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Australia-Timor Leste relations
Timor-Leste Parliament Approves Sea Border Treaty With Australia
By Oki Raimundos
The step cements a landmark agreement reached in March 2018.
Australia and Timor-Leste's Landmark Maritime Boundary Conciliation Process
By Hao Duy Phan
What the rest of the world can learn from the first compulsory conciliation case under a multilateral treaty.
Closing the Gap: Agreement Reached on Australia-Timor-Leste Maritime Border
By Grant Wyeth
The agreement made at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague settles an old dispute.
Time (and Oil) Running Out for Timor-Leste
By Anthony Fensom
The newly elected government will have to move quickly to diversify Timor-Leste's economy.
Timor-Leste's Political Unity
By Flavio Simoes
Don't be fooled by the number of political parties. Timorese have a remarkable degree of consensus on major issues.
Timor-Leste Blazing a Trail for Maritime Dispute Resolution
By Grace Phan
As the US grapples with escalation in the South China Sea, Timor-Leste makes an unprecedented move that may present a solution.
Interview: Ambassador Abel Guterres
By Ben Weir
Timor-Leste's ambassador to Australia on his country's independence movement and its maritime dispute with Canberra.


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I am making a monthly donation through pay pal! I love this place! I set the donation up last week I think (wow time flies when you are trying to get ready for new ratties ) Hope it helps!
I am making a monthly donation through pay pal! I love this place!
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I made a mistake (put 5 instead of 10), so I donated twice. Hope that worked out okay.
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I just signed up for the $5.00 a month donation, thanks Goosemoose! You've helped me spend way more money on my rats than I thought I ever would when I first got Eva, so I thought I'd pay you in thanks!
Hmmm, I made a small donation back in March via paypal, when I first joined. I will do so again when I have a lil extra. I guess it all helps.
How do you get the donation icon next to your name? I think it serves as a great reminder to everyone that the forum costs money and they should donate, but it looks like a lot of people who have donated (including me ) don't have that next to their name.
I just donated $5, not much, but hopefully I can once a month ^___^ Anyway... do I have to donate a certain amount to get an icon? No clue if you have to add then manually or not, heh.
I donate $5 monthly...and I don't get a special person icon either.
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These forums have become pretty much unusable because of the spammers. Can you tighten up the registration requirements to stop them?
It's getting ridiculous now Splasm. I don't even try to read the forums now - just log in once a day, note that every forum has the same spammer name as 'last post', and the 'mark all forums read'. This does of course mean that I may miss important posts.
I appreciate that you probably clean the forums up before U.S. forum members pop in, but from my point of view these are the worst forums I see for spam.
Can't something be done to stop spammers getting in every day?
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Norman R. Cearfoss, Sr., 77, of 115 Jessie St., Ellwood City (Hardyville), died on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at the Shadyside Hospital following a courageous battle with cancer.
Born October 13, 1934, in Koppel, he was the son of the late Thomas G. and Rachel Reeher Cearfoss.
Norman retired from Babcock and Wilcox following 33 years of service as a crane operator. He also worked in later years for Russell Trucking Co. and Koppel Steel. He enjoyed horses, the outdoors and attracting wildlife to his backyard.
Survivors include his companion of seven years, Charlotte Richards of Hardyville; a son, Norman 'Rick' (Debbie) Cearfoss Jr. of Ellwood City; three daughters, Susan Antoniotti, Sharon Taranto (Scott Forney), both of Ellwood City, Norma (Lee) Prengaman of Portersville; seven grandchildren, Joseph and Michael Taranto, Amy Sullivan, Haley Antoniotti, and Bill, Ted and Andy Prengaman; and one great-grandchild, Benjamin Prengaman. He is also survived by his former wife, Delpha Scheidemantle Cearfoss of Ellwood City.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Thomas and Harold Cearfoss.
Per Norman's request, no services will be held. Arrangements have been entrusted to the MARSHALL FUNERAL HOME, Ellwood City.
Memorial Contributions may be made to the Beaver County Humane Society or the Ellwood City Library.


