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EADS’ Advanced MALE concept UAV is based on the Barracuda UAV platform, originally developed for the German Agile UCAV demonstration program. Barracuda crashed on a test flight off the Spanish coast last year. The Advanced MALE will consist of a common core, a 10.3m (34ft) long fuselage which will be configured with mo... |
The MALE configuration will employ a large 25.25m span wing, enabling the aircraft to operate at an altitude of 46,000 ft, well above commercial air traffic. Mission endurance could reach 17 hours, at a range of 925 km (500 nm). The aircraft will be equipped with a Ku-band satellite terminal mounted on the upper nose. ... |
Originally published Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 10:14p.m. |
After all, Antonius said, you just don’t know what people’s tastes are going to be. |
While Prescott is famous for Christmas, Whiskey Row and the World’s Oldest Rodeo, the city also has a draw in antiques and collectibles. The numerous antique stores on Cortez St. and other out of the way stores prove that many find value in what others are giving away. |
While it’s really hard to pin down what makes someplace a good town for antiquing, Keystone Antiques owner Jacy Lee noted that Prescott has charm as an old town. |
Located at 205 N. Cortez St., Merchandise Mart has been open for more than 30 years, but Antonius said she still gets people who come in asking if the store just opened. Still, those who are into antiques know where to find them, she said. That includes people from out of town, out of the country and even out of the st... |
The fact that the “Antique Row” seems to be a hidden gem in Prescott is why a guide and map to various antique stores in Prescott was made to get people on Cortez Street and guide them from store to store, said Gypsy Street Antiques owner Susan Smart. |
“I think our history is kind of lost to us because things move really quickly into technology, so I think people like to reminisce,” Smart said. |
There’s the thrill of the hunt and discovery as well, she said. Some people will look for and collect really obscure items so they can travel around while not spending a lot of money buying, Smart said. |
Antiquing can result in education, too, she said. When people come across something they’ve never seen before, it could turn into a chance to learn something new, Smart said. |
Keystone Antiques is located at 127 N. Cortez St. and Gypsy Street Antiques is located at 133 N. Cortez St. |
Barbuda was the only Caribbean Island to be totally evacuated after it was devastated by Hurricane Irma in September. But now the islanders say they are being hit by a second storm – a land grab. After they were evacuated to Antigua the residents of Barbuda had expected to return to the island that they communally own.... |
Ray has also included a more down-to-earth, singer-songwriter composition Te Pu. Produced in tandem by William Henderson and Tere Ngaeruaiti at Auckland’s Woodcut Studios, many of these tracks carry positive, inspirational messages relating to women’s rights and fatherhood. |
It's perhaps a flavour you can detect when listening to Bishop's debut solo album, Music For Life, which he's just released featuring 10 original tracks. |
When New York Times reporter Susanne Craig checked her mailbox last month, she was greeted with a surprise. |
She said the envelope waiting for her contained three pages -- each from 1995 tax returns filed by Donald Trump. |
"I don't think it's a crime to check your mailbox," Craig said on CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday. "And that's what we did, and then we did some reporting." |
Craig's report, published on the Times website Saturday, indicates the Republican presidential nominee took $916 million in losses in 1995, an amount so significant he could have avoided paying taxes for years. |
In response, the Trump campaign claimed the 1995 document "was illegally obtained" and said the article proved that the Times and the "establishment media" are an arm of the Clinton campaign. |
CNN has not verified the documents. Craig said they were authenticated by a certified public accountant listed as the preparer on one of the forms. |
Though the envelope was sent anonymously, the mail was postmarked from New York City, and the return address claimed the file had been sent from Trump Tower. |
It's a story that could shape the remaining weeks of this year's election. Trump has so far refused to release his tax returns. |
And more could be coming. On "Reliable Sources," CNNMoney's Brian Stelter asked Craig whether the Times had more documents. |
"We're doing a lot of reporting around this. So we're going to keep going," she said. "Maybe a 'no comment.'" |
NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham attacked the piece as partisan spin. |
Speaking on "Reliable Sources," Graham said the Times report amounted to a Trump take-down, citing pieces written by the Times' editorial board denouncing the candidate as evidence. |
"This paper has all the restraint of a pack of flesh-eating zombies," Graham said. |
The Times editorial board is separate from its news-gathering operation. |
As 2019 begins, one useful way to take stock of world events is to compare the outcomes of two recent elections: the election of Donald Trump as United States president and that of Emmanuel Macron as French president. |
