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Fashion emergencies and wardrobe malfunctions can ruin a perfectly fabulous evening. Last week I had a fashion emergency — my head malfunctioned after watching the Seahawks game at The Red Hot, dinner at Twokoi Japanese Restaurant, and after dinner drinks across from Monkey at The Swiss before hitching a ride
Bored with the winter gear you've already been in for months? Tacoma resident Kelli Story translates her knitting skill into wearable art in the shape of gloves, scarves and hats to give your wardrobe a pick-me-up. The vibrant color of yarns she uses is in such contrast to the stark
Post-holiday purge Finding it difficult to find room for all of my new presents, I realized I needed to do a wardrobe and possession purge. I do this about three times a year, seemingly with the seasons but more truthfully on compulsion. I take a large box and then stand in
ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM: Two of the universe's great hunters battle once again for space supremacy. (R) – BW Galaxy Tacoma 6: Thurs 12:45, 2:55, 5, 7:10, 9:25. Lakewood Cinema 15: Thurs 12:25, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 9:30, 10:10. Fri-Thurs, Jan. 17 12:25, 2:55, 5:15,
SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, (253) 627-TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, (800) 325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, (866) 468-7623, www.ticketweb.com on sale now Jeff Coffin and the North Thurston High School Jazz Band Olympia. Jan. 19 8 pm. $10-$25 (Minnaert Center, 360.596.5501). Winston Jarrett Tacoma. Feb. 1 9 pm. $10 (Jazzbones, 253.396.9169). The
Bobble Tiki doesn't claim to be the most observant Tiki in the world, but he's fairly adept at noticing the obvious. When Bobble Tiki slipped inside Jazzbones last Wednesday, it didn't take him long to realize he wasn't looking at the Blues Theatre he was expecting. Randy Oxford was nowhere
There's not much room on Le Voyeur's stage. Anyone who's been to the Olympia club knows that. For this reason, and many others, when the one man band known as The Most Awesome Protagonist hits Le Voyeur this Sunday, Jan. 13, it'll be a perfect fit. The Most Awesome Protagonist is
Software programs like Garageband and Cubase have made it easier for bands to go the DIY route and record their music at home, but after the stop button is pressed on the last take, the business side of the process begins. This is often the biggest challenge for independent musicians.
When Bandito Betty first moved to Tacoma, and began looking for a bartending job, she often contemplated U.P. Station Bar & Grill. Unfortunately, she was too chicken shit to go inside and check it out. It looks quite small and uninviting from the outside, and there were always the same
Rock and roll is a youthful expression. It's how the music was created and what it was meant to be. Rock and roll is about rebellion and energy and letting loose — all things you do better young. No matter how many more tours the Rolling Stones sellout, the facts
Thursday, Jan. 10 SYNTH PUNK unicorn basement Just when I think I know everything about music, I get thrown for a loop. Part New Wave, part punk and part noise rock, Unicorn Basement is an experimental synth duet who are as quirky as Zappa, but their low-fi synthetic sound is more accessible
Vince Brown is no stranger to string swing fans in the Northwest. As a part of the Tune Stranglers, Hot Club Sandwich and the duo Red and Ruby with LaVon Hardison, Brown's nimble fingers have delighted audiences for more than 30 years. Beginning tonight, the guitarist/banjoist/ukulele-ist will host Swing Set
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What's black, white and chic all over? Everything this season. The combo of black and white has been a fashion statement ever since the days of Coco Chanel and Elisa Schiaparelli, and it's back for 2008. This trendy twosome was spotted all over the spring runways in bold silhouettes and
Now here is an excellent example of why it is more frightening to await something than to experience it. "The Orphanage" has every opportunity to descend into routine shock and horror, or even into the pits with the slasher pictures, but it pulls the trigger only a couple of times.
"The Bucket List" is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be
Samaurai's of Spanaway Every once in a while — and far too infrequently — a concept comes along that I can get really excited about: Teppanyaki sizzling in Spanaway. Jerry and Debbie Halsey will open the 10,000 square-foot Samaurai's Japanese Steakhouse at 19321 Mountain Hwy. E. in Spanaway on Thursday, Jan. 17.
AFFAIRS CAFE & BAKERY Affairs Café & Bakery is a comfy place to catch up with a friend over gourmet breakfast and strawberry mimosa. Also, their chocolates are as close to a vice as you can get without actually sinning. 2811 Bridgeport Way W., University Place, 253.565.8604. BABBLIN' BABS BISTRO Chef William Mueller
The New Year is here and yet we are still stuck with the same bodies we had last year. There is this dire need to renew and refresh. Eat healthy, workout, drink less, get more sleep, and it MUST begin January 1. But in reality, you were most likely hung
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Dei Filius sayeth this:
God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever be in opposition to truth. The appearance of this kind of specious contradiction is chiefly due to the fact that either the dogmas of faith are not understood and explained in accordance with the mind of the Church, or unsound views are mistaken for the conclusions of reason.
and the Catechism quoteth it and sayeth this:
"because of the authority of God himself who reveals them, who can neither deceive nor be deceived"
Which is something I heardeth a priest say a few days ago in reference to 4th graders asking whether God can make a rock so big he can't lift it. The Catholic answer is actually no, because God can't change His nature.
So, I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that the Catholic Church's teaching on this is indeed based in Scripture. But, since the references in the Catechism point to a Vatican I document, I'm not entirely sure which scripture (sounds like something St. Paul would say) or if it is just a teaching that is consistent with scripture.
This is asked in regards to the documents (Dei Filius and CCC 156) and Catholic or Catholic leaning answers would be most appreciated.

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Release date: November 17, 2015
Vulnerability identifier: APSB15-29
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CVE numbers: CVE-2015-8052, CVE-2015-8053, CVE-2015-5255
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Adobe has released a security hotfix for ColdFusion versions 11 and 10. This hotfix resolves two input validation issues that could be used in reflected cross-site scripting attacks. This hotfix also includes an updated version of Apache™ BlazeDS that resolves an important Server-side request forgery vulnerability. Adobe recommends users apply the appropriate hotfix using the instructions provided in the "Solution" section below.
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This hotfix resolves two input validation issues (CVE-2015-8052 and CVE-2015-8053) that could be used to conduct reflected cross-site scripting attacks. This hotfix also includes an updated version of Apache™ BlazeDS, which resolves an important Server-side Request Forgery vulnerability (CVE-2015-5255).
Adobe would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:
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Alain St. Ange Set to Reposition Tropical Islands Tourism of Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia, April 3, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / Seychelles former Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports and Marine, Alain St. Ange, is set to reposition tropical islands tourism in Indonesia. The movement also spearheads the promotion of tourism between AFRICA UNION and ASEAN, said Mr. St Ange.
Indonesia is one among the largest member states in ASEAN, and the Indonesia Tourism is leading the way in their preparations for the much anticipated reopening of the world borders.
Indonesia remains a popular tropical tourism destination, offering cultural diversity, breath-taking natural beauty and world-class accommodation at affordable prices.
Alain St.Ange, the dynamic and very popular Tourism Minister for the Seychelles, and well reputed, seasoned global veteran in all things tourism, was recently 'poached' from the small island State to lend his expertise to the development of tourism for the Indonesian Islands, and to assist with the challenging navigation of rebuilding tourism during a global pandemic, as well as post COVID-19.
St.Ange is expected in Indonesia during the month of April.


