Short Films 5 Big Unanswered Questions About The Russia Investigations The Senate side of the Capitol building is shown on the last day of the summer session on Aug. 3. The Senate is scheduled to return from summer break on Sept. 5. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Wilson/Getty Images The Senate side of the Capitol building is shown on the last day of the summer session on Aug. 3. Updated at 10:29 a.m. The Senate is long gone. Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller and his team, however, haven't gone anywhere. His attorneys and investigators are using a federal grand jury to interview witnesses and issue subpoenas as they look into potential connections between President Trump's campaign and Russia's attack on the 2016 election. News also emerged this week that FBI agents searched a home owned by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and that Manafort and other people in Trump world, including Donald Trump Jr., had submitted hundreds of documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Astronauts Can't Really Cry in Space You can do some pretty cool things in space. Like float in zero gravity, for example. Or eat in zero gravity. The Atlantic picked up on a tweet from the International Space Station, in which astronaut Chris Hadfield explained that our eyes will produce tears in space, but it isn't exactly a pleasant experience. When those space tears build up enough liquid mass, they'll actually break free of the eye and float around. Sad as it would be to float around in space without the ability to cry, we'd miss showering even more.
Download Free Political Documentaries And Watch Many Interesting, Controversial Free Documentary Films On That You Wont Find On The TV! M-Lab | Welcome to Measurement Lab the Stoner collection - a list by max_hol Markup language Examples are typesetting instructions such as those found in troff, TeX and LaTeX, or structural markers such as XML tags. Markup instructs the software displaying the text to carry out appropriate actions, but is omitted from the version of the text that is displayed to users. Some markup languages, such as HTML, have pre-defined presentation semantics, meaning that their specification prescribes how the structured data are to be presented; others, such as XML, do not. A widely used markup language is the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), one of the document formats of the World Wide Web. Types[edit] There are three general categories of electronic markup:[1][2] Presentational markup The kind of markup used by traditional word-processing systems: binary codes embedded within document text that produce the WYSIWYG effect. Procedural markup Markup is embedded in text and provides instructions for programs that are to process the text. Descriptive markup History[edit] Etymology and origin[edit]
al-Qaeda in Iraq Origins[edit] The group was founded by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999 under the name Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Arabic: جماعة التوحيد والجهاد, "Group of Monotheism and Jihad"). The group is believed to have started bomb attacks in Iraq as of August 2003, five months after the coalition invasion and occupation of Iraq, targeting UN representatives, Iraqi Shiite institutions, the Jordanian embassy, provisional Iraqi government institutions. After it pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in October 2004, its official name became Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn.[1][5][6][7] Leadership[edit] On 7 June 2006, the leader of AQI, al-Zarqawi, and his spiritual adviser Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, were both killed by a U.S. airstrike with two 500 lb (230 kg) bombs on a safe house near Baqubah. Purpose[edit] In a letter to al-Zarqawi in July 2005, Al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri outlined a four-stage plan beginning with taking control of Iraq. 2004[edit]
al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda around the world. Al-Qaeda (/ælˈkaɪdə/ al-KY-də; Arabic: القاعدة al-qāʿidah, Arabic: [ælqɑːʕɪdɐ], translation: "The Base" and alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida) is a global militant Islamist and takfiri organization founded by Abdullah Yusuf Azzam and Osama bin Laden in Peshawar, Pakistan,[22] at some point between August 1988[23] and late 1989,[24] with its origins being traceable to the Soviet War in Afghanistan.[25] It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army[26] and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad and a strict interpretation of sharia law. It has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations Security Council, NATO, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, India and various other countries (see below). Al-Qaeda has carried out many attacks on non-Sunni Muslims,[27] non-Muslims,[28][29] and other targets it considers kafir.[30] Organization Leadership Financing Name
Commuting 40 Miles to Work on a Bike, With Thermals and Fleece Having sheathed his legs in NASA-worthy Capo bib shorts — woven from high-tech fibers that compress leg muscles to minimize fatigue — he pulled on a pair of winter cycling tights lined with fleece from the waist to the thighs. Next came over-the-calf Smartwool ski socks under Sidi Genius 5.5 shoes strategically packed with chemical toe warmers. To shield his torso, he wore a wool base layer under an Italian long-sleeve racing jersey, and a windproof vest reinforced in front to block freezing gusts and meshed in the back to vent excess heat. On his head, an Assos Fuguhelm racing cap with vents on top to minimize sweating, and a pair of Oakley Jawbones sunglasses. The final touch: a pair of $19 insulated work gloves, coated with beeswax to make them water resistant. Fastening his helmet, Mr. Mr. As he spun his wheels down South Bedford Avenue, ghostly at this hour, he reflected on his reasons for riding. Mr. Another wanted to know: “Anyone interested in a commute ride to the city? Mr.
