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No two divorces are the same, and no two divorces reach the same resolution. That means that how you achieve a resolution also differs from case to case. R. Scott Downing is a skilled trial lawyer who has tried numerous complex high-dollar property and custody cases. Recognizing the uniqueness of each case and that not every situation requires a courtroom, Scott is also skilled in the use of collaborative law to reach a resolution.
In 2017, Scott was named to The National Law Journal's Divorce, Trusts & Estates Trailblazers list, the only North Texas family law attorney selected. AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, Scott has earned recognition on every Thomson Reuters Texas Super Lawyers list since its inception in 2003, receiving additional recognition among the "Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers" (2009 and 2013-2019) and "Top 100 Dallas/Fort Worth Super Lawyers" (2009-2010, 2013-2019.) He also has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America by Woodward White Inc. each year since 2007, and in the D Magazine list of the Best Lawyers in Dallas in 2004, 2014, 2016 and 2018. Scott also was named to the list of 500 Most Powerful Business Leaders in Dallas/Fort Worth in 2016 by D CEO Magazine.
He has written extensively for national and statewide publications on various family law topics, including complex characteristic issues, advanced evidence matters, attorney ad litem practice, jurisdictional conflicts, trial presentation and hidden asset cases in preparation for temporary hearings. He also routinely speaks before groups including the Advanced Family Law Course and Marriage Dissolution Course to address family law and evidentiary topics.
Scott's articles have been published by the State Bar of Texas, The Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists. His article "Property Puzzles: Characterization, Tracing, 25 Rules and More" earned honors as the Best Family Law CLE article in 2006.
In 2006 and 2007, he also served as director of the State Bar of Texas Family Law Section's Family Law Essentials course, and as co-director of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists Course in 2007. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists and as chairman of the District 1A Grievance Committee. He also was selected to serve as the director of the 2009 Marriage Dissolution Course.
He is a 1991 graduate of the University of Houston Law Center. During law school, he earned American Jurisprudence Awards in contracts and civil trial advocacy in addition to serving as associate editor of the Houston Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas.
Scott has been Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1999, demonstrating his ongoing commitment to excellence in this area of law. Board Certification requires continuing education and involvement in the issues of family law, including marriage, adoption, divorce, custody, support and ownership of property acquired before and during marriage.
The routes to resolution may vary from case to case, and for many, as they go through a divorce, the path is obscured during the process. Scott's experience and expertise help guide his clients to a place where they can see the way to a clearer future.
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Texas, 1992
University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas
J.D. – 1991
Honors: American Jurisprudence Award Contracts
Honors: American Jurisprudence Award Civil Trial Advocacy
Law Review: Houston Law Review, Associate Editor
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
B.A. – 1988
How to Manage a High-Stakes Divorce, Texas Lawyer, February 2017
A Hush-Hush Half-Billion-Dollar Divorce Goes Public, Houston Chronicle, October 16, 2016
Keeping Your Business Together, Cleaner, January 2016
Characterization, Categories; Code; Case Law, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course, August 2012
Valuation: Approaches, Assets and Authority, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course, August 2010
Property Puzzles: 30 Characterization Rules, Explanations & Examples, University of Texas School of Law Family Law on the Frontlines Conference, June 2009
Understanding Real Value, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course, August, 2008
Property Puzzles: Characterization, Tracing, 25 Rules and More (Winner of Best Family Law CLE Article), State Bar of Texas Marriage Dissolution Institute, March, 2006
Use of Social Studies and Psychological Evaluations at Trial (Do New HIPAA and DSM Changes Impact?), Advanced Family Law Course, August 2014
Examining Experts Effectively, University of Texas School of Law, Innovations – Breaking Boundaries in Custody Litigation Seminar, June 2014
Beyond Contempt, Enforcing SAPCR Orders, Advanced Family Law Course, August, 2011
Valuation: Approaches, Assets and Authority, Advanced Family Law Course, August, 2011
Grievances: The Process, Responses and Most Frequent Complaints, University of Texas School of Law Family Law on the Frontlines Conference, June, 2011
Property Puzzles: Characterization, Tracing, 30 Rules and More, Texas Center for the Judiciary Family Law Conference, November, 2009
