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import { factory } from '../../utils/factory';
import { deepMap } from '../../utils/collection';
var name = 'atan';
var dependencies = ['typed'];
export var createAtan =
/* #__PURE__ */
factory(name, dependencies, function (_ref) {
  var typed = _ref.typed;

  /**
   * Calculate the inverse tangent of a value.
   *
   * For matrices, the function is evaluated element wise.
   *
   * Syntax:
   *
   *    math.atan(x)
   *
   * Examples:
   *
   *    math.atan(0.5)           // returns number 0.4636476090008061
   *    math.atan(math.tan(1.5)) // returns number 1.5
   *
   *    math.atan(2)             // returns Complex 1.5707963267948966 -1.3169578969248166 i
   *
   * See also:
   *
   *    tan, asin, acos
   *
   * @param {number | BigNumber | Complex | Array | Matrix} x   Function input
   * @return {number | BigNumber | Complex | Array | Matrix} The arc tangent of x
   */
  var atan = typed('atan', {
    number: function number(x) {
      return Math.atan(x);
    },
    Complex: function Complex(x) {
      return x.atan();
    },
    BigNumber: function BigNumber(x) {
      return x.atan();
    },
    'Array | Matrix': function ArrayMatrix(x) {
      // deep map collection, skip zeros since atan(0) = 0
      return deepMap(x, atan, true);
    }
  });
  return atan;
});


Bjork is not mad at all.  Rather she is quite eccentric, like her schoolgirl heroine, Kate Bush.  "I remember being underneath my duvet at the age of 12, fantasising about Kate Bush", she reveals, "but I don't want to make a big thing our of it.  I would love it and hate it to be compared to Kate Bush, because I'd be very honoured to be compered to such a genius, but at the same time, it's important to me that I have my own individuality and my own voice."
A Sideliner bumped into Kate Bush at the recent premiere of mundane musical "Maddie" at the Lyric Shaftesbury.  After the show Bush revealed that one of her long-standing admirers is everybody's favourite mad Icelander, Bjork.  Bush was the inspiration for Bjork to move into music.  Back in 1989 Bjork sent Kate a demo of her song "Moving", said Bush, and since then the pair have kept in touch.  In fact, they have even been talking about the possibility of a duet.  What a prospect.  Sidelines looks forward to the loopiest record ever made, combining childhood fantasies, violently happy weather machines and Emily Bronte.
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Debut of Hampton Inn by Hilton and Homewood Suites by Hilton will bring 239 new rooms to Washington, D.C.
Located at 501 New York Avenue NE, the dual-brand property will be the newest hotels in NoMa, and are situated within walking distance to the Metro's Red Line at NoMa-Gallaudet U station, offering guests convenient access to the U.S. Capitol Building, Library of Congress and many more of Washington, D.C.'s most popular attractions. Credit: Hampton by Hilton.
Property SpotlightHampton Inn by Hilton Washington D.C. NoMa Union Station, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. and MCLEAN, Va. - Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT) announced today its newest hotel, the dual-branded Hampton Inn by Hilton Washington, D.C. NoMa Union Station and Homewood Suites by Hilton Washington, D.C. NoMa Union Station. Offering 239 new rooms, the dual-brand hotel is ideally located in the revitalized NoMa neighborhood and continues the brand's robust expansion in urban markets.
"Washington, D.C. is one of the nation's top leisure destinations and attracts business travelers including those in the government and corporate sector," said Phil Cordell, global head, Focused Service and Hampton Brand Management, Hilton Worldwide. "Having a dual Hampton by Hilton and Homewood Suites property in this market presents a prime opportunity to offer two diverse brands with comfortable amenities and value our travelers have come to expect."
Managed by Baywood Hotels out of Greenbelt, MD, Hampton Inn by Hilton and Homewood Suites by Hilton Washington, D.C. NoMa Union Station complements the city's steady growth in leisure and business travel, reaching a record high of more than 20 million visitors in 2014*.
Located at 501 New York Avenue NE, the dual-brand property will be the newest hotels in NoMa, and are situated within walking distance to the Metro's Red Line at NoMa-Gallaudet U station, offering guests convenient access to the U.S. Capitol Building, Library of Congress and many more of Washington, D.C.'s most popular attractions.
The dual-brand concept creates enhanced and larger communal areas than what would be standard at a stand-alone property, benefitting both business and leisure travelers. Guests at each property have access to the fitness center and heated indoor pool with whirlpool. Guests can also enjoy the breathtaking city views from the rooftop observatory. The hotel has two distinct lobbies offering two separate check-in desks and lodging/dining areas - each catering to the needs of their respective guests.
The Hampton hotel will provide guests a fresh start to each day with On the House hot breakfast which includes eggs, oatmeal and waffles. In addition, Hampton's On the RunTM Breakfast Bags are provided Monday through Friday. Other standard brand amenities include free Wi-Fi and a 24-hour business center with complimentary printing. Each guestroom includes the brand's signature Clean and fresh Hampton bed®, HDTV, microwave, refrigerator and coffeemaker.
Homewood Suites by Hilton offers a combination of studio and one-bedroom extended stay lodging in DC, featuring fully-equipped kitchens, and separate living and sleeping areas. Guests are also provided with all the essentials they need for a comfortable and convenient stay - complimentary daily full-hot breakfast, an evening social Monday-Thursday, Wi-Fi and grocery shopping service**.
Hampton Inn by Hilton and Homewood Suites Washington, D.C. NoMa Union Station participate in Hilton's award-winning customer loyalty program, Hilton HHonors®. Hilton HHonors members who book directly through preferred Hilton channels have access to benefits including exclusive member rates, free standard Wi-Fi, as well as digital amenities that are available exclusively through the industry-leading Hilton HHonors app, where HHonors members can check-in, choose their room, and access their room using a Digital Key. For more information or to make a reservation, visit Hampton Inn by Hilton Washington, D.C. NoMa Union Station or call +1 202 393 1001 or Homewood Suites by Hilton Washington, D.C. NoMa Union Station or call +1 202 393 8001.
Read more at news.hampton.com and news.homewoodsuites.com.
Established in 1975, Baywood Hotels, Inc. is a fast-growing and privately-owned hospitality management company, operating over $800 million in assets and employing over 1,000 associates nationwide. The company is headquartered in Greenbelt, Maryland, and has regional offices in Chantilly, VA, Miami, FL and San Antonio, TX. In each of its regions, the private hotel ownership company is consistently recognized as an innovative leader in the hotel industry, focusing on product concept and development and the outstanding management of its assets. The focused vision, strong values and aggressive long-range strategy of Baywood Hotels has helped the company develop reputable and well-branded hotels in areas where Baywood has competitive expertise and partnerships. Baywood Hotels employs over 1,000 associates nationwide. For more information, visit our website or follow us on Facebook.