I decided to trawl through the archives of an establishment liberal newspaper and see what it said about these two men just after they rose to power. I chose The Financial Times—first, because it is a bastion of liberal globalism, found on the desks of C-level executives across the world. Second, it is based in London,... |
The double standard is not as interesting as what the two candidates are said to represent. Trump’s worldview is a “failure” because it does not embrace “the free movement of capital, goods and labour.” Meanwhile Macron’s program is said to “appeal to voters’ intelligence” with its “liberal, centrist response to the po... |
Hindsight is a powerful clarifier. Macron has indeed pursued his “reform” with gusto. Meanwhile, Trump has pursued his program with equal robustness. But in 2019, the outcomes of these programs could not be more different. |
France is on fire. This is not a metaphor. We have all seen the pictures of flames rising from a Paris engulfed in riots. Moreover, France is on fire precisely due to Macron’s “reforms.” In the U.S., however, the worst that can be said is that an overextended stock market is experiencing some volatility due to Wall Str... |
In the U.S., even after two years of Trump rule, the establishment elites are still running around with their hair on fire. If you were to base your assessments of America on elite opinion, you would think that the country is deep in crisis. But in France, the most the elites will say about Macron is that he is clapped... |
It is not hard to draw conclusions from this contrast: Our globalist liberal elites are no longer fit to govern. They are decadent and out-of-touch. In fact, they are not just decadent; they are blinded by their own hubris—high on their own fumes. Crisis, for them, is a volatile stock market. A burning capital, on the ... |
But if the elites meant what they said when he got elected, Macron cannot possibly have overstayed his welcome. For one thing, he has been in power less than two years—a very short time for any normal leader to generate an approval rating of around 30 percent, as Macron has. Moreover, Macron has followed the script app... |
Are the elites aware that their liberal globalist project is failing? Surely these are not stupid people. They are the cream of the global crop—or so we are told. Two possible explanations present themselves. |
One is that the global elites are not what they present themselves to be. Yes, they have their qualifications from elite institutions. But maybe these elite institutions are themselves corrupt, rewarding system-gamers and sharp-elbowed mediocrities. Another explanation is that the global elites know the system is faili... |
It is probably a mixture of the two. Some are poseurs and some are cynical—but both are corrupt. And corruption does not speak the language of reason. It speaks the language of power. 2019 is going to be another interesting year, and 2020 will likely be the same. Strap in, it promises to be a bumpy ride. |
WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - Proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline in the House of Representatives on Thursday outlined a new push to take the decision on the project out of the hands of the Obama Administration and to limit further legal and regulatory delays. |
Congressman Lee Terry, Republican from Nebraska, authored draft legislation that would eliminate the need for a presidential permit for the northern section of the pipeline, which would transport Canadian oil sands crude into the United States. |
The State Department has been weighing TransCanada’s application for a permit for the 800,000 barrel-per-day pipeline for more than four years, repeatedly delaying the process as environmentalists raised concerns about potential spills from the pipeline and its impact on climate change. |
The presidential permit is currently necessary because the pipeline would cross the U.S.-Canadian border. |
Democrats Jim Matheson, of Utah, and John Barrow, of Georgia, joined Terry in backing the draft bill. The Republican chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Fred Upton, also backed the bill, as well as energy subcommittee chairman Ed Whitfield. |
Lawmakers in Congress, led by Republicans, have continually tried to force the approval of Keystone, which they argue would create thousands of jobs and shore up U.S. energy security. |
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has voted six times in favor of moving the pipeline forward, but these efforts have ultimately not succeeded with Democrats controlling the Senate and the White House. |
In the Senate, John Hoeven, a Republican from North Dakota, is looking for ways to attach similar legislation to a must-pass bill. In January, Hoeven sent a letter to President Barack Obama signed by 53 senators, including nine Democrats, urging him to approve the pipeline. |
Hoeven said then that if Obama did not move forward on the line by April he would reintroduce the legislation. |
Last year Hoeven introduced a measure in the Senate to give Congress the power to approve Keystone. It got 56 votes, four fewer than needed to pass. |
The Keystone pipeline cleared a key hurdle last week, when the State Department issued a new environmental assessment finding that the project would not add significantly to carbon-intensive oil sands production. |
One of the main arguments environmentalists have made against the pipeline is that it would greatly accelerate oil sands development, exacerbating climate change. |
Still, critics of the pipeline plan to push to further delay the review process and the project will likely face legal challenges even if approved. |