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Journal: Strip religious garb, fundamentalist tones from US political power
Carol Glatz
A PEACE ACTIVIST HOLDS A SIGN SAYING "RESIST ISLAMOPHOBIA!" DURING A PRAYER SERVICE IN EARLY MARCH OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE IN WASHINGTON. (CNS PHOTO/TYLER ORSBURN)
Editor's Note: Opinions by commentators on both sides of this issue appear here.
VATICAN CITY – U.S. politics have become increasingly colored by an apocalyptic worldview, promoted by certain fundamentalist Christians, that fosters hatred, fear and intolerance, said an influential Jesuit magazine.
In fact, this worldview shares some similarities with Islamic fundamentalism since "at heart, the narrative of terror shapes the worldviews of jihadists and the new crusaders" and is drawn from wellsprings "that are not too far apart," said La Civilta Cattolica, the Jesuit journal reviewed by the Vatican before publication.
The article, appearing in the mid-July/August edition and released online July 13, was written by the journal's editor, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, and Marcelo Figueroa, an evangelical Christian, who is the director of the Argentine edition of the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. Written in Italian, an English version was released on www.laciviltacattolica.com.
Titled: "Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism: A surprising ecumenism," the article looks at the growing similarities in the rhetoric and worldviews adopted by evangelical fundamentalists and some "militant" Catholic hardliners.
More specifically, it also looks at how this rhetoric and mindset have seeped into U.S. culture and politics, including in some electoral campaigns and government administrations, such as that of U.S. President Donald Trump.
One feature of this "ecumenism of hate" is a clear "Manichean" delineation between absolute good and evil, it said, and a confident sense of who belongs in which camp as could be seen with U.S. President George W. Bush's list of nations in an "axis of evil" and President Trump's "fight against a wider, generic collective" body of those who are "bad" or even "very bad."
The authors briefly examine the origins and spread of evangelical fundamentalist thought and influence in the United States and how groups or movements become targeted as a threat to "the American way of life" and demonized.
While in the past those threats included modernist mindsets, the defense of slaves' rights, "the hippy movement" as well as communism and feminism, today the enemies are "migrants and Muslims," the authors said.
Nothing or no one is "off-limits" in this narrative that drives toward conflict and the final battle between good and evil, God and Satan, the article said.
In order to support this sense of conflict, it said, biblical references are made – out of context and literally – to Old Testament accounts of conquering and defending the Promised Land, rather than to Jesus' love in the Gospels.
"And the community of believers (faith) becomes a community of combatants (fight)," which not only numbs an individual's conscience, it actively supports "the most atrocious and dramatic portrayals of a world that is living beyond the frontiers of its own 'promised land.'"
The article makes brief mention of the theological-political vision of the late-Rousas John Rushdoony, a founder of "Christian Reconstructionism," which calls for a nation built on Christian ideals and strict laws drawn from the Bible. This "Dominionist" doctrine, it said, inspires groups and networks like the Council for National Policy and the White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon, with his "apocalyptic" worldview.
However, a theocracy with the state subjected to the Bible, it said, uses the same rationale as Islamic fundamentalism. And "at heart, the narrative of terror" that feeds the jihadist imagination and neo-crusaders draw from wellsprings "that are not too far apart," it added.
Religious liberty, understood correctly, it said, must be protected, especially where secularism has spread. However, defending freedom of religion cannot be driven by a sense of "religion in total freedom" that challenges the secularity of the state.
The authors said, "a strange form of surprising ecumenism is developing between evangelical fundamentalist and Catholic integralists" as they appeal to similar fundamentalist values and have "the same desire for religious influence in the political sphere."
"Some who profess themselves Catholic express themselves in ways that until recently were unknown in their tradition and using tones much closer to evangelicals," they wrote.
While they share the same values and goals when it comes to abortion, same-sex marriage, religious education in schools and other moral issues, they "condemn traditional ecumenism and yet promote an ecumenism of conflict that unites them in the nostalgic dream of a theocratic type state."
The most "dangerous" feature of this "strange ecumenism" between Catholic and evangelical fundamentalists, they wrote, is the xenophobia and Islamophobia that promotes "walls and purifying deportations."
"Triumphalist, arrogant and vindictive ethnicism is actually the opposite of Christianity," they said.
The authors said these abuses in fundamentalism and confusing spiritual power with temporal power are some of the reasons why Pope Francis is "so committed to working against 'walls' and any type of 'war of religion.'"
Spirituality can never be tied to governments and military alliances or guarantee the dominance of certain classes, because religion and spirituality must be "at the service of all men and women. Religions cannot consider some people as sworn enemies nor others as eternal friends."
"Today, more than ever, power needs to be removed from its faded confessional dress, from its armor, its rusty breastplate," the article said.
A "truly Christian" theological-political plan looks to the future and "orients current history toward the kingdom of God, a kingdom of justice and peace"; it fosters "a process of integration that unfolds with a diplomacy that crowns no one as a 'man of providence.'"
That is why Vatican diplomacy seeks to "establish direct and fluid relations with the superpowers" without preconceived notions or automatic alliances, it said. It is also why "the pope does not want to say who is right or who is wrong for he knows that at the root of conflicts there is always a fight for power."
The authors end by warning that the temptation to build a false alliance between politics and religious fundamentalism is built on a fear of chaos and the breakdown of established order.
That fear can be manipulated when politics increase the tenor of conflict, exaggerate the potential disorder and make people upset by painting "worrying scenarios" that have nothing to do with reality.
Religion is then used as a way to guarantee order and a political platform comes to exemplify what would be required to get there.
"Fundamentalism thereby shows itself not to be the product of a religious experience but a poor and abusive perversion of it," the article said.
That is why Pope Francis upholds a narrative counter to "the narrative of fear" because "there is a need to fight against the manipulation of this season of anxiety and insecurity."
The pope, the authors said, courageously offers "no theological-political legitimacy to terrorists, avoiding any reduction of Islam to Islamic terrorism. Nor does he give it to those who postulate and want a 'holy war' or to build barrier-fences crowned with barbed wire." The only barbed wire for a Christian, it said, "is the one with thorns that Christ wore on high."