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Merkel to make way for new party leader / EU car CO2 goal "not mature"
Clean Energy Wire
Merkel will not seek re-election as party chair, chancellor
After heavy losses for her conservative CDU/CSU alliance in regional elections in Bavaria and Hesse, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman. She also said she would not run for chancellor again. "This term is my last one as chancellor. I will not run for chancellor or parliament in 2021 and do not seek to occupy other political positions thereafter. […] My party can now prepare itself for the time after I'm gone," Merkel told a press conference in Berlin. "The government's work has not always met my own quality standards in the last months," she said, adding that the intention of her decision is to enable the government to focus on good governance. Merkel, who has in the past been nicknamed "climate-chancellor" for her long-standing international engagement for emissions cuts, has been chairwoman of the CDU since 2000 and chancellor since 2005. Stepping down as CDU chairwoman further undermines Merkel's authority, wrote Andreas Rinke and Paul Carrel for Reuters. Party sources said Merkel's favoured successor, CDU party secretary general Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Friedrich Merz, a former parliamentary leader of Merkel's conservative alliance, and Health Minister Jens Spahn had announced their candidacies for the party chair, writes Reuters.
Find the Reuters article in English here.
For background, read the CLEW factsheet The story of "Climate Chancellor" Angela Merkel.
The Clean Energy Wire will publish an article on the topic later today.
Greens strong in regional election, but ability to turn success into concrete policy remains to be seen - opinion
While the Greens were strengthened by their success in the regional elections in the German federal state of Hesse, it remains to be seen whether they can convert this political success into concrete green policy, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece for the klimareporter. The Green Party would certainly be a stronger partner should the current coalition with the Christian Democrats continue. "Unfortunately, no help comes from the federal government as – despite its slump in voter favour – there is no end in sight for the grand coalition, which steps on the brakes," writes Wille.
Read the opinion piece in German here.
Find background in the CLEW article Fresh Green upset in Hesse state election may derail Merkel government and the factsheet Facts on German state elections and the energy transition in Hesse.
Climate & CO2
EU ministers' proposal to cut CO₂ car emissions by 35 percent "not mature" – union head
The proposed goal by EU ministers to cut the average CO₂ emissions of new passenger cars by 35 percent by 2030 is "not mature," the head of the metal industry union IG Metall Jörg Hofmann told Alfons Frese in an interview with the Tagesspiegel. "I can't imagine how this can be achieved with the timeframes for planning procedures in Germany," he said. While more ambitious targets are good for the climate, "targets that are fakes from the outset because the preconditions for achieving them have not been clarified are detrimental to an ambitious climate policy," he said. Battery prices are skyrocketing, and coal still has a large share in Germany's power mix, making e-mobility comparatively CO₂-intensive.
Read the interview in German here.
Find background in the news digest EU governments agree to cut car emissions faster than proposed by Germany.
Need to involve all actors in society for climate protection – President Steinmeier
Germany is able to live up to its obligations in international climate protection and should not give up the pioneer role it has played in areas such as renewable energies and environmental technologies, said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the award ceremony for the German Environmental Prize. Environmental and climate protection are tasks to which all citizens must be committed, and there are many challenges, said Steinmeier. "That is why it is important to involve all actors in society in finding solutions in order to achieve a balance between ecological, social, economic, and industrial interests." This had not always been the case in the past, as was shown by the dispute surrounding the fate of Hambach Forest. "We must act, we must act together, and we must act quickly," said Steinmeier.
Find the text of the speech in German here.
For background, read the CLEW article Court's halt to forest clearing fans talk of easier German coal exit and the dossier The energy transition and climate change.
New anti-coal protests in Rhenish mining district
Thousands of people have protested against coal use in Germany, some blocking a railway line leading to the Hambach lignite mine, others occupying an excavator there, reports Deutsche Welle. A court has recently ordered that clearing operations at the embattled and symbolic Hambach Forest – which protesters had occupied for about six years and energy company RWE wants to clear to make way for expanding the nearby open pit mine – be stopped.
Read the DW article in English here.
For background, read the CLEW article Court's halt to forest clearing fans talk of easier German coal exit and the Commission watch – Managing Germany's coal phase-out.
Quality of reporting on climate risks by German companies must increase – consultancy
While many German companies have recognised the need for more transparency and other changes in measuring climate risks, the quality of reporting on the topic is not high enough, writes the consultancy Ernst & Young (EY). In a report, EY examined how well companies followed the recommendations on the voluntary disclosure of climate-related financial risks by corporations, which the industry-led Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) had published in 2017.
Find the study in German here.
The Independent / Church of England
Investor alliance challenges firms on climate lobbying
An alliance of investors, led by the Church of England Pensions Board and the Swedish Pension Fund AP7, has written a joint letter to 55 high-carbon companies in Europe, including German carmaker VW, urging them to better align their lobbying stance with the aims of the Paris Agreement, reports The Independent. "Misleading and misaligned corporate lobbying practices undermine the ability of governments to act on climate change and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement," said Adam Matthews, director of ethics & engagement at the Church of England Pensions Board, in a press release.
Find the article in English here and the Church of England press release in English here.
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Discrete-time linear periodically time-varying (LPTV) systems, considered as a bridge between the well-studied linear time-invariant (LTI) model and the nonlinear time-varying problems in real world, have been receiving increasing attention in recent a few decades. In this research project, we try to understand discrete-time LPTV systems both internally and externally and derive basic theories for analysis, realization and model reduction of LPTV systems. Firstly we review the system model for LPTV systems, define its transfer function matrix, Markov parameters, stability, reachability and observability. Then we emphasize on the numerically efficient and stable methods to compute LPTV system grammians and to approximate the eigenvalue decay rate. Another main result of this thesis is Krylov-based moment matching algorithm for model reduction of LPTV systems, which is derived afterwards, and is also compared to the other approach: balancing and balanced truncation of LPTV systems. Almost any application of discrete-time LPTV systems, including periodic digital filters and periodic control theories, demands a periodic state-space model from input-output maps. This periodic realization problem is treated at the end of the thesis with demonstration of applicable non-minimal and quasi-minimal realization methods.
Hu, Jing. "Discrete-time linear periodically time-varying systems: Analysis, realization and model reduction." (2003) Master's Thesis, Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17688.


I'm trying to test out the Yubikey for possible use as our company's 2-factor VPN authentication method.
"Device 'Hard disk 1' has a backing type that is not supported. This is a general limitation of the virtual machine's version on the selected host."
So my first question would be, is the RoP VMWare image compatible with vSphere4? If it's not, are there any plans for one in the near future?
We have forwarded your forum post to our product development team.
Will you be able to let me know once there is an estimated release date for this? Also, I would be happy to help test the image before general release.
Thank you for your interest in testing the RoP!
The next version of the RoP application is currently under road map. We will update you once the virtual image is ready for testing.
the issue you are struggling with is that the vmware image needs to be converted prior to use. I have seen lots of people confused by this, and generally how to set up the ROPII.
I recommend you have a look at the whole post, as I have tried to give a detailed 'how to' for the ROPII, and there is some info in there gained through LOTS of trial and error, that hopefully you won't now have to go through too!
As they are fond of saying on this forum - Hope this helps!
Thanks Andrew! I will try these steps as soon as I can, which will likely be sometime next week.
It looks like Samir may have delivered!
I'm going to give this new Virtual Appliance a shot and test it out. I'll post any difficulties I run in to here.
Firstly setting the network address to static. Using the Webmin interface I tried 3 times and each time had issues (wrong network address saved, no network interface active on reboot, etc). Not sure if it was just me or if there is some problem with that script. Either way I just went to the network config file (/etc/network/interfaces) and set it manually and its been fine since.
The other issue was with the new RadTest feature which lets you test username & Password & OTP combinations - it kept timing out for me. Obvious with hindsight but you need to add 127.0.0.1 to the clients allowed to connect under your domain -> configuration tab. I probably missed this obvious point because the guide is so good with step by step instructions I'd stopped thinking of the big picture. When the guide says to enter your shared secret, username, password and OTP to test thats what I did. Maybe if an extra line was added to the guide saying "Before using this make sure you have setup the shared secret for 127.0.0.1 in the domains config tab" or similar... Very nice feature for troubleshooting once it was working!
Overall a nice improvement on version 2. Thanks to everyone at Yubico for all their hard work!
Most of it has been pretty smooth so far and the documentation is well-written. I did find one area where an explanation seemed missing though. At section 4.2.2, step 2, sub-step f: If we are doing a local validation server with a Validation Server Client ID of "1", what should our Validation Server API Key be set to? My understanding of how this API key works is a little fuzzy, especially in an environment that is doing local authentication only. I've tried searching the forums for some clarification on this, though the search function does not appear to be working for me (always tells me that all of my search words were excluded for being too short or too long, even though they words are between 3 and 14 characters as required).
Also, if you have managed to get past this, you may have struck the 'LDAP not validating' issue I hit - the system was converting my user passwords to lower case, which caused them to fail LDAP bind. Version 3.0.1 has this issue - there is now a 3.0.2 which may have this fixed.


