"Today's shutdown of the El Nadeem Center, an organization which offers crucial support to survivors of torture and violence, is yet another shocking attack on civil society in Egypt. The move exposes the chilling extremes to which the authorities are prepared to go to in their relentless and unprecedented persecution of human rights activists in recent years.
The shutdown of El Nadeem follows a year of harassment by the authorities. In February 2016 security forces entered El Nadeem's premises and presented staff with an order to shut down operations without providing an explanation. The centre filed a judicial appeal against the decision before an Egyptian court the same month. However, police carried out the latest raid without waiting for the outcome of this appeal.
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Oct 14, 2019 - Politics & Policy
NYT: Fake video of Trump shooting media and rivals shown at his resort
President Trump speaks to journalists in the White House on Oct. 2. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
A video depicting President Donald Trump stabbing and shooting journalists, political opponents and Black Lives Matter movement figures was played at an event for his supporters at his Miami resort last week, the New York Times reported Sunday. Trump was not present, it said.
Why it matters: Event organizers American Priority confirmed to the Times that the video was shown at the conference at the Trump National Doral, which demonstrates how "Trump's anti-media language has influenced his supporters and bled into their own propaganda."
Trump has been accused previously of inciting violence against the media by labeling them the "enemy of the people" and using other divisive rhetoric.
CNN, one of the news outlets reportedly targeted in the video, noted in a tweet that this was not the first time Trump supporters had "promoted violence against the media."
The big picture: The White House Correspondents Association also called on the president to denounce the video — which reportedly shows Trump's head superimposed on a man who goes for his critics or the logos of news organizations displayed on bodies inside the "Church of Fake News," in an apparent parody of the 2014 movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
The footage includes the logo for Trump's 2020 re-election campaign, per the Times.
Axios viewed a YouTube video matching the description from the NYT report, titled "Trump Kills Fake News (Church of Fake News)," uncovered by Bloomberg technology journalist William Turton.
The video has been shared by people including journalist Yashar Ali on Twitter. Axios decided not to publish the video, but it can be viewed in the links to the threads by Turton and Ali. (WARNING: It contains graphic content.)
What they're saying: A person close to Donald Trump Jr. and former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who were scheduled to appear at the 3-day event, said "they did not see the video at the conference," the NYT said.
Trump campaign spokesperson told the Times he didn't know about the video, but he added: "That video was not produced by the campaign, and we do not condone violence."
American Priority told the NYT the video was shown in a "meme exhibit" at the event and that the group was investigating how it came to be shown.
"Content was submitted by third parties and was not associated with or endorsed by the conference in any official capacity. American Priority rejects all political violence and aims to promote a healthy dialogue about the preservation of free speech. This matter is under review."
— American Priority event organizer Alex Phillips in statement to the NYT
CNN accuses Trump of inciting violence against reporters
Trump says supporters demand his red-hot rhetoric

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The Argentine capital is a vibrant destination that gets inside the soul and that you will want to repeat over and over again. You will find the tango's romantic nostalgia in its streets, the one love for soccer, the flavors of a good table, the taste for the culture and the warmth of Buenos Aires towards tourists.
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The aim of this project is to increase the rate of progress in clinical cancer research by accelerating the development, running, and re-analysis of translational early-phase studies through the provision of semantics-driven software solutions. It will take an approach that has proven effective for randomised controlled trials, where therapies are tested on large populations, and apply it to the earlier stages of research and development, where the effect of therapies upon humans are first explored, and significant discoveries are made. It will build upon the work of the UK CancerGrid project, which has developed techniques for the provision of software systems in which data is associated with a detailed, computable representation of its semantics, and that association is used to drive subsequent processing – analysis, integration, and re-use. It will employ Microsoft technologies ideally positioned for the implementation of these techniques: in particular, SharePoint and Silverlight. It will complement workflow and community-building technologies under development at Microsoft, as part of a platform for leading-edge, collaborative science.


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The Scottish Vocational Qualification (SVQ) in Wall and Floor Tiling (Construction) at SCQF level 5 allows candidates to demonstrate competence in job-related skills in their area of work and expertise.
This qualification covers areas such as general workplace health, safety and welfare; productive work practices; and tiling walls and floors.
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Q: How do I change the UITextField so it looks like the Search Text Field? I would like to change the standard iPhone UITextField so that it looks exactly like the search text field within the UISearchBar.  You can see an example of this for the SMS text entry field within the iPhone Messages application.
I do not believe that the UITextField has a style property that will meet this requirement.  Any ideas?

A: If you want, you can actually extract the background image from a uisearch bar and make it a stretchable image to use as the background of a UITextField.  I did the same thing and it works like a charm for me.  Here's the code i used to extract it:
UIImage *img = [[[self.searchBar subviews] objectAtIndex:1] background];
NSData *imgdata = UIImagePNGRepresentation(img);

NSArray *searchPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectoryPath = [searchPaths objectAtIndex: 0];

[imgdata writeToFile:[documentsDirectoryPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"searchbarbg.png"] atomically:YES];

the second subview of the uisearchbar is the actual text field; this is subject to change in any future os releases though.
this will save the PNG to the app's documents directory, where you can grab it and drop it into your project and use it as the text field's background.  the left and top cap widths for the stretchable image are 15 pixels.

A: What about UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect?
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;

You can also just use a UISearchBar and handle the text manually yourself.

A: It seems that this is not supported within iPhone OS 3.0.  I just used a transparent UITextField with UIImageView as the background.  I believe this is how the official iPhone SMS text entry works.

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#if !defined(__AuthSession__)
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#include <Security/Authorization.h>

#if defined(__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
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/*!
	@header AuthSession

	The Session API provides specialized applications access to Session management and inquiry
    functions. This is a specialized API that should not be of interest to most people.

	The Security subsystem separates all processes into Security "sessions". Each process is in
	exactly one session, and session membership inherits across fork/exec. Sessions form boundaries
	for security-related state such as authorizations, keychain lock status, and the like.
	Typically, each successful login (whether graphical or through ssh & friends) creates
	a separate session. System daemons (started at system startup) belong to the "root session"
	which has no user nor graphics access.

	Sessions are identified with SecuritySessionIds. A session has a set of attributes
	that are set on creation and can be retrieved with SessionGetInfo().

	There are similar session concepts in the system, related but not necessarily
	completely congruous. In particular, graphics sessions track security sessions
	(but only for graphic logins).
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/*!
	@typedef SecuritySessionId
	These are externally visible identifiers for authorization sessions.
        Different sessions have different identifiers; beyond that, you can't
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        to use attribute bits wherever appropriate.
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/*!
    @enum SecuritySessionId
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        on input to SessionAPI functions. They will never be returned from such
        functions.

