IT House reported on November 13th that HP seems to be developing a brand-new folding device. Judging from the current patent map, its shape is quite different from Spectre Fold released last year. HP stopped using the "Spectre" brand earlier this year.

　　The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published a 16-page patent document submitted by HP. The document was submitted in April 2021, but it was not officially made public until November this year. The document describes a foldable device in detail, which adopts flexible display screen, hinge and spring mechanism and can be folded into a compact shape.

　　As can be seen from the patent drawing, the device adopts a "three-fold screen" design, which can fold both sides of the screen inward to form a more compact shape, which is more "extreme" than the folding method of Spectre Fold.

　　Hewlett-Packard said in the patent document: "The progress of flexible flat panel display technology, especially the development of rollable display screen, makes it possible to manufacture thinner and more portable products."

　　It is worth noting that HP has abandoned traditional brands such as Spectre, Pavilion and Envy this year, and launched brand-new Omni and Elite brands, which are aimed at consumers and enterprises respectively. Spectre Fold, launched last year, is a 17-inch folding screen laptop with a price as high as $4,999.99 (Note from IT House: currently about RMB 36,189), equipped with Intel Core i7-1250U processor, 16GB memory and 1TB solid state drive.

　　It is worth mentioning that Huawei has previously launched the world’s first three-fold mobile phone Mate X, and Samsung has also applied for a three-fold mobile phone patent.

Hamas’s rocket attack led to Israeli troops sending troops to retaliate.

The fuse of this round of large-scale conflict between Palestine and Israel was buried as early as a few months ago. On April 23rd, Fatah led by Abbas reached a settlement with Hamas. Since then, Palestine and Israel have been at odds. From the beginning of the year to mid-March, Hamas fired at least 60 rockets into Israel (note: see attached table), and Israel, fed up with it, attacked northern Gaza on June 11th, causing many Palestinian casualties, thus escalating the retaliatory actions of both sides.

On the evening of June 12, three Jewish seminary students disappeared while hitchhiking near Hebron in southern Israel. On June 14th, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the missing teenagers were "kidnapped by terrorist organizations". On that night, Israeli warplanes launched air strikes on various targets in Gaza. The next morning, the Israeli army went out again and arrested about 150 Palestinians, including Hassan Youssef, an important leader of Hamas. The regional situation suddenly became tense, and Hamas continued to launch rockets into Israel, thus opening the curtain of a new round of conflict between Palestine and Israel.

On June 30th, Israel discovered the remains of the missing teenagers. From July 1st, the armed forces of the army, navy and air force went into battle to attack Gaza. On July 8, Israel launched the "Blade of Defense" military operation. On the evening of July 17th, a large number of Israeli ground troops moved into Gaza, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict entered a white-hot stage of hand-to-hand combat.

Hamas beat Gaza civilians and forced them to act as "human shields"

When Israel launched the ground war, it happened that Flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine, which invisibly covered the Israeli army’s actions. Although the Israeli army will distribute leaflets, call or send text messages to inform Palestinian civilians to evacuate in advance before air strikes or attacks, according to foreign media reports on July 25th, Hamas beat and intimidated residents who tried to leave the war zone, forced them to return to their residences as "human shields" and hid rocket launchers in densely populated residential areas, hospitals, schools and mosques. "The enemy wants us to fire at these targets and hurt innocent bystanders, thus putting us under international pressure," said Major Delaur, an Israeli army spokesman.

After all, the war is ruthless. As of August 2, more than 1,600 Palestinians have been killed and 9,000 injured in Gaza, 70% of them are civilians. On the other hand, 63 soldiers and 3 civilians in Israel have died or disappeared, and more than 160 people have been injured. Although Egypt has allowed the Palestinian wounded to go to Egyptian hospitals for treatment, and foreign aid and doctors can also enter Gaza through the country, the life of Gaza residents is still very difficult. Some towns are cut off from water and electricity for 20 hours every day, and more than 460,000 people have fled their homes, about half of whom have temporarily taken refuge in 61 shelters built by the United Nations.

After four Middle East wars, Israel abandoned expansion and turned to defense.

It is regrettable that Israeli military actions have caused a large number of civilian casualties. However, the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict this time is mainly due to Hamas’s constant harassment of Israel and its infiltration into Israel to carry out kidnapping and assassination, which has caused Israel to suffer.