Characterization Workshop: Big, Small, Usual, and Unique; Mixed Characterization, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course, August, 2009
Making Summary Judgment Relevant Again, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course, August, 2007
Daubert/Experts, The Ultimate Trial Notebook Course, December, 2006
Property Puzzles: Characterization, Tracing, Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar, September, 2006
Be Careful What You Ask For, You May Get It; Common Sense Discovery Requests and Responses, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course, August, 2006
Being Creative with Unusual Remedies, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Drafting Course, 2005
Property Puzzles: Characterization, Tracing, 25 Rules and More, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course, August, 2005
Rubbish or Rembrandt: The Art of Evaluating a Custody Case, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course, 2004
Mission Impossible: Choosing and Admitting Expert Witnesses, Ultimate Trial Notebook, Family Law, December, 2004
Recent Developments in Family Law, State Bar College "Spring Training" Course, March 2004
Top Ten Ways to Screw Up a Premarital Agreement, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Drafting Course, 2003
Discovery in Mid-Size Cases Under the New Rules, Civil Discovery Under New Rules, University of Houston, 1999
Creative Decision Making in Custody Arrangements; Psychological Theories; Their Admissibility After Daubert; and Alternatives to Trial, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 1998
Family Law Issues That Impact the Professional Athlete, Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Volume 15, No. 2, 1998
Peculiar Characterization Issues Involving Athletes and Entertainers, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course, 1997
Dallas Bar Association Case Law Update, Dallas Bar Association, 1997
Pensions, Stock Options & Divorce, TSCPA Conference, 1997
Evidence Without Witnesses, Advanced Evidence and Discovery Institute, 1997
Preparing for the Petitioner's Financial Temporary Orders Hearing, Marriage Dissolution Course, 1997
Ad Litems, Marriage Dissolution Course, 1996
Attorney Ad Litem and Guardian Ad Litem Practice, State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course, 1996
Custody Litigation, Case Evaluation, Discovery, Controlling Costs, Trial Strategy, Etc., University of Houston Family Law Practice Institute, 1996
Preparation for and the Direct Examination of Husband (Black Hat) in a Hidden Assets, Fraud, and Breach of Fiduciary Duty Case, TAFLS 10th Annual Trial Institute, 1996
Legislative Changes, Grand Prairie Bar Association, 1995
Business Valuation Panel Moderator: Advanced Family Law Course, August 2013
Course Director: State Bar Annual Meeting – Family Law Program, June 2009
Course Director: Marriage Dissolution Course, April 2009
Co-Course Director: Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists Course, January 2007
Course Director: Family Law Essentials, State Bar of Texas Family Law Section, May 2006 – May 2007
Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, Legal Division, 2003 – 2019
Top 100 Lawyers in Texas, Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, Legal Division, 2009, 2013 – 2019
Top 100 Lawyers in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, Legal Division, 2009 – 2010, 2013 – 2019
The Best Lawyers in America, Family Law, 2007 – 2019
Divorce, Trusts & Estates Trailblazers, The National Law Journal, 2017
Best Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine, 2004, 2014, 2016 2018
Dallas 500, D CEO, 2015
Best Lawyers Under 40 in Dallas, D Magazine, 2004
Best Family Law CLE Article, "Property Puzzles: Characterization, Tracing, 25 Rules and More", 2006
Marriage Dissolution Course Director, 2009
District 1A Grievance Committee Panel, 2005 – 2008
District 1A Grievance Committee Panel Chairman, 2008 – 2011
Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists Course Co-Director, 2007
Director: "Family Law Essentials." State Bar of Texas Family Law Section, May 2006; May 2007
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Fellow
Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, Board of Directors, 2005 – Present
College of the State Bar of Texas, Member
State Bar of Texas, Family Law Council, Member, 2005 – Present
State Bar of Texas, Family Law Section, Member
State Bar of Texas Collaborative Law Institute, Member
Dallas Bar Association, Family Law Section, Member
American Bar Association, Family Law Section, Member
Annette Stewart American Inn of Court, Treasurer, Barrister
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Q: How to deal with interpolated LocalizedStringKey in SwiftUI I'm literally pulling my hair out trying to translate my SwiftUI app for iOS and I'm facing a wall when I need to translate a interpolated String displaying the score of the user.
I already tried some String extensions but it seems not to work correctly. For example, I have :
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    func localized(withComment comment: String? = nil) -> String {
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The score View in ContentView.swift
ScoreCard("\("Score".localized()): \(quizManager.score)/\(quizManager.numberOfQuestions)")

