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bladerunner said:

Which brings to question how much is too much/enough.

There certainly cant be enough for these new found billionares who like to show off by paying outrageous prices for artwork. Theonly thing that distinguishes him from his fellow billionares is how much over value hes prepared to go when making these purchases.

It makes one wonder how they really earnt their money.


On another note Chinas leaders earn their living as politicians , not scientists etc. When did Hu last solve a engineering problem.?

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Equation said:

You think Governor Mitt Romney really earned millions of dollars because of his undergraduate degree in English (literature and literary studies) from Brigham Young University?

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Iceland's Premier Johanna Sigurdardottir (L) meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at a meeting in Reykjavik April 20, 2012. China signed accords on energy cooperation and the Arctic in Iceland on Friday as Premier Wen started a tour of northern Europe that will focus on Chinese investment in a continent eager for funds and to trade with the rising world power.

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QINGDAO, CHINA - APRIL 21: (L-R) Bao Yixin and Zhong Qianxin of China play a shot in the semi-final match against Shizuka Matsuo and Mami Naito of Japanduring day five of the 2012 Badminton Asia Championships at Qingdao Guoxin Gymnasium on April 21, 2012 in Qingdao, China.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Russian Pacific Fleet's flagship Varyag, a Slava-class guided missile cruiser, arrives at a naval base in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Saturday, April 21, 2012. A China-Russia joint maritime drill is scheduled from April 22 to 27 on the Yellow Sea, Xinhua said.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Rear Adm. Du Xiping, front right, deputy commander of China's Beihai Fleet, shakes hands with Captain First Rank Sergei Yuriyevich Zhuga of Russia's Pacific Fleet during a welcome ceremony at a naval base in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Saturday, April 21, 2012. A China-Russia joint maritime drill is scheduled from April 22 to 27 on the Yellow Sea, Xinhua said.

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GUANGZHOU, CHINA - APRIL 20: Nurses push a patient in a flooded street on April 20, 2012 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. Rainstorms have been sweeping across Guangdong province for the last three days, affecting 235,100 people in 23 counties.

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An employee works on an assembly line at an automobile factory of SAIC Motor in Shanghai April 20, 2012. Car sales in China in March climbed a modest 4.5 percent from a year earlier, pulling back sharply from a hefty gain in February, as a slowing economy and higher fuel prices kept customers away from showrooms.

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Employees work on the shell of a wind turbine tower in the assembly workshop in The Shanghai Electric Windpower Equipment Co. , Ltd. in Shanghai, April 20, 2012. China was by far the biggest single wind turbine market with 17.63 gigawatt (GW) of installations in 2011, Danish consultancy BTM Consult said.

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A gymnast from the Chinese national gymnastics team practises on a pommel horse during a training session at General Administration of Sport of China in Beijing, April 20, 2012. There are currently 15 male and 14 female athletes in the team, who will have to attend the Chinese National Gymnastics Championship next month to fight for a spot in China's London Olympics Gymnastics Squad, local media reported.

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Migrant workers chat during a break at a timber mill in Huaibei, Anhui province April 20, 2012.

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Visitors look at a model of a MG3 car on display at an automobile factory of SAIC Motor in Shanghai, April 20, 2012. Car sales in China in March climbed a modest 4.5 percent from a year earlier, pulling back sharply from a hefty gain in February, as a slowing economy and higher fuel prices kept customers away from showrooms.

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The burnt office of the factory after the owner allegedly set fire to his own plant to destroy evidence of making industrial gelatin before it was shut down in Fucheng, north China's Hebei province on April 19, 2012. Chinese police have detained 22 people for making drug capsules using a toxic raw material produced from scrap leather, state media said, in the latest in a string of product safety scandals.

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HONG KONG - APRIL 21: Firefighters work at a fire site at the Harbour Grand Hotel on April 21, 2012 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. A 3-alarm fire broke out at around 2:50 a.m. on Saturday and was extinguished by 6:45 a.m. without any reports of casualties.

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A man walks past high rise apartment blocks under construction in Beijing, April 20, 2012. China's home prices likely will fall by a further 10 to 20 percent between now and the end of the year, after slipping 5 percent in the first quarter, a Reuters poll showed, enough to slow broader economic growth but not trigger a hard landing.

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A beggar asks for money from people sitting at a pedestrian mall in Shanghai, China, Thursday, April 19, 2012.

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Chinese farmer She Ping gets covered with honey bees at his farm, producing honey to supplement their income in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on April 18, 2012. China's subsidies to farmers grew six-fold to reach 147 billion USD in 2010, with an increasing amount going to propping up farmers' pay.

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bd popeye said:

I'm back.. I was very busy yesterday at mp.net. I posted about 95 pix in their Todays PIX thread..

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Russian Pacific Fleet's flagship Varyag, a Slava-class guided missile cruiser, arrives at a naval base in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Saturday, April 21, 2012. A China-Russia joint maritime drill is scheduled from April 22 to 27 on the Yellow Sea, Xinhua said.

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Russian navy Ships looks "mean"

Starbucks Corp wants to make its mainland China expansion a family affair. The world's biggest coffee chain is opening cafes in China at a rate of one every four days in its quest to expand from about 570 shops today to more than 1,500 by 2015.