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Bobcat in Your Face
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait continues to go where sane filmmakers fear to tread in God Bless America.
Better known as the stand-up comic with the high-pitched voice, as well as actor and cast member of the Policy Academy films, Goldthwait moved into a new career phase as an indie writer/director with Sleeping Dogs Lie in 2006. Like that film God Bless America comes from the deep, dark, guilty thoughts that may cross our minds in a moment of weakness, but we'd never actually act on. Goldthwait's protagonists do act on those thoughts.
Before I go any further, I have to warn you that you will be offended by this film. I don't mean you'll be offended if you're particularly sensitive or if you feel Goldthwait takes too many liberties exploring the dark recesses of the human mind. I mean you will be offended - period - because that's what Goldthwait does. He reaches into your psyche, grabs onto that terrible fantasy that crosses your mind on the rare occasion, and then he slaps you in the face with it in a humiliating, public way.
That experience is going to be a bit much for many people. Frankly I found Sleeping Dogs Lie to be so offensive to my sensibilities, I never want to see it again. While I felt he went too far in that case and I didn't get the relevance of it, I feel like he's getting his sea legs with God Bless America. This latest film is a cornucopia of visual comedy and timely social commentary. It was well-received by the audience at its SXSW US premiere.
Frank, played by Joel Murray, is an average, working class, lonely, divorced man who is beaten down by the pointless drudgery of his life. He fantasizes about taking a gun and blowing away his rude, noisy neighbors and his obnoxious coworkers, but of course, he'd never actually act on those thoughts. Then one day he is diagnosed with a terminal illness and he gets fired from his job. His young daughter, who lives with his ex-wife and her new fiance in another city, tells him that she doesn't want to visit him anymore because he's boring and there's nothing to do at his home.
Frank turns on the television and watches a young man with no talent whatsoever be humiliated on the highly-rated American Superstarz, an American Idol-type talent show. In complete despair he takes his gun and sticks it in his mouth, but before he pulls the trigger he sees another reality star on the screen. Chloe (Maddie Hasson) is the spoiled, petulant teen star of her own reality series. She's unbearably obnoxious and prone to go off on temper tantrums at the smallest inconvenience. Realizing that she's the role model for his own spoiled daughter, Frank decides to perform a service and do away with her before taking his own life.
As he does the deed, he encounters Roxy, a high-strung 16-year-old classmate of Chloe's. Roxy, played by Tara Lynne Barr, sticks to him like glue and convinces him to continue the work he started with Chloe, because there are a lot more obnoxious people out there who deserve to die. From there the oddly matched Bonnie & Clyde embark on a road trip of murder and mayhem as they dispatch mean-spirited cable talk show hosts who spread fear to get ratings, reality show stars, and just plain rude people one after another.
Tara Lynne Barr and Joel Murray
With her cute young girl style, bangs and pigtails, Barr perfectly encapsulates the YouTube generation of corrupted innocence. While on the surface she's the modern teen who'll do anything for a rush, Roxy's awakening adult mind knows that there's something very wrong with the society she's forced to live in. I'm sure we'll be seeing Barr in a lot more roles after this.
One of Goldthwait's strengths as a director is his ability to present the absurdity of society gone bad with effective, if not somewhat over-the-top, visuals. In one early scene Frank discusses the previous night's episode of American Superstarz with a coworker. Like the rest of his office mates, this one can talk about nothing else except the terrific entertainment provided by the episode's humiliation of a talent-deprived young man put on public display.
Frank launches into a monologue in which he perfectly unmasks the mean-spirited nature and mental masturbation inherent in that type of entertainment. As he delivers his perfectly crafted and sensible argument, other coworkers stop their own conversations and begin to listen - with abject horror on their faces, as if Frank has just engaged in an act of cannibalism right in front of them. It's a great scene illustrating the absurdity of a world in which right and wrong, good judgement and stupidity have somehow swapped places.
This is not a perfect film by any means. Although Goldthwait the writer/director appears to be growing and getting better, the film's most glaring weakness is that he succumbs to the temptation of preaching to the audience. The point he is trying to make is so clear from the story itself, that this tendency to stall the movie while we listen to Frank discourse about the "bread and circuses" decline of our society detracts from the experience. I kept wanting to say, "Okay, okay, Bobcat, we get it. Move on!" I have to share with you what Indie Film Guru co-contributor, Zac, said when I told him I would be posting this film: "I liked the concept, but ultimately it felt like a long speech over the course of 90 minutes." That pretty much sums it up.
Despite it's weaknesses, I have to recommend this film for what's good about it. It's offensive and funny at the same time, the visuals are smart, and the casting is perfect. If you see this film and are rightly horrified, perhaps you'll think I need counseling, That may be, or perhaps in a world where the concepts of decency and good sense have been turned upside down, I'm on to something here.
Fortunately Goldthwait delivers the coup de gras in the climax of the film without excessive preaching. After infiltrating the season finale of American Superstarz, Frank and Roxy realize where the fault truly lies for this whole mess, and they finally turn their guns on the right people.
God Bless America is currently playing in limited release, but is also available by Video on Demand.
Posted by Mark Dispenza at 6:50 AM
Labels: Bobcat Goldthwait, God Bless America, Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr
mk June 3, 2012 at 12:13 PM
In typical wrong is right fashion, someone will act on this film, and some will applaud them.
" where the fault truly lies for this whole mess, and they finally turn their guns on the right people"
There is no such group of people that, if they were eliminated, things would be ok.
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BOSTON (AP) — Joffrey Lupul scored two goals and the Toronto Maple Leafs got a 4-2 win over the Boston Bruins on Saturday that evened their first-round series at one game.
The Maple Leafs played aggressively from the start after a weak performance in a 4-1 loss in which the Bruins were much more physical.
But that changed early in Game 2 as Toronto delivered 22 hits in the first period to just 10 for Boston.
Nathan Horton gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead at 1:56 of the second period, but Lupul scored at 5:18 on a power play and at 11:56 with the teams at even strength.
Phil Kessel made it 3-1 on a breakaway 53 seconds into the third period. Johnny Boychuk cut the lead at 10:35 before James van Riemsdyk scored for Toronto at 16:53.
Game 3 of the best-of-seven playoff series is Monday night in Toronto.
The Bruins played without Andrew Ference, part of their second defensive pairing, after the NHL suspended him for one game for elbowing Mikhail Grabovski in the head in the first period of the opener on Wednesday night.
The Maple Leafs also were missing a defenseman. Michael Kostka was out after breaking a finger in the first game. He was replaced by Jake Gardiner, who assisted on Lupul's first goal.
Lupul had scored 11 goals in 16 games in the regular season. He missed 32 — two on a suspension, five with a concussion and 25 with a broken forearm caused by a hard shot from teammate Dion Phaneuf.
Horton gave the Bruins the lead with his second goal of the series when he dropped the puck in the left circle for a trailing Milan Lucic then kept skating to the net. James Reimer stopped Lucic's shot, but the puck went off Horton's right skate and into the net.
Reimer finished with 39 saves for the Leafs.
Lupul tied the game just two seconds before Zdeno Chara was to leave the penalty box after being called for tripping. Gardiner fired a wrist shot from the left point, Tuukka Rask made the save, and Lupul put the rebound in on a short forehand shot.
Less than seven minutes later, Lupul got the go-ahead goal after Matt Frattin carried the puck deep along the right side then passed it across the slot where Lupul tipped it into the open left side of the net.
Then Kessel, who led the Maple Leafs with 20 goals and 52 points, connected against the team he's struggled against since being traded to Toronto in September 2009.
He began the night with just three goals and six assists in 23 games against Boston. And he got his usual round of jeers from Bruins fans nearly every time he was on the ice.
But he provided a two-goal cushion when he raced behind Boston's defensemen, took a pass from Nazem Kadri past the red line and fired the puck between Rask's pads.
Notes: Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon bombings, went on the ice in a wheelchair before the game. He smiled, pumped his fist and waved a big Bruins flag while wearing the team's jersey. He had been photographed being taken to emergency medical treatment minutes after the explosions by Carlos Arredondo, who was wearing a cowboy hat, and others. … Boston's Brad Marchand limped to the bench with about five minutes left in the second period and went out the runway toward his locker room. But he was back on the ice soon after. … Toronto nearly scored 90 seconds before Lupul's second goal when Nikolai Kulemin's shot clanged off the post.


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Hadrothemis camarensis is een libellensoort uit de familie van de korenbouten (Libellulidae), onderorde echte libellen (Anisoptera).

De soort staat op de Rode Lijst van de IUCN als niet bedreigd, beoordelingsjaar 2009.

De wetenschappelijke naam Hadrothemis camarensis is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1889 door Kirby.

