daily or monthly betting limits on their accounts. You can only bet a certain amount before the casino stops you from playing. This ensures responsible gaming.
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Card games – Slot machines aren't the only casino games featuring progressive jackpots. Card games at online casinos may give players the option of placing a side bet to win the jackpot.
Caribbean stud poker – These games often include progressive jackpots. Players have the option of placing a side bet that they win if they hit a straight flush (a hand containing all of one suit in continuous sequence). The progressive jackpot pays 100% of the jackpot meter for a royal flush and 10% for a straight flush.
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For example, triple sevens represents a blackjack side bet based on the player's first three cards. The player wins if they receive a seven among the first three cards dealt. Blackjack jackpots can range from a few dollars up to 100% of the jackpot depending on rules of the game. In the Triple Sevens blackjack game from Microgaming software, players win the jackpot if they are dealt three sevens of diamonds. Other combinations of sevens result in smaller prizes.
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Progressive jackpots are completely unique to the world of online casino, because rather than being worth a fixed amount, they are always growing. Mega Moolah is a very famous progressive slot, and after it is won, the jackpot resets to $1,000,000.
However, a small percentage of every single wager made – whether it wins or loses – is added to this jackpot. Since thousands of people play every day, the jackpot continues to rise in value until, eventually, it is won again. All progressive jackpots work in the exact same way.
Generally speaking, progressive jackpots are paid either as lump sums to the winner, or in regular instalments over a couple of years. You should always receive the full amount, and casino winnings are tax-free!
You just need to play, like any other slot. The jackpot is triggered randomly, so the only way you can win is to keep playing, and hope that you're the lucky player who strikes it rich! Be careful to read the rules for each specific game, however, since many progressive jackpots require to bet the maximum amount – if you don't, you'll receive a scaled-down version of the jackpot.
Mega Moolah is one of the few progressive slots which does not require you to play the maximum.
Bottom Line
whether you prefer instant wins on progressive slots or love hitting the jackpot on cards games, progressive machines offer the most lucrative ways to win at an online casino. Try out different versions of the game to see if you'll join the lucky winners who have become millionaires winning progressive games.
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MBA Master of Business Administration (Islamic Finance) (Executive)
The MBA in Islamic Finance (Executive) part-time is a chance to advance your career in this huge and growing sector by combining work and study commitments over two years. Focusing on management and commerce, the course aims to help you progress into senior positions in organisations that follow Islamic principles.
Course details
Islamic finance is one of the fastest growing sectors in the financial world, estimated to be worth over US$1.5 trillion. This postgraduate qualification offers a suite of contemporary modules designed to prepare those with previous management or business experience for work in this dynamic sector.
Whatever area of industry or commerce you currently work in, this MBA course is designed to assist you in gaining essential skills in Islamic finance. In addition, the programme aims to provide a critical understanding of the problems and challenges facing enterprises and organisations and equip you with the analytical and critical faculties to identify potential innovative solutions. These qualities are highly sought by prestigious international employers.
The two-year part-time course will cover how to evaluate and develop good practice in key areas of business management and in the commercial development of general and Islamic finance products and services. You'll have the opportunity to acquire the skills needed to work effectively, independently and as part of a team.
- Start date: 21/09/2020
- Location: The University of Bolton
- Award: MBA
- Duration: 2 years
Course highlights:
- This MBA course offers you the chance to join a well-established postgraduate community engaged in preparing themselves for a career in executive management in the Islamic finance sector.
- Teaching and supervision is delivered by a dedicated team of experienced and well-qualified staff drawn from the Centre of Islamic Finance and the Institute of Management at the University of Bolton.
- The University's excellent libraries, 24/7 IT facilities, WiFi and learning areas are freely available for your use.
- You'll be given access to a research and study skills module which will assist in your studies.
- Guest lecturers from the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) will be held on the need for holistic approaches to strategy, risks, key stakeholder interests and financial performance.
- The two-year part-time course allows you to combine work and study commitments.
Key features:
- You'll have the opportunity to gain an advanced knowledge and understanding of strategic management and Islamic finance issues in a global business environment.
- The course aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of the methodologies and concepts of Islamic law and the application of legal principals within Islamic business transactions.
- Teaching is conducted by a highly-dedicated team with specialist knowledge in Islamic law and banking.
- Course materials are available online, allowing students to prepare work at home and ensuring that in-class learning is highly interactive.
Entry requirements
- Start date: 21/09/2020
- Location: The University of Bolton
- Award: MBA
- Duration: 2 years
You should have both of the following: significant work experience in a business or management capacity; and a UK Honours degree/postgraduate degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject.
We'll consider your application if you don't possess the above qualifications but have substantial managerial experience.
You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.
When applying you must include a reference from your current employer. The reference should clearly state how long you have been employed by them and give a breakdown of your job content and roles and responsibilities.
