$425 Million Powerball Jackpot: 10 Things You Could Purchase With The Winnings from business2community

#1: 851,703 iPads. If you’ve been searching around for a really good Cyber Monday deal on the new iPad with Retina Display, you’re probably striking out. But if you’re the lone winner of Wednesday’s jackpot, you can purchase 851,703 iPads. That’s enough to give a new iPad to every single person in San Francisco — and still have almost 40,000 iPads left over to share with all of the friends you’re sure to be making!

#2: 989 Rolls Royce Phantom Coupes. Maybe luxury cars are more your style. The 2013 Rolls Royce Phantom Coupe starts at $429, 295, meaning you can purchase almost a thousand of them with your lottery winnings. Better save some money to build a bigger garage!

#3: The two most expensive celebrity homes in America. In 1991, the late producer Aaron Spelling and his wife, Candy, built ‘The Manor’ — a 57,000 square feet mansion that sprawls across 5 acres of land. Inside the French chateau-style Holmby Hills home, you’ll also find a gym, skating rink, swimming pool, bowling alley, and tennis courts. The house is valued at $150 million. But you’d still have a few hundred million left after that, so what about buying a second house just for a fun getaway? In Medina, Washington sits Xanadu — Bill Gates’ 66,000 square feet mansion. In addition to the standard gym and swimming pool, Xanadu also has a theater, reception hall, grand staircase, and a bowling alley, plus 2,100 square feet of library. That’s all to say nothing of the tech features that are included. Gates’ home is valued at $147.5 million.

#4: 1,700,068 PS Vitas. The new handheld Wi-Fi console from Playstation is certain to be topping the list of top items this holiday season. With $425 million, you could be the proud owner of over 1.5 million of them.

#5: 157,465 Smart Refrigerators. Behold: the future of refrigerators. With all of the new homes you’re going to be purchasing, you might not need quite this many of Samsung’s smart refrigerators, but they’ll help you stay connected no matter where in the world you are! The touchscreen display features apps so that you can leave digital versions of fridge notes, browse recipes, and even stay updated on sites like Facebook and Twitter. In addition to being very rich, you’ll also be very cutting edge.

#6: 9 Executive Jets. With the higher end models costing about $45 mil, you can purchase nine of them. Spring for a slightly less-expensive model and you’ll be able to afford a pilot and care for your jet, as well. Now that you’re a multi-millionaire, it’s time to retire early and get started on that jet-setting lifestyle you’ve always envisioned for yourself.

#7: 653,856 32 GB Samsung Galaxy SIIIs. At their full retail value of almost $650, you can own over 650,000 of them — without plans. If you opted to have a plan on all of your phones, you could actually own more.

#8: 236 Tiffany’s Cushion-Cut 11.22 Carat Diamond Rings: Tiffany’s is synonymous with class, elegance, and high quality items, not the least of which is their jewelry. Diamonds, in particular, are well-revered at Tiffany’s. But such quality doesn’t come without a price, and this diamond ring comes in at $1,800,000. At that price, you could afford over 200 of them with your Powerball jackpot.

#9: 1,396 Bottles of Chateau Cheval Blanc. If this many bottles of the “greatest Bordeaux of all time” existed, at $304,375 each, you could own over a thousand bottles of the world’s most expensive wine.

#10: Towns. At the end of the summer, The Huffington Post shared a story from CNBC about five towns that were for sale. These towns included Garryowen, MT, Frannie, WY, Valle Piola, Italy, Henry River Mill Village, NC, and Toomsboro, GA. As for you? You could own all five of them for only $5,475,000, meaning you’ll have plenty to spare. Don’t want to buy a town? While the one thing you apparently can’t afford is the $29.4 billion it will cost to clean up the state of New Jersey post-Hurricane Sandy, you could consider helping a few of those shore towns that have been destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

Angus T. Jones, aka Jake on Two and a Half Men, Finds God And Wants You To Stop Watching The Show ... he said, “If you watch 'Two and a Half Men,’ please stop watching 'Two and a Half Men.’ I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,’ and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it and filling your head with filth. If I am doing any harm, I don't want to be here. I don't want to be contributing to the enemy's plan. … You cannot be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like that. I know I can't. I'm not OK with what I'm learning, what the Bible says and being on that television show. I am under contract for another year so it is not too much of a decision on my part. I know God has me there for a reason for another year.” As one of the highest-paid teens, he takes home around $8 million annually, about $350,000 per episode.

- Lawless, ParaNorman, The Apparition, Step Up Revolution and Rites of Spring are all out on DVD today.

- A third man claims Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash abused him when he was 16. The man is now 29 and plans to file a lawsuit under the name JOHN DOE. A spokeswoman for the puppeteer said, “Mr. Clash believes this lawsuit has no merit.”

- A prankster called 911 on Sunday and said Simon Cowell was being held hostage in his home with Duct Tape.

- Hurricane Sandy caused $32 billion worth of damage to New York

 iBad: As we get closer to Christmas, law enforcement officials are warning deal-hungry consumers about a scam that continues to grow. Con men are renting cars and then approaching people in parking lots asking them if they want to purchase iPads. They usually show a real iPad before bringing out a heavily packaged Fed Ex box. Victims have been duped into buying a Plexiglas frame covered in black duct tape with an Apple symbol on the back and Best Buy price labeling on the front.

12 Days of Xmas: Purchasing every item mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" will cost $107,300 in 2012. That's an increase of 6.1% over last year, according to PNC Wealth Management. Buying one set of the core items in each verse costs $24,431 in traditional stores this year, but $40,440 online.