    Note: -2 is reserved (see 4487137).
*/
enum {
    noSecuritySession                      = 0,     /* definitely not a valid SecuritySessionId */
    callerSecuritySession = ((SecuritySessionId)-1)     /* the Session I (the caller) am in */
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    sessionHasGraphicAccess                = 0x0010, /* graphic subsystem (CoreGraphics et al) available */
    sessionHasTTY                          = 0x0020, /* /dev/tty is available */
    sessionIsRemote                        = 0x1000, /* session was established over the network */
};

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	Error codes returned by AuthSession API.
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        Will never be one of those constants.

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	into the new session. This is (currently) the only call that changes a process's
	session membership.
    By default, a new bootstrap subset port is created for the calling process. The process
    acquires this new port as its bootstrap port, which all its children will inherit.
    If you happen to have created the subset port on your own, you can pass the
    sessionKeepCurrentBootstrap flag, and SessionCreate will use it. Note however that
    you cannot supersede a prior SessionCreate call that way; only a single SessionCreate
    call is allowed for each Session (however made).
	This call will discard any security information established for the calling process.
	In particular, any authorization handles acquired will become invalid, and so will any
	keychain related information. We recommend that you call SessionCreate before
	making any other security-related calls that establish rights of any kind, to the
	extent this is practical. Also, we strongly recommend that you do not perform
	security-related calls in any other threads while calling SessionCreate.

    @param flags Flags controlling how the session is created.

    @param attributes The set of attribute bits to set for the new session.
        Not all bits can be set this way.

    @result An OSStatus indicating success (errSecSuccess) or an error cause.

    errSessionInvalidAttributes -60501 Attempt to set invalid attribute bits
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OSStatus SessionCreate(SessionCreationFlags flags,
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Washington, D.C. – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has been informed that Venezuela presented to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) a notice of denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights, dated September 6, 2012.
The Commission observes that, when the denunciation of the Convention enters into effect one year from the date of the presentation of the letter, Venezuela, as a Member State of the OAS, will continue to be subject to the Commission's jurisdiction and be bound by the obligations established in the OAS Charter and the American Declaration, to which Venezuela has been a State Party since 1948. In addition, any cases of human rights violations that take place until the date that the denunciation enters into force may be analyzed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court), in accordance with article 78.2 of the American Convention.
Nonetheless, it is of deepest concern to the Inter-American Commission that, from the date that the denunciation enters into force, the Inter-American Court will not be able to analyze violations of human rights that may occur in Venezuela. This means that if the State completes the procedure it has begun, the inhabitants of Venezuela will be stripped of a mechanism to protect their human rights, will be left more vulnerable to abuses, and they will have fewer resources available to defend themselves.
In creating the OAS in 1948, the States enshrined as an objective of the Organization "the consolidation on this continent, within the framework of democratic institutions, of a system of individual liberty and social justice based on respect for the essential rights of man." In this spirit, the States created the inter-American system of human rights with the mandate to supervise the respect and guarantee of the human rights of all persons in the region. The member States and the political organs of the OAS constitute the collective guarantors of this system. Taking this into consideration, the IACHR calls on the State of Venezuela to reconsider its decision to denounce the American Convention.
In the event that the procedure is completed and the denunciation of the Convention enters into force one year from now, the Commission will continue to process petitions and requests for precautionary measures related to Venezuela, as well as supervise the situation of human rights in the country, based on Article 106 of the OAS Charter and the American Declaration.
Furthermore, the Commission observes that in the most recent OAS General Assembly, held last June in Cochabamba, Bolivia, the Member States ratified their intention to advance the universalization of the inter-American human rights system, through the signature and ratification of the inter-American human rights instruments by all OAS Member States. The Inter-American Commission agrees with the Member States that the universalization of the system is a priority objective. The decision of Venezuela to denounce the American Convention represents a backwards step in the path towards this important goal.
In the General Assembly in Cochabamba, the Member States also welcomed the report of the Special Working Group to Reflect on the Workings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights with a View to Strengthening the Inter-American Human Rights System. The document highlights the need to achieve the ratification of the American Convention on Human Rights and other inter-American instruments of human rights by the countries that have not yet done so. The denunciation of the Convention by Venezuela constitutes a serious regression in the effort to strengthen the inter-American system of human rights.
The American Convention entered into force in 1978. At present, 24 of the 35 OAS Member States have ratified the Convention.
A principal, autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS), the IACHR derives its mandate from the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The Inter-American Commission has a mandate to promote respect for human rights in the region and acts as a consultative body to the OAS in this area. The Commission is composed of seven independent members who are elected in an individual capacity by the OAS General Assembly and who do not represent their countries of origin or residence.
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Engaging characters are at the heart of almost all 3D projects, and in issue 224 of 3D World, you'll find out how to get the best out of them.
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Oregon's Forest Products Industry and Timber Harvest, 2008 - Industry Trends and Impacts of the Great Recession Through 2010 9/1/2012
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An Assessment of Forest-based Woody Biomass Supply and Use in Montana - 4/29/2009
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What was the impact of the Whiskey Rebellion?
The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws, though the whiskey excise remained difficult to collect. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process already under way.
What was the significance of the Whiskey Rebellion and the way the government responded to it?
What was the significance of the Whiskey Rebellion and the way the government responded to it? whisky too expensive, and refused to pay it. It was the first time under the new US constitution that the federal government had to use military force to show authority over the nation's citizens.
What was the federal government's response to the Whiskey Rebellion?
When resistance came to a climax in 1794, the federal government finally decided to take action against the rebellious western farmers. A proclamation was issued by George Washington for the insurgents to disperse, while at the same time militias were being gathered from several colonies.
What federal law was the focus of protests in the Whiskey Rebellion?
Whisky Rebellion was in 1794 when farmers of western Pennsylvania protested against the whiskey tax. This was an "excessive" tax -an internal tax-passed a few years before to raise additional funds for the national government. They were mad about this because usually there to make grain into whiskey.
What actions of the new federal government started and ended the Whiskey Rebellion?
Terms in this set (17) What actions of the new federal government started the Whiskey Rebellion? What actions of the new federal government ended the Whiskey Rebellion? Washington sent 1,500 troops to stop them.
Was the Whiskey Rebellion justified?
The Whiskey Rebellion was a justified revolt by farmers who felt oppressed. They believed the taxes imposed resembled those collected by the British Parliament, which had been a major factor in instigating the American Revolutionary War. An excise tax is a tax on manufacturers collected when a good is produced.
When did the Whiskey Rebellion occur?
What did Thomas Jefferson think of the Whiskey Rebellion?
Hamilton and Jefferson on the Whiskey Rebellion They would check the unsteadiness of the people and maintain good government. Thomas Jefferson believed that the purpose of government is to protect the unalienable rights of its citizens, and that these rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
How was the Whiskey Rebellion different from Shays Rebellion?
Both rebellions raised the spector of anarchy and called for intervention of the government. Shays' Rebellion called for revision of the Articles, The Whiskey Rebellion caused Washington to take a stand against rebellion and eventually caused political parties to form.
How did Shay's Rebellion end?
The federal government found itself unable to finance troops to put down the rebellion, and it was consequently put down by the Massachusetts State militia and a privately funded local militia.
Why was it important for the United States government to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion?
Why was the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion important to the new government of the United States? Lasting from 1791-1794, the Rebellion involved a tax protest in the 1790s. The suppression of the Rebellion showed the new government was willing and able to suppress those who violently resisted laws.
How did Washington respond to the Whiskey Rebellion?
Washington recruited militia members from Pennsylvania as well as nearby Maryland and New Jersey. Washington's strong response to the Whiskey Rebellion became, as future-President James Madison put it, "a lesson to every part of the Union against disobedience to the laws."
Who was affected by the Whiskey Rebellion?
President Washington's use of soldiers to make the farmers stop rebelling had two effects: 1) the government was able to demonstrate its power and 2) the Federalist Party lost the support of the people. The wealthy people's perspective of President Washington's Whiskey Rebellion action was that it was a good move.
Why was the whiskey tax unfair?
Western farmers regarded the tax as unfair and discriminatory. They earned much of their income by distilling their spare grain into liquor, and they were incensed that the tax was aimed at producers, not consumers. Hamilton had proposed the tax on distilled spirits to raise revenue to pay down the national debt.
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In the final scenes of François Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959), twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel escapes from a reform school soccer field in the middle of a game. While his fellow delinquent peers tread up and down the demarcated terrain, Doinel cuts loose.
Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros are remembered as the giants of 20th-century Mexican murals. Their visual disciple, cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (1907 – 97), likewise portrayed the grandeur of the Mexican landscape and its people, expanding the distinctly Mexican oeuvre beyond painting to photography, film, and television.