Your application form will need to be accompanied by a reflective overview of the managerial responsibilities you have undertaken to date.
Career opportunities
No matter what part of industry or commerce you work in, the MBA Islamic Finance (Executive) course is designed to assist you in gaining essential skills to work in Islamic finance. In addition, the programme offers a critical understanding of the problems and challenges facing enterprises and organisations and aims to equip you with the analytical and critical skills to identify potential innovative solutions.
Islamic finance has developed into a solid industry that complements conventional banking. The Islamic market demands a specific expertise that combines solid financial knowledge with that of Islamic finance. A deeper knowledge of Islamic finance can improve the competitiveness of MBA students on the international financial market stage.
What can I do with this qualification?
On completing the programme, you'll be qualified to pursue a career in a wide range of management roles in the Islamic finance sector or regulatory agencies, and in the public, private and voluntary sectors. A wide range of employers – financial institutions, technology companies, blue-chip companies, and SMEs – recruit Executive MBA Islamic Finance graduates. The universal appeal stems from the MBA's focus on collective business principles.
An Executive MBA in Islamic Finance is also highly respected around the world, so if you're interested in a global business career then it could be beneficial – particularly as qualifications from UK business schools are so well regarded. It can also help you to specialise in your current sector, or a new industry that you want to move into. If you want to continue your study then you could opt for a research degree (MPhil, DBA or PhD).
Alternative career options
- Supply chain
- Product management
- Banking
- Accountancy
- Law
- Auditing and quality assurance
- Financial management
- Consultancy
- Teaching and education
- Hotel and leisure management
- Public relations
- Information systems
- Market research analysis
- Advertising
- Risk and insurance
- Purchasing
- Logistics
- Marketing
- Human resources
- Global investment
Professional recognition
On successful completion of the MBA Islamic Finance (Executive) programme you may apply for membership to the Chartered Management Institute. Please note that terms and conditions apply. More details are available at www.managers.org.uk
Fees & funding
No fee information is currently available, please contact Student Data Management on 01204 903059 or firstname.lastname@example.com for more information
The fees for a student's course of study will be set for the normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.
The University is currently awaiting Government guidelines as to EU fee charges for students commencing study in 2019/20.
UK undergraduate tuition fees are subject to UK government approval and are subject to the outcome of the Teaching Excellence Framework.
How to apply
You may apply directly to the University using the University's online application form. Please select your chosen start date from the list below:
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Details of the educational establishments you attended and dates
Your certificates for the qualifications you are using to gain entry to the course – you will need to enter the completion date and upload copies
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Apply online: University of Bolton Master of Business Administration (Islamic Finance) (Executive) - 21 September 2020
International applications are not possible for this course
As an international student you are not allowed to study this course because of the restrictions on your visa.
We offer a wide range of full-time courses in lots of different subjects, many of our courses start in September and January. If you would like to see what courses are available please visit our Course Search.
Teaching & assessment
Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.
- Research and Study Skills
- Financial Management and Decision Making
- International Marketing Management
- Human Resource Management
- Research Methods
- Islamic Business Transaction Law
- Islamic Finance and Investment
- Strategic Management and Leadership
- Dissertation (Islamic Finance)
Teaching, learning and assessment
As well as lectures, seminars and tutorials, your learning will benefit from guest speakers, case studies and visits. In addition to short periods spent with a tutor, you'll spend a lot of time in guided independent study. This involves, for example, engaging in general background reading, preparing for seminar activities and working on assignments.
The University of Bolton virtual learning environment (VLE) supports your learning, with course materials and links to key resources available online. The VLE will also allow you to engage in other learning activities and take part in discussions remotely.
The assessment strategy for the programme is designed to make sure you achieve the overall aims of the programme, as well as the learning outcomes for individual modules. Assessment feedback can also help you develop your skills and an understanding of your own strengths and weaknesses.
There are two types of assessment: formative and summative. Formative assessments don't contribute to your overall module grade, but they are a part of the learning strategy for a module and you are required to complete them. Summative assessments do contribute to your overall module grade. You'll also receive feedback on these assessments, so you'll know what you have done well and where you can improve. Many different forms of assessment are used. The major ones being coursework (usually essays), reports/case studies, oral presentations, examinations, research proposal, and the dissertation.
The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative 'optional modules' that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.
Assessment methods
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|Level One
|Coursework (57%), Practical exams (36%), Written exams (7%)
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|Guided independent study (85%), Scheduled learning and teaching activities (15%)
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People run for many reasons: to lose weight, training for sports, for fresh air – the list can be very long. While most of these are true for everyone at certain times, for me, running is spiritual.
I was lucky enough to grow up among the beautiful Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah. As a young girl, my family spent as much time as we could on long walks and hikes on the miles and miles of trails by our house. It was a family tradition! When I was in high school I started running on the trails. They became the place I went to sort out my thoughts. Running outdoors became a place where I felt most like myself.
