John Courtney Murray, SJ, (September 12, 1904 – August 16, 1967), was an American Jesuit priest and theologian, who was especially known for his efforts to reconcile Catholicism and religious pluralism, particularly focusing on the relationship between religious freedom and the institutions of a democratically structured modern state.
During the Second Vatican Council, he played a key role in persuading the assembly of the Catholic bishops to adopt the Council's ground-breaking Declaration on Religious Liberty, Dignitatis humanae.
John Courtney Murray was born in New York City on September 12, 1904. In 1920 he entered the New York province of the Society of Jesus. He studied Classics and Philosophy at Boston College, receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in 1926 and 1927 respectively. Following his graduation, he travelled to the Philippines, where he taught Latin and English literature at the Ateneo de Manila.
In 1930, Murray returned to the United States. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1933. He pursued further studies at the Gregorian University in Rome and in 1937, he completed a doctorate in sacred theology.
After his return from Rome to the United States, just before the beginning of World War II, he joined the Jesuit theologate in Woodstock, Maryland and taught Catholic trinitarian theology. In 1940, Murray still fully supported the Catholic doctrine that there was no salvation outside the Church.
In 1941, he was named editor of the Jesuit journal Theological Studies. He held both positions until his death.
As representative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and consultant to the religious affairs section of the Allied High Commission, he helped draft and promote the 1943 Declaration on World Peace, an interfaith statement of principles for postwar reconstruction, and successfully promoted a close constitutional arrangement between the restored German state and the Church, which included sharing of tax revenue with the churches.
By 1944, Murray's endorsement of full co-operation with other theists led many Catholics to complain that he endangered American Catholic faith, who at the time, recommended minimal cooperation with non-Catholics for fear that lay Catholic faith would be weakened.
Similarly, Murray advocated religious freedom as defined and protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which contradicted Catholic doctrines of church/state relations before Vatican II.
In 1951 to 1952, following a lectureship at Yale University, he collaborated on a project with Robert Morrison MacIver of Columbia University to assess academic freedom and religious education in American public universities. Ultimately, the proposal argued for tax aid to private schools and for sympathetic exposure of religious faiths in public schools. The project was both nationally influential and personally formative, as it deepened Murray's understanding of and esteem for American constitutional law.
In his increasingly public role, several American bishops consulted Murray on legal issues such as censorship and birth control. He argued against what he saw as the reactionary and coercive practices of some Catholic bishops and instead advocated participation in substantive public debate, which he suggested offered a better appeal to public virtue. Instead of civic coercion, he argued, presenting moral opinions in the context of public discourse enabled Americans to both deepen their moral commitments and safeguard the 'genius' of American freedoms.
From 1958 to 1962, he served at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, applying just war criteria to Soviet-American relations.
Throughout the 1950s Murray promoted his ideas in Catholic journals where they received heavy criticism from the leading Catholic thinkers of the day. Msgr Fenton was the most prominent amongst those that opposed Murray as Murray's line was much closer to Americanism which had been condemned by Leo XIII. Murray had the advantage of being friends with Clare Boothe Luce, the US ambassador to Italy and second wife of Henry Luce the prominent magazine magnate. Murray's ideas were featured in Luce's Time magazine, most prominently on December 12 1960 when Murray graced the cover in a feature about 'US Catholics and the State'. Henry Luce was a prominent Republican and close friends with John Foster Dulles, (father of Avery Dulles SJ who known to be sympathetic to Murray's innovative and suspect theology) and Allen Dulles. The CIA, during this period were engaged in Operation Mockingbird which sought to use the news media to influence public opinion during the Cold War. Murray's liberal approach to religious liberty and the traditionally strong Catholic opposition to Communism was useful in the global battle against Communism especially in Latin America and other Catholic strongholds. After his death in 1967 his obituary in Time declared that he was responsible for incorporating 'the US secular doctrines of church-state separation and freedom of conscience in to the spiritual tradition of Roman Catholicism' despite the efforts of the "ultra conservative" faction in the Church.
By the late 1940s, Murray argued, that Catholic teaching on church/state relations was inadequate to the "moral functioning" of contemporary peoples. The Anglo-American West, he claimed, had developed a fuller truth about human dignity, which was the responsibility of all citizens to assume "moral control" over their own religious beliefs and to wrest control from paternalistic states. That truth was an "intention of nature" or a new dictate of natural law philosophy.
Murray's claim that a "new moral truth" had emerged outside the church led to conflict with Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Pro-Secretary of the Vatican Holy Office. In 1954, the Vatican demanded for Murray to end both writing on religious freedom and publishing his two latest articles on the issue.
In spite of his silencing, Murray continued to write privately on religious liberties and submitted his works to Rome, all of which were rejected.
In 1963, he was invited to the second (but not the first) session of the Second Vatican Council in which he drafted the third and fourth versions.
In 1965, it eventually became the council's endorsement of religious freedom Dignitatis humanae personae. After the council, he continued writing on the issue by claiming that the arguments offered by the final decree were inadequate even if the affirmation of religious freedom was unequivocal.
In 1966, prompted by the Vietnam War, he was appointed to serve on Lyndon Johnson's presidential commission, which reviewed Selective Service classifications. He supported the allowance of a classification for those opposed on moral grounds to some (though not all) wars, but the recommendation was not accepted by the Selective Service Administration.
Murray then turned to questions of how the Church might arrive at new theological doctrines. He argued that Catholics who arrived at new truths about God would have to do so in conversation "on a footing of equality" with non-Catholics and atheists. He suggested greater reforms, including a restructuring of the Church, which he saw as having overdeveloped its notion of authority and hierarchy at the expense of the bonds of love that had, from the start, defined the authentically Christian life.
In August 1967, Murray died of a heart attack in Queens, New York, one month before his 63rd birthday.
^ a b c "Murray, John Courtney, American theologian". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
^ Ashley, J. Matthew. "An Ignatian Spirit Avery Dulles's Theological Journey". Commonweal Magazine. Society of Jesus. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^ Wemhoff, David A. "John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and the American Proposition: How the CIA's Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church (book review)". Federal Bar Association. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^ "Religion: Man of the City". Time. Time. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^ "Religious freedom-- Vatican II modernizes church-state ties", Agostino Bono, Catholic News Service, 12 Oct 2005, retrieved 15 May 2007.
"The Problem of God Yesterday and Today". Georgetown University Library. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J. (born October 6, 1942 in Philadelphia, PA.) is a Jesuit priest, professor, author, and moral theologian currently serving as the Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Research Professor of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is a consultant to the Jesuit Refugee Service and is the recipient of the John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America in 1998.
Dignitatis humanae (Latin: Of the Dignity of the Human Person) is the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom. In the context of the council's stated intention "to develop the doctrine of recent popes on the inviolable rights of the human person and the constitutional order of society", Dignitatis humanae spells out the church's support for the protection of religious liberty. It set the ground rules by which the church would relate to secular states, both pluralistic ones like the United States and officially Catholic nations like Malta and Costa Rica.
The passage of this measure by a vote of 2,308 to 70 is considered by many to be one of the most significant events of the council. This declaration was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on December 7, 1965.
Dignitatis humanae became one of the key points of dispute between the Vatican and traditionalists such as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who argued that the encyclical was incompatible with previous authoritatively stated Catholic teaching.
Francis Xavier Clooney is an American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest and scholar in the teachings of Hinduism. He is currently a professor at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been nominated as the winner of the John Courtney Murray Award in 2017 for his distinguished theological achievement.
Harry's Place is a British political blog concerned with what the website authors perceive as extremism of the right and left, as well as antisemitism.
The John Courtney Murray Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Catholic Theological Society of America, named after John Courtney Murray, the great American theologian known for his work on religious liberty.
John T. Pawlikowski, O.S.M. (born November 2, 1940) is a Servite Friar priest, Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, and Former Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program, part of The Bernardin Center for Theology and Ministry, at Catholic Theological Union (CTU) in Chicago. He is currently in residence at Assumption Church in the River North section of Chicago.As member of Catholic Theological Union since 1968, Pawlikowski was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in 1980 by then-President Jimmy Carter. He was subsequently re-appointed by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. As of 2008, he chaired the Council's Subcommittee on Church Relations and served on its Executive Committee, the Committee on Conscience, and Academic Committee. Pawlikowski also served as president of the International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) from 2002-2008.
Mary Shawn Copeland (born August 24, 1947) is a Professor of Systematic Theology at Boston College. She is known for her work in theological anthropology, political theology, and African American Catholic theology.
Multiconfessionalism is a term applied to countries which have a power sharing arrangement between people of different faiths, usually three or more significant confessional groups within the same jurisdiction. Examples of modern countries deemed multiconfessional are Lebanon and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The "National Pact" is a formal agreement altering the 1926 Constitution, which laid the foundation of Lebanon as a confessionalist state. Instead of the minority wielding the most power, political power became more representative.
National Affairs is a quarterly magazine in the United States about political affairs that was first published in September 2009. Its founding editor, Yuval Levin, and authors are typically considered to be conservative. The magazine is published by National Affairs, Inc., which previously published the magazines The National Interest (1985–2001) and The Public Interest (1965–2005). National Affairs, Inc., was originally run by Irving Kristol, and featured board members such as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick, and author Charles Murray.
Paulo Miki (Japanese: パウロ三木; c. 1562 – 5 February 1597) was a Roman Catholic Japanese Jesuit seminarian, martyr and saint, one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan.
The Reverend Robert Araujo, SJ (October 30, 1948 – October 21, 2015), was the John Courtney Murray Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Formerly, he was the Robert Bellarmine University Professor in American and Public International Law at Gonzaga University School of Law (1994–2005) and an Ordinary Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (2005–2008).
He was a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center, St. Louis University School of Law, Boston College School of Law, and Fordham University Law School. He has an A.B.and a J.D. from Georgetown University; a M. Div. and a S.T.L. from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology; an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Columbia University; and a B.C.L. from Oxford University.Beginning in 1996, he was an advisor to the Holy See providing counsel on public international law, in that capacity, he was a delegate to United Nations General Assembly, to the 1998 Rome Conference on the establishment of the International Criminal Court and to the negotiation of the United Nations Declaration banning all forms of Human Cloning.He entered the Society of Jesus in 1986.
Robert Walter McElroy (born February 5, 1954) is a Roman Catholic prelate and bishop. From 2010 through 2015 he was auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, California. In 2015, he became the sixth Bishop of the San Diego Diocese. McElroy was educated by the Jesuits and writes for their official publication in the United States, America.
Sandra Marie Schneiders, I.H.M. (born 12 November 1936), is professor emerita in the Jesuit School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
In 2006, a volume of essays was published in her honor.Also in 2006, she won the John Courtney Murray Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Catholic Theological Society of America.
S.T.D. at Pontifical Gregorian University.