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Three Bold Predictions for 2019-2020 NHL Season
September 23, 2019 September 23, 2019 5 min read Timothy Oger
With the NHL Regular Season set to begin in just over a week, here are three bold predictions for this season.
James Neal Hits 50 Points:
After a Stanley Cup Finals appearance with the Vegas Golden Knights in their inaugural season, James Neal was signed by the Calgary Flames to a five year, $28,750,000 deal.
Neal then proceeded to have his career worst season, recording just 19 points in 63 games played.
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Since entering the league in the 2008-09 season, Neal has proven that he is a consistent goal scorer recording at least 20 goals in each of his seasons, except for last year; his best coming in 2011-12 where he recorded 81 points with his 40 goals, and 41 assists.
Despite Neal's struggles last season in Calgary, the Flames would still go on to finish first in the Western Conference, however would fall to the Avalanche in the first round in just five games.
This off-season the Oilers, and Flames did a one for one trade with each other sending Milan Lucic to Calgary, and James Neal to Edmonton.
Set to play on a line with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, and Sam Gagner, Neal has the opportunity to have a tremendous bounce back season as the Oilers will fight to find themselves back in the playoffs for the first time since the 2017 Playoffs.
Connor McDavid could use all the help he can get this year, there's no reason why Neal should not be able to hit 20 goals this season, and record 30 assists to hit the 50 point mark for the first time since the 2015-16 season with Nashville.
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"Battle of the Hudson" Revived in Playoffs:
Last season the New Jersey Devils finished last in the Metropolitan Division recording just 72 points; the New York Rangers didn't do much better finishing seventh in the Metropolitan with 78 points.
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This off-season both of these teams were extremely active.
To start the Devils drafted Jack Hughes first overall in the entry draft, then would acquire Norris Trophy winner P.K. Subban from the Predators to add experience, and strengthen their blue line.
After that GM Ray Shero would add Wayne Simmonds, and Nikita Gusev to the Devils' offense.
With the return of Taylor Hall on top of all of this New Jersey is set for a solid season that could end with a playoff appearance.
In New York, the Rangers drafted Kappo Kakko second overall in the entry draft, and then went on to sign free agent Artemi Panarin to a massive seven year contract.
On defense, New York acquired Jacob Trouba from the Jets to pair with Brady Skjei for a solid top defensive pairing.
Like the Devils, the Rangers are primed for a bounce back season with a playoff appearance in mind.
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Since 1992, New Jersey, and New York have had six playoff series against each other; the Rangers taking four of them, including the Eastern Conference Finals in 1994 in route to their first Stanley Cup in 54 years.
The last series between these two franchises was the Eastern Conference Finals in 2012 which saw the Devils win in six games, however New Jersey would fall to the Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup Finals in six games.
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Since 2012 New Jersey has had only one playoff appearance in which they were eliminated by the Tampa Bay Lightning in five games.
The Rangers are currently sitting on back-to-back seasons not making the playoffs, after qualifying seven straight seasons.
With the Metropolitan Division being one of the tightest contested divisions in the NHL, we could be looking at a renewal of the "Battle of the Hudson" come April.
Maple Leafs Have Three 100 Point Scorers:
Well Toronto was able to accomplish their largest off-season goal; signing Mitch Marner to a contract extension.
A six year deal with an annual salary of $10,893,000 to be exact.
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Toronto now has three forwards signed to a deal with a salary of at least $10.5 million all locked in until the 2023-24 season (2024-25 for Marner, and Tavares); Auston Matthews at $11,634,000, and Tavares at $11,000,000.
Last season saw Marner record a career high 94 points between his 26 goals, and 68 assists, Tavares record a career high 88 points with 47 goals, and 41 assists, and Matthews hit 73 points in just 68 games played.
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With six players recording at least 100 points last season, expect to see even more players hit the 100 point mark this season; three of which playing in a Maple Leafs uniform.
Despite this however, Toronto will experience yet another first round exit for the fourth consecutive season to either Boston, or Tampa Bay.
Toronto will continue to improve this season, although could face significant contract issues come next off-season as Morgan Rielly currently will be the only Defenseman signed.
The NHL Regular Season begins Wednesday October 2nd with Toronto hosting Ottawa at 7:00 PM ET, St. Louis hosting the Washington Capitals as they raise their banner at 8:00 PM ET, followed by two Pacific Division match ups as the Oilers play the Canucks at 10:00 PM ET, and San Jose traveling to Vegas for a 10:30 PM ET game.
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Loved this piece. Here's my bold prediction, the Colombus Blue Jackets still contend if not win a wild card position despite losing key pieces in the off-season.
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Russia appears to have surrendered to SpaceX in the global launch market
As recently as 2013, Russia controlled about half of the global commercial launch industry with its fleet of rockets, including the Proton boosters. But technical problems with the Proton, as well as competition from SpaceX and other players, has substantially eroded the Russian share. This year, it may only have about 10 percent of the commercial satellite launch market, compared to as much as 50 percent for SpaceX.
In the past, Russian space officials have talked tough about competing with SpaceX in providing low-cost, reliable service to low-Earth and geostationary orbit. For example, the Russian rocket corporation, Energia, has fast-tracked development of a new medium-class launch vehicle that it is calling Soyuz-5 to challenge SpaceX.
On Tuesday, however, Russia's chief spaceflight official, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, made a remarkable comment about that country's competition with SpaceX.
"The share of launch vehicles is as small as 4 percent of the overall market of space services," Rogozin said in an interview with a Russian television station. "The 4 percent stake isn't worth the effort to try to elbow Musk and China aside. Payloads manufacturing is where good money can be made."
According to an independent analysis, the global launch market is worth about $5.5 billion annually. Losing its half-share of this market, therefore, has probably cost the Russians about $2 billion, which is a significant fraction of its non-military aerospace budget.
Rogozin is correct that satellite manufacturing is a considerably larger industry, worth about $14 billion a year. But like launch, this is also a competitive industry, and Russia has historically not had a dominant position in the satellite manufacturing and services industry like it has had in launch. It was the Soviet Union that first launched a satellite, Sputnik, and then a human, Yuri Gagarin, into space, after all.
What seems most remarkable about Rogozin's comment is that, for the first time publicly, the world's most storied launch provider appears to be ceding the commercial launch market to other providers—most notably a rocket company that didn't exist until 2002, and flew its first orbital rocket less than a decade ago.
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Historia de O (en francés: Histoire d'O) es una novela erótica de la escritora francesa Pauline Réage (pseudónimo de Dominique Aury, nacida Anne Desclos) publicada en 1954. Intelectual francesa además de escritora, Dominique Aury no pensaba en publicar sus trabajos, los escribió como un desafío que emprendía para conquistar más a su amante, Jean Paulhan.

