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Unit 13 (Game) Review
Released: 22nd February 2012
Publisher: Sony
Available on: Playstation Vita
Rating: PEGI 16
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Much is expected of Sony's new gaming handheld, the Vita, and especially its promise to provide console quality games on a portable, handheld device. First person shooters have never lent themselves to portable devices, mainly due to the need for two analogue sticks, so the Vita is perfectly placed to break the mould.
The first developer to attempt a first person shooter is Zipper Interactive, creators of the popular Socom series. Their skill at crafting fun, re-playable games is immediately apparent here as Unit 13 doesn't disappoint.
Once the game has loaded up, the first thing to grab attention is just how good this game looks. Its a very impressive feat for a handheld game to look close to a PS3 or 360 title, yet Unit 13 manages this. There are a variety of environments and missions ensuring the player doesn't get a feeling of deja-vu.
The missions themselves, or levels, are short but this doesn't harm the game in any way. Longevity is maintained well here as there are 36 missions to play through which can be tacked in different ways depending on the character selected. However, the game's real crowning glory is the re-playability which is extremely high. There are a number of challenges to face and different ways to confront the games levels, ensuring the need to go back just one more time to improve your rating.
There are a few niggles here and there, but all very minor and easily overlooked when considering the overall package. Overall a very polished title and if this is a sign of things to come on the Vita, then first person shooter fans have a lot to look forward to.
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El castillo de Burgos es una fortaleza situada en la ciudad española de Burgos. Se encuentra en la cumbre del cerro del Castillo, elevado 75 m sobre el nivel de la ciudad. La primera torre fue levantada por el conde Diego Porcelos en los tiempos de la Reconquista, en el año 884. Conforme fue aumentando la importancia del emplazamiento defensivo, se dio paso a un castillo y a elementos defensivos más complejos.

Características

Puertas

Recientes excavaciones arqueológicas han permitido descubrir los restos de la Puerta Sur. Se trata de un muro quebrado, abierto a un vano flanqueado por sendas torres de planta semicircular. La puerta principal, abierta en el frente noroccidental, dispone de un pasadizo en bóveda.

Pozo
Como parte del complejo subterráneo, el pozo (popularmente conocido como Cueva del Moro) cuenta con galerías de más de 300 m de longitud. Data de los siglos  y , aunque las primeras noticias se remontan a 1475, durante el asedio de las tropas de Isabel la Católica, episodio de la guerra de sucesión al trono, estando defendido por los partidarios de Juana la Beltraneja.

Es una obra de fábrica de sillería en piedra caliza, consistente en un cilindro hueco vertical que alcanza una profundidad de 62,50 m. Para poder acceder se construyen 6 husillos o cilindros verticales de 1,40 m de diámetro interior.

Otros elementos
Patio de armas, restos de la torre del Homenaje, tumbas antropomorfas, diversas estancias y pavimentos de piedra.

Historia

Existen pruebas de asentamientos del Neolítico, Calcolítico, Edad del Bronce y la Primera Edad del Hierro en el cerro del Castillo y en el cerro de San Miguel, relieves desde los cuales se domina la ciudad y el valle del Arlanzón.

Sin embargo el nacimiento del castillo está estrechamente relacionado con la fundación de Burgos. Tras estos inicios en tiempos del conde Diego Rodríguez Porcelos, la importancia creciente de la ciudad exigió la construcción de una gran fortaleza, cuyo perímetro está perfectamente documentado. Los viajeros medievales relatan unánimemente la sensación de fuerza y de seguridad que ofrecía. Probablemente durante el reinado de Alfonso VIII de Castilla se produce la primera gran transformación, participando expertos alarifes al gusto mudéjar de la época. El rey castellano Enrique IV emprende la segunda reforma, fundamentalmente de embellecimiento, con objeto de transformarlo en palacio: salones, aposentos y capilla.

Castillo Real

El conocido como palacio de Alfonso X fue habitado por Juan II de Castilla y también por su padre Enrique III de Castilla.

Disputas con la ciudad
Nunca fueron buenos amigos la ciudad y el castillo, pero se soportaron durante siglos. Fernando el Católico lo asedia en la guerra contra Juana la Beltraneja. El cerco lo inicia en agosto de 1474 y dura hasta enero de 1476. En este período se libraron algunos de los combates más feroces de su historia, siendo uno de los objetivos cortar el agua a los sitiados, de modo que los minadores trabajaron con la doble finalidad de interceptar el pozo y volar los muros, tal como señala Luciano Serrano.

