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my list for may 2006 pick 4.......
5846, 5648, 4658, 4856, 5486, 7486, 5684, 7684, 7864, 5864, 5468, 7468, 7856, 7846, 7648, 7658, 8658, 8456, 5487, 5784, 7854, 5478, 7458, 7858, 5878, 5876, 5674, 5476, 5647, 5746, 5847, 5748, 4657, 4756, 4857, 4758, 7876, 7678, 5658, 5856, 5946, 4956, 5947, 4957, 4846, 4648, 5448, 5446, 4558, 4556,4568,4865
i have been changing my numbers a bit and it has cost me dearly in tennessee.i missed out on 7468 here a week or so ago.now i missed out on 7854 today.i got both straight on the prediction board here but missed out on playing them online.......
betting online is much better and more fun than the traditional way of doing it.number one there are not all those slips of paper taking up space in your wallet or pocket.number two is that if the weather is bad and the terminal is down in your state you can still bet online.if your car breaks down or you don't feel good instead of making a trip to the store you can do it online.thats just some of the reasons there.another reason is the payouts are way better online and the bets are cheaper and low as a quarter and a quarter bet pays what a 50 cent bet would normally pay in state.there are other advantages that are good for you and your wallet because you get to keep it all!
i'm taking a few numbers and betting on them multiple times.i've won plenty of times on pick 3 doing this....
i'll play these tonight....
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Nationwide Average Up 24 Cents to $2.91 a Gallon
NEW YORK (April 23) - The average U.S. retail price of gasoline surged about 9 percent over the past two weeks, pumped up by higher crude oil costs as well as regulatory ethanol-blending requirements, an industry analyst said.
Rising crude oil prices and tight supplies of ethanol, which is being phased in as an additive, are blamed for the ongoing gas price spike.
The national average for self-serve regular unleaded gas was $2.91 a gallon on April 21, up nearly 25 cents in the past two weeks, according to the nationwide Lundberg survey of about 7,000 gas stations.
Nearly all of that increase came as benchmark U.S. crude futures surged $8 a barrel over the two-week period, Lundberg said, reaching $75.17 on Friday amid strong demand and fears of supply disruptions in exporting countries like Nigeria.
Yet prices at the pump also reflect the higher cost of delivering and blending ethanol into gasoline, as mandated by federal and state laws designed to combat air pollution.
"Not only are these costs higher than for the additive ethanol replaced, MTBE, but ethanol is also in tight supply," analyst Trilby Lundberg told Reuters on Sunday.
Lundberg also noted several U.S. East Coast and Texas cities reported "spotty outages," where gasoline sales were halted as service stations waited for deliveries of ethanol-blended product.
Ethanol, which is produced from corn and other crops, helps reduce emissions that contribute to smog. MTBE, a chemical that had been used for the same purpose, is being phased out after being linked to drinking water contamination.
But ethanol costs refiners and retailers more because it has special transportation and blending requirements. The replacement of MTBE also comes as refiners must upgrade their production facilities to comply with low-sulfur regulations.
Moreover, U.S. ethanol supplies are tight, Lundberg said, a situation she blames on steep tariffs on imports from foreign producers like Brazil.
"It's a de facto barrier," she said.
At $3.12 a gallon, San Diego had the highest average price for self-serve regular gas, while the lowest price was $2.54 a gallon in Boise, Idaho. Gasoline exceeded $3 a gallon in cities in five states plus Washington, D.C.
On a national basis, regular unleaded is up nearly 67 cents or 30 percent from a year ago. Still, it is 10 cents shy of the all-time high of $3.01 reached last September, in the aftermath of Gulf of Mexico storms that disrupted oil and gasoline production.
And as high as prices may seem, the average price last week is still 15 cents below the record inflation-adjusted high of $3.06 reached in March 1981, Lundberg said.
West at War With Islam, bin Laden Asserts in Tape
CAIRO, Egypt (April 24) - Osama bin Laden issued new threats in an audiotape broadcast on Arab television Sunday and accused the United States and Europe of supporting a "Zionist" war on Islam by cutting off funds to the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
He also urged followers to go to Sudan, his former base, to fight a proposed U.N. peacekeeping force.
His words, the first new message by the al-Qaida leader in three months, seemed designed to justify potential attacks on civilians - something al-Qaida has been criticized for even by its Arab supporters.