Narra la historia de una fotógrafa de modas parisina sólo conocida con la inicial O, que, por amor a su "maestro" (amante), René, ingresa en una fraternidad sadomasoquista donde se convierte voluntariamente en un objeto sexual, siendo sometida a todo tipo de prácticas de sumisión (incluyendo azotes y sodomía).

La primera edición en lengua española se publicó en México en 1962 (Baal). En 1977 se publicó por primera vez en España (Plaza y Janés).

En 1975 fue llevada al cine por el realizador francés Just Jaeckin y protagonizada por Corinne Clery.

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 Anillo de O
 Historia de O (película)
 Pauline Réage
 Prix des Deux Magots

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In this paper, we present an optimal design of the hydraulic system for a class of industrial press machines. Such machines are expected to produce a large pressure on a work-piece and they are driven by a hydraulic system. Excessive vibration in the period where the press is changed from pressure holding to pressure relief is a common bottleneck problem with such machines. The vibration is closely related to the hydraulic system that controls a press head's movement and is subsequently responsible for the property of work-pieces. In the present study, we proposed a novel design of the hydraulic circuit for pressure relief and applied it to a brick press machine and evaluated through simulation by AMESim software, which showed that the design is effective. Finally, the simulation results were validated in practical operation, which showed that, the violent vibration was decreased significantly and the noise level of the new machine is decreased from 80 decibel to 58 decibel.