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The name Black Panther, conjuring up speed and power allied to velvety sleekness, has been a winner for Mapex over the past decade. Now Mapex has given the entire range an overhaul with 14 brand new models. You can read every Black Panther snare drum review here.
Each drum has either single-ended shield-design cast lugs, or elegantly sculpted twin-point mounted tube lugs. The patented 'Sonic Saver' hoops lie between flanged and die-cast hoops. Recalling the classic Slingerland 'Stick Saver' concept, the top lip of each pressed stainless steel hoop bends over and in, not out as on standard hoops.
The handsome throw-off is a smoothly operating pull-away lever with adjustable strainers at both ends. Micro lock knobs click silently as you turn them for sensitive adjustment of the stainless steel wires. There are several new bearing edge profiles, and capping it all a new die-cast, chrome-plated Black Panther badge.
You can watch a video overview of the new range with Craig Blundell and Steve White below. Scroll down for the full review.
Black Panther 'Panther'
Mapex describes this as the ultimate Black Panther. Unlike all the other metal drums it has a 14"x5" seamless, spun shell of 2mm steel, reinforced at each end by 23mm deep internal sound control rings. These are 1mm gauge steel, making up 3mm on the bearing edges, which are 45 degrees to the inside and rounded over to spare your skins.
The result is a seriously heavyweight drum. It's distinguished also by the decorative Braille-like calibrations running round the shell. The inside is sprayed matt black, the outside a burnished gun metal silver/grey.
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With no seam, this is the ultimate metal shell in terms of resonance and projection. It's only 5" deep but the tone is full and rounded. When you play there is no delay between the batter stroke and the snare response - they are as one, the shell is so vibrant.
The resonance is such that you may be tempted to employ a little damping, which would be a pity. The steel Sonic Saver hoops sit perfectly with the drum, cushioning those rim shots however hard you play.


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Speed & Agility Training Program Design
By Wil Fleming
Training athletes in speed & agility can be some difficult business.
Without a plan in mind of how to train a speed session, what can start as a speed session can crumble into a conditioning workout, with no lasting effects on an athlete's ability to move quickly.
When I am training athletes in speed & agility I find it necessary to first, break it down into the component parts that I would like to train,and second assess the size of the group that I will be working with.
Lets start with what we need to train.
Linear and Lateral Technique
The first thing we should address with any group of any size is the technical components that will make the athletes better and safer. For linear technique we must analyze the most common ways that linear speed are expressed:
Is it from a 3 point stance, 2 point stance, split stance, from a slower pace?
This will guide our use of acceleration training and allow us to coach the young athletes on the proper start positions.
Lateral technique will focus on the lateral gait cycle and change of direction body positions. This type of training should be done with any group regardless of age and size of the group.
Linear and Lateral Power
The next phase of training will involve using different implements or tools to create more power for your athletes. Typically we will use sleds, weighted vests, medicine balls, or resistance bands to improve power in both the linear sprinting/acceleration and in lateral deceleration or acceleration
Linear and Lateral Reaction
When training reaction we are trying to improve the athletes ability to perceive the action and make the appropriate reaction. Drills in this category include change of direction with visual or verbal cues and acceleration drills on visual cues
Next lets move onto the size of the group, as this will determine the types of drills and equipment that we can use.
Less than 3 athletes
With less than 3 athletes training the coaching can be very intensive and the athletes can receive direction on technique with any and all drills. Very rarely in this situation will you be limited with the amount of equipment needed to complete a drill. Rest times will have to be accounted for through the training plan to make sure that the athletes get quality repetitions.
Small group – Less than 10-15 athletes
Training in groups smaller than 10 may limit your ability to train the group with equipment that you have on hand. If equipment is to be used it will be necessary to partner up the young athletes or go in a rotation. Your ability to instruct will not be limited, but should be planned out in the speed & agility training program for the day.
Large group – More than 15 athletes
With a group of more than 15 athletes restrictions on equipment become a primary concern, typically with groups this size or larger choices of equipment should be easily transportable (cones, small bands) and be plentiful. Instruction time should be mapped out before hand and should be deliberate. Large groups should be divided into smaller groups, this will allow for instruction between repetitions. Rest intervals in large groups are less necessary to plan because a normal rotation of drills and groups will allow for even, or positive rest periods.
With groups of any size it is important to approach Speed & Agility with the same type of deliberate plan that is often reserved for strength training. Doing so will insure that your session will not turn into glorified conditioning work, but will instead develop real, true speed, wow coaches and grow your business.