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When I go back to Utah to visit, I always have to spend some time on the trails. It can be 12 degrees and snowy, muddy and slick, or hot as hades. It doesn't matter. Nothing is going to stop me from running on the trails of my youth. I am grateful I got to grow up in such a remarkable place. Those same feelings of gratitude are with me as I run along the trails, rivers, and shoulderless roads of rural Oklahoma. They are all places that showcase God's beautiful Earth.
Being outside is like a balm to my soul. Whenever the world seems crazy and upside down, I know that if I can get some time outside with my thoughts, that I can sort through everything. The beautiful earth is one of the greatest gifts that God gave us! Get out there and explore it!


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Platform: Tabletop
Development Time: 2 Weeks
Team Size: 1
Role: Narrative Designer, Puzzle Designer, World Designer
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Characters background history: Here
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Death Pledge is a narrative-focused Tabletop Role-Playing Game developed for the Game Design course instructed by Jesse Schell.
Design Process
From the very beginning, there was a few key elements I wanted to explore in a TRPG setting. These were:
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Despite their differences in story arc and genre, the options had a single common thread; a focus on exploration and world building. Hence I shifted my focus into creating an immersive, vivid world where the players "feel" as if they were actually there.
Given the limited time constraint, scoping the scale of the world was the first important step. An intergalactic universe seemed to vast, whereas being streamlined through human organs seemed offered little flexibility in its linearity. After hours of brainstorming, I found a solution that balanced the best of both worlds: an island that offered the players a freedom of choice to freely roam various places within its borders.
In terms of the story, I drew inspiration from multiple sources, from poems, mythical novels, movies, and video games. During the research process, it occurred to me that many ancient mythologies depicted the island as a place of the dead, an interstitial connection between the Earth and the Underworld. This idea of Axis Mundi, the center of the universe, seemed to imbue further mystery into the setting of an island. Taking further inspiration from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game, I started to jot down interesting stories and events that could potentially happen on the island.
First off, I really liked the idea of initially portraying the island as an uncharted realm of paradise, then gradually unveiling its sinister nature. Secondly, I wanted to the character dynamics between individual survival and collective survival (collaboration against a common enemy). Also, I wanted to experiment to what degree can role-switching affect the player's behaviours mid-game. To top it all off, I wanted to create a detailed environment where the players could feel a sense of place, where they can do whatever they wished.
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One day, three wealthy individuals are invited by a mysterious count named Natas Amo to his private island in the Carribeans. Each one of them is interested in purchasing the island from the Master, and accepts the Open House invitation. At the harbor, they realize, from seeing each other, that they weren't the only ones invited. Once the guests arrive at the island, they are greeted by the Master, who proposes a two-day competition to determine the ideal candidate to which he would sell the island. All seemed to be normal up until the night before the final announcement, when the guests encounter an old lady confined in the dungeon beneath the mansion. They are informed of the Master's true identity, the Devil himself, and are warned to leave the island as soon as possible. Battles and deceptions ensue from this point on between the Devil and the guests, eventually leading up to a situation where the guests have no choice but to confront the Devil and kill him. However, the guests soon realize that the one who killed the Devil becomes possessed by him. One by one, they kill each other, until there is only one guest left alive. Through this guest, the Devil continues his lineage.
There are a total of three puzzles integrated into the story: 1) the invitation letter, 2) the dungeon door lock, and 3) the vault combination wheel.
The invitation letter puzzle consists of a series of letters hidden between the words. When added up, they make the phrase "Please see the map ninety west and thirty north." This map coordinate points to a location on the world map where the players are to come for the Open House and meet the mysterious Landlord. This hybrid approach of combining diegetic role playing and puzzle solving immediately captured the players' interests from the early stage of the story, which helped them to immediately get into the story. The players would read the letter first, and as they are reading they would start noticing the fainted grey letters between the words. This element of surprise in discovering multiple layers of information kept the players engaged. Also, the players were able to make the mental connection between the written prompt, "You will know where to go once you see it," and the hidden messages. Then, all three players were able to make the connection between the hidden messages and the world maps, where they understood that they were to map the corresponding coordinates of the correct location. The actual content of the letter helped establishing the setting that the players and the landlord have been already corresponding over the past few weeks. It also helped in solidifying the characters' interest in purchasing the island.
The dungeon door lock puzzle was initially intended to be a 3-dimensional representation of a chain guard, where the players had to physically slide the end knobs out of the maze-like frame. It was intended that the player had to work with the limited length of the chain and figure out the best route to the hole. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, the final puzzle ended up being a 2-dimensional graphic print instead, where the players had to trace the correct path from the start to the end hole. This caused some initial confusion in the players, as it was not immediately clear that the circles represented the end knobs and the line connecting them the chain link. Regardless, the players were able to eventually solve the puzzle with minimal prompt by the gamemaster. During the actual problem solving process, the players were often misled into dead ends that were intentionally incorporated to allow the players to troubleshoot the correct path without blatantly giving away the answer. In a similar line, intertwining the paths also helped making the correct path not immediately clear to the players.