which gets me to this:

I searched on the web and found nothing working about string interpolation for localizable strings.
Does anyone has a solution for this please?

A: Use LocalizedStringKey in your content View
LocalizedStringKey("Score \(quizManager.score)/\(quizManager.numberOfQuestions)")

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English title: Observations on development of vegetation in burned areas in Northern Finland.
The aim of the study was to follow development of vegetation in dry upland forest sites after forest fire. The sample sites were situated in the counties of Muonio, Kolari, Sodankylä, Pelkosenniemi, Savukoski, Kemijärvi and Salla, in the northernmost Finland.
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Pope Francis says Our Father is poorly translated
December 8, 2017 CNA Daily News News Briefs 6 Print
Vatican City, Dec 8, 2017 / 10:40 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a video series for Italian television network TV2000, Pope Francis said that "lead us not into temptation" is a poorly translated line of the Our Father.
"This is not a good translation," the Pope said in the video, published Dec. 6. "I am the one who falls, it's not (God) who pushes me toward temptation to see how I fall. A father doesn't do this, a father helps us to get up right away."
He noted that this line was recently re-translated in the French version of the prayer to read "do not let me fall into temptation."
The Latin version of the prayer, the authoritative version in the Catholic Church, reads "ne nos inducas in tentationem."
The Pope said that the one who leads people into temptation "is Satan; that is the work of Satan." He said that the essence of that line in the prayer is like telling God: "when Satan leads me into temptation, please, give me your hand. Give me your hand."
Just as Jesus gave Peter his hand to help him out of the water when he began to sink, the prayer also asks God to "give me your hand so that I don't drown," Pope Francis said.
The Pope made his comments in the seventh part of the "Our Father" television series being aired by Italian television network TV2000.
Filmed in collaboration with the Vatican's Secretariat for Communications, the series consists of nine question-and-answer sessions with Pope Francis and Fr. Marco Pozza, a theologian and a prison chaplain in the northern Italian city of Padua.
In each of the sessions, Fr. Pozza asks the Pope about a different line in the Our Father prayer, and the Pope offers his insights. A preview of the series was presented at the Vatican's Film Library by Msgr. Dario Edoardo Vigano, head of the Secretariat for Communications.
The show also led to the publication of a book titled "Our Father," which was released by the Vatican Publishing House and Italian publisher Rizzoli Nov. 23, and is based on Pozza's conversations with the Pope in the video series.
Each of the first eight episodes of the series begin with an excerpt from conversation between the Pope and Pozza, which is followed by a second conversation between Pozza and another guest. The final episode will consist of the priest's entire conversation with Pope Francis.
In his question to Pope Francis on the line "lead us not into temptation," Pozza noted that many people have asked him how God can lead someone into temptation, and questioned what the phrase actually intends to say.
The question is one of the reasons the French bishops decided to make a request for a new translation of the Our Father that they believe conveys the meaning more clearly.
According to the French episcopal conference, the decision to make the change was accepted by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in June 2013.
The new translation, released Dec. 3 to mark the first day of Advent and the beginning of the new liturgical year, now reads "ne nous laisse pas entrer en tentation," meaning, "do not let us fall into temptation," versus the former "ne nous soumets pas à la tentation," or "lead us not into temptation."
The Pope's remarks do not change the translations of liturgical texts. Such a change would begin with a resolution by an episcopal conference in English-speaking countries.
In a previous episode of the "Our Father" series, Pope Francis said "it takes courage" to recite the prayer, because it means calling on someone else and truly believing that "God is the Father who accompanies me, forgives me, gives me bread, is attentive to everything I ask, and dresses me better than wildflowers."
"To believe is a great risk," and means daring to make the leap of faith, he said. Because of this, "praying together is so beautiful: because we help each other to dare."
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Pope Francis is going on retreat – and you can join in
March 4, 2017 CNA Daily News 0
Vatican City, Mar 4, 2017 / 06:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As Pope Francis leaves Sunday to begin his annual Lenten retreat, Fr. Giulio Michelini, the priest leading this year's spiritual exercises, said he hopes Christians around the world will be inspired to join in.