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Arbinovo (en macédonien Арбиново) est un village du sud-ouest de la Macédoine du Nord, situé dans la municipalité de Debartsa. Le village comptait 23 habitants en 2002.

Démographie
Lors du recensement de 2002, le village comptait :
 Macédoniens : 23

Voir aussi
 Debartsa

Références

Village dans la commune de Debarca

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'Spire of Names' chosen as Lincoln Bomber Command memorial
The design by Walter Jack in conjunction with Atkins
The 164ft Spire of Names has been chosen as the winning design for the Lincolnshire Bomber Command memorial to be built on Canwick Hill in Lincoln.
The design by Walter Jack in conjunction with Atkins was picked by the Lincolnshire Bomber Command Memorial Trust from a total of three designs that were up for public consultation.
The 50m tall steel spire will feature the names of all 25,611 airmen who flew from the county never to return during World War 2.
The chosen site on Canwick Hill overlooks Lincoln Cathedral, which was a major landmark for crews leaving Lincolnshire and was a navigation point for those lucky enough to return.
There will also be an interpretation centre to tell the story of Bomber Command and tribute to the crew members who survived.
The idea for the memorial initiated with Tony Worth, the Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, whose father served with the RAF through most of the war.
Award-winning structural artist Walter Jack said: "If we can build something half-way worthy of these men, we will have done well."
Lincoln gets £1.3m to ease congestion on Newark Road and Rookery Lane
Man arrested after approaching children in Lincoln

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Start Over You searched for: Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Dates by Range 1950-1999 ✖Remove constraint Dates by Range: 1950-1999
11. The history of cardiology: a bibliography of secondary sources
Bethesda, Md. : National Library of Medicine and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Dept. of Health and Human Services, [1986]
12. The history of AIDS: a selective bibliography
Bethesda, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, 1993
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- history
13. John Shaw Billings centennial
[Bethesda, MD] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Library of Medicine, [1965?]
Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913.
14. What is this thing called Medline?
[Bethesda] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1972
Databases, Bibliographic
15. Arcana alphanumerica, or, The secrets of HMD call numbers revealed : being a description of call numbers used for printed materials in the History of Medicine Division, with an explanation of their meaning, usage, and derivation
Clausen, Carol.
Bethesda : National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, 1992
Book Classification
National Library of Medicine (U.S.). History of Medicine Division.
16. Medical illustration: an exhibit of art as applied to medicine, National Library of Medicine, Sept. 15-Dec. 19, 1969
[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, [1969]
17. The National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1971
Bethesda : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1974
19. Armed Forces Medical Library: services
Armed Forces Medical Library (U.S.)
Washington, D.C. : Armed Forces Medical Library, [1953]
20. MEDLARS: the computerized literature retrieval services of the National Library of Medicine
[Bethesda, Md.] : Dept. of Health, Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, [1981]
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NIH Annual Reports29
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Nurses335
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)70
Lesser, May H., 1927-2001, artist45
National Eye Institute.22
Thom, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1915-1979, artist16
Armed Forces Medical Library (U.S.)10
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"Twenty-three hundred years of medical costume"12
Getting things in focus8
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package deprecatedapis

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"testing"

	"github.com/Shopify/kubeaudit"
	"github.com/Shopify/kubeaudit/internal/test"
	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)

const fixtureDir = "fixtures"

func TestAuditDeprecatedAPIs(t *testing.T) {
	cases := []struct {
		file             string
		currentVersion   string
		targetedVersion  string
		expectedSeverity kubeaudit.SeverityLevel
	}{
		{"cronjob.yml", "", "", kubeaudit.Warn},          // Warn is the serverity by default
		{"cronjob.yml", "1.20", "1.21", kubeaudit.Info},  // Info, not yet deprecated in the current version
		{"cronjob.yml", "1.21", "1.22", kubeaudit.Warn},  // Warn, deprecated in the current version
		{"cronjob.yml", "1.22", "1.25", kubeaudit.Error}, // Error, not available in the targeted version
		{"cronjob.yml", "1.20", "1.25", kubeaudit.Error}, // Error, not yet deprecated in the current version but not available in the targeted version
		{"cronjob.yml", "1.20", "", kubeaudit.Info},      // Info, not yet deprecated in the current version and no targeted version defined
		{"cronjob.yml", "1.21", "", kubeaudit.Warn},      // Warn, deprecated in the current version
		{"cronjob.yml", "", "1.20", kubeaudit.Warn},      // Warn is the serverity by default if no current version
		{"cronjob.yml", "", "1.25", kubeaudit.Error},     // Error, not available in the targeted version
	}

	message := "batch/v1beta1 CronJob is deprecated in v1.21+, unavailable in v1.25+, introduced in v1.8+; use batch/v1 CronJob"
	metadata := kubeaudit.Metadata{
		"DeprecatedMajor":  "1",
		"DeprecatedMinor":  "21",
		"RemovedMajor":     "1",
		"RemovedMinor":     "25",
		"IntroducedMajor":  "1",
		"IntroducedMinor":  "8",
		"ReplacementGroup": "batch/v1",
		"ReplacementKind":  "CronJob",
	}

	for i, tc := range cases {
		// These lines are needed because of how scopes work with parallel tests (see https://gist.github.com/posener/92a55c4cd441fc5e5e85f27bca008721)
		tc := tc
		i := i
		t.Run(tc.file+"-"+tc.currentVersion+"-"+tc.targetedVersion, func(t *testing.T) {
			t.Parallel()
			auditor, err := New(Config{CurrentVersion: tc.currentVersion, TargetedVersion: tc.targetedVersion})
			require.Nil(t, err)
			report := test.AuditManifest(t, fixtureDir, tc.file, auditor, []string{DeprecatedAPIUsed})
			assertReport(t, report, tc.expectedSeverity, message, metadata)

			report = test.AuditLocal(t, fixtureDir, tc.file, auditor, fmt.Sprintf("%s-%d", strings.Split(tc.file, ".")[0], i), []string{DeprecatedAPIUsed})

			if report != nil {
				assertReport(t, report, tc.expectedSeverity, message, metadata)
			}
		})
	}
}

func assertReport(t *testing.T, report *kubeaudit.Report, expectedSeverity kubeaudit.SeverityLevel, message string, metadata map[string]string) {
	assert.Equal(t, 1, len(report.Results()))
	for _, result := range report.Results() {
		assert.Equal(t, 1, len(result.GetAuditResults()))
		for _, auditResult := range result.GetAuditResults() {
			require.Equal(t, expectedSeverity, auditResult.Severity)
			require.Equal(t, message, auditResult.Message)
			require.Equal(t, metadata, auditResult.Metadata)
		}
	}
}