Presos insignes

El castillo de Burgos fue utilizado como cárcel de Estado, estando ocupada por los reyes García de Galicia y Alfonso VI de León, así como por Tomás de Gournay, asesino del rey Eduardo II de Inglaterra.

En 1277, según refieren los Anales del reinado de Alfonso X, fue ejecutado en el castillo de Burgos el infante Fadrique de Castilla, hijo de Fernando III el Santo, por orden de su hermano Alfonso X el Sabio, quien ordenó ejecutar al mismo tiempo a Simón Ruiz de los Cameros, señor de los Cameros y yerno del infante Fadrique de Castilla. La versión que proporcionan los Anales del reinado de Alfonso X, posteriores a la Crónica de Alfonso X, de la ejecución del infante Fadrique, es la siguiente:

Posteriormente, y después de haber permanecido varios años en un lugar indigno, los restos mortales del infante Fadrique de Castilla fueron trasladados en 1282, y por orden de su sobrino Sancho IV el Bravo, al desaparecido convento de la Santísima Trinidad de Burgos, que fue demolido en el siglo .

Fábrica de pólvora

Durante la Edad Moderna y por causa tanto de la evolución de las técnicas militares, como por la lejanía de los escenarios bélicos, pierde su antigua función defensiva. En su recinto se asentó durante el siglo  la primera escuela de formación para artilleros que ha habido en España, llegando a fabricar veinte quintales de pólvora diarios en 1542. Se trataba de actividades secundarias.

Destrucción

Un incendio acaecido en 1736 supuso la destrucción del interior, viguerías, techumbres y artesonados. Durante la Guerra de la Independencia la ciudad recuperó su posición estratégica y los franceses procedieron a un efímero acondicionamiento que supuso una importante transformación del recinto.

Con la invasión napoleónica los soldados franceses, se cuenta que fue el mismo Napoleón el que escoge la posición, establecen en el mismo su batería imperial. Entre septiembre y octubre de 1812 el castillo fue el centro protagonista del asedio de Burgos dirigido por las tropas angloportuguesas de Arthur Wellesley (futuro duque de Wellington), quien tenía su base de operaciones en un palacio situado en Villatoro. Entre los oficiales británicos que perdieron la vida en las operaciones bélicas se encontraba un estrecho colaborador de Wellesley, el mayor Edward Charles Cocks. Durante este asedio, los franceses volaron la iglesia de San Román.

Con la retirada de los franceses en junio de 1813, el castillo es testigo de los últimos preparativos que el contingente realiza antes de su marcha definitiva. Allí trabajan para hacer desaparecer cualquier material, bélico o documental, que pudiera serle útil al enemigo; el procedimiento elegido es volar la fortaleza. La hacen saltar por los aires sin dar tiempo a la evacuación de los últimos soldados. Más de doscientos militares franceses mueren en la explosión, que estremece a toda la población.

La iglesia de Santa María la Blanca queda destruida; se pierde buena parte de las vidrieras de la catedral y se producen daños en el antepecho de la torre del crucero; así como en la iglesia de San Esteban. Además, en la chopera del Carmen se localizan bastantes cadáveres de soldados franceses.

Siglos  y
Durante el resto del siglo  fue utilizado esporádicamente durante las guerras carlistas. Eduardo de Oliver Copons escribió a finales del siglo  un libro sobre la fortificación. El castillo también se usó a lo largo de la guerra civil de 1936, instalándose allí la defensa antiaérea de la ciudad.

Telégrafo óptico
El castillo de Burgos tuvo una importancia clave en el sistema de comunicaciones mediante telégrafo óptico ideado en España en el siglo . En la provincia de Burgos aún se conservan restos, en diversos estados de conservación, de las numerosas torres que se construyeron para comunicar el centro de la península con el norte. El castillo de Burgos fue la posición 27 de la Línea de Castilla que comunicaba Madrid con Irún.

Estado actual y visitas
Hoy en día el entorno del castillo es un parque de recreo con calles dedicadas a poetas. La reconstrucción parcial de la fortaleza ha permitido su habilitación como centro de interpretación (abierto al público en 2003) pudiendo visitarse también el pozo y las galerías subterráneas, conocidas como Cueva del Moro.

