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The Warm Up and Warner

Senator Bob Casey from Pennsylvania got the crowd hyped with a "Four More Months" chant that's still buzzing around the arena and- I bet- we'll be hearing more of in the next couple days. He pushed hard on Biden as a native son of Pennsylvania- in case anybody needed a bit more convincing in the Keystone state. He was followed by a true hero of the equality and labor movements, Lilly Ledbetter, speaking on Women's Equality Day. She got huge cheers for her landmark discrimination case and big bo read

Lilly Ledbetter of Gadsden, Alabama...HELL YEAH!

On stage right now at the DNC talking about equal pay for equal work! And then they played her out to I'm So Excited by the Pointer Sisters...really? What on earth is going on with their musical director? read

DNC Night Two Open Thread

Well tonight we get what we all have been waiting for, Hillary’s attempt to make it look like she really, really wants Barack Obama to win. We also get the keynote address from Virginia’s future US Senator Mark Warner. here is a full list of the major speakers for tonight. Headliner - Hillary Keynote Address - Mark Warner Pay Equity pioneer Lilly Ledbetter Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts Governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas Governor Janet Napo read

DNC Convention Speeches Day 2 - Including Keynote Mark Warner, Hillary Clinton, and Eleanor Holmes Norton

4:01 CT: We’re here and ready to go. 4:17: Mayor Shirley Franklin of Atlanta calls the meeting to order. And time for prayer, which conveniently recalls most of the Democratic platform. The colors are presented, the pledge of allegiance is stated, and the national anthem is sung. Not to offend little kids, but the National Anthem isn’t one of those things that sounds better when sung by a children’s choir. 4:23: This segues awkwardly into a hip-hop video featuring DC. It’s for Eleanor Holmes read

Spin Control 2.0: Where the heck are our delegates?

Wondering where the Washington and Idaho delegations are hanging out during the convention? Might be hard to spot them in those shots from the podium. Idaho was supposed to be up front, but got moved to the back of the hall to make room for veep candidate Joe Biden's home state. (See previous post here.) They're only slightly behind where Washington state started. Facing out from the podium, Washington is back and to the right, between Texas and Hawaii. Idaho is next to the District of Columbi read

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FAA Computer Glitch Delays Flights

Some sort of computer failure in Georgia slowed down the filing of flight plans to the FAA today, which caused major delays at some major airports - particularly Atlanta, the nation's busiest. I've been trying for hours to analyze how big a deal this was. CNN was all over it, but then CNN is based in Atlanta. The Associated Press refers to "mass delays," but nobody has the full details yet. And I'm still not quite clear on exactly what went wrong. One guy who seemed to know what he was talkin read

120 GB Zune

120 GB Zune Published on August 26th, 2008 Posted by John C Dvorak in General 2 Comments Amazon to use Kindle as a platform for textbooks. Canon EOS 50D getting ink. N96 from Nokia has the Smartphone folks buzzing. nVidia getting ink for speeches and the Tegra chip. 120 GB Zune coming out. Will HP target Sun now? Intel spent half a million in lobbying. Photoshop Elements 7 now out. IPO deals off 75-percent. FAA mess needs to be talked up a lot more. click ► to listen: read

What FAA glitch? All calm at LAX

Andrew Nystrom, our senior Travel producer, was headed for the airport shortly after news broke of the FAA computer glitch that threatened to cause flight delays across the nation. Here is a timeline of his updates as he reported by BlackBerry from the road and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). 2:27 p.m. Smooth sailing on fwys [...] read

Por fallas de computador, retrasos de hasta una hora en vuelos desde y hacia Atlanta (E.U.)

La Administración Federal de Aviación atribuyó el problema a una falla de comunicación en una instalación de Georgia que procesa planes de vuelo para la región este de Estados Unidos. Kathleen Bergen, portavoz de la FAA -sigla en inglés de la agencia-, indicó que no hay problemas de seguridad y que las autoridades aún pueden hablar con los pilotos en los aviones tanto en tierra como en el aire. Bergen dice que el problema, el cual comenzó el martes por la tarde, involucra una instalación de l read

Por fallas de computador, retrasos de hasta una hora en vuelos desde y hacia Atlanta (E.U.)

