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Marco Rubio is Trying to Hide from His Extreme and Out of Touch Policies on Abortion
For Immediate Release: Oct. 10, 2016
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Washington. DC -- In a recent Spanish language ad, Marco Rubio tried misrepresent one of his latest extreme stance on abortion. The headline from an August Politico article flashed on the screen followed by a stamp that says "false."
In August the Florida Senate candidate and failed presidential candidate said that he doesn't believe a pregnant woman infected with the Zika virus should have the right to an abortion — whether or not she had reason to believe the child would be born with severe microcephaly. Rubio has never minced words when he has attacked the basic reproductive health care that millions of women rely on across the country.
Statement from Dawn Laguens, Executive Vice President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund:
"Marco Rubio is flat-out lying about his record. He has, for years, pushed an agenda to ban abortion with no exceptions for rape and incest, cut insurance coverage of birth control, and eliminate access to care at Planned Parenthood. That Marco Rubio is now attempting to cover up his extreme stance just shows how unpopular and out of touch he is. Florida voters will hold him accountable on election day."
FACT: When it comes to abortion, Rubio is extreme.
In light of the spread of the Zika virus in Florida, Rubio doubled down on his extreme anti-abortion agenda: Rubio said that he doesn't believe a pregnant woman infected with the Zika virus should have the right to an abortion — whether or not she had reason to believe the child would be born with severe microcephaly. [Politico, 8/6/16]
Marco Rubio opposes safe and legal abortion: Rubio said he is adamantly against abortion, and "even if 100 percent of my constituents were for it," he would still be against it. [Republican Majority Campaign,9/6/09]
Has said that he "personally" doesn't believe in exceptions for rape, incest, or to save the life of the woman: On Fox News' 'Hannity,' host Sean Hannity asked Rubio about his position on abortion exceptions, Rubio's response was, ""If I'm president and the only bill that can pass is one that has exceptions, that means we're still going to save millions of lives. But I personally believe, that life begins at conception and all human life is worthy of protection." [FOX News,4/13/15]
Doesn't support exceptions for rape or incest: "Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was quick to clarify Thursday night that he did not support rape and incest exemptions in abortion bans after GOP debate host Megyn Kelly asked about his stance on the issue. He laid out his explicit opposition, noting that "future generations will look back and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies." [International Business Times,8/6/15]
Rubio will support legislation with exceptions for rape and incest, because "I'll support any legislation that reduces the number of abortions": On MSNBC's Meet the Press, he told host Chuck Todd, "I'll support any legislation that reduces the number of abortions. So, that means a 20-week abortion ban. At five months, you will recognize a child as a human being in an ultrasound image. And I'll support that. That doesn't obviously cover the whole gamut. But it reduces the number of abortions. I'll support any legislation that reduces the number of abortions. And there are those that have that exception. What I've never done is said I require that it must have or not have exceptions."[Meet the Press,8/9/15]
Marco Rubio wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision: Rubio has called Roe v. Wade "devastating" [SBA List Speech, 2/1/12, accessed via YouTube,posted 2/3/12]
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British Police Searching for Illegal Nude Photos Keep Catching Desert Screensavers Instead
By Kastalia Medrano On 12/19/17 at 11:52 AM EST
A general view shows dunes in the Liwa Oasis, southwest of the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, on December 1, 2015. KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images
Tech & Science AI Child abuse Child pornography Cloud Storage
British cops hope that within two or three years, artificial intelligence will be able to spare humans from the horrific trauma that comes with pouring through tens of thousands of images of potential child abuse. The digital forensics department of the Metropolitan Police can already scan successfully for things like guns or drugs, but according to the Telegraph it has a little work left to do when it comes to spotting child pornography.
"Sometimes it comes up with a desert and it thinks its an indecent image or pornography," Mark Stokes, the Met's head of digital and electronics forensics, told the Telegraph. "For some reason, lots of people have screen-savers of deserts and it picks it up thinking it is skin color."
This was reasonably funny as a story arc on Arrested Development, when photos purported to be of an Iraqi landscape turned out to show merely a pair of testicles. But the sooner that AI becomes sophisticated enough to separate images of sexual abuse from ones of the desert, the better. Human bodies are a good deal less uniform than more easily recognizable shapes like guns. Attempts by AI to flag images of child abuse in the past, as Gizmodo explained, have variously turned up not just images of sand dunes but everything from dogs to donuts.
Send dunes https://t.co/Xknq3qSMyX
— Ben M-J (@V_Ben) December 18, 2017
The issue of where to store the images is no less complicated. As the Telegraph explained, storing them with any cloud provider like Apple leaves them potentially vulnerable to hacking. Still, Stokes told the Telegraph that providers such as Amazon or Microsoft might ultimately be the best-suited, due to their colossal security budgets.
