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Ice, Snow Aim For S. Plains, Texas Panhandle Thursday

UPDATED By WeatherBug Meteorologist, Andrew Rosenthal

UPDATED 9:30 PM CST, January 27, 2010

A major winter storm marching toward the southern Plains will bring with it the risk of significant snowfall along with dangerous ice accumulation for locations from New Mexico to the Mississippi Valley.

The storm is organizing across the Desert Southwest, drawing subtropical Pacific moisture into the southern Rockies. As it moves eastward into New Mexico and into west Texas, it will start to draw upon the Gulf of Mexico`s moisture source as well. With a cold, Arctic airmass screaming southward through the Plains, the two air masses will create the perfect combination for heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain.

WeatherBug Meteorologist Rachel Peterson has the latest on the developing Southern Plains winter storm in this exclusive WeatherBug Severe Video.

The storm has already produced snow across the higher elevations of Utah and Arizona as it squeezes out its Pacific moisture source. Generally 2 to 5 inches of snow has fallen across the Wasatch Mountains, with a couple inches in Arizona. Another 3 to 6 inches of snow is possible through Thursday morning, and Winter Storm Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories remain in effect through Thursday morning.

From there, the storm will march eastward into the Plains, and the warm Gulf moisture will allow rain to develop before sunrise Thursday across New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, southern Oklahoma and western Arkansas, with a sleet-and-freezing rain mix in southern Kansas and southern Missouri. Over the course of the day, the icy mixed bag will push southward as the cold air follows suit, reaching the Interstate 40 corridor that runs from eastern New Mexico, through central Oklahoma and Oklahoma City and into western Arkansas by mid-afternoon.

Across Kansas, Missouri, and even northern Oklahoma, the cold air will largely overwhelm the warmer air, with ice changing over to heavy snow through Thursday night, while Arkansas and central and southern Oklahoma continue to see freezing rain.

While the exact location of the heaviest icing and snow is not yet certain, forecasts are coming into focus that the heaviest ice accumulations will be found in central and southern Oklahoma and western Arkansas between Interstate 40 and the Red River. Here, ice could total one-half to as much as one inch thick. Eastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle will see a quarter to half-inch of ice, followed by a few inches of snow.

Across northern Oklahoma, southern Kansas and southern Missouri, snowfall will be in the 10 to 15 inch range, although the uncertainly on timing on the ice-to-snow changeover will play a major role in raising or lowering the snowfall total. Periods of sleet will also affect the snowfall totals.

In addition to the heavy snow and ice, howling 25 to 35 mph wind gusts will cause whiteout conditions and significant snow drifts. Ice accumulations will likely make roads impassable, and the buildup of ice on everything from trees to power lines coupled with the gusty winds could knock down power lines and cause widespread power outages.

Residents of the southern Plains, including Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla., Fayetteville and Little Rock, Ark., and Springfield, Mo., could all be affected by this large and potentially dangerous winter storm, and should be prepared for treacherous travel conditions, especially between the Interstate 40 corridor and the Red River.

Winter Storm Warnings stretch from the New Mexico across much of Oklahoma into northwestern Arkansas, with Winter Storm Watches from southern Kansas and northern Texas eastward into North Carolina.

On Friday, the storm will slide eastward into the Southeast, and will bring the wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain to the Mid-South and Tennessee Valley, with an increasing severe storm risk across the lower Mississippi Valley and Deep South. The storm will then target the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic for the weekend.

Truth on mainstream media? lmao

 

"Ron Paul explains how the United States is in severe decline, and yet congress keeps asking for supplimental spending, and we are expanding wars in places where we can’t even identify the enemy. The spending never ends, and security decreases as we occupy more countries and continue torture policies that were condemned under the Bush administration.?? Two Trillion dollars in “created” money on a yearly basis is not sustainable."

 

Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey. 

The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-?out-?of-?five are only somewhat confident or not confident of his ability to handle a financial emergency. 

The poll also finds a decline in Obama’s overall favorability rating one year after taking office. He is viewed favorably by 27 percent of U.S. investors. In an October poll, 32 percent in the U.S. held a positive impression. 

“Investors no longer feel they can trust their instincts to take risks,” said poll respondent David Young, a managing director for a broker dealer in New York. Young cited Obama’s efforts to trim bonuses and earnings, make health care his top priority over jobs and plans to tax “the rich or advantaged.” 

Carlos Vadillo, a fixed-income analyst at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in San Francisco, said Obama has been in a “constant war” with the banking system, using “fat-cat bankers and other misnomers to describe a business model which supports a large portion of America.” 

