Abstract: A method of processing a giving transaction is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from multiple users, enrollment information including (for each user): a postal code and an indication that the user has entered an upcoming game of chance associated with a monetary prize. The method further includes registering the users (and corresponding enrollment information) and, in response to a registered user winning a prize share consists of some or all of the monetary prize, identifying a winning postal code based on the enrollment information of the registered user that won the prize share. The method further includes distributing a portion of the prize share to the registered user that won the prize share and distributing a remaining portion of the prize share by distributing a first portion to the registered users having an associated postal code that matches the winning postal code and distributing a second portion to other users.

Abstract: A butter maker having a housing for mounting on a countertop in a kitchen or the like. The butter maker includes a cream holding container in which cream is placed and also includes drive assembly having a shaft both rotatable along its vertical axis and reciprocal therealong. The shaft includes a dasher having a pair of spaced paddles with a plurality of spaced throughholes extending into the container conforming generally to the inner configuration of the interior of the container but spaced from the inner wall thereof.

Abstract: A butter maker having a housing for mounting on a countertop in a kitchen or the like. The butter maker includes a cream holding container in which cream is placed and also includes drive assembly having a shaft both rotatable along its vertical axis and reciprocal therealong. The shaft includes a dasher having a pair of spaced paddles with a plurality of spaced throughholes extending into the container conforming generally to the inner configuration of the interior of the container but spaced from the inner wall thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compact, powered butter maker including a drive housing, a cream container, a drive, and a dasher.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compact, powered butter maker including a drive housing, a cream container, a drive, and a dasher.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compact, powered butter maker including a drive housing, a cream container, a drive, and a dasher in complementary shape to that of the container.