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http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Ffr1U7KMYBarack Obama gets his BlackBerry
By Mark Silva / Chicago Tribune / January 23, 2009
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<<The president wants a BlackBerry, the president gets a BlackBerry. It's important to Obama, who has voiced his own wariness about entering the "bubble" enveloping a president. "He believes that it's a way of keeping in touch with folks, a way of doing it outside of getting stuck in a bubble," Gibbs said.>>
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Rover (The Prisoner)
<<Rover is a fictional entity from the 1967 British television program The Prisoner, and was an integral part of the way 'prisoners' were kept within the The Village. It was depicted as a floating white ball that could coerce and if necessary disable inhabitants of the Village, primarily Number Six. In one incident it even killed a person, but it is not clear whether the ability to kill was a normal feature of Rover or this was a malfunction. Several aspects of the Rover device were not explained, presumably left to the imagination/speculation of the viewer.
Rover was only named onscreen in one episode, "The Schizoid Man.", but the name appears throughout the scripts. Number Six also once refers to Rover as "The Headmaster". In the novel The Prisoner: Number Two by David McDaniel, based upon the series, the name Guardian was used instead of Rover.
Rover was depicted as a large white inflatable balloon, not quite fully inflated, with a flexible skin. Rover would often produce a muffled roar sound when attacking. It would also sometimes emit a strange light display / luminescence from its interior. Once released, Rover could bounce and glide across the land and sea for a long range and at high speed, faster than say a vehicle or boat.
Rover is apparently a self-aware and/or semi-intelligent being, and could interact with its surroundings, adjusting to and anticipating the actions of Number 6 and other characters. No apparent direct control was ever shown to be exerted over it by the controllers of the Village, other than to release it. It would occasionally be seen outside of its normal environment, sitting placidly in rooms, in Number 2's chair, roaming the streets of The Village, or being studied by unidentified persons in "secret" areas of The Village.
Rover possessed considerable strength, and was able, if necessary, to incapacitate people either by blunt force impacts, or through suffocation by pinning the subject down.
The use of Rover appeared to be both intimidatory and functional. Following encounters in the early episodes, where Rover physically interacts on prisoners, the Number 6 character gradually comes to give up trying to defeat Rover directly, and its mere presence is often enough to achieve its objectives.
Rover could be summoned at the direction of the control room, with a stock scene of its inflation shown before its appearance, although this sequence could also be omitted with Rover appearing spontaneously. It would be inflated beneath the sea, although its first appearance came as being inflated from the Village fountain. No explanation was ever made as to where Rover went after its mission had been completed.>>
