| Attia turns fragile forms into powerful statements
Attia, 37, showed up as soon as he got the call and found his friend where he fell, covered in pigeons. He'd been eating a sandwich. A couple of birds sat high on his chest, pecking his mouth to get the bread out. In 2005, Attia made his reputation with his response. "Flying Rats" featured seed-filled sacks shaped like children, plus 250 pigeons to eat them. The current exhibit at the Henry Gallery is Attia's first in the U.S., organized by chief curator Elizabeth Brown, His reputation precedes him in this country, not because he's a rising star in Europe but because of widely circulated photos of his work. Although I didn't see it, I'd wager that some photos of "Flying Rats" are more effective than the installation itself. In person, people-shaped sacks are clearly sacks.
Civilian UAVs: No Pilot, No Problem
Technology is not the limitation," says Rich O'Lear, vice president for Unmanned Aerial Systems at Lockheed Martin. "It's the ability of people to conceive of ways to use the technology."
Civilian UAVs have already demonstrated potential in a wide variety of missions. In 2005 researchers at the National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration flew a 6-ft.-long Aerosonde into the heart of tropical storm Ophelia. Such flights are currently conducted by piloted transport planes at a relatively safe altitude of 10,000 ft. But because a UAV puts no crew at risk, the Aerosonde can be flown a few hundred feet above water, where winds whip at 175 mph and waves can top 60 ft. "It gets us to an area that's very difficult to observe with manned aircraft, because of the danger," says Joe Cione, the project's lead scientist.
STAR AND BUC WILD RETURN TO NY AIRWAVES!
That shit is gonna be hell for them. It's never fun to lose a family member, especially a young man who was doing positive things.
I can't imagine not only what his family feels like, but his teammates as well. I don't know how they are going to play a game on Sunday. .
Warriors know who they are, and they dig it
But his appendix took a powder after Wednesday's win over the Boston Celtics, and he is expected to miss anywhere from two weeks to a month, somewhere between eight and 15 games at a time when the Warriors don't need any absenteeism. Yet here the Warriors stand - lacking an impact big man when the chips go into the middle of the table. This looks, frankly, like a job for Don Nelson's pointy wizard's hat. And no, Patrick O'Bryant isn't the answer, and Brandan Wright isn't either, at least not yet. Biedrins' injury leaves the Warriors vulnerable at a time when the Western Conference has begun to separate into a nine-team upper division, and the Warriors are ninth. The Houston Rockets, Golden State's closest rivals and winners of 18 of their previous 21 games, felt good enough about their place in the universe to ship Bonzi Wells to divisional rival New Orleans.
Sixt targets cargo transportation
MUMBAI: Sona Mobility Services, master franchisee for Germanys Sixt car rental company, for India, is looking to derive growth from the entire mobility space and not just the car rental and lease space segments it currently operates in. The Rs-30-crore company also expects monthly breakeven by March 2008. Alok Dutta, the newly appointed chief executive of the company said, The mobility space, which includes cargo transportation, is quite large and I dont see a reason why we shouldnt be in that space. Sixt in Germany has a successful cargo transportation division, which we could bring here. Looking at the way retail business is developing in India, it is possibility that we undertake the entire mobility requirement of a retail chain end-to-end. Launched in January 2006, Sixt India has expanded slower than it had earlier planned.
Pettit spent $99,000 in losing DA's race
Washington County District Attorney John C. Pettit's re-election committee outspent that of his Republican opponent about 2.5 to 1 in his unsuccessful bid to win a seventh four-year term in office. Campaign finance forms filed this week with the Washington County Elections Office show Pettit's committee spent $61,664 on the election after Oct. 23. For the same reporting period that ended Nov. 26, the Steven Toprani Leadership Committee spent $22,424. Combined with previous campaign finance forms that showed expenditures from June 5 through Oct. 22, Pettit's re-election committee spent a total of $99,413 while Toprani's committee for the same period reported spending $37,827. Both candidates' campaign committees ended the reporting period with unpaid debts and obligations, Pettit to the tune of $41,255 and Toprani with $15,420.
Woman guilty in U. of Washington arson
TACOMA, Wash. -- A federal jury Thursday found a woman guilty of two counts of arson for being the lookout in the 2001 burning of the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture by members of the radical Earth Liberation Front. The judge declared the jury deadlocked on three other counts against Briana Waters, including the most significant count, using a destructive device during a crime of violence, which carries a mandatory minimum of 30 years in prison. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Bartlett said his office would decide within a week whether to retry her on the deadlocked counts. For the arson convictions, Waters, 32, faces 5 to 20 years in prison. Sentencing was set for May 30. She closed her eyes, bowed her head and cried as the verdict was announced.
Clout: Buxom Clinton pic seemed like a good idea at the time
The Nazi leader, architect of the Holocaust, was "a political parasite" who "perverted fascism," Grimes said. Grimes favors the path of Benito Mussolini. "We try to follow Il Duce's ideology," he said. "The corporate state can create economic equality." The fascists won't allow most of a nation's wealth to be in the hands of the few, he said. His party also supports free elections. "We'd allow freer elections than President Bush has allowed," Grimes promised. You mean under fascism the Supreme Court wouldn't get to choose? Grimes has worn Mussolini-inspired black uniforms and Imperial Roman head gear in the past, but says he avoids it while campaigning. "We've all but given up on the uniforms," Grimes said "They don't work in America." Murphy's law The U.S.
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Sprint offers two new unlimited service plans
It is about data services — texting, e-mail, video, pictures, music, navigation, surfing the Web and more. Customers want these applications, but without complexity and without having to worry about their bill.”</p><p>Wall Street, however, was less than impressed.</p><p>“I'm not seeing anything here that's going to change the trajectory much,” said Timothy Horan, an analyst with <strong>Oppenheimer & Co.</strong></p><p>Horan noted that T-Mobile has a plan that offers 1,000 minutes of talk, 1,000 text messages and e-mail for $55.</p><p>John Garcia, Sprint's acting chief marketing officer, said services offered by Sprint and T-Mobile aren't comparable.</p><p>“They are still in a fairly slow network and their data offering is primarily just text and e-mail,” Garcia said during a call with investment analysts.
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