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You know when you've got one of those seemingly endless drives ahead of you? Four, five, six hours in the car with nothing to do but drive drive drive? Well, silence may be golden, but throw in a couple bhakti-rockin' CD's and the miles will just flyyyy by. Trust us.
Having just endured a 6-hour drive home from Cape Cod, we know this. I was about to crawl out of my skin from sheer boredom when I discovered Om Spun (the latest release from Wynne Paris' all-star band Groovananda) in a crevice of my car and popped it into the CD player. Immediately I started bopping and singing along with the gospel-infused chants and multi-layered instrumentalism. I was grooving to Groovananda and loving life. And apparently, driving faster.
Suddenly, there were blue lights flashing in my rear-view. Talk about a buzz-kill.
"Is there any particular reason you were speeding, Ma'am?" the baby-faced rookie officer asked me in that official, you're-busted tone. Me: "um, uh…." I thought about taking out the CD and handing it to him, but didn't know how that would go over. Plus, I still had three hours to go — I needed that CD!
I'm thinking that there are a lot of kirtan CD's that need to come with a warning label like this one from Krishna Das's Chants of a Lifetime CD:
Caution: This CD features chants that render it inappropriate for use while driving or operating heavy machinery.
Warning label or not, here are a few of our favorites for car kirtan. Please use with caution.
Five for the Ride
1. Om Spun, by Groovananda. This is "raga rock kirtan," brilliantly fusing world beat, jam-band, rock, jazz, kirtan, folk, Indian, trance and gospel. Whew! Featuring Wynne Paris on vocals and sarod, Rick Allen on drums, JT John Thomas on organ and Doug Derryberry (Bruce Hornsby band) on mandalin, plus Mark Karan, Krishna Das, Badal Roy, Perry Robinson, Girish Cruden, Dave Stringer, Kim Waters (Rasa), Ramesh Kannan and many others. (2011) Get it here.
2. This IS Soul Kirtan, by C.C. White. By now everyone's got this on their playlist, right? C.C. White's debut solo album is a sweet, rollicking joy ride of classic chants reinvented with a Southern Gospel and soul-shaking exuberance. I'm in love with the reggae-style Hare Krishna maha mantra punctuated by a deep, thunderous — and alltogether too brief! — Krishna rap by Bob Wisdom. Chills. Every time. Co-produced with Matt Pszonak, with Patrick Richey, Denise Kaufman, Cooper Madison, Steve Postell, Richard Hardy, Michael Jerome Moore, Jeff Young, Arjuna O'Neal, Vasu Dudakia, more special guests and the Soul Kirtan Choir. (2011) Listen & buy here.
3. Thunder Love, by Jai Uttal. Queen of Hearts, Jai's reggae-kirtan CD released last fall, would easily fit the bill here too. But Thunder Love, released in 2008, has occupied one of the slots on my car CD changer since I bought the disc. Jai's trademark heart-soaring vocals will make you forget you're stuck in a car and take you right with him into the inner chambers of the heart. Please, put it on cruise control before Bolo Ram (Track 2) comes on…Produced by Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach for Nutone Records. Get it here.
4. Love Holding Love, by Wah! Of all the Wah! albums I love, I love this one the most. (Of course, I haven't heard Loops and Grooves yet, which is due out any day now.) Maybe it's the chill, almost trancey lounge feel, or the heart-pumping electronica beats, or the soft-rap riffs of love-centric lyrics that never fail to remind me that it's all love baby, even if you're stuck in the worst traffic this side of the 405. It holds a near-permanent slot in the Baja's player. A two-year collaboration with Paul Hollman, with guest artists that include Elijah Tucker (drums), Katisse Buckingham (vocal percussion, flute), Ryan Pate (drums), produced for Nutone. (2008) Get it here.
5. Live Your Love, by SRI Kirtan. Make sure you're buckled in when this one cues up; it sweeps you up in Track 1 with a hard-rocking Govinda/Hare Krishna medley and carries you on that current of bhakti love right through the duo's signature Rock the Bhakti and on to the final track, a joyous tribute to the sacred Ganges River. SRI Kirtan is the fusion of Sruti Ram and Ishwari, whose collective musical background spans punk, opera, Gregorian chant, electronica and doo-wop. It shows. With Steve Gorn on bansuri flute, Visvamhar from the Mayapuris on mrdanga, the sacred-rap genius of SriKala Kerel Roach , Charlie "Govind" Burnham on violin, Noah Hoffeld on cello, Kyle Esposito on bass and electiric guitar, and Curtis Bahn on dilruba and sitar. Co-produced with Julie Last for Mantrology/Ishwari Music. (2010) More info here.
That's our Five for the Ride today. What's playing in your car?
(Oh, and the baby-faced rookie cop? He let me off with a warning. Maybe it was the music…)


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CANBERRA, Australia — Australians marked the 235th anniversary of British colonization Thursday with a public holiday that evokes anger at Indigenous injustice, focusing national attention on a new government push to acknowledge Australia's first inhabitants in the constitution.
The government joined several large corporations in allowing staff the choice of taking the holiday off or working Thursday and taking another day off instead, in recognition of growing public unease at celebrating the 1788 hoisting of the Union Jack at Sydney Cove.
There are growing public calls to change the date of Australia Day, which is known to many Indigenous people as Invasion Day and Survival Day, because of the disastrous impacts on First Nations people of British colonists taking their land without a treaty.
The focus on Australia's checkered European history ignited debate Thursday about a referendum due late this year that would create an Indigenous body known as the Voice to address Parliament on Indigenous issues.
The referendum, expected to be held between August and November, would enshrine the Voice in the constitution.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese committed to the referendum on the day his center-left Labor Party government was elected in May last year.
Albanese said he wanted Indigenous people recognized as Australia's original inhabitants in the constitution, which has existed since 1901, before next year's Australia Day.
"If not now, when will this change occur? And if not the people of Australia this year, who will make this change which will improve our country, improve our national unity?" Albanese told reporters Thursday.
"It is a great country. Australia will be even better when we recognize our First Nations people in our constitution," he added.
Noel Pearson, an Indigenous leader and longtime advocate of constitutional change, said the Voice would be a move toward a "settlement between the natives and those who took over the continent and established modern Australia."
"This year is the most important year in the relationship between the natives of Australia and its so-called settlers in the 235 years since the landing of the First Fleet," Pearson wrote Thursday in The Sydney Morning Herald, referring to the 11 British ships carrying convicts that established Sydney as a penal colony.
But reactions to the Voice are mixed, including among Indigenous leaders.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, an Indigenous senator for the conservative Nationals party, opposes the Voice. Her party supports her view that the Voice would divide Australia along racial lines.
Lidia Thorpe, an Indigenous senator for the progressive Greens party, on Wednesday threatened to oppose the Voice unless the referendum question includes acknowledgement that traditional owners never gave up their land.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton said his conservative Liberal Party needed more detail about what the Voice would entail before they could decide whether to support constitutional change.
"As you move around the community, it's quite obvious that people don't understand what it is that the prime minister's talking about," Dutton told reporters.
"They understand that changing the constitution is a big deal and, instinctively like me and like millions of Australians, we want a better outcomes for Indigenous Australians," he added.
Indigenous Australians account for 3.2% of the population and are the nation's most disadvantaged ethnic group. They die younger than other Australians, achieve lower education levels, are less likely to be employed and are overrepresented in prison populations.
They were not allowed to vote at federal elections until 1962, and Australian courts did not acknowledge until 1992 that their ancestors had legally owned the land when the British arrived.
Australia Day celebrations Thursday centered on Sydney Harbor, where attractions included an annual race of historic sailing ships.
Separately, thousands gathered in downtown Sydney to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the original Mourning Day protest in 1938 when demonstrators made demands, including citizen rights, for Indigenous Australians.
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Henry David Thoreau's nineteenth-century observations of Concord's flora are proving useful to scientists studying twenty-first-century climate change. Richard Primack, a biology professor at Boston University, reported in the February 2012 issue of BioScience that some "plants are flowering ten days earlier than they were in Thoreau's time."
Since 2003, Primack and his colleagues have been studying the phenology, presence, and abundance of species in Concord and comparing what they find with records kept by Thoreau, Alfred Hosmer, and others. With the help of the late Bradley Dean, an NEH grantee who worked on Thoreau's notebooks, Primack was able to work with plant tables kept by Thoreau, who faithfully tracked the first flowering dates for more than five hundred species of wildflowers from 1851 to 1858. Hosmer 's botany notebooks provided Primack with late-nineteenth-century flowering records for six hundred species, and flowering data for the early twentieth century came from pictures taken by the landscape photographer Herbert Wendell Gleason.
Phenology, the timing of seasonal events like flowering and leaf emergence, is especially sensitive to temperature. Thus, earlier flowering is one bellwether of climate change. Temperatures globally have increased 0.7° C over the past hundred years, says Primack. "Boston and Concord have warmed over 2° C since the time of Thoreau, with about two-thirds of this increase probably caused by the urban heat island effect," the warming in cities that occurs when buildings and paved surfaces absorb heat during the day.
The scientists also showed that 27 percent of the species that Thoreau and others recorded are no longer present in Concord, a finding that "was somewhat surprising, considering that approximately 35 percent of Concord's land area is protected." For orchids alone, the change is dramatic. When Thoreau lived, there were twenty-one species, now there are seven.
In the journal Biological Conservation, Primack wrote that if Thoreau were alive today he would notice the changes in the Concord landscape. In his own time, Concord's naturalist philosopher lamented the changes around him, writing in 1856, "I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I learn that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked out some of the best stars. I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth."


