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  • Is Clair de Lune too hard for me?

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    Yes. I'd be surprised if the linked music and the Henle have many differences in fingering. There's usually an accepted best way for fingers. (e.g. no matter how big your left hand, arpeggios will need a certain finger next over your thumb in preparation for the continued run. Although the lowest note may be played with 5 or 4 if hands are big and it helps flow. And in the right hand for thirds, where all hand sizes will find a run easiest with the same fingering depending on how black notes fall, and what's to be played next)
  • Fare thee well, Dolly

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    She was already legendary in the early ’70’s; she was a great entertainer; she was humble; and, she meant a lot to the people who identified with her, for all kinds of reasons. Rest in peace.
  • Who's baking?

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    Also, Italian plums/prunes are ripe here, and they’re perfect in plum torte. [image: 1787703006044-05f54ea9-19cf-46a5-953a-b4e23e669309-resized.jpeg] Recipe here It’s a mashup of recipes, and benefits from cornmeal being subbed for part of the flour.
  • Football Brain (American)

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    A traumatic brain injury can result in the skull hitting or being hit with less than 10 mph or force moving against a stationary object. At least that's what the advocacy group told us after my then 16 year old brother's skull hit the stationary A pillar of a crashed truck at 40 mph with no seatbelt. Anyone who thinks some football players aren't being severely damaged is an idiot.
  • Word association thread

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  • Laughter is the best medicine

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  • Beyond the antivaxx stuff, MAHA is either banal or fake

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    https://www.inquirer.com/health/measles-deaths-lancaster-county-pennsylvania-20260825.html Pennsylvania reported two measles-related deaths on Tuesday, the first fatalities from the highly contagious disease in the state in 35 years and the only deaths involving the highly contagious disease confirmed nationally so far this year. The deaths occurred in Lancaster County, the center of a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year, state officials said. Both people were unvaccinated.
  • The principal

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    I know Rob Burnside personally. He was the principal at the high school my daughter taught at before he was at Lakota East. A great guy.
  • Ticks

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    We have lots of ticks in my neck of the woods and our public health offers identification for free if you send the ticks to them. We have a conservation area beside my old school so I would take my students there for walks and we would often come back and find ticks on the kiddos. Always dog ticks, thankfully. There are deer ticks in our area (which carry Lyme) but mostly in wilderness areas so I don’t stumble into them.
  • Scandinavia, The Baltics, and Iceland - traveller insight?

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    Lucky you guys! I haven't been and if I did go I would make a pilgrimage to the Place Vendôme. Napoleon's architecture is great. I'd like to see it The main reason I'd like to visit is because of the jewelers who immigrated here from other countries in the late 19th century. It was then and is still today home to many great house's retail spaces and workshops on the upper floors. Place Vendôme - Wikipedia https://share.google/ob1OjxHGN6lh7MlFN
  • Another day, another dinghy

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    So word is Harry is in trouble with the Feds because he told material lie(s) in his immigration paperwork. My source is LadyC (pen name obviously), who divorced a peer, The Duke of Argyll https://share.google/SJ0k4DAiCBaSkqnHg She's one of the most reliable sources I know. The only one I'd put in the same category is Tom Bower the investigative journalist. She shares what she knows within legal constraints; she's entertaining; and her analytical skill is a joy to witness. Harry, as I've long predicted he would be, is in a bad way.
  • Bagshot Park

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    He needed this too... Dumfries House - Dumfries House https://share.google/y1JUQgQyFMEXFR1qh 9th generation marquess sold his family's house with Chippendale furniture in situ. How could Charles resist? He and Camilla (hers really because I watched her say it) have a narrative that it was a dilapidated property (it wasn't) and it needed to be saved (it didn't), and finally, it was bought by a charity for charitable purposes (do I need to comment). He has scrubbed the place clean and it is an exquisite house.
  • Mildly Interesting - People

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    @AndyD said: Good for them. But McDonald's sucks. Plasticky food in inadequate buns with salty fries. Vanilla milkshakes being the exception, slurp slurp. I had my first taste of their food(I use the word loosely) in my late 20's and it has always been my least liked takeaway. I usually try their 'special' burgers... so Thursday evening having been out, we roll into the drivethru, to be told the heatwave means their shake machine ain't working(?) so I get a Big Arch. Arrives looking a pale shadow of the photo and after a couple of bites turns to mushy cheesy bits ensuring my shirt, trousers and car all need a wash. I just wanted a cold vanilla milkshake. Thankfully MrsA usually prefers KFC. We get a boneless bucket, and I repeat my joke about the bucket coming in useful if the food makes us feel icky. We don't go often. So many better options on which to spend your £20. Burger King 100% agree about McDonald's. Correlation does not imply causation.
  • House for sale

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    I no longer want to live in a large city, not even New York or Chicago. Neither could I afford it. Town and Country as a concept was strongly imprinted on us in the NY, Tri-State metropolis So someone with $$ would of course have a city apartment and a county estate. Well, the estate was as always a house, gardens, and land, of course. This, scaled down, is the kind of house I'd have in a perfect world. I like apartment buildings (and tower houses even better even though don't have them.) However, there are the age, aging, aging in place, and dying (excuse me) factors, as well resource to consider. Hawaii was remote. I couldn't live there again. Why? Access to modern (in a neutral sense) health care. At this age, for me, living in some rural paradise is is not an option. Yes, I like having everything I need close enough, and couldn't live any other way. It's fun to dream, though.
  • Happy Birthday, Ron Tuner!!!

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  • 'Green Boots'

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  • A villa on Lake Como... Gorgeous place

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    @jon-nyc Beautiful!
  • AI wins and fails

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  • Ugly Houses

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    The folly immediately reminded me of 15th century Peel Towers built along our Scottish border areas. The house, a behemoth.