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By Posted on Posted in Finance

Having some knowledge of how to calculate finance charges is always a good thing. Most lenders, as you know, will do this for you, but it can helpful to be able to check the math yourself. It is important, however, to understand that what is presented here is a basic procedure for calculating finance charges and your lender may be using a more complicated method. There may also be other issues attached with your loan which may affect the charges

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So, the Yankees’ season won’t end tonight.
Thanks to rain in the Detroit area (despite it not actually raining), the Yankees live to play another day. But whenever their season inevitably ends, be it Thursday, Friday, this weekend, or, if a miracle happens, after the World Series, they’re sooner or later going to have to deal with the elephant in the room. The Root of All Evil in Yankees Universe. The reason nobody on the team is hitting. Alex Rodriguez.

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By Posted on Posted in Fun Facts

Heinz Ketchup Packets, we all use them or have seen them. But have you heard of the new Heinz Dip & Squeeze? Let me rephrase that, Have you seen or used the new Heinz Dip & Squeeze packet from Heinz yet? I have and they are great!! The new packet represents the first redesign to the Heinz ketchup packet since it was created over 40 years ago. People associated with the Heinz company have joked that “The Heinz Ketchup packet was invented in 1968 and the consumer complaints started in 1969”.

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It’s All In the Logo so says a Joe Brackets, a friend and contributor for AskHoffa.com.

In the same year the cartoon bird made its return to the Baltimore Orioles’ hats, the Orioles returned to the playoffs for the first time in 15 years. It’s probably mere coincidence, but, through my keen powers of observation, I’ve noticed that the Orioles aren’t the only team that’s changed had a sudden change of fortune on the field in the same season they’ve made a logo change in recent years. A logo change, obviously, isn’t a sure-fire road to success for everybody, just ask the Blue Jays and Marlins, the two teams that went through a complete makeover this year, only to end up in last place. But for the most part, a logo change has been that thing to bring a team that’s on the verge of being good over the top.

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How to delete songs from your iOS 6 alarm clock feature on an iPhone? Well, I have been trying this for about 2 weeks now and can not figure this out at all.

So I searched how to delete the songs in ios6 alarms, hoping some other people have figured this out already. To my surprise I did not see much talk about this subject matter at all. I did find however one person on an apple forum looking for help and no response yet. So in case this is a new feature on the phone for you, let me explain a little bit here. You can now wake up to your own songs instead of the default alarm sounds. Here is a link to a great story on this from CNET.

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