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Mycoplasma genitalium is a bacterial STI with clinical symptoms and potential sequelae similar to Chlamydia trachomatis infections . The efficacy of the current treatment regimen of M. genitalium infections with azithromycin is hampered by resistance rates of more than 30% in certain populations. Trichomonas vaginalis is a protozoan STI. Trichomoniasis is a common cause of vaginitis in women and urethritis in men although a substantial proportion of T. vaginalis infections are asymptomatic.
The RealAccurate® TVMGres PCR Kit is able to detect T. vaginalis, M. genitalium and at the same time mutations in the 2058/2059 region of M. genitalium 23S rRNA conferring azithromycin resistance.
Detection is performed on real-time PCR instruments capable to detect FAM, CAL Fluor Orange 560, CAL Fluor Red 610 and TYE665.
Real-time PCR with a combination of Taqman Probe and Molecular Beacon detection is used for interpretation.
A Positive Control is included in the RealAccurate® TVMGres PCR kit as a control for the assay procedure.
The RealAccurate® TVMGres PCR Kit is a sensitive real-time PCR test enabling detection and differentiation of T. vaginalis, M. genitalium and the most prevalent mutations in M. genitalium strains conferring azithromycin resistance.
The kit components include a ready to use mix of primers and probes and a master mix containing a hot start Taq DNA polymerase. An Internal Control is included to distinguish false negatives due to inhibition from true negatives. Kit components have been extensively validated to ensure the detection of low copy numbers of T. vaginalis and M. genitalium nucleic acid.
The RealAccurate® TVMGres PCR Kit is validated on LightCycler® 480 (Roche), Rotor-Gene® Q (QIAGEN), ABI7500 (Applied Biosystems) and CFX96™ (Bio-Rad) for amplification after nucleic acid extraction using NucliSENS® easyMAG® (bioMérieux), MagNA Pure 96 (Roche) or QIAamp® DNA Blood Kit (QIAGEN) of urine and vaginal swab samples.
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NYC Just Passed A Rent Freeze For Rent-Stabilized Apartments
Claire Leaden • June 18, 2020
With the ban on evictions running out in August, many New Yorkers who are out of work due to the economic effects of COVID-19 have been concerned about paying their rent.
But a "rent freeze" from October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021 just passed last night. The Rent Guidelines Board voted on the measure and it passed 6-3, according to Patch.com. It will help 2 million New Yorkers stay in their homes during tough times.
The vote determined that those with two-year leases will have a freeze the first year, and then rent will rise 1% for the second year.
Mayor de Blasio had been calling for the organization, which determines by what percentage rent will increase or decrease for rent-stabilized apartments in NYC each year, to issue a "freeze" for about two months now, and it looks like they came through.
"It's something they [the Rent Guidelines Board] has the power to do," he said in April. "It's something they have done before in times where the facts merited it. I think this is a time where it's 100% clear that people are hurting like never before, they deserve a rent freeze, and I want to see that happen quickly."
What a rent freeze means:
☑ 1-year leases: 0%.
☑ 2-year leases: 0% in year 1, 1% in year 2. https://t.co/IGdaU2vZy1
— City of New York (@nycgov) June 18, 2020
See also: Cuomo Confirms NYC Is 'On Track' To Start Phase 2 Of Reopening On Monday, June 22
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I am often asked by people about the relationship of law to grace in the Bible. What is confusing is how Scripture seems to contradict itself on the value of the law. In one verse we may read that the law is bad (Rom. 8:3), but in another that it is good (Rom. 7:7). The answer is that the law is both of these. The law is good in that it reveals our sin to us. None of us can live up to the demands of the law on our own and achieve God's perfect standard. However, the law is weak in that it is unable to save us. The law can only point to something greater than itself, grace, for our salvation.
It's good to be informed we are lost in our sin and even better to know that in his grace, Jesus provided for us the salvation that we could not provide for ourselves. Take a moment today and thank God for his amazing grace!


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"Even in an academic context I would never talk about the work of et al, still less 'explain' it... the process of viewing art provides the explanation, and it is invariably particular to the viewer. The artist is exactly the wrong person to explain their work..."
This statement by dr p mule (sic) on behalf of the collective, et al. is a telling introduction to the show by this New Zealand group entitled Maintenance of Social Solidarity.
Mounted in CAST Gallery, the oppressive atmosphere of the installation is established immediately by the deep grey walls and ceiling. While the construction of individual objects is rough there's a strong sense of deliberation and formality to the arrangement of elements within the space. At the entry, I'm confronted with two rows of easels facing each other. I hear a kind of chant bleeding from the other side of the room. Each of the easels displays a poster that has been defaced by cut and paste and packing tape then overlaid with thick, dark, handwriting. This text is like an abstract poem that triggers thoughts about war, solidarity and human rights abuse without really saying anything:
Degrading treatment is
Hostility hate
& contempt
day of dooms
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Hanging from each easel is a set of headphones with soundtrack, the overlaid digitised voices immediately reminiscent of Stephen Hawking. These voices relay excerpts of speeches from key figures in the current war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and responses to 9/11. Stripping the actual voice and intonation of the speakers—George W Bush and Osama Bin Laden are featured—places each on the same platform for debate without the prejudice or limitation associated with language or accent. While the idea is interesting, there is a generic quality to the soundtrack –I quickly return the headphones—I feel like I've heard it before, another exhibition, other artists.
The remaining elements in the show hang together as one. In the centre of the room a cyclone fence encloses a large projection screen. Twelve chairs sit under a spotlight in their own cell—taped markings on the floor—as if to house a jury or audience at an execution. A desk is lit by a bare bulb like a monitoring station in the midst of the gloom. The chairs and desk also suggest presences that watch and wait. Three more easels sit beside the twelve chairs and on the wall behind them is a grid of images that map mathematical equations, again, defaced by loose, hand written text.
Within the fenceline, the projections are from Google Earth. In digitised tones I hear—"Stockholm", "Cairo", "Frankfurt", "Washington", "Baghdad." The projection responds, spinning across the surface of the earth in that familiar Google way before settling just above an airstrip, as if about to land. At first I thought it searched out actual locations, but after a few repeats of the loop, I realised that these were fictionalised places where all else but that which immediately surrounds the airstrip seems blurred, missing or perhaps obliterated. It is as if I am witnessing a series of virtual airstrikes, perhaps from a simulated cockpit. At a certain point in the recording, most notably after "Baghdad" is uttered, the screen freezes and the recording switches to the haunting chant I heard upon entering the space. Given its Middle Easter edge, I read this like a prayer sung prior to attack.
I feel as though I've stumbled into a military monitoring or strategy room. From what little I can find about the secretive collective et al., this show is both typical and unique. The consistent aesthetic, the deep grey paint and the elements that appear to be modelled on some militaristic institution are typical. What is not is the minimalism of this piece – the group is known for using a mass of outdated sound and screen technology, quite often to build a cacophonous atmosphere. The use of headphones here allows the sole soundtrack to dominate and the space is easy to read in its arrangement. Given the introduction suggests the work should stand alone, I expected to be able to come to some sort of conclusion about it, but this obtuseness is also typical of et al. While I don't feel like I'm treading any new ground I am intrigued by this show and the visual imagery—quite beautiful in its own way—stays with me.


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Q: Playwright report per Pull Request available on GitHub Page I have a demo repo https://github.com/sh977218/Angular-with-Playwright to try to run playwright with Angular on GitHub's action and publish the result to GitHub Page. I'm able to achieve that, but I'd like to improve it by publish each Pull Request's playwright result to GitHub Page and they are all available at same time.
Can someone guide me on how to do this?
This is the github action yml file
name: Playwright Tests
on:
  push:
    branches: [main, master]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main, master]
# Grant GITHUB_TOKEN the permissions required to make a Pages deployment

jobs:
  Playwright-tests:
    timeout-minutes: 60
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    concurrency:
      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
      cancel-in-progress: true

    # Grant GITHUB_TOKEN the permissions required to make a Pages deployment
    permissions:
      actions: write
      checks: write
      contents: write
      deployments: write
      id-token: write
      issues: write
      discussions: write
      packages: write
      pages: write
      pull-requests: write
      repository-projects: write
      security-events: write
      statuses: write

    # Deploy to the github-pages environment
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 16
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: npm ci
      - name: Install Playwright Browsers
        run: npx playwright install --with-deps
      - name: Run Playwright tests
        run: npx playwright test

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        if: always()
        with:
          name: playwright-report
          path: playwright-report/
          retention-days: 30

      - name: Setup Pages
        uses: actions/configure-pages@v2
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v1.0.7
        with:
          path: playwright-report/
      - name: Deploy Playwright result to Github Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v1.2.4

Thanks!

