Photos from Mandarin Council meeting of 6-25-09

Pictured below: Rita Story, Junior Achievement; Deana Paul, seeking employment; Doug Wilder, Wilder Business Systems; Allid Beckstrum, Williamsburg Travel; Chris Gatenby, Pace Solutions.

Photos from Chamber event of 6-23-09

 

Jessy Frye, Arbys; Brian Holcomb, Print Resources of Jacksonville; Katy & Landon Strickland, Signs in Motion.

Keith Johnson, CPA; Hank Werner, Liberty Tax Service

Cynthia Thomas, Vanguard Realty; Randy Thomas, Principal Financial Group

Why I would never buy a lottery ticket

If you have ever considered buying a lottery ticket, consider this… 

Everyone knows that the probability of winning the lottery is a pretty big long shot. How long, however, you probably never really thought about. Your actual odds of winning the lottery depend on where you play, but single state lotteries usually have odds of about 18 million to 1 while multiple state lotteries have odds as high as 120 million to 1.

If you have ever thought you might have a chance of winning the lottery, you’re not alone. About one out of every three people in the United States think that winning the lottery is the only way to become financially secure in their life and think that if they play they might win. This is a frightening statistic when you sit down and consider what the above odds really mean.

How about the classic odds of being struck by lightning? The actual probability of this happening varies from year to year, but as a good estimate, the National Safety Council says between 70 and 120 people a year die in the US by lightning – so let’s take 100 as our base. With the US population being approximately 300 million people, that means that the chances of being killed by lightning are roughly 1 in 3 million. Not very likely. However you are still 6 to 45 times more likely to die from a lightning strike than you would be to win the lottery.

What are the chances that if you’re playing with a group of four that two of you will get a hole-in-one on the exact same hole? At 1 in 17 million, they’re better than the chances of you winning the lottery.

You are 450,000 to 3,000,000 times more likely to die in an asteroid collision in the year 2029 than to win the lottery- see http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_update_041227.html.

If none of the above has convinced you to stop playing the lottery, then I’ll bring out my favorite lottery fact. If you drive 10 miles to purchase your lottery ticket, it’s three to twenty times more likely for you to be killed in a car accident along the way than to win the jackpot.

Source: http://cheftonio.blogspot.com/2009/02/chances-of-winning-lottery.html

Mandarin Council Chamber of Commerce Networking evening of 6-17-09

Event held at Avistele Apartments

Annie Banks, Lees Catering; Bob Asher, Guardian Commercial Real Estate; Paul Hulsey, Avistele Apartments; Robert E. Burke, CPA

Winston MacIntyre and Jane Hammock, Independent Insurance agents.

Mark Addington, attorney; Lisa Sawyer, Arbonne Independent Consultant; Adam Deli, attorney

Steve Gorenson, Action Coach Business Coaching; Steve Crossland, Medical Instrumentation Repair, Inc.; Larry Levy, author of Harry the Hungry Frog.

Adam Deli, attorney; Shari Walker, Metabolic Research Center; Darrell Bassham, Reverse mortgage agent.

Chuck Chupp, Howard Air conditioning Services; Larry MaGennis, retired; John Malinka, JM Video Productions; Bruce Fouraker, First Data Independent Sales

Bob Burke, CPA; David and Beverly Brinn, 3 Sisters’ Chocolate Company; Larry MaGennis, retired; Mike Newton, Flippin’ Good Cookies.

The Mandarin art pieces

New York City has its Statue of Liberty, Rio has its statue of Christ the Redeemer, what does Jacksonville have?  Well, if you go to downtown Jacksonville in front of the Regency Hyatt hotel on the north bank river front, you will see a life size statue of a runner done by my good friend, and the illustrator of my book, Derby Ulloa.  If you don’t live in north Mandarin like I do, you might not know that Sunbeam Road has 2 statues done by local businesses.  They are pictured here.

Slimfast products are packed with sugar.

Don’t be fooled by the product name or the advertising this company puts out.  Instead, read the label on the packages; and you will find out that the main ingredient in most Slimfast products is sugar.  Product ingredients are required to be listed on all foods in the order of which ingredient is the most by volume.   Sugar is full of calories, promotes obesity, and can cause tooth decay and diabetes.  The less sugar you consume, the healthier you will be.   People who have claimed to have lost weight on this plan ate small quantities of anything else and small quantities of Slimfast.  The same result could be produced by a candy bar diet, if you ate small quantities of candy bars and everything else.  It is a rare person who could stick to such a plan for very long.  This line of sugar-packed products simply does not do what it claims to do.

Fruits in season

When you buy “in season” you get the following benefits:

• Better taste
• Better for you
• Lower cost

The following website shows when various fruits are in season: http://bit.ly/yFffn.

Photos from the Beaches Division mixer of 6-2-09

Whitney Kampfe – Domestic Engineer Matthew Kampfe – Jacksonville University and President-elect of Arlington Council, Dr. Marcus Kampfe – Owner and Chiropractor Dunn Wellness, Christin Kampfe – Marketing Director Dunn Wellness, David Kampfe – Business Development Director Dunn Wellness.

Jepp Walter – JeppTec Don White

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ken Johnstone – retired postal worker Drew Rinzivillo – Adventure Landing