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Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity
SAN FRANCISCO AND DUBLIN—Stripe, which builds economic infrastructure for the internet, has signed agreements for a Series I fundraise of more than $6.5 billion (€6.15 billion) at a $50B (€47B) valuation. Primary investors include existing Stripe shareholders—Andreessen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, MSD Partners, and Thrive Capital—as well as new investors including GIC, Goldman Sachs Asset and Wealth Management, and Temasek.
The funds raised will be used to provide liquidity to current and former employees and address employee withholding tax obligations related to equity awards, resulting in the retirement of Stripe shares that will offset the issuance of new shares to Series I investors. Stripe does not need this capital to run its business.
"Over the last 12 years, current and former Stripes have helped build foundational economic infrastructure for millions of businesses around the world, and this transaction gives them the opportunity to access the value they've helped create," said John Collison, cofounder and president of Stripe. "But the internet economy is still young, and the opportunities of the next 12 years will dwarf those of the recent past. There's so much to discover and to create. For us, it's now back to work."
Benefiting from enterprise leadership and startup waves
As traditional businesses have continued to shift online, Stripe's enterprise user base has compounded since 2019, and now includes some of the largest global enterprises like Amazon, Ford, Salesforce, BMW, and Maersk. At the same time, Stripe continues to see strong momentum with startups. Founders are starting companies at a historic rate, and Stripe Atlas saw a 155% increase in incorporations from 2019 to 2022. Stripe benefits from the early role it plays in technology waves that reverberate across the industry, like mobile marketplaces, SaaS, and now AI, with users like OpenAI, Anthropic, Midjourney, Copy.ai, CoreWeave, and a long list of others.
"Stripe's strategy is inherently indexed to secular trends that will only compound for decades to come: the growth of the internet economy and the trajectories of the world's most innovative and forward-looking companies," said Josh Kushner, founder and CEO of Thrive Capital. "Stripe will continue to be at the epicenter of every new technology current, and is the de facto choice for the businesses and builders that are creating the future. This is why we first invested in Stripe in 2014, and why we are proud to deepen our partnership."
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One hundred businesses now handle more than $1 billion on Stripe every year. Seventy-five percent of these global winners use Stripe for more than just payments and over 70% use Stripe to manage operations across multiple countries.
"Stripe is a world-class, founder-led company recognized for its durable and scaled payments business, with newer products, like Issuing, Billing, and Tax, that have the potential to be powerful accelerators to growth over time. We are proud to partner with Stripe to support the company's continued success over the long term," said Gregg Lemkau, co-CEO of BDT & MSD Partners.
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As we head into the August, Congress will be on recess and most of your senators and representatives will be heading back to their home states. That means it'll be easier for you to reach out and talk to them or their staff and ask them to act on important legislation. Earlier this year, the Save the Internet Act—a bill which would restore the net neutrality protections of the 2015 Open Internet Order and make them the law of the land—passed the House of Representatives. The Senate needs to be pressured into following suit.
To help you do that, we're updating and relaunching our Net Neutrality Defense Guide. Last year, the Defense Guide was focused on using a vehicle called the Congressional Review Act (the CRA) to overturn the FCC's repeal. Since the Senate voted for the CRA with a bipartisan majority vote, last year's guide focused on getting the House of Representatives to vote.
This year, we have the opposite situation. Since the House has voted for the Save the Internet Act and the Senate has not, and our guide has been updated to reflect the new bill, the new target, and the new arguments we've heard for and against the Save the Internet Act.
Net neutrality means that ISPs like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon don't get to block websites, slow speeds on certain sites, or make deals that give faster speeds to some content and not others. It means that you—and not your ISP—control your experience online. A free and open Internet depends on net neutrality to maintain a level playing field, which disappears once ISPs are free to do whatever they want with your traffic. Established players—or companies under the same umbrella as the ISP (like, say, HBO and AT&T)—shouldn't get to leverage their money and connections to get to customers more easily than competitors with better products, but less money.
We can prevent that by passing strong net neutrality protections, like those in the Save the Internet Act. The Senate needs to know that this is an important issue, supported by a majority of Americans, and that we want them to vote on this bill.
The Net Neutrality Defense Guide is built to empower both regular people and local organizations to make themselves heard on this issue. It includes:
- A how-to on setting up in-person meetings with senators
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- A sample letter to send to senators
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- Basic talking points and counters to common arguments against net neutrality
- An image pack you can use and remix for your own campaigns
The guide is located here, along with a downloadable pdf version. Get out there and make yourself heard!


