Our virtual journey through Tuscany is coming to an end! Join Giulia and Paolo in the tenth and final episode of this series of the Coffee Break Italian Travel Diaries as they round off their trip by the sea in the beautiful coastal town of Piombino. Listen to the episode to hear what they get up to and look out for some interesting vocabulary as well as a discussion about the structure da passare and an example of the pronoun ci.
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The next day, Jessica is going on about Club X again. Lila thinks it's cool she wants to join. Liz, predictably, thinks it's a bad idea. Beat it, Liz, no one cares. Jessica gets a note in her locker from Club X, asking her to go to some abandoned warehouse late at night, and Jess is all excited-like. She's looking forward to getting up to some Club X shenanigans. I don't think I need to point out that Jessica has never needed an excuse before to be an insane schemer, as this is pretty much common knowledge. But good on J. Wakefield for standing up in the name of feminism, I say. It's a refreshing break from most episodes, where she actively shits all over everything it's about while simultaneously setting the cause back sixty years. Of course, she probably still hates fatties and uggos. (That kind of drastic personality change only ever happens following coma-inducing motorcycle accidents.)
Oh, in case you're wondering who the other members of Club X are, it's pretty much Manny and a bunch of extras. And a token black guy, who doesn't get to talk, because we already have one token black person in Sweet Valley with a speaking role. (And she's kind-of shit.) Wait, hold on...that token black guy is Karl from the Halloween episode! Which means that not only does Sweet Valley have more than one black kid, we just got hit by some spectacular sneak-attack continuity! I am so very impressed right now, I can't even tell you.
At the Moon Beach, Whizzer Wilkins blows Winston and Liz off again. Jeez, Todd, I think I liked it better when you were just psychotic. Wanker Todd is a world of annoying. I'm actually siding with Liz and Winston on this one, and that doesn't make me happy at all. Winston wishes there was something they could do to deflate Todd's ego a little bit. Then Liz remember that they haven't Hatched A Plan in this episode yet, and she gets her idea eyes. Or maybe they're her bedroom eyes; I can't tell.
By the next day, Bruce has done an attitude 180 on the jumping-out-of-a-plane thing. He now thinks it's gonna be all-time, that he'll be legendary. He thanks Jessica for the opportunity, because he so knows that she messed around with his magnet thingie. There's no foolin' the Patman. Then he awesomely says to the gang, "To my plane!" which is just about the coolest thing I've ever heard anyone say in this show. That is exactly something Bruce Patman would say! He sounds like a superhero. (Batman, perhaps? Maybe that was a Freudian slip from Karl before. Just putting it out there.) Jessica says she'll catch up to them, but first she wants to call and confirm that his flight's ready to go. Bruce actually believes her. Really, Bruce? After I just said there's no foolin' you? You're making an idiot of both of us now. Jessica goes over to a payphone (snigger) and calls the flight company to change the co-ordinates of Bruce's dive. It's Scheming Jessica, back with a vengeance! This episode rocks the party.
Not surprisingly, Todd gets owned. It's hillarious. After the game, Kurt Rambis (aka The Destroyer) tells Todd that he's actually pretty good, and not to give up on his hoop dreams. Um, no, dude. The plan was to humiliate Todd, not give him a boost. You win four world championships but you can't keep up with the plot of an SVH episode? Fail, Rambis. Todd goes over to Winston and Liz, handing over the prizemoney and tucking in to his slice of humble pie. Yeah, eat it, Todd! On all fours, like the dog you are! Liz hands the cash back and says, "It was never about the money." It was about showing Todd what a bad friend he was being. Okay, while I do understand the gist of the plan (I'm not Kurt Rambis, after all), I don't get how it showed Todd what a bad friend he was being. It'd be more accurate to say that it showed Todd what bad friends Liz and Winston are. They just orchestrated his public humiliation at the hands of Kurt Rambis! The guy absolutely wiped the floor with Todd's scawny ass, and they set that up all because he forgot to drive them somewhere? Drive yourselves, fools! I'm definitely back off the Liz bandwagon. Which makes what's coming up even sweeter -- Todd tells Liz that the only reason he started playing these street games was to earn enough money to take her on a rafting trip. Instead of saying, "Oh Todd, that would've been nice but too bad I'm such a heinous scheming monster who'll die alone" (too harsh?) she just says the "that would've been nice part". Todd says he's going give the money he earned to charity and then he's going to get a part-time job instead of, uh, hustling people. Then they make out. It's a bit gross.
