LOTTOMIKE's Blog

Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
If I made you feel second best
Girl I'm sorry I was blind

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

Maybe I didn't hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
I'm so happy that you're mine
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your
Sweet love hasn't died
And give me
Give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied
satisfied

Little things I should have
Said and done
I just never took the time

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind....

look for 7584 soon in tennessee cash 4.......

SAN FRANCISCO (July 27) - Scorching temperatures have resulted in scores of heat-related deaths since a statewide heatwave began July 16, and coroners in hard-hit Fresno Count are staking bodies two to a gurney because there are so many, the coroner said.

The number of deaths continued to rise to 81 despite a slight dip in triple-digit temperatures.

As many as 20 of the deaths are in Fresno County where medical examiners are performing autopsies nonstop and bodies are decomposing, making the causes of death difficult to determine, coroner Loralee Cervantes said.

Temperatures approached 110 in Fresno and other Central Valley cities on Wednesday, but forecasters said a slow cooling trend was under way, with highs expected to drop a few degrees by the weekend.

"We're seeing some relief coming, if you can call 105 relief," said National Weather Service forecaster Jim Dudley. "We're inching away from this superhot air mass we've had over us, though it's tricky. ... It's hard to get those things to move."

Californians were taking stock of damage wrought by the heat, from fruit and nuts scorched on the vine to a power grid battered by the constant demand for electricity.

Managers of the power grid were waiting for cooler weather to do maintenance after record electricity usage on Monday and Tuesday prompted officials to declare an emergency and warn of possible involuntary rolling blackouts.

"We have some balancing to do to allow as much maintenance as we can while we're in a cooling spell," said Gregg Fishman, a spokesman for Independent System Operator, which manages the grid.

While the power supply remained adequate Wednesday, the hot weather, coupled with increased usage, has blown out transformers around the state.

More than 1,100 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. transformers were damaged by the heat, leaving 1.2 million customers without power at some point since Friday, company spokesman Brian Swanson said.

The St. Louis area and the New York City borough of Queens slowly were returning to normal more than a week after weather-related blackouts.

About 51,000 customers around St. Louis still were without electricity after two storms knocked out power to more than 500,000 customers, according to Ameren Corp.

Three more deaths were blamed on the storms and blackout, bring Missouri's statewide total to nine.

In Queens, the last of the 100,000 people affected by a 10-day outage had their power restored, but Consolidated Edison still warned of lower voltage and occasional outages.

Other states also attributed more deaths to heat. Oklahoma officials said two people whose homes lacked air conditioners were the latest victims there, bringing to 10 the number of heat-related deaths since July 13.

California's inland valleys have registered some of the highest temperatures during the heat wave, with highs of around 115 and lows of about 90 degrees.

Near Mexico, the Border Patrol found the body of one illegal immigrant whose death might be heat-related. It was unclear whether that death was included in the heat wave toll.

Farmers who face sun-baked crops and lower milk production are rushing workers to the fields well before dawn so they can get out by late morning.

Even with misters and fans to keep cattle cool, experts estimate as much as 2 percent of the state's dairy herd may die.

The surviving cattle are producing less milk, farmers said. Dairy production in the state - No. 1 in the nation - was down as much as 15 percent in the past few days, according to the California Farm Bureau.

Though this is peak harvest time for fruits like peaches and nectarines, the heat stops the ripening process. Tomatoes being grown for salsa, ketchup and pasta sauces were found split in the fields, which will make them hard to sell.

It's too early to say what percentage of crops may be lost.

The heat might mean a slightly smaller harvest of wine grapes, said Karen Ross, president of the California Association of Winegrape Growers. When temperatures rise, vines stop growing to conserve water.

"They're just like people," she said. "They kind of shut down when it gets this hot."

i've dropped into something of a rut these days.feel like my luster is gone.feel weathered and beat.the last few months besides being on a losing streak i've also suffered a problem with my confidence too.having two babies within a year period and help raising them is hard and i'm trying to get used to it.i'm not exercising at all,not eating right and i have a real bad caffeine habit.i wrote a while back about how much i love sodas.got to where my sleeping habits are out of wack.i wake up going to the bathroom all day.what in the world has happened to me,lol.i feel like i need to do something to lift myself out of this hole.i keep telling myself i'm going to change but i don't.been this way for a few months now.i need to get in a positive frame of mind in the worst way.i really do need to lift myself up out of this hole and get back to being me.somewhere along the way i lost myself...........

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i'll put these in the pick 4 forum soon....

