WTF-Beta

Dear citizens, Use the money to go to the dentist. Or start stocking your pantry for the apocalypse. Or donate your money to charity. Or, pile $500 cash in the middle of the street, light it on the fire, and roast marshmallows.

Now I know it's "biggest". My guess is it will probably be demolished, at least if "city planners" need some kind of road or development.

Interesting. QEII had them. Assume she could have had any breed. That's a recommendation. Not a dog person. Wouldn't know where to begin.

Also, Italian plums/prunes are ripe here, and they’re perfect in plum torte. [image: 05F54EA9-19CF-46A5-953A-B4E23E669309.jpeg] Recipe here It’s a mashup of recipes, and benefits from cornmeal being subbed for part of the flour.

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.

Tenacity.

It’s a bit misleading of a story. They’re not systematically buying up rare books, they’re systematically buying up all books. Rare is just small subset. I agree it’s politically tone deaf all the same.

They left out "full". These big online stores are very manipulative. Both choosing the product and making the order seem meant to corral the consumer into making rushed decisions. Buyer beware! My blanket is 300 GSM in trailer park green. J/k

I can't think that Eleanor had anything but good intention in her support of the UN but what a mess.

Please post pictures. I just researched the Sagrada Família in some detail a few weeks ago. Fascinating.

I saw that! Grotriman was talking about having a party in July but that never materialized. Maybe I can nudge him or threaten to hold one myself… I’d love to see him again. It’s been ages.

I see dead people.

I never heard of a person being fined almost $2 million and doubt anyone else has either. I think I could try to say something else about this but what do you do with something so random and absurd? It's good to know it happened though because now we know it will probably happen again. WTF

Well, they were a communist country for the better part of a century. I will make a note to unpack my smallest violin to play for the oligarchs whose assets are seized. I know the subtext is- "Putin bad!" 10 years of Trump the Ubiquitous and- "Putin bad!" have made a long 10 years. I know this is a legitimate news story but Russia didn't practice "capitalism," either before the break up of the USSR, or after.

Some people are beyond stupid and ignorant. Big Al

@Bernard I hope everything works out! Private (one-on-one) lessons can be quite expensive, so I can get why you might prefer the group lessons. Also, the group lessons sound like they have an interesting and compelling dynamic, I would be interested in that if we had something like that here. At the uni music program, the only group lessons they offer for non-majors are for very beginning level pianists. I think there's something called a studio class which is a group class and students play for each other (and the teacher of course). It kind of sounds like a semester-long masterclass. But you have to be a music major (or music grad student) to enroll.

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.

@jon-nyc

"Influencers" has many meanings. What exactly does it mean in this case? I don't know. I don't get my health knowledge from "social media". "Social media" can be distracting, but no more than a "smart" phone. YMMV

Tariffs are a tax. They say if you write it on a chalkboard 100x it gets easier to remember.