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Mega Millions Changes To Increase Number of Winners

Mega Millions Changes To
Increase Number of Winners

http://m.nbcchicago.com/nbcchicago/pm_107717/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=dubcre08

The Mega Millions game is undergoing
big changes in October.

Lottery officials say the game matrix is
being revised to increase the number of
prize winners among those who
purchase the $1 tickets.

The minimum jackpot for Mega Millions
is going from $12 million to $15 million,
and will grow by at least $5 million after
each drawing if nobody matches the
numbers.

Mega Millions drawings will still consist
of five white balls and one gold ball for a
total of six winning numbers.

Under the new system, the number of
white balls will increase from 56 to 75,
and the number of gold balls will
decrease from 46 to 15. The changes
mean the new overall odds of winning a
prize are one in 15.

Copyright Associated Press

Entry #187

Freeky Fortune Prediction

Prediction for Freeky Fortune
11/25/2012
06-11-13-15-20-39-53-54
 
Father, I thank You for the combination given.
Entry #186

Ghana: National for 11-24-2012

Using 02-05-36 as my key numbers.

Using 27 as a strong number also.

02-05-36-01-74

02-05-36-09-27

02-05-36-10-37

02-05-36-13-85

02-05-36-17-28

02-05-36-24-73

02-05-36-26-35

02-05-36-27-77

02-05-36-39-49

02-05-36-42-62

02-05-36-44-89

02-05-36-46-50

02-05-36-67-71

02-05-36-75-84

Father, I thank YOU for the combinations given.

Entry #185

Over Done Through

I am so happy that the nation has decided who they want at the helm of the United States.

I was not for or against either candidate.

I look forward to moving forward with high expectations of our elected officials.

Entry #184

Students Apologize to Bullied Bus Monitor

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/students-apologize-bullied-bus-monitor-120130984--abc-news-topstories.html

 

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Students Apologize to Bullied Bus Monitor

By ABC News | ABC News Blogs – 9 hours ago

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ABC News' John Schriffen reports:

 

The seventh grade boys who verbally bashed and taunted a 68-year-old bus monitor in a bullying video that went viral online  are speaking out this morning, apologizing for their behavior.

It all started after the 10-minute video was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday by one of the students on the bus. Several students can be  heard taunting Karen Klein, a bus monitor for the Greece School District in Rochester, N.Y.

"I am so sorry for the way I treated you. When I saw the video I was disgusted and could not believe I did that," one  of the boys, Josh, said in a statement released by police.

Another, Wesley, said: "If that had happened to someone in my family, like my  mother or grandmother, I would be really mad at the people who did that  to them."

Luis, the seventh grader who shot the cell phone video  and posted it online, said their taunting was all an attempt to attract  some attention online.

"I see kids recorded bullying all the time on YouTube, so I thought why would this be a problem?," he said.

The boys had no idea their video would go as far as it has, viewed more  than two million times on YouTube and drawing unwanted infamy and  attention to them and their families.

The father of one of the  teenage boys says his "heart broke" to see that his son was part of the  abuse, but that the boys have suffered enough with their faces made  public in the video.

"My family's received death threats," Robert  Helms told ABC News. "He's a 13-year-old kid. It was a stupid mistake  and he's paying for it but I just think it's a little out of control."

The boys are also facing harsh punishment from both the school district and the local police department, which has devoted a detective to  investigate what happened. Klein has told police she does not want to  press charges but does want the boys to be punished.

Sources tell  ABC News the Greece School Board is considering suspending the boys for  the entire school year next year since the incident happened on the last day of school. A decision is expected to come down sometime next week  after a meeting with the Superintendent.

In the video, the  students touch Klein, comment about her hearing aid and make crude  sexual references. One asks for Klein's address so he can go to her home and urinate all over her door, and another discusses stabbing and  cutting Klein. They are also heard asking her if she has herpes and if  she lives in a trailer.

At one point, she is seen taking off her sunglasses and wiping at her eyes.

"Are you sweating? Karen, Karen! Are you sweating?" one student is heard  asking her. She shakes her head, and the student adds: "Then why is  there water on your face?"

"I'm crying," she replied.