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BCCI old guard wants pull-out, COA warns of consequences
May 06, 2017 18:39 IST
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A section of the Board of Control for Cricket in India's old guard, especially from the Narayanaswami Srinivasan faction, is set to advocate a pull-out from the Champions Trophy despite the Committee of Administrators' (COA) warning of possible consequences.
The COA met the state units in two sessions ahead of Sunday's Special General Meeting where implications of a pull-out were discussed threadbare.
It is learnt that North and East Zone units members are against a pull-out while the South Zone, which is still controlled by Srinivasan, is in favour of a pull-out.
Some old timers like Niranjan Shah of Saurashtra (west zone) openly advocated pullout to 'teach the ICC a lesson'.
It could be a mixed mandate if the governing body decides on floor test.
For the record, Railways, Services and All India Universities are institutional votes in which the decision will be taken at the top government level.
Even more serious was conflicting versions about team selection.
Acting president CK Khanna stated that May 8 is team selection date but joint Secretary Amitabh Chaudhary sarcastically said, "I am the convener and I don't know that there's a team selection on Monday (May 8)!"
However, according to another senior office-bearer, acting president Khanna is not off the mark.
"If Amitabh doesn't convene the meeting, there is every possibility that CEO Rahul Johri will instruct MSK Prasad and Co. to announce the team," the office bearer.
The North and East zone units met COA on Saturday followed by West and South.
"COA chief Vinod Rai told us that if BCCI goes for a pullout then they won't shy away from moving the Supreme Court. He told the senior office-bearers (joint Secretary Amitabh Chaudhary and treasurer Aniruddh Chaudhry) that negotiations are paramount," an official from an institutional unit said.
It is learnt that COA apprised the members of how India will have to pull out of all ICC tourneys till 2023.
"Vikram Limaye told members that if they again take a confrontational approach, let them be sure that they won't get $ 570 million. A legal letter would mean ICC would not be shy of fighting the battle in the courts," the participant said.
However, there were some constructive discussions on Lodha Committee Reforms.
"Most of the units were open to the reforms suggested by the Lodha Panel. Yes, they had some issues and we will try to address them," Rai said before leaving.
Most of the units spoke about the one state one vote issue and members felt that the COA was receptive to their concerns.
Meanwhile, the IPL governing council will be meeting on Sunday to discuss media rights for the next cycle of the IPL. It is learnt that media rights cycle would be halved from 10 years to 5 years.
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As North Korea Reverts to Self-Reliance, Experts Urge Pressuring Elites
Artworks featuring U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are displayed at a gallery in Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, Hanoi, Vietnam. The nuclear summit between Trump and Kim has collapsed after the two sides failed to reach a…
As North Korea returns to self-reliance to maintain its faltering state-run economy, experts said sanctioning the financial lifelines of regime leaders might put added pressure on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program.
"Washington and its allies should be calibrating sanctions that target the regime/party elites' financial lifeline," said Matthew Ha, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). "The critical entity that would affect change amongst North Korea's leadership are banks and financial institutions."
Ever since leader Kim Jong Un said at a party meeting in December that North Korea must cope with sanctions with self-reliance, Pyongyang has been mobilizing to reinforce self-sufficiency.
"There is no need to hesitate with any expectation of the U.S. lifting of sanctions," said Kim. He urged the nation to make a "frontal breakthrough to foil the enemies' sanctions and blockade by dint of self-reliance."
Self-reliance, or Juche, is North Korea's official ideology. It calls on the regime to be self-sufficient economically, and politically independent of foreign reliance by mobilizing its people socially to work for the regime, forcing them to put their own interests behind that of the country.
North Korea's official newspaper Rodong Sinmun on Wednesday issued a report calling upon citizens to revive the "spirit of self-reliance" to "build a powerful and prosperous country of Juche on this land."
Bradley Babson, a former World Bank adviser and an advisory council member of the Korea Economic Institute of America, said North Korea has been complaining about sanctions because they restrict the regime from fully operating its state-controlled industries.
Sanctions "are really constraining the ability of the state to function in the state-directed economy in the way they would like to," said Babson. "And that's why they complain about sanctions. I think they're complaining that the state really has to give ground to the private sector in order to survive."
According to Babson, sanctions are keeping North Korea from operating its import-dependent state enterprises at the full capacity needed to be successful domestically and earn foreign exchange abroad.
'Maximum pressure'
International sanctions placed on North Korea, particularly those issued since 2016, restrict the regime from importing the fuel needed to run its domestic industries.
Sanctions also ban the regime from exporting commodities such as coal, iron ore, textile, and seafood that brought in foreign income that could support its nuclear weapons program.
While these sanctions restricted North Korea from running its state-controlled industries, experts told VOA Korean the sanctions fail to put enough pressure on Pyongyang's party leaders who still make money for the country by running operations abroad.
"When we talk about sanctions pressure, we really need to be targeting where strategic decisions can be made to really adjust the calculus of [the regime's] leaders," said Ha. "In a dictatorship, it's the elites that are going to be more likely to make a change in decision."
Ha said sanctions should target North Korea's overseas bank accounts that its regime leaders maintain to run overseas operations to bring in foreign revenue.
"There are [local overseas] middlemen that are literally pushing the money through for a lot of [North Korean] individuals and the companies that they run to help provide financial revenue for the regime," said Ha.
Joshua Stanton, a Washington-based attorney who helped draft the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement and Policy Enforcement Act in 2016, said, "Maximum pressure will really be maximum pressure when there are nine-digit penalties against Chinese banks that's laundering North Korean money."
Targeting financial lifelines of the regime's elites, comprised of government and military officials, would likely pressure Kim, because he needs their loyalty to stay in power, according to Ha.
"He must keep his people happy, especially the elites," said Ha. "He needs to be able to gain the loyalty of elites. I think if they see their situation compromised, it'll be a problem."
On Jan. 14, the U.S. Treasury Department issued new sanctions on two North Korean entities that it said continue to export laborers overseas, undermining U.N. resolutions including the one passed in 2017 requiring all North Korean workers return by a Dec. 22, 2019, deadline.
"It's a step in the right direction," said Ha. He added that one of the sanctioned entities, Namgang Trading Corporation, "is likely run by a [North Korean] government official who is helping finance the government, the regime needs."
'Hostile policy'
After President Donald Trump denied Kim's request to lift sanctions at the Hanoi Summit in February, North Korea resumed missile tests in May and continued until December in apparent protest against sanctions that it described as "hostile policy." And sanctions are a major reason denuclearization talks between Washington and Pyongyang have remained stalled since the working-level talks in Stockholm broke down in October.
Babson said U.N. sanctions restricting "the oil imports have really negatively affected things like fertilizer production and industries that are very dependent on oil, not only the power sector but in other industries."
He added, "So their effort to substitute for imported oil with gasification of coal which they have in abundance [has] been one of the responses" to deal with sanctions.
As if to emphasize his regime's utilization of coal, Kim visited several North Korean factories, including a fertilizer factory under construction north of Pyongyang in Sunchon after announcing the return to Juche.
Kim also showed Pyongyang could tap tourism to create a foreign income flow, especially from China, by visiting the hot spring resort in Yangdok in December, just before it opened for tourists a month later. The sanctions do not ban making money from tourism.
But the outbreak of coronavirus in China forced North Korea to shut its borders to Chinese tourists.
Experts said even though North Korea tries to sustain its economy through self-reliance, there is little prospect that its efforts will succeed.
Troy Stangarone, senior director of the Korea Economic Institute, said a new mountain resort North Korea opened in Samjiyon County in December has been "a showpiece" to stress that "the regime can be self-reliant domestically."
However, he continued, "Even North Korea has hinted that the human cost has been enormous to complete the project, suggesting that it is far from a sign of success."
Babson said, "The senior leadership has come to understand that without trade and investment, you can't do that all on your own."
Unenthusiastic public
Another complication comes from the North Korean people who are unenthusiastic about the return to Juche when many have been earning money in private markets after losing jobs at state-run factories.
"People don't really particularly like being told they have to go back into forced labor, type of a mobilized labor, to get the economy moving, when they'd rather make money on their own," he said.
In this sense, Babson thinks what the 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith called "the invisible hand," an unfettered market force and self-interest that help a country reach an optimum level of economic prosperity, has been at play in North Korea. Smith is often called the father of modern economics.
"The incentive to create private wealth through private initiative has been growing in North Korea and in that sense, 'the invisible hand' is at work," said Babson.
Babson added that the growth of the market and the desire of people to seek their own economic interest have undermined the old concept of self-reliance.
"That concept really has been undermined by the growth of the market economy," said Babson. "People feel that they're able to pursue individual interest on [seeking] economic benefit even if it doesn't benefit the whole. So there's a breakdown in the understanding of what it means to be self-reliant."
However, with recent resurgence toward self-reliance, the regime is seemingly trying to reverse the course of its economy.
Stanton said, "With North Korea, the argument is two steps forward and one step backward, or one step forward and two steps back."
Pyongyang is also apparently facing how to reposition self-reliance in a modernized economy.
"There is a real dilemma for the government and for public policy about how [to] integrate the concept of self-reliance in the modern and the way the economy and society have developed since the famine [of 1990s] and the breakdown of the old model," Babson said.
This report originated with VOA's Korean Service.