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Companies are now investing in artificial intelligence to serve their customers efficiently.
The new in thing in realm of digital marketing is Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is a technology that displays intelligence. So far, the technology was only used in high-tech robots, but now several companies have started to invest in this technology to make their presence feel in the digital market.
AI helps the companies improve their marketing by gathering data and then by making sense of the numbers, using the analytical ability it posses.
Virtual assistants also known as chatbots along with artificial assistance has proven to be a real game changer in the field of digital marketing. These virtual assistants use Natural Language Processing (NLP), an ability of the computers through which it can program itself to respond in real world languages, to match user's text or voices input.
Frank.ai is one such player in the market. Frank.ai is an automated advertising specialist with connections to all the major online ad channels.
With the help of AI, the virtual assistant Frank can streamline its clients' decision-making process and optimise their ad budget in real-time. It takes care of all the setup, optimisation and reporting for the ad campaigns in order to maximise the client's digital presence.
So what type of company invests in it?
Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are using artificial intelligence to track the behaviour of their visitors and then show comments, likes and shares of those users who are frequently engaged with the concerned visitor.
E- Commerce websites such as Amazon and eBay, digital marketers with the help of AI tracks the browsing pattern of each user to help the companies to reach out to its customers more efficiently.
Google has also been doing the same thing. It uses its advertising program tool called Adword. In Adword, if one has shown interest in buying a shirt by clicking on Google Ad, then it will repeatedly show you the shirt's Ad.
India, apart from being a hub of AI based start- ups, has also seen companies joining the race of investing in AI for digital marketing. Flipkart, an India based online shopping portal has partnered with Microsoft Corp. in February to build AI based solutions to track the behaviour of Indian shoppers.
"This partnership allows us to leverage our combined strength and knowledge of technology, e-commerce and markets to make online shopping more relevant and enriching for customers," said Binny Bansal, CEO and co-founder, Flipkart Group.
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Unlocked his inner unicorn at Yale where he studied some crazy advanced shit... I don't know, lasers or something... where it soon became apparent that he was the type of person that never gets invited to parties.
After becoming a Jaeger Pilot, his first fight against a kaiju was a limp-dicked affair despite "accidentally" killing a bunch of nerds. Due to his actions, most of the town was saved and the rest was pretty fucked-up to begin with so who cares really.
Refusing to learn a lesson, he re-dedicated himself to essentially being a huge pussy and are kicking ass at that, as we all expected.
"People need to understand, you can read the textbooks all you want," says one flight instructor. "But when you're actually out there fighting, and you have an unexpected orgasm you better forget everything he taught you and adapt to the new situation even if you're pretty sure you're hallucinating. If you don't, the Earth is fucked. Trust me, this is one soldier who has mastered that."
Psyche eval recommendation: Promote immediately.
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Day 493: Combing The Chemtrails Conspiracy
originally published May 7, 2013
The typical hierarchy of a conspiracy theory is that there are the people with the facts and those who are in on the conspiracy. Those with the facts are eager – some may say ravenously eager – to share them, to bring more of the public "into the know". Conspiracy theories generally require the dismissal of a considerable amount of evidence to support their cause. I read so much about the 9/11 conspiracy – for and against – that I finally had to shake my head free of the yellow dust and declare that I simply don't care anymore – it was a tragedy, end of story.
I'm still on the fence about the whole JFK thing though.
Today I'm venturing into the murky chemical mire known as chemtrails. You've seen these before; they're the "deadly" "poisonous" "gases" that spew from the back of commercial airliners as they rocket above our nation, blanketing us all in some government-orchestrated set-up of some kind.
(According to Jim)
The first rumblings of this overhead danger emerged in the mid-90's, when the US Air Force was forced to issue an official statement, claiming the matter was a hoax. In August of 1996, a handful of officers drafted a paper for the Air Force's Air University, one which posits a number of sci-fi situations in which the United States could control and manipulate the weather in order to achieve atmospheric dominance over their enemies. This includes creating storms over enemy territory, jamming their communication systems, and signing a non-aggression pact with the evil cloud jellyfish.
The paper got out there, or more accurately, just enough of the paper got out there in order to fuel a grotesque misinterpretation of the paper's intent, which was little more than fictional hypothesizing. The conspiracy-lovers took it as evidence that the government was engaging in top-secret weather control maneuvers, and from there it was just a teensy stretch to believe that those puffy trails coming out of every jet in the sky was all part of the Air Force conspiracy.
The chemtrails conspiracy spread to the UK, where the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs had to point out that chemtrails was not technically a scientifically recognized concept. Canadians, ever seeking to be polite, took up a friendly petition to demand – sorry, request that the government look into this atrocity. Once again, the higher-ups tried to remind us that chemtrails are not a thing.
Who are they trying to kid? I can see the damn things.
Well for starters, there's the word. Chemtrails, short for 'chemical trails', is a made-up portmanteau that effectively spreads the conspiracy theory in two simple syllables. Contrails, which is an actual shorthand of 'condensation trails', is a real thing. Exhaust emissions coming out the ass-end of aircraft can leave contrails that might last a few hours. Vapor trails require certain weather conditions, but they are still relatively harmless plane-spew.
In short, unless you're standing under a cropdusting plane, a firefighting plane, or a jet that needs to jettison its fuel because of an impending crash, the stuff coming out of the back of the plane over your head is not going to kill you.
But maybe the intent was never to kill. Maybe the government is running some kind of experiment on the populace, and they've colluded with every major commercial airline to ensure maximum dispersal. It could be all about mind control. Darrin McBreen, a chemtrails advocate, saw his Youtube video of contrails over Abilene go viral in 2008. He believes the trails have been linked to spikes in aluminum and barium in local drinking water, suggesting a nefarious weather experiment.
People have told him they can taste the aluminum in the water from the chemtrails. Sure, that aluminum could have come from something else, but let's try not to think about that. If it's not about mind control or weather manipulation, could the US government simply be looking to damage our health? To keep us reliant on pharmaceuticals and too weak to rebel? These are important questions being asked by conspiracy believers.
Of course, this would mean that every other government is secretly doing the same thing, since contrails can be seen all over the world. But that's possible, right? That all world governments have successfully kept this one secret from the public?
Proponents of the conspiracy point out that not only do the chemtrails stick around for longer than they should, but they also spread out in a sheet-like pattern, or occasionally criss-cross, forming a "Latticework Of Doom" (my phrase, but feel free to run with it). Occasionally these patterns will blend to form a large cloud.
The US Air Force explained this all with reference to ice crystals in the sky, wind shear, and a bunch of other hooey that I'm sure they made up. Okay yes, this is also how cirrus uncinus clouds are formed, but that's totally different. Or is it? Maybe every cloud in the sky is part of some conspiracy?
In 2001, Congressman Dennis Kucinich dropped a bill that proposed a complete ban on weapons in space. Part of the bill included a reference to banning chemtrails, among other fanciful dangers like extraterrestrial weapons, space-launched missiles, and "energies" to control mood management. The conspiracy believers wasted no time in pointing out that chemtrails appearing as an actual thing in a government bill is tantamount to the government admitting that they are a real issue.
Kucinich tried to replace the most controversial oddities in the bill when he was forced to re-write it after it died in committee. But the damage was done, and the Space Preservation Act was never meant to be.
I suppose the reason I'm particularly skeptical about the chemtrails conspiracy is because science screams in the face of its logic, and no one has yet confirmed it. Secrets don't stay secret for very long these days – someone with inside knowledge inevitably spills the beans. Also, planes tend to fly right overtop places like Washington DC and New York, suggesting that even valuable assets and high-ranking officials would be exposed to the noxious mind-control freakery that these things supposedly leave in their wake.
I love a good conspiracy, a muck-sloshing quandary to tweak one's paranoia ever so delicately into the red. But I'm giving a thumbs-down to Chemtrailgate. Nothing to this one but a bunch of misty air.
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Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle)
Despite the name, Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle) in Naples isn't a traditional cemetery. It's a place of many thousands of burials, but it's actually an ossuary built into a natural cave in the soft rock underneath the Capodimonte Hill in the early 16th century. It served as a burial ground until the late 1960s.