Here is the breakdown of the 364 items:

— Partridge, $15; last year: same

— Pear tree, $189.99; last year: $169.99

— Two turtle doves, $125; last year: same

— Three French hens, $165; last year: $150

— Four calling birds (canaries), $519.96; last year: same

— Five gold rings, $750; last year: $645

— Six geese a-laying, $210; last year: $162

— Seven swans a-swimming, $7,000; last year: $6,300

— Eight maids a-milking, $58; last year: same

— Nine ladies dancing (per performance), $6,294; last year: same

— 10 lords a-leaping (per performance), $4,767; last year: same

— 11 pipers piping (per performance), $2,562; last year: $2,428

— 12 drummers drumming (per performance), $2,776; last year: $2,630

Melts In Your Mouth Not In Your Hand: Cadbury has invented a new chocolate that doesn't melt. Scientists have developed a way of breaking down sugar particles into smaller pieces, reducing how much fat covers them and making the bar more resistant to heat. Cadbury says, "We have found that it is possible to instill temperature-tolerant properties by refining the conched chocolate after the conching step. Production of temperature-tolerant chocolate would allow production of chocolate-containing product more suitable for hot climates, particularly in less economically developed countries where the supply chain is ill-equipped to handle temperature fluctuations.”

Powerball Jackpot: Tips for buying lottery tickets with a group from Virginia State Lottery officials

Powerball’s $425 million jackpot is the largest in the game’s history and people across the country are dreaming of a big win this Wednesday. The overall odds of winning the jackpot prize is approximately 1 in 175 million.

1. Agree upon the rules. Decide on a buy-in amount and how the winnings would be split (equally or proportional to amount of money played, annual payout vs. cash option, etc.). Oral agreements are okay, but putting it in writing is a safer bet, according to officials.

2. Designate a “pool manager” who is responsible for purchasing the tickets and keeping them safe.

3. Make photocopies of the purchased tickets for each member of the group.

4. Decide if the pool manager would claim the winning ticket or if the entire group wants to claim it. All winners do not need to be present

PETA got Miley Cyrus a pet pig sponsorship for her birthday. They said, "PETA knew that sponsoring a rescued pig was the perfect birthday present for a young woman who spends so much time encouraging others to help animals. From promoting animal adoption to speaking up for cows who suffer on dairy farms, Miley never stops letting her millions of fans know what they can do to make the world a kinder place."

Game Over: A 24 year-old video game addict recently died in Thailand. He was found slumped in his chair. Police officer Chaichana Boonrod, says, “He was addicted to games. He hardly went to bed but always played computer games from night until morning."

The Grinch That Stole Xmas: A Salvation Army Canada employee is going to be arrested for stealing $2 million worth of toys from the charity. They were taken over the course of two years. The missing toys were discovered during an internal Salvation Army audit. The exec was planning to sell the toys.

TMZ has published Jessica Simpson's Weight Watchers diet. It includes a 15-day smoothie diet: 5 days of 3 smoothies a day (with 2 healthy snacks); 5 days of 2 smoothies a day (2 healthy snacks, 1 meal); and 5 days of 1 smoothie day (with 2 snacks and 2 meals)

Simon Cowell and Depeche Mode guitarist Martin Gore are feuding. Gore said, “I’m not advocating violence, but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell. His influence in the music industry over the last God knows how many years it’s been now. It’s just like, so many people think that that’s what music is. What happened to bands getting together? They are very few and far between now and the ones that do probably can’t afford to get into a studio and make a record.”

Simon Tweeted: “I read Martin gore wants to shoot me. He was is in depeche mode. Do you realize how weird and stupid that makes you. Go and watch the news. Why I am angry about weirdo gore is a ton of people have got shot this year and people. Like weirdo gore encourage this.”

Nicki Minaj was joking when she said she wanted to record with Mariah Carey. "I was kidding... I mean, no. But she's been one of my favorite artists of all time, since I can remember, so it's weird that everything (the drama on Idol) was blown up like that. It didn't make me happy at all because she knows how much I adore her. Some of my best childhood memories with my mum are from Mariah's music. I can't deny that and I can't take away what she's done in my life and in just pop culture in general, and having one of the most amazing voices in the world. So, having said that, I'm an adult and we're passionate on the set and sometimes when you're a passionate woman it kinda ruffles other women's feathers, but I'm gonna continue to be Nicki Minaj."

Lindsay Lohan wants a sitcom. A source tells RADAR Online, “Lindsay has asked her manager and agent to look into getting her her own television sitcom. Lindsay feels that the small screen would be a great way for her to revitalize her acting career and that a comedy would be the best bet. Lindsay feels most comfortable doing comedy and it was Charlie Sheen that told her she should do it. Charlie told Lindsay that it was an easy way to make very good money and help her to get her movie career back on track. Lindsay is loving the idea of having her own sitcom and would love to play someone in a story based on her crazy life. Lindsay isn’t fazed at all by the criticism. She thinks everyone is insanely jealous of her, and like it or not, she was trending on Twitter last night. Lindsay hopes that she could get her own television sitcom like Kirstie Alley did with Fat Actress. Lindsay admires what Kirstie did and wants to follow in her footsteps.”

Demi Lovato recently got several bird tattoos on her arm. Kat Von D did the inking.

Beyonce is directing her own documentary for HBO. It will air in February.

Selena Gomez is developing an Addidas line of sneakers, clothing and accessories.

Justin Bieber defended meeting the Canadian Prime Minister in overalls. He said, "The pic of me and the Prime Minister was taken in a room in the arena where I was performing at that day. I walked straight from my meet and greet to him," he explained further. It wasn't like it was like I was going into his environment we were at a hockey arena. Wow am I ever white trash."

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