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Swallowed Up
"If he withdrew into the wilderness and listened to his inner life in solitude, he might perhaps hear what the voice has to say" – C.G. Jung
Last summer Joe and I packed up the truck and headed to Montana. Having never been there, we were inspired to visit Glacier National Park and see that big sky country. What we saw instead was a flurry of tourists, many having traveled from the eastern regions of the world to witness this mythic western landscape. I imagine that most of them, like us, were hoping to spot a grizzly bear; that image of the west that is now more legendary than real. Or maybe they just wanted to get a taste of the "Holy Other" that this part of the world imparts; the sense that there is something much bigger, more powerful, and more awesome than oneself.
My heart sank when I saw the cars and Winnebagos lined up outside the park's entrance. I wanted to turn around immediately and make tracks to some lesser known and less loved place like Battle Mountain, NV or maybe even Trona, CA. I wanted to start a campaign that would outlaw RVs larger than tanker ships, flood lights that can penetrate the thickest of brains, and all cell phone transmitters dressed up as trees. What happened to the West? Is there any wilderness left beyond the boundaries of consumerism and convenience?
My lamentation is not new. Many folks for many years have bemoaned the end to what at first appeared infinite: land, buffalo, gold, oil, and opportunity. Ever since white man stepped foot west of the hundredth meridian something deeply archetypal, attached to enormous greed and fear, must have been triggered in the western human psyche. Some might suggest that expansionism is driven by evolutionary biology similar to an infestation of a non-native species. Simply put, we are weeds gone ballistic.
But I don't think that weeds fall in love with a place, or experience the immense sense of wonder that is evoked by landscapes such as Glacier National Park. Weeds don't write poetry about mountains and rivers or sing songs to the prairies. Nor do weeds experience the range of emotions that belong to us humans. I could be wrong about this, but I doubt it.
When I was a young girl, my father took me to nearly every national park in the southwest. I was deeply affected by the wildness of these places and I always left wanting more. I can vividly remember standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon during a typical summer monsoon and being so overwhelmed by my senses that I had to restrain myself from jumping over the edge and into the great mouth of the canyon. I so badly wanted to be swallowed up by it all. In retrospect, there was something absolutely essential about being overwhelmed and taken beyond myself. It instilled in me a religious sensibility that has remained throughout my life.
Just a few days ago, on the winter solstice, the moon was also swallowed up. It was raining here in Ventura so I didn't get to watch the full lunar eclipse, but I could imagine Luna being stripped of her dim consciousness by the cold shadow of the earth. In her book, Alchemy, Marie-Louise Von Franz compares the eclipse to the coniunctio, an event that occurs when the opposites merge in the underworld of the psyche; in our darkest and most desolate night of the soul. It is a swallowing up that can either make us go insane, or in the best case, bring about the birth of a new personality.
She writes, "If we take the coniunctio on a purely inner level, it can be said that when the conscious and unconscious personalities approach each other, then there are two possibilities: either the unconscious swallows consciousness, when there is a psychosis, or the conscious destroys the unconscious with its theories, which means a conscious inflation. The latter generally also happens when there is a latent psychosis, and then people get out of it by saying the unconscious is 'nothing but…,' thereby crushing the unconscious and its living mystery, or pushing it aside" (p. 164).
In other words, following an awe-inspiring moment such as standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon or being shaken up by a dream, we might just go crazy, but more likely we'll convince ourselves it was "nothing but" a dream…or an impulse…or even a bad case of indigestion. The ego regains its superior position as soon as the eclipse is over.
"In the old days people knew how to dream. They did not have to go to sleep first" wrote Nietzsche. Western society has lost its capacity for dreaming; for listening to the voices of the ancestors and the whisperings of the spirits of the land. The desire to be swallowed up, to loosen the ego's grip, is still strong, but not as strong as the need to fight against it. Maybe this is the driving force behind our enthrallment with wild landscapes along with the counter-reaction to control them. The wildness of such places is so vast, overwhelming, and threatening that if we don't retain some sense of supremacy, we fear we could lose ourselves completely.
Nevertheless, I say go to Montana, or wherever, and allow oneself to be swallowed up by all the gloriousness this wild land still has to offer to our weary and dried up souls. But while doing so, make offerings to the ancestors. Listen to the stories in the land. Pay attention to dreams. Walk humbly with the dead.
"Wilderness. The word itself is music. Wilderness, wilderness…We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not yet been irreparably stunned, deadened, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination" – Edward Abbey (From Home Ground, edited. by Barry Lopez).
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Devil's De-light
As I was cleaning out my office this week I came across a file containing a collection of letters, notes, and photos from my early years with the School of Lost Borders. While sorting through the pile, I realized that I participated in my first "vision fast" over twelve years ago and have been doing so each year ever since. I suppose this confirms that vision fasting has become a firm "practice" in my life. To go into the wilderness, alone and without food and shelter, may sound like a bizarre thing to do, but it serves as a sort of periscope for me; a means for traveling through the rich dark matter which lies beneath the surface.
There is something absolutely elemental about stripping oneself down in a wild landscape. To be exposed in nature, hungry and alone, arouses a remembering, both in body and dreams, of our primordial lineage – a connection to our wildness that can never be fully shed. As human ecologist, Paul Shepard, writes, even though we have become largely domesticated within our surroundings, "Wildness is a genetic state…"It is that genetic aspect of ourselves that spatially occupies every body and every cell". In other words, we cannot leave behind our wild nature. We can only suppress it. And, when we suppress it, it usually returns and bites us hard in the ass.
And thus, this September I find myself, once again, in the Inyo Mountains, hungry and alone and wondering why in God's name would I do such a foolish thing. Joe has joined me this time, although he is out of sight and earshot, situated on the ridge across the valley from where I have placed my tarp and sleeping bag. Four days and four nights – right here. Not much to do except wait, watch, listen and try not to go insane.
It has become so painfully difficult for me to remain still. With my dad's dying, in addition to a heavy workload, all I did last year was move from one location to another, back and forth, and at high speeds. Although I hate it, I have become addicted to movement. When I stop moving, the devil shows up.
Particularly on this fast, the devil appeared in the form of fear – fear of pain, loss, and death. Really, ultimately fear of the wild aspect of nature that I mentioned above because to be engaged with Nature is also to recognize that she both creates and destroys, gives life and freely takes it back. This terrifies me, but it is only in the presence of death that I can truly be wild. It is only by embracing death that nature is no longer tagged as evil. To find oneself calm and unwavering within this tremendous paradox is key to being at home on this planet. This is the gift of consciousness that Earth gives us.
Shepard's words are particularly interesting here. Speaking of those who have left the regions of the wild for a more sedentary life, he writes, "Those who fear death become politically and socially conservative and less tolerant of other species, other creed, and any deviation from their own mode of life".
My guess is that all of our social and environmental ills can be traced to our personal and cultural fears of death. It seems essential, therefore, that we return to the place of darkness, into our own wildness, so that we may see the light.
I've got a long way to go…
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"The Dwelling Place of a Great Spirit"
Last week, a dream came to me in which my partner Joe and I were going camping in the Inyo Mountains. I wanted to share with him one of my favorite places on Earth. When we arrived at the 4X4 road which leads into the back country, we were halted by an enormous condominium complex that had recently been developed. Basically in the dream, I go into a panic, frantically tracking down the developer and new residents to express my concern over this intrusion; especially its destruction of precious big horn sheep habitat. In the end, and after no success convincing anyone of anything, I find myself trying not to feel the despair, but I just can't deny it. How can I go on feeling this way? Just knowing that this type of thing happens makes me not want to live in this world.
Of course, there are many ways to interpret this dream. I could take it literally, focusing on my sense of despair over the destruction of the natural world, but dreams are rarely so simplistic. The ego tends to grab onto quick interpretations as if they were lessons to be garnered as by attending a workshop or ingesting a book. But, given that dreams come from the unconscious, they tend to be more inscrutable, often trumping the ego with their arcane messages.
Although I am distraught by environmental devastation, I have to recognize that even these hideous dream condominiums are a part of nature. As Jung so often reminds us, "So far as we can see, the collective unconscious is identical with Nature". My dreams, and all they contain, are Nature. Perhaps, my feelings of despair are not only about the environment, but by my own tendency to devalue the dream realm of psyche's landscape. If there is any way to tend to nature, it is to turn to the dream. Like the big horn sheep, dreams are shy and reticent creatures that demand careful observation in order to be seen. When we pay attention to dreams, we also pay attention to Nature, and to that which is much greater and vaster than our rational selves.
