| Huckabee, Obama Win in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Mike Huckabee turned out evangelical voters and Barack Obama captured black and young voters as both won Alabama's presidential primaries Tuesday. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, defeated Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who ran third. Huckabee, with strong appeal to fellow Southern Baptists, earlier won his home state and Georgia. "It's hard for this old Razorback to say 'Roll Tide Roll,' but I'm saying it tonight," Huckabee said. Obama, the Illinois senator, defeated New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who did not visit Alabama during the closing days of the primary. With more than 90 percent of Alabama's precincts reporting, Huckabee had 41 percent, McCain 38 percent, Romney 18 percent and Ron Paul 3 percent.
Hulkmania Hits the Water
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Hulk Hogan, one of the most charismatic icons of popular culture and co-host of the new wildly popular NBC-TV show, "American Gladiators," has teamed up with FLW Outdoors to become the celebrity spokesperson of its world renown professional angler fishing tournaments and its new FLW Fantasy Fishing game in 2008, the largest and richest fantasy sports game in the world. Fans the world over have followed Hogan from his beginnings as the world's biggest pro wrestling star to his induction into the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Hall of Fame, to his many movie and television roles, including his most recent success as the co-host in the over-the-top reality TV show hit, "American Gladiators." The show ranked No. 2 in prime time in the January 14 Nielsen ratings with 10.7 million viewers, according to a report in the New York Times.
Veeam Backup Now Available for VMware Backup and Replication
EMA's research has shown that automated backup and recovery is regarded as the most important and most effective data center automation discipline," said Andi Mann, research director at leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). "Unfortunately, in virtual environments it is often implemented using unsuitable tools, error-prone scripts, or questionable manual procedures. As virtualization increasingly handles mission-critical production workloads, it is vital to use effective backup and recovery tools that are built to manage the virtual environment." Veeam Backup capabilities include: Pricing and Availability Veeam Backup is available immediately, and will be demonstrated in stand 13 at VMworld Europe in Cannes, Feb.
Analysis: Nabucco gets boost
The company that's building the pipeline applied for exemption from the general rule of regulated third-party access in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria, though which the pipeline would pass. EU laws permit such exemptions.
"The safeguards to which the exemption is subject include a capacity cap preventing a dominant undertaking from booking more than half of the Nabucco exit capacity in Austria and rules to ensure a transparent and non-discriminatory capacity allocation to third parties," the EC said in a statement.
This is the latest good news for the pipeline, which announced last week that German utility RWE would join the project.
"Nabucco clearly has strong political support but it's been missing a heavyweight downstream component and it has that in RWE," Simon Blakey, a senior director at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, told United Press International in a telephone interview last week.
The CNN Wire: Wednesday, Nov. 28
Chinese authorities cancelled a scheduled Thanksgiving port call in Hong Kong for the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk just hours before it was supposed to dock. The cancellation was "a costly inconvenience to the families who had traveled there to spend Thanksgiving with their loved ones on board," Morrell said. (Posted 8:12 p.m.) Broadway stagehands could reach agreement to end strike soon NEW YORK (CNN) -- The lights may shine brightly again soon on Broadway if optimism from both sides in the stagehands' contract negotiations proves warranted. After more than 10 hours of talking Wednesday, the two sides were still meeting at 7:15 p.m., and both the League of American Theatres and Producers and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees told CNN they were optimistic for a settlement.
Consumers' Alarm Grows Contagious
AMERICAN CONSUMERS TODAY are a faithless bunch. They trust neither the economy nor the government. They worry about their jobs, their depreciating homes, the debilitated dollar, tight-fisted lenders, $4 gasoline and the creeping proliferation of $14 martinis. Just last week, the Conference Board's index of consumer confidence plunged to its lowest level since March 2003, before the Iraq war began. Their alarm -- and apprehension in the credit market -- is becoming contagious. Stocks fell hard Friday as investors hoping for a swift economic rebound found their faith sorely tested on several fronts: Continued dislocations in the debt market, surging commodity prices and yet more evidence of an economy in decline. For a while last week, stock-market investors had held out hope despite the accumulation of bad news, which included data showing a 7.7% year-over-year jump in producer prices, the biggest such increase since 1981.
John DiStaso's Granite Status: Jeb Bradley advocates flatter, simpler ...
Buckley's not only not revealing them, but we understand he's not telling any of his candidates who the others are. Talk about compartmentalization. On the Republican side, former state Sen. Carl Johnson and Rep. Fran Wendelboe are looking at possible runs for the District 2 seat held by Democrat Deb Reynolds. Last night, GOP chair Cullen, Senate Republican Leader Ted Gatsas and other Republican state senators were scheduled to hold a closed-door strategy session to talk about the upcoming elections. The Republicans are expected to have eight incumbents seeking reelection, while Bob Clegg runs for the U.S. House and Kenney runs for governor. Prescott's team It's way too early to say if former state Sen. Russell Prescott will have a primary in his bid for the GOP nomination for the District 3 Executive Council seat held by Democrat Bev Hollingworth.
Radio Talk
Find a new morning show elsewhere and have them take three to five years to become a big hit (or not). Or bring in a syndicated show like Rick & Bubba and hope it works immediately? (That didn't work with Bob & Tom or John Boy and Billy). Or just leave it as a "more music" show with no personality? Here's the pool of potential local available (if not always compatible) talent: Steve Barnes, Jimmy Baron, Tim Rhodes, Southside Steve Rickman, Eric "Shark" from Dave FM, Gary "Wally" Wallace. Fin will be covering for now. I hear Tim Andrews (known on the show as Porn Czar) is out, too, I hear. And I have a feeling Larry and Eric won't be sticking together. Then again, they said in 2004 they'd never work together again after the first dismissal. You have to wonder if either will be able to find a job in the Atlanta market again.
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