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Monday Jan 17th 2011 |
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Мать у меня профессиональная коммунистка, всю жизнь проработала в горкоме и религия для нее была табу. Потом уже будучи на пенсии в перестроечные годы она решила все-таки приобщиться к религиозному дискурсу.
И началось.
- Так что же это получается? Они же там все были евреи?
- Да.
- И Христос был еврей?
- И он тоже.
- А православным тогда какое дело до этих еврейских разборок?
Вот что тут скажешь? Тем более что я сам атеист. Хорошо что есть верующие родственники. Матушка долго с ними общалась, что-то такое поняла. И опять пристала с вопросами: «Ты можешь мне человеческим языком объяснить, что там случилось и что мы празднуем?».
Я попытался пересказать ей новый завет в понятной терминологии.
- Вот представь, была Римская империя, вроде СССР.
- Понятно.
- А в ней была союзная республика Иудея.
- Ну вот уже по-человечески.
- Там был первый секретарь, по-ихнему первосвященник, Анна, как положено из местных. И зам у него был по оргпартработе – Каиафа. А второй секретарь, как положено был из центра, назывался прокуратор.
- Это Понтий Пилат который? И что они не могли сразу по-человечески написать! Ну и ?
- Ну и вот, был у них большой партийный праздник песах. Все готовятся, там отчетные собрания, торжественные доклады, все как обычно. А тут вдруг приезжает на осле какой-то диссидент. Деклассированные элементы ему осанну кричат. Нехорошо.
- Ага, поняла, это Христос значит. А в чем было его диссидентство?
- Ну, он выступал против формализма и начетничества.
- Ясно, волюнтарист!
- Ну типа того. Общественник Иуда доложил куда надо, Христа повязали, засунули в обезьянник, решили устроить показательный процесс.
- То есть гласность у них была!
- Контролируемая. Анна и Каиафа собрали пленум, стали решать как бороться с чуждыми проявлениями. Распять диссидента у них полномочий не было, санкция нужна была из центра, вот они и прошли ко второму секретарю Понтию Пилату. Говорят, давай распни диссидента этого, а то мы настучим, что ты провалил работу с местными кадрами.
- Да, эти баи в союзных республиках вечно так… Хорошо еще хоть спросили. Ну и дальше что?
- Понтий Пилат им говорит: не вешайте на меня своих диссидентов, идите к иудейскому предисполкома Ироду, он исполнительная власть, пусть и решает. Пошли к Ироду,тот отнекивается, дескать не моя юрисдикция и вообще у меня вон Иродиада хуже Галины Брежневой себя ведет, а тут вы еще.
- Надо же, все как у людей!
- В том и смысл. Ну вот, пошли опять к Пилату, тот дал наконец санкцию, но с оговорками, как обычно: «Я умываю руки, под вашу ответственность, я докладную напишу, перегибы на местах и т.д.» А Христа распяли.
- Ну вот теперь понятно!
- Ну слава богу!
- Нет, стой, непонятно!
- Что непонятно?
- Как это может быть чтобы первый секретарь был еврей?
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[220x61]Several years ago, Boeing was so worried about the sad state of air traffic management in the US and Europe that they actually thought it would adversely impact their customers to the point where they would end up buying fewer aircraft… This was the stated reason for the establishment of Boeing ATM, a new division that was supposed to bring the needed medicine for air traffic management world wide. The initiative was never the success story it could have been, in no small part because of the industry crisis that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Now it seems that Airbus has decided that there was money to be earned in air traffic management and they launched a new subsidiary company, called “Airbus ProSky”, dedicated to the development and support of modern air traffic management (ATM) systems. Airbus ProSky will become the channel through which Airbus will interact and develop ATM programs such as “Single European Sky ATM Research” (SESAR) in Europe, as well as NextGen in the US. In particular, for these two ATM programs, the new company will help accelerate and support the process of their implementation, and link them together by capitalizing on the technological, operational and commercial synergies.