Brutalist architecture Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture that flourished from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement. Brutalism rapidly became popular with governments and institutions around the world, with numerous high style examples located in Britain, France, Germany, Japan, United States, Canada, Brazil, and Australia. Examples are typically large buildings, massive in character, fortresslike, with a predominance of exposed concrete construction. The style was often selected for socialist government sponsored projects for public structures, high-rise multi-family housing, and shopping centres to create an architectural image that communicated strength, functionality, and frugal construction. Its popularity spread to include other uses such as college buildings, but was rarely applied to corporate projects, whose leaders were concerned about the association with socialism. History[edit] Characteristics[edit] Figures[edit] On university campuses[edit]
Microsoft's 'Child Of The 90s' Internet Explorer Ad Is A Nostalgic Trip Back In Time Microsoft has released a new advert for Internet Explorer which might just make you cry - if you were born between 1984 and 1988, have a taste for nostalgia and turn the music up really loud. And now the web is 25 years old it seems as good a time as any to revisit what made it great in the first place. The 'Child Of The 90s' ad takes a trip back through everything that was popular back in the land before iPods, including Pogs, bad haircuts and, well, Internet Explorer. The point is that you grew up, and so did they. So switch from Chrome already. But the effect for the right audience - including yours truly - is just to make you a bit weepy for a lost time when the internet made weird noises when connecting and Rage Against The Machine were still making albums. Take a look, above. Loading Slideshow Underwater BombWe're assuming that this guy was attempting to take an underwater selfie. UPDATE: This post was originally published in January 2013, when the advert was new.
GAU-8 Avenger The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-type cannon that is typically mounted to the United States Air Force's Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. Designed specifically for the anti-tank role, the Avenger delivers very powerful rounds at a high rate of fire. The GAU-8/A is also mounted to the Goalkeeper CIWS. History[edit] The GAU-8 was created as a parallel program with the A-X (or Attack Experimental) competition that produced the A-10. GAU-8 closeup, showing the off-center mounting of the weapon and landing gear The gun is placed slightly off center in the nose of the plane with the front landing gear positioned to the right of the center line, so that the actively firing cannon barrel is directly on the aircraft's center line. The A-10 and its GAU-8/A gun entered service in 1977. The gun is loaded using Syn-Tech's linked tube carrier GFU-8/E 30 mm Ammunition Loading Assembly cart. Design[edit] GAU-8 mounted in A-10 Accuracy[edit]
Northrop YA-9 The Northrop YA-9 was a prototype attack aircraft developed for the United States Air Force A-X program. The YA-9 was passed over in preference for the Fairchild Republic YA-10 that entered production as the A-10 Thunderbolt II. Design and development[edit] Background[edit] Criticism that the U.S. A-X[edit] In mid-1966, the U.S. In May 1970, the USAF issued a modified, and much more detailed request for proposals (RFP). While turboprops were considered in some designs for the A-X project, turbofans were selected for the flyoff prototypes. Fly-off[edit] Apart from aircraft themselves, the A-X program was also developing a powerful cannon for the winning plane to carry. A fly-off of the two prototypes took place between 10 October and 9 December 1972, with the YA-10 declared the winner on 18 January 1973. The two YA-9 prototypes were subsequently relegated to NASA for continued flight testing before being quickly retired. Aircraft disposition[edit] Specifications (YA-9A)[edit] A rear view Notes