The Paiute People may have had some appreciation of the mysterious connection between these inner and outer realms, between the day world and dream world, when they named this landscape "Inyo", "The Dwelling Place of a Great Spirit". Each time I enter into these mountains I feel as if I am walking into sacred space. The expansiveness and generosity of sensual delights unlocks my mind, shakes me up, and opens me up to "Spirit" –inspiration. And, here it all is, in my dreams.
All that is Above Also is Below
"The wilderness pilgrim's step-by-step, breath-by-breath walk up a trail, into those snowfields, carrying all on the back, is so ancient a set of gestures as to bring a profound sense of body-mind-joy" – Gary Snyder
My summers revolve around the Sierra. I need at least a week in these mountains each year to take the edge off a deep-seated craving I have for the high-country. To climb over peaks and passes, carrying all that I need for the journey, bathing in icy rivers and sleeping under cold crystalline stars, makes my DNA very happy, knowing that it has returned home to my animal self and to the Pleistocene that my body has never forgotten. And despite blisters, bruises, and burning muscles, it is here that I tap into that which is no less than spirited ecstasy. When everything slows down, memory awakens. Instinct and consciousness are no longer experienced as two polar opposites, pulling and fighting against each other's impulse, but are linked together, inseparable, clean, and precise.
Heaven above
Heaven below
Stars above
Stars below
All that is above
Also is below
Grasp this
And rejoice.
— "The Emerald Tablet"
It is no wonder that in cultures worldwide mountains are often imagined as sacred centers, as places that rise up out the ordinary, but paradoxically, return us to the mundane in an extraordinary way. To backpack into the mountains requires careful attention to detail: to each step along a rocky path, to the thunder clouds that develop over the pass, to the preparation of good shelter and food. Such simple tasks take on a numinous quality when stripped to their barebones essentialness. Even the body which falters and fails us serves as a reminder that there can be no separation from the soles of our feet to the very heights that we attempt to climb. There can be no peaks without the soulful lows.
For this reason the mountain serves as a symbol for the axis mundi – the world axis. While the base of the mountain outlines the circumference of sacred space, the axis acts as a medium between the upper, middle and lower regions. This demonstrates that the bright white peaks are inseparable from the shadowy ground below; sky is inseparable from earth, spirit is inseparable from matter, consciousness is inseparable from the unconscious. Essentially, the mountain mirrors the Self in its most starlit and sultry existence.
Taoist philosophy has long recognized this interdependence between upper and lower regions as demonstrated in the concept of Yin and Yang. Whereas the mountain is symbolic of Yang – masculine principal, phallic consciousness, spirit and light – to climb the mountain is also to encounter the opposite Yin – feminine principle, receptivity, water, mud, movement, the ebb and flow of life.
Together, the Yin and Yang make up the multiple dimensions of the mountain as we know it: the light and dark sides of the slopes, steadfastness of rock and the motion of rivers, the purity of glacier lakes surrounded by the footprints of a mountain wanderer. And just as water can become solid, mountains can flow, the two engage in a universal dance between stability and flow.
'The Fashioner of Things
has no original intentions
Mountains and rivers
Are spirit, condensed.'
I imagine "spirit condensed" is another way of expressing the mystical union between spirit and soul. Like vapor, when spirit condenses it becomes heavy, falls to earth, turns to snow, which melts into rivers that flow thick with life. In a similar fashion, we may rise in spirit, but at a certain height we become icy and cold, and eventually we must condense and return to the warmth of soul. To remain solely in spirit is to be untouchable, impassive, and transcendent. On the other hand, soul carries us down into our individual depths, ultimately rooting us in the material realm of nature. Obviously, spirit without soul is rather boring. And soul without spirit may become overly depressed.
When Joe and I returned from our backpacking trip this summer we felt the radiance and ecstasy of having spent a glorious week in the high-country at Devil's Punchbowl and the lakes around Hell-For-Sure-Pass (Not very sanctimonious names for such majestic landscapes. Somehow appropriate). We fought against our aging bodies with burning lungs and sore knees as we hiked past towering pines, singing creeks, slick rock water falls, and glacial lakes. We jumped naked into swimming holes fifteen feet deep and gathered wild strawberries in sleepy meadows. We tasted the Garden of Eden and felt untouched by the tarnish of calendars and clocks.
But upon our return, Nature was there to great us in her fuller sense. As soon as I got cell reception and checked my messages I discovered that my dog was dying due to liver failure and that my father's illness had worsened. The ecstasy of the mountains came crashing down and my tears began to flow steady and strong. At first, I resented being home and having to face such loss, but then I realized that this too is an essential aspect of Nature. My tears connect me to nature – my nature – just like the river that flows from the mountain.
Grasp this and rejoice.
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Final Call: Ottonel Popesco, Cavotec
Posted: 5 December 2012 | Mark Glover, Commissioning Editor, International Airport Review | No comments yet
In the second of a new series that profiles key individuals from the airport world, Mark Glover from International Airport Review spoke to the CEO of Cavotec, Ottonel Popesco about the ground handling sector and the key developments that are currently taking place in the industry…
Mark Glover: How important is service and support following the installation of Cavotec products?
Ottonel Popesco: In the sense that close, longterm cooperation with customers is an integral element to the Cavotec offering, after-sales service is a natural continuation of the sort of relationships the group seeks to create. Wherever possible, we look to develop strategic partnerships with airports, airlines and industry bodies that solve specific challenges facing airports. This process starts with airport design and extends to after-sales service and support.
MG: How important is it for today's hangars to provide services at the location where they are actually required?
OP: Our customers tell us this is a critical consideration. There is so much that can be done to improve how airports function, and ensuring hangars provide services where they are actually needed is one of these things that sounds intuitive, but is not always the case.
In the second of a new series that profiles key individuals from the airport world, Mark Glover from International Airport Review spoke to the CEO of Cavotec, Ottonel Popesco about the ground handling sector and the key developments that are currently taking place in the industry.
OP: Our customers tell us this is a critical consideration. There is so much that can be done to improve how airports function, and ensuring hangars provide services where they are actually needed is one of these things that sounds intuitive, but is not always the case. We are seeing considerable movement in this area. For example, we recently announced news of an order for a comprehensive air and electrical power system for a United Airlines hangar at Dulles International Airport.
MG: Which testing techniques does Cavotec undergo to ensure the company conforms to applicable regulations and standards?
OP: Cavotec consultants and engineers offer customers extensive experience of the global GSE sector, and ensure that all Cavotec systems and technologies meet, and indeed often exceed, all relevant regulatory requirements. As I say, we frequently work with international organisations on formulating the design and specifications of GSE; for example we are IATA Strategic Partners.
MG: Is there a particular Cavotec product that you are most proud of?
OP: Probably the fact that Cavotec is one of the few companies in the airport sector that offers customers complete system integration: air, fuel, power, water services all through a single supplier. Our comprehensive and integrated approach to projects not only makes life easier for customers, it means that we can deliver optimal, highly efficient holistic solutions for airports airlines and ultimately passengers.
I am also excited about our continuing work on innovation and research into new technologies. We must continue to provide the best possible solutions, using our engineering expertise and our keen focus on innovation: there is still much to be done to improve how the world's airports operate.
MG: What efforts does Cavotec make to reduce the industry's environmental impact with their products?
OP: It's not an exaggeration to say that virtually all Cavotec GSE helps to reduce environmental impact. For example, our PCair and converter systems enable pilots to switch off aircraft GPUs shortly after landing thus reducing fuel consumption and associated emissions. Similarly, our 400Hz systems reduce reliance on diesel driven vehicles and equipment, also helping to cut emissions.
MG: Where do you see the ground handling industry heading within the next 10 years?
OP: If we consider how regulatory demands surrounding safety and the environment have driven the technological pace in, for example, the ports and shipping industry, I think we can expect similar improvements in the airports sector in future. As far as technological development is concerned, we are already seeing tremendous potential from previously untapped areas such as technological crossover. For example, we have adapted our airport pit systems for use in ports. It is entirely reasonable that this process will work in reverse and will see airports incorporate technologies from external sectors.
The on-going move towards increased automation and electrification throughout a wide spectrum of airport operations will undoubtedly also continue to play a key role in future projects, something in which we have a well-established track record.
With innovative thinking and inspired engineering anything becomes possible!
Ottonel Popesco is a member of the Cavotec Board and the company's CEO. Popesco holds an MSc in Economics from the Bucharest Academy, an MBA from Sorbonne University, an Ingénieur Professionnel de France-diploma from Societé Nationale des Ingenieurs Professionnels de France and a strategic marketing management-diploma from Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Cavotec in 1988, he spent five years as Sales and Marketing Manager at ABB France.
Issue 6 2012
Cavotec
Mark Glover, Ottonel Popesco
Planning as a service – a sensible approach to save costs at your airport?
By INFORM
The airport as a destination: Bahrain International Airport
By Holly Miles, Salem AlMutawa
Exclusive voxpop with Joyce Carter, YHZ
By Joyce Carter, Lily Mae Pacey (International Airport Review)
We rock all winter long!
By Janne Rostén
ABB: Engineering exceptional experiences into airports
By ABB ELECTRIFICATION