Europe, Asia 

Outside the U.S., Obama continues to get high marks with three-quarters or more of investors in Europe and Asia viewing him favorably. These rankings bring his global favorability rating to 60 percent among all poll respondents. 

When it comes to his ability to manage a financial crisis, 55 percent of Europeans say they are either mostly or very confident; Among Asian respondents, 59 percent say they are somewhat confident or not confident; 38 percent expressed confidence. 

Unlike other recent presidents, Obama hasn’t selected a leading business executive for his cabinet or a top advisory role. One year after taking office, he is coping with a jobless rate hovering around 10 percent and a federal deficit that rose to $1.4 trillion last year. In response, he has proposed a fee on as many as 50 large financial firms and yesterday called for limiting the size and trading activities of financial institutions as a way to reduce risk-taking. 

‘Near Collapse’ 

“While the financial system is far stronger today than it was one year ago, it’s still operating under the same rules that led to its near collapse,” Obama said yesterday at the White House after meeting with former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who has been an advocate of taking such steps. 

The poll was conducted Jan. 19, before Obama unveiled the plan. Yesterday, after the announcement, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell 1.9 percent, its biggest loss since Oct. 30. The S&P 500 has risen 39 percent since Obama’s Jan. 20, 2009, inauguration. 

The U.S. investors’ perceptions of Obama stand in contrast to those of their European counterparts, most of whom say the president strikes the right balance when it comes to managing business interests. Europeans, however, are more confident in Obama’s leadership on financial matters than Asians. 

The quarterly Bloomberg Global Poll of investors, traders and analysts in six continents was conducted by Selzer & Co., a Des Moines, Iowa-based firm. It is based on interviews with a random sample of 873 Bloomberg subscribers, representing decision makers in markets, finance and economics. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points. 

Geithner, Summers 

Obama’s 71 percent unfavorable rating among U.S. investors is almost matched by two members of his economic team. Both Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Lawrence Summers, president of the National Economic Council. U.S. respondents give Geithner a 63 percent unfavorable rating and Summers 67 percent. In October, 57 percent held a negative view of Geithner and 66 percent said the same of Summers. 

Like Obama, both men do better with Asian and European investors. 

One financial figure to find favor among U.S. respondents is Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who garners a 68 percent approval rating, which is in line with his marks from non-U.S. investors and the rating U.S. investors gave him in the October poll. 

There is one other figure U.S. and international investors agree on: former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a potential candidate for her party’s nomination in 2012. 

Palin Rating 

With a net favorability rating of 15 percent among all investors, Palin does best in the U.S., where she has the support of 27 percent of respondents. In Asia, it’s 14 percent, and in Europe just 5 percent of investors view her favorably. 

“She revealed a complete lack of any global awareness,” said Anthony Gibbs, an agency broker at Vantage Capital Markets in London. 

Investors outside the U.S. are more unified about Obama’s approach to business, with 67 percent of Europeans saying he strikes the right balance and 56 percent of Asians who agree. 

“He is managing well a position he took over under great uncertainty,” said Sivanesan Muthusamy, senior vice president of funding and investments at Alliance Bank in Kuala Lumpur. “American leadership is again guiding the global financial markets into stability.” 

The U.S. investors’ overwhelming characterizatio?n of Obama as anti-business stands in sharp contrast to the results of a Bloomberg National Poll in December, when 52 percent of U.S. adults said the president had the right balance in his approach. 

Geographic Divide 

The January poll shows an especially dramatic divide between U.S. and global investors when it comes to Obama’s overall favorability rating. 

In Europe, 81 percent of respondents have a favorable opinion of Obama. In Asia, that number is 73 percent. The polarization is far greater by geography than by occupation, the survey found. Sales executives gave Obama his highest unfavorable rating, at 53 percent, compared with 28 percent of researchers and analysts and 35 percent of traders. 

Globally, other central bankers are slightly less popular than Bernanke. Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, has a 60 percent favorable rating globally, with 45 percent in the U.S. and 78 percent in Europe. 

Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, who gets a 42 percent favorable rating overall, gets 39 percent in the U.S. and Europe and 51 percent in Asia. 

To see methodology and exact question wording, click on the attachment tab at the top of the story. 