YouTube - Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven

quads have never hit in south carolina or tennessee.if they do i think the 4444 will be the first to hit........

look for the 8576 soon.its never hit even in boxed form.....

i'll play these......

5-17-29-33-38

4-15-19-24-28

5-13-18-24-27

BAGHDAD, Iraq (July 26) - A thinner but combative Saddam Hussein returned to court Wednesday for the first time since his hunger strike and hospitalization, complaining he had been forced to attend the proceedings and asking to be executed by firing squad if the court sentences him to death.

I was brought against my will directly from the hospital," Saddam told the chief judge. "The Americans insisted that I come against my will. This is not fair."

He asked the court to execute him by firing squad -- "not by hanging as a common criminal" -- if it convicts him of all charges and sentences him to death.

"I ask you being an Iraqi person that if you reach a verdict of death, execution, remember that I am a military man and should be killed by firing squad," he said.

Chief Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman reminded Saddam that the trial was still under way and that the court had not reached a verdict. Executions in Iraq are normally by hanging.

Saddam and seven co-defendants have been on trial since Oct. 19 in the killing and torture of Shiites in Dujail following a 1982 assassination attempt against him there. The prosecution has asked for the death penalty for Saddam and two of the seven others.

As the session began Wednesday, the ousted president was allowed to make a statement, beginning with a verse from the Quran, in which he challenged the validity and impartiality of the court. He then repeated a theme he has voiced since the start of the trial -- that the panel is an illegal instrument of the American occupation.

As he argued with the chief judge, Saddam raised his hands, pointed his finger and said: "Not even 1,000 people like you can terrify me."

"The invaders only understand the language of the gun," Saddam said. "I am in prison but the knights outside will liberate the country."

Saddam last attended the proceedings on June 19 when chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi asked the court to impose the death penalty on the former ruler for his role in the deaths of Shiite Muslims in Dujail following a 1982 assassination attempt against him.

The hunger strike and the lawyers' boycott followed last month's kidnap-slaying of defense attorney Khamis al-Obeidi, the third defense attorney slain since the trial began. The defense has accused Shiite militias for the killing.

During one of Saddam's outbursts, Abdel-Rahman accused the ex-president of inciting violence against Iraqis. Saddam responded: "I am inciting the killing of Americans and invaders, not the killing of Iraqis. I am Saddam Hussein. I call Iraqis to be in harmony and work on evicting the invaders."

The judge told him that insurgents are killing an average of 60 Iraqis every day -- and only two Americans. "Why are they attacking Iraqis in coffee shops and markets? Why don't they go detonate themselves among Americans?" he asked.

Saddam replied: "This case is not worth the urine of an Iraqi child."

Saddam then said he had told his followers "that if you see an American vehicle and you can strike it" but the judge turned off his microphones before the former leader could finish.

Earlier, Saddam told the judge that "if you were a real Iraqi, you would know that your country is going through extraordinary conditions."

"We not only resist this occupation. We do not acknowledge it. We do not acknowledge all the decisions it has made, including appointing the so-called government and this court you represent," Saddam said.

Abdel-Rahman interrupted, saying "you were not brought here against your will. Here's the medical report ... and it indicates that you are in good shape."

"I didn't say I was ill," Saddam snapped back. "I was on a hunger strike."

During his remarks, Saddam also objected to having a court-appointed attorney deliver the final summation on his behalf. The replacement was appointed after the regular defense team boycotted the proceedings, claiming bias by the court and to press demands for better security for its members.

"Where are your lawyers," the judge asked. "They're staying outside in front of the TV screens and inciting violence. Those are lawyers? Having millions of dinars? Listen Saddam Hussein, your lawyers have millions of dinars and are inciting violence."

As the court-appointed lawyer began to speak, Saddam interrupted him.

"You are my enemy. Who appointed you?" he asked. "I challenge you to read this on your own. He probably didn't even write this. The American agent, the spy probably wrote this for him."

During the summation, the court-appointed lawyer, whose identity was kept secret for security reasons, said the documents and witnesses presented by the prosecution did not tie Saddam personally to any killings and torture of the Dujail Shiites.

"Instead they refer to 'Saddam the tyrant,' 'Saddam the killer' ... and such references that reflect being written by people who are not impartial," the lawyer said.

"The documents lack any details when it comes to a specific role for Saddam in Dujail in 1982. There is no proof that when he was president he visited Dujail after the assassination attempt. There's no proof he was there when the detentions happened," the lawyer added.

With Saddam, the court has heard six of the eight final summations. After the final one is presented, the court will adjourn to consider a verdict, possibly in mid-August.