"We have been working on the terms and conditions with cloud providers, and we think we have it covered," Stokes told the Telegraph. That's not exactly a guarantee, however. The 2014 Apple cloud hack led to the widespread invasion of privacy among celebrities whose personal photos became publicly accessible.
The potential for AI to monitor graphic content has been a fraught subject for years. It can work in part by scanning videos for tags associated with things like child porn, as Wired explained earlier this year.
New: YouTube accounts shut down for potential child endangerment content could've been netting over $500,000 a month, according to estimates https://t.co/9qEQRDdG1I
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) December 11, 2017
In 2016, an interdisciplinary team of academics developed a new tool called Identifying and Catching Originators in P2P Networks, or iCOP. The idea was to design something that could flag illicit content as soon as it was uploaded, rather than having to wait for it to become linked to databases already associated with child porn.
"The existing tools match the files that are being shared through existing databases, but our program detects new data," computational linguist and project leader Claudia Peersman told Vocativ. "If you look at peer-to-peer networks, images are shared at a pace that's just not feasible for any human to go through [manually]."
A separate Wired report from 2014 found that on the dark web—a portion of the larger area of the web that search engines can't link to—80 percent of searches were related to sexual abuse of children. In recent years, large online platforms like Facebook have introduced AI algorithms specifically for flagging child porn or nudity. YouTube recently took down more than 150,000 videos following a BuzzFeed News investigation. The social video-sharing platform will be employing more humans, not software programs, to help monitor illegal and abusive corners, according to the Washington Post.
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Viper Room Review Roundup
I've received a fair number of reviews for Last Night at the Viper Room, which I hugely appreciate; when you spend many months writing a book, it's a blessing whenever people read it and consider it seriously. (When they actually like it, all the better.) In case you're curious about what people who are not me think of the book, I've collected tastes of some of the recent items:
The Associated Press (via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune website): "Edwards' sensitive biography builds just the right tone for looking back at Phoenix's life 20 years after his death: respect for his talents, admiration for his individuality and a subtle indignation for the tragedy to come."
Vulture (a lovely review and essay by Jen Doll): "This is a book about a particular time, and it beautifully captures the weird Zeitgeist of the eighties and early nineties in a way that will remind those of us who were growing up at the time of not only River Phoenix, but also of ourselves at a younger age. Names checked and touchstone events cited: Ione Skye, the heyday of Alex P. Keaton, chubby Jerry O'Connell, ABC After-School Specials, the casting of Dead Poets Society, Anthony Kiedis, the first Lollapalooza, the year that Sundance really became something, Sassy magazine?"
The LA Weekly: "As Gavin Edwards details in his enormously compelling new biography of Phoenix and his era, Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind, the actor didn't take that speedball knowingly. "
USA Today (three stars out of four): "If only … That's the thread that weaves through Last Night at the Viper Room, author Gavin Edwards' insightful biography of River Phoenix, marking the 20th anniversary of the actor's death."
The Advocate Hot Sheet: "Phoenix, whose famous siblings Joaquin and Rain are still Hollywood fixtures today, is documented thoughtfully in this new minute-by-minute account of how he died, from bestselling author Gavin Edwards."
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Fourteen dead in China warehouse fire
AFP Updated 25 Jul, 2021
BEIJING: A warehouse fire in northeastern China on Saturday left at least fourteen people dead and twelve seriously injured, state media reported.
The logistics warehouse, located in Changchun, the capital of the northeastern province of Jilin, caught on fire Saturday afternoon, and rescue work is still underway, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Images published by the agency showed firefighters using ladders and cranes outside the burned-out shell of a glass-walled building.
"The cause of the incident is under investigation," Xinhua said.
Deadly fires are not uncommon in China, where lax enforcement of building codes and rampant unauthorised construction can make it hard for people to escape burning buildings.
A fire at a martial arts boarding school in central China's Henan province killed 18 people in June - mostly children studying at the school, with state media later reporting that the school building had not completed mandatory fire safety audits.
The school fire prompted an online uproar, with Chinese social media users calling for better fire safety standards.
In 2017, more than two dozen people were killed in two blazes in Beijing's migrant neighbourhoods.
The first, which killed 19 people in November that year, prompted authorities to begin tearing down unsafe buildings in the capital, driving hundreds of thousands of residents out of their homes in the middle of winter.
In 2010, a huge blaze swept a 28-storey Shanghai residential block, killing 58 people.