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More Firepower: Cisco and Rackspace Deliver Advanced Security for Multi-Cloud Environments
For nearly 20 years, our customers have relied on Rackspace to help drive their digital transformations, from out of the data center and into the cloud, with our IT as a service and multi-cloud solutions. All along the way, security has been a top priority.
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In today's IT environment, networks are under attack by malware that has reached "unprecedented levels of sophistication and impact," according Cisco's recently released Annual Cybersecurity Report. As adversaries increasingly weaponize cloud services, dynamic workloads moving to the cloud are at risk of creating new threat vectors. These vectors can come from the companies' premises, to the cloud, and to threats coming directly from the internet.
That's why Rackspace offers our customers a range of firewall solutions, now including Cisco Firepower Next Generation Firewalls, the industry's first fully integrated, threat-focused next-generation firewall. Firepower stops threats, known and unknown, with the industry's most effective threat protection; provides more insight and control; detects malware earlier and shrinks time-to-detection for faster remediation.
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Rackspace serves Cisco as a security testing partner, allowing us to provide our customers with the most up-to-date and innovative technologies. Cisco's firewall technology is directly integrated into our managed services. In fact, we have one of the largest deployments of Cisco firewalls in the world — with over 22,000 Cisco firewalls in place. We also employ an industry-leading level of Cisco security expertise, with roughly 3,000 engineers who have earned more than 800 Cisco certifications (and counting), including Cisco Certified Specialists, Network Associates, Professionals, and Internetwork Experts in Security.
"Rackspace has tested and deployed many of our leading-edge security solutions, from early firewalls to Firepower, and we are grateful for their partnership in our ongoing efforts to make customers' journey to the cloud a safe one," said Vice President of Cisco Security Shawn Henry.
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- Because we know keeping your network online and secure is critical to your business, we offer HA pairs of Cisco firewalls for an always-on experience — backed by a 100 percent networking uptime guarantee.
- Our firewalls are physically isolated to your environment and not shared with other tenants, making our managed hosting environment a no-brainer for customers in regulated industries, such as healthcare and finance, with HIPAA and PCI compliance requirements.
- Our Cisco firewalls are cloud-ready with our proprietary RackConnect technology. Customers can leverage a RackConnect-enabled Cisco firewall to connect traditional hosted infrastructure to any Rackspace managed cloud. Having a dedicated hardware firewall in front of cloud servers extends their security posture to the Rackspace OpenStack Public Cloud, providing protection for the integrity of their cloud data and helping to safeguard against service interruptions.
At Rackspace, we understand that one of the biggest challenges for your business is protecting your data — let Rackspace provide you with the most up-to-date and innovative security technologies, as your cloud needs evolve.
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Your Child's Immunizations: Hib Vaccine
What Is Hib?
Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria (Hib) were the leading cause of meningitis in children younger than 5 years old until the Hib vaccine became available. It also used to be a common cause of infections in the ears, lungs, blood, skin, and joints in children.
Hib Immunization Schedule
The Hib vaccine is given by injection at ages:
- 2 months
- 4 months
- 6 months (however, some of the Hib vaccines do not require a dose at 6 months)
- a booster dose at 12–15 months
Kids ages 15 months or older who are receiving the vaccine for the first time only need one dose.
Children ages 12 months to 59 months (almost 5 years old) may need more doses if their immune systems are weakened due to things like asplenia (when the spleen is missing or not working properly), HIV infection, chemotherapy or radiation treatment, or a stem cell transplant.
The vaccine is not routinely recommended for kids older than 5 unless they have a condition that weakens the immune system and have never been vaccinated.
Sometimes doctors give the Hib vaccine in combination with other vaccines, such as DTaP, IPV, or HepB vaccines.
Why Is the Hib Vaccine Recommended?
The vaccine provides long-term protection from Haemophilus influenzae type b. Those who are immunized have protection against Hib meningitis; pneumonia; pericarditis (an infection of the membrane covering the heart); and infections of the blood, bones, and joints caused by the bacteria.
Possible Risks of Hib Immunization
Minor problems — such as redness, swelling, or tenderness where the shot was given — can happen. There is a very small chance of an allergic reaction with any vaccine.
The Hib vaccine only contains a small piece of the germ and so it cannot cause Hib disease.
When to Delay or Avoid Hib Immunization
The vaccine is not recommended if your child:
- is currently sick, although simple colds or other minor illnesses should not prevent immunization
- had a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) to a previous Hib vaccine or has a latex allergy (only for some types of Hib vaccine)
Caring for Your Child After Hib Immunization
The vaccine may cause mild soreness and redness in the area where the shot was given. For pain and fever, check with your doctor to see if you can give either acetaminophenoribuprofen, and to find out the appropriate dose.
When Should I Call the Doctor?
- Call if you aren't sure whether the vaccine should be postponed or avoided.
- Call if moderate or serious adverse reactions appear after the Hib injection.


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The first is that microeconomics in general is a relatively new area of research having really only taken off with the neoclassical revolution of the 1870s. Before then most discussion of economic issues was about what we would now call macroeconomic questions. The mercantilists, the physiocrats and the classical economists, for example, emphasised macroeconomic inquiries.
There were at times, in the mercantilist literature, much discussion of firms but it was a limited discussion. Limited in the sense that it dealt not with issues to do with firms per se but with the effects of firms on more macro issues such as recession, bullion and the balance of trade. In addition it gave occasion for the crystallization of protectionist doctrine. It was also limited in that it largely dealt only with the regulated companies and the opposition to their monopolies.
Foss and Klein (2006: 7-8) note that classical economics, was largely carried out at the aggregate level with microeconomic analysis acting as little more than a handmaiden to the macro-level investigation,
"[e]conomics began to a large extent in an aggregative mode, as witness, for example, the "Political Arithmetick" of Sir William Petty, and the dominant interest of most of the classical economists in distribution issues. Analysis of pricing, that is to say, analysis of a phenomenon on a lower level of analysis than distributional analysis, was to a large extent only a means to an end, namely to analyze the functional income distribution".O'Brien (2004: 63) makes the same basic point by noting the differences in emphasis between classical and neoclassical economics:
"[t]he core of neo-Classical economics is the theory of microeconomic allocation, to which students are introduced in their first year in an elementary and largely intuitive form, and which receives increasingly sophisticated statements during succeeding years of study. On top of this, as a sort of icing on the cake, comes the macroeconomics theory of income determination, with, in little attached boxes so to speak, theories of growth and trade appended. But the approach of the classical economists was the very reverse of this. For them the central propositions of economics concerned macroeconomic problems. Their focus above all was on the problem of growth, and the macroeconomic distribution conclusions which followed from their view of growth. On the one hand, international trade, at least for Smith, was inextricably bound up with all this: on the other, the microeconomic problems of value and microdistribution took their place as subsets of the greater whole".Thus the firm wasn't examined because microeconomic questions in general weren't examined.
The second part of the answer is that firms weren't for a long time of much importance to the economy as a whole. For much of human history production and consumption were very closely interconnected. Production for those outside of the production unit was largely unknown. That is, there was little production for trade. The production and consumption units were, by and large, the same. This point is important since some form of trade is a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for a firm to exist since without trade consumption and production must coincide, that is, the objectives of the producer and consumer will be the same. The coincidence of consumption and production in a world without trade, or at least a world with little trade, was noted as a potential problem by McDonald and Snooks (1986) in their analysis of manorial production in Domesday England:
"In the absence of trade, all the goods produced on the manor will be consumed on the manor. Such a situation makes it difficult to interpret the results of our production function estimates, because it becomes difficult to draw a distinction between the manor as a unit of production and as a unit of consumption: manorial production behaviour will be inextricably combined with the lord's consumption preferences (or utility function). The underlying reason is that the implicit prices of output reflect both the production and the consumption behaviour of the manor, rather than just the costs of manorial production" (McDonald and Snooks 1986: 99).So for the firm to become a major player in the economy, the market had to grow to the point where trade, both national and international, was large enough to allow the division of labour to develop and for specialised production units to be able to develop and survive. It is only then that production can be separated from consumption and firms can become separate from households.
It is only when self-sufficiency makes way for specialisation and trade that a discussion of firms becomes relevant.


