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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Saturday April 29, 2006
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"Weekend to Remember" Marriage Conference Coming To Birmingham!

The annual "Weekend to Remember" conference sponsored by FamilyLife,
designed to strengthen and improve marriages, will be held in Birmingham at
the Marriott Hotel on Highway 280 on May 5 - 7

Topics include threats to marital oneness, God's plan and purpose for
marriage, developing communication skills, resolving conflict, expressing
forgiveness and achieving intimacy.

Registration is $109 per person or take advantage of the group rate of $79
per person for five or more couples. The Marriott offers a reduced rate of
$95 per night for room accommodations.

The conference offers a money-back guarantee! For more information, call
800-FL-TODAY or go to
http://www.familylife.com/conferences/show_conference.asp#Birmingham
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GOOD AFTERNOON: Many thanks to JB for sitting in for me last night so that
I could go to the Baltimore Orioles/Seattle Mariners game at Oriole Park in
Camden Yards. It was a fun game and I had seats on the Club Level for the
group I was entertaining The O's won behind a masterful pitching
performance by Daniel Cabrera. A good time was had by all.

IMPORTANT FORECAST: Weather is important for almost every event. But there
are a few forecasts a year that dramatically impact the lives of literally
hundreds of thousands of people and move economies a point or two here in
Birmingham. City Stages, the Bruno's, they both come to mind. And then
there is Talladega. Over one hundred thousand people will make the
semi-annual pilgrimage to Talladega. And the forecast is a difficult one.

THE FORECAST: Expect a mix of clouds and a little bit of sun today with a
slight chance of a shower. There is about a one in four chance your
location gets wet. The models differ on the amount and coverage of rain
overnight. One is nearly dry, one gives us a good soaking. So we will call
for a good chance of rain tonight. It will be quite breezy through Sunday
afternoon, and a Lake Wind Advisory is in effect.

Sunday looks like a rather chilly, cloudy, damp day with a cool east wind.
There will be a few showers at times, but the days does not look to be a
washout, which is good news for race fans.

Our current weather system falls apart through by Monday, but we stay in a
pattern that gives us a few showers from time to time through Tuesday when a
cold front tries to slide into the area. Nicer weather prevails for
Wednesday and Thursday behind the front, but rain chances begin to increase
again by the weekend.

ON THIS DATE IN 1991: The Bay of Bengal is shaped like a funnel. At the
tip of the funnel lies the impoverished nation of Bangladesh. When tropical
cyclones sweep up the bay, the waters rise dramatically as they are forced
into the narrowing headwaters. Some of world deadliest disasters have been
the result of devastating tropical cyclones there. Warnings were urgent on
this date in 1991 as Tropical Cyclone 2B swept up the Bay of Bengal. Over
100,000 people evacuated to storm shelters. The storm pounded coastal
region for over 9 hours with 146 mh winds and a 20 foot storm surge. The
government of Bangladesh reported that 140,000 people had died and asked the
World community for $1.4 billion in aid. Under criticism, official would
admit that the number was inflated and it caused some nations to refuse or
reduce their disaster relief efforts.

ON THIS DATE IN 2003: An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale was
felt across a wide area of the Southeast. The tremor, centered just east of
Fort Payne, Alabama, rattled parts of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, northeast
Mississippi, Kentucky, South Carolina and North Carolina. The earthquake
very nearly was the largest ever recorded in Alabama, behind an October 1916
tremor that measured 5.1 on the Richter scale. Dishes crashed from shelves,
items fell off walls, bricks fell from chimneys and windows cracked, but
damage was relatively minor. Hundreds of calls came into 911 dispatch
centers across the ara within minutes after the earthquake. The event was
not terribly unusual, although rare. Two minor faults like across parts of
northwestern Georgia and earthquakes occur there about every 10-20 years.

Bill Murray
bill@integralhospitality.com

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TONIGHT
Cloudy and a little breezy. Rain chances increasing during night.
Morning Low 56
WIND: SE 10-20

SUNDAY
Cloudy and a little chilly with a chance of showers. Breezy at times,
especially early.
Morning Low 56 Afternoon High 65
WIND: SE 10-20

MONDAY
Partly sunny. A slight chance of a shower.
Morning Low 54 Afternoon High 75
WIND: SE 6-14

TUESDAY
Becoming mostly cloudy with a chance of showers, maybe a storm.
Morning Low 57 Afternoon High 75
WIND: SW 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Becoming partly cloudy.
Morning Low 57 Afternoon High 79
WIND: NW 5-10

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THE 2006 ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME
INDUCTION WEEKEND! MAY 20-22

The weekend festivities starts off on Saturday, May 20 with the Alabama
Sports Hall of Fame Foundation Reunion of Winners Celebrity Dinner and
Silent Auction featuring comedian Mike Rayburn at the Birmingham Sheraton
Civic Center Hotel.

The induction banquet for the Class of 2006 will be Sunday night, May 21 at
the Birmingham Sheraton Civic Center Hotel. This year's class includes Mia
Hamm, Mickey Andrews, Joe Ciampi, Jim "Peanuts" Davenport, the late Tim
Flock, Lionel James, Buddy McClinton and Bob Veale. Our Distinguished
American Sportsman for 2006 is Michael E. Stephens.

The Reunion of Winners Golf Tournament will be held on Monday, May 22nd at
the Bent Brook Golf Course.

Rub shoulders with Alabama's greatest sport heroes such as Gene Bartow,
Robert Brazile, Pat Dye, Kevin Greene, Lloyd Nix, Wimp Sanderson, John
Stallworth and many more.

The ROW events are the primary fundraisers for the ASHOF Outreach Program.
Through this program, more than 65,000 students statewide have been provided
the opportunity to visit the ASHOF and be inspired by some of our state's
and nation's most outstanding sports figures who are ASHOF Inductees.

For more information about the weekend of events call the Alabama Sports
Hall of Fame at 205-323-6665 or visit their website at http://www.ashof.org.
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