| Jeff Thelen's Blog
Hi everybody. I'm back from really slacking off from the blog over the holidays. This week, it's just a few random thoughts. How many people are sick at your home, office or school? Seems like everyone in this newsroom is fighting some sort of bug right now. My symptoms are a sore throat, tiredness and aches and pains. I have no congestion, but my nose only runs at night. Wierd, isn't it? Alison Struve blows her nose so much she sounds like a foghorn. Stephanie Luisier and chief photographer Randy Bise both have that "sick sound" when they talk. Was it just me or did the Badgers seem a little unfocused and unprepared for their bowl game? Perhaps it's the long layoff between their last regular season game and the contest on January 1. It was a sort of a fun game to watch, even if it was rather sloppily played.
Cowboys' Ellis Voted AP Comeback Player
Dallas Cowboys outside linebacker Greg Ellis is pictured during training camp in San Antonio in this July 27, 2007 file photo. Ellis was voted The Associated Press 2007 NFL Comeback Player of the Year on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) (Eric Gay - Associated Press) .
Banks face judgment on multibillion-pound charges
If the OFT decides the charges are unfair but cannot get the banks to agree a fair fee, it will expand the court case to seek a ruling on this. Many hundreds of thousands of people have been demanding refunds of charges going back six years on the grounds that they bear no relation to the bank's costs and are illegal. In many cases, the banks have been settling up with customers without too much fuss. In April last year, NatWest decided to pay a record £35,987 to one customer, a Norfolk businessman, rather than face him in court, where it would have had to justify its fees. But there have also been cases where county court judges have ruled in favour of the banks, which have muddied the waters. It was agreed last year that decisions on all customer claims for refunds would be put on hold until the outcome of the case.
Civic Competition
CHATTANOOGA: Its downtown riverfront area has seen tremendous growth in recent decades, with construction visible everywhere, including this building in front of the Tennessee Aquarium. Mayor Ron Littlefield says Chattanooga is within striking distance of overtaking Knoxville as the state's third-largest city. .
SFGate: Daily Dish
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes rushed to the aid of a couple after witnessing a car accident on L.A.'s 101 Freeway Saturday night. People magazine reports the Hollywood couple, who are planning to wed this summer, pulled over on their way home from the airport after watching their friend England soccer ace David Beckham's soccer game in Salt Lake City. Cruise and Holmes made sure the couple's injuries were not serious and waited with them until the emergency services arrived . In other TomKat news, the couple's baby daughter Suri has made her first public outing, after reportedly attending a party thrown by Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. The four-month-old has been at the center of media speculation, because of no photographs of Suri have been released since her birth on April 18.
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