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I Charge Cool for BlackBerry | BlackBerry Blast!
Normally, if you want to see how a charge is coming along you have to walk over to the phone, click it, and read a tiny indicator.
Charge Cool instead. Now, when you're delaying going out waiting for the phone to charge up, and need to keep checking to see if it's charged enough yet, start the animonitor and you can tell at a glance from as far away as you can see the screen. And LED notifications such as for incoming messages are still visible and unaffected.
The animonitor starts automatically (if you wish) when you're plugged in and not using the phone, then keeps the screen on and indicates charging status by the color of an energy-burst with %-charged and/or a clock floating over it, and two bouncers that go higher the more the battery is charged. When the burst is green and the bouncers go far across the screen, you're well charged. When the phone smiles, you're 100%.
Have you even been waiting for your phone to charge, then discovered it wasn't charging at all? The clock and %-charged shown in the center of the animonitor change to electric-blue if you're fast-charging, electric-violet if you're slow-charging, or shadows if you've lost external power. Optionally, the backlight pulsates while you're plugged in, and stops pulsating if you lose power -- this is easier to see from a distance.
There are also thermoflashers that indicate the battery temperature range, in case it overheats during charging or is still too cold for charging after being left in a cold car. (Charging when too hot or cold can reportedly cause damage and loss of capacity, and damaged batteries have been known to ignite).
When you plug in to a computer to transfer files or back up, the animonitor will not annoy you by activating immediately. It will wait the same length of time the display is set to wait before turning off due to inactivity, and then the animonitor will appear. If you dislike the phone's clock activating immediately, you can set the clock app not to auto-activate when charging, and use I Charge Cool instead, since it shows analog and digital time plus the day of the week and the date. The animonitor can be set to display its clock constantly instead of alternating with the charge %.
This is a simple app, it won't brew coffee for you while you're charging, but costs about as much as an average coffee, should make charging less annoying for you many times, and looks cooler than a dark screen or clock that's keeping the charging status a secret.
Would you buy your phone a coffee if it would ever after show you its charging status like this? If so, this app is for you. If not... think of cheaper coffee!


I had the chance to sit down with Coop Poppy and explore a little more about him as a person and an artist. He discusses his latest single, Sho'nuff, growing up in the city of Philadelphia and learning to express himself differently through music.
2x (two times) sheds some light on his upbringing in the city and what led him to his current position as an artist. He says he initially started making music solely for his neighborhood (just something to keep the hood motivated.) As his music grew, so did his fan base. The 26-year-old has tore down stages across the city and the nation.
Big $lime has been a very busy rapper, check out the interview above and follow Coop Poppy to stay in the loop with his latest releases.