"I was just was trying to ignore them," Klein said. "Usually I sit right in  back, and I should have that day, but I sat one seat ahead so there was  one boy in back of me and one boy in front of me. They just kept it up.  They thought it was funny."

That same media attention has also impacted Klein's life as a website, indiegogo.com, has raised more than $440,000 for her, exceeding the $5,000 goal  originally set. The website was created to send Klein on a vacation  after the video went viral.

"It does make me feel a whole lot  better," Klein said of the positive reaction. "I appreciated everything. I think it's awesome."

Stars like talk show host Ellen DeGeneres have tweeted their support for Klein who has made a round of TV and radio appearances.

While appearing on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360″ on Thursday, host Cooper   announced Southwest airlines offered to fly Klein and nine other people  to Disneyland for free.

Walt Disney Co., the parent company of ABC News, has also offered Klein a vacation to Disney World in Florida.

Entry #182

Bullying of bus monitor

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/bullying-bus-monitor-sparks-amazing-compassion-campaign-video-143135242.html

 

 

Bullying of bus monitor sparks amazing compassion campaign (VIDEO)

By Jason Sickles

Staff Writer

By Jason Sickles | The Lookout – 1 hr 31 mins ago

 

The video is heartbreaking:  a pack of junior high boys berating a 68-year-old school bus monitor in upstate New York. She's brought to tears as the students pepper her with profane put-downs about her weight, age, livelihood and more.

"You're not sweating?" one kid asks her. "Why's there water down your face?"

"I'm crying," she responds.

"She probably misses her box of Twinkies," taunts another boy.

But for all the bad brought on by the juveniles, comes an even better story of compassion and goodwill.

The viral video, which one of the boys reportedly posted on Facebook, has caught the attention of thousands of people who've pledged nearly $200,000 to send Karen Klein on a vacation.

The astonishing outpouring of support was started by Max Sidorov, a 25-year-old Toronto nutritionist who saw the video and on Wednesday launched a campaign on the crowd-source fundraising website Indiegogo.

"She doesn't earn nearly enough ($15,506) to deal with some of the trash she is surrounded by," Sidorov wrote on the site. "Let's give her something she will never forget, a vacation of a lifetime!"

His initial goal of $5,000 was shattered within hours. Strangers from around the world have shared the story on social networks and pledged amounts of $5 to hundreds.

"Karen, I am sorry for what you have endured," a woman commented on the campaign page. "Humanity and kind heartedness does still exist."

Sidorov says he knows why so many have responded so quickly.

"Bullies," he told the Los Angeles Times. "That's the real reason. People want to stand up for the little guy, and everybody just forwarded it. I just had a good idea, and everybody else took it and ran with it."

Klein, a grandmother who drove a school bus for 20 years and has been a monitor for three, said she's "kind of numb" from the generosity.

School officials and police in Greece, N.Y., are now investigating.

"Sometimes you expect kids to be like they acted, but not that bad. They weren't that bad all year," Klein told WYSR-TV.  "That one day, I don't know what possessed them."

The father of one of the boys has apologized.

"My heart broke," he told ABC News. "I couldn't believe my son could treat another human being like that."

Nor can a network of good Samaritans who have righted a despicable wrong.

Entry #181

Mega Million 06-08-2012

Mega Million (06-08-2012)

54-32-19-16-15-06-04-03-01

I'd wheel these numbers with no power number.

Got fingers crossed for tonight. :-)

My friend Abdi suggested 46-47-50 as power numbers.

Entry #180

Woman who lost Ark. lotto ticket entitled to $1M

http://news.yahoo.com/woman-lost-ark-lotto-ticket-entitled-1m-001711454.html

 

Woman who lost Ark. lotto ticket entitled to $1M

 

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas woman who cashed a $1 million lottery ticket may have to give up the winnings to a woman who threw away the ticket after she bought it, according to a judge's ruling Tuesday.

The judge decided that Sharon Duncan was entitled to the prize money, not Sharon Jones, who claimed the prize money after she took the ticket from a trash can of discarded lottery tickets at a convenience store in Beebe, a city about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock.

Jones' attorney, James Simpson, said he plans to appeal. Jones had testified that she already spent some of the money on a new truck and cash gifts to her children.

