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To: Kenneth E Stutzman, Jr. Charles W. Rutherford, Juanita L. Brown, Mac Almond, Johnnie M. Dodson, and Chauncey Stumpter
Membership List: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddn3r8c7_69c35dhf
From: Michael Porter
RE: 25th Newsletter
Today's thought is:
It only takes one person to change your life--you.
--Ruth Casey
Change is not easy, but it's absolutely unavoidable. Doors will close. Barriers will surface. Frustrations will mount. Nothing stays the same forever, and it's such folly to wish otherwise. Growth accompanies positive change; determining to risk the outcome resulting from a changed behavior or attitude will enhance our self-perceptions. We will have moved forward; in every instance, our lives will be influenced by making a change that only each of us can make.
We have all dreaded the changes we knew we had to make. Perhaps even now we fear some impending changes. Where might they take us? It's difficult accepting that the outcome is not ours to control. Only the effort is ours. The solace is that positive changes, which we know are right for us and other people in our lives, are never going to take us astray. In fact, they are necessary for the smooth path just beyond this stumbling block.
When we are troubled by circumstances in our lives, a change is called for, a change that we must initiate. When we reflect on our recent as well as distant past, we will remember that the changes we most dreaded again and again have positively influenced our lives in untold ways.
Change ushers in glad, not bad, tidings.
You are reading from the book:Each Day a New Beginning by Karen
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Here is Mac’s spreadsheet: http://tinyurl.com/253gxw
Well according to Mac’s Spreadsheet we won nothing in Wednesday night’s Power Ball drawing.
But a group (pool) of people won this in
"The Nukote 22" Claim Winning Powerball Jackpot of $61.5 Million!
A group of current and former employees of Nukote International, a business in
This story starts with a group of Nukote employees who pitched in $1 a week for an office pool for the past nine years. The person in charge of the pool who buys the tickets usually makes photocopies of them for the employees at the office. However, some members of the pool have recently left Nukote. Several of them paid in advance to stay in the pool, and the pool’s numbers were e-mailed to them prior to each drawing.
That’s where the excitement began this morning for former Nukote employee Connie Mattingly. “ When I got up this morning, I heard the news on TV that the winning Powerball ticket had been sold in Bardstown,” Mattingly said. “I logged on to my computer, saw the e-mail with our numbers, and the very first line matched the winners!”
Mattingly then called the person who bought the tickets, Bardstown resident Jane Shelver. “ Jane answered the phone, and I asked her if she was awake yet. Then I told her we won the lottery, and she got so excited she hung up on me!”
Bardstown resident Mike Willett, also one of the winning pool members, said the win couldn’t have come at a better time for several members of the group. “There are a couple of folks who were laid off from their jobs this summer after working for the company 30 years,” said Willet. “ However, the paid into the Powerball pool in order to stay in through the end of the year. It looks like things just got a lot easier for them.”
According to their website, Nukote is a company that produces imaging supplies such as paper, ink jet cartridges and laser toner.
The winning ticket was sold on Monday in Bardstown at the 5 Star Food Mart at
The $61.5 million jackpot, the sixth highest in Kentucky Lottery history, if the first Powerball jackpot won in
So for
There are 10 shares issued in this game, here is the payout, not including any attorney fees, taxes or tithes:
| Shares Purchased | Amount you could win |
| .5 | $350,000.00 |
| 1 | $700,000.00 |
| 2 | $1,400,000.00 |
| 3 | $2,100,000.00 |
Here is a recap of what we have won so far:
| Date Money Won | Amount | Running Total | Notes |
| | $3.00 | $3.00 | |
| | $3.00 | $6.00 | |
| | $7.00 | $13.00 | |
| | $3.00 | $16.00 | |
| | $7.00 | $23.00 | |
Well our winning streak seems to be over. I would love for us to win a little more so when Juanita goes to
I have already mailed Juanita Brown our money for the next game, and for those of you playing in Die Hard, she got another $80.00 to spend in Die Hard.
I would love for us to have 10 lines with the same numbers for 26 draws, but we are at the mercy of whoever is working in
Now in looking at this game and the Louisiana Power Ball game, there is little difference in what we have won.
It’s just a nightmare for people who buy and keep your tickets, and for you host to keep trace of what numbers we are playing and when. To be honest with you, I’ve only checked our numbers once, I rely solely on Mac’s Spreadsheet to tell you of what we won.
In fact, you really didn’t need my newsletters at all in this game, but I enjoy doing it (most of the time) and this game was an e-mail only game (which made it extremely easy.)
But, I sure it was one of the hardest games for Mac to keep up with.
In game two, it will be a separate game than this game. While we still got 10 shares ($260.00), most people only purchased 1 share this time. I had two new people in the next game, one purchase 1 share, one purchase ½ shares.
Now I’m always bitching about people paying me late or right at the last minute. But, I’m guilty of this now, too! I didn’t mail off our money until Wednesday at the Post Office Box, and they picked up the mail at
Now Juanita is always amazed at how fast she gets mail from me. I banked on it this time, and you know how that goes. But Johnnie Dodson Western Union me her money this time, and I thought, “Well, if worse comes, I will just
Now, I’m happy that a pool won this game. It gives me renewed hope. But, if you read the article they played for NINE YEARS.
If you noticed some of the people left their job, but paid their dues in advance. The Pool Host e-mailed their tickets to them. (Doesn’t this sound familiar?)
Now on the last thought, I had a person today that wanted to play in this game. He plays in ALL my other pools. So I accepted his money today, with the understanding that I may have to return it to him.
I will be e-mailing Juanita later this evening, or tomorrow to see if I still have time to get her additional money. But at it stands now we have 10 shares, and unless we win big, no money will be transferred to Game Two.
This game is down to two more drawing. Our last drawing will be on
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