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The Pivotal Helix is a single-seat eVTOL (electric Vertical Take-Off & Landing) PAV (Personal Aerial Vehicle) with a range of 20+ miles (with 20% reserve) and a cruise speed 55 knots (63 mph). You can order now for July 2024 delivery, and no license is required, though you can't take delivery until you have completed the training. Pivotal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Personal flight is currently undergoing a renaissance thanks to the rapid advancement of so many requisite industrial technologies. The next phase of personal flight is poised to begin and the production version of this aircraft could well mark the occasion in...

VeriSign Inc. is selling its Network Solutions business, which provides Internet domain name registrations, to Pivotal Private Equity for approximately $100 million so it can focus on infrastructure services. VeriSign gained Network Solutions' registrar and registry businesses when it purchased the company in 2000. The registrar business, which offers services such as business e-mail, Web sites, hosting and Web presence, will go to Pivotal Private Equity, the company said Thursday. VeriSign will retain the registry business, which provides the backbone for the .com and .net domain names. VeriSign recently renamed the registry business VeriSign Naming and Directory Services and...

This includes final polls up through election day, and horizontal lines added indicating actual vote percentages for McCain and Obama.

This includes final polls up through yesterday, and horizontal lines added indicating actual vote percentages for McCain and Obama.

The last three days have shown the strongest shift toward McCain since August ...

... polsters tend to be skewed one way or another, helps to see them charted over time individually, and all one page ... ... here's McCain v. Obama, all polls, going back a couple of years ... http://www.mindspring.com/~hk3/obammc.htm

I'm an old guy (76), been lurking Free Republic since 1996, posting a little now and then. Engineer type, own business as a mgmt consultant since 1968 doing mostly business plans, which are basically numbers and charts, with just enough words to try to make them make sense (professional guesser :)). My plea here is, that in spite of all our concerns about McCain/Palin, we must set those concerns aside and (1) fight to help them win and (2) not give up, no matter how down we might get at times. There are two huge reasons why ... The biggest,...

... things are looking better ... check the long term poll results and recent Gallup line graphs ... (updates 2/3 times per week until the election)

Added Pennsylvania (21) and Nevada (5) to the previous six states (95 electoral votes), that's a total of 121, with 99 needed to get from present 171 fairly secure for McCain to the 270 required to win ... thought about adding one for New Mexico, but the hispanic vote will I think win that one for Obama ...

This includes Florida (27), Ohio (20), North Carolina (15), Virginia (13), Missouri (11) and Colorado (9) ... McCain now has 171 electoral votes pretty sure, needs 270 to win ...

NAVASOTA — Freshly bruised from a second-place finish in the South Carolina Republican primary, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee told a gathering of Texas financial supporters Sunday that the GOP nomination may come down to the Lone Star State on March 4. "By the time we get through Feb. 5, there still will not be a decisive winner," said Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas. "I'm having to reach down deep and swallow my Arkansas pride, and it is taking everything in me to be able to say this, but, folks, Texas may just have to save this Arkansas boy and...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. (July 13, 2006) -- Marine Aerial Refueler and Transport Squadron 252, the squadron that performed the first in-flight helicopter refueling more than 30 years ago, continues to play integral roles in air combat innovation and military operations throughout the world. As Lt. Col. David A. Krebs took the reigns of VMGR-252, June 30, he spoke enthusiastically about the opportunity to assume command of a squadron that is flexible enough to be deployed and stretched thin. Saturday, VMGR-252 participated in the first transatlantic MV-22 Osprey flight. Meanwhile, approximately 25 percent of the squadron is...

Syria: Assad to Deliver Pivotal Speech Thursday 14:50 Nov 09, '05 / 7 Cheshvan 5766 (IsraelNN.com) According to the Syrian press agency SANA, Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad will deliver an important, "comprehensive" speech on Thursday. It will address both regional and internal issues, the agency said. A Beirut newspaper, An-Nahar, reported that the speech would include a response to the United Nations investigation of members of the Assad regime in connection with the assassination of Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri earlier this year. Arab League chairman Amr Mousa is quoted by the Beirut newspaper as saying, "Something very important will happen...

<p>Hispanics are poised to emerge as an influential voting force in the United States, observers say, especially now that two southwestern states are playing an earlier role in the presidential nominating process.</p> <p>More than 35 million Hispanics live in the United States, according to Census Bureau figures. Nearly 2.7 million reside in the seven states holding primaries or caucuses Tuesday, the first day of multistate elections for Democrats seeking their party's nomination.</p>

Day 16: A pivotal battle is won. But how many more now lie ahead? By John Lichfield 05 April 2003 In the conventional war – the set-piece military one – yesterday was pivotal. That war is now, evidently, almost over. Baghdad will soon be surrounded; many hundreds of soldiers in the Republican Guard have surrendered; many others have died; Baghdad airport, a main strategic and psychological objective, has a new owner and a new name. But is the war itself almost over? American and British political and military figures were at great pains to insist that it was not. They...