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Bill, my friend from St. Stephen, told me about Wim Muller. Born in Curaçao, a Dutch Caribbean island, Mr. Muller, the white-haired gentleman, here plays his own waltz with another pianist. He is a Caribbean Chopin.
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“Fox News reported that on Thursday, the Department of the Interior (DOI) ‘announced that it would complete a 20-year withdrawal of 225,504 acres in a northern Minnesota forest area that is home to some of the largest domestic critical mineral reserves.’
“Environmentalists’ concerns with any future mining activity, so they said, was that it would ‘contaminate’ the surrounding habitat and watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Duluth, Minnesota.” … “Fox News noted: ‘However, Twin Metals’ mining project contained about 88% of the nation's cobalt reserves in addition to vast copper, nickel, and platinum-group elements. Such critical minerals are vital for various green energy technologies like electric vehicle batteries, battery storage facilities, solar panels, and wind turbines, which the Biden administration has aggressively pushed.” https://americandigest.com/biden-admin-bans-mining-in-resource-rich-area-for-next-20-years/? Canoes: we all drive one to work or school. Read her body language. She can't even say child or 13 or 18, because she is trying to hide the horror. Why is any child not accompanied? Answer: she and people like her want to take the place of parents/guardians and expropriate maternal/paternal rights to themselves. She is a creepy, dystopian witch.
Following is a lecture I wish all my former students could hear. Einstein and thousands of other scientists are dead. They had finite lives and finite brains. My current student with a high IQ and I with one not so high, as far as I know, fudge answers! It’s our secret. BTW, jellyfish have no brain. Instead, they have radially distributed nervous systems that are adapted to their unique body plan. Huxley Englishman 1894-1963
Burgess Englishman 1917-1993 Kubrick American 1928-1999 video posted Nov. 24, 2022 Mad Magazine occupied my attention the summer of 1964. The magazine had a lot of military stuff that appealed to boys, such as tanks, guns, rifles, hand grenades, knives, nooses, and booby traps. The magazine was a gut-buster. I am not a criminal. Music video released in 1985 featuring lead Morten Harket, who, as one of the industry’s best tenors, sang falsetto, shot to #1 on the Hot 100. Title: “Take On Me”
Art: pencil-sketch animation and live-action mix called rotoscoping. Method: Live-action footage is traced over frame by frame to give the characters that are drawn realistic movements. Length to complete: Around 3,000 frames were rotoscoped, taking 16 weeks to complete. Studiobinder.com says, “Back in the day, animators would project live-action images onto a glass panel and then trace over that image. Today, rotoscoping is predominantly done on computers.” “Rotoscoping in Star Wars is one of the most famous examples. In the first trilogy, actors held a matte propped up on a stick. Later, effect technicians traced over the matte to create the glowing lightsaber effect.” Pretty City Murder was published on the KDP Amazon platform. Technically, the novel is a genre book, not a niche book. The novel is not low content. Apparently, if I want to strike it rich, I need to be in the low-content marketplace. Uh … not my goal.
Once you have had some trigonometry, you can find azimuth. Though spaceship instruments automatically calculate azimuth, space explorers must understand what it means. The cosine function in a triangle is the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to the length of the hypotenuse. The cosine function is one of the three main trigonometric functions, and it is itself the complement of sine (co + sine). Virtually every member of my Latin Mass parish is properly educated and thinks this way. Long before I rediscovered the Latin Mass in 2020, my nature was conservative, perhaps influenced by Catholicism, as early as 17 years of age. I knew right away when something didn’t sound right. There might be some pious old women in the parish who are not aware of what is going on in the world, but the young men and women are. I have talked with them, and they give me hope.
Here is proof Thomas Aquinas College is fostering vocations: Sr. Mary Josefa, OSB ('07); Fr. Matthew Maxwell, MC ('08); Rev. Mr. Erik Patrick ('11); Sr. Maria Johanna Barrett, OP ('14); Rev. Br. Patrick Rooney, OP ('15); and Sr. John Henry Eddyblouin, OP ('19). OSB is Benedictine, MC is Miles Christi, and OP is Dominican. See the school facts at https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/about/fact-sheet
Thomas Browne (1605-1682) – 771 “first use” words, including “carnivorous,” “hallucination,” and “ferocious.” The Oxford English Dictionary says it doesn’t necessarily mean he invented them.