It has been more than 66 years since Israel became independent on May 14th, 1948, and its founding time is longer than that of most countries in the world. As a normal country that has been recognized by more than 80% of the United Nations member states (note: including the five permanent members), the security concerns of Israel and its eight million citizens should be respected.

Moreover, after the end of the fourth Middle East War in 1973, high-level reflection on historical lessons has gradually abandoned the expansion policy and adopted a new strategy of "peaceful negotiation+active defense". For example, in 2006, Israel attacked southern Lebanon in retaliation for the cross-border Hezbollah armed forces, and it took only more than three months from the start to the evacuation. At the same time, Israel invested billions of dollars to build a separation wall with a total length of more than 600 kilometers on the Palestinian-Israeli, Lebanese-Israeli and Egyptian-Israeli borders, and deployed the "Iron Dome" rocket interception system at home, which further highlighted the conservatism of its defense policy. Israel hopes that the Palestinian-controlled areas will develop independently and replace the bloody struggle with peaceful competition.

Hamas used tunnels to provoke the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to divert people’s dissatisfaction.

However, Hamas has been in power in Gaza for eight years, and his "clean government" has been accused by 57% of Gaza residents of "widespread corruption". Senior officials in Hamas sold land and embezzled at least $800 million from banks. Their members went to luxury houses, while Audi, Porsche, Hummer and other famous cars went out. A few privileged people made a fortune through smuggling, but 70% of the residents were struggling under the poverty line, and the unemployment rate was as high as 30%. In addition, Hamas’s support for a radical faction of the Syrian opposition has led to Iran’s suspension of its monthly aid of 20 million US dollars, and Egypt has also strengthened border control, which has sharply reduced the smuggling income of the former (note: 700 million US dollars per year).

Faced with the rising discontent among the people, Hamas tried to provoke the Palestinian-Israeli conflict again to pass on the internal contradictions. Especially after Israel began to build the separation wall in 2003, Hamas dug dozens of tunnels leading to Israel and connected them into a network. According to the photos, some tunnels in Hamas are "exquisite in workmanship", and the walls and tops on both sides are made of thick cement slabs, and the top is also built into an arch coupon structure with certain seismic performance. The pipes covered with plastic sheaths are stretched regularly on the walls, and the ground is paved with simple rails that can be used by carts. People are so big that they are not humbled when standing in the tunnels.

It is said that Hamas has moved many rocket launchers, equipment repair shops, ammunition depots and command centers underground to avoid Israeli air strikes, and from time to time, it has sent armed men with light weapons, sedatives and handcuffs to sneak into Israel to launch attacks. On June 25th, 2006, a number of Israeli militants kidnapped 19-year-old Israeli sentry Shah Park Jung Su through an 800-meter-long tunnel, eventually forcing Gaza to exchange 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for the latter. Therefore, Israel hates the Hamas tunnel, and will try to get rid of it quickly.

The Israeli army’s "air strikes to clear the way and the cooperation of the three armed forces" focused on tunneling.

According to the division of "areas of responsibility", the Israeli Southern Command usually directs Gaza’s operations, and this "Defence Blade" is no exception. Under the command, there are 80 divisions and 643 divisions (note: also known as Gaza Division), as well as three reserve armored divisions, including 252 divisions and 366 divisions, and some directly affiliated units of military regions, with a standing force of about 25,000 to 30,000. Shortly after the operation "Blade of Defense" began, Israel quickly recruited about 86,000 reserve officers and soldiers, and assembled hundreds of Merkava MK4 main battle tanks, M109 self-propelled artillery and zadar armored personnel carriers at the border.

In terms of specific tactics, the Israeli army followed the tactics of "air strikes to clear the way, ground follow-up, and coordination among the three armed forces". First, it dispatched F-16 and F-15 fighter planes, and bombed thousands of Hamas targets in Gaza City, Shezai in the east, Shati in the north, Khan Younis in the south and Deir Ballach in the middle (note: including rocket launchers, At the same time, Israeli helicopter gunships and fighter planes also launched a large number of Hellfire and Spike -ER missiles, destroying buildings where the enemy might be hiding and supporting ground operations. In addition, the Israeli army sends more than 10 unmanned aerial vehicles around Gaza for reconnaissance every day, so as to obtain battlefield information in time and reduce accidental injuries to civilians. Israeli warships also patrol the offshore of Gaza, monitoring and shelling offshore targets.