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Camp Morning Wood: A Very Naked Musical
Mark Eardley's new Off-Broadway musical Camp Morning Wood: A Very Naked Musical opened two days ago at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwright's Horizon, 416 West 42nd Street. We saw the late afternoon matinee today and came away both amused and intrigued.
And glad we went.
Though the book and lyrics, both by Jay Falzone, need polish, there are enough highlights to overcome the rough spots and to assure that Falzone, who I assume is still working on this musical, can iron them out. The self-referential playfulness of some of the lyrics can get in the way of the songs and the neat plot twist at the end could be handled with a better sense of actual, rather than silly and contrived, history.
Though nudity is foregrounded in this show about a gay nudist camp being forced to close, there isn't much about the show that's titillating, which might disappoint some in the audience but that actually makes for a stronger show. The actors' bodies are not uniformly sculpted but are aggressively human and various–a major point of the plot. Pretty quickly, one gets used to them and pays more attention to the story. Sex is a theme of the show but this is not a sexy show.
Camp Morning Wood is, however, a campy show, and it starts with a nod to the even more campy Rocky Horror Show, with an engaged couple, Randy and Gabe (played lovingly by Alex Gagne and Tim Garnham), lost in the woods on a stormy night. This couple, however, instead of coming upon a haunted mansion, stumbles into a gay nudist camp.
It's about to be closed, to be replaced by a mega-church and an oil refinery. Jacques (Brady Vignes), the faux-Frenchman who runs the place, gets to perform perhaps the best of the songs, "Rise and Shine" (with music by Bobby Cronin, one of five credited songwriters). He has given up trying to save his camp and simply wants one last weekend there. His love interest, the beautiful and vain Kincaid (Michael Witkes), turns out to have recently been part of a threesome with Randy and Gabe, a threesome that had put a strain on their relationship necessitating their getaway trip to the country.
The second really memorable song of the is "A BBC's Lament" (music by Derrick Byars) and sung by Titus (Ethan Gwynn–more on him in a moment) The star voice in the musical, though, is that of the massive Hunter (Anthony Logan Cole), by far the most polished performer of the bunch.
This show needs work, and a lot of it, but it contains great possibility. Its points about relationships and body identities are serious and well presented–even within a rather campy and sometimes silly onstage milieu. The idea of making nudity the subject but not the object of the musical works well, even if it might disappoint the few who may show up hoping for a parade of sexy bodies (though there certainly are some).
I hope that director Eardley and his team keep working on improving what they have. The germ for a fine show is buried in what they have, and the creative talent is as clearly present.
The cast is impressive. There's not a weak spot among it and it works well as an ensemble, members picking up when props fail, for example, without missing a beat.
Camp Morning Wood is for those interested in the future, not for those who want to see only the polished work of seasoned pros. The talents exhibited by its cast, its director and its writers are strong even if a bit raw as yet. Even if this musical does not fulfill the promise I think it contains, some of the people in it may soon find themselves in great demand–though not generally, I suspect (and probably much to their relief), as sex objects.
They are making nudity boring again, and serious (even within the humor)–and that's a commendable goal.
Now, back to Ethan Gwynn. We have known him since he was a child and he stayed with us for part of the time he studied dance at the Alvin Ailey School. We have grown close to him and try as best we can to promote his career. We would have cheered Ethan even if the show were a dud and his part a disaster, so much do we love him. We knew that Camp Morning Wood was having a rocky start and entered the theater this afternoon with more than a bit of trepidation. We left relieved and cheered: The two hour show had flown by and we had enjoyed ourselves–even while recognizing that this musical has a ways to go before it can call itself a finished product.
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Q: What is the best way to pass data from a dropdown list to a prop? I'm attempting to pass the selected value from my dropdown list, to my props, but being new at Vue I'm lost as to how to get this my selected value to pass to my prop, I've attempted many different methods but it remains an empty string. What am I missing here?
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                <select v-model="selected">
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                  <option>B</option>
                  <option>C</option>
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           export default {
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          name: 'CcRequestForm',
          mixins: [BaseForm],

          props: {
             selected: '',

             modelName: {
              default: 'CcRequest',
            }
           },

          computed: {
              ...mapGetters(['ccTypesForRequests', 'currentRequesterSlug', 'currentCcRequest']),    ccTypesCollection() {
              return this.ccTypesForRequests.map((x)=>[x.slug, this.t(`cc_types.${x.slug}`)]);
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          },

A: There are a few points that you should consider and implement in your code in order to fix your component.

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*When you're defining props in a child component, you should define its type, using javascript types (String, Number, Boolean, Array, Object). So writing selected: '' is not the correct way. Use selected: String instead. Read the Vue documentation for more detailed information:
Prop Types
Prop definitions

*You should know and consider that mutating a prop in the child component is an anti-pattern, as their documentation says:

All props form a one-way-down binding between the child property and the parent one: when the parent property updates, it will flow down to the child, but not the other way around. This prevents child components from accidentally mutating the parent's state, which can make your app's data flow harder to understand.

So in your child component: use a computed property as your select box value, and emit an event whenever it changes. And in your parent component: set a function on selectComponent event emitting, and change the value of selected state there. Check the below links for further reading:
One-Way Data Flow
Implicit parent-child communication
Vue 2 - Mutating props vue-warn
I've also implemented the correct code for your better understanding. Open and check the console when you're changing the dropdown list: https://codesandbox.io/s/vue2-v-model-og0fd?file=/src/App.vue

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Everyone wants to travel light, but its tricky when you are working as a photographer. What photography gear should you take on safari? Fortunately new equipment is getting lighter and lighter, and even a mobile phone works well to get those quick moments. Here are a few tips to consider when deciding what to pack, what to buy and what to leave at home. Remember that it's composition, not the photography gear that you have, that defines your work. Go for the best photography gear can afford. And chat to us if you want advice. We recommend Orms in Cape Town which offers excellent service.
There are excellent Lightroom instruction videos on the internet. I can recommend those by Julienne Kost.
Scott Kelby's book on Lightroom has some good tips.
Bring your camera manual as a booklet or as a PDF and also study its contents.
Read our handy ebook guide Lodges to Landscapes for tips and tricks.
If you are joining a David Rogers safari, make sure that you have a full set of workshop notes including Auto to Artist.
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FOM INDUSTRIE has been well known for 40 years for quality systems for cutting and machining aluminium. Nowadays, FOM INDUSTRIE heads a group of the same name FOM Group, a pool of 14 subsidiary and associate companies, structured with a view to carrying out all the stages in the production process with the group's own resources. 500 people are employed by the FOM Group The result is a vast range of products, running from machine tools for cutting and machining aluminium, light alloy and PVC profiles to frame construction and assembly machine tools, and custom-designed and built machining centres, cutting and machining lines. The group also offers management software and a wide range of services tailored to meet customers' needs in full. FOM INDUSTRIE is also continuously improving design and manufacture of numerical controls and integrated industrial automation systems; this provides concrete proof of the commitment to creating a policy intent on focusing resources, professionalism and investment in this sector.


