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Wang Gang and Zhang Tielin go to Shanghai antique shop, spent 1,500 yuan
to buy a bowl.Another time, Wang Gang go to Z & Antique City, a
door is the piano desk attract a price of 2 million yuan lacquer carving
Lanting Gagaku.Immediately put it down.Gang prefer porcelain
collection, has been in possession of more than 100 various ancient
porcelain.Wang Gang, both holding what purpose involved in the antiques
market, hobbies Hao investment or have played a guardian of the purpose
of the national heritage, to spend their own money on the
objective.Panjiayuan flea market along the stall, Antique City Gang
acting apart from wandering around the treasure, he even privately to
ourselves, then play midsummer and midwinter of three or four months a
year, in order to devote more time to . Secret star family town house
treasure, they believe in feng shui.Evonne town house treasure
Vipers.Evonne Hsu is a singer of Snow White, the ceramic dolls difficult
to commensurate with the appearance of her Vipers hobby.Evonne
professional in the United States to study psychology, she grew up to
live in their own world, insecure character she became a super pet
fans.The Evonne raising a lot of pets, some pet names, a lot of people
have never heard of: the mini-pigs, ferrets, chameleons, snakes,
lizards, turtles, mantis, parrots, and became a star, she raised two
turtles and a only sugar glider.Sugar glider and kangaroo bags, little
girls like to walk around it is kept in a cell phone pocket, or debris
bag hanging on the body in the front of the abdomen.In order to raise
the mini pig, Evonne has also ran the farm saw the mother of that pig,
the length does not determine the mother pig to one meter, Evonne
immediate green light to set the other end pig. Best at home, pig and
parrot relations, they are every day, eat together, sleep together, with
flying around.The parrot will ride on the pig's back, the two of them
often whispering, do not know to say what. Evonne Talia called strange
combination. Dead pig, I'm sad to death three months did not eat pork.
New conference to be held in Beijing, Evonne receive a pet snake, so she
was flattered.Speaking of these girls timid extreme pet, Evonne says
with a laugh these animals are very nice ring, and she had a pet store
pythons ran out, scared everyone back, Prada Handbags uk.but I am very easy to put it on hold back to the cage, it is also very obedient. Although these poisons right gentlest, Evonne Hsu also said, If the pet is hungry, or not to approach, in order to avoid danger. Secret star family town house treasure, they believe in feng shui.S Barbie town house treasure 300 pairs of shoes.The Taiwanese actress s Barbie is an absolute luxury admirer her many Chanel dress suit.Big s home nearly 300 pairs of shoes, with a total value of more than 10 million!Of more than 10 million Taiwan dollars, in accordance with the exchange rate of the NT dollar and RMB, the equivalent of more than two million yuan on the mainland.Beijing high prices as a benchmark, which also can buy two sets of more than one hundred square meters of housing.In order to capture the large s in the name of the collection of shoes around the house, brought the studio debut her house nearly 300 pairs of shoes, worth more than 10 million, you can buy a house, Xu mother laugh at her centipede reincarnation, where so much feet shoes, big s were roughly her a pair of shoes money enough to buy a big house, money can buy a suite she bought Fortunately, Xu mother secretly bought two rooms of big s or her to buy down , after the old if not married, may have to take refuge in a small s.S with small s often being used from the debut compared to the small s usually do not buy brand-name, but now it was admitted to the Depo soul mate, big s systemic brand name, but no end result, with Xu mother mother and daughter lived in the Eastern self-deprecating s: my princess appearance servant life, small s servant appearance princess life. Addicted s shoes, such as life, love to buy shoes madness began, from the 6th grade, when she used to save money bought shoes, a few years ago, in Chanel, she saw a pair of beautiful, with the clerk asked, did not she the size, because they can not buy her beloved shoes from her daily nightmares, her nightmare did not stop until you buy a pair of similar shoes. Secret star family town house treasure, they believe in feng shui.Jeff Chang treasure antique town house.Jeff Chang been collecting antiques for 20 years, to embark on such old articles of no return, is originated in the courtyard of a Chinese-style building.Due housing changed to seminary, lighting, stained glass facing the fate of being thrown away, The aci feel Unfortunately, it is the same as from the garbage picked up and moved back home and began collecting antiques career.His love of antiques into addiction, for old products all comers.Familiar with his friends met him happy event, are also sending antiques, match up.For him, the antique does not mean those small objects, also including his obsessed with ancient buildings, because there is no way to get their hands on, so he played a talent of painting, draw down of these antique buildings used to store and have it.The aci biggest wish is to open an antique museum, to share the joy with everyone. Secret star family town house treasure, they believe in feng shui.Nicholas Tse town house treasure guitar.Nicholas Tse, as the guitar, such as life, the family is the most precious countless guitar.Weekdays, he will be heart guitar one a carefully placed in the cabinet, when he unveiled the baby, his face completely to like Xianbao innocent child, sometimes bombs and one bomb, and sometimes touch, threw himself into his and the guitar world.Nicholas Tse acknowledged that because of his family background, he can easily buy the others have saved a lot more money may not be purchased guitar, his first to an expensive guitar together to send the mother and some aunts.Excellent guitar are available in Japan, New York and even Taiwan, Nicholas Tse, especially black blue lightning streaks like guitar purchased in Taiwan, Nicholas Tse love a plus, he hopes to open two years later a guitar, so that more people together to share the guitar world.

