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This is Thayo Robelin. He won the lottery. Don't ask him for any money, though, because you're not getting it. Seriously, would you even consider asking a guy holding a machete for some money? Didn't think so!  I'm just joking. I didn't mean to make Thayo sound mean and tough; he's actually a great guy and a dedicated family man. But there's a reason I said not to ask him for money. 

Thayo Robelin was recently featured on The Lottery Changed My Life TV show.  His story began in November of 2005. He had a four-month-old son. He needed to go out to the store to pick up a few things, but he didn't want to leave the house. It was cold and he didn't want to take his young son out into that cold night. So he asked a friend, a co-worker named Keith Bryce, to pick up bread, milk, eggs, and a few Mega Millions tickets and bring it over. 

Keith obliged. He bought the bread, milk, and eggs. He bought five mega millions tickets for Thayo. He also bought five Mega millions tickets for himself. When Keith came to Thayo's house, he asked him to choose which tickets he wanted to take. He didn't want to make that decision, so the two friends agreed to split any prize that they won evenly down the middle.  Guess what? They won! $17.5 million - $8,750,000 each.

Let's rewind a few years prior to Thayo Robelin winning the lottery. Thayo had a criminal past. In 1999, his home and car were raided by the police. The police claimed that he was the leader of a syndicate that smuggled drugs into his home state of Michigan. He spent time in prison for that. Even before and after the 1999 raid, Thayo had numerous drugs and weapons charges laid against him. Yep, he was a criminal.

Then his first son was born in 2005. He needed to change. He wanted to change. His son needed a good role model and Thayo wanted to be that role model. So he left his criminal past behind. He got a job installing windows. Now Thayo was making an honest living.

Four months after his son was born, Thayo Robelin won the lottery. But Thayo was careful with his money. He didn't go on any lavish spending sprees, like many lottery winners do. He didn't give much money away to friends and family, also what many lottery winners do. He wanted that money to take care of his son. So he was careful with it.

So Thayo Robelin had money and his criminal past was behind him. He was a good man. In fact, he was in a bar one day, shortly after his lottery win, when he saw a familiar face. It was one of the cops that was involved in the 1999 raid. The two spoke. The cop even bought Thayo a beer. That's when you know you're no longer a criminal, when a cop buys you a beer.

Since the lottery win, Thayo has had another son. And, he still has money. Life is good.

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Keith Bryce is pictured here with his wife. He and his friend, Thayo Robelin, won the lottery in November of 2005, a $17.5 million Mega Millions jackpot. Each of the two friends received $8,750,000.   As soon as he won the lottery, Keith Bryce started dishing out money - To friends, to family, to pretty much anybody that asked him for some. Within the first month of winning the lottery, Keith gave away more than a million dollars.

Aside from giving away money, he also bought toys, plenty of toys. A new house, A Harley, a Corvette, and an Escalade. He didn't only buy toys for himself, he bought toys for friends and family too, including Harleys for his brothers and a Cadillac for his mother.

The money was flowing out. There were also charitable donations. There were rounds of free drinks to strangers at bars. There were $100 tips to waitresses at restaurants. There were gambling trips to Las Vegas, first class, staying in presidential suites.

Reckless spending. Most of it is now gone.

Before winning the lottery, Keith Bryce worked as a window installer. After winning the lottery, he lived the life most people could only dream about. Today, he's come full circle - He's back to installing windows for a living.

Two friends won the lottery and they embarked on totally different paths. One was smart with his money. One wasn't. I wonder if they still keep in touch.

Source: http://www.biglotterywinners.com/2011/11/what-happens-to-people-after-winning.html

WASHINGTON - The Secret Service says the man wanted in connection with Friday's shooting near the White House has been taken into custody.  Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez  (shown above) was arrested at the Hampton Inn in Indiana, Pa. at about 12:35 p.m. Wednesday and is in the custody of Pennsylvania State Police.

Working on information that Ortega-Hernandez had visited hotels in Indiana, Pa. in the past, Secret Service agents in the Pittsburgh Field Office distributed his picture to area hotels. An employee at the Hampton Inn recognized him early Wednesday morning and called state police. Ortega-Hernandez was captured without incident, a law enforcement source in Pennsylvania says.

