Indonesia is looking to support its involvement in the project to develop the KFX/IFX fighter aircraft with South Korea through the potential counter-trade of locally built CN235 transport aircraft. The possible trade deal was confirmed by Indonesia’s minister for security affairs, Wiranto
The Argentine Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Argentina - FAA) has selected the Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) FA-50 Fighting Eagle to be its new interim fighter aircraft, Jane’s has been told. A senior FAA officer with direct knowledge of the planned procurement said that the supersonic,
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said that it would cut its oil demand forecast due to a slowing global economy. “China is experiencing its slowest economic growth in the last three decades, so are some of the advanced economies ... if the global economy performs even poorer than we assume, then we may even look at our numbers once again in the next months to come,” the IEA’s executive director Fatih Birol told Reuters in an interview. Only a week after it issued its July Oil Market Report,... Читать дальше...
In 2016, Maogong government and Dimen Eco-Museum decided to convert an old vacant barn into an Art Center for local communities as a new culture carrier. Approach Architecture Studio turned this redevelopment commission into a pivotal project of Maogong revitalization plan.
The rise of the electric vehicle is inevitable. Over the past decade, many car manufacturers, including BMW, Audi and of course Tesla, have blown the lid off this new technology. As EV battery capacity and motor efficiency continue to increase, the ability to charge the batteries within a reasonable timeframe is of the utmost importance. Steve Hughes, managing director of power quality specialist Reo UK, outlines the problem.
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ALE has completed the jack-up, skidding and load-out of an offshore platform for the third development stage of the Vladimir Filanovsky oil field, the largest in the Russian section of the Caspian Sea. The field currently produces six million tonnes of crude oil per year.
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As a cucumber plant grows, it sprouts tightly coiled tendrils that seek out supports in order to pull the plant upward. This ensures the plant receives as much sunlight exposure as possible. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting fibres that could be used as artificial muscles for robots, prosthetic limbs, or other mechanical and biomedical applications.
Читать дальше...It’s usually best, in any situation where you end up with your finger touching your eye or grazing your lips, to not think of where it’s been. That goes double when taking any form of public transit, where your hands touch the places all the other hands of people who are just as gross as you have touched (relax, it’s fine, take it from a New Yorker: constant exposure to germs make you indestructible). More »
Traumatized by 2016, writers-producers Billy Ray, Gregg Hurwitz, and Marshall Herskovitz discovered an unlikely new vocation as political consultants for Democratic candidates in red America. Can they rewrite the playbook for a party that has lost the plot?
Oh the dilemma, whether to have line-dancing at ones wedding reception. Is it too country, obnoxious or just so 1980? Actually, it may be the best thing to ever happen to your wedding reception. Continue reading…
• We can't get enough. We are short 130,000 affordable homes in New Zealand. And the challenge is proving so high, Kiwibuild can't get over it. • Auckland's housing market is stabilising, while the regions remain robust, and ridiculously attractive ...
Cooperstown
The trip from Colonie to Cooperstown is 75 miles or so, but the journey for Mariano Rivera took a quarter century.
As a skinny 24-year-old native Panamanian who barely spoke English, Rivera flashed through Heritage Park in the summer of 1994 as a starting pitcher for the Albany-Colonie Yankees of the Class AA Eastern League.
Rivera's adventure culminated Sunday afternoon when he was enshrined, with five others, into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Dario Leone
Technology, Middle East
A huge problem?
Indeed this is not the first problem experienced by the F-22’s radar-absorbing coating: according to Southfront.org in 2009 US pilots complained that the coating easily erased from Raptor’s body during contact with fuel and lubricating oil.
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-22 Raptor stealth fighters, which are taking part in military operation in Syria, have started to lose their radar-absorbing coating.
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Fighters looking to keep that 0 in the loss column may want to steer clear of Vinc Pichel in the future.
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BORIS JOHNSON is planning on sacking Jeremy Hunt as Foreign Secretary if he becomes Prime Minister, insiders have claimed.
“Person plays video game with weird controller” is not a new thing, I know, but I love this clip of Jackson Parodi playing GoldenEye on piano because in addition to looking impressive, it sounds lovely as well.
Hackers breached servers at a contractor for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), SyTech, and stole about 7.5 terabytes of data after gaining access to the company’s entire network earlier this month, ZDnet reported on Saturday.
Of all the many lodging experiences Cabo offers, these are the absolute best of the best resorts at this popular Mexico beach destination.
TEG Live has today announced the security arrangements for the Australian Boomers’ historic two-game series against USA Basketball at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne on Thursday 22 August and Saturday 24 August 2019.
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Former special counsel Robert Mueller will appear in Congress this week to testify for two hours about the report he authored on the case of Russian collusion. The hearing is set for Wednesday, though Mueller has said that he won’t have any additional information other than what is in his report. A Washington Post report […]
Shon Hopwood was serving time for armed bank robbery when he discovered he had a brilliant mind for the law. Steve Kroft reports on an improbable tale of redemption
The Midmer-Losh pipe organ is made up of 33,000 pipes and thrilled audiences in the 1930s. A hurricane nearly destroyed it in the 1940s and it was neglected for almost half a century, but volunteers have been working for over a decade to bring the musical treasure back to life.
Divock Origi has equalised on the stroke of halftime for the Reds in their preseason clash against Sevilla, the ace fired home after an Alexander-Arnold corner. Origi blasted the ball into the back of the net in the 44th minute of today’s clash with Sevilla, the 24-year-old was on hand to poke the ball into […]
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A community in New Jersey is fighting back after neighbors became targets of high-tech car thieves.
Republicans, however, say Wednesday's highly anticipated hearings will produce nothing but a rehash of old news