The bones interred at Fontanelle were painstakingly catalogued and re-organized in the early 1870s, after flooding and mass burials had made the cemetery more of a jumbled mess. A cult devoted to the skulls in the cemetery sprang up, and a church was built at the entrance. Today, visitors can still see the church - Maria Santissima del Carmine - as well as the cataloging work done in the 19th century.
Prior to 2010, Fontanelle was only open to the public on a few days every year. Now, it's open year-round. Visitors are free to walk through the site without a guide, though joining a tour that includes Fontanelle Cemetery as one of its stops is beneficial to help make sense of the history of the place. Tours that include off-the-beaten-path parts of Naples sometimes include Fontanelle Cemetery.
Via Fontanelle 80, Naples, 80136
Tours and tickets to Experience Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle)
The Real Naples: Street Art, Culture & Legends Private Tour
Many Naples tours concentrate on magnificent historic and architectural landmarks, but this city's unique culture is what sets it apart. Get to know the authentic side of Naples with this guided tour that dives deep into the lively residential and student quarters of the historic center, touching on its vibrant street art scene, coffee culture, designers and artisans, legends and lore, and even its most atmospheric cemetery.
Dark Legends, Myths, Gothic Art - Dare YOU to take this Tour of Naples, Italy
In the historical district of Napoli, this 2 day experience is the perfect blend of local flavor, unique sightseeing, and historical phenomenons. DiVita Tours takes you on a deep and dark spiritual adventure of the underground of Naples that leads to some of your own soul searching. From the ancient cemeteries, to the Gothic Churches, and authentic flavors; you experience the real and raw Napoli and come to understand why it is referred to the HEART.
Tour of Naples Fontanelle Cemetery Catacombs & Sanità Quarter with Local Guide
Not far from the historic center of Naples is one of the most fascinating places in the city, it is the Fontanelle Cemetery. The cemetery was built inside an ancient tuff quarry when in 1656, because of the Plague, the bones of a large part of the Neapolitan population were thrown away, which could not resist the serious epidemic. Over the years many others were added, leading to the birth of the cult of "pezzentelle souls", to whom the people turned to obtain graces and interecessions. To accompany you there will be a guide who will tell you the legends that hover around the characters guarded in the cave. After this mystical experience you can take a walk to the Sanità district, whose name derives from the ancient belief that the area was rich in natural and supernatural "salubritas". You will walk through the crowded alleys of the neighborhood and staying in contact with the Neapolitan people, going to the discovery of one of the most beautiful and hidden corners of the city.
Esoteric Naples Walking Tour
See a different side of Naples, off the typical tourist path, on this walking tour with a knowledgeable guide. Discover the city's mythological side as you hear about legends of ghosts, the occult and secrets behind cathedrals and other historical landmarks. The itinerary can be customized to suit any specific interests you have.
Private Tour: Naples Walking Tour with Typical Lunch
Discover the hidden mysteries of Naples on a private full-day walking tour of the city's most intriguing churches, cemeteries and crypts. Listen to age-old legends from your art historian guide as you tour mystical sites such as the Church of Gesù Nuovo, Sansevero Chapel and Cemetery delle Fontanelle — an underground burial chamber piled high with bones. Savor a lunch of authentic Neapolitan pizza midday, and enjoy the personalized attention of a private tour.
The Rione Sanità
A walk inside one of the most colorful and folkloristic districts of the city: the Rione Sanità, where the famous actor loved all over the world was born, Antonio De Curtis in art Totò. Starting from the Fontanelle Cemetery, where the cult of "pezzentelle souls" is still practiced by the Neapolitans, we will reach the Basilica of Santa Maria alla Sanità, known to the Neapolitans as the church of San Vincenzo or Munacone, which represents the entrance to the ancient catacombs of San Gaudioso. Crossing the Borgo dei Vergini you will admire the splendid noble palaces located along the road and then conclude at Porta San Gennaro where the fresco made as an ex-voto for the end of the plague of 1656 stands out
Private Guided Tour of Naples Catacombs Fontanelle Cemetery & Sanità Quarter
The Mater Dei district houses one of the city's jewels of the city, the Fontanelle Cemetery, which was carved out of a natural tufa cave just outside the walls of the Greco-Roman city. The cave was used as a cemetery when in 1656 a severe plague raged in the city making numerous victims, and the bodies continued to be stored during other epidemics during the following centuries. During the last century the bones preserved here have been the subject of a widespread rite among the Neapolitan people, that of the "pezzentelle souls" (poor souls). People adopted a skull of which they did not know the story and took care of it, hoping that this could help him with graces and intercessions and that, in a dream, reveal his story to him. The guide will tell you in detail this tradition and why the Neapolitan people is so fond of this place, as well as the legends that hide behind some of the skulls preserved here. The Sanità district offers much more with its baroque churches and buildings.
The human archive of Naples and the Rione Sanità
Because of these characteristics, the centuries-old relationship between man and death is still strong and tangible, as evidenced by places of unique charm such as the Fontanelle Cemetery. Walking through the Rione Sanità, one cannot help but be overwhelmed by its sounds and the voices of the market, the scents of ancient patisseries like Poppella and its artistic and architectural beauties such as the Spagnuolo palace, also chosen by the director Jhon Turturro for a scene from his film "Passione", as well as a place dedicated to a museum dedicated to the prince of laughter, Totò.
Naples Cimitero delle Fontanelle and Sanità District Small Group Tour
If you are in Naples you can not avoid visiting one of the only sites in the world, the Fontanelle Cemetery, in the Mater Dei district. You will have a local guide who will accompany you on this visit telling you stories, anecdotes and curiosities that hide behind the bones of the dead. The tour will continue through the narrow streets of one of Naples' most discussed neighborhoods, the Rione Sanità.
The Rione Sanità and the Fontanelle Cemetery Walking Tour
The tour will begin from the Fontanelle Cemetery, built in an ancient tuff quarry and in which, still today it is possible to learn more about the relationship between Neapolitan people and death. In this place sacred and profane coexsist, creating the cult of the" pezzentelle" souls of Purgatory. It contains over 40,000 remains of people, mostly skulls, victims of the plague and cholera epidemics of the mid-seventeenth century. At the end of 19th century it became a cult place; some believers decided to rearrange the thousands of anonymous bones, adopting a skull of an abandoned soul in return for protection. The guided visit will continue in the Rione Sanità where you will have the opportunity to admire two masterpieces of the Neapolitan Baroque: Palazzo San Felice and Palazzo dello Spagnolo. Before ending our tour at Porta San Gennaro, we will taste the famous sweet "fiocco di neve" in one of the most important pastry shops in Naples.
Svelaria Tour at the Fontanelle and Sanità Cemetery
A tour to discover the Vergini-Sanità district and its cultural heritage that ranges between art, history and beliefs rooted in the territory. We will visit the evocative Fontanelle Cemetery, which houses around 40,000 remains of people, victims of the plague epidemic of 1656 and cholera of 1836. We will enter the heart of Health to visit the baroque Basilica of San Vincenzo Ferrer, to whose inside there are paintings by Luca Giordano, Azzolino and other Neapolitan painters of the 1600s. We will see the exterior of Totò's house, to conclude the visit between Palazzo Sanfelice and Palazzo dello Spagnolo.
Private Walking Tour to Sanità District in Naples
Our journey will start from the Metro Materdei stop,one of the so-called "MetroArte" stations. We will start from the Cemetery of the Fontanelle. The large amount of human remains and skulls will leave you surprised: this place was born as mass grave and was then one of the places where the worship of the souls of Purgatory . We will continue towards the Basilica of Santa Maria alla Sanità: the pulpit with its double ramp on one side surrounds the crypt and on the other leads to the upper presbytery: it is truly a unicum in European architecture. We'll move to its most famous mansions: Sanfelice Palace and Spagnuolo Palace, jewels of late Baroque architecture, and I will show you the birthing house of an illustrious Neapolitan citizen, namely Prince Antonio de Curtis... Aka Toto! Crossing the Borgo Vergini, where you can meet a typical Neapolitan market, we will conclude our tour in Porta San Gennaro: it is one of the oldest accesses of the city, dedicated to its most famous Patron.
What are Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle) hours of operation?
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Should I book Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle) tickets in advance?
We recommend booking e-tickets ahead of time to secure your spot since Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle) can get crowded. If you book with Viator, you can cancel at least 24 hours before the start date of your tour for a full refund. See all 13 Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle) tickets and tours on Viator.
How much does it cost to visit Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle) 2021?
Currently, an entrance ticket to Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle) costs USD 36.85. Guided Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle) tours start around USD 36.85 per person. See all 13 Fontanelle Cemetery (Cimitero delle Fontanelle) tickets and tours on Viator.
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A Copa América de Basquete 3x3 de 2014 foi a primeira edição da Copa América de Basquete 3x3. Foi um torneio amistoso disputado no dia 12 de Janeiro de 2014 no Parque dos Patins, na Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas-Rio de Janeiro. O torneio não é realizado nem reconhecido pela Federação Internacional de Basquetebol.