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Q: airflow db init doesn't create an expected "airflow" directory on windows I am using windows, and accessing WSL through VSCode
I am currently learning airflow and ran into an issue with the command airflow db init. According to a tutorial I'm following, there should be a new directory called airflow inside the current directory, but it is not there
My current path is (sandbox) nick@GameCube:/mnt/d/CodeAndIDE/DataScience/LearnAirflow$. I am using a venv called "sandbox"
When I run airflow db init, it outputs a bunch of lines, which match the tutorial, but no folder is created after. No error output either. Why is this?

A: I partially figured out the solution. You have to first set the airflow home directory to the current folder, with export AIRFLOW_HOME="$(pwd)".
For some reason, this didn't create a directory for the file and just dumped them all into the main directory, so I deleted them all and did mkdir airflow, cd airflow, export AIRFLOW_HOME="$(pwd)" again.
The last problem that I'm having is that unittests.cfg is not present in the folder, when I think that it should be

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Mixed martial arts, traditional martial arts, and self-defense practices differ in techniques, regulations, equipment, and intensity. As a result, martial arts participation causes a wide range of injuries that can vary from mild to severe.
The most common martial arts injuries are sprains, strains, cuts, and bruises. Broken bones also occur. These injuries frequently affect the knee, ankle, shoulder and elbow. Hands are particularly vulnerable to injury during striking martial arts.
Striking martial arts also result in more injuries to the head, face, nose and mouth. Concussions also occur. Some types of martial arts incorporate moves and holds that may result in neck injuries.
Several strategies can help to prevent martial arts injuries, such as using proper protective equipment, and having thorough training and supervision in new techniques.
Physical examination. It is important to see your doctor before participating in any sport. A patient history and physical exam are necessary in almost all high school and college sports; however, community sports and martial arts tend not to require such documentation. Cardiovascular, neurologic, and musculoskeletal problems should be thoroughly evaluated by a healthcare professional, such as a primary care doctor, before any training is begun.
Maintain fitness. Be sure you are in good physical condition when you begin martial arts training. Fatigue during training and competition often leads to poor technique and injury. Do not do an activity if you are too tired to do it safely.
If you are out of shape at the start of your training, gradually increase your activity level and slowly build up to a higher fitness level. It is essential to build your strength and endurance before attempting complex martial arts techniques. Running, jumping rope, biking, and swimming are good cardiovascular activities to help improve your fitness level. Anaerobic exercise, such as strength training and plyometrics will also improve performance.
Warm up. Always take time to warm up. Research studies show that cold muscles are more prone to injury. Warm up with jumping jacks, or running or walking in place for 3 to 5 minutes.
Cool down and stretch. Stretching at the end of exercise is too often neglected because of busy schedules. Stretching can help reduce muscle soreness and keep muscles long and flexible. Be sure to stretch after each training practice to reduce your risk for injury.
Hydrate. Even mild levels of dehydration can hurt athletic performance. If you have not had enough fluids, your body will not be able to effectively cool itself through sweat and evaporation.
Headgear is essential when sparring.
Cups and protective waist belts add protection to the groin area.
Use a mouthguard to protect your teeth, mouth, and tongue.
If you wear glasses, use safety glasses or glass guards to protect your eyes.
Wrap your hands with the appropriate sized wraps and with proper technique. Properly wrapped hands will feel secure.
Proper footwear is important. On matted floors, avoid socks or footwear that may cause you to slip. In many cases, going barefoot provides the most stability. Talk to your coach or supervisor about what type of footwear would be best for your activity and skill level.
Spotting (watching and monitoring) is essential. A coach or supervisor should spot participants during all sessions, especially when complex or challenging moves are being performed.
Protecting oneself during a fall should be one of the first techniques learned and perfected. Being thrown by an opponent at high speed, or falling onto one's neck or head, can result in serious injury.
New techniques should be practiced at half speed. It is also helpful to talk to your coach or supervisor before attempting a new move to ensure you understand how to safely execute it.
Understand the dangers of performing submission holds incorrectly.
Know how much force may inflict injury.
Know your opponent's level of experience. Newer participants may not understand when they are in danger of injury.
When being held, recognize when you should tap out for your own safety.
Understand what part of your body is in danger with each particular move.
In competitive martial arts in which weight classes are used, cutting weight may be a standard practice. If you are considering cutting weight, check with your doctor or a trained dietician to determine a healthy way to safely lose weight.
Practice in a well-padded area.
Be aware of your surroundings while other participants are practicing to avoid collisions.
Coaches, trainers, and other staff should be knowledgeable about first aid and be able to administer it for minor injuries, such as facial cuts, bruises, or minor strains and sprains.
Be prepared for emergencies. All coaches, trainers, and other staff should have a plan to reach medical personnel for help with more significant injuries such as concussions, dislocations, contusions, sprains, abrasions, and fractures.
In case of a joint problem, the participant must have no pain, no swelling, full range of motion, and normal strength.
In case of concussion, the participant must have no symptoms at rest or with exercise, and should be cleared by a qualified medical professional.
Because many athletes are focusing on just one sport and are training year-round, doctors are seeing an increase in overuse injuries. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has partnered with STOP Sports Injuries to help educate parents, coaches, and athletes about how to prevent overuse injuries. Do not allow yourself or your child to play one sport year round — taking regular breaks and playing other sports is essential to skill development and injury prevention.