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Your Pet's Head Position Explains More Than You'd Think ? Dr ...

This article originally appeared on my ongoing series of articles for?Flexcin International, Inc?as?Your Pet?s Head Position Explains More Than You?d Think

Photo Credit: Michael Brian

The way your pet holds its neck and head can indicate if a problem is present.?Signs such as the head being carried at the same height as or below the shoulders, a gaze pointing to the ground, or vocalization (crying) when the head or neck move indicate attempts to minimize pain. The neck also works in conjunction with the shoulders, so neck problems often end up affecting the shoulders (and vice versa). Your pet may exhibit front limb lameness (limping), difficulty or reluctance to move down from elevated surfaces, refusal to move, and other signs.

There are many potential causes of neck problems, but collar-based trauma is the most common in dogs. Ironically, it is also entirely preventable. Unfortunately, most dogs do not walk while heeling at their owner?s side. Instead, they pull against the collar and put mild to severe pressure on their neck.

For the sake of the health and comfort of your dog?s neck and head, don?t yank on your dog?s collar (or let them do so) or engage in a vigorous game of tug o? war. Instead try obedience training and utilize harness-style leads that do not put stress on the neck and head of your canine. These body parts are complex in their structure and function.

The neck is composed of many parts that work together for normal carriage and function to occur. A central column of backbones (vertebrae) protects the spinal cord and provides the neck?s basic support structure. A series of intervertebral discs provides cushion for the vertebrae and spinal cord. Additionally, small joints called facets help keep the whole backbone stable.

Besides the backbone, the neck contains other structures essential for the body?s normal functioning including the esophagus, trachea (windpipe), blood and lymphatic vessels, nerves, and muscles.?A problem with any one of these parts can cause your dog to show abnormal neck position, reduced range of motion, pain to the touch, or behavioral changes.

One of the most common diseases I see in the neck is?intervertebral disc disease?(IVDD), which is an abnormality in the disc?s ability to absorb shock and protect the spinal cord. IVDD often coincides with arthritis in the spine?s facets, which makes for a doubly uncomfortable experience for your cat or dog.

Symptoms of head and neck pain should be evaluated by your veterinarian. The appropriate diagnostic tests (X-rays, etc.) can determine the nature of the problem in order to develop an adequate treatment plan. Additionally, starting your dog on a daily dose of?FlexPet?can help improve joint health so that less medication is needed to maintain a comfortable state.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at?vetadvice@flexcin.com.

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Thank you for reading this article. ?Your questions and comments are completely welcome (I?ll respond).

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Middle East has the most politically vocal social networkers

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Suzanne Choney , NBC News

The old rule that says "Don't talk about politics and religion" doesn't apply to the people in the Middle East who have discovered?Facebook and Twitter. In fact, according to a new report, social networking in that region has become a vital tool precisely for sharing views on?politics, community issues and religion ? much more so than anywhere else in the world.

In Egypt and Tunisia, "two nations at the heart of the Arab Spring, more than six-in-ten social networkers share their views about?politics online," says?the Pew Research Center in its Global Attitudes Project?report.

