Thursday, January 07, 2010

Winning ticket a mistake worth $128.6 million dollars

Zee's Notes: Amazing story of the Powerball Lottery winner in the US. Rob Anderson of Georgetown, Kentucky was buying stocking stuffers before Christmas and asked the store clerk for 3 Powerball tickets and by mistake she gave him one $3 quick pick ticket. He told the clerk that he wanted 3 singles to which the clerk offered to take back the one he had and for some reason he slipped his hand in his pocket and pulled 3 dollar bills and bought three more $1 tickets and kept the $3 one. A few days after Christmas he pulled his $3 ticket and checked the numbers and voila - he won the big $128.6 million jackpot - yes one hundred and twenty eight million USD - incredible !!!



Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Burj Khalifa opens with fireworks



Uganda - No love lost for a country that expelled her family


TOP OF THE WORLD: The hikers on top of Mt Elgon. Ms Jiwa is fifth from right in the second row. PHOTO ISAAC KASAMANI

Kampala
She was not even in her mother’s womb when her family – together with at least 60,000 other Indians – was ordered to leave Uganda within 90 days in 1972.
But for Jazzmin Jiwa, now a 30-year-old journalist based in Canada, the historical bond that her family has with Uganda could not be broken even by those circumstances.
Late last year, Ms Jiwa was one of 42 tourists from Europe, USA and Canada who travelled to Uganda for a 10-day mountain climbing expedition dubbed Hike4Life and facilitated by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).

Read complete article in The Daily Monitor