The soaring silver balloon that captured the country's attention for hours yesterday also captured its imagination.
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6-year-old boy suspected of balloon fight found alive, hiding in Colorado home.
As the police investigated the apparent disappearance of 6-year-old
Falcon Heene, the young boy initially believed to be trapped in a
20-foot-long "homemade flying saucer," authorities and onlookers
pondered the purpose of the out of control floating aircraft.
Was the silvery balloon meant for weather for pearl jewelry ecasting? Recreation? Travel?
Falcon's father, Richard Heene, a former weatherman and amateur
scientist, said he built the mushroom-shaped aircraft for commuter
travel.
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"We were working on an experimental craft -- I call it the 3D LAV, a
low-altitude vehicle for people to pull out of their garage and hover
above traffic for about 50 to100 feet," Richard Heene said later. "It's
still the very early stages of the invention."
Richard Heene: Experimental Aircraft for pearl jewelry wholesale Commuting
Experimental aircraft experts doubt Heene's balloon could actually be
used for the purpose he described, but they say several other
individuals and companies have made headway in introducing George
Jetson-type personal travel technology.
Glen Moyer, a spokesman for the Ballooning Federation of America, said
balloons are purely recreational vehicles, and didn't think Heene's
could ever make for a practical commute.
"A balloon just isn't practical for that type of use," he said. "You
can only steer a balloon to whatever degree the wind on any given day
allows you."
If you want to go from east to west on a day when the winds are blowing
north to south, he said, "It's just not going to happen."
But ballooning aside, experts say there are others out there working to
turn everyday ground-based vehicles into ones that could take to the akoya pearl sky.
"Certainly, I think in a legitimate sense that there have been people
who have been working on powered cars ever since there has been powered
flight," said Dick Knapinksi, a spokesman for the Experimental Aircraft
Association.
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A balloon just isn't practical
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13 November, 2009 00:25
If you own a T-Mobile/Microsoft Sidekick smartphone, I don't have to
tell you this. But if you are among the millions who don't: on Oct. 1,
literally every user of the Sidekick data service lost the private
personal records – e-mails, notes, calendar entries, contacts, etc. --
they had stored on the system.
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T-Mobile hopes to pearl jewelry recover some phone numbers and photos.
Initially, it was believed that information was lost forever. The official statement from Microsoft/Danger (the latter being the company that builds the Sidekick) and T-Mobile was that the data "almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger." Then, yesterday, Microsoft announced that it had managed to recover "most" of the lost data and blamed a "system failure in the core database and backup."
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Needless to say, the lawsuits have already begun: The Sidekick's 1 million users had a deep emotional (and often financial) investment in the device … and that loyalty had been betrayed.
T-Mobile tried to assuage all of those hurt feelings by offering users, by way of apology, a $100 gift card and one month's free data service. As you can imagine, that only made many users even more angry. A hundred bucks? For the hours it will take to pearl jewelry wholesale reconstruct a lost contact list and full appointment book? A month's free service? For that last photo of grandma in the hospital – now lost forever?
My friend Scott Budman, the veteran tech reporter for KNTV-TV in San Jose, Calif., and the "TechNow" television series, has just written an interesting analysis of the Sidekick debacle. In it he suggests that, ultimately, this is a case of misplaced trust in the akoya pearl reliability of far-off servers operating in that imprecise, ineffablae reality of "The Cloud."
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T-Mobile hopes to pearl jewelry recover some phone numbers and photos.
Initially, it was believed that information was lost forever. The official statement from Microsoft/Danger (the latter being the company that builds the Sidekick) and T-Mobile was that the data "almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger." Then, yesterday, Microsoft announced that it had managed to recover "most" of the lost data and blamed a "system failure in the core database and backup."
Related
Real Estate Industry Goes High-Tech
Exit Brain, Enter Computer
WATCH: Facebook's Making Money
Needless to say, the lawsuits have already begun: The Sidekick's 1 million users had a deep emotional (and often financial) investment in the device … and that loyalty had been betrayed.