Las visitas se realizan de forma autoguiada, salvo en lo que se refiere al itinerario subterráneo, que se lleva a cabo en grupos reducidos y siempre acompañados por un guía que explica el recorrido.

Museo Arqueológico
En los años 1996 a 2003 se desarrolló el proyecto y ejecución del Museo Arqueológico en el Castillo de Burgos realizado por los arquitectos Marian Álvarez-Buylla y Joaquín Ibáñez Montoya. El proyecto respeta los principios de actuación sobre el patrimonio de las cartas internacionales de restauro, un pabellón que protege y que a su vez es desmontable sin interferir con la construcción original existente.

Véase también

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

 Vista aérea muy detallada en Wikimapia
 Historia en Piedra: Ep1 Fundación de Burgos y evolución del castillo
 El castillo de Burgos. Fortaleza, parque y mirador
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Castillos de Castilla y León del siglo IX
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Mr. Norvel S. Cason
March 28, 1944 - August 13, 2018
ATTLEBORO- Norvel S. Cason, 74, of Attleboro, passed away after a long and hard fought battle with prostate cancer, on the morning of Monday, August 13, 2018, at his home with his devoted wife of 49 years by his side. He was the dedicated and beloved husband to Edna (Jones) Cason of Attleboro, whom he happily married on April 5, 1969. Born on March 28, 1944, in Lakeland, Florida, Norvel was the dear son of the late Robert and Albertha (Cole) Cason. Norvel was the proud recipient of a full scholarship to McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, NY, where graduated in 1961. After high school, he attended Howard University where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering, graduating in 1967. In 1987, Norvel graduated from Suffolk University with his Masters of Science degree. Following his many years of hard work and education, Norvel enlisted in the United States Air Force as a commissioned officer. He served 4 years, obtaining the officer rank of Captain. During his time in the service, Norvel put his engineering background to use. He was respectfully assigned to NASA where he worked on experiments conducted on the Moon for the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969. He served from 1969, until his honorable discharge in 1973. Following his time in the service, Norvel worked as a software engineer for several companies including Harte Hanks, Chase Bank, Polaroid, Interactive Data and Gillette. A man of deep faith, Norvel was very active in his church. He was a parishioner at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Norton, where he held many positions and volunteered much of his time. While he was at St. Mary's, he was a CCD teacher for over 20 years, a Lector during Mass, a Eucharistic Minister, he served on the Church Council, and he was also a valued member of the Knights of Columbus Council #11690, where he rose to the level of 3rd Degree Knight. Norvel also enjoyed lending a helping hand at the National Shrine of Our Lady La Salette in Attleboro. At La Sallete, he was also a regular volunteer as an usher during the Christmas Bazaar and on youth retreats as well. In his spare time, Norvel enjoyed tinkering with old electronic equipment. He also truly treasured every moment spent with his family and friends. In addition to his wife, Norvel is survived by his cherished daughter, Kareen (Cason) Blake and her husband Karl; his grandchildren, Kaleb and Kayla Blake; his sister, Aloma Cason of Rochester, NY; his aunt, Amerine Douse of Rochester, NY; his cousins, Sharyn Cole of Auburndale, FL and Keith Douse of Rochester, NY; also many friends and extended family members. He is predeceased by his parents. Norvel's family and friends would like to graciously express thanks to his sister-in-law, Sandrel (Jones) Webster for her great support and gift of presence during Norvel's final days. They would also like to recognize Deacon Paul Kline and also the Prayer Group from St. Mary's Church Norton, for all of their prayers and thoughts during Norvel's battle with cancer. Lastly, they would like to acknowledge Old Colony Hospice Care Team for taking such good care of him and making his last few weeks so comfortable. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a visitation on Sunday, August 19, 2018 from 3 to 6 p.m. in the Duffy-Poule Funeral Home, 20 Peck St., Attleboro. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, August 20, 2018 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Church, 1 Power Street, Norton. Burial with military honors will take place privately at the Massachusetts National Cemetery, Connery Ave., Bourne. In lieu of flowers, donations in Norvel's memory may be made to the Capital Campaign, St. Mary's Church, Norton, MA 02766.
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Carnivores eye US cities
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No, this article isn't about the post-apocalyptic world of the Walking Dead. However, urban coyotes and other large carnivores are currently eyeing US cities as a possible site for food and shelter.
