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Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has notified the state and national Democratic parties that the scheduled date of the Democratic National Convention is a few days after the deadline for the party to put its nominees for president and vice president on the ballot for the general election in November. Allen, who is a Republican, said state law requires parties to provide a certification of nomination for president and vice president no later than Aug. 15.

Ok...I'm a retired IT guy and really puzzled why I can't figure this out. I have a Samsung Galaxy 22 Android phone. Up till a week ago FR was perfectly readable. One day it suddenly made the type very small like a desktop only website. I also have a small Samsung tablet. FR still looks fine on it. I have looked at FR settings and Chrome browser settings and can't find anything that will fix it. I did just try Firefox on my phone and it looks fine, so obviously this appears to be a Chrome setting problem, but I...

USA Teams Win 2 Gun Gold and Silver at 2019 World Benchrest Championship The 15th World Benchrest Championship was held July 17-21, 2019 at the Rosebud Silhouette and Benchrest Club near Calgary Alberta Canada. Team USA fielded three four man teams. USA Team C won Gold and USA Team A won Silver in the 2 gun grand aggregate. Australia Team A won Bronze. Joel Nader won individual Gold in the 2 gun making him the current World Champion. His .1325 agg in Light Varmint 200 was a WBC World Record and helped him also win Gold in Light Varmint Grand....

On the Saturday following Thanksgiving 2013, Ms. Karen, my 94-year-old father, Bill Gressinger, and I were visiting Pima Air and Space Museum. We were in Hanger #4 to view the beautifully restored B-29, when I happened to take notice of a P-51 Mustang near the big bomber. It’s name … “Bad Angel”. P-51 Mustang "Bad Angel" in Hanger #4 at the Pima Air and Space Museum. P-51 Mustang "Bad Angel" in Hanger #4 at the Pima Air and Space Museum. I was admiring its aerodynamic lines and recalled enough history to know that until the Mustangs came into service, the...

Defense and special teams set the tone; Alabama set the table for a two-game playoff run after a 54-16 SEC Championship Game win over Florida, as the Tide makes a bid for a 17th national title. http://www.al.com/alabamafootball

U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Vestavia Hills, said this morning that he will not seek re-election in 2014. Bachus, 65, said in a statement released by email that he will retire from congress at the conclusion of his current term in December 2014. Bachus, who has represented the state's 6th congressional district since 1993, is the senior member of Alabama's congressional delegation.

The rest of college football formally surrendered to the Southeastern Conference Sunday, ending a decades-long war that had become hopelessly one-sided. The surrender took place just outside Appomattox, Va. SEC officials declined to explain why this site was chosen. "What began 85 years ago in Pasadena has been finished today," the SEC said in a statement, referring to Alabama's 1926 Rose Bowl victory over Washington, which established Southern schools as a threat. "This is our sport now."

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Richard Dixon, a Birmingham Alabama radio talk host has done a great spoof based on the old tune Monster Mash This needs to go viral.Listen HereDownload Here

By Kim Chandler -- The Birmingham News April 02, 2010, 6:55AM FBI agents are probing the Alabama Legislature for possible corruption involving electronic bingo and gambling bills under consideration. (The Birmingham News /Joe Songer)and Chuck Dean -- The Birmingham News MONTGOMERY -- Federal investigators told legislative leaders Thursday they are investigating corruption revolving around gambling and the bingo bill passed by the Senate earlier this week. Leaders of the Alabama House of Representatives and Senate said U.S. attorneys and an FBI agent met with them to tell them about the probe as a courtesy and to request their cooperation. Legislators...

Records Fall in Calm Conditions at NBRSA 100/200 BR Nationals Filed under: Competition — Tags: Benchrest, Hall of Fame, NBRSA, World Record — Editor @ 11 am The 2009 NBRSA 100/200 yard Benchrest (for Group) Nationals are underway this week in Missouri at the Benchrest Club of St. Louis. Conditions have been extraordinarily calm, with very little wind. As a result, a host of potential records have been set. At the completion of Unlimited (UNL), Sporter (SPTR), and Light Varmint (LV) classes, there have been thirteen (13) possible new World records shot, and more may come in the final Heavy...