After the ground war started, the Israeli army first set off from Kisufim military base near the central border of Gaza and went straight into Gaza along Highway 242. The primary goal was to search for and destroy the Hamas tunnel in the border area. The first Israeli ground troops to enter Gaza were probably the aforementioned Gaza Division, which has been ordered to defend Jewish settlements in Gaza since 1967. On July 17th, 13 Hamas militants crossed the tunnel and tried to attack the Sufa port in Israel, but were defeated by the Israeli army.

Attacking Hamas stronghold with elite special forces suffered heavy losses.

In the following days, the Israeli army expanded the scope of its attack, aiming at Gaza City, the core stronghold of Hamas. During this process, the Nahar Infantry Brigade under the Central Command was also ordered to fight in Beit Hanoun, north of Gaza, and the Gorani Infantry Brigade, known as the elite (note: under the Northern Command), took on the heavy responsibility of attacking Shezai. From the map, Shezai, located in the east of Gaza, is the gateway of the former. If the Israeli army wants to take Gaza directly, it must first take this place. It is also known that Shezai is not only hiding the leadership of Hamas, but also an important rocket launching position, and many tunnels have been dug, and the former command post is also hidden here.

From July 20th, Israeli mechanized infantry attacked Shezai under the cover of artillery fire, while Hamas militants who fought to the death tried to stop Israeli tanks and armored vehicles with mines and roadside bombs. On the day of the war, the Golani Brigade suffered heavy losses because of its opponent’s "anti-tank missiles, RPG attacks and heavy machine guns hidden in the building". As many as 13 soldiers were killed (note: 7 people were ambushed in armored vehicles, and 6 others died in street fighting), one was missing (note: the 20-year-old Israeli sergeant named Allen Saul was allegedly captured by Hamas), and even the brigade commander Lasan Alien was attacked by enemy RPG rockets, and his head was hit.

In the evening, the reinforcements of Hamas armed men took advantage of the cover of darkness to enter Shezai through the tunnel and continued to fight the next day. Despite the surge in casualties, Netanyahu warned his people to "prepare for a protracted war" and "the war will stop only when all the secret tunnels used to kill Israeli civilians are destroyed."

The number of times the Israeli army destroyed 3,200 target fighters increased fourfold.

Since 1987, there have been seven large-scale armed conflicts between Palestine and Israel. According to the relevant data, the interval and duration of the previous conflicts have been greatly shortened (Click on the picture), on the one hand, it highlights that the contradiction between Palestine and Israel is becoming more and more acute with the passage of time, on the other hand, it shows that Israel is increasingly inclined to use the "blitzkrieg" of "quick victory" to weaken the anti-Israeli forces. It is worth noting that the number of Palestinian casualties in previous conflicts has also shown an overall rapid upward trend (Click on the picture), reflecting Israel’s impatient revenge mentality of "excessive defense" because of the fruitless pursuit of "absolute security", and the Palestinian-Israeli contradiction has thus fallen into a vicious circle of violence against violence.

According to the figures released by Israel, from July 8 to 22, the Israeli army bombed 3,200 targets in the Gaza. According to the calculation of the "Cast Lead" operation in 2009, the Israeli army dispatched about 700 sorties of various fighters and destroyed more than 500 targets in 10 days. In the 15 days after the start of the "Blade of Defense" operation, the Israeli army dispatched about 4,500 sorties of various fighters (note: fighters accounted for 90%).

Hamas launches 1,600 rockets in 10 days to hit high-value targets.

On the other hand, Hamas is not to be outdone. In 2009, it launched 616 rockets in two weeks, with an average of 44 rockets per day. This time, since July 8, Hamas has launched more than 1,600 rockets into Israel in just 10 days, with an average of 160 rockets per day, and the attack intensity is also four times as high as before. It is worth noting that Hamas not only successfully interfered with civil aviation traffic, but also targeted some "high-value targets", such as air bases and nuclear facilities in central and southern China. This time, the two sides can be described as "blood".

By July 30th, the Israeli military had killed and wounded more than 500 Israeli militants, discovered more than 30 secret tunnels and 36 shafts, and destroyed and consumed 40% of Hamas’s rocket stocks. In the battle, the Israeli army once encountered an opponent attacking with a donkey tied with explosives, and also met Hamas militants pretending to be injured and asking for help, waiting for an opportunity to throw grenades at the Israeli soldiers who arrived. The disparity in weapons and equipment between Palestine and Israel and the "doing whatever it takes" to destroy their opponents can be seen.

