Women 'Keep more after divorce'
Wemen are more likely than men to keep joint possessions when getting divorcd, according to research.
Men on average wanted their ex to keep 19 items from a list of 24 including the home, photographs and pets, while women wanted then men to get just eight.
While women did not particularly want items including the television, CDs, DVDs, and toaster, they were keen their ex-husband did not get them.
YouGov polled 3,525 people in May and June. The poll found men were keen for their ex to keep items including bed, television, wedding album, lawnmower and garden accessories, house plants, coffee machine and the family pet.
One item that men were determined to keep for themselves was the house---32% wanted it to keep it outright, compared with 30% who were happy to wholly hand it over to their ex-wife.
The men also wanted the car, the laptop computer, digital camera and CD and DVD collections.
Half of women wanted the family home outright, but even more 64%--want the dog or cat.
They were happy for their former husband to keep the bed, sofa, lawnmower, coffee machine, laptop, digital camera, playstation and any wine and drinks they had.
Ultimately 46% of women did keep the house, compared with 29% of men, with other couples selling.
Denise knowles, a counselor, said:"These findings reflect the hugely different emotional attachment that divorcing men and women feel towards their shared possessions.
"Men are far keener than women to put their past behind them and want to move on, which is why they are happyu to let their ex keep almost all of their shared possessions---apart from those items that provide entertainmnet such as the car, digital camera and music system.
"women, by contrast, have a far greater emotional attachmetn to their home and its contens, seeing these things are the fabric of their lives and things that should be preserved both for themselves and children as symbols of their family history and life.
joint possessions :（共同财产）
ex : a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband（前夫）
outright : completely; utterly（彻底地；完全地）
fabric : the underlying structure（结构）
Why is the eagle the national emblem of the United States?
Whole Wide world's gone Potte
Google Earth helps to uncover tax fraud
In 1782, US congress selected the bald eagle as the emblem of the newly formed United States, because it symbolized courage and might, and because it was indigenous only to the United States and Canada.
The national seal depicts the bald eagle with its wings spread, with one claw clutching an olive branch, and the other claw grasping arrows. The eagle, however, strikes different poses on the national depictions.
The bald eagle owes its name to the early American colonists, and is bald in the name only. As the white-headed American eagle differed from the European gray eagle, the colonists used their word for white which translated into bald, in describing it. Unfortunately, the literal translation, bald headed, stuck like a toupee.
Since ancient times, men have identified themselves with the eagle, because it creates an impression of majesty and of power while in flight. As early as 5,000 years ago, ancient Sumerican chose the eagle, in spread eagle form, as their emblem symbolizing their power. Ancient Romans followed suit, as did Emperor Charlemagne, and finally Napoleon. No doubt, congress considered the eagle's historical pedigree as being the nanimal reperesenting a nation's power, when selecting it to be the national emblem of the United States.
emblem:像征物，特殊的标志，徽章
An amateur plant breeder from Victory has grown the world's first yellow variety of the NSW floral emblem, the waratah. It took him 20 years but Dr. Graeme...
indigenous本土的
be indigenous to 固有于，土生土长于
Indigenous Affair Minister Mal Brough says Progress has been made a month into the government's intervention into indigenous communities.
bald eagle 秃鹰
national seal 国家标志章
toupee 男子假发
follow suit 跟着做
pedigree 血统，家谱
Whole Wide world's gone Potter
The seventh and final Harry Potter book has gone on sale around the world, in a publishing milestone that will end months of fevered speculation among fans over the fate of the fictional boy wizard and his wand-wielding friends.
Readers young and old queued outside book stores around the world overnight, many dressed like their heros, for the grand finale of the Potter saga, which experts believe will be the fastest-selling book of all time.
Author J.K. Rowling was an unemployed single mother without a publisher or agent 13 years ago, but is now the world's first dollar billionaire write after the huge success of her first six novels and the Hollywood movies based on them.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hit the shelves at 9.01 am(AEST) this morning in a carefully orchestrated release designed to maximize suspendse and sales from London and New York to Mumbai and Australia's Outback.
But is has been marred by leaks of the contents of the book on the internet, both real and fake, and by a mistake made by a US online retailer that meant a small number of hard copies were sent to buyers day ahead of publication.
"I am staggered that some American news paper have decided to publish purported spoilers in the form of reviews in complete disregard of the wishes of literally million of readers, particularly children," the 41-year-old said.
Yesterday, French newspaper Le Parisien Published a three paragraph summary of the final book's epilogue, printing it upside down to give readers a chance to look away.
potter Publishers will take comfort from the fact that the majority of fans do not know what happens in the book seven, and do not want to until they get their hands on a copy on what has beendubbed in the media as "P-Day"
Families imposed news blackouts in their homes, and queues began to form outside bookstore as early as Wednesday.
More than 100--hard Potter fans including several from overseas, had gathered outside a bookstore in central London overnight, braving torrential rain at one point.
"Everyone said he(Harry) is going to die," said Sinead Kelly, who travelled from the Netherlands with her boyfriend to be at the epicentre of Harry hysteria
"I think he's going to live. J.K. Rowling says at least two characters are going to die, so I think it's going to be Hermione and Hagrid."
In Britain, a phone counselling service for children expects a surge in calls when readers lean who is killed off.
Stores in Taiwan and India are laying on "magic breakfast" for early customers and a Sydney shop is taking fans aged from two to 84 on a train ride to secret location to get the book.
The statistics of Rowling's success are staggering.
The first six book in the series, which began with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone in 1997, have sold 325 million copies and the first five movies in teh film franchise have amassed around $4billion at the global box office.
"Harry Potter has made people look at children's book world in a way they would not have before," said Caroline Horn, Children's news editor at the bookseller publication.
"it's also raised expectations of the amount of money a write can earn"
speculation: 1) contemplation of consideration of a subject, meditation 思索
2) a conclusion, an opinion推认，推断
3) reasoning based on inconclusive evidence, conjecture or supposition 推理
4) Engagement in risky business 投机于风险事业
wand-wielded 挥舞着魔棒的
mar:弄坏，毁坏，损害，损伤，障碍
look away
blackout 灯火管制，眩晕，中断
staggering 蹒跚的，摇晃的，令人惊愕的
epicentre 震中，地震中心
torrential: resembling flowing in, or forming torrents
resulting from teh action of fast-flowing streams
torrential mountains streams;
a torrential downpour.
torrential erosion
torrential applause
Google Earth helps to uncover tax fraud
Argentina's tax authorities are using satellite images generated on the Internet by google Earth to track down fraud, local media said.
According to Buenos Aires province tax official Santiago Montoya, images of properties from the sky can help square the actual size of peoperties with that declared by taxpayer t make sure the proper amount of taxes is being paid, the reports said.
The online Google Earth service,which assembles detailed satellite pictures together with maps so that user can view specific locations and buildings, is also used by the Buenos Aires authorities to check if taxpayers may have expanded their homes in ways that would increase their value of taxation.
Montoya said he is waging " a real war" on fiscal deficits, and has already taken several steps to reduce the worldspread tqax fraud in Argentina
Wage:发动
fiscal deficits 国库赤字