In contrast with the other nations surveyed, "a median of only 34 percent post their political opinions."

"Of all the countries we surveyed, it?s the Arab nations that are most interested in discussing politics online," Richard Wike, Pew Research Center associate director, told NBC News. "In Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon, solid majorities of people who use social networking sites say they share their views about politics on these sites. That?s a much higher rate than in other nations."

In those four countries, more than 70?percent?use social networks to?share their?views on community issues, compared with a "cross-national median of just 46 percent"?worldwide.

Italy and Turkey are?the only other countries surveyed by Pew where the majority of those who use social networking have expressed views about community issues (64 percent and 63 percent, respectively).

In the United States, 47 percent of social network users talk about community issues;?37 percent talk politics; and 32 percent discuss religion.

"Many people still don?t have access to the Internet in Arab nations,"?Wike said. In fact, fewer than half of Pew's survey respondents in Middle East countries used the Internet at all.?"But those who do?tend to get involved in social networking, and those who go on social networking sites tend to share their views about politics."

Pew?and researchers worldwide interviewed more than 20,000 people total in 21 countries last spring: Brazil, Britain, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and the U.S.

A majority of social networking users in Tunisia (63 percent), Egypt (63 percent) and Jordan (62 percent) are "also more likely than those in other countries to say they have posted about religion," much?higher than other nations,?Pew said.

"In 14 countries, only about a third or less have posted on this topic."

Pew's findings come at a time when the the idea of the Arab Spring may have become a nostalgic notion of the past, at least online.

Syria recently shut off, then reinstated, Internet access. And in the past year or so,?Internet access has been on and?off for other countries, including Pakistan, Bahrain and Ethiopia, according to the?U.S. watchdog group Freedom on the Net.

Jillian C. York, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's director for international freedom of expression, recently?observed Dec. 10 as "Human Rights Day," as created by the United Nations, writing that "while the spread of the Internet has created an environment in which???in theory???anyone can be a writer, a photographer, a filmmaker or a pundit, the reality is such that nearly half of the world's citizens access a fractured, fragmented Internet, and the threat of persecution for speaking out causes even more to censor their online speech."

It's important for everyone to remember that "the right to?free expression must be guaranteed whether we're shouting from the rooftops or from our Facebook walls," she wrote.

Check out Technology, GadgetBox, Digital?Life and InGame on?Facebook,?and on?Twitter, follow Suzanne Choney.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/middle-east-has-most-politically-vocal-social-networkers-says-pew-1C7559554

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Congress, dreading automatic cuts, eyes yet another trigger

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Of the many distasteful elements to the year-end "fiscal cliff" that Washington is desperately trying to avoid, few are more loathed than the automatic, indiscriminate spending cuts scheduled to begin on January 2.

Yet a repeat of this agonizing drama could play out next summer.

That is because Congress, as part of deal to avert the year-end fiscal cliff of steep tax increases and across-the-board budget cuts, is likely to enact another forcing mechanism, or trigger, to make sure it keeps its latest round of deficit-reduction promises.

Lawmakers say automatic cuts and tax changes will be needed later because there is too little time now to get specific, with Congress racing to undo the damage it did in 2011.

At best, President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner will agree on broad targets for increased tax revenues, cuts to federal healthcare and retirement programs and other savings.

"We are going to need an enforcement mechanism," said Representative James Lankford, a Republican on the House Budget Committee from Oklahoma. "I've only been here two years but the one thing I've learned is Congress won't do anything until they have to. Until we create a have-to moment, it'll never occur."

The so-called automatic "sequester" cuts - split evenly between the military and domestic programs - were dictated by the last deficit reduction deal in August 2011, which settled a bruising fight over raising the U.S. debt limit.

Those cuts were meant to be so painful that Congress would have no choice but to find $1.2 trillion in 10-year savings elsewhere by the end of 2012.

This does not mean that Congress will use the same meat-ax approach. Instead, lawmakers and policy analysts are recommending a rebranded version that is more targeted with a new name to replace the discredited term "sequester."

Among the possible substitutes under consideration are "fallback," "failsafe" and "backstop."

Democratic Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the retiring chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said the only way to get a deal by the end of the year is to agree on a "down payment" of some revenue increases, such as tax rises for the wealthy, and spending cuts.