Indeed, scientists have located the smallest known coyote territory ever observed about five miles from Chicago O'Hare International Airport. According to Stan Gehrt, an associate professor of environment and natural resources at Ohio State University, the coyote community has maintained its existence within about a third of a square mile for at least 6 years.
"That's an indication that they don't have to go far to find food and water. They're finding everything they need right there, in the suburbs of Chicago. Frankly, it amazes me, as coyotes are the largest of the mammalian carnivores to have made their way to, and thrived in, urban settings," Gehrt explained.
"The coyote is the test case for other animals. Raccoons, skunks, foxes – they've already been able to penetrate the urban landscape pretty well. The coyote is the most recent and largest. The jury's out with what's going to happen with the bigger ones."
As Gehrt notes, the bigger ones include wolves, bears and mountain lions, with the latter species having been observed on the fringes of cities already – and one recently shot near the Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago.
Since the tracking of urban coyotes kicked off in 2000, Gehrt and his team have captured and placed radio collars on about 680 coyotes, with 50 or 60 being tracked at any one time. He estimates that about 2,000 coyotes live in the Chicago metro area, along with 9 million people in some 250 separate municipalities. At times, this co-existence can cause uneasiness among humans. But by Gehrt's estimation, all species of urban dwellers are probably going to have to get used to it.
"It used to be rural areas where we would have this challenge of coexistence versus conflict with carnivores. In the future, and I would say currently, it's cities where we're going to have this intersection between people and carnivores," he said.
"We used to think only little carnivores could live in cities, and even then we thought they couldn't really achieve large numbers. But we're finding that these animals are much more flexible than we gave them credit for and they're adjusting to our cities. That's going to put the burden back on us: Are we going to be able to adjust to them living with us or are we not going to be able to coexist?"
Gehrt also noted that the tricky part of any government-sponsored eradication program is the question of cost versus benefit. For example, when the study began in 2000, several communities around Chicago trapped and killed coyotes found within their boundaries. However, Gehrt estimates that only 10 percent of communities have such programs in place now.
"I think those programs will go away, too. It costs money, and it upsets some residents who want coyotes living there. So there is conflict, cost and lack of effectiveness.
"We have great data in areas where removal was done. You pull them out, and literally within just a few weeks, new coyotes moved in and set up a new pack and began reproducing right away."
Gehrt points out that the encroachment goes both ways. Humans have not been a predominantly urban species for all that long worldwide, though about 80 percent of US residents live in cities. One reason humans flocked to cities was to get away from the risks associated with living near wild carnivores.
"The funny thing is that now we have more people on earth and bigger cities than ever, we also now have carnivores moving into cities. It's a two-way street: We're expanding cities into their territories and they're also coming in," he said.
"We are the only thing slowing their population down, either with our cars, which is the No. 1 cause of death for coyotes, or when we remove them through hunting or control programs. None of the diseases they're exposed to really impact them at all."
Finally, Gehrt emphasized that under typical circumstances coyotes are not prone to attack humans.
"For those people who see a coyote and do feel threatened, waving one's arms and yelling, or even throwing a rock in its direction, will very likely scare the animal away… You're doing them a favor. They show a healthy respect and fear of people and that's the way it should be," he added.
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Robots pull bins from shelves in a 7,500-foot automated storage and retrieval system at a microfulfillment site in Brooklyn, N.Y. VIDEO: Gabriela Bhaskar for The Wall Street Journal
Smaller Is Big in New E-Commerce Warehouses
An intricate dance by robots turns tight urban spaces into 'microfulfillment' centers for online orders
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Nov. 8, 2020 8:00 am ET
A robot army is doing training drills in a narrow warehouse by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Behind loading-dock doors covered in graffiti, the chunky metal machines navigate a 23-foot-tall structure stacked with blue plastic bins, sliding up, down and across metal racks as they select bins and move them to the warehouse floor. Down below, dozens of low-slung, mobile robots that resemble Roomba vacuums sweep along to move the bins to stations where human workers will finally get their hands on the goods.
The intricate dance, choreographed by software and executed with automation, powers a strategy known as microfulfillment. It is aimed at speeding up the delivery of goods to consumers in cities through operations that pack large numbers of products into tight, urban spaces.