Terry’s draft proposal would create a 60-day deadline for filing a claim against the pipeline and limit the lawsuits that could be brought against it. |
The proposal would also deem that the project has met the requirements of the Endangered Species Act regarding a protected beetle that would be affected by the pipeline and it grants other necessary federal permits. |
Famous for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and pervading air of tense expectation, Mastermind is a legendary tournament quiz show beloved around the world, from the UK to Russia – and soon, Australia, when it returns to our screens after 34 years weeknights on SBS from April. |
With highly respected TV host, journalist and self-confessed quiz junkie Jennifer Byrne (ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club, Sunday, 60 Minutes, Foreign Correspondent) at the helm, the program places contenders in the iconic Mastermind chair and gives them two tense minutes to answer as many questions as possible on their c... |
Specialist subjects will include everything from Australian Parrots to The Harry Potter Series; John Cusack to The Whitlam Government Dismissal; Wicked: The Musical to Women in Australia Rallysport – and everything in between. |
The contenders will advance to a general knowledge round, and the person with the highest combined score for both rounds is declared the winner. Each Friday the weekly finals will see one person advance to the semi-finals and eventually compete against other winners at the end of the season for the prestigious title of... |
It’s set to be tense, thrilling, at times humorous and, above all, entertaining. |
Running for nearly 50 years in the UK, Mastermind is an addictive global phenomenon, originally inspired by creator Bill Wright’s experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo during World War II, and captured on screen by the use of a spotlight, black chair and rapid fire questioning. |
Who can handle the pressure to be crowned Australia’s Mastermind? Find out when Mastermind Australia premieres 6pm Monday 15 April on SBS. |
The series will air 6pm weeknights and will be available after broadcast at SBS On Demand. |
Mastermind is a BBC UK format and is produced for SBS by BBC Studios. |
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Built with CryEngine2, the original Crysis raised the bar for PC gaming graphics in 2007 with stunningly detailed visuals that crippled even the fastest of rigs. Looking back at our first Crysis performance article, which was based on the game's demo, the fastest GPU available at the time (the GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB) s... |
Given how punishing the first game was, we were excited to explore 2011's CryEngine 3-based Crysis 2, but it was quickly apparent that the second installment wouldn't be a repeat performance. Not to say it didn't look better, but relative to Crytek's first title, the sequel didn't really set any new benchmarks. It was ... |
Fast-forward two years and Crytek has given us another opportunity to hammer some hardware with the arrival of Crysis 3 this month. Like the second title, the third installment has been built with CryEngine 3, though that doesn't mean you should expect lousy PC features, as the engine has been updated with improved dyn... |
Plus, PC gamers won't have to wait for graphical extras. Crysis 3 launched with high-resolution textures, DX11 support and plenty of customization options that set it apart from the diluted consoles builds. The result looks incredible and we get the feeling this will prove to be the game that folks who are heavily inve... |
We'll be testing 18 DirectX 11 graphics card configurations from AMD and Nvidia, which is considerably less than the 29 we tested for Far Cry 3 because even with the medium quality preset activated, there are almost no low-end graphics cards that can play Crysis 3, even at 1680x1050. |
The latest drivers will be used, and every card will be paired with an Intel Core i7-3960X to remove CPU bottlenecks that could influence high-end GPU scores. |
We're using Fraps to measure frame rates during 90 seconds of gameplay footage from Crysis 3's first level, "Post Human." The test starts as soon as Michael "Psycho" Sykes hands you his backup weapon, we then simply follow the party leader until the time runs out. |
We'll test Crysis 3 at three common desktop display resolutions: 1680x1050, 1920x1200 and 2560x1600, using the DX11 mode. For the very high-quality test, we'll set the "overall quality" in the video quality menu to very high while also setting the SMAA level to 1 (low). The high and medium-quality tests will also be co... |
Ramping up to high quality, the GTX 680 landed square on the 60fps mark when testing at 1680x1050, while the GTX 670 followed with 55fps and the HD 7970 GHz edition was forced into the 4xfps territory with the GTX 660 Ti. It seems like the non-Ti GTX 660 or the HD 7950 are about as low as you'll want to go, as both wer... |
At 1920x1200, Crysis 3 kicked the GTX 680 10fps below our ideal and the GTX 670 joined AMD's flagship in the 40fps range—albeit with a 5fps lead. The HD 7970 GHz Edition averaged 41fps, narrowly beating the GTX 660 Ti by a single frame. |
Crysis 3 is barely playable when running on high at 2560x1600, with the GTX 680 and HD 7970 GHz Edition barely offering 30fps. If you want play with these settings on a single-GPU card, you'll likely need Nvidia's new GTX Titan. |