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LJ Custom Menu Links is a plugin that allows you to put extra links in the menus of most WordPress Themes. It is unique in the way that it doesn't require any code changes to your theme as the extra links are added within WordPress core functionality. This plugin requires no technical knowledge to administer, it is all contained within the WordPress admin pages with a consistent look and feel for ease of use.
- Add Extra Menu links to your theme
- Use pages as placeholders for menu links (This allows you full customization as to the location of your links)
- Control if menus items are shown based on if a user is logged in
- Shows a logout link if a user is logged in
- Provides the ability to provide a link back to your admin pages only if a user is logged in
- Full menu sorting available
- You can now take full control of how you want Custom Menu Links to operate, fully automatic integration or manual integration (modifying your theme for LJ Custom Menu Links).
If you are having compatibility issues with LJ Custom Menu Links outputting its links inside other plugins or sidebar widgets then this update is for you. Currently due to core wordpress limitations, if you use LJ Custom Menu Links there may be compatibility issues with other plugins. You now have the option (via the Advanced Options page) to turn off Use wp_list_pages Filter
option and insert the required code to make LJ Custom Menu Links work without interruption within your own theme.
To add flexible location links (Dynamic Links) you need to create a new page as a placeholder for that link, under the edit page menu is a box to control what link to show. Please see the screenshots on the next page for a description. Links created in this way don't have the ability to choose the target window (you may still control the visibility of the link via the private or public based on the page settings, and also the ordering based on page settings).
The admin page now also contains a list of Dynamic Links, which can be deleted or edited from within the LJCustomMenuLinks admin section.
To add LJCustomMenuLinks please use the LJCustomMenuLinks item in the Admin section, these links are added to the end of the standard wordpress menu system but have full customization ability.
The plugin has also had an attribution function added. If you would like to provide attribution for the plugin then add the following code into your wordpress theme. The footer is a good place for it.
if (function_exists('LJCustomMenuLinksAttribution')) {
عکسهای صفحه
- Unzip and upload the
folder into your/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the Plugin through the Plugins menu
- Edit the settings in the LJ Custom Menu Links Admin page
- Enjoy
If you install the update manually, please ensure you deactivate the plugin and then reactive. If you dont do this the plugin will not function!!
Theme Integration (optional)
If you are having compatibility issues with other plugins, widgets or themes whereby LJ Custom Menu Links shows its links where you don't want them then you will need to make a minor modification to your theme.
Firstly you will need to turn off the Use wp_list_pages Filter
option from within the Advanced Options screen in the LJ Custom Menu Links admin page. Next you will need to edit your theme (this will be different for every theme available). As a general rule you should find the header.php
file of your theme the appropriate place, then find some code that references wp_list_pages
and place the following code snippet after the wp_list_pages
but before the </ul>
if (class_exists('LJCustomMenuLinks')) {
سوالات متداول
- Can I place links within the current menu structure (ie Page 1 | LJCustomMenuLink | Page 2)
Yes! This is now possible with Version 2.3
You will need to create a new Page as a placeholder for the link and then change the settings in the LJCustomMenuLinks box on the edit page.
- My theme changes the class of the LI and UL elements of a menu with submenus, can LJCustomMenuLinks do the same
This feature was requested for compatibility with the Atahualpa theme, I am sure there will be more!
To use this, goto the LJCustomMenuLinks admin screen and enable Advanced Options.
The settings required for Atahualpa are:
Custom Class for LI with Submenu:
Custom Class for UL Submenu:
- I am having issues where your plugin is adding links where I don't expect them
This is due to limitations of the core WordPress code. However I now have a solution for your trouble. Disable the
Use wp_list_pages Filter
option under the advanced options then add the following code to your theme<?php if (class_exists('LJCustomMenuLinks')) { LJCustomMenuLinks::OutputCustomMenu(); } ?>
More details can be found in the Installation instructions under the Theme Integration heading.
- I really like your plugin, is there anyway I can help
Yes. Please place the following code snippet in an appropriate place in your theme. The footer is a good place.
<?php if (function_exists('LJCustomMenuLinksAttribution')) { LJCustomMenuLinksAttribution(); } ?>
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"LJ Custom Menu Links" نرم افزار متن باز است. افراد زیر در این افزونه مشارکت کردهاند.
مشارکت کنندگانترجمه "LJ Custom Menu Links" به زبان شما.
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Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
گزارش تغییرات
- Fixed compatibility issues by adding the ability to disable the core wordpress override and manually add the LJ Custom Menu Links code to your theme
- Ability to track Dynamic Links via the LJCustomMenuLinks Admin Page. To use this turn on the Display Dynamic Links in Admin Page option in the admin page.
- Shamelessly added a removable donate link in the plugin admin
- Added Attribution Link function for use in themes
- New Feature: Ability to add Flexible Location links. This allows you to put links anywhere within the menu structure.
- FEATURE REQUEST: There are a few themes that inject custom classes into the menu items, you can now specify under advanced options classes to inject to Menu items for theme compatibility
- BUGFIX: When items with child nodes are deleted in Ver 2.0 the child nodes are left in the database as orphans. This behaviour is now fixed
- When the plugin is activated all previous orphan nodes are deleted to clean up the database
- Change backend storage method (Now uses database table)
- Can now have nested menus (In the same fashion as nested pages by settings parents). Please Note! For nested menus to work the theme must support this feature.
- Added confirm delete to Config Screen
- Initial Release


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DETROIT MASTER trophy
Collected all trophies!
THANK YOU trophy
Play the first chapter
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED trophy
Connor saved Emma
SECRETS trophy
Cara discovered the content of Alice's box
DEVIANT LOCATED trophy
Connor found the deviant in the attic
WE ARE FREE trophy
Kara and Alice escaped Todd's House
DEFEND YOURSELF trophy
Markus pushed Leo
SELF-CONTROL trophy
Markus let Leo win
CONFESSION trophy
Connor made the android confess
SHELTER trophy
Kara and Alice slept in the motel or the squat
KNOW YOUR PARTNER trophy
Connor found all clues about Hank
RUN KARA RUN trophy
Kara and Alice escaped the police
CATCH IT trophy
Connor caught up with Rupert
SAVE HANK trophy
Connor saved Hank
ESCAPE THE MANOR trophy
Kara and Alice escaped Zlatko's house
RUTHLESS trophy
The Tracis were killed
DOUBTS trophy
The Tracis escaped
JERICHO'S HERO trophy
Markus got enough parts
JUST A MACHINE trophy
Hank killed Connor
A SMILE ON HER FACE trophy
Alice enjoyed a ride on the merry-go-round
WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER trophy
Markus broadcasted his message without raising an alarm or having a team casualty
A GLIMPSE OF JERICHO trophy
Connor connected to Simon
SEND A MESSAGE trophy
Markus conducted a pacifist riot
BURN THE PLACE trophy
Markus conducted a violent riot
NOTHING TO SEE HERE trophy
Kara succeeded to make the cop go away
CONFRONTATION trophy
Markus attacked the police
STAND YOUR GROUND trophy
Markus stood his ground against the police
PRIORITIES trophy
Connor killed the Chloe
KINSHIP trophy
Connor refused to kill the Chloe
BLOODHOUND trophy
Connor got the location of Jericho by himself
THREE AT JERICHO trophy
Bring the three characters to Crossroads
SCORCHED EARTH trophy
Markus or Connor detonated the freighter
LIBERATION trophy
Markus reached the camp and liberated the androids
MORAL VICTORY trophy
Markus succeeded in making the soldiers stand back
ESCAPE DEATH trophy
Kara and Alice escaped the recycling center
SAFE HARBOR trophy
Kara and Alice passed the border
AN ARMY OF ME trophy
Connor converted the androids
MISSION COMPLETE trophy
Connor killed the leader of the deviants
MY TURN TO DECIDE trophy
Connor resisted hacking attempt from CyberLife
COMPLIANT trophy
Connor stayed a machine
ONE OF US trophy
Connor became deviant
UNDEFEATED trophy
Don't lose any fight before reaching the end
BOOKWORM trophy
Find every single magazine in the game
PARTNERS trophy
Hank and Connor were friends until the end
HAPPY FAMILY trophy
Kara, Alice, Luther are together at the end
I'LL BE BACK trophy
Connor died and returned at every opportunity before reaching the end
THIS IS MY STORY trophy
Finish the game once
THESE ARE OUR STORIES trophy
Spend 20,000 bonus points
SURVIVORS trophy
Everyone is alive at the end