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EN 10025 S185 steel - 316l-stainless. EN 10025 S185 steel, a kind of general prupose structural steel.. EN 10025 S185 steel has its own features,such as, high strength, tough and weldable. It is widely used in the oil and gas industry.
S185 St33 A33 Fe320 A310-0 A283B A569CQ SS330 S185 EN 10025 Number:1.0035 Comparision of steel grades DIN 17100 St 33 NFA 35-501 A33 UNI 7070 Fe 320 BS 4360 - UNE 36.080 A310-0 International Comparision of Standards2 - mdmetric.
Norma numero : EN 10025-2:2004 Titolo : Hot rolled products of structural steels - Part 2: This document does not apply to structural hollow sections and tubes (see EN 10210-1 and EN 10219-1). Products made of steel grades S185, E295, E335 and E360 cannot be CE marked.
dards: EN 10025, EN 10113-1 (on behalf of EN 10113-2 and EN 10113-3), EN 10155 and EN 10137-1 (on behalf of EN 10137-2). from 250 mm to 400 mm, for S185 from 100 mm to 250 mm. The definition of steel grades having an improved suitability for cold forming is increased from 20 mm to 30 mm. 9.
EN 10025-1'de belirtilen özelliklere ilâveten S185 çeliği mamuller siparişte belirtildiğinde sadece özelolmayan muayene ve deneylerle ve sadece siparişe uygunluk belgeleriyle teslim edilmelidir.
Çelik Kaliteleri - Steel Grades / TS EN 10025-2 : 2006 Çelik Kalite Sembolu - Designation of Steel Grades Mekanik Özellikler - Mechanical Properties Akma Mukavemeti - Yield strength Re (min.) N/mm² Çekme Mukavemeti - Tensile Strength Rm (2) N/mm² Uzama - Elongation A (%) min.
Plaat EN 10025-2 - S355J2C+N; constructiestaal (S) met een minimum rekgrens van 355 N/mm² en een minimum kerfslagwaarde van 27 J (J) bij -20 °C (2), geschikt voor verdere bewerkingen zoals koudflenzen (C), die geleverd moet worden in de normaliserend gewalste toestand (N). S185. Fe 310-0.
EN 10025 S185 steel, a kind of general prupose structural steel.. EN 10025 S185 steel has its own features,such as, high strength, tough and weldable. It is widely used in the oil and gas industry.
S185 St33 A33 Fe320 Steel plate,S185 St33 A33 Fe320 S185 EN 10025 Number:1.0035 Comparision of steel grades DIN 17100 St 33 NFA 35-501 A33 UNI 7070 Fe 320 BS 4360 - UNE 36 Carbon Steel Comparison Tabel - Norsk Stål.
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Standardele de calitate a otelurilor pentru constructii conform EN 10025-2/2004 sunt urmatoarele: S185. S235JR S235JO S235J2. S275JR S275JO S275J2. S355JR S355JO S235J2 S355K2 (S185, S235, S275, S355) si clasa de calitate corespunzatoare (JR, JO, J2, K2).
Den här delen av standard SS-EN 10025-2:2004 specificerar krav för varmvalsade olegerade allmänna konstruktionsstål som levereras som plåt, band, stång och profiler. J2 och K2 är de tekniska leveransbestämmelserna tillämpbara för tjocklekar = 400 mm. Produkter av stålsorterna S185, E295, E335 och E360 kan inte CE-märkas.
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Latest Security Patch released by Microsoft
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Microsoft has published today 80 security fixes across 15 products and services, as part of the company's monthly batch of security updates, known as Patch Tuesday.
Of the 80 vulnerabilities patched today, two are so-called zero-days — security flaws that had been exploited before fixes are released.
The two zero-days are CVE-2019-1214 and CVE-2019-1215.
Both are elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities.
EoP vulnerabilities are usually exploited by malware to gain the ability to run malicious code with administrator privileges on (previously) infected hosts.
As usual, Microsoft didn't reveal any details of how the two bugs were being exploited in the wild, only acknowledging a security researcher from Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team with discovering the first.
According to Microsoft, the September ecurity release consists of security updates for the following software:
Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based)
Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps
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Q: tomcat generate empty ROOT folder but does not unpack the war file I have gone through some post related to my question but unfortunately I have not managed to get the correct answer.
I have uploaded and rename a war file to ea-tomcat85/webapps/ROOT.war in my server. But whenever I restart the tomcat server it only generate an empty ROOT folder without any files inside it. I have try to set <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> inside tomcat conf directory file  server.xml as suggested in other links with no success. Also I have try to delete and rename the generated empty ROOT folder as suggested with no success. I don't know exactly what I am doing wrong or missing. This is my first time deploy a war file into a live server. Thanks in Advance.
Update
I have set the $CATALINA_BASE/bin/setenv.sh:
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64/jre
CATALINA_PID="$CATALINA_BASE/tomcat.pid"

Just as this official link illustrate .
But when I start the server as root inside $CATALINA_HOME/bin/ I get the below output with JRE_HOME: missing environment variables.
[root@xxxx bin]# ./startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/cpanel/ea-tomcat85
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /opt/cpanel/ea-tomcat85
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/cpanel/ea-tomcat85/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /
Using CLASSPATH:       /opt/cpanel/ea-tomcat85/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/cpanel/ea-tomcat85/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Tomcat started.

A: The only environment variable used by startup.sh that cannot be set in setenv.sh is CATALINA_BASE (if it is unset it defaults to CATALINA_HOME, which defaults to the parent folder of the startup.sh script).
Therefore you need to start you Tomcat as:
CATALINA_BASE="/path/to/catalina/base" /opt/cpanel/ea-tomcat85/bin/startup.sh

The ROOT folder in $CATALINA_BASE/webapps was empty, since Tomcat used a different value for CATALINA_BASE.