The two sides would set forth a "framework" outlining targets for tax reform revenues and healthcare savings next year, he said, with the failsafe available in the event Congress fails to act.

"It's very important that the failsafe actually be good policy, because the failsafe may actually become the default position," said Conrad.

NO ROADMAP IN SEQUESTER

Most agree that the sequester was bad budget policy, leaving little flexibility in its implementation. Even Obama's latest public offer proposes to turn it off.

Because it targeted only discretionary spending on government programs, agencies and defense, it did not encourage lawmakers to make any progress on the biggest sources of potential savings - increased tax revenues and cuts to federal benefit programs known as entitlements.

"The current sequester doesn't do anything to tell you where the deal should be," said Marc Goldwein, senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a deficit- reduction group.

Essentially, more targeted trigger cuts and tax rises would be better than reductions to largely unrelated to programs that have already taken big cuts this year. But they would still pale in comparison with the full and specific savings that Congress aims to achieve next year, when it fills in the details of targets set out in any year-end deal.

For example, if lawmakers cannot agree on specific program cuts to achieve a certain level of savings to the Medicare healthcare program for the elderly, the trigger could automatically increase premiums charged to seniors or reduce reimbursement payments to healthcare providers.

Similarly, if revenue targets are not met through tax reform, across-the-board tax increases or caps on deductions could be imposed, analysts say.

"We don't want a trigger ever to be easy to live with. We want it to be related to the agreements that are reached," said Democratic Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland.

But skeptics say that any new, gentler trigger is unlikely to work any better than the sequester.

"They are looking for the 'Goldilocks' trigger - not so harsh that it would hurt to be implemented, but harsh enough that it will get them to act," said William Gale, a tax policy expert at the Brookings Institution.

"But there is no such thing, since they can always abolish triggers that they set earlier, as the deadline approaches. If the fiscal cliff is not a big enough of a trigger to get them to act, what would be?"

Some lawmakers, notably conservative budget hawks who want to cut military budgets as well as domestic spending, say the sequester is doing its job - forcing Congress to act.

"There has to be cuts to the budget. If the sequesters are the only way we can get them, so be it." said Representative Justin Amash, a Republican and libertarian maverick from Michigan.

(Additional reporting by Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Fred Barbash and Mohammad Zargham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/congress-dreading-automatic-cuts-eyes-yet-another-trigger-223420707--business.html

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Man given boots by NYPD officer: Street life ?my choice?

A New York City police officer giving boots to a homeless man on Nov. 14 (NYPD/Facebook)

First he was spotted barefoot in Times Square by a police officer who bought him a pair of boots--a moment captured in a heartwarming photo taken by a tourist, posted on Facebook and shared by hundreds of thousands of people.

Then he was spotted barefoot again on the Upper West Side by the New York Times. ("Those shoes are hidden," he said. "They are worth a lot of money?I could lose my life.")

Then the Daily News reported the man people assumed was homeless wasn't homeless at all--and has a Bronx apartment paid for via a combination of rent vouchers, Social Security and military veteran benefits.

Now Jeffrey Tillman--the 54-year-old man at the center of this ongoing, made-for-a-slow-news-day story--says that despite access to a federally subsidized apartment, it's his choice to wander the streets.

"I guess you could say I am hard-headed," Tillman told the Daily News for a front-page story published on Sunday.

The South Plainfield, N.J.-native and estranged father of two confirmed what the man's brother, Kirk Hillman, and others said last week: Family and various city organizations have tried for years to help him, but he's turned them all down.

"We love our brother very much," Kirk Hillman said. "Our door is always open to him, but this is a lifestyle he's chosen."

Jeffrey Hillman, who told the tabloid he was diagnosed as bipolar and schizophrenic, came to New York in 2000.

"It was my choice," he said. "Being on the street since then was my choice, too. When I was in the Army, I could have said I was homeless, too. Same thing to me."

Hillman, who was wearing the boots when he spoke to the Daily News, said he's grateful NYPD's Lawrence DePrimo gift.

"A police officer on duty was willing to take his time to help me," Hillman said. "It blew my mind."

And despite reports to the contrary, Hillman claims he does use his apartment--to sleep.