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5 Forthcoming Books You Should Be Excited About
July 17, 2013 Eugene Wolters Leave a comment
#1 Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
William V. Spanos
Expected release: October, 2013.
William V. Spanos is a Heideggarian and distinguished professor of English and Comparative Literature at the SUNY Binghamton. He also really needs to cut down on his title lengths.
Most of Spanos' works involve the same formula: Book + Heidegger = American exceptionalism. "American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization" tracks American exceptionalism and its ontological underpinnings in literature and discourse surrounding Vietnam. He also takes on Herman Melville's Billy Budd in "The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception."
His latest book, Shock and Awe, takes on one of Mark Twain's best, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." The Twain story features a then-modern yankee, Hank Morgan, who finds himself thrust backwards in time to the Middle Ages. Morgan, an engineer, soon finds himself "civilizing" the people of the Middle Ages and curing them of their backwards beliefs. Twain intended the book as a criticism of the contemporary admiration of the Middle Ages and the work of Sir Walter Scott.
From the Dartmouth College Press:
Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years, William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain's classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, providing a fresh assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American imaginary. Spanos insists that Twain identifies with his protagonist, particularly in his defining use of the spectacle, and thus with an American exceptionalism that uncannily anticipates the George W. Bush administration's normalization of the state of exception and the imperial policy of "preemptive war," unilateral "regime change," and "shock and awe" tactics. Equally stimulating is Spanos's thoroughly original ontology of American exceptionalism and imperialism and his tracing of these forces, through a chronological examination of Twain studies and criticism over the past century.
As an examination of an overlooked text, and a critical history of American studies from its origins in the nation-oriented Myth and Symbol school of the Cold War era to its present globalizing or transnationalizing perspective, Shock and Awe will appeal to a broad audience of American literature scholars and beyond.
#2 Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness
Etienne Balibar
Expected release: October, 2013
Etienne Balibar is a French Marxist who studied, like Badiou and Ranciere, under Louis Althusser. He also authored "Reading Capital" with Althusser. In his latest book, Balibar re-thinks the work of John Locke to place him in the ranks of other European critical theorists. Locke is often regarded as a canonical liberal thinker, so Balibar's new book is sure to raise some controversy.
From Verso:
John Locke's foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke be considered a modern European philosopher? Identity and Difference argues for reassessing this canonical figure. Closely examining the "treatise on identity" added to the second edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Etienne Balibar demonstrates Locke's role in the formation of two concepts central to the metaphysics of the subject— consciousness and the self—and the complex philosophical, legal, moral and political nature of his terms.
With an accompanying essay by Stella Sandford, situating Balibar's reading of Locke in the history of the reception of the Essay and within Balibar's other writings on "the subject," Identity and Difference rethinks a crucial moment in the history of Western philosophy.
#3 Affective Politics: States of Debility and Capacity
Jasbir Puar
Expected release: 2014
Jasbir Puar is an Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her first book, "Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times" is probably one of the best books I've ever read. She has also written about animal studies and disability studies.
Not much is known about the book, other than a reference from Puar's website which claims to the book is forthcoming from Duke University Press sometime in 2014.
You can read Puar's article "Prognosis time: Towards a geopolitics of affect,debility and capacity" while you wait for more information.
#4 Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism
Dirk Johnson
Expected release: September 2013
Nietzsche gets a lot of flack for being Nazi-ish (he's not, but the idea is his sisters fault). To be fair, all that ubermensch stuff does sound pretty compatible with that whole "master race" business, or at least some sort of crude Darwinism. That makes Dirk John's book all the more interesting.
