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The only true FREE CLASSIFIEDS in the Antelope Valley... Where buyers and sellers meet!
Beautiful Country ranch home Call Victoria at 661-965-0832 • $549,950
Totally upgraded ranch in downtown Acton! Original owner has lovingly remodeled and upgrad- ed this classic Acton home. New stucco coat & paint, new trim paint, new flooring (wood lami- nate) & carpeting, new windows, new interior paint, new kitchen including cabinets, granite, oven & stove top,new plumbing in bathrooms. There is a charming used brick fireplace (wood burning) w/ mantle in the corner of the family room. Owner has redone the exterior patio roof off the family room w/ a very expensive sliding patio door. This owner has gone first class with everything! PLUS it has public water, natural gas, and paved streets to access the home. Freeway close and walking distance to downtown. The owner set up sprinklers for the front landscaping but in this drought has not planted any grass. He may put in rock and he is putting in RR ties to boarder the front area. He has installed a new brick planter area in front as well. There is a tile roof that will last a lifetime. In addition there is 1.14 acres for all your toys and gardening or even horses!
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2 Cats, 1 outdoor & 1 indoor, neutered. To good
407 home • 943-6071
Wild mallard duck w/ a month old duckling to good
406 home • 943-6071
Free: (2)10yrs old outdoor & indoor cats • 943-6071406
Beautiful kitten • 800-1900406
Beautiful Palomino Tennesee walker horse mare, registered, 15.1 hands $2500 • 724-0572403
Duck eggs, farm fresh. Great for baking $4/dz • 760-769-1149403
Goats, Pigs, Chickens, Rhode Island Chickens, Ducks, Eggs. Cheap Littlerock • 818-517-2593abel
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lancaster: 942-7880 Tehachapi: 822-7442 lake lA: 264-4263
hiGh CounTry FeeD & peTS Salt, Tropical Fish & Reptile Supplies “For All Your Pet Needs” Pet GroominG 1817 E Ave Q #B8 Corner of 20th St East Palmdale 661-947-4552
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Wholesale Hay & Feed Horse, livestock and poultry supplies. Pet food, supplies, and vac- cines. Hay sale days Tuesdays & Saturdays
Best prices for Alfalfa & 3-way Barley in Southern California TWO GREAT LOCATIONS 1609 East Ave I Lancaster (661) 946-7720 & 41943 50th Street West Quartz Hill (661) 718-2777
Doghouse, missing bottom, XXL size $15 • 823-5723403
Plastic doghouse, extra large, xlnt cond $40 • 823- 5723403
2)Horse saddle pads, good cond $40each • 272-9273 bet 8am-8:30pm390
Sliding glass door insert pet entry $45. No tools needed for small dogs or cats. 12” widex80” tall • 272-9273 bet 8am-8:30pm386
Folding metal cage for small dog or cat. 17” wide x 19” tall x 24”, Heavy gauge wire w/ locking door $38firm • 272-9273 bet 8:30am- 8:30pm385
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Cal City dar el paso hacia un futuro mejor ! Aprender a Leer Inglés ! Mejore su lec- tura, escritura y expresión oral ! Inglés como Segundo Idioma (ESL ) para adultos ! La tutoría es gratuito ! Para información llame al : Rosamond Programa de Alfabetización de Adultos 661-256-6212
Antelope Valley pregnancy Counseling Center & Women’s Clinic • Free Pregnancy Tests • Pre-natal Counseling • Medi-Cal Referrals • Limited Early Term Ultrasound We are open for Walk-ins Mon-Thurs 9am-2pm 1334 E. Palmdale Blvd, Ste E 661-947-0400
Fridays: 12 noon-1pm Saint Mary Church 1600 E. Avenue R-4 Palmdale
1st Saturdays of Month 7:45am-9am Adoration Room Fr. Serra Church 42121 N. 60th st West Quartz Hill
Stop Pearblossom pollu- tion!. Report illegal tires & trash dumping • 723-4440284
Personal Prayer Line. Confidential. One on One. No Charge! 942-0808
Preserve our Desert Beauty.