Suddenly, Bruce notices that he can't see the football field. Ruh-roh! He lands in Chrome Dome Cooper's convertible, just as Chrome Dome is getting out. Um, what? I love that Jessica managed to give the pilot the exact co-ordinates to make Bruce fall into the backseat of a car that could've been parked anywhere for all she knew. Gee, that's luck. But since Todd just finished playing one-on-one with Kurt bloody Rambis, I'm not going to start pointing out how fabulously ludicrous this entire episode is. I'll just say this, though -- where exactly is Sweet Valley High's football field located if Bruce couldn't even see it two minutes before landing just out the front of the school? Chrome Dome sees the Club X Rules banner, and tells Bruce that he's in big trouble. Freeze-frame and roll credits on Bruce looking disappointed. Oh, Bruce. Foiled again! This would never have happened to Batman.
Man, this episode was great. Couldn't tell you why, though. We've had contrived plots, lack of Lila, Bruceshorts out the wazoo...yet at the end of the twenty-two minutes, I didn't feel like topping myself. (Which is my usual SVH TV reaction.) And then of course there's the moral of the story, kids, which is that if you wear butt-fugly shorts to school, it's going to end with you parachuting into your principal's car and getting shitloads of detention. And also, don't treat your friends like dirt, because I guarantee you that at least one of them knows Kurt Rambis and will convince him to publicly humiliate you. God, I love Sweet Valley.
The series follows a group of students at Galileo Galilei Middle School in the fictional island towns of Marina Piccola (season 1) and Marina Grande (season 2). Throughout the series, the students navigate adolescence, crushes, rivalries, and friendships. Each episode centers on a different character who becomes the narrator and frequently breaks the fourth wall.
The show centers around a boy called Pietro (Italian model and actor Andrea Arru), his friends, Daniele, Giulio, Livia, Monica, and Arianna, and the drama that surrounds their home and school life. Love triangles, bullies, LGBTQ2+ relations (and struggles), and the threat of their beloved school closing permanently, basically covers the series' inaugural 15-episode season.
What we have available for your consumption are from the first 15 episodes that originally premiered May 18, 2022 on Netflix Italy. So, let's get more insight about the show and relive some of your favourite moments.
Background: Patients with atrial high-rate episodes (AHREs) are at higher risk of thromboembolic events and mortality. The risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in these patients is unknown.
In the present observational study, cardiovascular history was assessed for 2,682 patients diagnosed with BPPV, both initial episodes and recurrences, who had referred to 158 Italian vestibology out-patient clinics from January 2013 to December 2014. Most patients were over 40 years old (88.6%), with a prevalence of women (60.9%) and a BPPV recurrence rate of 52.5%, in line with data reported in literature 13. With regards to the prevalence of recurrent BPPV, only the Ogun et al. survey conducted in the United States has until now registered a higher frequency (76.3%), but this, as reported by the authors, may be due to the survey procedures used which favoured selection of patients with recurrent BPPV 6.
Analysis of correlations also suggests that cardiovascular risk factors expose the BPPV subject to a risk of relapse with OR values that sometimes are higher than 2. Specifically, the presence of arterial hypertension, dyslipidaemia and established cardiovascular comorbidities (OR range between 1.84 and 2.31) would seem to be significantly related to episodes of recurrent BPPV, and association with diabetes and thyroid/autoimmune disease (OR range between 1.42 and 1.89) would seem to be relevant.
Finally, it is interesting to note that in our sample more than 80% of patients reported hearing loss or tinnitus prior to the episode of BPPV. At the same time, it should also be underlined the fact that patients with hearing loss were significantly older. For these reasons, and given the importance of the issue, to evaluate the possible correlation between hearing loss and BPPV it would be necessary in the future perform a specific study, which evaluates in detail the various characteristics of the hearing loss in BPPV for classes of age and comparing such data with an adequate sample of subjects not suffering from BPPV.
TB is a vegetarian and the boys talk about school lunches and what menu options are available for vegetarians. At the end of the episode we play a quick game thanks to an Instacart quiz on fun food trivia.
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