From the Cambridge University Press.
Friedrich Nietzsche's complex connection to Charles Darwin has been much explored, and both scholarly and popular opinions have tended to assume a convergence in their thinking. In this study, Dirk Johnson challenges that assumption and takes seriously Nietzsche's own explicitly stated "anti-Darwinism." He argues for the importance of Darwin for the development of Nietzsche's philosophy, but he places emphasis on the antagonistic character of their relationship and suggests that Nietzsche's mature critique against Darwin represents the key to understanding his broader (anti-)Darwinian position. He also offers an original reinterpretation of the Genealogy of Morals, a text long considered sympathetic to Darwinian naturalism, but which he argues should be taken as Nietzsche's most sophisticated critique of both Darwin and his followers. His book will appeal to all who are interested in the philosophy of Nietzsche and its cultural context.
#5 Foucault's Last Decade
Stuart Elden
Expected Release: TBA
Stuart Elden is a professor at Durham University and one of the founding editors of Foucault Studies. In the upcoming "Foucault's Last Decade", he explores the published and unpublished work of Foucault in the last 10 years of his life. The book deal was recently announced on Elden's blog, though the publisher has not released any info yet.
From Elden's blog.
This book offers a detailed account of the last decade of the work of Michel Foucault, in order both to situate his key works in relation to each other, and to outline an intellectual history of his final project on the history of sexuality. It works in a textual and contextual way, offering close readings of Foucault's works and situating them in relation to his life, political activism and collaborative projects at the Collège de France. The arguments of those works will be carefully reconstructed, filling in details and making links between published works, lecture material and unpublished projects.
Foucault's Last Decade will draw on all published and several unpublished writings of Foucault, including his lecture courses at the Collège de France and material archived in France, as well as interviews. It seeks to outline how the originally conceived thematic plan for the History of Sexuality was abandoned; how it led Foucault through work on governmentality and technologies of the self; how he came to write the more chronological historical study he was working on at his death; and to open up some of the possibilities he himself left unexplored or under-developed. It will discuss the key concerns of his work throughout this period; what he argues in well-known and unjustly neglected works; and the kinds of analyses his work makes possible.
The introductory chapter treats the early 1970s, tracing the theme of power in Foucault's work, and showing how this led to his book Discipline and Punish in 1975. The next chapters outline the themes in his lectures relating to the different subjects of sex as a knowledge and discipline and how these are crystallized in the programme of work proposed in the first volume of the History of Sexuality. The arguments of that text will be discussed in detail, but the book will also draw on the extant materials beyond the book itself to indicate where Foucault anticipated going with these ideas. Beginning in Chapter Five, the book then looks at how Foucault's project got into difficulties around the notion of confession, and led him to rethink its orientation. It therefore shows how the question of rule and regulation generally, and politics and ethics particularly, became concerns over the last few years of his life. As such the book goes beyond the History of Sexuality series itself, to weave in his arguments concerning governmentality and technologies of the self, which this book suggests were part of an overall research project on Foucault's part.
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Louie has an MBA from the The University of Chicago with a concentration on finance and accounting and a BA from The University of Utah in Mathematics and Philosophy. Louie is also the author of Can You Tell A Lie: The Power of Business Ethics & GreenLogic and is a member of The Cincinnati President's Association.
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Q: Fetching size of object's list - Optional.get() without .ifPresent I have method that return Optional of Book object (do not mind with names as it is just a sample of code). I want to fetch the size of list which is inside Book class:
public class Book {
    Integer b;