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EU aims to pursue Iran nuclear deal following US withdrawal
Angela Merkel (pictured), Emmanuel Macron and Theresa May have issued a joint statement on upholding the Iran nuclear deal © Philipp
European leaders have expressed regret at US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the country from the Iran nuclear deal.
Germany's Angela Merkel, France's Emmanuel Macron and the UK's Theresa May issued a joint statement following Trump's announcement yesterday that the US would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal – officially known at the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – and re-impose sanctions on the country.
It is unclear at this point what the future of the deal might entail, but European leaders have already indicated a willingness to continue to pursue the deal without US involvement. European Commission High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini said yesterday that the US did not have the power to scrap the agreement altogether, and that the EU would continue to pursue it.
In their joint statement, Macron, May and Merkel restated their commitment to the Iran nuclear deal and emphasised its importance for international security. Iran, meanwhile, has condemned Trump for lying during his speech withdrawing from the deal, and said that it will await Europe's response to determine the future of the agreement.
What are Europe's next steps?
The primary goal of the Iran nuclear deal is to ensure that the country's nuclear programme remains 'peaceful and civilian', and includes measures to ensure Iran does not enrich uranium on a level sufficient to develop nuclear weapons.
In the joint statement, the leaders of France, Germany and the UK urged Iran to continue to meet its obligations to the deal, including co-operating fully and in a timely manner with the International Atomic Energy Agency's inspection requirements. In return, these countries will continue to withhold sanctions that were previously imposed on the country.
However, they also acknowledged that there remain to be addressed some areas of concern in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which were part of the Trump's reasoning for pulling out of the deal.
The statement reads: "A long-term framework for Iran's nuclear programme… will need to be addressed [after 2025]. Because our commitment to the security of our allies and partners in the region is unwavering, we must also address in a meaningful way shared concerns about Iran's ballistic missile programme and its destabilising regional activities, especially in Syria, Iraq and Yemen."
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Health freedom alert: Britain to ban everyone from privately discussing vaccine ingredients, side effects and damage to children
04/13/2019 / By Lance D Johnson
At the turn of the century, the internet became one of humanity's greatest gifts, a source of personal freedom and power. The internet unleashed endless opportunities for communication, commerce, and information sharing. Not only did the internet decentralize news, but it offered a platform for anyone to create and speak freely.
Two decades later, the internet has become a contentious place, with Tech giants, corporations, political activists, and governments all clamoring to control the flow of information, to stifle free speech, and to use personal data to exploit consumer's purchasing habits and voting preferences.
Facebook has already implemented a plan to weed out information that is critical of pharmaceutical companies and their vaccine policies. For example, groups on Facebook may share information on measles, but they cannot share information on vaccine adverse events because this might cause "vaccine hesitancy."
"Hate speech" policies are now used to censor "dangerous" ideas – ideas that certain people just don't agree with. Information that criticizes the Democrat party is now deemed "disinfo" from Russia, and can be censored out of social media using filters and algorithms. The Russia collusion hoax has led Twitter to shadow ban conservative ideas, as they claim to "protect American democracy" from foreign interference.
Did you speak out about drugs and human trafficking along the Mexican border? You could be deemed racist and have your social media accounts taken down. Did you criticize shariah law online? The Southern Poverty Law Center may work to have you arrested. (Related: Citizen journalist Tommy Robinson jailed under secret order from U.K. government; total media blackout issued to protect Muslim pedophiles.)
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U.K. to assist Big Tech in censorship ploys, under the guise of "public safety"
In Great Britain, online speech is about to become extremely more regulated. It's like history is repeating itself. The British government hopes to appoint an internet safety czar to "monitor" Facebook, Twitter, and Google to ensure "public safety." The motivation behind the plan is to "ensure public safety," not to protect the right of the citizens to speak freely. Soon, you won't be able to express yourself or voice concerns if someone in authority deems that your speech is abusive, insulting, distressing, indecent, racist, seditious, obscene, defamatory, incites religious hatred, may cause a breach of the peace, or is scandalous to a court.
According to Britain's new plan, a government czar will ensure that social media companies do the following:
Stop cyber bullying on their platforms
Stop the incitement of violence and spread of violent content
Block children's access to inappropriate material
Block content that encourages self harm or suicide
Stop child exploitation and abuse content
Stop the spread of disinformation and fake news
This brings up obvious questions:
Who decides what violent content is? Are historical depictions of war to be erased from the internet? What about medical experimentation of prisoners and children? What about gruesome abortion procedures and testimonies about medical error and vaccine damage?
Who decides what is disinformation and fake news? Does this include information that the people in charge don't agree with or aren't educated about? By banning "fake news," the government becomes a propaganda ministry.
Who decides what constitutes cyber bullying? Does this include bans on information that someone or some group might find offensive? The easily offended will be validated and any unsettling truths will be taken offline.
Instead of working to ensure that freedom of speech is not trampled by Tech giants, the British government is essentially working with them to destroy dissent, to squelch historical perspective, to alienate certain political ideas, to cover up the harms of vaccines and other medical experiments. Government czars and the engineers of Big Tech are colluding to stifle free speech, not protect individual rights. Their coordinated efforts will be abused to stop the flow of information on vaccine dangers, among other topics that cannot be discussed such as natural cancer cures. All this is being done in the name of public "safety" but so often throughout history, promises of "safety" are used to take away personal liberties. This situation will be no different.
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A speech by The Duke of Cambridge at a reception for the Royal Marsden Trust
A speech by The Duke of Cambridge at a reception for the Royal Marsden Trust, at Buckingham Palace.
I simply cannot thank you enough. What you are doing, what The Royal Marsden is doing, is immeasurably important.
Welcome everyone this evening.
I have been privileged to be President of The Royal Marsden for over ten years now. It is a very very special place to me - from my early visits as a young boy; to my work experience in 2007; and now in my role as President.
Those early visits - and the feeling that The Royal Marsden is an exceptional place - have always stayed with me.
A patient recently said to Cally:
"The quality of every contact is so evident at every level. The positive effect this has on patients is immeasurable. And my experiences will remain with me as a reminder of how good a hospital can be. Truly terrific work and effort from genuine and accessible people."
That, for me, really sums up The Royal Marsden and the care I know that every patient receives.
Last summer, I visited the Sutton site to celebrate a decade as President and returned to where I had worked as a work experience student one summer. You will appreciate that I was reassured to know everything was still standing after my intervention! But also that the quality of care, the compassion and the dedication from every single member of staff had not changed one bit.
While at Sutton, I once again visited the children's centre, and the radiotherapy unit and saw an amazing piece of prototype technology. The MR Linac fuses two technologies together to allow much more precise delivery of radiotherapy. You can only imagine how much this will improve care for patients. And it is another great example of how The Royal Marsden continues to evolve and push the boundaries of cancer research, its treatment and its care.
And so much of that work would not be possible without the support of The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. The Charity helps to fund state-of-the-art equipment, ground- breaking research and the very very best patient environments.
With the help of many of you here tonight, the Charity ensures that the doctors, nurses and research teams can develop life-saving treatments and provide the very best of care.
I am heartened to know that The Oak Cancer Centre will truly fulfil the Royal Marsden's ambition to improve the lives of all people affected by cancer.
I would like to thank Mike Slade and the members of the Appeal Board for their drive and determination in making this wonderful new building a reality. Raising £70m is no mean feat but I know that with the support of so many of you, this will be possible.
And we are already halfway there thanks to the generosity of many individuals including Alan and Jette Parker from the Oak Foundation, the Kuok Group Foundation, the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Richard Oldfield, and Don McCarthy.
The people who will benefit from the Oak Cancer Centre are cancer patients. Not only those who come through the doors of The Royal Marsden, but cancer patients across the U.K. and around the world.
I have met many of those patients on my visits to The Royal Marsden over the years, and on their behalf, I simply cannot thank you enough. What you are doing, what The Royal Marsden is doing, is immeasurably important.
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 Cesarstwo rzymskie
 Cesarz Tacyt zmarł wskutek choroby lub też padł ofiarą zamachu.
 Florian został obwołany cesarzem przez rzymski senat.
 Nasiliły się inwazje na wszystkich granicach Cesarstwa.
 Probus został cesarzem rzymskim; przywrócił dyscyplinę w armii.

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 Florian, cesarz rzymski.
 Mani, perski reformator religijny, twórca manicheizmu (ur. 216).
 Tacyt, cesarz rzymski (ur. ≈200).

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On May 23 2017, the banner of the Islamic State found itself flying over the Southern Philippine city of Marawi. The Caliphate was now in South East Asia putting thousands of people's lives at risk… After such scenes, there had been a panic among the citizens which led to them fleeing for safety. To such actions, the Philippines Government responded by sending the armed forces to the city of Marawi to help the people evacuate.
Captain Sandoval
It had been reported that at least 46 people were already killed. The Government had already declared an Islamic state invasion in the southern city of Marawi and subsequently, President Rodrigo Duterte declared Martial Law over the island of Mindanao.
The Philippines deployed the brunt of their armed forces including the famed Scout Ranger Battalion. Rommel Sandoval, a captain in said Scout Ranger Battalion was leading his troop to capture one of the last strongholds held by ISIS fighters. It was a 5 story building that a previous squad had failed to neutralize. With the precision and skill expected from the Scout Rangers, his squad cleared the top 4 floors with relative ease and were now descending onto the first floor.
The troops knew the first floor was going to be more difficult. The rangers dropped grenades to scare the terrorists and after that 3 rangers moved to the first floor but this move was still risky.
Realizing their mistake, the 3 Rangers decided to back up but the terrorists had already spotted them and started firing at them. In this exchange, Corporal Jayson Mante got shot in his hand.
Understanding the scale of his injury, Corporal Mante chose to lie down on his stomach as even if tried to back up, he would expose himself for longer.
When Captain Sandoval was informed about this, he promptly sent 4 troops to bring Corporal Mante back to safety.
The terrorists knew that the military wouldn't simply abandon their comrade. After a few failed attempts, Captain Sandoval took things into his own hands.
On his way to save Corporal Mante, Sandoval discovered a hole that would take him to Mante. After seeing Mante's situation, Sandoval instructed his troops a cover fire while he would rescue Mante. The crossfire didn't help, Captain Sandoval got shot on his side, then his neck. Among all these injuries, Captain Sandoval continued to fight but, a shot on the cheek proved fatal.
But even after this, Captain Sandoval climbed up to Mante's body and turned himself into a human shield.
Till his last breath, he continued to protect his comrades.
On 10th September 2017, Captain Sandoval sacrificed his life for his country. When his body was recovered, it was found that Captain Sandoval's body was filled with bullets which prevented the bullets from reaching Mante.
The battle between the militants and the Phillippine's armed forces continued to go on for another month till October 17, 2017 when President Duterte declared Marawi's liberation from terrorist liberation and on the same day it was also announced by Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana that the 5 Month Long battle had come to an end following deaths of militant leaders Omar Maute and Isnilon Hapilon.
These acts of bravery by Captain Sandoval were not forgotten as he was the highest-ranking Scout Ranger who gave his life during the battle of Marawi. For his sacrifice, he was awarded the Philippines' highest honor, the Medal of Valor on 20th December, 2017.
This is was one such story of selfless sacrifice and bravery that doesn't repeat itself often. Did you know about this story before? We hope to continue bringing stories like these to light so more people can know about them.
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I've been using a variety of hot and cold treatments ever since I began doing sports. From my childhood footballing days, for instance, I remember how much a highly fragrant liniment warmed up the muscles, and how much a cold wrap made by my mother eased the pain of yet another twisted ankle.
Nowadays, I use both hot and cold treatments several times a week. I use cold treatment especially after the hardest training sessions, or if I have some minor injury. Cold lowers the body temperature, helping to reduce inflammation and soft tissue injury. Hot treatments, on the other hand, help relax stiff muscles. And there's no better cure for back pain, for example "witch's arrow", as the Finns call it.
Alternating hot and cold treatment, meanwhile, is perfect for stimulating the circulatory system and metabolism. Above all, I use variations in temperature to speed recovery between training sessions. I have also found that hot-cold therapy helps relieve swelling of the feet, for example, after a long day of travel or prolonged standing. Many people use hot-cold therapy to stimulate the body in the morning, but for me, temperature variations help with relax and getting to sleep at the end of a tough day.
Especially when travelling, hot-cold therapy takes a bit of imagination and experimentation. I have used many sources of cold, such as snow, mountain streams, and even packets of frozen vegetables from the freezer. For heat, the most interesting source for me is a super-strong liniment that I stocked up on in Poland. Once I put a generous layer of it on my sore back before a long competition, and as a result my skin burned in the sun so badly that the lines of my competition outfit were still clearly visible a year later.
Since I'm so fond of hot-cold treatments, I really like the Oras Esteta Wellfit shower. The shower has three programmes that alternate between hot and cold water, with different volumes and duration depending on the purpose. One program helps to reduce muscle pain and speeds recovery after exercise, another relaxes the body and mind, and the third programme activates the whole body and boosts the blood circulation. The handy Oras App gives you more programmes to choose from, or you can create your own. Personally, I've enjoyed using a bit longer cold water periods than the more even hot-cold balance of the basic programmes.