When reached by phone, a hotel employee said he had been instructed by police not to speak to reporters. A bomb squad has since been called to search the hotel, according to reports from the scene.

Ortega-Hernandez was sought by federal authorities after reports of gunfire near the White House on Friday night while President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were away on a trip to California and Hawaii. Witnesses heard shots and saw two speeding vehicles in the area. An assault rifle was also recovered.

No one was injured in the shooting, but officials are investigating two bullets that hit the White House, one of them apparently cracking a window on the residential level where the Obama family lives.  The Secret Service said it discovered the bullet holes Tuesday and the bullet that hit the window was stopped by ballistic glass, but that it was not certain the cartridges were connected to Friday's shooting.

On Wednesday, officials could be seen taking photographs of a window on the south face of the executive mansion. The window they were inspecting is in front of the so-called Yellow Oval Room, according to the White House website. The room is in the middle of the family's living quarters on the floor that includes the president's bedroom and the Lincoln Bedroom.

Obama and the first lady had traveled without daughters Malia and Sasha on Friday to San Diego en route to Hawaii for a summit. The White House had no immediate comment on the shooting report or arrest nor who may have been in the building at the time.

The exact location of the second bullet was not disclosed by the Secret Service.  "An assessment of the exterior of the White House is ongoing," Secret Service spokesperson Ed Donovan says in a statement emailed to reporters.

"A round was stopped by ballistic glass behind the historic exterior glass," he says. "One additional round has been found on the exterior of the White House. This damage has not been conclusively connected to Friday's incident."

U.S. Park Police identified the suspect in Friday's shooting as Oscar Ramiro Ortega, 21, and obtained a warrant charging him with carrying a dangerous weapon, a felony. A Secret Service spokesman identified the suspect as Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, saying that is the name on his driver's license.

After the Friday gunfire was reported, police said they found an abandoned car Friday night near the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge that crosses the Potomac River to Virginia.  U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser said items found in the vehicle connected it to the suspect, who hasn't been linked to any radical organizations but does have an arrest record in three states.

Federal officials also set up a joint task force to investigate last week's shooting. Lindsay Godwin, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington Field Office, tells WTOP the task force includes the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Metropolitan Police Department, U.S. Park Police and Secret Service.

Ortega-Hernandez was believed to be living in the Washington area with ties to Idaho. Idaho Falls Police Department spokeswoman Joelyn Hansen says Ortega-Hernandez's family reported him missing Oct. 31.

Hansen says they received word Friday that Ortega-Hernandez was well when police in Arlington stopped him after a citizen reported someone "circling the area." Arlington Police Lt. Joe Kantor said when police stopped the suspect, he was on foot and had an out of state address. Police took photos of him but had no cause to detain him, Kantor said.

Police agencies were told to consider Ortega-Hernandez dangerous and unstable.

In the last shooting at the White House, a Colorado man sprayed the mansion with at least 27 semiautomatic rifle bullets from Pennsylvania Avenue in an attempt to assassinate President Bill Clinton in October 1994. Bystanders subdued him, and no one was injured. Francisco Martin Duran was later convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison for that shooting.  The next year, Pennsylvania Avenue was closed to traffic to bolster security.

 

(CBS/AP)  WASHINGTON - The Secret Service says a bullet hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass.  An

additional round of ammunition was also found on the exterior of the White House. The bullets were found Tuesday.  The discovery follows reports of gunfire near the White House on Friday. Witnesses heard shots and saw two speeding vehicles in the area. An AK-47 rifle was also recovered.

The Secret Service says it has not conclusively connected Friday's incident with the bullets found on the White House grounds. U.S. Park Police have an arrest warrant out for Oscar Ortega-Hernandez (shown below), who is believed to be connected to the earlier incident.

 

A statement from the Secret Service confirmed that the Secret Service, Park Police, FBI, ATF and Metropolitan Police Department were working together to find Ortega-Hernandez. 

A vehicle found on Friday between the Ellipse and the Washington Monument - an area just 700 or 800 yards from the White House, led authorities to issue the arrest warrant for the man, who is described as a "21-year old, Hispanic male, 5'11", 160 pounds, with a medium build, brown eyes and black hair."