    DateTime dateOfCreation;

    Integer a;

    List<Integer> bookList;
}

So it goes like this:
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Optional<Book> book = getBookObject();
        int sizeOfList = book.get().bookList.size();
    }

    static Optional<Book> getBookObject() {
        return Optional.of(new Book());
    }
}

I have warning within the get() which goes like Optional.get() without .ifPresent what is the proper approach to fetch this size of the list?

A: You have two options to avoid using Optional.get() directly as using it directly might throw NoSuchElementException:
book.ifPresent(b -> {
   int  sizeOfList = b.bookList.size();
   // do stuff with sizeOfList
});

The above code uses a Consumer callback to get the unwrapped Book object and use it.
The second one is to use, Optional.isPresent() which returns true if some value is present else it will return false:
int sizeOfList = book.isPresent() ? book.get().bookList.size() : 0;

We could also use Optional.orElse(otherValue) the otherValue is returned if the Optional is empty:
int sizeOfList = book.orElse(new Book()).bookList.size();

As per @Holger we could use Optional.map() to map it to the Optional<Integer> and return 0 with orElse() if the Optional was empty:
int sizeOfList = book.map(b -> b.bookList.size()).orElse(0);

A: To obtain an optional containing the size or an empty optional if the book is not present:
Optional<Integer> sizeOfListOptional = book.map((Book presentBook) -> presentBook.bookList.size());


