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i'm still waiting for the 4756 to hit straight in tennessee........

when it gets a little cooler i might go to the racetrack and see the greyhounds.its about thirty minutes from me over in west memphis,arkansas.name of the place is southland greyhound park.

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Aug. 3) -- A preview of the future - much hotter decades on a warming planet - has been delivered today by the continent-spanning heat wave, climate experts say.

"Heat wave projections all agree. They are going to intensify in length and frequency" in this century, says climate scientist Claudia Tebaldi of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

Global warming is projected to raise average temperatures worldwide about 3 to 9 degrees in this century, according to a U.N. climate panel. Warmer temperatures load the dice in favor of extreme weather such as heat waves, says climate modeler Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

According to the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an unusually strong ridge of high pressure lasting for weeks across most Central and Eastern states caused the heat wave now gripping the country. NOAA scientists have generally been more cautious than climate modelers about linking global warming to extreme weather such as heat waves.

But climate models generally agree that looking ahead to 2100, heat waves will become more frequent, Tebaldi says. The models very closely reproduce the high temperatures and air pressures that spawn heat waves in real-life weather, she says. In the future, global warming may create stronger and larger high-pressure "domes" of air that will block cool air from entering the regions they cover, Tebaldi says.

"We can't just say global warming caused this heat wave, but we can say that what we are seeing is very consistent with what you would expect to see in a warmer world," says climate expert Heidi Cullen of The Weather Channel.

Cullen and Tebaldi give these examples of current climate effects with global warming's fingerprints:

-- The heat wave's continental breadth. Warnings have been set off from California to Boston.

   

   
-- Simultaneous heat waves in Europe. England suffered its warmest July on record.

-- Heat earlier this year that made the first six months of 2006 the warmest January-to-June stretch since at least 1895.

"If you don't like the current heat wave event, you're going to like it even less in the future," says climate scientist Bill Chameides of the conservation group Environmental Defense.

A study in Nature magazine suggested that global warming was a contributing factor in Europe's 2003 heat wave, which was blamed for 35,000 deaths. During the past century, global average temperatures have risen about 1 degree, largely because of human contributions to the "greenhouse" gases that capture heat in the atmosphere, according to a 2005 National Academy of Sciences report. Such contributions include the carbon dioxide emitted by burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels, the report said.

"Some people suggest a 1-degree increase isn't such a big deal, but here we can see what sort of heat extremes it can to lead to," Cullen says. "And it is devastating."

look for quads to come soon from one of these states.....

delaware,new york,new jersey,connecticut,indiana,virginia,kentucky,maryland,pennsylvania

This month, the nation's best hurricane experts met for the first time ever with nervous insurance industry reps about a storm lurking beyond the horizon.

"The risk is increasing and it's increasing every year," catastrophe risk analyst Karen Clark told CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.

That storm a long overdue northeast hurricane which the latest computer models now predict could devastate the region and cripple the U.S. economy.

"It will be the largest financial disaster that this country has ever seen," Clark, the president and CEO of AIR Worldwide, said.

A direct hit on New York's Long Island by a Category 3 or higher hurricane would cost $100 billion.

But the same size storm spinning into central New Jersey would be catastrophic — raking New York and points north with its strongest winds. The result: $200 billion in damages and lost business.

"And much of that disruption will not be covered by insurance," Clark said.

Economic losses would be twice that of the 9-11 attacks, and three times larger than Hurricane Katrina. When it comes to a northeast hurricane, experts say forget what you know. They're much bigger than their southern cousins.

"A Category 3 storm could do a surge of more like a Category 4 or 5," said Phil Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University. "So you could see 20 to 25 feet of water."

A major northeast hurricane is nearly three times more likely this year thanks to favorable weather conditions, including the position of the Bermuda High. Last year it pushed storms southwest. Now it's set to steer hurricanes up the East Coast.

"Northern hurricanes move two to three times faster than southern hurricanes, so they're gonna be here much sooner," Coastal Geologist Nicholas Coch told Miller. "So a hurricane that is off the coast of Charleston will be here in eight hours. That fast."

That's exactly what happened in 1938, when the hurricane known as the Long Island Express tore through the region. Hurricane winds charged as far north as Canada.

The difference today is that real estate values from Maryland to Maine are among the highest in the nation — with Manhattan's skyline in the bull's-eye.

The air is going to be squeezed in those canyons. The water is going to be rise about the level of the highway and then it's going to hit the subterranean infrastructure," Coch said.

A severe winter storm in 1992 offered just a taste of what could happen. Stricter building codes like those Florida put in place after Hurricane Andrew could limit damage above ground. But only a handful of northeast communities have adopted them.

"Insurance companies are in the same state that New Yorker is in: an acute state of denial," Coch said.

Opinion is split on whether the insurance industry and the U.S. economy could withstand a $200 billion blow. Even if they did — the experts say it's likely the financial well-being of many Americans will be swept away by the storm.

been betting these four numbers online in tennessee for a dollar straight.

thats nine grand if either one of these below comes in.....

5846,5648,4658,4856

did i get the pic in or is the red x is here.trying to get the hang of it.

i started this first part of the year off pretty good.i hit on a couple of pick 4 straights online and won nearly five grand and was sitting pretty.the middle part of the year i won nothing and it was hard but i'm getting used to the fact that these wins don't grow on trees,lol.the one goal i've yet to hit is winning a dollar straight wager on pick 4 online.i've got four numbers i'm betting and if they hit thats nine grand.i also back that up with a dollar bet at the gas station too so thats another five grand.if i hit on one of those four numbers thats a total of fourteen thousand dollars in winnings total.i've been very patient i hope i'll eventually be rewarded!

this is my daughter skylar.she'll be two in november!

I don't know what love is
But I think I must have it bad
Yeah, you I don't know what love is people
Whoah, but I think I must have it bad
Yeah, you know some people say love is just a gamble
But whatever it is, it's enough to drive old me mad
They say love is just a proposition people
It's strickly a game of give and take
Yeah, they tell me love, love, love is a proposition people
They say it's strickly a game of give and take
Whoah, but my woman took all I gave her
And I'm here to tell to you that love proposition stuff 's a fake

Oh, I don't claim to be no gambler people
Oh, I dont' know much about the dice
Yes, I don't claim to be no gambler people
I tell you I don't know much about the dice
Oh, but I wait and my baby knows
She knows I'm not the kind who's gonna crap out twice

Yes, she left me early this mornin'
I don't know the reason why
She just got up early this mornin'
Didn't even say good-bye

But I love you, I love you, you know I love you baby
Although you made me cry
Yes, there are a lot of women who love me
Oh, but how you satisfy