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Q: When does Angular add a directive template to the DOM? I need to use a Javascript library (scrollReveal) that assumes that the full DOM is ready. I am currently using AngularJS.
The problem is, I don't know when to initialize scrollReveal via
window.sr = new scrollReveal();

If I do this in the link function of one directive, it may not apply to the template of another directive, because the other template may not have been added to the DOM yet.
So I have two questions:
1) At what time is the directive template added to the DOM? Does it differ if I use template vs templateUrl?
2) How do I add in additional code that assumes a full DOM?
Thanks.

A: 1) At what time is the directive template added to the DOM? Does it differ if I use template vs templateUrl?
You can use what you prefer.However, it is a much cleaner solution to write your html in a separate file. I personally prefer templateUrl because I think putting your html code into a string is not a good practice. But it has no difference when executing the code.
2) How do I add in additional code that assumes a full DOM?
$timeout is an Angular's wrapper for window.setTimeoutset. Timeout removes the function from the execution queue and it will only be invoked after JavaScript has finished with the current execution queue. So that is why your model will be updated before the excecution.
Here is an example:
$timeout(function(){
   // template should be visible now
[,optional delay]);

$timeout will not run until digest cycle completes.


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StorageOS Tackles Container File System Woes
API Management / Cloud Native Ecosystem / Containers / Storage
23 Oct 2017 9:00am, by Alex Handy
Storage and the cloud have been tied at the hip since Amazon launched Web Services and S3 over a decade ago. Unfortunately, as the cloud has begun to move away from virtual machines and towards containers, the job of persistent storage has only gotten harder.
The whole point of containers, after all, is that you can throw them away when they break and simply fire up another in its place. Storage, on the other hand, is basically the opposite. When a storage instance breaks, you have to fix it or the data inside will be forever corrupted. Data must remain when containers vanish.
That implies attaching storage to a container but also implies long wait times as file systems are allocated, given proper permissions, and have their data copied over from a long-term storage system. This is the antithesis of on-demand, ephemeral computing.
Enter StorageOS. In a marketplace where the last big crop of new storage companies were all acquired seven years ago, and all of them required you to buy physical boxes, StorageOS has its work cut out for it.
That's because the company's primary focus is on container-based persistent storage, filling a void in the market, noted Alex Chircop is co-founder and CTO of StorageOS. He was also in charge of storage platform engineering at Goldman Sachs in a former life. He said that existing products for storage in container environments are mostly halfway solutions.
Chris Brandon, co-founder and CEO of StorageOS, said that their product is a "Container-based storage array that is completely portable, orchestration agnostic, kernel agnostic, runs at the application layer, configures volumes to containers, and offers a policy-based rules engine for placement of what type of storage it gets stored on. We take care of the replications, snapshots, clones, and all the performance associated with that storage."
"One of the reasons we started to work on StorageOS is that when Chris was trying to build a storage system in a cloud environment, he found it was hard to configure solutions because of a lack of API integrations, but also because it's tough to move data around with applications," Said Chircop. "We've designed this API integration from day one to work with Docker or Kubernetes."
API Driven
And that's the big difference between StorageOS and other cloud-based file system solutions, according to the company: StorageOS is designed from the ground up to be driven entirely by an API. That may seem odd for a storage system, but the rest of the cloud is configured and handled by APIs, so adding storage to that mix makes it more accessible, and easier to control programmatically.
Chircop said that other solutions do not meet all the needs of cloud-based storage. "Chef and Puppet take time. Existing systems are designed to present storage to OS instances rather than the containers or applications themselves. Rather than just defining or declaring what an application needs in terms of volume and attributes, you also have the extra complexity of having to map the application on half those nodes that have storage attached. We're running at the application level, presenting storage to the application or container, so we bypass that level of complexity."
The team has abstracted the storage layer from the lower levels usually associated with hard drives and persistent file stores.
The product is deployed as a container, and within that container, a control plane manages the configuration within a cluster and the data planes that provide the functionality for the data part of your volumes. That control plane manages the health, configuration, cluster status, and schedules changes on those volumes. The data plane has a virtualization layer that allows it to see the different types of storage that are available in each of the nodes. Physical disks in bare metal or virtual disks in VMs.
"We build a global, highly available storage pool out of that, which we then carve volumes out of," Chircop said. Those volumes are named and can then be attached to running containers.
With so many existing solutions out there, StorageOS has had to focus very specifically on its ideal use cases. As a result, Chircop says it can do things most other cloud-based storage solutions cannot. GlusterFS, for example, is a shared file system, and while it can be globally available to many users at once, but due to consistency concerns, latency can get to be a big problem, said Chircop.
Similarly, NFS is unsuitable for container use, said Chircop. "NFS is a point-to-point protocol, so you have a file system somewhere which is being exported through an NFS server, and the server itself is always going to be a single point of failure. There are a variety of ways to cluster NFS, but they tend to be in commercial solutions or appliances. While NFS is ubiquitous because it's one of the oldest file-sharing protocols there is, it's a stateless service. The state gets maintained on the client and things like locking and consistency are an exercise for the application to handle.
"While it's very common to use NFS for sharing files," said Chircop, "Real life applications for changing files and posting stuff on NFS tends to have a fair level of complexity, and there are really complex solutions when NFS servers fail because they lose their locking states and there are a lot of corruption opportunities there.
"Typically, because NFS isn't the most performant protocol," said Chircop, "There's always a certain amount of caching. Some of the consistency issues you see in applications arise if things like locking aren't implemented properly. We do see a use case for NFS, and for shared file systems like Gluster. We do think, however, it gets very complex to expose services like NFS with containers because containers area typically operating within private IP namespaces, so each container will have its own network service definition, and the open file handles that are maintained within NFS are effectively a hash of an IP address and a file handle."
Naturally, the cloud providers themselves offer the most cloud-specific file hosting solutions. Chircop specifically said, however, that StorageOS offers better replication and global-distribution capabilities than Amazon's Elastic Block Store (EBS).
"All of the cloud providers have a concept of availability zones. Each availability zone has a unique set of infrastructure and APIs around it, which is supposed to be completely detached from the other availability zones. By nature, Amazon doesn't offer replication capabilities across availability zones. You have to use third party software to do that," said Chircop. "Because we can virtualize the replicas across one or more availability zones, we can make sure your volumes are highly available and survive either an individual node failure or availability zone failure."
That's not even the biggest issue with EBS, said Chircop. "EBS is more like a traditional disk: it's getting presented to an individual EC2 instance. What happens when your container needs to move about? That EBS instance has to be detached and reattached to another EBS node and configured. Sometimes these processes can take fairly long: we've seen up to an hour," said Chircop. "The simple concept of moving a container from one node to another becomes much more complicated. Also there's no global namespace."
As a former member of Goldman Sachs, however, there is one EBS sin that Chircop said can never be accepted by financial institutions. "Although EBS has a built-in encryption functionality, it requires that AWS controls the encryption key. That is not OK for banks and governments," said Chircop. StorageOS does not have this requirement for on-disk encryption.
StorageOS is still ramping up for full general availability, but the company expects to be open to all users sometime by the end of the year. its roadmap also includes the addition of shared file systems across multiple containers, a new feature it anticipates will be available later this year as well.
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My husband Chris wrote an article recently that paints a picture of a salesperson as the curator of the customer's purchase experience. As a professional buyer who has worked with hundreds of companies—from the largest to the fastest growing—having a person I trust, who can help me navigate both their organization and mine, is absolutely essential. You can access Chris' article here.
Now, I'd like to offer a perspective on what it takes to be that trusted curator.
The first thing you have to understand is that no matter how many short-cuts and workarounds a company has in its arsenal—VC money, board connections, famous founders—you can't sell into the Enterprise overnight. If you want to work with the largest companies in the world, you will need stamina. I realize this can be frustrating for salespeople. Contrary to what you might be told, procurement people are not in the deal-prevention business. However, we are in the risk-mitigation business.
Remember—it's taken years to build our brands. My first responsibility as the steward of the business is to protect it. While you might be able to reduce our costs by 25% or help us reach new consumers on Mars, smart buyers will not make rash decisions or take reckless risks. When a new idea surfaces, it cannot be realized without some amount of change—and change always, ALWAYS introduces some level of risk.
As the deal progresses, it may feel as if the excitement generated at the beginning of the sales cycle is gone forever. Have faith, though—it's still there. If the process is suddenly starting to feel arduous, it usually means we are taking you seriously. We are carefully considering the benefits of your solution against all of the changes required to realize those gains.
When you are engaging with a large, mature enterprise and you set expectations that it's a journey, your risk of burnout will go down measurably. In the meantime, here are suggestions that will improve your company's chances of making it through.