Equipes

   Brasil 3x3
  Brasil Quadra
  (Equipe Tigre)
  (Equipe Denver)

Partidas
Jogo 1 (Semi-final 1)

Jogo 2 (Semi-final 2)

Jogo 3 (Disputa do 3o Lugar)

Jogo 4 (Final)

Resultado Final

Copa América de Basquete 3x3
Basquetebol 3x3


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Could intangibles help avert the next financial crisis?
Yes. And they'd better, because the train of global prosperity is about to jump the track and intangible assets are the only possible salvation.
Today's headlines are depressing. There's a constant stream of negativity led by U.S. President Donald Trump's assault on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the global trading system, the self-inflicted wounds of Brexit in the United Kingdom, and the growing anger over the Brett Kavanaugh U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
Unfortunately, it's even worse if you look behind the headlines.
Claudio Borio, chief economist for the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the central bankers' central bank, believes we're heading for another global financial meltdown, similar in nature (but on a much larger scale) to the 2008 crisis.
Borio believes we've never really dealt with the underlying causes of the 2008 crisis. Indeed, the radioactive financial instruments that caused the meltdown in the first place, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps (CDSs) once again threaten the system. Economic stagnation, rapid wealth concentration and exploding levels of debt are leading us toward another crisis.
The systemic problems that plague capitalism today are a result of not dealing with an underlying disease that has infected our economy.
According to the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the intangible revolution is almost complete. Today in western and other developed economies, intangibles are responsible for 80 per cent of value creation in our economy, while only 20 per cent is derived from industrial-class tangible assets. A few short decades ago, these numbers were reversed.
Ironically, this so-called problem is best described as an unrealized opportunity.
The opportunity lies in accepting that the engine of growth in capitalism has changed. It's evolved from a predictable factory-based industrial model to an unpredictable digital economy underpinned by intangible assets like artificial intelligence algorithms, software, digital apps and networks of value like Facebook.
As a civilization, we haven't experienced changes on this scale for many centuries. The real source of our crisis is inactivity or, more accurately, fear of the unknown.
We need to change. Intangibles need to be formally recognized at the corporate level and fully incorporated into accounting standards, financial reporting and banking protocols. Regrettably, our established financial institutions are fearful of the new order, rejecting any solutions that involve substantive change.
As a result of this failure, we're not managing the economy properly. Economists don't adequately measure intangible investment, undermining gross domestic product and productivity statistics. Banks have become service organizations rather than lending institutions. Accountants and senior business leaders are driving blind, completely in the dark about the real value drivers in their businesses.
This kind of denial and dithering is a recipe for collapse.
Economies grow from the ground up. Unfortunately, authorities chose to bail out the banks rather than make structural changes that would have funneled resources to the real economy, driving growth in value creation.
As a result the real economy is suffering from unprecedented lack of investment. Modern businesses that are generating intangible assets but lack formal collateral are, systematically, oxygen deprived.
So it's not an accident that western economies are stagnating – it's structural.
Banks find it impossible to provide loans to most small to medium enterprises for the simple reason they can't (or won't) recognize the intangible assets that underpin these businesses. Lacking appropriate intangible asset expertise, internal systems and protocols, banks have essentially abandoned corporate lending.
And equity markets don't and never have invested directly in companies. Mutual funds, pension funds or wealth managers hold the vast majority of our national savings. These institutions place money in the stock market, which is essentially a side bet on the economy.
As a result, almost $65 trillion of savings is unavailable for investment to build new products and services, hire new staff or otherwise provide the job creation and income generation that could lift us out of our gloom.
Fortunately, this is fixable, but only if we adapt our economic institutions and capital markets to fully accommodate intangible assets. The good news is that doing so could drive new growth, save us from financial ruin and launch the next great wave of prosperity.


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THE New York-based Kirkus Review magazine is impressed with Zambian author Anthony Mukwita for bringing out the 'political genius' of President Lungu in his recently published book.
Mr Mukwita's book is titled 'Against all Odds: Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu's Rough Journey to State House'.
The magazine has stated that Mr Mukwita's book has also succeeded in introducing the lawyer-turned-politician to the world as a major political player of special note, even though previously unknown beyond the Zambian borders.
This is contained in a latest review posted on the Kirkus Review website.
"Mukwita locates in this abnegation the seeds of Lungu's genius. Throughout Lungu's political career, it was hard to see him coming but that was always his secret weapon," Kirkus Reviews says.
The magazine is, however, quick to note that the author did justice to both the main character and opposition whom he generally treated well.
President Lungu's devotion to religion is not lost by the New York-based reviewer that takes the liberty to describe him as a staunch Christian.
"The subject's favourite book must inevitably be the Bible, and the figure—Lungu—must possess no over-riding hunger for power, just a steady drive to do what's best for the country," Kirkus observes.
Despite what Kirkus notices as general and natural 'limitations' in Mr Mukwita's book, the magazine says his efforts have paid off.
The magazine says Mr Mukwita's book on Zambia's sixth President is "a fond but clear-eyed look at a steady leader and the African nation (Zambia) on his shoulders".


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Q: Linearization of nonlinear dynamic system I am reading the following paper:
ergodic theory of chaos and strange attractors, by J.-P. Eckmann (can be easily downloaded)
My question is around equation (1.7), p. 619:
The separation of two initial points $x(0)$ and $x(0)'$ after time $N$ is
$$x(N) - x(N)' = f^N(x(0))-f^N(x(0)') \approx \bigg[ \frac{d}{dx}(f^N)(x(0)) \bigg] [x(0)-x(0)']$$
From this approximation, I  get $$ f^N(x(0)) \approx \bigg[ \frac{d}{dx}(f^N)x(0) \bigg] x(0)$$ Consider $N = 1$,$$x(1) =  f(x(0)) \approx \bigg[ \frac{d}{dx}(f)(x(0)) \bigg] x(0)$$
I am confused about what I remember in the following. Suppose $y = f(x)$ and I know $y_0 = f(x_0)$ so I can obtain the following $$y_0+\delta y = \bigg[\frac{d}{dx}(f)(x_0)\bigg]\delta x + f(x_0),$$ where $\frac{d}{dx}(f)(x_0)$ is the slope of $f$ at $x_0$.
What I should have is $\delta x$ instead of $x(0)$

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Q: Install npm dependencies webtorrent - Error: Can't resolve 'fs' - Fountain-Js (Yeoman) Hello Im in trouble trying to install a NPM Dependencie in my code.
I installed the module with this command:
           npm install --save webtorrent
This is my package.json
./package.json
{
"dependencies": {
  "angular": "^1.5.0",
  "angular-ui-router": "1.0.0-beta.1",
  "webtorrent": "^0.97.2"
},
"devDependencies": {
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  "gulp": "gulpjs/gulp#4ed9a4a3275559c73a396eff7e1fde3824951ebb",
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  "gulp-ng-annotate": "^1.1.0",
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  "babel-polyfill": "^6.7.4",
  "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.2.0"
},
"scripts": {
  "build": "gulp",
  "serve": "gulp serve",
  "serve:dist": "gulp serve:dist",
  "test": "gulp test",
  "test:auto": "gulp test:auto"
},
"eslintConfig": {
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    "expect": true
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  "root": true,
  "env": {
    "browser": true,
    "jasmine": true
  },
  "extends": [
    "xo-space/esnext"
  ]
}