Finally, the vault combination wheel was designed to be only accessed by the players with more than 10 mental attribute points, which ended up denying the Banker its accessibility during gameplay. This led to an interesting plot development where the Banker had to wait for the CEO to crack the puzzle. Inspired from a cipher disk, the puzzle consists of multiple layers of circles that can rotate around a common pivot point. The fragmented graphics required the players to rotate the different circles and match the patterns. This proved to be rather intuitive and almost too easy for the players; the puzzle taking the shortest time to solve. Encountered near the end of the story, the Island map was specifically chosen to subconsciously remind the players of the great Hole in the lagoon and the shape of the Island itself, which resembles a hand grasp.
What worked well 🙂
What worked poorly 🙁
What was most surprising?
Interest Curve E vs Interest Curve F
Interest Curve E vs Interest Curves G1, G2, G3
G1 (Drug Lord)
G2 (Tech CEO)
G3 (Banker)
G1 + G2 + G3 (All Players)
Did this experience teach you anything about interactive storytelling?
I have already mentioned the majority of the lessons above. In conclusion, having gone through the processes of designing, iterating, playtesting, and reflecting on interactive storytelling have taught me that role playing is very similar to improvisational acting. In this sense, striking a delicate balance between providing information and letting the players discover / create it themselves is incredibly important for an immersive story. This goes back to the question that Terrence Lee raised in his article: is it about the explicit story? Or the player story? And of course in this case, it is about finding a good rhythm to juggle them back and forth.


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Art Spiegelman has very interesting theories about the portrayal and experience of time and memory in the comics medium. We will not get into them too much here. Our current interests are in the animal form of Maus. However, in some cases there will be intersections with the theme of time. Spiegelman says of the animal forms that "I tend to think of it as humans with animal heads" (1991 UWTV interview). These animal heads wear masks of other animal forms. But also, Spiegelman suggests that even the unconcealed animal faces are masks on human heads. We will see in the selection below from Maus II Art himself, along with interviewers, having a human head covered with an animal mask. First note however the temporality. Time has passed since the first Maus, which was already mixing past and present. That former present is now a past. But even the new narrational present will be read in the future, making it past in advance. The basic format of telling the story from someone's memory has a sort of non-oriented eternal temporality. This sort of portrayal and experience of narrative time was masterfully executed also in issue four of Alan Moore's (writer), Dave Gibbons' (artist), and John Higgins' (colorist) Watchmen.
We see something similar in the "Time Flies" section of Maus II.
We (above) also see Art wearing the mouse mask, and others wearing dog and cat masks (below).
Another theme is the changing relations, alliances, bonds, and organizations based on exchanges of goods and services. Social structures which once held are shown during this time to have broken down, with new relations springing up spontaneously on the basis of mutually beneficial exchanging. Here we see Vladek building a relation with the chief of the tinmen, who at first was antagonistic toward Vladek, but warmed up as soon as Vladek began bribing him.
Vladek often saves things, like a mouse storing away food for later. In this case, he explains how he would save bread made with sawdust, which might remind us of how he and Anja gnawed on wood while in a bunker, to stave off hunger.
In another scene, Vladek is in Auschwitz, and he is talking secretly to his wife Anja. He says to her not to share with her friends, since their only concern is getting food from her. This is interesting since Vladek himself knows how to build advantageous friendships by giving away food. His point perhaps is not so much that it is bad to give away food but rather that one must be strategic in whom to invest one's goods.
One of the themes of Maus of course is survival, and the question is, how does Vladek survive? When discussing the following instructional diagram (below), Spiegelman recalls how his father told him, "You must know everything to survive" (MetaMaus, p.54). We see very often throughout Maus Vladek taking on new occupational identities (as well as cultural and national identities). His identity is flexible, in other words, and he often exercises the self-creative power of falsehood. He pretends himself to be something before being it, and then he in that declaration-enacted transition becomes it. Notice that he has never fixed shoes before, but he proved himself better than the prior shoe repairmen in his first attempt.
We return now to the idea of friendship and forming larger compositions to aid survival. Here we see Vladek forming advantageous relations through exchange, and he says, "If you want to live, it's good to be friendly."
Another theme is that the cartoon animal masks allow the reader to attain greater proximity to the events and to the personal experiences of the characters. This is because the figures are not specific. They do not give us a photo-realistic presentation of Vladek's face, for example. Instead, it could be any person. While engaging with the visual story, we project our own inner worlds onto these "blank sheets". This for example allows us to see Vladek as our own father or as ourselves or as some other loved one, and to sympathize much more strongly with the character. Before viewing it, first recall Spiegelman's point that the animal faces are like Little Orphan Annie's face, where the blankness of the eyes allows for a more personal projection than Li'l Abner.