With the high quality preset being so taxing, we wondered if there was any point in testing on a more intensive setting. But we did, and things aren't pretty—or, well, they're too pretty. At 1680x1050, the GTX 680 managed 44fps and stood as the only card to exit the 30fps range, which is populated with the GTX 670, HD ... |
Not much needs to be said here: the GTX 680 is your only hope of achieving playable performance, barring the Titan or a multi-GPU solution. |
This is the resolution I typically game at with one GTX 680 and, naturally, I like to crank everything up. That's not an option here. We'd be interested in seeing how a pair of GTX Titans in SLI perform. |
How Many Model 3 Cars Did Tesla Deliver in Q2? |
Sharp growth is all but certain. But the extent of that growth is what's difficult to forecast. |
Electric-car maker Tesla's (NASDAQ:TSLA) sequential growth in vehicle sales came to a halt in the company's first quarter of 2018 as Model S and X deliveries pulled back and Model 3 deliveries were still ramping up. Even on a trailing-12-month basis, Tesla's vehicle sales growth has slowed recently. But this trend is a... |
Though Tesla has been running about six months behind its initial target for achieving a Model 3 production rate of 5,000 units per week, the automaker has mostly stayed on track since it recalibrated its targets earlier this year. Model 3 production and deliveries are soaring. |
The specifics, of course, are what Tesla investors are most interested in. Sure, there's no denying Tesla's rapidly rising Model 3 production and deliveries. But what production rate did Tesla finish the quarter at? And how many Model 3s did Tesla deliver during the quarter? |
The Tesla Model 3. Image source: Tesla. |
Investors will get answers to these questions next week. But while we wait for Tesla's quarterly update on vehicle production and deliveries, here's a preview of what to expect. |
It's fairly easy to make an educated guess at Tesla's second-quarter Model S and X deliveries. Combined deliveries for the two vehicles has trended between approximately 22,000 and 26,000 since the third quarter of 2016. So, any variation outside of this range is unlikely. In addition, management gave investors a more ... |
But estimating Model 3 deliveries for the period is a far more difficult task. Sure, Tesla said it kicked off the quarter sustaining a production rate above 2,000 Model 3 vehicles per week for three weeks straight. But how production fared the rest of the quarter is still shrouded in mystery. For instance, though we kn... |
In addition, though Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company would likely hit its target for a Model 3 production rate of 5,000 units per week around the end of the quarter, the timing of this production ramp could have a significant impact on how many Model 3 vehicles Tesla was able to ship during the quarter. This is esp... |
When production from one quarter to the next is fairly stable, the timing of deliveries has less of an impact on the variability of a quarter's deliveries. But when production is growing exponentially, shipment times could make a big difference in total deliveries during the quarter. |
What makes forecasting Model 3 deliveries even more difficult is that Model 3 production could temporarily pull back in some weeks, in addition to Tesla's occasional factory shutdowns, as the company addresses bottlenecks or makes incremental changes. |
With these caveats in mind, a forecast for Tesla's Model 3 deliveries could fall into a very wide range. Considering the 2,040 Model 3 vehicles in transit to customers at the end of Tesla's first quarter, Tesla's 10-day factory shutdown during its second quarter, and an estimated average weekly production rate of 2,000... |
The takeaway here is not an informed range to expect Model 3 deliveries to fall into during the quarter. Even this range could over- or underestimate Model 3 deliveries. The point is to recognize the immense uncertainty surrounding quarterly Model 3 deliveries. Investors should avoid giving Model 3 forecasts much weigh... |
Nevertheless, if Model 3 vehicles were to fall into this range, Tesla's total vehicle deliveries during Q2 could be between about 43,000 and 51,000 units. Of course, even the low end of this guidance range could prove too aggressive if Model S and X deliveries come in lower than anticipated for the quarter. |
Highlighting Tesla's strong growth, the low end of this guidance range implies about 43% and 95% sequential and year-over-year growth in total deliveries, respectively. How many vehicles Tesla delivers during the quarter is extremely unclear. But here's what we know with near certainty: Tesla will likely post record se... |
The company reports its quarterly deliveries within the first three calendar days after a quarter has ended. So investors can expect to get an update on vehicle production and deliveries before July 4. |
One year ago, Jonah Koech was the undisputed young star of the UTEP track team. |
He established some quick credentials by beating his national champion teammate Anthony Rotich at the NCAA cross country meet while finishing 11th, he certified himself as a sensation with a sixth place finish in the mile at indoor nationals, where he led with 100 meters to go. |
Koech is still a big name at this weekend's Conference USA meet, it's just easy to forget that with his freshman teammate Emmanuel Korir, and to a lesser extent his other freshman teammate Michael Saruni, casting huge shadows over the national scene. |
Koech is suddenly the third biggest name on UTEP's middle-distance corps, and he actually doesn't mind that at all. |
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