}
This is the index.js file
./index.js
import angular from 'angular';

import {techsModule} from './app/techs/index';
import {playlistModule} from './app/playlist/index';
import {webtorrent} from 'webtorrent';

import 'angular-ui-router';
import routesConfig from './routes';

import {main} from './app/main';
import {header} from './app/header';
import {title} from './app/title';
import {footer} from './app/footer';

import './index.scss';

angular
  .module('app', [techsModule, playlistModule, 'ui.router'])
  .config(routesConfig)
  .component('app', main)
  .component('fountainHeader', header)
  .component('fountainTitle', title)
  .component('fountainFooter', footer);

This is my module where I want to use webtorrent:
./src/app/playlist/playlist.js
import Webtorrent from 'webtorrent';

class PlaylistController {
  contructor() {
    this.TorrentId = 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6a9759bffd5c0af65319979fb7832189f4f3c35d&dn=sintel.mp4&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.btorrent.xyz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.fastcast.nz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openwebtorrent.com&ws=https%3A%2F%2Fwebtorrent.io%2Ftorrents%2Fsintel-1024-surround.mp4';
    this.Client = new Webtorrent();
  }
}

export const playlist = {
  templateUrl: "app/playlist/playlist.html",
  controller: PlaylistController,
  bindings: {
    playlist: '<'
  }
};

So I have this error:
ERROR in ./~/create-torrent/index.js
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'fs' in '/Users/macbook-lucas/refreex/node_modules/create-torrent'
 @ ./~/create-torrent/index.js 22:9-22
 @ ./~/webtorrent/index.js
 @ ./src/index.js

ERROR in ./~/parse-torrent/index.js
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'fs' in '/Users/macbook-lucas/refreex/node_modules/parse-torrent'
 @ ./~/parse-torrent/index.js 7:9-22
 @ ./~/webtorrent/index.js
 @ ./src/index.js

ERROR in ./~/is-file/index.js
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'fs' in '/Users/macbook-lucas/refreex/node_modules/is-file'
 @ ./~/is-file/index.js 3:9-22
 @ ./~/create-torrent/index.js
 @ ./~/webtorrent/index.js
 @ ./src/index.js

ERROR in ./~/pump/index.js
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'fs' in '/Users/macbook-lucas/refreex/node_modules/pump'
 @ ./~/pump/index.js 3:9-22
 @ ./~/webtorrent/lib/torrent.js
 @ ./~/webtorrent/index.js
 @ ./src/index.js

ERROR in ./~/webtorrent/lib/torrent.js
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'fs' in '/Users/macbook-lucas/refreex/node_modules/webtorrent/lib'
 @ ./~/webtorrent/lib/torrent.js 13:9-22
 @ ./~/webtorrent/index.js
 @ ./src/index.js

But the problem is with this seeder of JS because i tried to install webtorrent in a clean proyect and it works perfect, so I don't know why Yeoman is using fs wrong.
I know that "fs" is a core-module of NODE.js but I tried to install fs, but it only install a dummy package just for security reasons, so I unistall it.
Also i tried to update the NPM with this command:
npm update -g npm
But nothing.
With info of fs module i have this information.
npm info fs -v
3.10.8

A: You should take a look at the webpack section https://github.com/feross/webtorrent. It explains you need to add couple of lines of configuration to make it work.
{
  target: 'web',
  node: {
    fs: 'empty'
  },
  module: {
    loaders: [
      // make sure to install the 'json-loader' package: npm install json-loader
      {
        test: /\.json$/,
        loader: 'json'
      }
    ]
  }
}


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Did Pope Francis legalise pedophilia ?
Paru le vendredi, 04 mai 2018 15:12
Social media users claim that Pope Francis legalized pedophilia. True?
For days now, a rumor has been circulating on Facebook and Whatsapp. According to the rumors, Pope Francis, Catholics' spiritual guide, has legalized pedophilia. For those who don't believe the rumors, they are advised to watch a 2.42 minutes documentary on Youtube. The documentary also claims that a new biblical text has been discovered and it could legalize pedophilia.
Though the documentary seems legit, it is a parody and it was posted on a Youtube channel Akaruu specialized in parodies. In addition, the channel D News does not exist. It was a deformation of the information channel C News of Canal+ group.
The first seconds of the video prove that it is not a legit news. First, the reporter says that it's 6 AM but in the video, a clock shows 6:45 PM. Next, the information skits were not really credible. If not, how could such a news site report that the French prime minister was happy because the unemployment rate was rising or another skit claiming that a member of EI (Etat Islamique) claimed responsibility for the assassination of John F. Kennedy…
On the Youtube channel "Vatican news" which publishes all the pope's statements, there is none on pedophilia. On the other hand, the pope usually addresses his speeches from the balcony of Saint-Pierre's central hall, not the papall apartments as is shown on the video posted by Akaruu.
The papal apartments are usually used on Sundays in the afternoon for the day's preaching, the Angelus prayer, and the Regina Caeli.


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What a crazy stoned adventure this project has been since day one. Reading about a cannabis based blockchain peaked my interest right but after experiencing other systems I told myself to keep my expectations within check. When your wrong, your wrong.
Smoke.io launched and I was blown away by the system, people and natural interaction within the system. The amazing thing is this interaction and natural support isn't slowing down, I feel the support within Smoke.io is growing daily. Everything about this project so far has 100% exceeded all expectations.
Your support via this amazing system has brought my account past 9,000 Smoke Power, I can't begin to fully express how lucky I feel to be evolved with the building of this blockchain and how much I appreciate the support you've given to me and the entire system. All the developers, witnesses, content creators and everyday users are killing it.
I'll be hitting my first BIG goal here on the Smoke.io system very soon, 10,000 Smoke Power. I'm not stopping at 10,000 my fellow potheads and blockheads. My next main goal is grind all the way to 50,000/100,000. In my opinion, this project has tons of potential in the future and I'm willing to put in the time needed to be heavily invested.
The project is expanding and becoming better everyday. The growth and expansion on this project is by far the healthiest in the blockchain/social media space, in my opinion. The added ads to help support growth, you see upgrades to the front end often and apps are already being built for Smoke.io. This is unreal growth compared to other systems who seem to be dragging their feet and fighting each other.
I've stated before the common passion of cannabis has the chance to give this blockchain a common ground other systems are missing. I feel this is helping Smoke.io grow in a health manner and creates real, honest interaction. The comments and interaction on my Smoke.io post rival ANY post I make on Facebook when it comes to interaction, maybe even better. This is a very health sign and something you can't say about other projects.
Other systems worried so much about the back end they spaced out about the social media aspect and Smoke.io is picking up their pieces, building a solid system with solid support.
10,000 is in reach and 50,000 will be my next main goal, let's keep this bong smoking my friends !
Bravo Tod, let me upsmoke you to get faster to next step. This way I get something in return feom curation and I step towards mine.
Nice dedication to the smoke chain. Keep pushing knowledge and 100k will be no problem.
congratz on your journey to 10k and beyond!
Congradulations on hopefully having reached the first goal by the time I'm writingthis comment. I agree. The interactions here on the comment section can rival any social media. For me its even far more interactons. Specially sinc i mostly dont use facebook or instagram any more. Mostl for promotion and contact with my old friends. Not to mention if I do post. Near to 0 percent interactions. I myself am on the road to 5K Smoke Power. Was a bit hard to belive its been 2 months since I joined. The people here are friendly, helpful and supportive. I cant wait to see what the future holds for this platform.
I think you will reach your target in the next days! RESMOKED!


Our approach to maintenance, conservation and preservation is to maintain the informal atmosphere of the gardens while carrying out essential and safety related works with the minimum of general clearance. We aim to manage the Avenue for maximum life and to preserve the key views around the Round Pond. The restoration and repair of the stream and ponds is a long term goal.
Our approach is contained in our Conservation Management Plan which sets out the origins and story of the Wild Garden, the current state of the site in terms of the ecology, the water features and the views and vistas valued by the community.
Please feedback any comments you might have on the plan so we can take these into consideration.
Since 2010 projects have included documenting and tagging all significant trees, a year long Nature Survey by local families, the restoration of the Ha-Ha and the planting of a new mixed species hedge by the cricket ground.
Work has been completed to replant the lime avenue where there are gaps. The chosen lime, Tilia x Europea is the same clone as the majority of the existing avenue.
Major works have been carried out to restore the Canals and Ponds to allow the re-introduction of fish into the system.
The sluiceway between the Upper pond and Round Pond has been rebuilt and a bridge, wide enough for buggies, has been installed by the Cedar of Lebanon.
Work continues to improve the environment in the Upper Pond, as well as the routine work to maintain the path surfaces and manage the trees.