"I will be grateful to all those that are listening to us, that these exercises will be shared by all who believe in Jesus Christ," Fr. Michelini told CNA. "We can do them together."
"I know that people will go to work, will go to school, will be busy during these days," he said, but "we can read the Passion according to Matthew's Gospel, and that can be a way to pray to the Holy Spirit so that the Church will be more united."
Pope Francis and members of the Roman Curia will make their annual five-day spiritual exercises retreat at the Casa Divin Maestro in Ariccia, a city located some 16 miles outside of Rome. Located on Lake Albano, it is just a short way from the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.
This year's retreat, which runs March 5-10, will be led by Fr. Giulio Michelini, a Franciscan of the Seraphic Province of the Friars Minor of Umbria.
He said that his preaching for the week will be an in-depth examination and reflection on the Gospel of Matthew, starting with the Last Supper and moving through the Passion to the Resurrection.
"I will try to go deep into the Jesus that the disciples saw and followed," he said. "So there will be a reflection on the humanity of Jesus," as well as a meditation on relationships.
Most importantly, the retreat "will be a time of restoration," Fr. Michelini said. "We will quit working, talking, doing the usual things that the Pope, Bishops and Cardinals, and households do."
They will pray, and there will be time to walk around the beautiful grounds and lake outside the retreat house, he said, "a time to quit, to stop and to reflect."
This is the fourth consecutive year the Pope and Curial members have held their Lenten retreat at the house in Ariccia.
While the practice of the pontiff going on retreat with the heads of Vatican dicasteries each Lent began some 80 years ago under the pontificate of Paul XI, it was customary for them to follow the spiritual exercises on Vatican ground. Beginning in Lent 2014, Pope Francis chose to hold the retreat outside of Rome, true to his background as a Jesuit.
This time of Lent, Fr. Michelini said, is a good period to slow down and to reflect on our spiritual lives and how they may be in need of enrichment. "It is helpful to remember that we are only human," he said. "We need to eat, we need people to help us too."
"And so the 40 days are a way for us to reflect not only on the poor, but also how we are poor, in a different sense."
Especially in wealthy Western countries, where we have enough food and money, we don't necessarily know what it is like to experience need, he said.
"Fasting and praying is not only a way for those who believe to be more in touch with God, and to have the same experience that Jesus did in the desert, but it's also a way to be more human. Because we normally have everything."
Pope to future Romanian priests: seminary is your 'gym' for ministry
May 5, 2017 CNA Daily News 0
Vatican City, May 5, 2017 / 10:41 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday Pope Francis told seminarians studying in Rome to resist complacency and to think of their studies as strength training for their hearts and wills, preparing them for service to others.
"Your College is increasingly a 'gym' where you work out to give your life with willingness; your studies are tools of service for the Church, which also embellish the rich cultural tradition of your beloved country," he said May 5 to the community of the Pontifical Romanian College.
"To treasure, through prayer and intense study, what the Lord has done in his People, is a beautiful opportunity in the years you spend in Rome, where you can breathe the universality of the Church."
Pope Francis met with the community at the Vatican's Consistory Hall to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the college's founding.
In his speech, the Pope reflected on the history of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church of the Byzantine rite which came into full union with the Bishop of Rome in 1700.
In the 20th century the Church was persecuted under communism and forced underground, only re-emerging 40 years later after the fall of the communist regime in 1990.
After these difficulties, the Church in Romania is now experiencing a "beautiful rebirth," Francis said, with new challenges to face. But "this story, made of great witnesses of faith and moments of trial, of severe winters and of flourishing springs, belongs to you," he said.
It is good to remember this story, not as way to stay stuck in the past, but embracing each era of the Church as it comes, always remaining open to the actions of the Holy Spirit, the Pope continued.
Remembering the recent history of the Church in Romania will help them to overcome the temptation to settle for mediocrity, trying to lead "a 'normal' life," Francis said, "where everything is without impetus and ardor, and where sooner or later you end up becoming the jealous keepers of your time, your security, your well-being."
