Shane Kimbrough, currently the only American in space, cast his ballot from the International Space Station (Iss) on Monday.
The astronaut listed his address as “low-Earth orbit,” according to the Christian Science Monitor.
The voting process for them “starts a year before launch, when astronauts are able to select which elections (local/state/federal) that they want to participate in while in space,” Nasa officials wrote in a blog post. “Then, six months before the election, astronauts are provided with a standard form: the “Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request – Federal Post Card Application.”
Nasa astronaut David Wolf was the...
The astronaut listed his address as “low-Earth orbit,” according to the Christian Science Monitor.
The voting process for them “starts a year before launch, when astronauts are able to select which elections (local/state/federal) that they want to participate in while in space,” Nasa officials wrote in a blog post. “Then, six months before the election, astronauts are provided with a standard form: the “Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request – Federal Post Card Application.”
Nasa astronaut David Wolf was the...
- 11/9/2016
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Have you ever had the experience of buying a deal from Groupon or LivingSocial, getting to the merchant (a restaurant, let's say), and awkwardly giving the server a crumpled piece of paper to prove that you deserve $20 worth of food for just $10? LevelUp, a recently released app from Google Ventures-backed game platform Scvngr, wants to lower the daily deal embarrassment factor, courtesy of a partnership with American Express that allows users to redeem deals without having to show a printed-out piece of paper or hold up their cell phone to merchants.
LevelUp is similar to other daily deal sites, but with one big difference: Instead of providing one-off deals, the six-week-old service provides three levels of deals (good, better, and best). So a user might unlock the first deal at a rock-climbing gym, for example, by purchasing a discounted introduction to rock-climbing class. Once that deal has been unlocked, the...
LevelUp is similar to other daily deal sites, but with one big difference: Instead of providing one-off deals, the six-week-old service provides three levels of deals (good, better, and best). So a user might unlock the first deal at a rock-climbing gym, for example, by purchasing a discounted introduction to rock-climbing class. Once that deal has been unlocked, the...
- 5/10/2011
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
Beijing -- After last year's Olympics drew global attention to China's shining modernity, 2009 proved a year of firsts for Hollywood studios trying to break into -- and ring serious returns from -- the planet's fastest-growing movie market.
Boxoffice is booming, up an average of 25% during each of the past five years. The screen count is expected to reach 6,000 -- by comparison, there are about 40,000 in the U.S. -- by the end of next year. With 1.3 billion people, there's plenty of room for growth: The country's overall economy is set to expand 8% this year, its banks are granting film loans and the government is encouraging co-productions.
Hollywood prospectors began mining in January, when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment opened its first Blu-ray factory in China -- in Shanghai -- with the aim of releasing 100 titles by year's end to tempt the growing number of Chinese willing to spend up to $30 a disc,...
Boxoffice is booming, up an average of 25% during each of the past five years. The screen count is expected to reach 6,000 -- by comparison, there are about 40,000 in the U.S. -- by the end of next year. With 1.3 billion people, there's plenty of room for growth: The country's overall economy is set to expand 8% this year, its banks are granting film loans and the government is encouraging co-productions.
Hollywood prospectors began mining in January, when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment opened its first Blu-ray factory in China -- in Shanghai -- with the aim of releasing 100 titles by year's end to tempt the growing number of Chinese willing to spend up to $30 a disc,...
- 12/10/2009
- by By Jonathan Landreth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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