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Top-5 Events on the Battleground in Syria That Changed War's Prospects in 2016
© Sputnik / Iliya Pitalev
As Syria was in the focus of media attention in 2016, Sputnik decided to recall breakthrough events of the outgoing year on the battleground in the Arab country that have changed the prospects of the war.
Aleppo Liberation
Aleppo, Syria's second largest city which used to be the country's economic capital, has been mired in the civil war since August 2012 with the western part of the city has been controlled by the Syrian army while the eastern part was occupied by various Islamist and rebel groups, including al-Nusra Front terrorists.
© REUTERS / Molhem Barakat
A general view of damage in the Umayyad mosque of Old Aleppo
© AFP 2019 / Thaer Mohammed
Aleppo Twitter Girl Bana's Father May Have Links to Daesh Terrorists (PHOTOS)
In early February 2016, the Syrian Armed Forces supported by militias and the Russian Aerospace Forces broke the four-year blockade of the settlements in the north of the Aleppo province. The government forces cut off main supply routes of terrorists running from Turkey to the northern Aleppo's suburbs.
The Syrian army and militia achieved a significant breakthrough in their fight against terrorists after the Russia-US-brokered ceasefire announced on February 27.
During summer, Aleppo was caught in fierce battles between the Syrian army and militants. In early August, the Syrian army blocked the major part of the militant forces in Aleppo.
© REUTERS / Omar Sanadiki
After Aleppo, Syrian Army Likely to Launch Offensive on Palmyra, Idlib
Some 5,000 to 8,000 militants from various groups united under the leadership of the al-Nusra Front terrorist group which later renamed itself after allegedly breaking ties with al-Qaeda. The terrorists continued their attempts to unblock the supply routes for their accomplices in the eastern districts and to break the blockade.
On September 22, the government forces began a military operation in the eastern districts of Aleppo.
To avoid civilian casualties, the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Air Force stopped airstrikes in Aleppo on October 18.
On October 23, the Syrian army launched an offensive in the southern part of the city. The hostilities resumed after a three-day humanitarian pause announced to let civilians and militants leave the eastern part of the city. Terrorists refused to leave and threatened to execute civilians who wanted to flee.
© Sputnik/ Sputnik
'I Thought This Day Would Never Come': Drone Footage Shows Aleppo Cleared of Terrorists
On October 30, militia units reported that the terrorists used shells containing poisonous gas to attack them and Syrian Army units deployed near the military academy in southwestern Aleppo.
Throughout November, the Syrian army gained considerable ground in eastern Aleppo, gaining control of approximately half of the territory from militants. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, by late November the government forces liberated over 40 percent of eastern Aleppo.
In December, Russia sent field hospitals, surgeons and medical equipment to Aleppo to help the residents.
On December 5, a mobile Russian military hospital was shelled in Aleppo, presumably by Syrian rebels. During the attack two Russian medics were killed and one was injured. Following the attack, Russian authorities said that Syrian rebels "had exact coordinates" of the hospital that means that those parties who support militants were also responsible for the deaths of Russian doctors. However, the US State Department denied giving coordinates of the Russian mobile hospital to the Syrian opposition.
© Photo : Vanessa Beeley
All Women and Children Evacuated From Militant-Controlled Districts in Aleppo - Russian MoD
On December 7, the Syrian army liberated two more districts in eastern Aleppo bringing the total number of them to 47. Breaking through the defense lines of militants in the historic part of the city, the Syrian government forces forced the terrorists to flee to the southern districts, their last enclave of resistance. Government troops liberated over 80 percent of eastern Aleppo, which had been controlled by terrorists since 2012.
During the battle for Aleppo, Russia had repeatedly contributed to establishment of humanitarian pauses in the city, all of which were undermined due to the UN humanitarian bodies' inability to deliver aid and because of the militants' attacks on civilians and the army. On December 8, the Syrian army suspended fighting for the largest relief operation to allow civilians leave the city.
An operation to evacuate militants and their families, as well as civilians who wanted to leave eastern Aleppo, was held with the assistance of the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation and Red Cross staff. Numerous convoys with civilians and militants who laid down arms left the city for Idlib and Turkey.
© AFP 2019 / STRINGER
Four buses, with on board people who are evacuated from Fuaa and Kafraya (two under rebel siege Shiite villages), arrive at the Syrian government-controlled crossing of Ramoussa, on the southern outskirts of Aleppo, on December 19, 2016 during an evacuation operation of rebel fighters and civilians from rebel-held areas
© AFP 2019 / Youssef KARWASHAN
Syrian Troops Discover Bodies of Kids Tortured to Death by Terrorists in Aleppo
On December 16, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Syrian army's operation to liberate militants-controlled eastern Aleppo ended, however, several hotbeds of militants' resistance remained.
On December 22, last militants left eastern Aleppo, thus the Syrian army gained full control over the city. Syrian President Bashar Assad called the liberation of Aleppo a "watershed moment."
Supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad carry their national flags and gesture as they tour the streets in celebration of what they say is the Syrian army's victory against the rebels in Aleppo, Syria December 12, 2016
After the liberation of Aleppo, numerous reports of atrocities committed by militants in the eastern part of the city have been confirmed. The Syrian army found bodies of kids tortured to death by terrorists, while food suplies delivered by the Western countries in eastern Aleppo was consumed only by militants, while civilians starved.
Palmyra Victory and Sudden Daesh Offensive
Rising From the Dead: Palmyra a Month After Liberation (PHOTOS)
The Syrian Arab Army, backed by the Russian Air Force, liberated Palmyra on March 27, 2016, nearly a year after it was captured by Daesh terrorist group in May 2015.
During the invasion, the militants destroyed a number of ancient objects, including the necropolis, the Arch of Triumph, as well as the temples of Baal Shamin and Bel.
After the victory, Russia sent a demining squad to clear the ancient city from bombs. Some 19,000 explosives have been defused.
© AFP 2019 / JOSEPH EID
A general view taken on March 31, 2016 shows a photographer holding his picture of the Temple of Bel taken on March 14, 2014 in front of the remains of the historic temple after it was destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in September 2015 in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra
During 2016, Daesh several times attempted to regain control over Palmyra, however, the attacks were repelled by the government forces.
© AP Photo / Militant Photo
Daesh in Disguise: Terrorists Moved to Palmyra 'Dressed as Bedouins & Soldiers'
On December 11, Daesh attacked and recaptured Palmyra, which had been liberated from the terrorists by the Syrian Army with the help of Russian warplanes in late-March. The ancient city had suffered for eight months under Daesh control. Some 4,000-5,000 militants, including hundreds of suicide bombers and armored vehicles, took part in the attack.
According to the Russian reconciliation center in Syria, Daesh managed to move considerable forces from Mosul in Iraq and the Syrian provinces Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa, where the United States-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had stalled their planned attack on the group.
Terrorists began attacking the city on Saturday. Their offensive was thwarted by the actions of the government forces supported by Russian aviation.
What We Know So Far About Daesh Attack on Palmyra
Despite the defeat, they resumed their attack on the city from the northern, eastern and southern sides.
Meanwhile, President Assad said that the timing of the attack correlated with Washington's decision to lift restrictions on arms supplies to Syrian opposition groups.
On December 15, the Russian General Staff reported that the Syrian Army supported by Russian warplanes stopped the terrorists from further advancing in Palmyra.
Supporters of the Islamic State militant group on an anonymous photo sharing website, purports to show a gun-mounted vehicle operated by the group firing at Syrian troops north of Palmyra city, in Homs, Syria
Putin: Situation in Palmyra Result of Discordant Actions of US-Led Coalition, Syrian Authorities and Russia
The first deputy chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff Viktor Poznikhir said that the situation in the city had stabilized due to the Syrian Army's operation with Russia's aerial support. Russia also helped Syrian government forces to launch a counteroffensive.
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the Daesh offensive on Palmyra. According to the Russian leader, the situation in Palmyra was a result of discordant actions of different players in Syria.
"Everything that happens in Palmyra is the result of uncoordinated actions between the so-called international coalition, Syrian authorities and Russia," Putin said.
Deir Ez-Zor Attack on Syrian Army by US-Led Coalition Jets
© Wikipedia /
Assad: 'Premeditated' US Airstrike on Syrian Army in Deir Ez-Zor Supports Daesh
Despite repeatedly calling for the resignation of President Bashar Assad, countries of the US-led coalition had abstained from attacking the Syrian army fighting against terrorists.
On September 17, US-led coalition aircraft carried out four strikes against the Syrian army near the Deir ez-Zor airport, leaving 62 soldiers killed and some 100 wounded. The Pentagon said that the airstrike was a mistake and was intended to target Daesh militants, while a number of Syrian officials stated that the attack was intentional.
© AFP 2019 / US AIR FORCE
Deir ez-Zor Attack Was Coordinated Between US, Daesh – Syrian Lawmaker
On November 11, the Pentagon released a report which claimed that the US-led coalition's forces struck the Syrian army in Deir ez-Zor as a result of an "unintentional, regrettable error."
"In this incident, ultimately, we made an unintentional regrettable error primarily based on human factors in several areas in the targeting process," US Air Force Brig. Gen. Richard Coe told reporters during a press briefing.
The Pentagon also said that the US-led coalition's strikes on Syrian army positions would have continued if Russian military officials did not call their colleagues via a deconfliction channel. The deconfliction channel is part of a memorandum of understanding on safety of flights in Syria's airspace signed by the US Defense Department and Russian Ministry of Defense in October 2015.
Operation Euphrates Shield
© AP Photo / Ismail Coskun
Safe Zone: Priority Goal of Turkey's Euphrates Shield Operation in Syria
On August 24, Turkish forces, supported by Free Syrian Army rebels and US-led coalition aircraft, began a military operation dubbed the Euphrates Shield to clear the Syrian border town of Jarabulus and the surrounding area from Daesh terrorist group.
This is the first Turkey's incursion into Syria, however, earlier Turkish forces attacked Kurdish positions in Syria from its side of the border.
The operation has been widely criticized both by the Syrian Kurds and Damascus, who have accused Ankara of violating Syria's territorial integrity.
© REUTERS / Revolutionary Forces of Syria Media Office
Turkish army tanks make their way towards the Syrian border town of Jarablus, Syria August 24, 2016. Picture taken August 24, 2016.
As Jarabulus was retaken, the joint forces of Ankara, the coalition and Syrian rebels continued the offensive southwest.
© AFP 2019 / ADEM ALTAN
A Slip of Tongue or Deliberate Plan? True Motives Behind Erdogan's Remark About Toppling Assad
On November 29, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a controversial remark, saying that the Turkish armed forces' military operation in Syria is designed to put an end to the rule of Assad. However, later the Turkish leader stopped voicing calls for Assad's immediate resignation.
On December 30, the Turkish General Staff said that Turkish forces have eliminated 1,171 militants from the Daesh terrorist group, as well as 291 militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) since the beginning of the Operation Euphrates Shield.
Turkish armed forces and allied Free Syrian Army (FSA) units are tightening their noose around the Daesh-held city of al-Bab. In an interview with Sputnik Turkey, FSA division commander Taha Atraç said that the city of al-Bab will be liberated "within the next few days."
Al-Bab is one of Daesh's last remaining strongholds near the Turkish border. Capturing the city is of strategic importance to Turkey in order to prevent the Syrian Kurds taking it and unifying their own territories.
Nationwide Ceasefire in Syria Backed by Russia, Turkey
Step Toward Peace: What Comes Next for Syria After Ceasefire Enters Into Force
On December 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Syrian government and armed opposition groups reached an agreement on a ceasefire on Syrian territory, taking effect at 00:00 on Friday. Russia and Turkey took the role of the ceasefire guarantors, but other countries may also be invited, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
This is the first time Russia and Turkey, not the United States is the guarantor of rebels' abidance by the truce in Syria.
© Photo : SANA
Aleppo's Liberation Made Syrian Ceasefire Possible
On December 30, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said that the ceasefire in Syria that entered in force on Friday has "holding adequately."
He also said that the maps included in the newly-announced Syrian ceasefire deal establish locations of the Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, and Syrian opposition groups.
It it yet to be seen how the ceasefire will hold in 2017, however, the very fact of the agreement gives hope that Syria will gradually finally return to peaceful life.
Watch Live Broadcast From Aleppo as Ceasefire is Underway in Syria
EXCLUSIVE: Sputnik Reports From Terrorist Chemical Factory in Aleppo (VIDEO)
EXCLUSIVE: Horrific Details Emerge of the Aleppo Rebel's Trade in Human Organs
March for Aleppo: Activists Urge 'People to Fight for Better Solution in Syria'
US-Made Weapons Found in Eastern Aleppo After Militants Flee
ceasefire, US-led coalition, Daesh, Al-Nusra Front, Jarablus, Deir Ez-Zor, Palmyra, Syria, Aleppo