Instead, he urged them, aspire to a "passionate ministry" encouraged by the examples of your great witnesses of the faith.
"A Shepherd, as a disciple configured to Christ who gave his life 'until the end' (John 13:1), cannot allow himself to come to terms with a mediocre life or to adapt to situations without risking anything."
"To guard over the memory, then, is not simply to remember the past, but to lay the foundation for the future, for a hopeful future," he said.
In addition to preserving the memory of the Church in their country, Pope Francis encouraged them to cultivate hope, saying it was his second wish for them.
"There is so much need to nourish Christian hope, that hope which gives a new outlook, capable of discovering and seeing good, even when it is obscured by evil," he said.
In the liturgy during the Easter season we hear from the Acts of the Apostles how the early Church "persevered in prayer, communion, and charity," the Pope said. They never lost sight of hope, and gave it to the world, "even when it is without means, unfinished and opposed."
"I wish your home to be a cenacle where the Spirit plants missionaries of hope, infectious bearers of the presence of the Risen Lord, courageous in creativity and never disheartened to problems and shortages of means," he said.
"May the Holy Spirit also arouse in you the desire to seek and promote, with purified heart, the path of concord and unity among all Christians."
Pope Francis then turned to those present from the Pontifical College of St. Ephrem, which hosts student priests of the Eastern Catholic Churches who speak Arabic, and who are welcomed by the Pontifical Romanian College.
"By meeting you, I think of the situation in which there are so many faithful in your lands, many families, who are forced to leave their home in the face of the collapse of waves of violence and suffering," he said.
"These brothers and sisters I want to embrace in a special way, together with their Patriarchs and Bishops."
Students 'hack' away at global problems during Vatican hackathon
Vatican City, Mar 9, 2018 / 01:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A March 8-11 "hacking marathon" at the Vatican is in full swing, with 120 students of different backgrounds, faiths, and disciplines working to "hack" into global social problems in 36 hours of innovative brainstorming.
"VHacks" is the first-ever Vatican hackathon, and the young participants and organizers have said that the location is an integral part of the event's impact and appeal.
"It still sounds so strange: a hackathon at the Vatican," said Cameron, a 21-year-old participant. "And that's what makes it so amazing – the fact that you wouldn't expect it."
Cameron is an electrical engineering student at Harvard and on the organizing committee of VHacks. He told CNA that fact that VHacks is taking place at all says a lot "about how the Vatican, especially with Pope Francis' style, is embracing technology a little bit more than it has before."
Hailing from 60 different countries, participants work in teams to tackle challenges related to the broader themes of social inclusion, interfaith dialogue, and refugees and migrants.
Each team chooses a challenge to "hack" during the conference, working nearly round-the-clock to come up with creative, technological solutions. At the end, all the teams will present their solutions to judges who choose the top projects and the final winners.
Ibrahim, 21, is from Pakistan and is studying industrial engineering and management at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany.
He told CNA that the themes of VHacks are good in and of themselves, "but to have [the event] at such an important place just adds to it and adds to how serious we are in figuring out and solving these problems."
A Muslim, he considers the Vatican a "landmark," and a "sacred place," which adds to the overall environment of the hackathon. "I think this is an extremely amazing initiative," he said.
Hailing from Buenos Aires in Argentina, Sebastian, 24, told CNA that he has participated in hackathons before, but this one is "on another scale," and that's what first piqued his interest.
As a Catholic, he was also glad to see the Church getting involved in something like a hackathon, he said, noting that he has been invited to different hackathons before but decided against participating because compared to VHacks, "something was always missing."
Lucy, 29, told CNA that she is really excited by "how invested this hackathon is in the human perspective and understanding what the user's needs are." She is a master's student studying human-centered design thinking at Georgetown University.
Her team members, who all came from Georgetown, a partner in the event, chose the migrants and refugees challenge. "When you think about refugees in the big scope, it seems like there's no point of entry that's going to succeed," she said.