Saddam is due to stand trial Aug. 21 in a second case -- the bloody crackdown on Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s.

WASHINGTON (July 24) - A powerful Republican committee chairman who has led the fight against a tactic by President George W. Bush to avoid carrying out parts of laws he signs said Monday he would have a bill ready by the end of the week to allow Congress to sue Bush in federal court.

   


Sen. Arlen Specter's committee asserts that President Bush has issued at least 750 signing statements, more than all previous presidents combined.



   

"We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will ... authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of "signing statements" with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional," Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said on the Senate floor.

Specter's announcement came the day that an American Bar Association task force concluded that by attaching conditions to legislation, the president has sidestepped his constitutional duties to sign a bill, veto it or take no action.

Bush has issued at least 750 signing statements during his presidency, reserving the right to revise, interpret or disregard laws on national security and constitutional grounds.

"That nonveto hamstrings Congress because Congress cannot respond to a signing statement," said ABA president Michael Greco. The practice, he said, "is harming the separation of powers."

Specter's committee came up with the 750 figure for the number of statutes passed by Congress and signed with reservations by Bush. The ABA estimated Bush has issued signing statements on more than 800 statutes, more than all previous presidents combined.

   


   
Signing statements have been used by presidents typically for such purposes as instructing agencies how to execute new laws.

Many of Bush's signing statements serve notice that he believes parts of bills he is signing are unconstitutional or might violate national security. The implication is that he would not be bound to execute those parts of the law.

Still, the White House said signing statements are not intended to allow the administration to ignore the law.

"A great many of those signing statements may have little statements about questions about constitutionality," White House spokesman Tony Snow said. "It never says, `We're not going to enact the law."'

Specter's announcement intensifies his challenge of the administration's use of executive power on a number of policy matters. Of particular interest to him are two signing statements that challenged provisions of the USA Patriot Act renewal legislation, which Specter wrote, and legislation banning the use of torture against detainees.

Bush is not without congressional allies on the matter. Sen. John Cornyn, a former judge who like Bush is a Texas Republican, has said that signing statements are nothing more than expressions of presidential opinion that carry no legal weight because federal courts are unlikely to consider them when deciding cases that challenge the
same laws.

Beyond Cable. Beyond DSL.
Fiber-Optic Lines Offer Connection Speeds Up to 50 Times Faster Than Traditional Services. Here's What Early Users Have to Say.


For most jobs, technology consultant Joel Patterson can use his office network without any trouble. But for big files, when speed really matters, he heads for home.

Mr. Patterson's house, in the Dallas suburb of Lucas, Texas, is connected with high-capacity, high-speed optical fiber from Verizon Communications Inc. Thanks to fiber, his connection to the Internet is roughly 20 times faster than at work.

   


   
"In my business, a software upgrade might be a multigigabyte file, and if I stay at work on email, it might take me all day to get something downloaded," Mr. Patterson says. "At home it takes an hour or two."

Mr. Patterson is part of a small but growing club of phone-company customers who have abandoned their cable and digital-subscriber-line online services in favor of higher-capacity fiber-optic lines. Optical fiber can deliver connection speeds that are more than 50 times faster than DSL and cable links. Phone companies are counting on fiber to serve as the pipeline for an array of new services, from online games that allow more players and have even richer graphics than anything currently on the market, to television with more interactive features.

Leading phone companies are spending billions of dollars to upgrade their old copper networks with glass-based fiber. The companies say fiber not only will give them the capacity to deliver new services but also will be more resistant to outages caused by weather and corrosion, and easier to repair when outages occur.

Verizon is leading the charge, with a project expected to eventually cost more than $20 billion. The New York-based telecommunications giant is deploying the hair-thin fiber directly to customers' homes, which makes possible the speediest Internet connections so far available in the U.S. on a wide scale.

Other phone companies, including AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp., aren't yet offering fiber service. When they do, they will stop short of customers' homes, stringing fiber to local equipment centers or neighborhood boxes that are connected to homes by the traditional copper phone wires. That will enable speeds that are faster than those of cable or DSL connections but in many cases slower than those possible with Verizon's service, called FIOS.

Limited Availability

So far, fiber-optic connections are available only in a few select areas, because laying a whole new network is labor-intensive and expensive. Verizon's fiber lines pass by more than three million homes in Texas, Florida, suburban Washington, D.C., and other areas in its Northeastern territory. It expects to make service available to another three million households by the end of this year.

