Duh! Wadau, mlio kwenye maeneo wanaocheza Mega Millions. Hebu mnunue tiketi ni dola moja tu! Yaani hajawahi kutokea 'pot' kuwa kubwa hivi! Sasas hivi wametangaza kuwa 'pot' imefikia dola $540 millioni! Yaani zaidi ya nusu bilioni za dola! Drawing itakuwa Kesho Ijumaa saa 5 usiku (11:00PM EST).
Akishinda mtu moja duh! Lakini huenda watashinda watu kama watu na watagawana hizo pesa. Hata hivyo, si mbaya kwenda nyumba nai na dola $120 milioni baada ya kuliopa kodi.
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The Mega Millions jackpot has increased to $540 million, the largest jackpot in world history, lottery officials say.
The drawing for the massive jackpot will be at 11 p.m. ET on Friday.
Odds of winning the jackpot with a $1 ticket are more than 175 million to 1.
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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/144911795.html
Posted: Thu, Mar. 29, 2012, 12:05 PM
Reasons to buy Mega Millions tickets — or not
By Peter Mucha , Inquirer Staff Writer
If you don't buy a ticket in the Mega Millions lottery, no way you're going to win the all-time record jackpot of half-a-billion freaking dollars.
The drawing is Friday night.
On the other hand, the odds stink.
One chance in 175.7 million.
I'm thinking of a random person in Pennsylvania. Guess who. You did? Not good enough. Still gotta guess the person's astrological sign.
You could, of course, form a lottery pool and improve your odds. Say 100 people each put in $10. That improves your odds a thousandfold. But it also would reduce your take to 3.59 million - before taxes - if you opt for cash.
Still, it would still be easier to guess a designated strand from an average full head of hair.
Of course, there are other considerations.
If you don't play, you have no hope of leaving your %$@*& job right away.
And you sure don't want to have to show up while your ex-colleagues party because their pool won.
Other rationalizations abound.
By buying a ticket, you're doing your part for seniors in Pennsylvania or students in New Jersey.
Of course, you could just hand a senior 50 cents.
If you win, you'll definitely be doing a lot for Uncle Sam.
By not buying a ticket, though, you're proving you're not part of the herd mentality that thinks money is the answer to all ills. It's better for your soul.
If money is power, and power corrupts, a lottery jackpot would absolutely corrupt you.
On the hand, there are a lot of people with ills and medical bills you could help if you won a lot of cash. Regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the "Obamacare" case.
If you're still undecided, flip a coin.
Check a fortune cookie.
Or consider a far-out idea from physics - and the Fox show Fringe.
There might be an infinite number of parallel universes, with an infinite numbers of yous.
If that's the case, no matter what you do here, at least one of them is a cinch to win.
While 175 million others lose.
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Contact staff writer Peter Mucha at 215-854-4342 or pmucha@phillynews.com.
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Sakata la Babu Mweusi Aliyeibiwa Tiketi ya Bahati Nasibu
Wadau, huo Texas kuna babu Mmarekani mweusi aliyeshinda dola milioni moja kwenye tiketi ya bahati nasibu. Kijana wa kihindi (kutoka Nepal) ambaye alikuwa anauza duka kamtapeli huyo babu na kumwambia kuwa eti ina dola $2 tu. Halafu alichukua kaenda kui-cash na kurudi kwao Nepal.
Kwa bahati nzuri polisi na serikali waliingilia na babu yule atarudishiwa kiasi cha hizo pesa. Jamani uchu wa pesa.
Hapa Marekani tumezoea kuona wahindi wanauza maduka ya convenience, na wengi ni wazuri and waaminifu. Huyo kijana wa kihindi kawachafua kweli kweli.
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Part of Stolen Lottery Jackpot is Returned to Grand Prairie Man
By ALEX BRANCH
Willis Willis will finally get some of his $1 million lottery jackpot.
On Tuesday, state District Judge Bob Perkins signed an order restoring to the Grand Prairie man $395,000 seized from the bank account of a store clerk accused of stealing the winning ticket.
"I feel pretty good, a bit relieved," said Willis, 67, shortly after the hearing in Austin. "I'm glad we finally made it to this point."
Willis said he planned to spend part of the money on medical bills and a daughter's college tuition.
"It's all stuff that has to be paid for," he said. "Things I really needed the money to take care of."
About $365,000 of the cash restored to Willis was seized by Travis County prosecutors from bank accounts opened by the store clerk, Pankaj Joshi. The other $30,000 was recovered from people in Dallas to whom Joshi had given money.