T-Mobile tried to assuage all of those hurt feelings by offering users, by way of apology, a $100 gift card and one month's free data service. As you can imagine, that only made many users even more angry. A hundred bucks? For the hours it will take to pearl jewelry wholesale reconstruct a lost contact list and full appointment book? A month's free service? For that last photo of grandma in the hospital – now lost forever?
My friend Scott Budman, the veteran tech reporter for KNTV-TV in San Jose, Calif., and the "TechNow" television series, has just written an interesting analysis of the Sidekick debacle. In it he suggests that, ultimately, this is a case of misplaced trust in the akoya pearl reliability of far-off servers operating in that imprecise, ineffablae reality of "The Cloud."
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To be sure, Kathleen Turner today looks a lot different from the siren
who made movie goers sweat in 1981's "Body Heat." Stalled for years by
rheumatoid arthritis and the alcoholism that ensued, the 55-year-old
actress has been to hell and back.
But in Showtime's raunchy, rowdy, David Duchovny-helmed "Californication," the girl prove's she's still got it -- the power to enthrall audiences with her throaty drawl, the pearl jewelry ability to make all other characters fade into the background when she steps into a scene.
Of course, it's hard to focus on anything else when Turner's Sue Collini, a middle aged Hollywood agency exec. with the mouth of a porn star and the sexual appetite of a college co-ed, sucks the finger of her favorite foot soldier and object of desire, Charlie Runkle (Evan Handler), and shoves it in her skirt with nary an explanation but a breathy groan. What she does say in the series can't be printed here. Collini is over the top and out of line, and Turner loves it.
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"I like doing outrageous things. I seem to pearl jewelry wholesale be sort of making speciality of it, being this crazy middle aged woman," she told ABCNews.com. "When I'm doing something, I don't think about what other people are going to think about it. Just doing it is where I get my kicks. Then of course, to see it with other people, you realize how out there it is."
The "out there" factor drew Turner to "Californication," much to the delight of series creator and executive producer Tom Kapinos.
"I've grown pretty cynical at this point but when I come up with a character, there's a prototype in my head, and for Sue Collini, I thought 'Oh, Kathleen Turner,'" he said. "And when you're doing TV, you think Kathleen Turner and you end up with someone far down the list. But we called her, and the deal closed within a day. I figured I'd have to call her and plead and promise that she wouldn't be having sex with animals or something."
Nope, though maybe it helped his case that "Californication" hasn't broached bestiality (yet). Turner was hungry for a role with meat, something she said is hard to wholesale pearl jewelry come by for middle-aged women in Hollywood these days.
But in Showtime's raunchy, rowdy, David Duchovny-helmed "Californication," the girl prove's she's still got it -- the power to enthrall audiences with her throaty drawl, the pearl jewelry ability to make all other characters fade into the background when she steps into a scene.
Of course, it's hard to focus on anything else when Turner's Sue Collini, a middle aged Hollywood agency exec. with the mouth of a porn star and the sexual appetite of a college co-ed, sucks the finger of her favorite foot soldier and object of desire, Charlie Runkle (Evan Handler), and shoves it in her skirt with nary an explanation but a breathy groan. What she does say in the series can't be printed here. Collini is over the top and out of line, and Turner loves it.
Related
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Duchovny: Sex Addict Onscreen and Off
"I like doing outrageous things. I seem to pearl jewelry wholesale be sort of making speciality of it, being this crazy middle aged woman," she told ABCNews.com. "When I'm doing something, I don't think about what other people are going to think about it. Just doing it is where I get my kicks. Then of course, to see it with other people, you realize how out there it is."
The "out there" factor drew Turner to "Californication," much to the delight of series creator and executive producer Tom Kapinos.
"I've grown pretty cynical at this point but when I come up with a character, there's a prototype in my head, and for Sue Collini, I thought 'Oh, Kathleen Turner,'" he said. "And when you're doing TV, you think Kathleen Turner and you end up with someone far down the list. But we called her, and the deal closed within a day. I figured I'd have to call her and plead and promise that she wouldn't be having sex with animals or something."
Nope, though maybe it helped his case that "Californication" hasn't broached bestiality (yet). Turner was hungry for a role with meat, something she said is hard to wholesale pearl jewelry come by for middle-aged women in Hollywood these days.
