Posted on 04/16/2010 9:14:25 AM PDT by jalisco555
All he needs is an iPad and an electrical outlet to run the country.
Norway's prime minister, Jens Stotlenberg is again grounded in New York as volcanic ash from Iceland's tempermental volcano continues to close European airspace, but that didn't stop him from doing the daily business of Norwegian govemernment from his iPad in an airport lounge.
Stoltenberg, who traveled from Oslo to participate in President Obama's nuclear summit, was stranded along with many thousands of others and will probably be waiting for at least another day before flights can resume, authorities said Friday.
The FAA is working to move some of the many affected flights from the US to international destinations by rerouting them around the huge cloud of ash.
Stoltenberg's press secretary told CNN that the prime minister has been running his government from Apple's tablet.
The arc of grounded aircraft widened across Europe Friday, as thousands of planes stayed on the tarmac to avoid the hazardous cloud.
Eurocontrol, the air traffic agency, said a half dozen European countries closed their airspace, with about 60% of European flights cancelled.
Delays will continue into Saturday, it said. "We expect around 11,000 flights to take place today in European airspace.
On a normal day, we would expect 28,000," said Eurocontrol spokeswoman Kyla Evans. "The cloud of volcanic ash is continuing to move east and southeast."
Authorities shut down air space over Britain, Ireland, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Belgium.
That halted flights at Europe's two busiest airports - Heathrow in London and Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris - as well as dozens of other airports, 25 in France alone.
Polish officials worried that the ash cloud could threaten the arrival of many world leaders for Sunday's state funeral of President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, in the southern city of Krakow.
Among those coming are President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Officials have said a postponement of the funeral would be an absolute last resort.
The White House says Obama still planned to fly to Poland on Saturday for the funeral.
No more than 120 trans-Atlantic flights reached European airports Friday morning, compared to 300 on a normal day, according to Eurocontrol.
The Terminal II....coming to a Theater or Drive-In Near You
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Because, hey, no other Internet-connected computer could do that! EMail and video conferencing? Amazing!
Ummm... Never mind.
:’) Hey, it’s a pretty tiny country.
Me too. Anyone heard the exact date they are shipping the ipad 3G?
Thanks.
Of interest ping to Quix.
THX for the ping.
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that one could smart!
LOL.
April 30 - at least for those orders placed before they announced April 30; subsequent orders will be later. Stores will start selling at 5PM that day.
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