"I'm just out here doing what I'm doing because that's how I know how to do it," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/homeless-man-boots-nypd-apartment-155517489.html

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"Where sex is work, sex may just work differently" & "the WEIRDest ...

When sex means reproduction, certain proclivities may simply not be part of cultural models of sexuality: "Barry and Bonnie Hewlett had been studying the Aka and Ngandu people of central Africa for many years before they began to specifically study the groups' sexuality... [T]he Hewletts conclude, "Homosexuality and masturbation are rare or nonexistent [in these two cultures], not because they are frowned upon or punished, but because they are not part of the cultural models of sexuality in either ethnic group.""

Is the strong cultural focus on sex as a reproductive tool the reason masturbation and homosexual practices seem to be virtually unknown among the Aka and Ngandu? That isn't clear. But the Hewletts did find that their informants -- whom they knew well from years of field work -- "were not aware of these practices, did not have terms for them," and, in the case of the Aka, had a hard time even understanding about what the researchers were asking when they asked about homosexual behaviors. The Ngandu "were familiar with the concept" of homosexual behavior, "but no word existed for it and they said they did not know of any such relationships in or around the village. Men who had traveled to the capital, Bangui, said it existed in the city and was called 'PD' (French for par derriere or from behind)."

... The finding with regard to homosexuality is perhaps not that surprising. As the Hewletts note, other researchers have documented cultures where homosexuality appears not to exist. If homosexual orientation has a genetic component to it -- and there is increasing evidence that it does, in many cases -- then it would not be surprising that this complex human trait (one that involves non-procreative efforts) would be found in some populations but not others.

Moreoever, sexual behavior -- whether homosexual, heterosexual, or any other type -- is never simply genetically determined in humans. Humans are born with sexual potentials that will manifest differently in different cultural settings. So, about heterosexuality, the Hewletts note that Western cultures' valuing of sleeping through the night probably limits Western heterosexual couples' interest in having sex multiple times between dusk and dawn. In our culture, the work we have to do by day may overtake "the work of the night."

It's also worth noting that Western science specifically distinguishes between three components of sexuality: desire, behavior, and identity. While the Hewletts' research suggests that homosexual behavior and identity are foreign to the Aka and Ngandu, it's entirely possible that homosexual desire does exist in these groups, at least for some of their members (so to speak). A culture that recognizes such desires -- and especially a culture that does not condemn them -- and especially one that involves large groups where homosexually-inclined people can find each other -- is the type where such desires will become openly apparent.

Jesse Bering covers similar ground (with different details) in Slate - Does homosexuality exist in every human society?

Sex and Searching For Children Among Aka Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of Central Africa (PDF, 19 pages) - "[Barry Hewlett] has conducted research with these groups of Aka and Ngandu for over 35 years, and [Bonnie Hewlett] has conducted research with them for over 10 years."

*wikipedia - Aka people
*The Guardian: Are the men of the African Aka tribe the best fathers in the world?

Both the Atlantic piece and the Slate piece reference "a much-discussed 2010 Behavioral and Brain Sciences paper called "The WEIRDest people in the world?" in which the authors argued that far too many sweeping claims about "human nature" are drawn exclusively from samples of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies."

The Weirdest People In The World? (PDF, 68 pages)

Short abstract: Broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on narrow samples from Western societies are regularly published in leading journals. Are such species?generalizing claims justified? This review suggests not only that substantial variability in experimental results emerges across populations in basic domains, but that standard subjects are in fact rather unusual compared with the rest of the species?frequent outliers. The domains reviewed include visual perception, fairness, categorization, spatial cognition, memory, moral reasoning and self?concepts. This review (1) indicates caution in addressing questions of human nature based on this thin slice of humanity, and (2) suggests that understanding human psychology will require tapping broader subject pools. We close by proposing ways to address these challenges.

*Toronto Star - Why we're the weirdest people in the world
*NYT - A Weird Way of Thinking Has Prevailed Worldwide
*Big Think - The Weirdest People in the World?
*Public Library of Science - Reflections on the WEIRD Evolution of Human Psychology

Source: http://www.metafilter.com/122692/Where-sex-is-work-sex-may-just-work-differently-and-the-WEIRDest-people-in-the-world

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