There are thousands of Ascended Masters currently supporting the Earth and those of us who live here. They are Beings of Light who have learned the lessons of our Third Dimensional existence and have ascended to a higher state of consciousness. Giving assistance to all who call to them for help, they are our "elder" brothers and sisters. Some famous Ascended Masters are Jesus (Jeshua) Christ, Gautama Buddha and Krishna.
Saint Germain is an Ascended Master who has long been associated with the Violet Flame. You can call on his assistance as you practice Violet Flame Meditation. Along with many other Ascended Masters, he has been preparing us to transition from the Age of Pisces (Third Dimension) to the Age of Aquarius (Fifth Dimension), beginning an era of peace, freedom and enlightenment.
With Violet Flame Meditation you can consciously access powerful Fifth Dimensional frequencies that dissolve lifetimes of unresolved, unhealed energies with love and light. This is crucial to each of us as individuals and for humanity as a whole, especially at this specific time on our planet.
The distillation of all experiences we've ever had in any lifetime or dimension is still in our individual and group energy field, both positive and negative. Until the dense negativity is transmuted into love and light, we, both as individuals and as a race, suffer from the resulting chaos and negativity that we've experienced for eons on this planet. Violet Flame Meditation can help us do that.
The power of Violet Flame Meditation comes from the Fifth Dimension, which resonates with unity consciousness, transcending the ego-based ideas of separation we have lived in the Third Dimension for eons. We are free of the illusion of time and space as fixed realities. They are perceived as the fluidity that they truly are. From a Fifth Dimensional perspective, we are always in the present Now. There are still cycles of being, but they have no real power over the creative potential of the present moment.
We recognize that where we place our attention in the present moment is what creates our essential experience. What we focus on we begin to resonate with. Our focus literally creates our perception of ourselves, as well as how we experience the world. This is the key to conscious creation: Whatever we focus our attention on manifests in our lives.
Space and distance are also seen as illusions. In the Fifth Dimension we are always connected to those we love, no matter where they "are." Furthermore, we will see that we are all energetically connected as human beings and that the Earth we live on is a co-creation of our group consciousness, including animals and non-sentient life.
In the Fifth Dimension we move forward in our lives through our passion, by naturally choosing that which brings us the most joy at every choice point. By connecting with our passion we expand outward and open our consciousness to higher energies. Following the path that brings us the most joy unfolds us into the conscious awareness of the true essence of who we are.
The extent to which we hold on to old structures and concepts of separation correlates directly to the extent of the fear, anxiety and stress that we feel. As we open into expanded awareness, uplifting energies continue to pour into this plane at an accelerating level. These energies bring to the surface all that is within us of a lower vibration that needs to be healed, giving us the opportunity to see what we've been holding on to that no longer serves us so that we can let it go.
Because of this exposure of the negativity for healing, it can look like things are getting much worse on our planet and in our individual lives. However, this is far from the case. We are actually in the midst of a group awakening into the Oneness we already are with our Creator.
Violet Flame Meditation can greatly assist us in making the transition from a fear-based life to a Unity-based life. No matter how intense things look in our lives and/or in our world, we need to keep using the White Light, Violet Flame of Love, and The Miracle of Forgiveness Healing to release old concepts and beliefs that obscure the light. Whenever we invoke the light in our own lives, the light and wellbeing of the entire planet and human race expands.
No matter how far we think we've turned from the light, once we turn our attention back to it and choose love and forgiveness, we are enfolded in its healing embrace. We can do this merely by focusing on upliftment – on whatever brings us a feeling of relief, love, and expansion. These feelings tell us we are on the right path.
Whatever energy (emotions, thoughts, etc.) we think we are sending to another person, place or thing we experience ourselves. The energy seems to travel in a circle, always back to the source from which it came. However, in actuality, we are all One Being, so whatever energy I think I'm sending to "you" is still "me" so I feel it.
This principle is demonstrated by The Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." How we "do unto others" is literally what we are doing unto ourselves. This principle is also known as "karma," "cause and effect," etc. Basically, the energy of any thought, word, deed or action we've ever emitted in any lifetime or dimension, whether positive or negative, we ourselves feel.
Also, by the Law of Attraction, if we feel these negative energies (the ones we originally thought we sent out to "someone else") coming at us and then react negatively again, we keep attracting more of the same negativity to ourselves. As we vibrate (negatively or positively), we create.
With Violet Flame Meditation we can release negative energy from thousands of lifetimes back into the pure positive God essence that is at the core of who we actually are.
Anything unresolved within our energy field will keep manifesting itself in our physical / mental / emotional / spiritual life until we heal it. There is no escaping this. When we understand that life is presenting us with an opportunity to heal something within us it becomes easier.
When negative experiences occur, if we can acknowledge, accept and decline to resist what is happening as well as the feelings evoked, we can then bring love, compassion, understanding and forgiveness to ourselves, as well as to other people involved and the situation itself. In this way we can heal the wounded aspects within us so that we won't have to keep going through the same painful scenarios again and again. Violet Flame Meditation can help us to bring love, forgiveness, healing and release to all of these painful feelings.
The pure Divine Feminine ray of energy (relating to our right brain and heart) is crystalline pink, with the qualities of pure unconditional Divine Love, nurturance and compassion, and adoration and reverence for all life.
The pure Divine Masculine ray of energy (relating to our left brain, throat and heart) is sapphire blue, and relates to the desire, inner resolve, power and will to follow Source's Divine Will. It also carries our ability to have leadership over ourselves.
When the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine rays of energy are merged and balanced within us, our higher centers and Christ Consciousness – which is the gold ray of energy – is awakened. The Gold Flame embodies wisdom, discrimination, and illumination.
When all three of these flames are balanced within us, love balances power and wisdom blends with love, and the Violet Flame of forgiveness and transmutation is activated within us.
At the core of every single electron of energy, even a negatively charged electron, is the divine aspect of pure being. When the Violet Flame is consciously blazed through any electron of energy, it awakens the pure spark of divinity within it, which then burns up the outer negativity and transmutes that electron back to its original state of pure love.
During Violet Flame Meditation, I experience the Violet Flame as infinite Love, forgiveness, tenderness and freedom. When we call it forth with the intention of forgiveness and healing, it bursts as a flame within our hearts. When we consciously direct it into a situation, it blazes through it with a loving force so undeniable that everything in its path has no choice but to resonate with its love.
The Violet Flame permeates every cell and atom of our bodies, minds, emotions, memory, subconscious and spirit. It transmutes anything negative that is lodged anywhere in our spiritual or physical being, raising it to a high vibration of love and light.
Negative thoughts and feelings create an excess of acid within the body that is too much for our bodies to detoxify. This causes the breakdown of our physical energy systems, dis-ease and illness. The Violet Flame can help heal our bodies on a physical level by removing the negative energy that creates the acidic conditions. It goes to work on the deeper causes on the mental, emotional, causal, and psychic levels.
On the atomic level, vibration is the speed at which electrons orbit around the nucleus of the atom. In form, Violet Flame Meditation actually changes the vibratory rate of the body, working on the atomic level. When the atoms of our bodies are imbued with negativity, we vibrate slower, at a lower vibration, which causes us to resonate with MORE negativity and actually attract it. Our bodies and minds become more dense and coarse, with less light shining within.
With Violet Flame Meditation we can transmute this negativity. When we invoke it with forgiveness in our hearts, for ourselves and others, it raises the frequency of the negativity into a vibration of love and wellbeing. It literally transforms whatever is out of alignment with wellbeing back into the light that is at the source of every atom. Consequently, in Violet Flame Meditation the vibration of our entire energy field in form is raised to a higher level, and we are more aware of ourselves as Spirit, light and love, resonating with optimum health and wellbeing.
A really wonderful thing to be aware of is that you don't have to fully understand the nature of Violet Flame Meditation or how it works for it to work! It isn't possible for our minds to encompass what lies beyond the parameters of the mind. You can ask your I AM Presence (yourself from your highest perspective) to take command, and then simply invoke the Violet Flame as described below.
In experimenting with Violet Flame Meditation, I've found that I significantly increase its healing effects if I can call up the intention of forgiveness in my heart first, before invoking the Violet Flame. Even if I'm not feeling particularly forgiving, but I'm WILLING to feel it for myself, other people involved, or a situation, this opens my heart and increases the power of the Violet Flame to do its transformative work.
To increase the effectiveness of Violet Flame Meditation, or ANY healing, it is helpful to first open our heart chakra, the seat of the Divine Feminine within our being (whether we are currently embodied as male or female).
The heart chakra is where ALL emotions are felt. Because of the pain we've experienced from our lives in the dimensions of form, we as a race have shut down our heart centers in an attempt to not feel the pain. Therefore, our connection with Divine Feminine energy and unconditional love and forgiveness has been narrowed down and the misuse of masculine power (by both men and women) has taken precedence on our planet and in our lives.
To heal and open our heart chakras, we need to go into our hearts and acknowledge the pain there, bring love and compassion to our own wounds, and turn them over to The Divine to heal them. Then we can begin finding the balance between our masculine / feminine aspects, and bring love and forgiveness to others.
You can call on Divine Feminine / Divine Mother energy to assist you in healing your heart center and bringing more love into it. Envisioning pink light all around and permeating your body, especially around your heart center, can help a great deal.
Everything is energy, vibrating at different speeds. Negative thoughts, words, feelings and actions vibrate at the denser end of the energy spectrum, while the positive thoughts, words, feelings and actions vibrate at the higher, more uplifted end of the spectrum, closer to the original God Source.
Use Violet Flame Meditation (see below) to transmute all of the energies of our past thoughts, words, feelings and actions back into the original vibration of Love from Source.
Pay attention to our current thoughts and feelings so that we don't set ourselves up to receive more of our own negativity. When we become aware that we're following a negative train of thought, we can choose a different thought instead – one that brings a feeling of relief and expansion.
Once 51% of the energy we are emitting is of a positive nature, we achieve a "tipping point" where ALL energies within us are transmuted into the positive spectrum. And we never know when that 51% tipping point can occur. This is a "critical mass" where an unstoppable shift occurs. It is a natural law of the Universe. And with Violet Flame Meditation we can do this!
It is important to keep the tipping point of transmutation in mind when we are going through a "growth period" and are tempted to wallow in negativity. Growth periods are times of chaos when it feels like the whole world is against us and we have lost sight of wellbeing. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. These are periods when our wounded aspects are being brought to the surface for healing. Each of these periods are a window of opportunity to heal something that has been wreaking havoc in your life, maybe for many lifetimes. This is a good time to focus on the light with even MORE tenacity.
Knowing that by keeping our attention on light and love when we feel challenged, we will eventually reach the critical mass of positive energy that can transmute all the negativity of that situation to positive energy. We just need to keep working with uplifting tools such as Violet Flame Meditation and the positive principles we know to be true, to keep our attention focused in a positive direction.
What is it that I DO want in this situation?
Am I adding to the light of the planet or to the shadow?
This tipping point isn't just applicable to us as individuals. It applies to ALL beings on this planet, and the planet itself. When there are enough of us focusing on the light so that our group consciousness is vibrating at 51% in the light, then an unstoppable shift into a higher vibration can occur for the entire planet!
I believe this "tipping point" is the same as what I described earlier: our ascension as a race and as a planet, from the Third Dimension of egoic separation to the Fifth Dimension of unity consciousness. And it is entirely within our power to do this. Violet Flame Meditation is a powerful tool to make it happen.
The most effective use of the Violet Flame that I have found is through a combination of meditation and "decrees" – spoken (silently or aloud) prayers that use visualization / imagination while being in a meditative state.
1. Sit in a quiet place where you won't be disturbed. Sit comfortably with your spine straight and your arms and legs uncrossed. Place your feet flat on the floor. You can rest your hands on your legs, palms up.
2. Breathe in love and / or white light through your heart center. Do this several times until you can FEEL it. This method is most effective when you feel devoted to love and forgiveness. If you can't quite get there, just keep breathing in love and/or white light until you begin to feel a softening and opening within. Envisioning a soft, unconditionally loving, pink crystalline light around and through you can help open your heart as well.
3. To begin Violet Flame Meditation you can start with something simple like, "I AM a Violet Flame of love and forgiveness." Slowly repeat this several times out loud, and tune into your feelings and perceptions. It is much more powerful to speak out loud than silently. Remember to keep a loving, forgiving perspective (or be willing to have that perspective) and a sincere desire to heal. If you wish, you can keep repeating this simple phrase over and over again, even hundreds of times. Repeating a decree draws in more light.
Speaking from your I AM Presence is the most powerfully creative perspective you can center yourself in. It is where you are One with Creator.
While slowly repeating your decree, notice if you feel more loving and spacious. Experiment with different words to see if they evoke more healing energy or less. Go with what brings you relief, feels fun, softens your perspective and is inspiring.
Another component of Violet Flame Meditation is the use of visualization and imagination, which are "view ways" into other realms. Anything we can visualize is real somewhere within the vast realms of form. The more frequently that we return to a visualization, to that same extent it manifests energetically in our human lives – physically, mentally, emotionally.
As you speak your decrees during Violet Flame Meditation, picture a huge bonfire of Violet Flames, wide enough and high enough to encompass your body and extend three or more feet above your head and all around your body. Within the flames see different shades of blue, pink, gold and purple colors. See these Violet Flames all around you and permeating your body. Feel into the places within your being (physically, mentally and emotionally) where you need love, and see the Violet Flame touching and permeating all of them with love and transmuting them into light, love and forgiveness.
That's all you have to do. You don't even have to be specific about what to heal. The Violet Flame knows exactly where to go within their being and what to do. The key part is to feel your intention of love and forgiveness for them and to visualize them within the Violet Flame.
As I mentioned above, I highly recommend formulating short decrees in order to focus the energy of the Violet Flame on specific areas. However, it is also very useful to use a comprehensive decree to do ongoing, multi-level Violet Flame Meditation targeting facets of ourselves that we aren't even aware of, but are still affecting us negatively. Doing this regularly can steadily unwind whatever negative karmic energies we have accrued.
A good time to do Violet Flame Meditation is first thing in the morning, or last thing before sleep.
As mentioned before, sit in a quiet place where you won't be disturbed, with your spine straight and arms and legs uncrossed. Breathe in love and/or pink or white light through your heart center until you can feel a softening and opening within. You can use the following as your decree or formulate one that you resonate with the most.
I find it comforting and balancing to bring gold light in at the end of Violet Flame Meditation. Pure gold light is a manifestation of Christ Light. It fills your being with peace and illumination. It deeply nurtures your energy field on all levels, for balance and completion after any kind of energy healing.
After doing a Violet Flame Meditation, your heart is open and you are in a powerfully creative vibration. This is an excellent time to envision what you DO want in your life, now that the Violet Flame is at work transmuting what you've released.
Experiment with different visions to find one that brings more light, love, and joy into your being as you view it. Then keep expanding and adding to that vision, testing to see if each thing you add brings more relief and joy. If it doesn't then let it go and experiment with something else until you find something that does. Whenever you focus on something for 17 seconds or more, by the Law of Attraction, the energy expands exponentially, and you begin to draw the manifestation of your vision to yourself.