Here is the Maus panel, which I find to be one of the most deeply moving images in comics.
In another scene, the war was apparently ending, and prisoners were planning for when the Germans, seeing the need to retreat, were going to move the Jews in the camps back to Germany. Another prisoner tells Vladek of these rumors, and they plan for an escape, with false identity papers and civilian clothes.
Later, as the prisoners are being marched to another camp, Vladek tells a story that is important for the notion of dehumanization. He sees a man who gets shot and whose dying movements resemble the way that a dog dies. In MetaMaus, Spiegelman discusses this important scene.
I guess it's all an inquiry into what it means to be human in a dehumanizing world. When my father told me about his long death march out of Auschwitz near the end of the war, he describes hearing gunshots and then, at some point, he sees far ahead of him, "somebody jumping, rolling 25 or 35 times around and stops." he tells me, "Oh, I said, they maybe killed there a dog," because my father [133|134] hadn't had that many experiences of seeing people shot close up, if any (although of course he did shoot someone from a distance when he was a Polish soldier). And he goes on to say, "When I was a boy, our neighbor had a dog what god mad and was biting; the neighbor came out with a rifle and shot. The dog was rolling so, around and around, kicking, before he lay quiet, and now I thought, 'How amazing it is that a human being reacts the same like this neighbor's dog.'"
When he told me that anecdote, he certainly wasn't thinking about me telling his story with animal surrogates – but I instantly knew this would become a key page in the story. I worked hard to make the transition between human/mouse and animal/dog as clear as I could. My father describes how "the dog rolled around and around, kicking before he lay quiet," and that is worked out visually as a roll across the page. I didn't try to present it cinematically, which would have been a bit corny, but I took advantage of the way the eye assimilates a page; it was analogous to showing a human rolling around, fading into a dog rolling around, and fading back into a human as it does.
(MetaMaus 133-134)
We then see another example of bribery not working.
Vladek shows his survival cleverness when he is packed with many other prisoners into a rail car. He sees hooks on the ceiling and fashions a hammock sort of platform to elevate himself out of the crowd and near the window where he could get snow to eat.
He uses his position to negotiate for sugar. He trades snow for spoon of it. But the scene is odd, since it seems uncharitable. Why does Vladek not give the snow freely, especially since the prisoners' throats are burning from the sugar? Perhaps the situation is unfair to begin with, since some have sugar and some not, and some have access to snow and some not. In the audio recording provided in MetaMaus, there is less material, and it makes Vladek seem more charitable.
Art: You did not have any food or anything to drink?
Vladek: I still had something in the knapsack, but not much. But there were also some people who had sugar – I don't know; they organized in some places sugar. So they lived on the sugar. But – the sugar started burning them, because they didn't have any water. And I could push out my hand through the bar from the little window, and I lived mostly on the snow, because it was a lot of snow on the roof, and I grabbed the snow, and I lived on the snow, and I had a small pieces of bread.
But later on, I manage that I got sugar. How did I get the sugar? Because the people who were down, standing, they begged me for a little, little bits of snow. But I told them I cannot reach. I reach only a little bit for myself. So they gave me a spoon of sugar, and for a spoon of sugar, I gave him a handful of snow. To save his life.
(MetaMaus 267. Italicized parts are not in the audio recording, seemingly edited out)
There is a remarkable scene in the present when Vladek tries to return opened and half eaten food boxes to the grocery store. Art and his wife stay in the car, not wanting to be present at such an embarrassing interaction. Art's wife says it is a miracle Vladek survived the ghettos and camps. Art replies that in some ways he did not survive. This seems to be losses to his personality or in something else about him, since he seems so scarred and transformed by his extraordinarily difficult experiences. However, we also noted elsewhere that Vladek was supposedly always tight with his money, and perhaps it was only reinforced by the experience in the camps. At any rate, Art's observation suggests that Vladek's survival came at the cost of a constant identity.
The next page we examine is notable both in showing the extents the prisoners were willing to go in order to get basic sustenance, but also it speaks to the issues of time and memory. In the present there are the scars of the past, which keep the past alive in the present as indelible traces. The scars of course are emotional as well. Art often refers to how it was not uncommon for his parents to wake up in the middle of the night screaming.
There is another scene where Vladek shows his cleverness and perhaps as well the power of falsity. Here he fakes being without lice by using a dummy shirt.
Vladek later explains that he had forgotten a lot, having put away many memories when burning letters with Anja's notebooks. He then says Art's Maus project is rebuilding that part of his past.
There is an interesting visual mixture of present and past in the title panel for the fourth chapter.
There is also an interesting series of pages with photographs. Here we again see this theme of past and present mixing.
Finally, there is a scene where the animal metaphor breaks down, according to Spiegelman, because we have a mixed couple of German and Jew, with their child showing mouse form but cat stripes.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus, book 2: And Here My Troubles Began. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991.