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The sites are far smaller than the typical sprawling, labor-intensive distribution centers in remote industrial parks, and they are becoming a new focus for retailers adjusting to the dizzying changes in consumer markets. Some merchants had been testing compact fulfillment sites in recent years, but the rush to online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating moves toward space-saving, automation-powered warehouses.
By squeezing those operations into urban warehouses and the backs of stores, businesses hope to pare delivery times so online orders reach their destinations in hours, not days.
Bins are stored at a microfulfillment center in Brooklyn, N.Y., operated by Fabric.
The site in Brooklyn, a former depot for New York City street vendors, is dominated by the 7,500-square-foot automated storage and retrieval system from U.S.-Israeli robotics provider Fabric, which also will run the facility when it goes live next year.
Fabric co-founder and Chief Executive Elram Goren said companies storing goods at the site should be able to get orders picked and packed in five minutes or less with only a handful of workers.
"We're looking at a very small number of people," Mr. Goren said. A smaller system in Tel Aviv with four operators can process as many as 1,000 orders a day, he said.
Fabric plans to open another site in Long Island City in Queens next year, with the aim of adding another two in New York City to form an urban logistics network that could serve multiple brands or retailers.
A worker grabs products from bins at the Fabric-operated microfulfillment center in Brooklyn.
Most microfulfillment operations are still being tested, but the strategy is gaining interest as grocery chains and other retailers scramble to meet rising e-commerce demand during the pandemic. The market for automated grocery microfulfillment centers is estimated to be worth $1.2 billion by 2024, according to market-research firm Interact Analysis.
Texas-based grocer H-E-B LP is working with warehouse technology provider Swisslog Holding AG to install several automated microfulfillment systems that will support the chain's curbside pickup and delivery business, Swisslog said in September.
The microfulfillment structures, from robotics company AutoStore, are essentially giant cubes packed with bins that sit on atop one another, with the most commonly selected items on top for faster access. Robots travel across the top of the cube, digging out bins and delivering them to stations where workers assemble the orders.
The key is storing the products in spaces only robots, not humans, can reach.
There is no vertical airspace between bins and only about 6 inches of space between stacks, said Mitch Hayes, vice president of e-commerce and retail for Swisslog Americas. Grocery installations typically include three different sections: one for room-temperature products, another for cooler items and a manual picking area for fast-moving goods.
Swisslog said it has installed more than 200 AutoStore systems globally, with a growing number in microfulfillment centers for third-party logistics providers, manufacturers and retailers.
A mobile robot scans QR codes as it carries a bin.
Grocery chain Albertsons Cos. and retailer Walmart Inc. are among the companies testing various automated systems from providers such as Takeoff Technologies Inc. Fabric is also building a 10,000-square-foot site for online grocer FreshDirect LLC and planning another facility in Dallas that would be about 40,000 square feet and fill both grocery and general merchandise orders.
Nongrocery retailers have been slower to embrace the concept, industry experts say.
One exception is Nordstrom Inc. Last fall, the department-store operator installed robotics systems at two California warehouses to sort outbound parcels and store and retrieve inventory vertically. The automation takes up less space than traditional distribution and reduces the number of steps human workers take.
"It allows us to get product to our customers faster," Ngoc Phan, Nordstrom's vice president of supply chain systems and engineering, said last year in an interview.
For grocers coping with surging online demand during the pandemic, the technology offers a faster return on investment than larger robotics-equipped warehouses while allowing retailers to fill orders more quickly than they can with human workers walking store aisles, said Tom Enright, a vice president analyst covering supply chain and retail fulfillment at research firm Gartner Inc.
"You're able to do a lot more baskets and have a later cutoff," Mr. Enright said. "You could get an order at 12 noon and get it on their doorstep by 3 or 4 p.m. or earlier."
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Appeared in the November 9, 2020, print edition as 'Robots Help Shrink Warehouses.'
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Even the most alert readers are having trouble decoding the mixed messages heard at the recent policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the famed pro-Israel lobbying organization. We watched the crowned heads of Washington and Jerusalem rise to proclaim the undying friendship between our two nations and then bicker over the most basic questions while 7,000 citizen-lobbyists looked on in uncomfortable silence. Should friends keep their disagreements private? Should Israel freeze all construction over the 1967 border? And when the secretary of state shows up at the most influential Jewish convention of the year and delivers a scolding, should the audience sit silent?