A lot of myths exist about Linux users and the whole open source community. Because of these wrong assumptions, a lot of game developers still hesitate to support the Linux platform. As both a Linux user and an indie game developer, I want to educate everybody with hard facts about the advantages of supporting Linux.
Here follows the list of 5 reasons why it benefits for indie game developers to support Linux.
Sometimes you hear game developers having a realy hard time porting their game to Linux, sometimes they even give up just because they run into technical difficulties. Truth is that it all depends on how you wrote your game in the first place. If you choose the right technologies at the start of your project, porting a game to Linux or even Mac takes no serious extra effort, or it can even eliminate a porting step.
A common misconception is that Linux users are not willing to pay for software. They get a whole operating system, together with loads of software, for free. Therefore most think that the main reason they use Linux is because it's free. The following might surprise some people, but Linux users actually use it because they think it's a better operating system (compared to anything else out there).
You don't have to take my word for it, just look at the statistics. The developers of indie game 'World of Goo' found out that Linux users are willing to pay higher prices for their game. And my own statistics on Mystic Mine show that Linux users are more eager to buy my game.
3. They love it when you support their favorite platform.
In a world where MS Windows dominates desktop computers and Apple's Mac OS is a tiny second, Linux dangles as the underdog of Operating Systems. Hardware and software companies often forget to support Linux. In the past Linux users sometimes responded to this in an offensive and impolite manner. But that trend is changing. Of course you still have total jerks online, but they represent a tiny minority right now.
Anyone who supports Linux knows how nice that community really is. They are helpful, even giving advice and tips on a technical level. They also give a lot of positive feedback, and are very supportive for anyone who supports 'their' operating system.
A lot of Windows users, especially young gamers, are familiar with warez sites. These sites are full of pirated software and cracked serial numbers. This way they can download commercial software for free, but at the risk of bringing in malicious software like viruses or troyans.
As a Linux user, there's no point in visiting such sites. Most Linux software is freely downloadable as Open Source software. And as long as Linux users don't care about warez sites, warez sites won't care about Linux users. It's kind or self maintaining.
As an indie game developer, you have to work hard to get exposure for your games. Most game review websites get tons of requests form other game developers. But since Linux is a niche market, even the most popular Linux gaming sites are eager for any news on a game. It's the questions of what's best for your game: A big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond. If you also develop for Linux, your game can be both the small fish in the Windows and Mac pond, and the medium/big fish in the Linux pond.
And again, it's not just me that noticed this. The game developers from Wolfire concluded that "A lot of people heard about and supported Lugaru simply because we had a Linux build".
As you can see it does make sense to develop your games for Linux. Or to put it in 2D Boy's words: "There is a market for Linux games after all :)".
So I hope that with this article more games will become available for Linux, and more indie game developers can make a profitable business.
Or, because you do all your development on linux in the first place. I am not alone on this, am I?
Hello. Regarding your first point above, I just ported one of my (Web) games to the (Linux) desktop. Because I used OpenGL and FreeGLUT, porting to Windows meant simply recompiling with Mingw32. Not even an #ifdef. How cool is that? Granted, my game doesn't have sound yet, but still.
Even though you might make a little money off of your Linux game, I don't think it is really worth all the tech support issues from people who can't run your game in an optimal fashion because they have a different flavor of Linux or graphics card drivers that have poor OpenGL support.
For all the Windows, Mac, and Linux copies of my game Caster, the support for Linux has been the biggest headache and not worth the little money I get from its distribution.
Don't get me wrong, the Linux community is amazing and I've gotten a lot of support from them. However, from a financial standpoint, it still doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
Maybe if there were a Linux portal out there–something like Steam. That might be able to help increase marketing, distribution, and sales to make it worth while.
When i'll have a second pc, i'll make a Linux native port of my current project.
Canonical is in the process of becoming a decent app portal.