Both Israelis and Hamas know that this war cannot go on forever. Especially for Hamas, its real purpose is to use the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to pressure Egypt to open the Rafah port bordering Gaza, thus alleviating its own predicament. The Sethi regime also has the sincerity and motivation to promote a ceasefire in terms of enhancing international prestige, striving for external assistance, and stabilizing the domestic situation (note: especially the Sinai Peninsula). As mentioned earlier, the Egyptian border blockade has been partially lifted, and the conditions and time for Hamas to accept the ceasefire are gradually taking shape. However, as long as the Palestinians and Israelis still firmly believe that "power and force can bring security and even victory", lasting peace in this bloody land is doomed not to come.

References:

1. Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/hamass-corruption.

2. Associated Press:

http://hosted2.ap.org/ORBEN/07e34bb59e064cedb7e2776e8db4b4f7/Article_2014-07-18-ML–Israel-Palestinians/id-e340748d597e4d5fb5e3aa8f3da11eab

3. Israeli intelligence website "Debock Archives": www.debka.co.il

4. The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/category/breaking-news/Gaza-crisis/

5. Washington post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/21/how-hamas-uses-its-tunnels-to-kill-and-capture-israeli-soldiers/

6. CNN website: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/17/world/meat/middle east-crisis/index.html.

On April 25th, the first car of Geely Holding Group’s Jiyue brand-Jiyue 07 was officially released, and it is planned to be officially listed in the second half of the year. Extreme Yue 07 maintains the style of the concept car in design, the center of the front enclosed grille is dotted with the brand logo, and through-going daytime running lights and similar "triangle" headlights are used, and the overall style is similar to that of Extreme Yue 01.

Extreme Yue 07 continues the family-style door handle design without a car, and adopts a push-button electric door. The front of the car is equipped with the most integrated interactive smart headlights, which integrate interactive AI pixel lights, far and near light/steering/daily travel/position lamp. The rear of the car is equipped with a boomerang lamp group and a liftable tail. The roof is equipped with a rear camera.

It is expected that the car will be equipped with the same 35.6-inch 6K 3D unbounded integrated ultra-clear large screen as the Extreme Yue 01, built-in Qualcomm 8295 chip, and equipped with a half-width steering wheel and screen shifting. In addition, Extreme Yue 07 also adopted BEV+Transformer "pure vision" high-order intelligent driving technical scheme.

In terms of power, Extreme Yue 07 is expected to provide a single-motor rear-drive version and a dual-motor four-wheel drive version, with the maximum power of 200kW and 400kW respectively, the maximum torque of 343N·m and 686N·m respectively, and the acceleration time from zero to 100 kilometers is 3 seconds. Referring to the guide price of Extreme Yue 01 (starting from 219,900 yuan), the starting price of Extreme Yue 07 may be less than 200,000 yuan.

　　In recent years, glass slideways built in various scenic spots in China have become a new means to attract tourists. However, frequent accidents of tourists’ casualties caused by the quality problems of glass slideways and poor operation supervision have cast a shadow over this new entertainment facility. On May 1, 2019, tourists rushed out of the slide protection facilities in the playground "Children’s Yard" in Taiping Town, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Two people were killed and 12 injured in the accident. On June 1st, in the scenic spot of Muyi Town, Lanshanwan, Hefei, Anhui Province, three people were injured in their eyes, arms and heads to varying degrees while riding a glass drifting boat. On June 5th, in Fozi Tourist Scenic Area, Pingnan County, Guangxi, tourists crashed into the glass slide guardrail due to the rapid decline. One person was killed and six people were injured in the accident. Similar casualties occurred in 2017 and 2018.

　　The reporter of Beiqing Daily found that the scenic spots of building glass bridges, glass slides, glass rafting and other similar entertainment facilities exist in domestic scenic spots, farmhouses and other places. According to some practitioners, there are currently more than 100 water slides in China, while there may be 500 to 1,000 glass slides. Compared with ropeways, cable cars and other projects, the investment threshold of glass slides is low, the examination and approval difficulty is low, and the investment returns quickly. Therefore, scenic spots are generally willing to invest.

　　The reason is that the project participants have no access threshold, lack of construction standards, no need for approval and acceptance after completion, and the lack of links makes it difficult to guarantee the safety of scenic spots in online celebrity. The producers and operators of glass slideways and experts in the field of special equipment call for the early introduction of perfect approval and supervision procedures and enforceable industry standards for this equipment.

