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EDIT: SOLVED
Some teachers from some schools perhaps like the Taubman use the term "Stretches" to mean something different than what my understanding was (and what I'd think the common understanding is)— they say "Stretching" to mean extending out the fingers and keeping the hand in an extended out position, which I am also totally against. For myself, I'll probably still describe that as "Extending" or "Over Extending" and still use the word Stretches or pivot to flexibility to describe Stretches the way the rest of us understand them as

The OP:

What makes stretching uniquely bad for the piano?

I'm not talking about people who have injuries that make a specific stretch dangerous— and besides that would not be unique to piano but would be true for every part of their life. And I'm not talking about doing extreme stretches like in yoga or doing those unprepared and untrained.

I ask my students about previous injuries and advice their doctors and physical therapists have told them so I know what is and isn't safe to stretch (and for general education). And I tell them to listen to their bodies and doctors and to let me know what they're experiencing.

But in general, people have to stretch before they exercise. You do it when you wake up. We see animals stretch all the time. It's generally understood (apparently outside the piano world) that stretching is healthy when done mindfully.

Whatever you have against stretching, it would seem to me that you'd have to be against stretching itself because if stretching is okay for anything else in life, it should be fine before or after practice. At worst, it shouldn't have any affect (again precluding injuries)

And there are big downsides to not stretching and to losing flexibility in general in life.

So, what am I missing? Do you suggest stretching for everything else except the piano? Or are there other things in life/other professions where you are recommended to never stretch and I'm unaware of it? Do you have a time frame for how long you shouldn't stretch before or after practice? Do you stretch everything except arms/wrists/fingers? I am curious and confounded

Asking because I'm getting downvoted in my stretching post and I've seen this almost superstitious attitude towards stretching that I've only ever heard of this year. So I'm kinda shocked to hear people not recommend stretching for the first time in my life.

No I don't want to be an apprentice first so don't say that. I can't even afford it

I looted my first orb alright its a goblin skull. Or kneebone

Any help??

When the episode aired, William from Springfield Missouri was 4 and he made a great painting! I wonder if he continued to paint and what his paintings looked like as he got older.

Anyone got any information?

This creature was made for a fantasy ttrpg. So not earth but earth like.

The Pamaw

A very fluffy, wintry white bat. During raging, howling winds it will dig its feet, hang upside-down and spread its wings. The inside of these wings is covered in a very slimy substance that will collect debris and bugs caught in the storm. Once they've collected enough, they will fold their wings back in and eat with their head burrowed. On the backside, their fur wings are fairly sturdy and endure much more than the wings of their cousins, and they provide extra heat during the harsh cold weather.

It holds on very easily because it has an extremely strong grip, owed to the musculature of its feet and flexibility of its tendons. Like its cousins, it takes no effort to grip but instead they must intentionally open up their claws.

It is primarily a scavenger-forager and is often found hunting on the ground.

It cannot fly but it is a skilled climber. It can also coat its nails, which are slightly different, in that sticky substance to prevent sliding off when climbing ice sheets or glacial walls.

There are reports of it gliding down but there are no recordings of this. It is the largest extant bat.

Like some of its cousins, it is blind. Its ears are smaller and there several chambers and "clasps" around and inside its ear system. This prevents its hearing capabilities from being blown out during blizzards and allows it isolate and manipulate sounds

It's truly remarkable evolutionary point is its point of divergence in the abilities of smell. The pamaw has a few new receptors in its nose that "smell" heat. According to folklore, it can predict bad storms.

In nearby cultures it is often a symbol of endurance and patience. There are winter solstice customs that celebrate the Pamaw.

There is a worker owned, freeze distillation "brewing" company whose logo is the Pamaw

Is this sufficiently hard spec? Not necessarily for earth as I designed this for a fantasy ttrpg

Pamaw

A very fluffy, wintry white bat. During raging, howling winds it will dig its feet, hang upside-down and spread its wings. The inside of these wings is covered in a very slimy substance that will collect debris and bugs caught in the storm. Once they've collected enough, they will fold their wings back in and eat with their head burrowed. On the backside, their fur wings are fairly sturdy and endure much more than the wings of their cousins, and they provide extra heat during the harsh cold weather.

It holds on very easily because it has an extremely strong grip, owed to the musculature of its feet and flexibility of its tendons. Like its cousins, it takes no effort to grip but instead they must intentionally open up their claws.

