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DB008 said:
Wow

This is crazy

$1.3 Billion

Imagine that!!!
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Considering Australia has way less participants in Australian Powerball than America, it is incredible that the combination hasn't been hit with the 5 + powerball game yet. I am sure the number of combinations bought would be massive. Very strange.
 
SirRumpole said:
I wonder if non US residents can buy tickets.
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Aussie punters given green light to play for world's biggest lotto of $1.3b​

Australia could soon have a new billionaire, as lottery company Lottoland has given Aussies the green light to play for the world’s biggest jackpot prize of $1.3 billion USD.

The Powerball Jackpot is the largest ever, where the winner will automatically be placed in Forbes infamous rich list.

In a first of its kind, Lottoland has been awarded a five-year license by the Northern Territory Racing Commission to open online gambling in international lotteries.

“We are very excited about this, and Lottoland is setting the pace in opening up winning customer opportunities right around the world,” Lottoland spokesman Luke Brill said.

“It’s quite incredible now to think Australian citizens through Lottoland can join in on the race to win a mega international lottery without having to leave the comfort of their own lounge room or office.”

Previously, lottery players would have to travel to the country of the lottery’s origin to legally be able to play.

Any Australian winners will be charged tax as an American citizen would.

“You win as if you’ve won the underlying lottery,” Mr Brill said.
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Here is the site to purchase your winning numbers from Rumpy


I purchased from a website that was 18 pounds for 5 games. Lottoland is $70 for 5 games (I think). Good luck
 
A winning ticket in Wednesday night's record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot was sold in suburban Los Angeles, a spokesman for the California lottery says.

It could take several hours before officials know whether any winning tickets were sold elsewhere. The winning numbers were 4-8-19-27-34 and Powerball 10.

One winning ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, California, said Alex Travesta, a spokesman for that state's lottery. The identity of the winner is not yet known.
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http://abc7chicago.com/finance/powerball-lottery-jackpot-at-$15b;-winning-numbers-drawing-wednesday/1155977/

I bet he/she will be known once they figure it out. Below is the train bringing all the relatives out of the woodwork ...

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With Alan Rickman passing @ 69 too. I'm wondering if it's the new black
 
Tisme said:
With Alan Rickman passing @ 69 too. I'm wondering if it's the new black
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Tisme, this is a genuine question not a comment. What does the expression "xxx is the new black" mean. There is a TV series, that I haven't yet seen, called "Orange is the new black" and there was a banner ad in The Australian today saying something or other is the new black. I can't recall what it was, but I think it was a product of some sort. I have also heard it used in relation to other things. None seem to relate to race or oppression or anything political in any way, so I just can't fathom the meaning behind the expression.
 
bellenuit said:
Tisme, this is a genuine question not a comment. What does the expression "xxx is the new black" mean. There is a TV series, that I haven't yet seen, called "Orange is the new black" and there was a banner ad in The Australian today saying something or other is the new black. I can't recall what it was, but I think it was a product of some sort. I have also heard it used in relation to other things. None seem to relate to race or oppression or anything political in any way, so I just can't fathom the meaning behind the expression.
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Background: Since black is always in style in the fashion industry, saying something is "the new black" means that it is the hottest new thing. :star:
 
DB008 said:
Aussie punters given green light to play for world's biggest lotto of $1.3b​





Here is the site to purchase your winning numbers from Rumpy


I purchased from a website that was 18 pounds for 5 games. Lottoland is $70 for 5 games (I think). Good luck
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I guess these are hypothetical questions that only keep the likes of myself up at night:

1. Do you win as if you were an additional participant in the lottery; ie if there were 3 winners of the underlying lottery you get only 1/4 of the winnings?

2. Why tax as an American when it's Lloyds paying it out. I'm guessing it's not taxed as an American but instead they short pay if you were Australian.

3. Amazing how much diff state tax can make in the US. You buy ticket in high tax area of you pretend after winning you are in low tax, where you pay tax?

Anyway, don't expect answers but it interest me how these shadow lottery systems would work.
 
Astronomers say a Neptune-sized planet lurks beyond Pluto​

The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune””but as yet unseen””orbits the sun every 15,000 years. During the solar system’s infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out of the planet-forming region near the sun. Slowed down by gas, the planet settled into a distant elliptical orbit, where it still lurks today.

The claim is the strongest yet in the centuries-long search for a “Planet X” beyond Neptune. The quest has been plagued by far-fetched claims and even outright quackery. But the new evidence comes from a pair of respected planetary scientists, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, who prepared for the inevitable skepticism with detailed analyses of the orbits of other distant objects and months of computer simulations. “If you say, ‘We have evidence for Planet X,’ almost any astronomer will say, ‘This again? These guys are clearly crazy.’ I would, too,” Brown says. “Why is this different? This is different because this time we’re right.”

Outside scientists say their calculations stack up and express a mixture of caution and excitement about the result. “I could not imagine a bigger deal if””and of course that’s a boldface ‘if’””if it turns out to be right,” says Gregory Laughlin, a planetary scientist at the University of California (UC), Santa Cruz. “What’s thrilling about it is [the planet] is detectable.”

Batygin and Brown inferred its presence from the peculiar clustering of six previously known objects that orbit beyond Neptune. They say there’s only a 0.007% chance, or about one in 15,000, that the clustering could be a coincidence. Instead, they say, a planet with the mass of 10 Earths has shepherded the six objects into their strange elliptical orbits, tilted out of the plane of the solar system.

The orbit of the inferred planet is similarly tilted, as well as stretched to distances that will explode previous conceptions of the solar system. Its closest approach to the sun is seven times farther than Neptune, or 200 astronomical units (AUs). (An AU is the distance between Earth and the sun, about 150 million kilometers.) And Planet X could roam as far as 600 to 1200 AU, well beyond the Kuiper belt, the region of small icy worlds that begins at Neptune’s edge about 30 AU.
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Scientists make possible cancer breakthrough, use patients' own cells to treat leukaemia​


Scientists in the United States may have made a cancer treatment breakthrough, releasing results of trials using a patient's own immune cells to treat leukaemia.

Professor Stanley Riddell, an immunotherapy researcher at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center in Seattle, found using treated immune cells wiped out cancer in 27 of 29 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in one trial.

The patients had previously failed all other treatments.

Cancer was also reduced in six out of seven patients whose cancer had spread.

But there were some serious side effects in the latest trials.

According to reports from Cancer Research UK, seven of the 35 patients in another trial had side effects severe enough for them to be placed in intensive care, and two of the patients died.

The research was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington DC. The early findings have not been published or peer-reviewed by experts.
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