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About a year ago, [Anthony] decided to embark on his biggest project to date. He wanted something with a ton of LEDs, so when the idea of recreating the classic electronic Lights Out game came to mind, he knew he had the makings of a killer project. The finished Lights Out arcade box is a wonderful piece of work with sixteen 17-segment displays and just as many LED illuminated arcade buttons.
By far the most impressive feature of [Anthony]'s project are the two rows of 17-segment displays. These are controlled by two MAX6954 LED display drivers on a beautiful wire wrapped board. The 16 buttons for the game are translucent arcade buttons that compliment the RGB LED strip very nicely.
A great display and a whole bunch of LEDs don't make a game, though. [Anthony] came across this article on JSTOR that told him how to create new 4×4 games of Lights Out and solve them algorithmically to get the total number of moves required to solve the puzzle. As you can see in this video, it's a little hard to solve the puzzle in the minimum amount of moves. Still, we have to commend [Anthony] for a great project.


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If It Doesn't Smell, Don't Wash It
According to Real Simple, if every American made an effort to launder less — cutting out just one load of laundry a week per household — we'd save enough water to fill seven million swimming pools each year.
So if it looks clean, and it smells clean, call it clean and wear it again. Consider hanging worn clothes out on your clothesline to freshen them up between wearings.


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The Council of Trent is depicted by Pasquale Cati in 1588. Wikimedia Commons via Anthony M.
"The latest ecumenical councils — Trent, Vatican I, Vatican II — applied themselves to clarifying the mystery of the faith and undertook the necessary reforms for the good of the Church, solicitous for the continuity with the apostolic tradition." — Pope Blessed John Paul II, Discourse, Oct. 22, 1998
In the middle of the 16th century, the Catholic Church was in need of reform and renewal, and while the Church acknowledged these problems and had begun reforms, the corrective actions were not quick enough or deemed serious enough to stem large numbers of Catholics from leaving the Church. Martin Luther's revolt and the subsequent Protestant revolution in the mid-1500s accelerated the reforms that were eventually realized through the Council of Trent. This council, the 19th ecumenical council in Church history, not only dealt with corruption but, more importantly, effectively refuted the heretical teachings and anti-Catholic attacks launched by Protestants.
Few ecumenical councils have left more of a long-term impact on defining and reforming the Catholic Church than did the council held in several different sessions at Trent, Italy, between 1545 and 1563. From the opening to closing ceremonies, the Council of Trent lasted 18 years, but the bishops were in session for just a little more than three years. Of course, the council was not intended to be spread over 18 years, but the work of the bishops was interrupted by plague, wars, the deaths of four popes and a lack of interest from Pope Paul IV (1555-1559), who thought he could achieve reforms without the council.
The results of that historic gathering are still debated by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, but the debates are matched by a host of myths as to what the council fathers at Trent did or did not do.
One long-running myth claims that the popes of the 16th century, fearing a loss of prestige and power, resisted calling a general council to deal with Church abuses and corruption. While 15th- and 16th-century popes were indeed cautious, Pope Paul III (1534-1549) tried three times to convoke a Churchwide council. His efforts were repeatedly stymied by political squabbles and unenthusiastic support from European monarchs and princes.
Pope Paul III first summoned a council in 1537 to be held at Mantua, Italy. Emperor Charles V, ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, allegedly did not like the location. In the end, the city of Trent was chosen, and the council finally opened in December 1545. In sum, there long had been discourse about the need for a Church council, but it was the monarchs, not the popes, who delayed the event. This, of course, is just one of the myths associated with the Council of Trent
Myth: Trent ended the practice of indulgences.
Fact: The practice of indulgences was not ended, continues today and is defined in the current Catechism of the Catholic Church (see Nos. 1471-1484). The XXV session of Trent affirmed Church authority to issue indulgences and condemned "those who assert that they [indulgences] are useless or who deny that the Church has the power to grant them." The council did eliminate the misuse and the so-called selling of indulgences which Martin Luther (and others) found repugnant.
Myth: Trent added seven books to the Old Testament.
Fact: Beginning in the fourth century there was Churchwide consensus that the Old Testament contained 46 books. That number of books is identified in the ancient Alexandrian (Christian) list of Scriptures as opposed to the Palestinian (Jewish) list that has fewer books. The decision to favor the Alexandrian list was subscribed to at the Council of Hippo in 393 and reaffirmed at the Council of Carthage in 397 (these two councils were smaller in nature and are not listed among the Church's 21 ecumenical councils). When Luther's followers translated the Bible into German, they left out the books of Tobit, Judith, First and Second Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch, as well as parts of Daniel and Esther. Protestants also made changes to the New Testament text which, like the Old Testament omissions, conflicted with their beliefs.
Myth: The Council of Trent directed Catholics not to read the Bible.
Fact: This is not true. The bishops confirmed that the Latin Vulgate Bible, in use by Christians for over a thousand years, was the correct version for Catholics to use. It is true that the Church fathers at Trent were concerned about the numerous new translations of Scripture that were filled with error and misinformation and lacked proper and authentic notes. Consequently, they did mandate that only with permission of the pope could versions other than the Vulgate be read.
Myth: Trent resulted in sweeping changes to Catholic teaching.
Fact: There were no changes made to Catholic teaching at the Council of Trent. The No. 1 priority was to defend clearly Catholic beliefs under attack by Protestants, which included: the belief that Christ instituted seven sacraments, not two as asserted by Luther; that justification was achieved by faith and good works, not by faith alone; that the deposit of faith included both the sacred Scriptures and sacred Tradition, not the Scriptures alone; that Communion of one kind for laypeople is sufficient to receive the Real Presence; that the traditional teachings on transubstantiation and original sin are correct; that purgatory does exist; that Masses for the dead are appropriate. These were affirmations, not changes, to Catholic beliefs. In a like manner, the conciliar decrees that defended the Mass were based on unchanging truths and revelation, not on innovation.
Myth: Trent "damned to hell" those who do not agree with the decrees they issued.
Fact: The canons, or decrees, issued by Trent all include the term "anathema." For example, the Council of Trent, session XXII, canon V, reads: "If anyone saith, that it is an imposture to celebrate Masses in honor of the saints and for obtaining their intercession with God, as the Church intends, let him be anathema." The word anathema is a Greek word meaning to separate, suspend or set aside, not "damn to hell." The Church does cut off or excommunicate Catholics who consciously and publicly deny the canons of Trent because the canons affirm the teachings of Christ. These Catholics are welcomed back when willing to be reconciled with the Church's teachings.
Myth: The Council of Trent acknowledged that women have souls.
Fact: This was and is the most far-fetched of any myth associated with the council. That women have souls was never questioned by the Church, nor was it addressed by the bishops at Trent. This wild accusation seems to have its roots in St. Gregory of Tours' "History of the Franks" (Book VIII, Ch. 20). This history records that at the Synod of Mâcon in 528 one of the bishops questioned whether the Latin word homo, or man, as used in the Old Testament, includes both male and female. The issue was clarified that indeed women are included in the term. There was never an official canon or decree released, and whatever was discussed had nothing to do with whether or not women have a soul. In the 17th century, anti-Catholics attempted to distort the discussion at Mâcon and publicly claimed that the Mâcon bishops had formally addressed — even voted — as to whether or not women have a soul. Through the years this myth has been exacerbated and skewed so as to connect it with the council at Trent. Even today some Internet sites claim that the Church once debated whether or not women have souls.
Myth: Trent resulted in a rigid Church, one that lacks both diversity and stymies fresh ideas.Fact: The bishops at Trent, like all Catholic bishops, saw themselves as guardians of the deposit of faith, the faith of Jesus Christ. What was true when Jesus walked the earth was true in the 16th century and is true today, and the Church makes no apologies for that position. Since the opening session of Trent there have been 44 popes, each with his own perspective, each with his own administration, each with his own ideas — but none have broken with the teachings of Jesus.
The Council of Trent and the Reform of the Church
While Church fathers at Trent clarified but did not change Catholic teachings, they did make many lasting reforms in the organization and administration of the Church. These reforms included:
– Ending the practices of simony, nepotism and pluralism.
– Limiting bishops to control of only one diocese or holding more than one ecclesiastical office at a time, which had not previously been the case. Bishops were expected to reside and govern their diocese and regularly visit each parish; lengthy absences required the pope's approval. Every bishop was obligated to maintain high moral standards, live frugally and avoid excess.
– Requiring strict discipline within religious orders and placing monasteries under the jurisdiction of the bishop, rather than the pope.
– Giving special attention to the education of the clergy, including the goal of establishing a seminary in every diocese. Celibacy was upheld, bishops were responsible to select and mentor men for the priesthood, and those men could not be ordained before age 25.
– Promoting the development of the Roman Missal to standardize the Mass and a catechism containing a concise summary of Catholic beliefs.