Or if otherwise noted:
Art Spiegelman. Television Program entitled, "The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Maus (Art Spiegelman)." University of Washington Television (UWTV). Available on youtube: https://youtu.be/BLVG3GNvHkU
Spiegelman, Art [with Hillary Chute (interviewer)]. MetaMaus. New York: Pantheon/Random House, 2011.


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PICTURES: Gorgeous cars on display at village show
PUBLISHED: 15:13 22 August 2018 | UPDATED: 15:13 22 August 2018
Dozens of gorgeous and rare classic cars were on show last week.
Redhill Village Club organises meetings for car and motorbike enthusiasts in the evenings over the summer and an array of fantastic vehicles were on display to visitors on Thursday night.
The recreation field was teaming with people keen to see modern classics and rare historic cars on show.
Maggie Shapland brought along one of the oldest cars, with her 1925 Talbot 10-23 attracting a lot of attention.
Fords, Alfa Romeos and even kit cars were also on display.
A barbecue was also arranged so hungry punters were not disappointed.
Last week's show was the fourth and final event of the summer. However, a breakfast classic car and motorbike gathering will be held at the same place on October 7, from 9-11am.


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Milk chocolate and peanut butter. What a great combination. Even I, a dark chocolate fan, can appreciate it. Especially the tangy salty bite of a Reese's cup's peanut butter. Reese's makes their usual cups, but sometimes they shape them for maximum holiday enjoyment. For Halloween, they do pumpkins and (only available at Target stores) bats. I managed to snag a pack of snack sized pumpkin treats so I could tell you about them. I'm a giver y'all.
Each piece is about two inches, and there's definitely a pumpkin-with-stem look to it. But don't hold it too long; the chocolate is so creamy it'll start melting immediately. (Tip: put these into the fridge. That'll get you a nice snap to the chocolate, and keep the bulk of that goodness in your mouth and not melted onto the wrapper.) With the peanut butter shaped into a pumpkin, the chocolate is draped over, so there's a tiny bit of puddle here and there along the edges. That's fine though; as with their usual cups, Reese's blend of chocolate and peanut butter works best when there's a fine edge of chocolate to dig into. More would be overkill, but letting the salty peanut butter mix take the lead is what makes these treats work, no matter the shape.
At 90 calories apiece and two grams of saturated fat per, this is a candy you should enjoy in moderation. Or at least binge only on holidays. That'll be tough, as these are darn tasty. But I believe in you. Me? I believe I'll have another. What? It's near Halloween. I'm entitled.
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I couple of years ago, I fell for a guy on a dating site like Flirthut. Initially, they appeared to be out of bounds to me and out of my league but exchanging a few messages here and there revealed that we both had an interest in each other. It took some time before one of us plucked up the courage to ask the other one on a date, and it just so happened that it was me that made the first move.
A couple of years ago, I fell for a guy on a dating site like Flirthut. Initially, they appeared to be out of bounds to me and out of my league but exchanging a few messages here and there revealed that we both had an interest in each other. As the week past, our messages grew in length and frequency and it was clear that we both really liked each other. It took some time before one of us plucked up the courage to ask the other one on a date, and it just so happened that it was me that made the first move. We agreed a date and I was so excited. Through all our messaging, I had got to know so much about him and I had built up an image of what he'd be like with me in my mind. I'd log in to the dating site frequently just to have a look at their pictures and I'd fantasise about our future together, marriage, kids, home, everything. I was well and truly in love with him, or at least the thought of him.
On the day I was set to meet him, I couldn't rest. I was anxious, nervous and exciting. I spent most of the day sorting out my hair, shopping for clothes to wear and chatting with my girlie friends. As the time approached, my nerves grew stronger and stronger to the point where I almost cancelled. Fortunately, one of my friends calmed me down and I made it to the bar where I would meet him.I arrived pretty much on time and a wave of nerves hit me again as I walked through a bar full of strangers to try and see him. My first thoughts were that he'd bailed on me. I ordered a drink from the bar and sat down on one of the bar stools while I waited. At least ten minutes must have past when I spotted a man that looked similar to my online love sitting one of the tables nearby. He hadn't spotted me so I nervously made my way over to him. As I got closer, I started to realise that the guy looked much older than his profile pictures. My fantasy was already starting to collapse. As I introduced myself, he spoke over me with the most irritating voice I had ever heard. Something about his tone just didn't work with me. I wanted to cry. My expectations couldn't have been further from the truth. There was an instant disassociation with my feelings. Months of fantasy and endless hours online disappeared in flash. I was devastated. A gut wrenching feeling returned to my stomach, but this time is wasn't the same as before. I just wanted to throw up. After he'd introduced himself and I shook his clumsy hand, I made an excuse to head straight for the ladies toilets where I needed several minutes to catch my breath. When I returned, I sat down with him and went through our date but all the time knowing that I didn't want to ever see this man again. I never did.