To contact the reporter on this story: Heidi Przybyla at hprzybyla@bloomberg.net

http:?/?/?news.?yahoo.?com/?s/?bloomberg/?20100121/?pl_?bloomberg/?a8uii1bcrdmy

UK Bans Drinking Contests, Forces Pubs to Offer Tap Water

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Officials will ban drinking contests in bars and force pub owners to offer patrons tap water in a bid to help tackle Britain's boozy culture, the government said Tuesday.

Doctors and health lobbyists said, however, that the government had failed to wield its most effective weapon — the imposition of minimum price controls on alcohol.

The raft of new measures is "better than nothing," according to Carys Davis, spokeswoman for the Alcohol Concern charity. She said "it does seem tame," although she acknowledged that the ban on drinking contests and other promotions could help control bingeing.

Alcohol consumption has emerged as a political issue in recent years in Britain. Weekends see many town centers awash with young people staggering from one bar to the next, and government statistics suggest the country's alcohol-related death rate has doubled since 1991.

Last year Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson suggested price controls could lead to nearly 100,000 fewer hospital admissions and 45,000 fewer crimes a year.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson told BBC radio Tuesday that he hadn't ruled out minimum pricing, but he didn't want to penalize "responsible drinkers on low incomes."

The new rules — expected to come into affect this year after being approved by Parliament — would ban speed-drinking competitions and all-you-can-drink offers. Bars would be required to offer drinks in smaller measures and tap water for free.

The rules are similar to a voluntary code drawn up by the Beer and Pub Association and adopted by much of Britain's alcohol industry in 2005. The code called for ending "irresponsible promotions," including all-you-can-drink offers, but a 2008 government-ordered report said the standards were being widely ignored.

"The industry has so far proved that it isn't able to regulate itself," Davis said.

The Beer and Pub Association said it supported measures to deal with problem drinking, but said the government was unfairly targeting bars because most of Britain's booze was now being sold through supermarkets.

"Pubs are struggling, and the country is in recession. This is not the time for the Home Office to be burying business in yet more unnecessary red tape," association chief executive Brigid Simmonds said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583357,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.203005:b29893450:z0

Tennessee Hospital to Stop Hiring Tobacco Users

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.  —  Officials at a Chattanooga hospital have decide to stop hiring tobacco users.

Brad Pope, vice president of human resources at Memorial Hospital, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press the decision is an extension of the hospital's commitment to health and is not based on potential health care cost savings.

"I understand the concerns people have, but we are here for the health of our community," Pope said. "Like it or not, what's proven is that tobacco is the most preventable cause of death and disability in the United States. I think the Chattanooga and surrounding communities should expect this from Memorial."

Any form of nicotine will make an applicant ineligible to be hired — even nicotine gum or a patch.

The new hiring rule will not affect current employees of Memorial.

Dr. Carlos Baleeiro, with Battlefield Pulmonology in Fort Oglethorp, Ga., said the refusal by hospitals to hire tobacco users isn't yet widespread, especially in tobacco producing states.

"It's very brave of them," he said. "I'm quite impressed by Memorial."

Memorial is a nonprofit hospital that is operated by the Sisters of Charity order, based in Nazareth, Ky. It opened in 1952. The hospital Web site states Memorial is also part of Catholic Health Initiatives, which serves hospitals in 22 states.

The Memorial system has two acute care hospitals and a number of clinics.

Information posted on the Web site states testing for nicotine will be added to an already-required screening for illegal drugs and will disqualify applicants who test positive.

The posting states applicants who have been offered jobs and who test positive for tobacco won't be hired and may be disqualified for reapplying for six months.

Not everyone sees the move as entirely beneficial.

Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, said he believes a policy barring the hiring of tobacco users is discriminatory.

Siegel said he avidly supports education on the dangers of using tobacco, but questions whether the hiring practice is fair.

"The same rationale that would support not hiring smokers would also support not hiring people who are obese or people who have young children or people who don't eat nutritious food or people who don't exercise," he said. "What it's basically saying is the private behavior of people in their own homes is somehow relevant to their qualifications to work in a workplace."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583291,00.html

Johnson & Johnson engaged in elaborate drug profit kickback scheme, says Dept. of Justice lawsuit

Thursday, January 21, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) Drug maker Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to nursing home pharmacies in order to boost the sale of its drugs, says a Justice Department lawsuit.

The payments were often disguised as grants or "educational funding," says the lawsuit, and they were directed to Omnicare, a prominent nursing home pharmacy company.

The elaborate kickback scheme caused sales of Johnson & Johnson drugs to skyrocket. Sales of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, for example, helped J&J drug purchases from Omnicare nearly triple from $100 million to $280 million a year.