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Emanuele Lauro, chairman of Scorpio Bulkers and Scorpio Tankers, is the new president of the Monaco Chamber of Shipping.
"Our professional association is now in its fourteenth year of existence and continues its action to promote Monaco as a major centre for international shipping," Lauro said.
He added: "The Principality of Monaco represents an ideal place to host shipping companies thanks to the efficiency of its administration, its political stability, the quality of its socio-economic environment and its central location close to the main European capitals."
Reflecting the fact that the shipping industry is an important part of the Monegasque economy, the Chambre Monegasque du Shipping now has 40 members, including shipowners, brokers, shipping agents, advisers and experts in maritime law. It covers all aspects of maritime transport, from cargo to cruise ships and commercial negotiations.
In related news Scorpio Bulkers has entered into an agreement with an unaffiliated third party to sell the SBI Leo and SBI Lyra, Ultramax bulk carriers built in 2015, for approximately $35 million in aggregate. Delivery of the vessels is expected to take place in the first quarter of 2021.
Scorpio Bulkers Inc. announced on August 3, 2020, its intention to transition away from the business of dry bulk commodity transportation and towards marine-based renewable energy including investing in the next generation of wind turbine installation vessels. The company intends to sell or have commitments to sell its remaining wholly-owned or finance leased dry bulk vessels during the first quarter of 2021.
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'I think my ideas are more barren in English than in Scottish' – Robert Burns, letter to George Thomson, April 1793.
The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Ayrshire is the birthplace of Scotland's National Bard, a man who both spoke and wrote in Scots. The language still has many speakers today – it is one of Scotland's three indigenous languages alongside Gaelic and English. But where does it come from?
The origins of Scots can be traced back to AD 600 with the arrival of the Angles into what we now call Great Britain. At this time, speakers of Northumbrian Old English settled in the Borders of Scotland, explaining Scots language's close relationship with this tongue. Originally, this language was largely contained within the south of Scotland, and spoken as a common tongue whilst Gaelic was used further north and as a Court language. This began to change in the 12th and 13th centuries. The language spread north and took on many new influences including Norse (from the Vikings), Dutch and Middle Low German (from trade and immigration with the Low Countries), Romance and Norman. It also took on Gaelic influences e.g. galore (lots of) comes from gu leòr (plenty). However, it was not until the 15th Century that the term 'Scottis' was used, by one Gavin Douglas, to refer to the language. Thus it became distinguishable from the language over the border, with its own roots and significance.
Over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries, Scots as a language became more and more 'Anglicised' and by the 18th Century, many members of 'polite society' (but not all!) thought of it as provincial and unrefined, and took steps to distance themselves from it. Not everyone took this view, and a new type of 'literary Scots' developed. This was championed by Scots writers such as Allan Ramsay and later by Burns himself.
Of course it would be quite wrong to claim that 'Scots' is a homogenous language. Four separate dialects are recognised: Insular (Orkney/Shetland), Northern (e.g. Caithness/North East), Central (central Scotland) and Southern (the Borders). Many different variations of the language exist even within these broad categories.
 Gavin Douglas was a Scottish bishop, makar and translator, known chiefly for his poetry. His works include Palice of Honour and Eneados, a translation of Virgil's Aeneid into Scots. He died of the plague in 1522.
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The de Havilland Sea Venom was the naval version of the base Venom line and used by the forces of Australia, France and the United Kingdom.
Unless otherwise noted the presented statistics below pertain to the de Havilland DH.112 Sea Venom FAW.Mk 22 model. Common measurements, and their respective conversions, are shown when possible.
ENGINE: 1 x de Havilland Ghost 105 turbojet engine developing 5,300lb of thrust.
4 x 20mm Hispano Mk.V automatic cannons.
2 x 1,000lb conventional drop bombs OR 8 x 60lb RP-3 aerial rockets.
• NF.Mk 20 - Prototype Form of which three produced.
• FAW.Mk 20 - Initial production model; fitting de Havilland Ghost 103 turbojet of 4,850lbs thrust; AI Mk 10 radar; 50 examples.
• FAW.Mk 21 - Fitted with de Havilland Ghost 104 turbojet of 4,950lbs thrust; AI Mk 21 radar; reinforced undercarriage; 167 examples.
• ECM.Mk 21 - Electronic CounterMeasures variant of FAW.Mk 21 fighters; sans armament.
• FAW.Mk 22 - Fitted with de Havilland Ghost 105 turbojet engine of 5,300lbs thrust; 39 examples.
• ECM.Mk 22 - ECM variant of FAW.Mk 22 fighter.
• FAW.Mk 53 - Australian Navy designation of FAW.Mk 21 fighters; 39 examples.
• Aquilon 20 - French Designation for early-built aircraft; 29 examples.
• Aquilon 202 - French Navy twin-seat variant with AN/APG-65 radar; 50 examples.
• Aquilon 203 - French Navy single-seat version based on Aquilon 202 model; AN/APG-94 radarl air-to-air missile provisions.
• Aquilon 204 -French Navy twin-seat trainer model; six conversions from Aquilon 20 model; sans cannon armament.
Detailing the development and operational history of the de Havilland DH.112 Sea Venom Carrier-based Fighter / Fighter-Bomber Aircraft. Entry last updated on 4/11/2019. Authored by Staff Writer. Content ©www.MilitaryFactory.com.