It is primarily a scavenger-forager and is often found hunting on the ground.

It cannot fly but it is a skilled climber. It can also coat its nails, which are slightly different, in that sticky substance to prevent sliding off when climbing ice sheets or glacial walls.

There are reports of it gliding down but there are no recordings of this. It is the largest extant bat.

Like some of its cousins, it is blind. Its ears are smaller and there several chambers and "clasps" around and inside its ear system. This prevents its hearing capabilities from being blown out during blizzards and allows it isolate and manipulate sounds

It's truly remarkable evolutionary point is its point of divergence in the abilities of smell. The pamaw has a few new receptors in its nose that "smell" heat. According to folklore, it can predict bad storms.

In nearby cultures it is often a symbol of endurance and patience. There are winter solstice customs that celebrate the Pamaw.

There is a worker owned, freeze distillation "brewing" company whose logo is the Pamaw

I'm thinking like the Avalanche by Stephen Heller, Dangerous Adventure by Gurlitt, Arabesque by Burgmuller or the Fly's Adventure by Faber.

What are pieces that are rewarding for the students that like faster pieces but aren't that involved on a technical level?

I swear there used to be a video (between 2008 and ~2015) by Leonid Brumberg and his other worldly interpretation of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz 2. I never heard a piano sound like that before when he gets to the main theme. He also Improvised parts for it. It was very inspirational and I'm looking for it to show students.

For the younger folks, YouTube was a wondrous place where you could find most anything. Even whole TV shows for free. It was a wild world that hardly obeyed copyright laws. There was tons of free full sheet music. No ads crashing into your life like intrusive thoughts. The internet was a cooler place that wasn't all owned by right wing billionaires. Anyway...

For the "older" folks, do any of you know what I'm talking about or have seen the video (or well, heard the audio)? I wonder if I'm misremembering the performer but I'm 98% certain it was Leonid Brumberg. But if you all could remember who made the channels with classical deep cuts so I can do my own digging, that would help too. I think one was called Ferenc or something.

And what does it look like??

I heard on the StarTalk podcast by Neil deGrasse Tyson that Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling was observed. This is quantum tunneling happening on the scale of centimeters and should then be observable to the human eye. The guest was John Martinis who worked with the other scientists Michel Devoret and John Clarke to produce this result.

They won a Nobel Prize for it.

But no one took a video of it happening, or asked to see it? Is it not that Macroscopic?

I want to mod this corp civic mostly to change the names of branch offices and maybe add other effects, like increasing worker power or ethics attraction etc in the regular empire. Something about private mercenary companies being installed by socialist markets never sits right with me...

So I have a few questions:

1. Is anyone else interested in such a mod? As in should I eventually make it public?

2. Does anyone have advice they'd like to share about modding mega corps specifically as opposed to regular corps?

3. I'm basically a brand new baby to modding Stellaris. I do already have somethings like the Thomas Boby's extensions and I'm using Visual Studio Code. Does anyone have any other recommendations for stuff I'd need to make my modding experience easier?

4. Please tell me all I'd have to do is just copy and paste code and make a separate section for worker co-ops like there is for crime syndicates and that all I'd have to do is change the name string and effects... something tells me this is more complicated than that.

Has anyone noticed a trend where themes for TV shows and even movies lack strong melodic contours? It tends to be a lot of string section descending arpeggios— stuff that I think would normally be accompaniment rather than serve as the actual melody.

Many themes today, with notable exceptions and fun experiments, don't seem to have a melody that pops out as "this is definitely the main melody and not just another part of the soundtrack".

Now, I'm not at all insinuating that these composers can't write. So if they can write strong memorable themes, *why* aren't they? Is it the producers that are asking for atmosphere rather than themes for personal preference? I've heard about skipping the intro, but I'm not sure why that means you can't have strong themes and making it atmospheric would be more reason to skip it anyway because it doesn't stand out.

It's not their fault if their parents get them there late or if the busses don't run on time.

It just reads more as "well we can't do anything to the parents so we might as well direct it at their kids who can't control anything". What is that teaching the kids and are we sure the kids are learning whatever lesson that's supposed to be?

And yes I know it can still be the kid's fault for not getting ready in time etc. But the school can't know that and shouldn't assume it because there are still other legit reasons to be late.

And I know being late can be disruptive. Still doesn't mean it's the kid's fault.

And this isn't about high schoolers/kids that can drive themselves.