What are some of the key moments in our life when we might want to pay special attention to discernment? Any time we are going though a big change. Some of these big changes include: the death of a loved one, moving, financial crisis, job loss or change, physical illness, changes in the lives of our closest loved ones (e.g. children leave home, a spouse retires, etc.), changes in our roles or responsibilities, etc.
Changes, whether they seem good or bad, can be are stressful. We may have to learn a lot in a hurry, let go of what we treasure, or develop new attitudes, new routines or ways of doing things. Change offers opportunities for growth and new perspectives, but change can also be overwhelming, anxiety-producing, exhausting, and confusing. Even gradual changes—such as aging—can suddenly make a difference in our day-to-day lives. (For example, a sudden flare-up of arthritis can permanently change our exercise routine. Or a last child leaving home can leave an empty hole in our lives.) Changes that may seem small to others can still have a huge influence on our lives, in terms of stress, adjustment, and routine.
Big moments of change are wonderful opportunities for discernment, which is why it can be so helpful to bring an attitude of discernment to them. Change tends to surprise us with its unfamiliarity and can help us to see things in new ways. Change can open us up to possibilities that we previously might now have recognized. The stress that accompanies change can also make living in a spirit of discernment more difficult.
We can bring the spiritual art of discernment with us into the times of bigger change in our lives.
—Change is an opportunity to grow in trust in God. Whatever is new or different can "shake us up." Change is almost always accompanied by a new perspective and some anxiety. Look for God's presence and love in the unexpected, in the new, and in the painful.
—Change is also an opportunity to stretch and grow. Try to be open to new insights, new invitations from God.
—Change can also be an opportunity to shift our focus from one thing to another. As we pray about where and how God is calling us in whatever is changing for us, be prepared to let go.
—The stress of going through certain changes can cause us to lose sleep. Our feelings may be more intense and we may react more strongly than usual. Just at the time when we feel the need for more prayer and quiet, we find we have less time. But in times of stress and change, it's even more important to carve out some moments of quiet prayer every day. We can't let the chaos of change distract us from our relationship with God. If we truly need to, we can take less time to pray, but we will still want to work in some short times of prayer daily, and be faithful to a longer time of prayer each week.
The next post will talk about dealing with specific constraints, such as deadlines and others' expectations, with spiritual freedom.
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