Do your homework on our business. A public company shares the most intimate details of its businesses. Take the time to develop an informed viewpoint. Understand what problem you're solving, how it typically shows up in our business and who has the most to lose or gain by solving it. I cannot tell you how even a little homework on our business will differentiate you from your competition.
Develop an approach for how you will uncover the evidence of the problem you want to solve and validate a buyer's willingness and ability to solve it. Calculate the risks that your solution introduces and start planning on how to mitigate those risks. Develop a timeline and action plan for how you will navigate your buyer's organization, including the steps of the decision-making process. Have stops along the way to decide whether you should continue on or no longer engage in the pursuit. Don't just share the plan with your own leadership to manage their expectations—share with your client or prospect to get them on the same page with you. Believe it or not, we also don't want a buying process that lasts in perpetuity.
Keeping the right level of energy throughout the pursuit can be a challenge. As a buyer, I don't want to be taken to the altar on the first date—and I certainly don't want you to become neglectful in the middle of the courtship because you might have seemingly hotter prospects on the hook. One way to keep the enthusiasm is to inject different people into the pursuit and introduce us to them in a choreographed way as we move through each phase of the buying process.
I've seen every trick to get us to sign a contract on a supplier's timeline. The fact is that smart clients will not buy before they are ready. As the curator of the purchase experience, you can get us ready to buy by making sure everyone has the information they need to make an informed decision.
Hope this helps. Happy Selling.
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This streetcar isn't moving. Photo by thecourtyard on Flickr.
At approximately 2 am last night, Councilmembers received the proposed budget from Chairman Vincent Gray and his staff. Among the 11th-hour (or should it be 14th-hour) changes was a near-complete elimination of the H Street-Benning Road streetcar line.
Update: The streetcar funding was subsequently restored.
Last night, Council supporters and DDOT officials went to sleep with the understanding that the final budget negotiations had preserved the streetcar.
The line had been approved by the Committee on Public Works and Transportation last week, but the final proposed Budget Support Act removes it and returns funding to some of the Great Streets streetscapes which DDOT said they could backfill with federal funds.
It may be too late to now save the program, but if you want to push for Gray to restore it, call Gray's office immediately at 202-724-8032.
Sarah Campbell, Gray's Deputy Director for Capital Projects, has been pushing for an elimination of the project, according to sources in the Council. Campbell has expressed concerns about the process involved in the planning, which was fairly rapid, but she is also friends with Meg Maguire, leader of the Committee of 100 campaign against overhead wires. There's no way to know for sure how much of her opposition came from professional opinions or personal loyalties.
Many of the concerns over streetcars came from the speed with which this decision was made. Councilmember Phil Mendelson, who opposed the streetcar funding at the committee markup, told Eric Fidler last night that he's not satisifed that DDOT has determined the exact costs of building what they have drawn and what it will take to secure the necessary easements. The station itself is owned by the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation, leased to a private company, managed by a different private company, and subject to Congressional oversight. The proposed streetcar terminus would be located under WMATA's Red Line and under tracks owned by CSX and leased to Amtrak.
However, DDOT also prepared a 110-page list of responses to questions from Ms. Campbell last week, of which I'm working to get a copy. I don't know if they specifically answered that question or not, but there are always details worked out with any project up to the end. It's true that the streetcar plan was put together fairly quickly, because DDOT saw an opportunity to get it funded with the capital money designated for WMATA that wasn't able to go to WMATA because of the FTA's timeline.
Complaints about the speed of the project also seem a little ironic given that Chairman Gray cut the streetcar program at 2 am the night before the Council vote.
Update: Here's the Budget Support Act proposal for the FY2010 budget, which is where most of the streetcar money was.
Gray's office is saying that the program isn't "cut" because the budget hasn't been voted on. It's true that this proposal is a substitute amendment to the budget, which has to be approved by Council, but since Gray is the chairman, it's essentially the baseline that they'll be using to modify today, and unless the Council overrides this part to reinstate streetcars, they're cut.
Update 2: The Council Committee of the Whole has approved the budget that strips streetcar funding. Wells and Evans voted against.
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Opinion|Sean Hannity Is No William F. Buckley
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Sean Hannity Is No William F. Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. at work in 1965.CreditCreditSam Falk/The New York Times
On the subject of cycles, Warren Buffett likes to talk about "the natural progression, the three I's." As he put it to Charlie Rose in 2008, those I's are "the innovators, the imitators and the idiots." One creates, one enhances — and one screws it all up. Then, presumably, the cycle starts afresh.
Buffett was describing the process that led to the 2008 housing and financial crises. But he might as well have been talking about the decline of the conservative movement in America.
I was reminded of this again last week, on news that the Fox News host Sean Hannity will receive the William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence later this year at a gala dinner in Washington, D.C. As honors go, neither the award nor the organization bestowing it — the Media Research Center — is particularly noteworthy.
But sometimes symbolism is more potent than fact. If we have reached the point where rank-and-file conservatives see nothing amiss with giving Hannity an award named for Buckley, then surely there's a Milton Friedman Prize awaiting Steve Bannon for his insights on free trade. And maybe Sean Spicer can receive the Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent for his role in exposing "fake news." The floor's the limit.
Or, in Hannity's case, the crawl space beneath it.
In 1950, Lionel Trilling wrote that there were no conservative ideas "in general circulation," only "irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas." By the time Trilling died 25 years later the opposite was true: The only consequential ideas at the time were conservative, while it was liberalism that had been reduced to an irritable mental gesture.
This was largely Buckley's doing. Through National Review, his magazine, he gave a hidden American intelligentsia a platform to develop conservative ideas. Through "Firing Line," his TV show, he gave an unsuspecting American public a chance to sample conservative wit. Not all of the ideas were right, but they were usually smart. And as they evolved, they went in the right direction.
Buckley "learned to free himself of views that had come to him by the circumstances of his background that he concluded ran counter to values he cherished," notes Alvin Felzenberg in his superb new biography, "A Man and His Presidents." Buckley shed isolationism, segregationism and anti-Semitism, and insisted the conservative movement do likewise. Over 50 years as the gatekeeper of conservative ideas, he denounced the inverted Marxism of Ayn Rand, the conspiracy theories of Robert Welch (founder of the John Birch Society) and the white populism of George Wallace and Pat Buchanan.
In March 2000, he trained his sights on "the narcissist" and "demagogue" Donald Trump. "When he looks at a glass, he is mesmerized by its reflection," he wrote in a prophetic short essay in Cigar Aficionado. "The resistance to a corrupting demagogy," he warned, "should take first priority" for Americans.
Buckley died in 2008. The conservatism he nourished was fundamentally literary: To play a significant part in it you had to know how to write, and in order to write well you had to read widely, and in order to do that you had to, well, enjoy reading. In hindsight, 2008, the year of Sarah Palin, was also the year when literary conservatism went into eclipse.
Suddenly, you didn't need to devote a month to researching and writing a 7,000-word critique of Obama administration's policy on, say, Syria to be taken seriously as a conservative foreign-policy expert. You just needed to mouth off about it for five minutes on "The O'Reilly Factor." For books there were always ghostwriters; publicity on Fox ensured they would always top The Times's best-seller lists.
Influence ceased to be measured by respectability — op-eds published in The Wall Street Journal; keynotes delivered to the American Enterprise Institute — and came to be measured by ratings. The quality of an idea could be tested not by its ability to withstand scrutiny from experts, but by the willingness of people to swallow it.
It shouldn't be a surprise that a post-literate conservative world should have been so quick to embrace a semi-literate presidential candidate. Nor, in hindsight, is it strange that, with the role Buckley once played in maintaining conservative ideological hygiene retired, the ideas he expunged should have made such a quick and pestilential comeback.
Thus, when Hannity peddles conspiracy theories about Seth Rich, the young Democratic National Committee staffer murdered in Washington last year, that's an echo of John Birch. When fellow Fox host Tucker Carlson — who once aspired to be the next Buckley and now aims to be the next Ann Coulter — tries to reinvent himself as the tribune of the working class, he's speaking for the modern-day George Wallace voter. Isolationism is already back, thanks to Trump. Anti-Semitism can't be far behind, either, and not just on the alt-right.
And so we reach the Idiot stage of the conservative cycle, in which a Buckley Award for Sean Hannity suggests nothing ironic, much less Orwellian, to those bestowing it, applauding it, or even shrugging it off. The award itself is trivial, but it's a fresh reminder of who now holds the commanding heights of conservative life, and what it is that they think.
In the financial world, we know how this stage ended for investors, not to mention the rest of the country. The political right might consider that a similar destiny awaits.
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Professor Jonathan Waxman trained at University College and University College Hospital, London, in common with a number of other consultants practising at LOC. He was the recipient of several scholarships and prizes as an undergraduate and postgraduate. He is currently Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London and consultant to the Department of Oncology at Hammersmith Hospital, for whom he played the central role in the campaign to build the Hammersmith Cancer Centre.
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Il Meccanismo di Watt è un collegamento meccanico ideato da James Watt in cui il punto mobile centrale del sistema è costretto a muoversi approssimativamente in linea retta. Le sue applicazioni includono il raddoppio della potenza di un motore a pistoni mediante la connessione di un cilindro a doppio effetto a un braccio oscillante e, nelle sospensioni automobilistiche, l'esclusione di indesiderati movimenti laterali durante le oscillazioni verticali dell'assale del veicolo.