An email released by the Justice Department shows an Omnicare executive writing:

"WE ARE SELLING MORE HIGH PRICED DRUGS (read Risperdal here) FOR THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY!!"

Omnicare is already steeped in other accusations of fraud. The company agreed to pay the U.S. government $98 million in a settlement reached a few months ago (while admitting no guilt, of course). (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009...)

Drugging the seniors

Today's nursing home patients are often treated much like prisoners, mentally shackled with chemical restraints known as pharmaceuticals. The mass-drugging of senior citizens in nursing homes has now reached criminal proportions. Rather than actually treating patients in ways that make them healthy, nursing home staff in some facilities have discovered it's much easier to just drug patients into a zombie-like state where they don't ask questions or cause trouble.

Johnson & Johnson medications are used as part of this "chemical restraint" recipe, which is actually a form ofchemical abuse of senior citizens. J&J and Omnicare, of course, are far more concerned with selling medications than actually improving the quality of life for nursing home patients, so the more drugs are sold and consumed, the more "success" these companies think they have.

But what's the cost in human lives? What is the real human impact of drugging our senior citizens to the point where they're barely human?

Companies like Johnson & Johnson only seem to care about their own profits. They appear to have no compassion whatsoever for the lives of the people impacted by their patented chemical pharmaceuticals. They also appear to have no respect for the law: Bribing Omnicare with kickbacks, if proven by the Justice Department, is a felony crime.

But as usually happens in these cases, Johnson & Johnson will probably get off with a slap on the wrist: An affordable fine and a bit of bad press. Then, like most other pharmaceutical companies, they'll likely go right back to violating the law in order to sell more high-profit medications. Why? Because it works.

Pharmaceutical companies rarely face any real consequences for their crimes, even when they're caught red-handed. It's a curious thing, really. In any other industry, companies engaged in such blatant fraud would be shut down, their CEOs arrested and prosecuted in federal court. But when it comes to Big Pharma, all they have to do is pay a small fine, after which they're free to continue committing crimes. 

It's nice to see the Justice Department finally going after these corporate crooks. Just last year, Pfizer was hit with a record $1 billion settlement with the Justice Department for engaging in fraudulent drug advertising. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027276_P...)

It was a rare victory, however. Most of the time, drug companies get away with their crimes and face no real consequences for bribery, corruption, marketing fraud, scientific fraud, intimidation of scientists or elaborate financial kickback schemes that put extra dollars into the hands of doctors or pharmacies that push their drugs.

The pharmaceutical industry, in case you haven't noticed, is a criminal world where those who commit the boldest and most egregious crimes generate the highest profits. The risk of getting caught is so low -- and the financial rewards for committing crimes are so great -- that drug companies fully realize it pays to break the law.

That's why they'll keep breaking the law until something changes. As I've said before, I think it's time the Justice Department marched into the offices of these drug companies with pistols drawn and arrested the top CEOs for their crimes against humanity. Only by showing these drug companies that their executives are going to be prosecuted for their crimes can we hope to put an end to the criminal activities that have now become routine across the pharmaceutical industry.

http://www.naturalnews.com/027994_Johnson_&_kickbacks.html

This has been going on for a loooooong time. It is finally getting some press. For those of you that don't know it, it is more than of "some concern" like they say. They've been killing us, and altering our body chemistry with this crap for awhile. Scary!!!  The FDA is nuts! Even if they have proof something is harmful, they lie and say it's not, or there's no proof. TRUST ME, I know this firsthand about the FDA! I have attached an informational video, PLEASE watch it!!!

 

Health: New BPA Warning

Jan 18, 2010 4:18 pm US/Eastern

PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) - Federal health officials have new concerns about the safety of a chemical found in some plastic bottles, containers and thousands of household products.

The FDA has shifted its position on Bisphenol A, also known as BPA, saying it is of "some concern" and is encouraging families to limit their children's exposure.

Many plastic products, from baby bottles to cans containing food or soda, contain a hardening agent known as BPA that can seep in to what you eat or drink.

Now the FDA says based on new studies, while still considered safe, it now has some concern about the "potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior and prostate gland in fetuses, infants and young children."

The American Chemistry Council says BPA is safe.

"What's important to remember is the FDA indicated that the BPA has not been proven harmful to children or adults. And that if they believed it was unsafe, they would've issued stronger regulations," said Lisa Harrison, with the American Chemistry Council.

Experts say most hard plastic probably contains some BPA. There's often no way to tell for sure. 