　　Hidden trouble-there are design defects in the construction of slideways.

　　The builders of the glass slide project usually blame the accident on the poor management of the scenic spot, but professionals have different opinions. Shen Haien, secretary-general of the Beijing Tourism Legal Committee, pointed out that the design defect of the slide is also one of the unavoidable reasons for the accident.

　　He explained that from the appearance, these slides are all hovering down the mountain, with many bends and complexity. Tourists’ sight is constantly blocked during the taxiing process, and the tourists behind them can’t see what happened in front. In addition, its angle and slope design do not match the actual height drop of the slide.

　　This statement has been recognized by the slipway builders. A person in charge of a slipway construction company said that many slipways have design defects. Short-distance curve can not effectively decompose the sliding speed caused by huge height drop, and once it gets wet in rainy days or other conditions occur, accidents may occur.

　　Hidden danger 2. The construction unit does not have professional qualifications.

　　Should these professional large-scale entertainment facilities, such as glass slides and glass rafting, be put into operation with relevant qualifications to ensure their professionalism?

　　The reporter of Beiqing Daily inquired about the information of the builder of the accident slide in Fozi Tourist Scenic Area, Pingnan County, Guangxi Province, which had an accident in June this year — — Henan woxing garden plank road engineering co., ltd. Its company profile claims that its main projects include scenic glass suspension bridge, glass plank road project, glass slide road project, plank road project and plank road facility design, but there is no clear information related to slide road construction in the main business of the company’s industrial and commercial information registration.

　　Some practitioners have revealed to the media that the glass slide has just emerged in recent years, and most of the investment and construction teams have become monks halfway. There is no clear industry standard. "In the complex mountainous terrain, the slope of the slide is designed to be steep in the dry climate, and the slope is slowed down in the wet place, which depends on experience and no data support." In addition, in the project operation, many operation managers are negligent, and tourists will not check for a long time.

　　Hidden danger 3: the main body of the supervision unit is vague

　　As special equipment, the construction of large-scale entertainment facilities needs special filing and approval procedures, but the glass slide is still in a vague area.

　　In an interview with the media, the staff of the Special Equipment Section of Feidong County Market Supervision Administration in Hefei, Anhui Province said that the glass slide was not under its supervision catalogue. In a document issued by the State Administration of Markets in 2018, it was specifically mentioned that "water slides and canyon rafting are not included in the scope of large-scale amusement facilities in the Catalogue of Special Equipment and are not included in the supervision of large-scale amusement facilities".

　　The Feidong County Emergency Management Bureau, the competent department of safety supervision, said that the safety supervision department only undertakes the post-treatment of the amusement park safety liability accident, and the prior intervention is not their responsibility. As for the amusement facilities, they don’t know who should be in charge. Tong Guoqiang, deputy director of the Cultural Tourism Bureau of Feidong County, said frankly that for new amusement facilities, the current superior policies and technical standards are still unclear, and industry management is difficult.

　　Industry voice

　　Glass slide standards need to be formulated in time.

　　In the face of bidding, construction, operation and other links, the construction unit is both an athlete and a referee. Yao Kunyi, a member of Shanghai Service Standardization Technical Committee, believes that encouraging the development of tourism does not mean that safety should be put in the second place. "For projects with unsafe factors or potential safety hazards, they should definitely be stuck and put on the negative list".

　　The reporter of Beiqing Daily learned that on July 31 this year, the sixth meeting of the large-scale amusement facilities sub-committee of the Fifth Special Equipment Safety Technical Committee was held in Taizhou. At the meeting, experts from China Special Equipment Testing and Research Institute made detailed inquiries and discussions on the risks of the "glass water slide" and put forward their own suggestions on whether to include it in the supervision. Whether the "glass water slide" is included in the supervision and the disposal method of the existing "glass water slide" will be further investigated and discussed. In addition, on August 31st, the kick-off meeting of the glass slipway standard and the demonstration project of laminated glass and safety performance evaluation for CSTM glass slipway was held in Luoyang, Henan Province. All parties hope that the standard formulation of glass slipway can be started as soon as possible.

　　Slide practitioners revealed that, in fact, because there is no clear regulatory body and industry standards, they are also facing the trouble of declaration and approval. From the point of view of slipway builders, they don’t intend to evade approval and inspection. If the government can issue clear access qualifications and industry standards, it will also promote the development of the industry.

　　Text/Reporter Xiong Yingqi Coordinator/Chi Haibo