| Clinton's confidence dwindles as aides face her campaign's possible ...
I like Barack Obama's message it is time for change. The republican party has been running the white house for the last eight years. At one point i did like clinton however i feel she's more on the attack instead of the issues. Barack Obama stay frim and discuss change and whats his plans you didn't see obama crying when he was losing unlike clinton. .
ChannelAdvisor Announces Catalyst Conference 2008
ChannelAdvisor Announces Catalyst Conference 2008 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- ChannelAdvisor, the leading provider of e-commerce channel management solutions, announced today it will host the annual ChannelAdvisor Catalyst Conference on April 1-3 in Pinehurst, NC. The invitation-only event will help retailers sort through the numerous existing and emerging locations where consumers can shop online and help them develop true multi-channel strategies for selling their products. ChannelAdvisor Catalyst will bring together leading retailers, marketplace sellers, representatives from eBay, Google, Amazon.com and Overstock.com NASDAQ: OSTK as well as industry experts to discuss best practices and real- world solutions during three days of relevant presentations, interactive sessions and panel discussions.
Orlando airport to spend $381M to boost main terminal's capacity
Orlando International Airport is about to embark on a nearly $400 million construction plan designed to squeeze an extra five years of life from its main terminal.
Planners say the sweeping overhaul -- which will include pushing the third-level ticket counters back 12 feet, replacing 18 luggage-claim stations and installing new self-service machines alongside the curbs and the counters -- would allow the airport to put off the far more expensive construction of a second terminal until at least 2015.
The board of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, which oversees OIA, voted Wednesday to spend an initial $5 million to engineer the initial changes and to begin soliciting bids from contractors who want a piece of the work.
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The election day turnout surpassed expectations
But there has to be no spinning or crafting of words to declare the turnout of 4.2 million Texas voters as anything but a resounding win for the ballot box. On one night, Texans reversed what had been a depressing trend of anemic turnouts in past state elections. The outpouring of voters outdid all previous turnouts by a bunch. The word "record" hardly fits the flood of voters who engulfed ballot boxes from Dallas to Brownsville. The closest number on the Secretary of State's records was the 2.7 million who turned out in 1988. Some Houston precincts didn't close their doors until after 11 p.m. so lengthy was the line of voters waiting to cast their ballots. Some Corpus Christi voting precincts had turnouts more than 40 percent. The overall turnout in Corpus Christi was 33 percent, easily exceeding the 2004 primary turnout of 17.8 percent.
Bears take a breather
Warrens Buffetts move to take over tax-exempt insurance businesses from mono-lines is a move almost everyone likes. We reaffirmed last week that stocks were in a confirmed bear market. We also categorically stated that a pullback rally within the larger downtrend was overdue and should be used solely to lighten up on long-only exposures. Stocks played to script this week notching up modest gains despite the heightened volatility that usually accompanies an options expiration week. Stocks gained sharply mid-week following Warren Buffett's bailout plan for the mono-lines and a narrower-than-expected trade deficit. But comments from Ben Bernanke and a remarkably weak consumer sentiment survey spoiled the party. The front-line indexes closed out the week with a respectable 0.5%-1.5% gain.
Fidel Castro, Exit Stage Left
We thought the dictatorship would end with a bang, not a whimper.</p><p>After taking note of numerous efforts to bring down Fidel Castro through violent means, we expected that he would get his head blown off from another exploding cigar.</p><p>Word is that the CIA tried that tactic. It failed.</p><p>Then Fidel gave up smoking.</p><p>There was another story -- unsubstantiated, as are most of these plots. According to this one, the CIA tried to put itching powder in his famous beard. The idea was to drive him mad thus rendering him incapacitated and incapable of running the Communist country. He then could be overthrown from within, prison doors would be thrust open, the presses would resume, and democracy would flourish.</p><p>Close but no cigar.</p><p>That's what you get when you send a bunch of high school pranksters to overthrow a government and kill its unelected leader.
Buckner: Answers to five big state hoops questions
Thirty-one wins. That's the mark Missouri teams dream about. The most wins available in a season. Of course, it rarely happens around these parts. This weekend, Hickman Mills can become the first Kansas City area girls team in almost two decades to cap a perfect 31-0 season with a state championship. In 1992, Oak Grove reached the magic number. The Liberty boys did the same in 1998, but no KC area team has done it since. 2 Can St. Thomas Aquinas save the city? So it's come down to this. St. Thomas Aquinas stands as the last shot to break the drought in Kansas Class 5A. A Kansas City area team has not won the Kansas 5A boys state title since Bishop Miege did in 2001. Seven years. Long time. Back then cell-phone cameras didn't exist. Neither did Facebook.com. The Jonas Brothers were around — they were just called Hanson.
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