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For the second time this week, while I was searching something through the search bar, Malwarebytes blocked an outbound connection that they labeled as "trojan." (This time the website name was related to what I was searching for since the first part was in the url but I never visited that website). I wonder if there is something particular about Firefox's search function that has led to this.

I don't think it has to do with my currently installed extensions (Adblock Plus, Disconnect, HTTPS Everywhere, and Malwarebytes Browser Guard) because I use the same ones on Chrome and never had this problem. I just recently switched away from Chrome about a few weeks ago and was looking forward to be

I have a pdf copy of a PhD dissertation that I obtained legally through a library database. The dissertation is of course copyrighted. I want to print the pdf, which I am legally allowed to do. But I don't want to print it on my own since it would not be bound and would take up too much ink and paper. Would it be legal to run it through a printing service like Amazon's KDP in order to produce a single copy for personal use? Or would merely uploading it to Amazon's service be a violation of copyright? Thanks in advance.

I'm interested in the habits surrounding Missal usage amongst fellow Latin Mass goers. How do you use yours? Only for the Epistle and Gospel? Following everything the priest is saying? Saying prayers unrelated to the Mass text? Do you leave it in the pews while going to receive communion or do you bring it with you to say prayers while in line? Does your usage vary between Low Mass and Sung Mass? Etc.

There is no right or wrong answers in this thread: how do YOU use your Missal?

Does anyone know where I can buy an insert that contains the complementary psalter?

I have a number of questions regarding commemorations in the Liturgy of the Hours. First let me quote the relevant paragraphs from the General Instructions:

237. On Sundays, solemnities, and feasts, on Ash Wednesday, during Holy Week, and during the octave of Easter, memorials that happen to fall on these days are disregarded.

238. On the weekdays from 17 to 24 December, during the octave of Christmas, and on the weekdays of Lent, no obligatory memorials are celebrated, even in particular calendars. When any happen to fall during Lent in a given year, they are treated as optional memorials.

239. During privileged seasons, if it is desired to celebrate the office of a saint on

I have a number of questions regarding commemorations. First let me quote the relevant paragraphs from the General Instructions:

237. On Sundays, solemnities, and feasts, on Ash Wednesday, during Holy Week, and during the octave of Easter, memorials that happen to fall on these days are disregarded.

238. On the weekdays from 17 to 24 December, during the octave of Christmas, and on the weekdays of Lent, no obligatory memorials are celebrated, even in particular calendars. When any happen to fall during Lent in a given year, they are treated as optional memorials.

239. During privileged seasons, if it is desired to celebrate the office of a saint on a day assigned to his or her

Once the new translation of the Liturgy of the Hours is approved and released, will priests still be permitted to pray the current version in order to fulfil their obligation to pray the LotH? Or would the current translation be rendered obsolete by the change? Thank you in advance for answering.

How does the Office for the Dead (OftD henceforward) work in relation to the Liturgy of the Hours? Could, say, the OftD Office of Readings replace the daily Office of Readings?

Or is the traditional way to pray the OftD to pray it in its entirety alongside praying the complete LotH, as in saying the Invitatory for each of them and treating them as being separate (Inv+OoR+Lauds followed by OftD Inv+OoR+Lauds; Midday prayers follow by OftD Midday prayers, etc)?

I understand that as a layman I am under no obligation to pray the LotH, much less to pray it correctly. But I would like to know exactly how LotH and OftD relate to one another. Thank you in advance.

Controversial claim, but this just occurred to me: Stratovarius' Eagleheart is Plato's Cave The lines which particularly lend to this interpretation are as follows:

Watching the walls where the shadows dance

Like in Plato's cave, the prisoners are watching shadows on the wall.

Drifting away into a trance

A trace indicates a realm of unreality, a mere appearance in place of the real.

Longing for the deepest desire

Everyone desires to know the truth.

Determined with courage, breaking the chains

The prisoners were shackled in place.

Flame burning brighter with every day

The fire behind the prisoners that is used to create the shadow.

Highest of mountains, s

I have a fountain pen (Noodler's Ahab) that is made out of "vegetal resin" supposedly. I've also heard some say that the material is "cellulose acetate butyrate." I have no clue if those are the same thing. The problem with this pen is that it smells like vomit, an absolutely putrid smell that gets on your hands. I want to try to remove the smell but I'm worried about destroying the pen. (I know of two instances of people washing it in an ammonia solution and both destroyed the pen; these tales have made me cautious.)

My question is, if I were to bury my pen in a bag of baking soda for a week, would the baking soda cause any reaction with the pen? Would it even work or am I just wasting my

I have a rather odd question about removing the Ahab smell. If nothing else works, I might remove the converter and the feed and fill the entire inside of my Ahab with baking soda and bury the pen in a bag of baking soda. I plan to leave it like that for a month (I'm desperate, I hate that smell on my hands; make me want to puke for the entire day).

Would this cause any harm to the pen? Would it harm the metal bits? Would it harm the o-ring? I know nothing about composting; would it cause my pen to start decomposing?

Is it possible to dilute ink by using only a converter? I was thinking that I would dip the converter into the ink bottle, draw in some ink and then dip it into a cup of water and draw in some water, followed by some shaking. Would this work?

Is the primary difference between the scholastic's use of dialectical reasoning and the Hegelian use that the scholastics lack the Fichtean synthesis and instead have the thesis defeat the antithesis?