Months after the event, I wondered what went so wrong so I did a bit of research for myself and thought I'd share my findings here for others to learn from.I discovered that I had built up a fantasy about a non-existent person in my head. What I had fallen for wasn't the guy but my interpretation of him. I knew nothing about him really even though we had chatted so much. The bulk of rapport building with someone comes through the physical traits and to do this, we need to be with that person. The person's voice is also key as much of what we communicate verbally is in the tone of our voice rather than the content. It just so happens that my date that day had a voice I associated with one of my ex's that was physically violent towards me and that triggered a whole host of negative feelings. Combined with my strong expectations, this was a recipe for disaster as I'd instantly programmed my brain to dislike him without even knowing it.
Looking back at the time, the guy I met in the bar wasn't actually all that bad. He didn't look as old as I thought and my judgement was impulsive. I think he actually would have been a really nice man.My advice for anyone dating online is to keep a strong detachment from the person you're chatting to and not to make any assumptions until you meet them. If at all possible, speak to them on the phone first. Get to hear their voice as its one fundamental piece in the puzzle. If the voice fits, then it should make everything else easier. Don't spend too much time chatting to them online. This only serves to build up an illusion filled with false expectations. Keep contact minimal until you meet face to face.I learned my lesson the hard way, but the next few times were much easier and I'm now in a relationship with someone I met online.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
One week ago, I felt like part of my running shoe was rubbing against the outside of my right foot. It didn't hurt, but it did feel awkward. I forgot about it completely until later that evening when I went down a flight of stairs in flip flops. The same part of my foot started to hurt.
The next day, I went out for a 10 mile run, including speedwork. I wore a different pair of running shoes (a pair that has more cushion and bounce) and I couldn't feel the twinge in my foot at all. I successfully completed the speedwork, and I averaged a 7:35 pace for 39 minutes. I was so excited about this because it was humid and in the upper 60's, which meant I would be even faster in better conditions. After the run, when I took my shoes off, I felt my foot walking around my house. It wasn't painful, but I definitely felt something as I was walking around. I called my physical therapist, who is typically booked up at least one week in advance, and she was able to get me in the next day-- Wednesday.
Meanwhile, I had been experiencing some tightness in my left medial calf, so I decided to get a sports massage on Tuesday night. This was the most painful massage I had ever experienced! She spent 20 minutes on just my calf and said there was a huge knot there. When I went to see my physical therapist the next morning, she was much more concerned with my calf than my foot. She said that there was some mild Peroneal Tendonitis, but that my calf was in bad shape. It was swollen and bruised from the massage and she said that it had probably been just a few days away from tearing. She told me not to run again until my calf felt better.
I took Wednesday and Thursday off as rest days and my calf felt better on Friday morning. Meanwhile, my foot was barely an issue. I decided to run six easy miles on the treadmill. At mile 3.5, I suddenly felt a pain on the outside of my foot. It was much worse than it had been last time. I kept running in the hopes that it would go away, but it didn't, so I stopped after five miles instead of the planned six. I limped my way off of the treadmill, and my foot has been hurting ever since.
I called my coach and she told me how to take care of it. She recommended ice massage, stretching, and foam rolling the Peroneal tendons. I even found a web site that showed me how to stabilize the ankle with taping to prevent lateral motion that would irritate the area. My coach said this was a minor setback--not an injury-- and she thought that I would be able to do my last long run (20 miles) the following weekend. She also thought I would be able to do some light running on Sunday, but given the fact that I was still limping, I didn't attempt to run.
So now it's Monday and it still hurts to walk on my foot. I've been swimming and using the elliptical machine (neither seem to irritate it) but that is no substitution for running. I just want to maintain what I have. At this point, I am not looking to gain more fitness. I just don't want the past 8 weeks of hard training to come undone. I can't predict when it will get better-- all I can do is keep resting my foot and taking care of it. I'll go back to my PT on Friday.
I cried a lot on Saturday. It hurt to walk on my foot, so every step was a reminder that I was injured. I couldn't put it out of my head. My boyfriend actually carried me a few blocks in D.C. on our way to dinner because it hurt with every step, and I could only walk slowly. Maybe it's not meant to be. Maybe I am not meant to qualify for Boston. I always come so close, and then something comes along at the last minute to ruin it. A year ago, I was in the home stretch for the Hartford marathon but I caught a virus and was sick for five weeks. I couldn't run a fall marathon so I attempted Arizona in January. There was an unexpected heat wave, so I bonked at mile 14-- not having been acclimated to the heat. Then, at the New Jersey marathon in April, I was on target for a sub-3:40 based on my recent half marathon. But it was cold and pouring rain, so I ended up in the medical tent with hypothermia. It never works for me, and it's always a matter of bad luck. I do everything in my power to train smart but the "stars" haven't aligned for me. I have been working toward this BQ goal for over a year, and something always gets in my way.