Verizon says that as high-capacity services become increasingly popular it will eventually tweak its fiber-optic technology to carry as much as 100 megabits of data per second, enough to download an entire movie in seconds. For now, speeds range from five megabits per second to 50 megabits per second in select markets. Popular DSL plans from most phone companies offer connections at 1.5 megabits per second, while cable connections are often somewhat faster than that.

The Verizon service generally is more expensive than typical DSL and cable broadband plans. Verizon's fiber prices in most places run from $35 a month for a connection at five megabits per second to $159.99 a month for 50 megabits per second. (In New York and other areas where competition is fiercest, the top-speed service is as low as $89.95 a month.) By comparison, AT&T charges about $28 a month for its fastest DSL service, which operates at six megabits a second.

With the faster networks, the phone companies can roll out services they hadn't been able to offer before, including television programming, online games and Internet phone services. In the near future, fiber will also facilitate the offering of new devices and services, such as so-called dual-network phones that run on a cellular network outdoors and automatically switch to a home phone network when the user enters the home. The idea is to save users cellphone minutes without forcing them to switch phones.

Already, Verizon is offering the silver Verizon One home phone, which comes with a color touch screen and an Internet connection, displaying up-to-date news, sports, weather and stock listings. Customers also can display photos and videos on the device. The phone will work with any Internet connection, but its features are far more fluid with a fiber line.

Verizon's fiber rollout has hit a few snags. Because installing the new lines requires crews to dig under lawns to install the network in some areas, Verizon aims to return the lawns to their original condition. This has meant the company has to reseed and relandscape lawns, a process that can prompt repeated trips back to homes when the grass isn't growing properly.

Customers also report a few kinks in the installation of the new connections, which can take more than four hours for technicians to set up as they sometimes must thread fiber through walls and attics.

'It's Pretty Cool'

Still, Internet technology forums are filled with fiber users such as Mr. Patterson who rave about the speedy Internet service. "It just blows me away," Mr. Patterson says. "Even typical music and videos, you know how it takes a few minutes to download? Well, I can download a song in about 10 seconds. It's pretty cool."

One of the earliest adopters of the technology is the medical profession, which is using fiber lines for fast, remote access to patient information.

Craig Sable, a pediatric cardiologist at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., recently had Verizon's fiber connection installed in his home as part of the hospital's telemedicine program. Under the program, the hospital is paying to run fiber connections for Dr. Sable and a couple of other doctors.

For Dr. Sable, fiber allows him to quickly transmit and receive patient X-rays and videos of heart ultrasounds, which are large files that would take far longer to download over DSL or cable Internet connections at home. The immediate access to the records at home helps him diagnose problems more quickly, at any time of day, than if he had to leave home and travel to the hospital to view them.

"In both the radiology and cardiology world, we are frequently asked to look at different types of digital patient studies at all hours of the day and night," Dr. Sable says. "The FIOS system allows us to expand to better 24/7 coverage."

Administrators say they plan to keep tabs on how Dr. Sable and others are using their fiber connections and may link up more doctors' homes if all goes well. The hospital hopes to soon begin using fiber lines for video conferencing for doctors at home.

Its fiber network also is enabling Verizon to begin competing with cable companies to deliver television programming. Verizon offers more than 400 channels in many areas, with 20 of them in high definition, but the channel lineup is roughly the same as cable.

Verizon's onscreen guide has a simple, clean look to it and allows users to search for shows by title, actor or topic. And unlike on some cable systems, users can search for shows up to two weeks into the future. Verizon also offers two sizes of guides, so users can choose how much of the show that they're watching appears in the background.

Also, video-on-demand movies (Verizon has about 2,500 of them) take just three seconds or so to download; most cable services take a few seconds longer, though systems vary.

   
   
   

Customers rave about the clear, bright picture on Verizon's service, which they say is better and more consistent than cable or satellite. But some say it's prone to occasional pixilation -- when the picture morphs into digital blocks -- for a second or two. Many say it's more reliable than cable TV, which they say sometimes experiences interference during storms. Because the fiber is waterproof, Verizon says its service holds up better in bad weather.

Verizon says TV customers in the coming months can look forward to a digital video recorder that will allow them to watch recorded shows on TVs throughout the home, not just on the TV that is physically attached to the DVR.

look for the 5846 straight or boxed soon......

gonna try these.....

5-17-26-34-39

5-17-29-33-38

5-19-27-33-38

4-15-19-24-28

my van showed 144,444 miles when i looked this morning.i then glanced at the clock and it said 4:44.maybe quads are coming.....