Descrizione
Il Meccanismo di Watt consiste in una serie di tre barre: due più lunghe e di misura uguale tra loro, connesse entrambe a una più piccola barra centrale. Gli estremi esterni delle barre lunghe sono imperniati in posizioni fisse tra loro, mentre i due giunti tra le tre barre sono liberi di ruotare. Tenendo conto della distanza fissa tra gli estremi esterni di cui sopra, il sistema è un esempio di "connessione a quattro bracci".

Storia

James Watt racconta l'origine del principio del meccanismo in una lettera che scrisse a Matthew Boulton nel giugno 1784.

Durante la rivoluzione industriale, i meccanismi per convertire il moto rotativo in moto lineare erano ampiamente utilizzati nelle apparecchiature industriali e minerarie, nelle locomotive e nei dispositivi di misurazione. Tali apparecchi dovevano combinare semplicità ingegneristica con un alto grado di precisione e la capacità di operare per lungo tempo a ritmi elevati. Per molte di queste applicazioni un movimento lineare approssimato era un'accettabile alternativa al movimento lineare esatto. Il Meccanismo di Watt, scoperto dall'ingegnere scozzese James Watt nel 1784, ne è uno dei più noti esempi

Il moto generato
Questo meccanismo non genera un vero movimento rettilineo e, in verità, nemmeno Watt ha mai sostenuto che lo facesse. Piuttosto esso genera una curva detta "di Watt", una lemniscata, che diventa la lemniscata di Bernoulli quando le lunghezze dei bracci sono appositamente scelte a formare un "antiparallelogramma" In una successiva lettera a Boulton dell'11 settembre 1784, Watt sostiene che in determinate condizioni il punto centrale del braccio di connessione si muova in un modo tale da discostarsi minimamente da una linea retta.

Sebbene il sistema "Peaucellier–Lipkin" e l'"inversore di Hart" generino un vero movimento in linea retta, il Meccanismo di Watt ha l'indubbio vantaggio di essere molto più semplice degli altri due, caratteristica che condivide il sistema di Cebisceff, un'altra connessione a quattro bracci per il movimento in linea retta, ove però il movimento è parallelo alla linea congiungente i punti fissi, a differenza del Meccanismo di Watt, ove il movimento è perpendicolare a questa linea.

Parallelogramma di Watt

Il Parallelogram of Watt è un altro meccanismo creato da Watt.

Utilizza un meccanismo di Watt e un pantografo per un movimento in linea retta più ampio.

