MARTHA STEWART AT BAIKONUR
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Anything for a friend: Martha Stewart visits launch pad to watch pal blast off
By Maria Danilova Associated Press
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Martha Stewart, the apostle of the cozy and the quaint, came Friday to the bleak space town of Baikonur to watch a billionaire friend blast off for the international space station.
Stewart, who parlayed her vision of gracious living into a business empire, is a longtime friend of Charles Simonyi, a software engineer and developer of Microsoft Word who paid $20-25 million for a 13-day trip to the international space station.
He will lift off Saturday, aboard a Soyuz space capsule with two Russian cosmonauts.
Stewart and Simonyi have been friends for about a decade, and some celebrity-gossip publications have suggested they're romantically linked. The Globe tabloid reported in 2005 that Stewart and Simonyi were set to wed, but rumors of their romantic relationship have dwindled since.
Her arrival in Baikonur inspired wide speculation that the two would announce their engagement before liftoff. A spokeswoman for Space Adventures, the company that arranged Simonyi's trip, declined to comment on her visit other than to say she would watch the launch.
Baikonur, a collection of worn concrete buildings amid the barren, seemingly endless Kazakhstan steppes, would seem extremely low on Stewart's list for an ideal place to announce her betrothal. But she's already made an attempt at sprucing up the space trip.
Stewart chose the menu for a gourmet meal that Simonyi will be taking to the ISS as a treat for his comrades in space. They plan a celebratory feast for April 12, which Russia observes as Cosmonauts' Day.
The menu includes quail roasted in Madiran wine, duck breast confit with capers, shredded chicken parmentier, apple fondant pieces, rice pudding with candied fruit, and semolina cake with dried apricots.
At the space travelers' final news conference, the 58-year-old Simonyi said he had spoken with Gregory Olsen, and Anousheh Ansari - the two most recent space tourists - "and they gave me a lot of advice not to move my head and not to drink too much before the launch."
Simonyi, born in Hungary, now lives in the Seattle area.
He began programming on a bulky Soviet computer called Ural-2 as a teenager in Hungary. He then traveled to Denmark to work as a programmer and moved to the United States in 1968, where he worked at Microsoft developing Microsoft Word and Excel and eventually founded his own software company.
He said his friend Microsoft CEO Bill Gates was excited about Simonyi's adventure. "I am in contact with Bill and he is very happy that I am doing this."
While at the space station, Simonyi will be conducting a number of experiments, including measuring radiation levels and studying biological organisms inside the lab. He will also be writing a blog that he hopes will inspire others, especially children, to get interested in space exploration.
"There is an element of hope. We don't quite know what we are going to find, but we have to go and see and find it," Simonyi said.
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Simonyi's blog:
On 7 Apr 2007 at 10:51, Arthur Rowe wrote:
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Anything for a friend: Martha Stewart visits launch pad to watch pal blast off
By Maria Danilova Associated Press
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Martha Stewart, the apostle of the cozy and the quaint, came Friday to the bleak space town of Baikonur to watch a billionaire friend blast off for the international space station.
Stewart, who parlayed her vision of gracious living into a business empire,
They probably overlook this part of her life on purpose as it is a well establish bad habits on the news media down south here...
Just to put the record straight i added this to the "Cozy and the quaint" queen biography.
Martha Stewart
In 2002, she was accused of insider trading and other crimes relating to statements that she made to investigators, and in 2004 she was convicted of a felony other than insider trading, sentenced to prison, fined, and barred from serving on a public company Board of Directors and from serving in certain executive capacities for five years. Since her release from prison in March 2005, Stewart has been focused on reviving the fortunes of her businesses, which had suffered due to media coverage of the scandal, her conviction and incarceration, and the resulting volatile price of her company's stock.
In her quest to regain a bit of her rugs and towels empire she will perform another media stunt when her "supposed" boy friend will ask her hand "and the rest who goes with it" from space.
Another TV show saga in the making as survivors and the others american cultural show's! Just to added we also have the same type of show here as much cultural than the others.
For those who rely on her to let go their spring fever here is a link more suitable for their needs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceSxEjwXHcM
PS. If it's the price to pay to have the ISS radio system look at i just think my commenting are the change... Probably she will also launch a new astronauts diaper collection too! Just doesn't know wich logo will be on them? a red fish?
"-" "She launch a new collection named "Jail house linnens.with a red fish tag"
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
Has she not paid her dues????
-----Original Message----- From: sarex-bounces@AMSAT.Org [mailto:sarex-bounces@AMSAT.Org] On Behalf Of Luc Leblanc Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 12:14 PM To: sarex@AMSAT.Org Subject: [sarex] Re: MARTHA STEWART AT BAIKONUR
On 7 Apr 2007 at 10:51, Arthur Rowe wrote:
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NEWSPAPER
Anything for a friend: Martha Stewart visits launch pad to watch pal blast off
By Maria Danilova Associated Press
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Martha Stewart, the apostle of the cozy and the
quaint, came Friday to the bleak space town of Baikonur to watch a billionaire friend blast off for the international space station.
Stewart, who parlayed her vision of gracious living into a business empire,
They probably overlook this part of her life on purpose as it is a well establish bad habits on the news media down south here...
Just to put the record straight i added this to the "Cozy and the quaint" queen biography.
Martha Stewart
In 2002, she was accused of insider trading and other crimes relating to
statements that she made to investigators, and in 2004 she was convicted of a felony other than insider trading, sentenced to prison, fined, and barred from serving on a public company Board of Directors and from serving in certain executive capacities for five years. Since her release from prison in March 2005, Stewart has been focused on reviving the fortunes of her businesses, which had suffered due to media coverage of the scandal, her conviction and incarceration, and the resulting volatile price of her company's stock.
In her quest to regain a bit of her rugs and towels empire she will perform another media stunt when her "supposed" boy friend will ask her hand "and the rest who goes with it" from space.
Another TV show saga in the making as survivors and the others american cultural show's! Just to added we also have the same type of show here as much cultural than the others.
For those who rely on her to let go their spring fever here is a link more suitable for their needs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceSxEjwXHcM
PS. If it's the price to pay to have the ISS radio system look at i just think my commenting are the change... Probably she will also launch a new astronauts diaper collection too! Just doesn't know wich logo will be on them? a red fish?
"-" "She launch a new collection named "Jail house linnens.with a red fish tag"
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
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On 10 Apr 2007 at 8:11, Victor Springer wrote:
Has she not paid her dues????
The very same question is also relevant for O.J. Simson and Karla Homolka are they really paying their dues? One thing is certain we cannot dissociate them from their acts. In each and every legal condemnation there is an element of "exemplary sentence" It is made on purpose to show the public what its not acceptable and that the society is not accepting that.
If it was not the case the court of law will be behind close doors. Just to remind you the military tribunal in Guantanamo...
"-" "It is not the class of license the amateur holds, but the class of the amateur that holds the license."
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
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