"So how do we as individuals or as groups find an entry into that? I really think it is through this human-centered design" that VHacks is focused on.
The hackathon is also interspersed with educational opportunities, including panels and workshops on topics related to the themes. Participants can also avail themselves of advice and guidance from experienced "mentors" present to help throughout the conference.
"It's not just a hackathon but a learning experience and a team-building experience," Lucy said.
The event will conclude with Mass and sightseeing in St. Peter's Basilica March 11, followed by attendance at the Pope's Sunday Angelus and his papal blessing in St. Peter's Square.
Dominican Fr. Eric Salobir, a co-chairman of VHacks and a consultor for the Secretariat of Communications, told CNA that having the hackathon at the Vatican is very symbolic, and allows big issues to be tackled from the global perspective offered by the Church.
Salobir is also the founder of the OPTIC network, a disruptive technology think-tank which frequently collaborates with the Holy See.
Explaining the term hackathon, Cameron clarified that while the words "hack" or "hacking" can have negative connotations, the phrase in this case is used to mean "hacking into a problem that has no clear start."
"It just comes down to finding an entry point and saying, 'This is where we're going to start looking at it.'"
He acknowledged that it is unrealistic to think that solutions to these problems can possibly be found in just 24 or 36 hours. But what they want to do is "plant a seed" and create something to expand on in the future.
The environment of the hackathon, which lacks the usual pressures found in a career setting, makes it really "conducive to innovation," he stated.
In the end, it is hoped that some of the new ideas produced will be brought to fruition by the corporations, foundations and private donors sponsoring the hackathon.
A lofty goal, Salobir said they even hope to have some examples "of how technology can help to solve problems" in place by the time of the synod on the youth in October. "We hope to be able to show very practical, useful solutions," he said.
"We saw from our experiences [putting on hackathons] in San Francisco and Paris that the students are incredibly creative in the way to use technology positively, in a way the older generations cannot imagine. They were born in this time of digital technology and sharing economy and they can provide a lot."
"I have no clue what they will do practically, I have just the experience of other hackathons. But at other hackathons they really came with amazing ideas. I hope that this time it will be the same and they will really blow our minds with their creativity."
God have mercy!
I cannot believe this. Or rather, sadly, I can believe it, I just don't want to.
In addition to his expertise in environmental science, international trade and finance, political economy and nuclear disarmament, Islamic culture and history, and Catholic liturgy, dogmatic theology, and moral theology, we now learn with astonishment that Pope Bergoglio is an expert in the ancient languages necessary for Biblical translation and research. In fact he is as ignorant and as wrong here as he has shown himself to be in these other fields. One Biblical expert has summarized Pope Bergoglio's errors as follows:
"There are two major issues with Pope Francis's call to change the Lord's Prayer. In attempting to remove any implication that God has some hand in evil, the Pope not only overlooks the many biblical examples where God works with Satan to test his followers and even his own son, but he also ignores the plain meaning of the Gospel text. A more consistent understanding of God actually requires that wording, begging God not to lead a worshipper into temptation."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/lead-us-not-into-temptation-why-pope-francis-is-wrong-about-the-lords-prayer-88886
Now he claims to know better than st Jerome and I guess even than our Lord Himself who may have been unduly bound by the prejudice of His time to compose a really good, mercy-filled prayer.
How long will this disastrous era go on?
There are still people in the Middle East who speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus. They might lay claim to the original version of Jesus Christ; it would be instructive to see how they say it today. Nevertheless, the Greek version found in Matthew is still the "word of the Lord." The question then for English speakers is what is the most faithful translation.
The complicated context of Pope Francis' confusing remarks about the "Our Father" – Catholic World Report
Faith, Patriotism, and an Extra Side of Cheese
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MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: NR Reel Rating: (2 out of 5) Faith of Our Fathers is similar to Pixar's Inside Out in telling two parallel stories that intertwine to inform a central theme. Here, […]