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Back in Decmber, it was announced that Twilight Time will release a Blu-ray version of Brian De Palma's The Fury on March 12. A week or two ago, the cover art (at left) was revealed. Our old friend Bill Fentum notes in the comments below that the Blu-ray will include an isolated track of John Williams's score, as well as the theatrical trailer. The Fury Blu-ray will be a limited edition, to 3000 copies. The cover art is the original poster art for the film's original release, but with a new, crazy font (I liked the original one better).
Meanwhile, in the U.K., MGM had timed a Blu-ray release of De Palma's Carrie to coincide with the upcoming Kimberly Peirce remake. When the latter film's release was pushed back to October 2013, they almost changed the Blu-ray release date, as well, but now it looks like they will move forward with the original release date of March 4. The U.K. Blu-ray may or may not include a new 5-minute feature titled Bringing Back Carrie.
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Interview with Rohit Nadhani, founder of Webyog
At the MySQL Conference, I had the chance to interview Rohit Nadhani, founder of Webyog, the folk that make SQLyog and MONyog. Watch the video, for more.
Generally based out of Bangalore (I visited them when I was last there), Webyog just started an office in Santa Clara, and are expanding. They boast 15,000 paid customers so far, with some big name customers: Google, Yahoo!, executive office to the US president, and more.
SQLyog is termed as an upgrade from phpMyAdmin. There is a GPL community edition, with some "power tools" that is part of the Enterprise Edition. It is very Win32 based, but easy enough to run on other OSes via WINE or some sort of virtualisation tool.
MONyog is an agentless monitoring tool. It competes directly with Enterprise Monitor from MySQL, and there is no Community edition.
All Webyog licenses are perpetual (not subscription), with updates for a year. There are also unlimited licenses (server/user).
The motto: Low priced software, but sell thousands of copies.
The MySQL DevZone has an interview from 2006, that Jay conducted with Rohit. Go forth and read it.


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As a kid, I was always scared of cycling. I knew how to ride a bike but I could never pluck up the courage to cycle the two or three miles to my school.
But I moved to London to study at UCL and soon found myself the proud owner of a £5 Ebay road bike. It was only a few months before someone discovered that my padlock was just for show and kindly took the bike off my hands but by then it was too late: I was a fully converted London cyclist.
Cycle commuting's fine. Fun in fact. But I wanted to try something a bit more adventurous on my bike so I came up with the idea of cycling between the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales, walking up each when I got there. I didn't know if I was fit enough (I'd never cycled for more than a day before) or if my bike was up to it (it only cost £150 from Decathlon) but I booked some train tickets and ended up having a great time.
The following year I joined some friends on a long weekend's ride to Amsterdam and back. By now, I was a fully converted touring cyclist.
For my next trip, I set my sights higher. I knew that my work would be taking me to the top of Norway the following summer and I hatched a plan: rather than fly home, I would cycle.
I took my old faithful Decathlon beast out with me, borrowed a small tent from a friend, packed a stove into my panniers and set off southwards from the top of Europe.
It was quite a culture shock. I was deep into the Arctic circle at the beginning and, being summer, that meant near 24-hour daylight and mild temperatures most of the time. Navigation was easy too as there was only one road for the first 150 miles or so. I didn't speak to anyone at all for three days after I set off – not a word – and even after that my first conversation was a brief one: Do you speak English? "Yes". Do you have any maps? "No". OK, thanks!
It wasn't all plain sailing though. My stove stopped working after the first week and someone stole my shoes when I spent a night in a hostel so I had to cycle the remaining distance in sandals eating cold sandwiches for tea. The mosquitoes up north were relentless too.
But when arrived back into London Stansted after a short budget flight from Stockholm (I only had three weeks off work so couldn't make it all the way on two wheels), I felt like a new man. I unpacked my bike from its cardboard box, reassembled it outside Arrivals and pointed my front wheel homewards.
Since then I've been on a few more tours – through France, across Wales and around Oman – and even written a beginner's guide to cycling around the world.
If you are a cyclist or just someone who knows how to ride a bike then you already meet all the criteria for completing a tour. Any bike will do. As mentioned, I used the cheapest touring bike I could find but I've also done long days (60 or 70 miles) on a single speed and I'm no hero. My wife's bike, which she rides with me on most trips, cost about £300 on the cycle to work scheme. If your bike can take a rack then you can carry more kit which makes camping easier. If not then just load up a rucksack and perhaps book a hostel.
If you ride to work once in a while then your legs will be strong enough to pedal a bit further on a special occasion. And getting up the next day to do the same will probably be fine too. You might be surprised how quickly your body adapts.
As a start, find a train station somewhere between, say, 30 and 60 miles from your house and try cycling there on a weekend and taking the train back. If you like it then pick a hostel or campsite for another weekend to cycle there and back. If you can do that then you are already a tourer. Happy adventures.
(This article was originally written for London Cyclist)


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