John Milton (1608-1674) – 630 new words and phrases, including “debauchery,” “fragrance,” and “pandemonium.” Paradise Lost is where you will find Pandemonium, the name of Hell’s capital city. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) – 500 words (slightly fewer). Most scholars believe Browne’s and Shakespeare’s “new word” contributions are much lower than Milton’s. The history of language is tricky, and it’s extremely difficult to know if a writer created a new word from scratch or was the first to use an existing word. Other contributors are Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400), John Donne (1572-1631), and Ben Jonson (c. 1572-c. 1637), not to be confused with Samuel Johnson, who compiled the first definitive English dictionary in 1775. My student, Alexander, created “blastfloome” and “mugglewart,” and I created “applescent” and “picturescent.” Don’t steal them. The following story of 3,709 words exemplifies what a good writer seeks: word economy. It is the minimum number of words and not one more to tell a story. O. Henry makes every word count and contains himself up to the surprise. Stine is referring to the Coalition for Canceled Priests, and all his reports rely on excellent sources https://www.canceledpriests.org/.
I used to have a place at Topaz Lake, California side, Eastern Sierras, 5,500 feet. One year the lake froze over, and the state line runs through the middle. A fraction of Pretty City Murder occurs here. While filming, the photographer hears Junger birds but doesn't have his gun - 10 days ago.  "In my store you will find unique Hand-Painted Holy Byzantine Icons. You can place custom orders. All my icons are made with original gold leaf 22 or 24 karats. Also, you will find specific icons (silkscreen-serigraphy) on wood, an equally beautiful but cheaper solution with wooden or silver frame." Artist OrthodoxIconsGR, Hand-Painted Byzantine Icons. Etsy.com
My brother died in 2017. I visited him for the last time three weeks before, and he told me that this story was his favorite. He, too, knew he was dying. Cardinal Mercier (1851-1926) recognized the talent of Georges Lemaître as a young seminarian and urged him to study Einstein’s theories of relativity. Lemaître became an early expert in general relativity as it applied to cosmological questions and developed his “primeval atom” hypothesis better known as the Big Bang theory of the universe’s origin.
Vigano, b. 1941, publicized the Vatican leaks scandal of 2012, revealing financial corruption in the Vatican, and issued a 2018 letter accusing Pope Francis and other church leaders of covering up sexual abuse allegations against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
There are nine ways of being an accessory to another's sin: 1. By counsel. 2. By command. 3. By consent. 4. By provocation. 5. By praise or flattery. 6. By concealment. 7. By partaking. 8. By silence. 9. By defense of the ill done. -The New Roman Missal, Father Lasance, First Edition New York, Feb. 16, 1937, Second Edition New York, August 1, 1945, p 1795.
Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) wrote an encyclical stating that all are governed by the law of the Church to whom Christ gave authority. Random House struck a book deal with US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, not even one year on the job. The three pistons of the motor keeping a godless world thumping are money, power, and the fame of a "Lovely One". Her make/model is the one that only agents dream of driving.
I reached Hanon Lesson 60 by age 15. Music, art, and writing students do exercises daily. The tremolo is a wavering effect, produced either by rapid reiteration of a note, or by rapid repeated slight variation in the pitch of a note, or by sounding two notes of slightly different pitches. The pedal accentuates the wavering effect. BY RACHEL FRAZIN - 01/05/23 6:09 PM ET
… “Completed in late December, without any public announcement, the report purportedly published by the Department of Energy (DOE), says the Keystone XL project would have created between 16,149 and 59,000 jobs . Citing various studies, it further reported that, the positive economic impact that it would have had, would have been between $3.4-9.6 billion. The federal government published a previous report in 2014, that determined that 3,900 direct jobs and 21,050 total jobs would be created during construction which was expected to take two years.” … https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3801339-energy-department-keystone-xl-cancellation-cost-jobs-but-its-consumer-impacts-couldnt-be-measured/ The Hill is an American newspaper and digital media company based in DC and founded in 1994, focusing on politics, policy, and business and international relations, covering congress, the executive branch, and election campaigns, and describing its output as “nonpartisan reporting on the inner workings of government and the nexus of politics and business.” It is owned by Nexstar Media Group. |
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