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Iowa Lottery Chief Executive Ends Winning Streak

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Iowa Lottery chief executive and co-creator of Powerball Edward Stanek has earned the state over $1 billion since the lottery began in 1985. He earned $221,133 for himself in the last 12 months, making him one of the most highly-paid Iowa state government employees, which includes an $81,000 raise in 2004 as part of a deal not to take early retirement then.

Stanek will retire on October 31.

Now 61, Stanek has worked in state government for 35 years as an environmental specialist, director of state programs dealing with air pollution and radioactive and solid wastes, head of the former Iowa Energy Policy Council, and a leader in the governor’s office during years of financial and farm crises.

“I want to place my time where it is needed the most, and it is not here anymore,” Stanek explains. His father passed away last year and he references his 89-year-old mother and other elderly relatives.

When asked about his own Powerball royalties two years ago, Stanek laughed and replied, “The only thing I ever received is this walnut plaque.”

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Going Back In Time

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Let’s go back in time and remember that moment that took place in New Mexico – Albuquerque  on August 10, 2005. A master sergeant assigned to the 58th Training Squadron at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque has claimed a $93.4 million Powerball jackpot, he bought a lottery ticket with the right number combination.

This was the second largest price ever given in this state, and the biggest one claimed by a single player there. The winning numbers that time where 13-31-36-38-49 and the Powerball 2. San Cartier chose the $52.2 million lump-sum option. After all the federal taxes, he will receive a one-time wire transfer of approximately $36 million dollars.

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Increasingly Big

Monday, December 17th, 2007

The online lottery Mega Millions has come to an amazingly big jackpot, $160 million dollars, though there still a long way to go if we want to reach that record breaking number of $363 million dollars reached in the year 2000. Thanks to the proximity of the holydays, the players around the world are looking forward to buying Christmas lottery, and one of the better places to do it is through WinTrillions.

For many gamblers in California and around the world, the holidays means something more than a religious date, a time of hope, of illusions and a moment to be with the family, for many of those gamblers this date means a moment of good luck. Thanks to the increase of the sales, the jackpot is growing. Try your luck buying Christmas lottery tickets online through WinTrillions.com.

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Play Online

Monday, December 17th, 2007

A unique way to play the lottery Euro Millions that is commonly offered is to play this lottery online. Buy lottery tickets online is a very common thing if you are outside the country. One way (and maybe the best one) is to buy them trough online lottery sales pages such as Tillonario.

Most of the gamblers don’t care about the odds of winning, if those are high or low because the most important thing for them is to buy online lottery in order to challenge those odds. Combining the people that buy lottery tickets at different sales points and those who buy their lottery online, each day there are millions of bets.

The possibility that WinTrillions offers (buy lottery tickets online) is a very tempting one for an extended amount of people, including retired people, housewives, and college students (only those old enough to play) and people who wants to make money easy and fast.

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