Airbus ProSky will also contribute Airbus’ aviation expertise further afield for other nations by working with their Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), airworthiness authorities and airlines. This will help them achieve the common goal of transforming their ATM systems with the latest technologies and procedures, to achieve the highest operational efficiencies with more direct routings resulting in around 10 percent less aircraft fuel consumption, and significant reductions in CO2 and noise emissions.
The first such undertaking announced by Airbus ProSky was the recent MoU with Chinese authorities for cooperation in ATM, whereby Airbus ProSky will assist the Chinese Air Traffic Management Bureau (ATMB) with the introduction and implementation of new ATM concepts, airspace design, deployment support, training and best practices. Furthermore, authorities in other countries are also exploring the opportunities of working with Airbus ProSky to adopt the principles and know-how developed for ATM systems in Europe and the US.
Airbus ProSky will be led by a team of experienced executives from key disciplines and functions. Heading the team will be Eric Stefanello, President of Airbus ProSky and SVP of ATM at Airbus. He will be supported directly by Marc Hamy as VP of SESAR and NextGen Deployment. Hamy was formerly chief-of-staff for France’s Transport Minister and previously, CEO of the French Air Navigation Services.
“With Airbus ProSky we are harnessing the competencies both within Airbus and also from the wider EADS group, to help transform ATM services across the European Union, the US and other countries globally,” says Eric Stefanello, President of Airbus ProSky. “We are complementing the existing skills and business of ATM manufacturers and ANSPs by partnering with key industry players to deliver a global ATM approach, and bring operational, commercial, and environmental benefits to the airline industry,” he added.
Reading the aims of ProSky one cannot but draw comparisons with the aims as they were stated for Boeing ATM when it was launched. It will be interesting to
3-01-2011, in FAB News, by steve
[220x219]FABs may be the highest political priority for the European Commission and they certainly are the source of high flying political statements, but I still do not like them. Why? Well, the idea when it first came up was a good one. At the time, functional fragmentation of air traffic management in Europe was costing airspace users billions and in spite of all the projects being considered, there was little hope for structural reform.
In order to break the logjam, and fully aware that there was no hope for getting the whole of Europe to co-operate and create a single sky, the EC very pragmatically proposed that groups of States get together and create functional airspace blocks (FAB) along the lines of their ATM “interests”, optimizing and aligning procedures and services inside their FAB… This way, the argument went, at least there would be a single sky of sorts inside the FAB and later on the FABs themselves could be harmonized for a truly single European sky.
Pragmatic and logical as the idea may have been, it was not received by the ANSPs with open arms.
Delay followed delay and it was only when the EC brought all her regulatory might to bear that things started to move. Of course, this being Europe, the number of FABs grew like mushrooms and we ended up with an arrangement that in many places is painfully similar to the old FIR boundaries… That the designers of the FABs could not even agree where Central Europe was is shown by the surprising fact that there is a FAB Central Europe and a FAB Europe Central… explain that to a visitor from China.
Other than that, a few truly worrying developments are also becoming apparent. Centralized European flow management is being inexorably replaced by a concept of managing flows on the FAB level by the FABs themselves and relegating EUROCONTROL to managing the network… these are other words for a toothless tiger. Real power to do things is concentrated inside the FABs. Some of us will still remember how flow control was being done in the 70s. Exactly like this…
Another issue concerns the fundamental incompatibility between the SESAR Concept of Operations and the FAB concept. SESAR is a trajectory based concept, the FAB is a legacy, airspace based, approach. Had the FABs been established when they were first proposed, they would have provided a good basis for transition to the infinitely more advanced SESAR TBO (trajectory based operations). With all the delays caused by initial obfuscation, there is now a head-on collision between the two concepts. From the SESAR TBO perspective, the FABs represent the kind of airspace fragmentation they were supposed to eliminate. Politically charged as they are, SESAR will have a hard time getting rid of this baby that is arriving too late on the scene.
Having said this, of course even FABs will bring improvements and if handled properly, their transition (and disappearance…) under the