Sometimes you'll see the number seven in the recycling logo, which means it is more likely to contain the chemical. You can buy plastic that says BPA free on the packaging.

For years many environmental groups and some scientists have warned BPA is unsafe and can lead to cancers, diabetes, and other diseases.

"I and other colleagues of mine at an NIH meeting said, with a very high level of confidence, we think Bisphenol a threat to human health," said Fred Vom Saal, a Researcher with the University of Missouri.

Researchers say there is no agreement on what constitutes a dangerous level of BPA. If you are concerned about exposure to BPA, consider using glass containers as an alternative.

Related Link:
FDA BPA Information- http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm197739.htm

http://cbs3.com/topstories/bpa.fda.plastic.2.1433635.html

 

The 'Devil' Writes Pat Robertson A Letter

By Frank James

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune published a letter from Satan to evangelist Pat Robertson, responding to his comment that Haiti's persistent troubles, including the earthquake, are due to a pact the nation made with Mephistopheles.

Actually, it wasn't Satan who wrote the letter but Lilly Coyle of Minneapolis writing in the persona of the hellish one.

I think she got it down pretty well. What say you?

Dear Pat Robertson,

I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I'm all over that action.

But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I'm no welcher. The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished.

Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth -- glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle. Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven't you seen "Crossroads"? Or " Yankees"?

If I had a thing going with Haiti, there'd be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox -- that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it -- I'm just saying: Not how I roll.

You're doing great work, Pat, and I don't want to clip your wings -- just, come on, you're making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That's working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.

Best, Satan

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/the_devil_writes_pat_robertson.html

Even though I'm posting this on the LP photo thread, I thought it only appropriate, to display them here in my blog, too. 

Yep, it's me. 

I'll try and post some more pics soon, of my kids and things. :-)

 

For Kansas ~

051, 052, 053, 054, 056, 057, 081, 082, 083, 084, 086, 087, 091, 092, 093, 094, 096, 097, 

581, 582, 583, 584,586, 587, 591, 592, 593, 594, 596, 597, 891, 892, 893, 894, 896, 897, 

802, 820, 803, 830, 835, 385  

For Oklahoma ~

250, 251, 253, 254, 257, 259, 260, 261, 263, 264, 267, 269, 280, 281, 283, 284, 287, 289, 

560, 561, 563, 564,567, 569, 580, 581, 583, 584, 587, 589, 680, 681, 683, 684, 687, 689, 

621, 126, 835, 358, 806, 068

 

Doing backtesting w/ this system on Oklahoma got 5 box hits in 6 days. That's pretty good. Just like KS, I never see consistency with OK's lottery predictions. It seems pretty hard to get hits there, too. I'm still keeping an eye on this. Observing both states, but it looks promising, so far! 

What a number today 01-10-10! How 'bout that! I LOVE you guys! I love it here!!! I have met so many wonderful people already. There is a handful of you, that I already consider good friends! Thank you for welcoming me, here. I am enjoying the company, and sharing my addiction with others. LOL!! You all know who you are, and I'm not going to forget you when I win the big one. I hope you remember me, if you win.

Ok, we've been having doubles every other day, give or take. Today we are due for another double, unless a wrench gets thrown in it.

In that case I am predicting some of each. I just upgraded to a Premium membership, but it hasn't gone through yet, so I can't list them all on the predictions page. 

I found a new system, been working on it all night. Let's see how it goes!! Yes, I know this is a LOT of numbers, but the way the doubles have been dropping, they are due again. 

Doubles

*511, 522, 533, 544, 566, 577*

*711, 722, 733, 744, 755, 766*

*551, 552, 553, 554 (455, thinking it might fall this way, instead), 556, 557*

*771, 772, 773, 774, 775, 776*

Singles

058, 059 589

051, 052, 053, 054, 056, 057

081, 082, 083, 084, 086, 087

091, 092, 093, 094, 096, 097

581, 582, 583, 584, 586, 587

591 592, 593, 594, 596, 597

891, 892, 893,894, 896, 897

 

Extra doubles to play:

588, 599, 788, 799, 558, 559, 778, 779

*871 *440 *321 *104 *634 *444

 234, 236, 246, 631

 

Going to be playing these for a few days. These are for KS, but you can try them in any state. I am trying something new, and hope I get some hits.

Didn't get any up, earlier

Pick3

417

467

476

674

631

726

724

754

742

740

049

554

455

465

348

471

167

368

 

2by2

7 23 + 15 23

17 19 + 19 23