Applicazioni

Pistoni a doppio effetto
L'applicazione pensata da Watt per il suo meccanismo era quella di connettere un pistone a doppio effetto (cioè con il vapore che agiva alternativamente sui due lati) alla trave di un "motore a trave", allo scopo di raddoppiarne la potenza. Nei motori ad azione singola, il pistone è connesso alla trave mediante catene che trasmettono la forza solo in fase di trazione e non in sfase di spinta, mentre in un motore a doppio effetto dotato del Meccanismo di Watt il pistone è connesso al centro della barra centrale e pertanto può trasmettere forza in entrambi i sensi: la linearità di movimento del meccanismo permette l'uso di connessioni rigide, evitando il bloccaggio del pistone nel cilindro in cui scorre. Tale configurazione ha il vantaggio di un movimento più fluido della trave rispetto ai motori a singolo effetto, con benefici nella trasformazione del moto alternato in moto rotativo.

Sospensioni automobilistiche

Il Meccanismo di Watt è usato nelle sospensioni posteriori ad assale rigido di alcuni modelli di automobile come un'evoluzione della barra Panhard, che fu ideata nei primi anni del ventesimo secolo. Entrambi i sistemi hanno lo scopo di evitare i movimenti laterali relativi tra l'assale e il corpo vettura. Il Meccanismo di Watt approssima in modo migliore una linea retta verticale e lo fa connettendosi al centro dell'assale piuttosto che ad una estremità, come quando si usa una lunga barra Panhard.

Consiste di due barre orizzontali di uguale lunghezza con le estremità montate al telaio. Al centro di queste due barre si trova connessa una corta barra verticale, il cui centro (il punto che si muoverà in linea pressoché retta) è montato al centro dell'assale. tutti i punti di congiunzione sono liberi di oscillare nel piano verticale.

In un certo senso, il Meccanismo di Watt può esser visto come due barre Panhard montate l'una opposta all'altra, dove le opposte oscillazioni laterali vengono accordate e compensate tra loro dalla piccola barra centrale oscillante.

Il meccanismo può anche essere installato al rovescio, con il punto centrale attaccato al telaio e le barre lunghe connesse all'assale, riducendo così le masse non sospese e migliorando lievemente il comportamento stradale: questa configurazione è diffusa sulle automobili da corsa che partecipano al campionato australiano Supercars.

Il Meccanismo di Watt può anche essere usato per evitare i movimenti longitudinali dell'assale, sebbene tale configurazione sia tipica delle sospensioni delle auto da corsa. Essa di norma prevede l'uso di due parallelogrammi separati montati longitudinalmente sulle due estremità dell'assale, parallelamente alla direzione del moto del veicolo.

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Altri progetti

Esempi di autovetture
 Alfa Romeo Alfetta
 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Nuova (77)
 Alfa Romeo 75
 Alfa Romeo 90
 Alfa Romeo S.Z.
 Alfa Romeo R.Z.
 Alfa Romeo 33
 Ferrari 250 GTO
 Opel Astra k

Collegamenti esterni
 How round is your circle? Contiene un capitolo che racconta la storia del Meccanismo di Watt.

 Una simulazione mediante il software Molecular Workbench

Componenti meccanici
Sospensioni (meccanica)


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The first thing that must change with routine vaccinations is the myth that vaccines are not harmful…. Veterinarians and animal guardians have to come to realize that they are not protecting animals from disease by annual vaccinations, but in fact, are destroying the health and immune systems of these same animals they love and care for. Dr. Charles E Loops, DVM, Pittsboro, NC.
Injected vaccines bypass normal defenses. They implant mutated microorganisms, preservatives, foreign animal proteins and other compounds directly into the system. This is done in the name of preventing a few syndromes. If an animal is in an optimal state of health, he or she will produce the strongest immune response possible. This response offers protection against all natural challenges. The irony is that vaccine labels say they are to be given only to healthy animals. If they were truly healthy, they would not need them. Those who are not healthy are the most severely damaged. Dr. Russell Swift, DVM. Ft Lauderdale FL.
Vaccinosis is the reaction from common inoculations (vaccines) against the body's immune system and general well being. These reactions might take months or years to show up and will cause undue harm to future generations. Dr. Pedro Rivera, DVM, Sturtevant WI.
In a general and frightening context, I see the overall health and longevity of animals deteriorating. The bodies of most animals have a tremendous capacity to detoxify poisons, but they do have a limit. I think we often exceed that limit and overwhelm the body's immune system function with toxins from vaccines.
If an animal already has problems, those problems are contributed to by vaccines. So I don't want to give any more (shots). Dr. Michael Lemmon, DVM, Renton WA.
Vaccines are not always effective, safety is unproven, and long term consequences are unknown. Despite this, the government requires their use, resulting in a lack of incentives for drug companies to produce better products. Additionally, mandatory vaccine laws make it impossible to conduct properly controlled studies, so we'll never know if vaccines are truly safe, as is claimed by the government and medical profession. Similar to other procedures, the right of informed consent, i.e. the right to say 'NO', should apply to vaccines. Dr. Kristine Severyn, RPH, Ph.D., Director Ohio Parents for Vaccine Safety .
I believe that vaccinations, especially the rabies vaccines, are contributing to a lot of the "allergic" skin problems seen today, leading to a problem known as vaccinosis, which is characterized by itchy, dark, thickened skin; especially over the abdomen and under the legs. It is seen in both dogs and cats, but is more obvious in the dog. Dr. Ana Maria Scholey, Holistic Veterinarian.
I think we eventually have to take a look at what is happening to animals because of repeated vaccinations. If you have an animal that within 10 days from the time he received vaccines falls back into a condition that you'd been trying to clean up for some time, you know what happened. We're seeing a condition that is being described by some of my colleagues and myself as vaccinosis. We have to recognize it as being there. Dr. Norman C. Ralston, DVM, Mesquite, TX.
The idea of annual vaccines is really questionable. There is no scientific basis from what I've been able to read. There was a good article in Current Veterinary Therapy a couple of years ago. They did a literature search and the two authors were not 'alternative' veterinarians, and they could find no scientific basis for annual vaccines. So it's just being done; there is no real basis for the practice. There are a lot of chronic conditions that develop some time after vaccinating. Some of these conditions that I see are chronic ear infections, digestive problems, seizures, skin problems, and behavioral problems. Stephen R Blake, DVM, San Diego, CA.
Every time a dog is vaccinated for parvo, the number of white blood cells in the circulation decreases for a while. This means their immune system won't work as well during that time. Every veterinarian who has been in practice long enough has seen reactions to vaccines, ranging from lethargy, mild fever, sore neck, to vomiting and sleeping for 24 hours, to total collapse and shock. In cats we now recognize that this in time can cause fibrosarcoma, a nasty cancer. This is officially recognized by the veterinary community, and if this isn't a form of vaccinosis, I don't know what is. Dr. Nancy Scanlan, DVM, Chino Hills CA .
Mary Phillips can be contacted at Liverpool Animal Protection Society, Inc./ PO Box 352/ Liverpool, NY 13088.
Editor's Note: Since the original publication of this piece, I've added a few of the veterinarian quotes above to Mary's originals.–Hardly Waite, PW Gazette.