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Q: .htaccess for MODx Evo site behind Cloudflare with https Looks like a bit easy question but I can't done that right, so I'd ask you for a little help:
I have some small site made on MODx Evo. It is placed behind CloudFlare (free tariff, very basic features used), mainly for their free https. Now I try to set only one address as a base one:

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*http://example.org

*https://example.org <-- this one should be base

*http://www.example.org

*https://www.example.org
I do use default MODx Evo .htaccess to provide nice URLs and some basic PHP settings, which looks like this:
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Fix Apache internal dummy connections from breaking [(site_url)] cache
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*internal\ dummy\ connection.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# Exclude /assets and /manager directories and images from rewrite rules
RewriteRule ^(manager|assets|js|css|images|img)/.*$ - [L]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico)$ - [L]

# For Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Here is everything but the part which does the redirect from www to non-www domain, and it is stock settings.
Now I need to do another two redirect conditions:

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*http -> https

*www -> non-www

This is where I'm stuck. I can easily redirect non-www to www, but as I add http/https part, I'm getting 301 loop.
The site itself is on Apache (the Cloudflare adds their special Nginx version).
Please advice what should I add to the .htaccess shown above to have all 3 domain variants shown above redirected nicely to https://example.org one?

A: To my great surprise, this was possible to do with Page Rules on Cloudflare itself, which is the best solution as for me, since no backend (like my server behind the Cloudflare) involved.
Thanks Cloudflare!

A: .httacces may not work
I founded solution by edit config (https://gitlab.com/snippets/1906338)
To fix https thro cloudflare needs edit var $secured like this in manager/includes/config.inc.php - add checking cloudflare $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_VISITOR"]
$secured = (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] == 'https') ||
(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_CF_VISITOR"]) && $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_VISITOR"] == '{"scheme":"https"}');


After years of playing video games, one fan set out to explore their application in the field of architecture and went on to earn an academic degree.
Video games inspired Chris Totten to think about how game design can be applied to architecture. Luckily for him, he managed to connect with a professional designer who became interested in his ideas, according to gamasutra.com, an industry website.
As it turned out, Totten and Chris Chin from Valve Corporation have a similar outlook on the discipline.
"[Chin described his eagerness] to see game engines used as tools for architectural visualization that allows clients walk through their own buildings," wrote Totten in an excerpt published on the website.
He then described how their collaboration helped him use game design techniques in his work on his thesis for the Master of Architecture degree at the Catholic University of America School, School of Architecture and Planning, in Washington D.C.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for architects will grow dynamically at around 18 percent during 2006-16.
Meanwhile, demand for graphic designers is projected to increase by 10 percent while the biggest upswing, 37 percent, will occur in the area of web design and computer technology during the same time period.


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