MSNBC pundit Goldie Taylor shared her own story of sexual abuse on Monday's "Last Word," in response to the child abuse scandal at Penn State.  Taylor had tweeted about the scandal earlier, saying that she felt "ashamed that I never had the courage to tell my own story." 

This one has been making the rounds this month:  v135 - 024  029  074  079  524  529  574  579 

Here's the roundup so far:

Tue, Nov 15, 2011	Pennsylvania	Daily Number Evening	5-9-2
Mon, Nov 14, 2011	Georgia	Cash 3 Evening	7-4-0
Mon, Nov 14, 2011	Illinois	Pick 3 Midday	5-2-4
Mon, Nov 14, 2011	Iowa	Pick 3 Midday	5-2-4
Mon, Nov 14, 2011	Maryland	Pick 3 Evening	0-4-2
Mon, Nov 14, 2011	Washington	Daily Game	7-0-9
Sun, Nov 13, 2011	Kentucky	Pick 3 Evening	0-2-9
Sun, Nov 13, 2011	Michigan	Daily 3 Evening	9-5-2
Sun, Nov 13, 2011	Oklahoma	Pick 3	4-0-7
Sun, Nov 13, 2011	Washington	Daily Game	5-2-4
Sat, Nov 12, 2011	Georgia	Cash 3 Midday	2-4-0
Sat, Nov 12, 2011	New York	Numbers Evening	4-7-0, Lucky Sum: 11
Sat, Nov 12, 2011	North Carolina	Pick 3 Daytime	2-0-4
Fri, Nov 11, 2011	Indiana	Daily 3 Evening	5-7-4
Fri, Nov 11, 2011	New York	Numbers Midday	7-0-9, Lucky Sum: 16
Thu, Nov 10, 2011	Georgia	Cash 3 Midday	4-7-5
Thu, Nov 10, 2011	Kentucky	Pick 3 Evening	4-7-0
Thu, Nov 10, 2011	Louisiana	Pick 3	5-7-9
Thu, Nov 10, 2011	Maryland	Pick 3 Midday	0-2-4
Thu, Nov 10, 2011	South Carolina	Pick 3 Evening	5-4-7

Thu, Nov 10, 2011	Washington	Daily Game	5-2-9
Tue, Nov 8, 2011	Connecticut	Play 3 Night	4-2-0
Tue, Nov 8, 2011	Kansas	Pick 3	4-5-2
Mon, Nov 7, 2011	Multi-State	Tri-State Pick 3 Evening	9-7-5
Mon, Nov 7, 2011	North Carolina	Pick 3 Evening	9-0-2
Mon, Nov 7, 2011	Oklahoma	Pick 3	7-9-5
Mon, Nov 7, 2011	Pennsylvania	Daily Number Evening	2-0-4
Sun, Nov 6, 2011	Washington	Daily Game	0-4-7
Sat, Nov 5, 2011	Washington	Daily Game	4-0-7
Fri, Nov 4, 2011	California	Daily 3 Midday	4-0-7
Fri, Nov 4, 2011	Florida	Cash 3 Midday	4-5-2
Fri, Nov 4, 2011	New York	Numbers Evening	2-9-0, Lucky Sum: 11
Thu, Nov 3, 2011	Arkansas	Cash 3 Evening	0-4-2
Thu, Nov 3, 2011	Michigan	Daily 3 Midday	7-4-5
Wed, Nov 2, 2011	Idaho	Pick 3 Night	7-0-9
Wed, Nov 2, 2011	Puerto Rico	Pega 3	2-4-5
Tue, Nov 1, 2011	Florida	Cash 3 Evening	9-5-2
Tue, Nov 1, 2011	Nebraska	Pick 3	4-7-0
Tue, Nov 1, 2011	Virginia	Pick 3 Night	0-4-7
Tue, Nov 1, 2011	Washington, D.C.	DC-3 Midday	7-9-0

                           

Prediction - 222, 333, 777 or 888  Will Fall Midday Between 11/16th And 11/25th

November has historically been a good month for trips in New York:

11/20/1998 - 444 - Friday - Evening (only one draw held

11/13/2002 - 222 - Wednesday - Midday

11/22/2003 - 555 - Saturday - Evening

11/14/2004 - 333 - Wednesday - Evening

11/04/2005 - 999 - Friday - Evening

11/16/2006 - 888 - Thursday - Midday

11/24/2007 - 111 - Saturday -  Evening

11/19/2008 - 777 - Wednesday - Evening

11/14/2009 - 888 - Saturday - Evening

11/17/2010 - 777 - Wednesday - Midday

Since NYL Began In 1998, Ten Trips Have Dropped In November:

Midday/Evening:  7 on evening side, 3 midday;

Odd/Even:  4 even trips; 6 odd; 

Most frequent: = 777 dropped twice;  888 dropped twice - mirrors 222/333;

Time period:  trips dropped between 11/13 - 11/24th;

Best Day:  trips dropped 4x on Wednesday

My prediction for best draw:  I'm going with Midday - needs to play catch up; sooooo

Let's see what happens - good luck NY !!!

                 

PLEASE NOTE THIS PREDICTION IS BASED ON MY ANALYSIS 

OF HISTORICAL DATA SHOWN ABOVE FOUND ON US LOTTERIES- COM

IT SHOULD BE COMPARED TO YOUR OWN WORKOUTS, ETC..

IN OTHER WORDS, I DON'T HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL AND I WILL NOT RESPOND TO PMs FROM PEOPLE

SAYING THAT I CAUSED THEM TO LOSE MONEY BECAUSE THE TRIP DIDN'T DROP UNTIL THE LAST DAY OF THE TIME PERIOD

(NEW JERSEY TRIP FELL ON LAST DAY, IT COULD HAPPEN IN NEW YORK ALSO)

PLEASE PLACE YOUR BETS BASED ON INFORMATION PROVIDED, YOUR OWN WORKOUTS  AND YOUR COMMON SENSE $$$

    
   

 

Ticket prices will increase from $1 to $2 and jackpots will start at $40 million. Lottery officials said the changes will make the game easier to win.

 

Lottery player Patricia Lang said she is excited about the chance to become a multimillionaire, but she is not excited about the ticket price change.  "I think that is terrible. They are doing good the way it is now. I don't think that is going to be a good idea," said Lang.  Others said the change is worth the tradeoff for the possibility of increased odds at winning.  "I think it is great. It doesn't bother me," said Marsha Levitt.

 

Powerball Executive Board member Terry Rich said research on the price hike showed the change from $1 to $2 would mean more people would play the game. "We thought many of the games in the $1 category were the same between Mega Millions and Powerball so it was not a difficult decision to say, 'Let's give away more millions and make the odds better," said Rich.

 

Rich said the changes will also increase the number of millionaires, saying the higher price will double the starting jackpot and make the odds better as they go from 39 balls down to 35.  "We think some people will enjoy the $1 price point and will continue to play Hot Lotto and Mega Millions and others will like the variety and the chance to win more millions and have better odds," said Rich.

 

The new $2 Powerball ticket price will start Jan. 15. Tickets in the game will cost $2 and the Power Play multiplier feature will still be available for an extra $1 per play. For that extra $1, players have the chance to win prizes up to $2 million cash for the match 5 prize.  Players in the newly designed game will still choose their first five numbers from a pool of 59. But the group of numbers in the Powerball pool will shrink from 39 to 35, producing better overall odds of winning a prize in the game, officials said.

Source: http://www.kcci.com/r/29641989/detail.html

 

I don't usually play the pick-6 but I heard about this new promo so I decided to give it a try tonight! 

Here's the coupon I printed out from NJL's Facebook page.

I read some comments on Facebook about clerks not accepting the coupons or not being able to follow the instructions so I was prepared for the worst.  Fortunately my clerk had no problem following the instructions printed on the coupon and actually seemed kinda excited about it!

So here's my ticket for tonight's drawing.  The jackpot is $2.1 million ...  wish me luck everyone 

On Tuesday, November 8th, New Jersey voters put their money down on the legal right to place bets on professional sports teams.  The nonbinding referendum, and the only question to appear on the statewide ballot, was approved by a wide margin.

