In addition to all the good answers previously given, a conductor interprets what the composer has written. And different conductors may create very different interpretations of the same piece. They can set the basic tempo faster or slower, they can get the orchestra to really lean in to a particular musical phrase or de-emphasise it, they can bring out the horns at one point or hush them a bit and let us focus on the oboe or piccolo… A good conductor has studied and notated the entire score for some time before they and the orchestra even begin to rehearse.

So, part of that bow at the end can be to say, “what do you think of this interpretation compared to all the other times you’ve heard this famous symphony?” Then they usually turn around and wave the orchestra members to stand, which means, “and didn’t these guys do a great job executing it!?”

Checking my location is a less distracting way for my husband to know if I’m safely on my way home than texting or calling me while I’m driving. She might have thought his phone had been stolen because he hadn’t planned on getting wings.

Someone had to stay with the kids

Honestly I wouldn’t know, I live in Los Angeles and am just going off things I’ve seen in the past about ice fishing shacks in like Minnesota and Canada. Meanwhile I’ve got flowers blooming in my garden on plants that have had enough water for the first time in their lives.

It’s January, you should be able to drive a truck on the ice. Climate change

Well from 1955 to 1975 a lot of young men were in Vietnam learning that shooting goes both ways, not sure if it had an effect but maybe

Gack blargh yes indeed

Love how you’re using buttermilk instead of sour cream for salad healthiness!!

You’ll note I put that lie in quotes

Guns use people to kill people when they didn’t even mean to, or weren’t thinking straight. Guns turn acts of despair or foolishness into suicides and murders.

But Gunn doesn’t always use guns. Sometimes they’re drowned or impaled or eaten

You should never have trusted Gunn in the first place.

“Guns don’t kill people.”

Gunn does.

Like, all the fucking time.

Hoping against hope Krypto survives, because I LOVE him!

I bet they first thought of a toilet stall but America has never had sufficient public toilets, plus they have been used for prostitution and gay sex, and they needed their nakedish hero to have a squeaky-clean and heterosexual image so they wouldn’t be banned.

Protect the phone, that is. Also enable you to hear and be heard. The clear glass was to prevent anyone hiding in there, for sex or drugs or ambush.

The free phone program started earlier but was expanded to smartphones (for Internet and also because homeless people don’t have a landline) under Obama. And yes, Republicans shat on it.

I think part of the appeal was, every kid was thinking exactly that. “I would be the one who figured out Superman’s secret identity!”

Supes can move so quickly he’s all changed and his work suit is neatly folded and tucked into its pouch while anyone watching would just see a brief blur. But he’d rather nobody bumps into him while he’s doing it.

In the US that’s true but don’t remind them or they’ll take it away!

Up you go then, baby! Become the star ⭐!

Be patient, this too will pass. Those hours last aeons but the years fly by.

Know that for every person sniffing with disapproval at your kids’ worst behavior there’s three thinking, “Oh yeah, I remember how hard that is” or “I’m so glad that’s not me today!”

With that untouched surface, you might be able to get a replacement if you still have the receipt. Depends on the store and if you’re polite about it. (You could probably do it by being rude, but I’d hate you.)

Sink. I’d be wasting all that shower water I’m not actively washing with, or I’d be shivering with the water turned to a trickle. When I brush at the sink, I only need to wet the brush, and turn off the tap until I’m ready to rinse.