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Its hard to get a decent cup of coffee in China now it will be "Misson Impossible". Anyway most asians make coffee like Caucasians cook Chinese.

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bladerunner said:

Russian navy Ships looks "mean"

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as with most of their hardwares, got that certain 'look'

Its hard to get a decent cup of coffee in China now it will be "Misson Impossible". Anyway most asians make coffee like Caucasians cook Chinese.

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ha!

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L), Serbian President Boris Tadic (C) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) attend the opening ceremony of the "Hannover Messe" industrial trade fair in Hanover April 22, 2012. The world's leading fair for industrial technology, with about 5,000 exhibitors from 69 nations, runs till April 27 with China as this year's partner country.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) are pictured before the opening ceremony of the Hanover industrial fair in Hanover, April 22, 2012. China is this year's partner country of the industrial fair which open its doors to the public on April 23 and will run to April 27.

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Supporters of Falun Dafa protest against China's policy on the sidelines of the Hannover Messe (Hanover Fair), which China's State Premier is expected to open in Hanover April 22, 2012. According to the organisers, focusing on trends and solutions for sustainable industrial production, 'greentelligence' will be the recurrent theme throughout this year's fair edition running from April 23 to 27, 2012. Around 5,000 exhibitors from various industrial sectors will showcase their products. China is the fair's partner country in 2012.

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Performers dance during a Volkswagen Group presentation event in Beijing on April 22, 2012. Beijing is preparing for the Auto China 2012 exhiition in which top world carmakers will roll out a host of new models as they scramble for an edge amid sharply slowing sales in the planet's largest automobile market. China Auto 2012 runs until May 2.

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QINGDAO, CHINA - APRIL 22: Li Xuerui of China poses for photographers during the award ceremony after she won first place in the final match against Wang Yihan of China during day six of the 2012 Badminton Asia Championships at Qingdao Guoxin Gymnasium on April 22, 2012 in Qingdao, China.

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A woman sells kites on a road near the national stadium in Beijing on April 22, 2012

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An ethnic Kyrgyz sheep vendor holds a bundle of Chinese 100 yuan banknotes as he squats with his father while awaiting customers at a market in Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region April 22, 2012.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Rear Adm. Leonid Sukhanov, left, Russian naval deputy chief of staff, and Ding Yiping, deputy commander of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, attend the starting ceremony of the China-Russia joint naval exercise in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Sunday, April 22, 2012. The exercise, scheduled to be held from April 22 to 27 in the Yellow Sea, officially started Sunday morning, Xinhua said.

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WAKAYAMA, JAPAN - APRIL 21: Au Sin Ying of Hong Kong competes agains Zhavitsa Yuliya of Kazakhstan in the Women's Sabre final on day two of the London Olympic Asia & Oceania Final Qualifying tournament at Wakayama Big Wave on April 21, 2012 in Wakayama, Japan.

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A mainland Chinese tourist (L) and two workers are seen in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong on April 21, 2012. Mong Kok is the world's most densely populated area with over 130 thousand people per square kilometer according to the Guinness Book of Records.

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A Taiwanese child dressed as local god looks out through the mouth of a mask while waiting to perform at the Earth Day celebrations in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, April 22, 2012.

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Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou attends a military drill at Taiwan's northern Taoyuan county Bade Huaisheng Airport on April 20, 2012.

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Signs taped to the walls from long ago are shown inside the Sam Wo restaurant in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 20, 2012. The 100-year-old Chinese restaurant known for having "the world's rudest waiter" is shutting its doors and serving its last customers Friday.

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Waitress Fanny He pulls meals out of a dumbwaiter to serve on an upstairs floor during lunch at the Sam Wo restaurant in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 20, 2012.

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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 19: A man prepares food in a stall on the sidewalk April 19, 2012 in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City.

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Rescuers work at the scene of a bus-truck collision on the Yanjiang Expressway in Changshu, east China's Jiangsu Province, April 22, 2012. Thirteen people died after a tour bus collided with a truck here on Sunday morning, said traffic police in Jiangsu Province. The injured, numbering more than a dozen, have been rushed to a local hospital for treatment. (Xinhua)

The accident occurred at 9:25 a.m. after a tour bus from Shanghai drove through the barriers in the middle of the expressway and collided with a heavy truck coming in the opposite direction in the Changshu section of the Yanjiang Expressway in Jiangsu Province.

Both vehicles were overturned at the scene, the government spokesman said.

According to official reports, 33 passengers were aboard the bus when the accident happened. Six bus passengers and the driver of the truck were killed instantly, and six other people died after rescue efforts failed.

Among the 21 injured, four are still in critical condition.

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Models present cameras at the 15th China International Photograph & Electrical Imaging Machinery and Technology Fair in Beijing, capital of China, April 20, 2012.(Xinhua/Wang Zhen)

The 15th China International Photograph & Electrical Imaging Machinery and Technology Fair kicked off in Beijing, capital of China on April 20, 2012. The fair, kicking off on Friday, will last for four days.

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Children painted environmental protection themes on a scroll at Yixiu Kindergarten in Suzhou, East China’s Jiangsu province, April 19, 2012. The activity was to welcome Earth Day, which falls on April 22.

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Equation said:

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Those old school Converse are definitely coming back in styles everywhere.

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