"The voters beat the over-under," said state Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union), who has spearheaded the effort for sports wagering. "It was a bigger win than we expected. There’s a strong momentum to fight the federal ban in New Jersey."

But it is only the first step in lawmakers’ attempts to overturn a federal ban on sports betting.  Lesniak said he planned to introduce legislation tomorrow legalizing sports wagering in Atlantic City and at current and former horse racing tracks, and hoped to have it approved and on the governor’s desk before the end of the year.

State Sen. Jim Whelan, (D-Atlantic), chairman of the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism and Historic Preservation Committee, and Lesniak said the initiatives will now provide them with the ammunition they need when they once again take their argument to federal court.

Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown dismissed a lawsuit brought by Lesniak, Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and gaming advocates on the grounds that the state — through the Attorney General’s Office — should have brought the suit.  Christie refused to join in the suit at that time, saying the federal ban made the effort moot.  But last week the governor said he would fight for sports betting if a majority of voters approved the referendum.

Proponents of sports betting have said New Jersey is losing millions of dollars in potential revenue to offshore operations, organized crime and to the four states where that type of wagering in permitted in some form — Nevada, Oregon, Montana and Delaware.

In 1992, former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley led the charge for the passage of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which outlawed sports wagering in all states, but he grandfathered in the four states that had some form of it. It also gave states with casino gambling for more than 10 years — a provision inserted solely for New Jersey — a year to legalize sports betting, but New Jersey’s effort died in the Legislature.

             

Sun, Nov 13, 2011	Multi-State	Tri-State Pick 3 Evening	9-9-9
Fri, Nov 11, 2011	Delaware	Play 3 Day	4-4-4
Fri, Nov 11, 2011	Virginia	Pick 3 Night	4-4-4
Thu, Nov 10, 2011	Missouri	Pick 3 Midday	0-0-0
Wed, Nov 9, 2011	Washington, D.C.	DC-3 Evening	0-0-0
Tue, Nov 8, 2011	Oklahoma	Pick 3	1-1-1
Tue, Nov 8, 2011	Tennessee	Cash 3 Evening	2-2-2, Lucky Sum: 6
Sun, Nov 6, 2011	Missouri	Pick 3 Midday	3-3-3
Sat, Nov 5, 2011	New Mexico	Pick 3	2-2-2
Sat, Nov 5, 2011	South Carolina	Pick 3 Midday	9-9-9

**Notice how trips tend to drop on the weekend**

November is usually a good month for trips in NJ

so I expect to see one by tomorrow!

If not, then we'll get one last week of the month

One of my favorite lottery stories - an oldie but goodie

 

How do you pick your lottery numbers?  We as players scratch through the frequency charts, devise systems, play important dates in our lives, and quite often let the quick pick function choose our numbers for us.  But do you ever buy tickets based on a dream?

William Harvey of Manalapan, New Jersey, hit the   New York Win 4 jackpot an amazing 70 times. He purchased 70 separate  Win 4 tickets, with 10 games on each ticket. Harvey’s  Win 4 prize totaled an incredible $3,500,000 for the November 22, 2009 midday drawing.

Who does that? 

Harvey is married and he is a self-employed construction worker. “I had a dream about my late mother; the next day I decided to play her birth date. I purchased $700 in  Win 4 tickets and played the number 2912. When I found out how much I won, I was speechless,” said Harvey. He plans to buy a new house and pay bills with his prize. 

Harvey purchased his winning Win 4 tickets at Billy Food Stores, 65 Page Avenue in Staten Island. The Win 4 midday numbers for November 22nd were:

 

 

The cashier whose lottery-ticket-mistake made Robert Thibodaux Sr. a millionaire got a big surprise.

Thibodaux says he made a promise to the cashier at Shop-Rite where he bought the winning ticket he didn’t ask for. 

It is the Soldier,
not the reporter, who has given us freedom of press.

It is the Soldier,
not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Soldier,
not the campus organizer, who gives us freedom to demonstrate.

It is the Soldier
who salutes the flag,
who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.

Written By Father Dennis Edward O'Brien