At some point in the not-too-distant future, a moth may take flight in the hills of northern Pakistan, and flap towards a suspected terrorist training camp.But this will be no ordinary moth.Inside it will be a computer chip that was implanted when the creature was still a pupa, in the cocoon, meaning that the moth's entire nervous system can be controlled remotely.

By Peter Graff Fri Apr 28, 8:25 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Mystery solved. It was the admiral. A secret code embedded in the text of a court ruling in the case of Dan Brown's bestseller "The Da Vinci Code" has been cracked, but far from revealing an ancient conspiracy it is simply an obscure reference to a Royal Navy admiral. British High Court Justice Peter Smith, who handed down a ruling that Brown had not plagiarized his book, had embedded his own secret message in his judgment by italicizing letters scattered throughout the 71-page document. In Brown's book, a...

My son has signed up for a photography class and I need to buy a 35mm SLR camera capable of manual operation. My limited experience with 35mm photograph was a Pentax Spotmatic F I owned in the 70's and 80's. It was an excellent camera, but is no longer alive. I want to buy him a good quality camera and have been shopping on Ebay, but really do not know enough about 35mm SLR cameras to know which ones are the best buys. I was hoping some freepers could clue me in on which of the following cameras are good/better/best...

My daughter will turn 21 next week. She is living at home and working. Two days ago she informed us she had met a man online who lives in the UK and they had developed a serious relationship. He was planning to come to visit and she was informing us and asking if we would agree to meet him. This man is of Indian nationality and is a muslim in school in England. His parents have been living in Saudi Arabia for over 20 years. We told her this was dangerous and a very bad idea. I tried to convince...

Sobig-F ready to download mystery program By Edward Hurley, SearchSecurity.com News Writer 22 Aug 2003, SearchSecurity.com A new danger has emerged from the epidemic spread of the mass-mailing Sobig-F worm as security experts warned today that the worm is set to download a mystery program as early as a few hours from now. Sobig-F is scheduled to download an unknown application every Friday and Sunday starting today through Sept. 10 between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. EDT. The worm will contact one of 20 remote servers, authenticate itself then receive in turn a URL. It then uses that URL to...

  Technology - TechWeb Microsoft Is Using Linux To Protect Its Own Web Site Thu Aug 21, 3:35 AM ET Add Technology - TechWeb to My Yahoo! Microsoft has made a big deal out of asserting that Linux (news - web sites) is not fit for the enterprise (news - web sites). But Microsoft itself is using Linux to help protect its servers against denial-of-service (news - web sites) attacks. • More On Storage • More On Security & Privacy • More On Software • More On Small Biz • More On Mobile & Wireless • More On Product...

<p>Despite the nation's heightened terror alert status, despite looming congressional hearings into the lab's mismanagement and slack-jawed security, an untrained person -- armed with only the vaguest sense of the facility's layout and slowed by a torn Achilles tendon -- was able to repeatedly gain access to the birthplace of the atom bomb.</p>

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Democrats filed a lawsuit Monday to try to change the wording of the gubernatorial primary ballot, which they say may confuse voters. The ballot for the Sept. 10 Democratic primary for governor instructs voters to "Vote for One Pair," meaning they should choose a combined entry for governor and lieutenant governor. Democrats say the wording could cause problems because none of their candidates has yet selected a running mate. That may lead some people to make two choices for governor — an "overvote" that would nullify their ballot, they say. "We can reduce this confusion by...

Carl Cameron just came on a few minutes ago and said that radioactive materials were detected two months ago crossing the border in Detroit. When Brit asked why they weren't detected immediately, Carl reported that the detectors have a store and forward system that can take as long as two days to forward the report! Carl also said there have been 70 callouts of NEST since 9/11 and most incidents are cleared up in a few hours. This one is still unresolved after two months.