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La Nina and severe weather in the Ohio Valley...there seems to be a bond between the two entities. Much like the bond between Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, or Daryl Hall and John Oates, or maybe even Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson. You get the idea. Just for review, La Nina is the abnormal cooling of the tropical Pacific waters that usually spells warm and wet weather for the Blue Grass state. But when that warm, moist air clashes with colder, drier air to the north, stronger-than-normal storm systems for mid-winter standards tend to be the result. The past tells us a La Nina pattern can be a recipe for trouble in this part of the world. Sure enough, history repeated itself on February 5th. The "Super Tuesday Outbreak" was one for the ages! Now I won't rehash all the stats about that deadly night in this post (our links about that are on the weather page just below the forecast discussion), but I want to discuss how similar our current pattern is to another La Nina season: 1973-1974.
FISCALLY FIT
Your credit score is another common source of last-minute fees. "They'll claim they had to do extra work to get the loan approved because of your bad credit score, when many times the credit score isn't bad in the first place," Mr. Kirlew says. The best response to either claim is to refuse to close the deal unless the charges are removed, Mr. Kirlew says. (Having copies of your credit reports handy for disputes also helps.) In the end, Joe and Rhonda should be able to keep fees to a minimum as long as they stand firm and refuse to be intimidated. And Joe has an advantage here: At six-foot-seven, he can be quite intimidating himself! How are you at negotiating lender fees? Do you have some tips or advice to share? Share your experiences with me at fiscallyfit@wsj.com, and then come you're your fellow readers in a discussion about negotiating lender fees.
Choose Your Illusion
While there are hefty kernels of truth rattling around throughout, the film does some Olympian stretching in its ambitious game of connect-the-dots. And as might be expected, it is rife with inaccuracies and dubious scholarship from start to finish, as several critics have pointed out. Yet at its best, Zeitgeist is a flashy, riveting piece of renegade agitprop aimed at rousing an increasingly stupefied public to the world crumbling around their computer screens. Eye-catching visuals and a healthy disregard for copyright law make for some engaging segues, featuring voice-overs from countercultural icons like George Carlin, Bill Hicks, and Richard Alpert. We are even treated to highlights of an apoplectic Peter Finch railing against the hypocrisies of our times in Sidney Lumets Network. If its sights are on a mass media, short-attention-span demographic, Zeitgeist has its bases covered.
Huckabee, Obama win multiple contests
Puerto Rico anchors the Democratic calendar, with 55 delegates chosen in caucuses on June 7.If Super Tuesday failed to settle the campaign, it produced a remarkable surge in fundraising.Obama's aides announced he had raised more than $7 million on line in the two days that followed.Clinton disclosed she had loaned her campaign $5 million late last month in an attempt to counter her rival's Super Tuesday television advertising. She raised more than $6 million in the two days after the busiest night in primary history.The television ad wars continued unabated.Obama has been airing commercials for more than a week in television markets serving every state that has a contest though Feb 19.Clinton began airing ads midweek in Washington state, Maine and Nebraska, and added Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia on Friday.The exit poll was conducted by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for The Associated Press and the television networks.
Titusville phys ed earns another plaudit
The district's PE4life Academy receives raves in a new book Spark. TITUSVILLE - The physical education department and PE4life Academy in the Titusville School District are back in the limelight. Spark, a book by John Ratey on the revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain, gives kudos to the Titusville program as an example of a place where the concepts are put to action. The book was released last month. Ratey, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the Harvard University Medical School, is the author or co-author of eight books. His Titusville connection was developed in the spring of 2005 during a dinner meeting in Naperville, Ill., where the PE4life concept originated. Tim McCord, the chairman of the district's physical education department and director of the PE4life Academy, attended the dinner along with PE4life Academy directors Phil Lawler and Paul Zientarski.
Budget breakdown: How agencies, programs fared
As he had proposed for this year's farm spending, President Bush Monday unveiled another hold-the-line budget for the Agriculture Department for fiscal 2009. Down to the dollar, the president's budget calls for slightly more than $94.7 billion in total agriculture spending for discretionary and mandatory programs in the next fiscal year. That is slightly less, $10 million, than the amount he estimates will be spent this year on USDA programs. Discretionary spending for the Food and Nutrition Service and for commodities and international programs would be increased, while spending for the Forest Service, research, and conservation programs would be cut. Under mandatory outlays, the Agricultural Marketing Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service and crop insurance programs would receive boosts in spending, along with food and nutrition.
FDA Warns On Chantix Anti-Smoking Tablets Risks
The United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued the advisory “to alert patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals to important changes to Chantix prescribing information", a press release stated. The drug's manufacturer, Pfizer, is required to update prescribing information to include new warnings about the risks to patients taking Chantix, including anxiety, nervousness, tension, depressed mood, unusual behaviors and thinking about or attempting suicide, reports The Independent Reporter On Chantix. Interestingly, in an article published in December 10th issue of Pharmalot and titled as Chantix To Get Suicide Warnings In… Australia the author writes that "The Pfizer smoking cessation drug will go on sale Down Under next month, but with warnings of links to suicidal thoughts, according to news.com.au.
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