Others will offer political, psychological, even religious explanations of the Lobby. We're going to look at the physics of the thing. It's not an easy concept to grasp, but it's important. It's the key that unlocks all the other impenetrables.
It's a lot like the physics you learned in high school, but with less math. Also, there's no test.
The fundamental principle of AIPAC — the First Law of the Lobby, as it were — is that like bodies attract. At least, they should. AIPAC's first duty is to make sure they do, using its weight and energy to keep the like bodies, the American and Israeli governments, closely aligned.
The Second Law of the Lobby is that unlike bodies repel. And so AIPAC's second main duty is to repel bodies it doesn't like, to shield Israel resolutely from its enemies, to tell the world just whom we're dealing with.
Applying these principles to the actions of nations and governments, we get the Lobby's Laws of Motion. When the American and Israeli governments are aligned, moving in the same direction and diligently repelling enemies, as they were during the Republican-Likud years of Ronald Reagan and Yitzhak Shamir, or under George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon, considerable energy is generated. AIPAC is then a body at rest, sizzling with potential energy.
When the two nations' joint movement is not toward waging war but extending the hand in peace — as in the Clinton-Rabin years — the outcome is slightly different. AIPAC approves, but it becomes unsettled and bored. Its stored-up potential energy is dissipated in random spurts as it casts around for someone to pick a fight with or to threaten with an aid cut-off. These motions create friction, generating heat in Jerusalem. Israel doesn't like it when it's trying to lower the barriers around it and finds AIPAC putting them back up.
Far more heat is generated when America is trying to lower the barriers separating old enemies and Israel isn't ready. AIPAC then directs all available force against Washington to restore its alignment with Israel. This is best illustrated by the presidency of the elder George "Lonely Little Guy Against Powerful Political Forces" Bush and his secretary of state, James "F!@*k the Jews, They Don't Vote for Us Anyway" Baker. They tried to push Israel irresistibly into peace negotiations with the Palestinians but ran up against Israel's immovable Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. When Bush came to shove, AIPAC pushed back. The collision released explosive energy, and within a year both Bush and Shamir had fallen from power.
Given those rules, we should expect that the current confrontation between the Obama administration in Washington and the Netanyahu government in Jerusalem would be a replay of the Bush-Shamir smackdown. We should expect to be seeing the same mobilization of Jews around the country, the same angry rhetoric at AIPAC's national gathering, the same flood of donations from around the country into the coffers of the president's opponents. But that's not happening this time.
Why not? Again, it's physics. When Newton's apple fell on his head, the force of impact was a factor of mass and velocity — that is, how heavy the apple was and how fast it was falling. The speed of the fall, of course, is determined by the distance the apple travels. But impact is also affected by other factors that aren't in Newton's equations. The shape of the falling object can affect the amount of air resistance, or what aviators call "drag." So can weather conditions: Humidity and barometric pressure can make the air thicker and harder to slice through.
The same principles apply to AIPAC. A president who's just won a historic victory by passing health care reform, succeeding where other presidents have failed for a century, has a lot of momentum going for him. He's barreling forward at high speed. Stopping him would require a daunting amount of force. On top of that, it's hard to mount a credible threat, such as backing the opposition in the midterm elections this fall. It's hard to mobilize Jews to back Republicans under the best of circumstances, and well-nigh impossible when the Republican field is as full of creationists and tea-partiers as today's GOP. The shape of the GOP creates resistance.
At the same time, the global environment isn't as favorable for stiff Israeli resistance as it was in Shamir's day. Israel is more isolated in 2010 and more dependent on American support. Its claim that it doesn't have a credible Palestinian partner has fewer takers. And there's a growing sense of urgency. Time is running out on the two-state solution, because of changes in demography as well as land-use. Impatience over the deadlock and fear of what might come next are growing, on the Arab street, in Western capitals and even in the Pentagon.
Israel and its allies don't operate in a vacuum. They're subject to the same natural laws of motion and force as everyone else.
This story "Understanding the Physics of AIPAC" was written by J.J. Goldberg.