Plenty of space for the people smugglers to bring the migrants down here by cover of night, launch them off in those small wooden boats and head them towards the Italian island of Lampedusa, or sometimes to Malta.
Scaled Composites, founded by renowned aircraft designer Burt Rutan, historically has kept the timing of important test flights under wraps partly to prevent crowds from gathering at the Mojave airport, and partly to avoid putting undue pressure on project managers to launch or take off.
Last month Mayor Sly James kicked off Launch KC, a program to provide free Wi-Fi and cheap office space downtown, build a data center to help startups, reduce taxes for tech companies that relocate and create a tech lab where entrepreneurs can kick around ideas and learn how to run a business.
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But the launch was embarrassingly called off because the handsets do not work yet.
This Thursday, the website will officially take off at Launch Conference and it intends to take your desktop to the cloud.
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Fresh off the launch of the Tablet PC that has dominated his Comdex speeches for the last two years, Gates turned attention toward smart displays.
Acer has just come off the launch of its business-focused, Microsoft Windows-based W500 tablet and its consumer-centric, Android-based A500 tablet, both of which sport 10.1-inch displays.
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And so, in due course, the alien craft arrive: tetchy pilotless drones in the shape of pizzas, from which individual slices peel off to launch spicy, deep-crust attacks on defenseless mortals.
She closed out a launch where executives showed off a number of software features for the new BlackBerry 10 platform that had already been teased to the press over the last few months.
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In the same over he should have been stumped, Pietersen advanced down the track to launch consecutive straight sixes off Hussey, and England seemed to be set fair for a score in excess of 300.
If TiME is to make it off the launch pad it will have to grasp one of the smaller mission opportunities that Nasa periodically offers, such as the one it runs under its Discovery Class programme.
President Barack Obama kicked off the launch by signing a Presidential Memorandum creating the first ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity which will include the DPC, Office of the First Lady, Interior, USDA, HHS, Education, NEC and other agencies.
Thomson Reuters is also kicking off the launch with street marketing efforts in key markets such as Toronto, New York and London, as well as launch activities planned around the World Economic Forum, which begins this Wednesday, in Davos, Switzerland.
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Last but not least, each one will be 50% off during their launch week on PSN.
But cleanup missions to pick up all the trash cast off by a launch are prohibitively expensive.
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The public boat launch is on Lake Harris off Route 28N in Newcomb.
President Pranab Mukherjee watched the rocket carrying the seven satellites take off from Sriharikota launch centre in southern Andhra Pradesh state.
Multi-touch gestures, an app store, home screens, full-screen apps, the ability to auto save your work, and resume apps where the user left off when they launch again.
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Even before the U.S. launch, the 3DS is off to the most promising start of any game system in at least a decade, according to pre-sale observations from Amazon.com.
It was fifty years ago today that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from a launch pad in the Soviet Union to bravely go where no man had gone before.
When these platforms are dropped off by their launch rockets they are in a large ellipse around the Earth running from just a few hundred km above the planet out to 36, 000km.
The latest automaker talking about dealerships and the customer experience is Ford in its overhaul of its struggling Lincoln brand, which kicks off with the launch of the upcoming Lincoln MKZ sedan, introduced in concept form at the recent Detroit auto show.
"This mission represents the power of teamwork, commitment and exploration, " the commander said in a radio call to launch controllers moments before lift-off.
Additionally, the Nick App will also serve as a creative sandbox for Nickelodeon, incubating new original animated and live-action content that will attract repeat viewing, launch shareable content and spin-off new series for television.
That piece of insulation, which fell off 82 seconds after launch, hit the leading edge of Columbia's left wing and caused enough damage to bring about the shuttle's destruction when it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere February 1.
Clearly some buyers decided to hold off making purchases pending the launch of the Mini.
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Samsung caught more than a few off guard with its US launch plans for the Galaxy S III, but primarily for what it didn't do.
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State media say the lift-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert is likely to occur between 21:16 and 21:31 local time (13:16-13:31 GMT).
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