An unprecedented global transfer of agricultural resources followed the discovery of the New World; one consequence of this process was that staple food plants of Neotropical origin, such as the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), soon expanded their ranges overseas. Yet many pests and diseases were also transported. Acanthoscelides obtectus is a cosmopolitan seed predator associated with P. vulgaris. Codispersal within the host seed seems to be an important determinant of the ability of A. obtectus to expand its range over long distances. We examined the phylogeographic structure of A. obtectus by (a) sampling three mitochondrial gene sequences (12s rRNA, 16s rRNA, and the gene that encodes cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI)) throughout most of the species' range and (b) exploring its late evolutionary history. Our findings indicate a Mesoamerican origin for the current genealogical lineages of A. obtectus. Each of the two major centers of genetic diversity of P. vulgaris (the Andes and Mesoamerica) contains a highly differentiated lineage of the bean beetle. Brazil has two additional, closely related lineages, both of which predate the Andean lineage and have the Mesoamerican lineage as their ancestor. The cosmopolitan distribution of A. obtectus has resulted from recent expansions of the two Brazilian lineages. We present additional evidence for both pre-Columbian and post-Columbian range expansions as likely events that shaped the current distribution of A. obtectus worldwide.


This video comprehensively explains how a hypothetical attack could be carried out by an attacker using the Stuxnet worm. This has very serious implications because it means that low-level industrial embedded systems are also now targets for attack. These SCADA systems are used everywhere and lack the necessary resources to defend themselves from attack.
The technique used is a fairly straight-forward one. The attacker can download and modify a programming library and use that to intercept the actual programme being downloaded onto the SCADA system.
This technique has been used for ages, in a non-malicious way. For example, my Xilinx board does not properly support my OS for programming. Thankfully, someone out there has written an open source driver to intercept all the Xilinx calls. Install this driver and the Xilinx ISE will think that it is talking to its own driver while all its calls are actually being intercepted by the wrapper.
This makes me think that I will probably need to build in some protection to my future cores to at least enable a limited amount of security checking of downloaded code.
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After taking the customary bow of respect at the person who designed this level on LBP, I'd just like to say that this was not that difficult to do – albeit very time consuming.
He did not actually design a complete computer but focused on the main computational component – the arithmetic unit. In this particular case, the arithmetic unit can perform two functions – addition and subtraction.
What this video actually shows is the exemplification of the Church-Turing thesis. In this case, the PS3 has successfully performed a simulation of an arithmetic unit, within the confines of a simulated virtual world. Nice recursion.
Also, it might seem weird that this computer was constructed from moving parts instead of, say, electrons. However, before we were inundated with the world of electronic digital computers like today, we were once using mechanical computers too, such as the Zuse Z1 currently on display in Berlin. Our history of computing is filled with all kinds of computers.
Now, if only it could be turned into a really interesting gaming level.
As I mentioned in a previous blog, I am running a six-core machine – it is actually a virtual machine. Regardless, I noticed one thing while doing it. As I went from single-core to six-core, performance improved accordingly. But when I went up to eight-core, things deteriorated. The reason for this is probably because of the arrangement of the processors. I am running a two-socketed six-core AMD system. So, for an eight-core machine to work, it would need to cross sockets, which is not a good idea due to the communications hierarchy.
So, that's why I ended up using a six-core VM.


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