STop illegal Dumping!
Report to: 1-888-Clean LA 1-888-253-2652
Halfway To Home is a Non- Profit 501(c)3 Animal Rescue located in Mojave, California. We adopt our dogs out at Petsmart in West Palmdale (next to Trader Joes) every Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 5pm. You can also view all our adoptable dogs on www.petfinder.com. We are in need of money to help support our SPAY and NEUTER PROGRAM. If you would like to help us, please send your tax deductable donation to HALFWAY TO HOME, PO BOX 512, Rosamond, CA Pls call Suzanne at (661)824-4495.
Veterans of America. Needs donations. • 944-0383203
Tehachapi Humane Society is holding Kitten Adoption at Palmdale PetsMart. Every 2nd & 4th Saturday of Each Month. Each Kitten will be ready to take home.
Jolene’s Horse Rescue. Seeking sponsorship & vol- unteers are welcome, dona- tions: vehicle, tractors, & old farm equip. to help horse get on it's hooves.
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Thursdays:
12pm-1pm Family Chapel Sacred Heart Church 565 West Kettering Lancaster
ANTELOPE VALLEY FREE CLASSIFIEDS
661-266-4-ADS
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Selfie-takersTendToOverestimate TheirAttractiveness, StudyFinds
By David Hayward
People who regularly take photos of them- selves, or selfies, tend to overestimate their attrac- tiveness and likability to a greater extent, and are seen as more narcissis- tic by independent observers, compared with non-selfie-takers, according to a study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.
A wealth of psychologi- cal evidence shows that people have a tendency to perceive themselves as being better than average on a wide range of positive traits, a phe- nomenon known as “self-favoring bias.” There is also evidence that self-favoring bias is strongest in situations in which one has the great- est amount of personal control. Anyone with a social media account can attest to the popular- ity of self-taken photos, or selfies. By giving peo- ple a great deal of per- sonal control over how they present themselves to the world, selfies may be a prime situation for enhancing self-favoring bias.
A team of psychologists led by Daniel Re, of the University of Toronto, conducted a study designed to compare how self-favoring bias is affected selfie-taking. The sample included 198 college students, including 100 who reported regularly taking selfies, and 98 who reported little or no self- ie-taking. Study partici- pants were invited to take a selfie using a smartphone camera, and also had their pictures taken by an experi- menter.
They were then instruct- ed to rate each photo based on how attractive
and likable they thought their friends would per- ceive them to be in the photo if it were posted on social media. A sam- ple of 178 independent raters recruited on the internet also rated the participants’ photos for attractiveness and lika- bility, as well as for nar- cissism.
Both groups, the habitual selfie-takers and non- selfie-takers, showed self-favoring bias by thinking that they would be seen as more attrac- tive and more likeable in their photos than they were actually seen by the independent raters. However, the selfie-tak- ers overestimated them- selves significantly more, especially when judging their selfies rather than the experimenter-taken photos. In reality, both groups’ selfies were rated as less attractive than the experimenter- taken photos by the independent raters. They also thought the selfie- takers looked significant- ly more narcissistic than
the non-selfie-takers on the basis of their selfies.
The researchers con- clude that habitual selfie- taking may increase people’s susceptibility to self-favoring bias, caus- ing them to overestimate the attractiveness of their photos to a greater and greater extent over time. They suggest that this effect may occur because selfie-takers develop strategies for taking flattering photos of themselves that are not as effective as they believe, or perhaps because positive feed- back in the form of likes on social media rein- forces an inflated sense of self.
Ironically, practice taking selfies actually appears to contribute to those photos being seen more negatively, in terms of narcissism, at least by some observers. Given these findings, social media users may want to think twice before post- ing their next selfies.