He also appeared to be trying to drum up support among Arabs by accusing the West of targeting Hamas, a militant group that fights against Israel and now heads the Palestinian government.
Citing the West's decision to cut off aid to the Hamas-led government because it refuses to renounce violence or recognize Israel, bin Laden said Washington and Europe were waging war on Islam.
"The blockade which the West is imposing on the government of Hamas proves that there is a Zionist, crusaders' war on Islam," bin Laden said.
President Bush was told about the tape Sunday morning. The intelligence community has informed the White House that it believes the tape is authentic, said Bush's spokesman, Scott McClellan.
"The al-Qaida leadership is on the run and under a lot of pressure," McClellan said at a Marine base in Twentynine Palms, Calif., where Bush was having lunch with military families.
"We are on the advance. They are on the run."
Al-Qaida is not believed to have direct links to Hamas, which is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri was quick to distance the group from bin Laden, declaring that "the ideology of Hamas is totally different from the ideology of Sheik bin Laden."
The groups do, however, share an anti-Israel ideology that calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. And recent reports in Middle East media have said al-Qaida is trying to build cells in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon and Sudan. Israel has indicted two West Bank militants for al-Qaida membership.
Israeli government spokesman Raanan Gissin said it appeared bin Laden decided to issue the verbal assault to deflect growing Arab animosity toward al-Qaida.
That criticism peaked in December when the leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq group, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the bombings of Jordan hotels that killed many Arabs.
"This is something the Arab world can agree upon," Gissin said.
Bin Laden "has been criticized for the destruction and carnage he's causing the Muslim nation. He's looking for another justification," Gissin said. "Criticizing Israel sounds more politically correct."
The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad - a former ambassador to Afghanistan - said the tape was another attempt by bin Laden to gain attention for his cause.
"He wants to be relevant to the situation, wants to get attention that he still is a player," Khalilzad said on CNN's "Late Edition."
The voice on the tape sounded strong and resembled that on other recordings attributed to bin Laden, but its authenticity could not be verified independently.
Al-Jazeera television appeared to have had the tape long enough to make significant edits, with its news reader providing background comments. The network broadcast about five minutes of the tape in all.
Bin Laden's remarks touched on the full range of issues that anger militant Arabs and other Muslims. Many of them see a renewal of a Christian- and Jewish-inspired Western "crusade" to dominate the Islamic world and to confiscate Muslim lands and resources - particularly oil.
Bob Ayers, a security expert with the Chatham House think tank in London, said the tape may be bin Laden's way of playing cat-and-mouse with those hunting him.
"It's when people have kind of forgotten about him, when he's not been on the news, that the tapes emerge," Ayers said. "It's kind of his way of thumbing his nose at the U.S. and saying, 'Hey, I'm still out here, and you haven't caught me and you can't.' That's what he's saying."
Concerning Sudan, bin Laden called on "mujahedeen and their supporters, especially in Sudan and the Arab peninsula, to prepare for long war again the crusader plunderers in Western Sudan. Our goal is not defending the Khartoum government but to defend Islam, its land and its people."
"I urge holy warriors to be acquainted with the land and the tribes in Darfur," he said, adding they should be aware that the rainy season approaches and that will hamper their movement.
Al-Qaida has targeted Western forces in Africa before - including its attacks against U.S. troops trying to bring peace to Somalia in 1993.
The fighting in Darfur began when rebels from black African tribes took up arms in February 2003, complaining of discrimination and oppression by Sudan's Arab-dominated government.
The government has been accused of unleashing Arab tribal militia known as the Janjaweed against civilians in a campaign of murder, rape and arson - a charge it denies. At least 180,000 people have died - many from hunger and disease - and 2 million people have been displaced in the vast, arid region of western Sudan and as refugees in neighboring Chad.
The United Nations has described the conflict as the world's gravest humanitarian crisis. The United States has described it as genocide.
Negotiators are trying to broker a peace deal between warring factions by an April 30 deadline. Members of the African Union have agreed in principle to hand over peacekeeping duties to the United Nations this fall.
The Saudi-born bin Laden set up headquarters in Sudan after he was forced to leave his homeland, but Khartoum expelled him under threats from the United States. He moved to Afghanistan, where he trained fighters and organized the Sept. 11 attacks.
He is believed hiding in the rugged mountains on the Pakistani side of that country's long border with Afghanistan.
In Washington, U.S. intelligence officials said bin Laden was living separately from top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri and, in a sign he has to be careful about whom he trusts, surrounded by fellow Arabs.