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13 November, 2009 00:23
Two women are challenging an Oklahoma law that will require the state
to create a Web site where any woman who has an abortion will have to
provide intimate details about her choice -- including her
relationships, financial situation and even her motivation for seeking
the abortion.
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A Michigan protester's murder sparks national fury over the pearl jewelry abortion debate.
"A friend said it best: It's like undressing women in public, exposing their most personal issues on the Internet," said Lora Joyce Davis, one of the plaintiffs working with the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights to fight the law, which goes into effect Nov. 1.
Called the Statistical Reporting of Abortions Act, the law requires all doctors to file information on a woman's age, marital status, education level, number of previous pregnancies, cost and type of abortion, as well as the mother's relationship to the father, with the Oklahoma Department of Health.
Though it does not ask for names, the form poses 37 questions detailing a woman's personal situation. Critics say the first eight questions alone could easily lead to the identification of a woman who lives in one of the state's many small communities.
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"This law asks for so much information, and they are akoya pearl going to put it on the Internet for public scorn," said Davis. "Women who have abortions are considered murderers by many people, and you are going to put the name of a town of 200 and the fact that the girl is 17 and it's her first pregnancy and she in the 10th grade. People are going to know who it is."
Many questions fish for more, critics say. "Was there an infant born alive as a result of the abortion?" and "Was the abortion performed within the use of any public institution?"
Doctors who fail to provide information would face criminal sanctions and loss of their medical license.
While the litigants object to the invasion of privacy, their lawsuit challenges the law on more technical grounds. It charges that House Bill 1595 covers more than freshwater pearl one subject and therefore violates the state constitution.
The plaintiffs hope to delay implementation of the law and the planned March 1, 2010, launch of the Web site.
Last month, the organization used the same argument to successfully strike down a 2008 law that would have required women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound within an hour of the proceedings and require doctors to describe the picture to their patients in great detail -- down to the numbers of finger and toes.
In addition to mandating the new Web site for abortion-related demographics, the legislation also redefines various abortion terms, bans sex-selective abortion and creates other new reporting requirements.
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A Michigan protester's murder sparks national fury over the pearl jewelry abortion debate.
"A friend said it best: It's like undressing women in public, exposing their most personal issues on the Internet," said Lora Joyce Davis, one of the plaintiffs working with the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights to fight the law, which goes into effect Nov. 1.
Called the Statistical Reporting of Abortions Act, the law requires all doctors to file information on a woman's age, marital status, education level, number of previous pregnancies, cost and type of abortion, as well as the mother's relationship to the father, with the Oklahoma Department of Health.
Though it does not ask for names, the form poses 37 questions detailing a woman's personal situation. Critics say the first eight questions alone could easily lead to the identification of a woman who lives in one of the state's many small communities.
Related
Judge Rules That Beating Same as Abortion?
Death Threats, Hate Mail for 'Abortion Addict'
WATCH: Abortion and Teen Pregnancy
"This law asks for so much information, and they are akoya pearl going to put it on the Internet for public scorn," said Davis. "Women who have abortions are considered murderers by many people, and you are going to put the name of a town of 200 and the fact that the girl is 17 and it's her first pregnancy and she in the 10th grade. People are going to know who it is."
Many questions fish for more, critics say. "Was there an infant born alive as a result of the abortion?" and "Was the abortion performed within the use of any public institution?"
Doctors who fail to provide information would face criminal sanctions and loss of their medical license.
While the litigants object to the invasion of privacy, their lawsuit challenges the law on more technical grounds. It charges that House Bill 1595 covers more than freshwater pearl one subject and therefore violates the state constitution.
The plaintiffs hope to delay implementation of the law and the planned March 1, 2010, launch of the Web site.
Last month, the organization used the same argument to successfully strike down a 2008 law that would have required women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound within an hour of the proceedings and require doctors to describe the picture to their patients in great detail -- down to the numbers of finger and toes.
In addition to mandating the new Web site for abortion-related demographics, the legislation also redefines various abortion terms, bans sex-selective abortion and creates other new reporting requirements.
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