La Administración Federal de Aviación atribuyó el problema a una falla de comunicación en una instalación de Georgia que procesa planes de vuelo para la región este de Estados Unidos. Kathleen Bergen, portavoz de la FAA -sigla en inglés de la agencia-, indicó que no hay problemas de seguridad y que las autoridades aún pueden hablar con los pilotos en los aviones tanto en tierra como en el aire. Bergen dice que el problema, el cual comenzó el martes por la tarde, involucra una instalación de l read

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The Weekend Wash: The Best UF Undergrads, Keeley Does Playboy, and Siobhan Parekh

One of these girls will be cheering next year So while everyone is out having fun in the sunshine, basking in the wind and having water fights, I’m sitting here. Yes, sitting here because I have to have ankle surgery. Thanks world. And thanks to the doctors who didn’t realize it was a fracture over a year ago. Yippee! Hope most of you are out and not reading this. The Wash Our favorite UF Undergrads will be rooting on Tebow in ‘08 - [Busted Coverage] Best News Ever? Keeley Hazell to ap read

Toronto | Celeb overflow?

Toronto | Celeb overflow? The annual completion of the Toronto lineup now comes with a laundry list of celebs "expected to attend," sent as a separate press release. It's such a mass of major and minor names, packed so tightly together on the page, that it resembles more of a boast than a list. It has all the subtlety of fishing with dynamite, and crystallizes the role Toronto plays on the fest circuit -- promotion, promotion, promotion. John Sloss, who is selling Richard Linklater's "Me read

Here’s 60 Public Speaking Tip-Bits To Keep You Ahead Of The Speaking Game

Photo credits goes to Paul Watson Aren’t you curious about how to take the guesswork of public speaking? Aren’t you dying to find out that ONE lesson top speakers learn that made all the difference? Aren’t you intrigued by how some amateur speakers could wow the crowd by applying that one tip-bit? I did. And lucky for you, I took the liberty to find out. Presenting to you a list of 60 public speaking tip-bits that kept the top speakers ahead of the speaking game. So can you… if you tak read

New Grass Revival

Artist: New Grass Revival Genre(s): Country Discography: New Grass Anthology Year: 1990 Tracks: 10 Live Year: 1984 Tracks: 7 New Grass Revival, formed in 1972 by four-spot late members of the Bluegrass Alliance, flourished in a decade when legion groups took traditional bluegrass Region and changed it to varying degrees. The grouping was successful sufficiency to have the group’s identify become a generic gospel According to Mark: “newgrass.” The read

Ironman 70.3 Steelhead Triathlon: 2008 Race Results

Ironman 70.3 Steelhead Triathlon: 2008 Race Results On Saturday August 2, in St. Joseph Michigan, 1888 triathletes finished the 2008 Ironman 70.3 Steelhead Triathlon. Of the finishers, 1378 were men, 510 were women, and the average finish time was 5:14:31. Time Rank/Sex Finisher 3:37:04 1/1378 Justin Henkel 3:41:34 2/1378 Tony White 3:42:19 3/1378 Nick Waninger 3:42:25 4/1378 Ryan Rau 3:47:07 5/1378 Mark Harms 3:48:09 read

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Oil rises in Asia on worries about Hurricane Gustav (Oil-Prices)

SINGAPORE _ Oil prices in Asia rose Tuesday on concerns Hurricane Gustav may disrupt oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico.It`s hard to predict where Gustav will strike, said Victor Shum, an energy analyst with Purvin & Gertz in Singapore. But the market is reacting to it and edging up some.Light, sweet crude for October delivery was up 58 cents at US$115.69 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midafternoon in Singapore. The contract rose 52 cents overnight to set read

Hurricane Gustav strengthens slightly: NHC

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Gustav strengthened slightly early Tuesday in the central Caribbean as it churned toward southwestern Haiti, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest report. read

Hurricane Gustav takes aim at Haiti, Gulf

MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Gustav barreled toward vulnerable Haiti on Tuesday and appeared set to become a "major" storm later in the week as it neared the Gulf of Mexico where the United States produces a large amount of oil and gas. read

Gustav Strengthens Near Haiti - NHC Forecast is Aggressive

I'm actually eating a stuffed bell pepper at 5:00 am this morning while tracking Hurricane Gustav. You could either call it an odd early breakfast or a very late dinner - hey, hurricane watching makes me hungry. I actually stayed up for the 5:00 am NHC discussion. Late last night a friend sent me an excerpt from New Orleans meteorologist Bob Breck's blog post - Bob is respected by many here for his low key, non panicky approach to hurricane watching and forecasting. Bob writes "This is not read

Hurricane Gustav gaining strength south of Haiti

Hurricane Gustav continued to gain strength Tuesday and forecasters said it could become a Category 2 hurricane before hitting ... read