My boyfriend Greg says that if there weren't obstacles then it wouldn't be worth attaining. That's what makes it all the sweeter-- having to overcome obstacles and fight for it. I agree with this but I also feel like I have faced more than my fair share of obstacles. And I see so many people train for one season, run the marathon and get the time they deserve. Heck, I used to do that. My first six marathons were all PRs. And then the injury/illness/weather demons started to show their faces at every marathon.
As of now, I don't really have a "plan of action". I just have to wait. And wait. And wait. I have no idea when my foot will feel better, but I am not going to run on it until I can walk on it. And even then, it will be very easy running. My patellar tendonitis that I had in the spring of 2008 took three months to completely recover from. My biggest fear is that I will have to wait three months to resume normal training, and I will have lost everything I have worked so hard for.
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I too have been dealing with a bit on an injury. Smart to take the time now. I have a very tight calf and roll on a baseball instead of a foam roller.ReplyDelete
And LOOSE THE FLIPFLOPS. For good. They cause SO MUCH TROUBLE for feet and legs.
Thanks, Audra. I am sorry to hear you are dealing with an injury too. :-(ReplyDelete
My coach said the exact same thing about the flip flops. I stopped wearing them after that first night with the pain.
Thanks for the tip about the baseball-- I assume a tennis ball might acccomplish the same thing?
I was using a tennis ball, but my PT told me to use a baseball since it's harderReplyDelete
(((HUGS))) I'm so sorry that you are injured. Your BF is right about having to cross obstacles to make accomplishments sweeter. Please, please don't give up on that BQ goal. Lots of people work for lots of years to achieve certain times. You aren't done yet!!ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear of this development. Hang in there. Get healthy (hopefully sooner rather than later) and come up with the plan after you can run without hurting. I know it sucks now, but it will be that much more rewarding when things come together. Yes, I said when, not if. They will come together, it just may not be as soon as you hoped. Good luck!ReplyDelete
I am late in getting to people's blogs--still switching over from my old account. Anywho!ReplyDelete
I just wanted to say that I know exactly how you feel. I had similar struggles in trying to break 4 hours (in fact, you were one of my inspirations on RWOL for making that goal!). I had the same exact thoughts on my second or third try (maybe it was fourth!?)--maybe I'm just not cut out for marathons, maybe this is just not meant to be, etc. Gotta love marathons, right? We've certainly picked a frustrating pastime.
Hope you doing good today. Your bf sounds like a great guy. :)
Hey everyone. Thanks for your comments. As it turns out, this injury is actually a stress reaction-- the precursor to a stress fracture. I have not run since Friday. I have a PT appointment tomorrow and she will hopefully allow me to run 2-3 easy miles on a track this weekend. I'm trying to maintain my fitness with the elliptical, but that puts a strain on an old knee injury, so my elliptical time is limited.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Oh Elizabeth, my heart goes out to you. I cannot imagine what you are feeling right now. You deserve this more then anyone I know. You work harder at running then anyone I know. I know I can't say anything to make you feel better but I AM thinking of you. Lots of love. RandiReplyDelete
Sorry Elizabeth :) I will pray for a quick recovery.ReplyDelete
How's the foot feeling these days? I hope you're bouncing back and still plan to go after that BQ-you WILL get there.ReplyDelete
A bunch of things here... This injury where you felt it then it disappeared for a run or two and then came back reminds me of 2013 for me. Given all us runners have super tight hamstrings. I had incorporated doing a full mile backwards every here and there and I felt a twinge and while I felt got an "official" diagnosis, I sprained a metatarsal, but it calmed down for a day and allowed me to run the Woodbridge, NJ 10K with no issues where I finished 2nd overall. Then my next run two days later, boom it was back but more of an annoyance that made me drop 25 seconds mile than this awful pain. But the time I ran after that, HELL. Took 5 weeks off and then wanted to save my Philadelphia marathon and after two runs, pes anserine bursitis in my knee and I had to drop out. But look at how you've bounced back 9 1/4 years later?? And me? Well I did too because I ran my personal best marathon just after that injury so that didn't end me, it was the next injury that did (even though you still want me to believe.) The other thing I find interesting is you had 6 straight PR's running marathons as you say and then you began thinking Boston qualify and then all these issue come up. I'm sure I'll get to this and I'm sure it's in the book I'm about to receive as well. Glad I've gotten back to this awesome blog as well!! Oh and the piano, you should come visit here someday with Greg, there's a vintage 1911 piano here with a humidifier, etc. I don't play, the Greg here doesn't play, my niece just bangs on all the keys when she's visiting but I'd bet money she'd be fascinated to see someone who knew what they were doing on the piano. I had to throw that out there. Of course at the time of this blog entry, she wasn't even close to being an embryo yet.ReplyDelete


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