The al-Qaida chieftain, who last issued a message broadcast by Al-Jazeera on Jan. 19, also made a point of trying to justify attacks on civilians. He said citizens of Western countries were equally responsible with their governments for what he termed the "war on Islam."
"I say that this war is the joint responsibility of the people and the governments. While the war continues, the people renew their allegiance to their rulers and politicians and continue to send their sons to our countries to fight us," bin Laden said.
In his last message, bin Laden offered the United States a long-term truce but warned that al-Qaida soon would launch a fresh attack on American soil. But no new attacks on the United States have occurred.
In the Sunday broadcast, bin Laden called for a global Muslim boycott of American goods similar to the recent ban on Danish products after the publication of caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad that outraged the Muslim world.
The Al-Jazeera news reader said bin Laden, in a portion of the tape not aired by the Qatar-based broadcaster, also scoffed at Saudi King Abdullah for his calls for a "dialogue among civilizations" and blasted liberal Arab writers for participating in the Western cultural invasion of Muslim lands.
lets hope one of these hit in tennessee because if it does i'm up 9,000
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Massive Cyber Heist Could Cost Consumers
Consumer Groups Say Victims Need More Information About the Theft
(April 22) - After their banks quietly informed them their debit card and bank information may have been stolen, thousands of Americans could lose as much as $500 in money taken from their accounts.
Unlike credit cards, which by law hold consumers responsible for only $50 in the case of theft, card issuers can hold debit card holders responsible for up to $500 when their money is stolen.
In possibly the biggest incident of debit card hacking theft, thousands of U.S. consumers have been told that their bank accounts may have been compromised by computer hackers who stole debit information and personal identification numbers (PINs) from their bank accounts.
"This is the worse debit-PIN breach that has been reported to date," said Avivah Litan, analyst and digital banking expert at Gartner.
During the past few weeks, banks across the country quietly informed consumers who may have been victimized by the breach, which occurred more than a month ago.
Litan said that 200,000 to 300,000 consumers may have had new debit cards issued, and the banks reportedly monitored account activity for the consumers at risk. But some consumer groups questioned why the notification letters were not more specific about the details of the breach, such as whether it was a specific merchant whose security was compromised.
"The letters seem to be pretty vague. They're not being told where the breach occurred. The notices tell them that something happened, but it won't tell them where or how," said Gail Hillebrand of the nonprofit group Consumers Union. "If you're a consumer, it would help to know which retailer made your information available, because maybe you wouldn't want to shop there again."
One privacy expert said that banks and retailers often wrangle over the particulars of notifying consumers when a security breach occurs.
"No one wants to send out a security breach notice," said Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "You instantly become a pariah, and the fear is that you'll start to lose customers."
Responsible for Money Lost?
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Unlike credit cards, which by law hold consumers responsible for only $50 in the case of theft, card issuers can hold debit card holders responsible for up to $500 when their money is stolen. Electronic money transfers, including debit card transactions, are governed by a Federal Reserve Board regulation known as Regulation E. One of its stipulations puts the onus on consumers to report irregularities with electronic transfers. If consumers fail to notify card issuers about breaches in a "timely fashion," the card issuer could hold the consumer responsible for up to $500.
But Hoofnagle said it was doubtful that banks and merchants would hold consumers liable for such a large amount of money.
"I can't imagine when you have a breach like this, where the consumer is not at fault in any way, that banks would hold them responsible for that $500," Hoofnagle said.
At least one bank said the breach compromised an outside merchant, not the bank. Wachovia Bank released a statement saying that Visa notified the bank that "security breaches occurred at merchants or what are called third-party vendors."
The bank notified customers, issued new debit cards and monitored account activity. The Wachovia statement also made it clear that customers would not be held responsible, saying, "it's important for customers to know that if fraud is detected they are fully protected by Visa's zero liability policy, which means they will pay nothing in the event of a fraudulent purchase."
But if you're hacked, you'll still face difficulties.
"Even though you almost always get your money back, it's not a simple wrap," Litan said. "You have to go through all kinds of phone calls and forms, and it's a hassle."
In many cases, there is little justice for cyber thieves. Often authorities have little evidence to track the crimes, and hackers are known to respond to new cyber security measures with even better hacking technology.
"These crooks get away with it, and that's why they keep doing it. They've got about a one in a thousand chance of getting arrested," Litan said.
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