Can't speak to migraines specifically, but I think that external elements do affect our bodies. A friend with rheumatoid arthritis was as good or better than a weather forecaster when it came to predicting weather changes. Her joints would swell like crazy as the barometric pressure dropped in advance of rain/snow. And I notice changes in my own constitution depending upon what's happening in terms of the seasons. We are creatures of the earth.
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This month's piano recording@ShiroKuro Try a tiny test spot first and see what happens. With the binoculars, they cost us nothing and were so bad that they were basically unusable, so we figured "what the heck". Your Zoom H is probably more valuable.
Be sure to use as lint-free a cloth as possible.
edit: There seem to be a bunch of YT videos you can check out to get a preview of what happens.
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This month's piano recordingWe rescued a pair of binoculars from the house of a friend who was moving to assisted living. They had the sticky rubber problem. We checked around and decided to try cleaning the rubber with a well-worn microfiber cloth soaked with rubbing alcohol. Took the stickies right off. We gave away the binoculars, so I don't know if the fix was lasting, or if the rubber just got sticky again.
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Virtual stagingIt's from the MLS listing.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Arlington-Heights_IL_60004_M85643-31642
There's also a factual error in the listing. The house is in Wheeling Township, not Elk Grove Township.
Sloppy work by the agent.
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One never knows the impact an act of kindness might haveRipple effects.
MacKenzie Scott:
“Whose generosity did I think of every time I made every one of the thousands of gifts I’ve been able to give?
“It was the local dentist who offered me free dental work when he saw me securing a broken tooth with denture glue in college. It was the college roommate who found me crying, and acted on her urge to loan me a thousand dollars to keep me from having to drop out in my sophomore year.”
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Virtual stagingThe "blinds" on the left make it look like it's a wall rather than windows, even to the point of hanging a picture on one of the "blinds". Plus from the exterior photos of the room, and the description of "screened porch" on the floor plan, I think that room only has screens and no storm windows.
And while one could put a TV in front of the door that goes out to the yard, why would one?
@Rontuner said in Virtual staging:
except for the floor
The virtual staging shows a hardwood floor. I would be pretty surprised if that's what is under there.
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Has Marjorie Taylor Greene ...She may have some company sightseeing in Damascus...
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie said Sunday there could be "a deluge of Republicans" who vote in favor of forcing the Department of Justice to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files.
"There could be 100 or more. I'm hoping to get a veto-proof majority on this legislation when it comes up for a vote," Massie told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. Massie was one of four Republicans who defied President Donald Trump and joined Democrats in signing the discharge petition which forced the vote this week.
The vote comes after the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents, including email and text messages from Epstein, many of which mention Trump. The president has responded by calling the files a "hoax" and he pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi to open an investigation into several prominent Democrats over their connections to Epstein.
"I have another concern about these investigations that he's announced. If they have ongoing investigations in certain areas, those documents can't be released. So this might be a big smokescreen, these investigations to open a bunch of them to--as a last ditch effort to prevent the release of the Epstein files," Massie said.
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What are you reading?Am adding this to my list of books to read. Watched an interview with the author on Fareed Zakaria GPS this morning.
Nicholas Thompson, 49, isn’t wanting for accomplishments—personal nor professional. The CEO of The Atlantic ran a 2:29 marathon at 44 years old, shattering his years-long plateau of 2:43s. Thompson is a former editor for The New Yorker, where he covered the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and the former editor-in-chief for Wired, for which he wrote about trying out the recently launched Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% super shoes.
Thompson holds the American record in the 50K for the 45-49 age group (3:04:36), which he ran a few minutes behind his friend, Des Linden, who set the world record in 2:59:54.
The father of three prides himself on a close relationship with his wife and his sons, always prioritizing them, but still finding a way to be on top of his work and running games. For example, Thompson, who lives in Brooklyn, never rides the subway to his lower Manhattan office. He runs to and from work, logging eight miles while listening to podcasts and audiobooks. He tries to be as efficient as possible, which is, perhaps, how he managed to write his second book: The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports (October 2025).
https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a65058548/nicholas-thompson-the-running-ground/
Fareed made the observation that you don't have to be a runner to find value in the book, but I imagine it would be of special interest to runners.
@kluurs - have you read it?
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The Chicago kidnappings have begunSome street vendors say they are barely making enough to survive, due to the widespread immigration crackdown in the Chicago area.
Community members are stepping in and finding creative ways to help them.
"We try to get out at 6-7 a.m., get into the neighborhoods, buy all the products they have so that they can leave and go home and be safe with their family for the rest of the day," said Rick Rosales, a community organizer with CyclingxSolidarity.
They are being called "buyouts."
Groups of cyclists are riding through neighborhoods across Chicago, and purchasing everything street vendors have, from tamales to elotes.
The movement is meant to support street vendors, as many fear being detained, during "Operation Midway Blitz."
Good riddance. ICE has moved to Charlotte.
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"Ghost tapping"Norton and AARP weigh in.
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BiocomputersThe computers that run on human brain cells
Move over silicon: scientists want to use neurons to make powerful computers with minuscule energy needs.
Welcome to the world of wetware, or biocomputers. In a handful of academic laboratories and companies, researchers are growing human neurons and trying to turn them into functional systems equivalent to biological transistors. These networks of neurons, they argue, could one day offer the power of a supercomputer without the outsized power consumption.
The results so far are limited.
From Nature:
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Pete’s takeDemocrats “defined everything by identity,” Pete Buttigieg says in critique of his party
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/texas-tribune-festival-pete-buttigieg-2/
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Frankie the flamingoEscaped from a sanctuary in Cornwall. Ended up in France
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An unusual beerI finally got to drink Sam Adams’ $240, 30% ABV beer. Here’s what it’s like
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GOP plan in Utah backfiresThen there is Indiana.
The Republican leader of the Indiana Senate said the chamber would not meet to redraw the state's congressional map, rejecting pressure from President Donald Trump and the state's governor.
“Today I’m announcing there are not enough votes to move that idea forward, and the Senate will not reconvene in December,” Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray said in a statement.
The White House has repeatedly pushed Indiana, where Republicans control seven of nine congressional seats, to join the national mid-decade redistricting push to shore up the party's narrow House majority in next year's midterm elections. Vice President JD Vance visited the state twice to press lawmakers, while Trump called legislators recently.
Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Braun called a special legislative session last month to try to force the issue. State lawmakers had initially said that to save money, they wouldn’t meet until a regularly scheduled session in December, before pulling the plug on it Friday afternoon.
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GOP plan in Utah backfiresOopsies.
A Utah judge on Monday rejected a new congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers, adopting an alternate proposal creating a Democrat-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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This old dog learned some new tricksMy friend who knitted these sweaters was wicked smart and a doggedly determined person, both in knitting and in life. I have never done this kind of knitting but from what little I know of how it's done I do think it can be quite challenging. @Bernard or @AdagioM probably have a better idea of the difficulty factor from the viewpoint of experienced knitters.
A few more pics:
My friend not only knit, but also did her own designs. Here's an example of the evolution of one design. This one started with choosing the colors for this tam:
Which morphed into a design for this sweater:
And into some other color palettes:
For me, at least, eyes crossed....
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Ken BurnsNew documentary on the American Revolution.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5606359/ken-burns-american-revolution-review