Simpson noted that Duncan testified she threw away the ticket after the read-out on a ticket scanner said, "Sorry. Not a winner." The attorney argued that people shouldn't be allowed to throw items away and then say, "'ooh, I want to un-abandon it.'"

"We'd have garage-sale law all over the place," he said. "It became trash when someone threw it away."

White County judge Thomas Hughes, however, said Jones never met the burden of proof that Duncan abandoned her right to claim $1 million.

"The $1 million was never found money," Hughes said.

Earlier Tuesday, Jones testified that she gathered a handful of discarded tickets from the trash can — as she had done many times before — and said there was no sign alerting customers not to take tickets.

That contradicted Super 1 Stop store manager Lisa Petriches' earlier testimony that she had taped a sign that read "Do not take" on the can. But a former store clerk testified that Petriches posted the sign only after Jones claimed the prize.

Petriches brought the lawsuit against Jones, and Duncan joined it after the judge said at a January hearing that she may be the true owner of the ticket. Hughes ruled that Petriches and the store's owner, Louie Dajani — whose corporation, Summer One LLC, joined the suit — weren't entitled to anything.

The judge instructed the winning side to write the judgment for his signature, and it will become official once Hughes signs it. Jones' attorneys will then have 30 days to file an appeal.

Hughes found that the evidence weighed in Duncan's favor that she bought the winning ticket, even though lottery records and store security video didn't synch up to the precise timing of the purchase.

Arkansas Lottery Security Chief Lance Huey testified that he investigated the circumstances of the ticket falling into Jones' hands. He said the lottery was satisfied with the investigation and awarded the prize.

Duncan's attorney, James "Red" Morgan, argued that she simply made a mistake by throwing away a $1 million ticket and that the only right she willingly parted with was to enter the ticket for the possibility of a secondary prize.

Entry #178

Smart Luck Fraud Alert

http://www.smartluck.com/fraudalert.htm

 

 

Fraud Alert

Gail Howard Lottery System is asking payment of $47 + S&H be sent to GHLS at a New York street address and box number, which is a UPS rented box in an attempt to avoid postal fraud charges. Neither Gail Howard nor Smartluck has anything to do with this. Some who sent the money found us on the Internet (we aren't hiding from anyone) and asked us why we haven't shipped their product. However, Smart Luck has NO products by that name and no books that cost more than $24.50. The only valid legal locations to send money for Smart Luck products is to Las Vegas or Clearwater Florida.

If you sent the money order to GHLS in New York, please attempt to get your money back quickly. If you actually received this product we would very much appreciate talking to you about it so please contact us.

Send us a clean photocopy of this offer and the envelope in which it was mailed along with your legible name and address and phone number and we will send you as a thank you, a free Lottery Winning Systems booklet along with a brochure and order form for Gail's actual jackpot-winning products.

Entry #177

Time To Play...

Well the Mega Million jackpot has finally reached a level that I've deemed appropriate for wagering for.

As of this very moment the jackpot is $356 million.

Yippie-Yahoo!!!

I am so looking forward to Tuesday's drawing.

Entry #175

Possible Solution To Run Advantage Plus in Windows 7

Question to those of you having problems with your program running in another version of windows......

Did you install the program or did you copy the program?

I created a file for my program and copied my program and sent a shortcut to my desktop.

When I run the program from my thumbdrive I open the file and find the file that opens the program.

On my netbook I am using windows Starter and I've had no problem with it.

I have ran my software on my daughters Vista notebook.

My son has a Wal-Mart special HP running Windows 7 Home Premium and I was not able to load it. Fudgecicles!!!!

Now I am wondering why all of the windows were not created with the same operating system so that the consumer would not be stuck having to spend more money.

I checked the SmartLuck site and found this information:  http://www.smartluck.com/32bitrequired.htm

Advantage  Plus  will  only run on 32-bit versions of XP, Vista, and 7 as a DOS application.  This  program will NOT run on 64-bit versions of XP, Vista, or 7, except in DOSBox or in XP mode in Windows 7.  XP mode is available for free with    Windows    7    Professional,    Enterprise,  or Ultimate.  DosBox is a free, Open source Dos Emulation program that allows most dos programs to run. DOSBOX  allows  Advantage Plus to work from any 64 bit version of windows.

Entry #173
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