Authorities believe Joshi took the ticket from Willis, told him it was not a winner and cashed the ticket himself. He then returned to his native Nepal.
The Nepalese government has frozen an additional bank account connected to Joshi there, said Patty Robertson, a Travis County assistant district attorney. Sean Breen, Willis' Austin-based attorney, said the account is believed to hold around $300,000.
Prosecutors are working with the U.S. State Department to return to the money to Travis County. However, because a foreign government is involved, the process is complicated, Robertson said.
"I really don't have a timetable on when, or if, that will happen," she said.
About $50,000 of the winnings probably won't be recovered because Joshi withdrew it in cash, Breen said.
Joshi, 25, who was a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, is charged in Travis County with fraud and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. His bond is set at $10 million.
Authorities have gone to great lengths to locate him. Robertson said. They have contacted his parents and notified the Nepal Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Newspapers in Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital, have reported extensively on the case, she added.
Breen said he will continue to try to force the Texas Lottery Commission to award Willis the rest of the jackpot. Lottery officials have refused, saying they consider Joshi the winner because he signed and redeemed the ticket.
After Tuesday's ruling, Breen said he wondered how the commission could still deny that Willis was the winner.
"The judge looked at the evidence and determined it was obvious Mr. Willis was the winner," he said.
Willis bought the winning ticket May 29 at the Lucky Food Store at 902 Great Southwest Parkway in Grand Prairie, authorities said. He returned there May 31 to have the Mega Millions ticket and others scanned to see whether they were winners.
The Mega Millions ticket was a winner, but Joshi, who scanned it, gave Willis only $2 for a Cash 5 ticket, authorities said.
KUTOKA:
http://www.star-telegram.com/local/story/1973913.html
Kwa bahati nzuri polisi na serikali waliingilia na babu yule atarudishiwa kiasi cha hizo pesa. Jamani uchu wa pesa.
Hapa Marekani tumezoea kuona wahindi wanauza maduka ya convenience, na wengi ni wazuri and waaminifu. Huyo kijana wa kihindi kawachafua kweli kweli.
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Part of Stolen Lottery Jackpot is Returned to Grand Prairie Man
By ALEX BRANCH
Willis Willis will finally get some of his $1 million lottery jackpot.
On Tuesday, state District Judge Bob Perkins signed an order restoring to the Grand Prairie man $395,000 seized from the bank account of a store clerk accused of stealing the winning ticket.
"I feel pretty good, a bit relieved," said Willis, 67, shortly after the hearing in Austin. "I'm glad we finally made it to this point."
Willis said he planned to spend part of the money on medical bills and a daughter's college tuition.
"It's all stuff that has to be paid for," he said. "Things I really needed the money to take care of."
About $365,000 of the cash restored to Willis was seized by Travis County prosecutors from bank accounts opened by the store clerk, Pankaj Joshi. The other $30,000 was recovered from people in Dallas to whom Joshi had given money.
Authorities believe Joshi took the ticket from Willis, told him it was not a winner and cashed the ticket himself. He then returned to his native Nepal.
The Nepalese government has frozen an additional bank account connected to Joshi there, said Patty Robertson, a Travis County assistant district attorney. Sean Breen, Willis' Austin-based attorney, said the account is believed to hold around $300,000.
Prosecutors are working with the U.S. State Department to return to the money to Travis County. However, because a foreign government is involved, the process is complicated, Robertson said.
"I really don't have a timetable on when, or if, that will happen," she said.
About $50,000 of the winnings probably won't be recovered because Joshi withdrew it in cash, Breen said.
Joshi, 25, who was a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, is charged in Travis County with fraud and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. His bond is set at $10 million.
Authorities have gone to great lengths to locate him. Robertson said. They have contacted his parents and notified the Nepal Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Newspapers in Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital, have reported extensively on the case, she added.
Breen said he will continue to try to force the Texas Lottery Commission to award Willis the rest of the jackpot. Lottery officials have refused, saying they consider Joshi the winner because he signed and redeemed the ticket.
After Tuesday's ruling, Breen said he wondered how the commission could still deny that Willis was the winner.
"The judge looked at the evidence and determined it was obvious Mr. Willis was the winner," he said.
Willis bought the winning ticket May 29 at the Lucky Food Store at 902 Great Southwest Parkway in Grand Prairie, authorities said. He returned there May 31 to have the Mega Millions ticket and others scanned to see whether they were winners.
The Mega Millions ticket was a winner, but Joshi, who scanned it, gave Willis only $2 for a Cash 5 ticket, authorities said.
KUTOKA:
http://www.star-telegram.com/local/story/1973913.html
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