With the de Havilland Venom already in the works for the British Royal Air Force (RAF), the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) took interest in a navalized form of the versatile twin-boom, turbojet-powered fighter for use on its carrier decks as an all-weather interceptor/fighter-bomber. Specifically, the Venom NF.Mk 2, the dedicated two-seat night-fighter form of the Venom, was elected for modification. Changes to the original design included a reinforced undercarriage, an arrestor hook under the tail for carrier landings and powered folding wings for carrier storage. The resulting design emerged to undertake its first flight on April 19th, 1951 and three prototypes were eventually constructed. Carrier trials then followed in 1952 and the type presented for service by 1956 as the de Havilland "Sea Venom". Initial production models were recognized as FAW.Mk 20, outfitted with the Ghost 103 series turbojet engine of 4,850 lbs thrust and featured the American SCR 720 radar (as the AI Mk 10). Standard armament was 4 x Hispano Mk.V cannon with support for 2 x 1,000lbs drop bombs or 8 x 60lb RP-3 unguided rockets underwing.
Following FAW.Mk 20 was FAW.Mk 21 which brought about use of the de Havilland Ghost 104 turbojet engine of 4,950lbs thrust. Radar became the American APS-57 (as the AI Mk 21) and the undercarriage was further reinforced for the rigors of carrier operations. These airframes were largely based on the Venom NF.Mk 3 night-fighter variant and some 167 of the type were ultimately delivered. Of those, six were eventually converted to Electronic CounterMeasures (ECMs) platforms under the designation ECM.Mk 21 and lacked the armament of their fighter-bomber brethren.
Next came the improved FAW.Mk 22 which featured a more powerful de havilland Ghost 105 turbojet of 5,300lbs thrust. Thirty-nine aircraft were produced from in this mold. FAW.Mk 22 featured a maximum speed of 575 miles per hour with a range out to 700 miles and service ceiling up to 39,500 feet. The aircraft exhibited a rate-of-climb of 5,750 feet per minute. Again, an ECM variant was brought out of the existing FAW.Mk 22 stock and these designated as ECM.Mk 22.
The Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm (RANFAA) arranged for three squadrons to field the Sea Venom when their turn came - squadrons 724, 805 and 808 - and these Sea Venoms served under the local designation of FAW.Mk 21 across 39 examples.
RAF Sea Venoms were used in operational actions during the Suez Crisis of 1956 which saw the nation of Egypt attempt to nationalize the world-important Suez Canal. Britian was joined by France and Israel in their venture with Sea Venoms launched from HMS Albion and HMS Eagle. Sea Venoms undertook various bombing missions against Egyptian targets of opportunity. Additional actions then greeted the type during the 1958 Cyprus Emergency and continued in faithful service up until her usefulness as a frontline aircraft was deemed over.
All Sea Venoms were eventually removed from service by 1970, replaced by more modern types emerging from the technological explosion seen during the Cold War decades. Sea Venoms were replaced by another de Havilland product - the famous twin-engine, twin-seat "Sea Vixen" (detailed elsewhere on this site) which incorporated swept-back wings and continued the twin-boom de Havilland tradition with its jet aircraft.
Beyond the U.K. and Australia, the only other Sea Venoms in service were with the French Navy and these became license-production examples from the SNCASE (Sud-Est) concern under the local designation of "Aquilon". The Aquilon was procured along three distinct variant designations with initial models being Aquilon 20 and numbering twenty-nine examples. The Aquilon 202 was a twin-seat variant with American-originated AN/APQ-65 radar of which 50 were eventually taken on. Aquilon 203 was the single-seat Sea Venom form and outfitted with AN/APQ-94 radar and provision for air-to-air missiles (AAMs). Production of this mark totaled 40 units. Aquilon 201 was a one-off prototype and six Aquilon 20s were converted to the Aquilon 204 twin-seat trainer (sans cannon armament). 11F and 16F Naval Squadron fielded Aquilons.
For a short time, there stood the potential for the Sea Venom to experience its ultimate evolution as the proposed DH.116. The existing aircraft was to be given a modernized radar system with greater capabilities as well as swept-back wings. The project did not progress far and Royal Navy interest eventually settled on the aforementioned Sea Vixen.
This entry's maximum listed speed (576mph).
Graph showcases the de Havilland DH.112 Sea Venom FAW.Mk 22's operational range (on internal fuel) when compared to distances between major cities.


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Consumer watchdog becomes alphabet soup of controversy
Ken Sweet
NEW YORK – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is dead. Long live the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.
That's the message the Trump administration is pushing, at least, in what on the surface seems like a minor tweak to the name of the federal consumer watchdog agency created after the Great Recession to protect consumers against banks, credit card companies, debt collectors and other financial companies.
But critics see it as a not-so-subtle effort to telegraph the abrupt ideological turn the bureau has taken since Trump-appointee Mick Mulvaney became acting director last year. Under Mulvaney, the bureau has proposed revisiting or rolling back the rules, regulations and policies that the Obama administration put into place when it controlled the agency. The bureau has dramatically cut back on enforcement actions as well.
The Dodd-Frank Act created a "Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection" in 2010. But, except for the occasional court filing, the bureau was consistently referred to as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB.
Mulvaney took over the bureau as acting director in late November, when Obama appointee Richard Cordray resigned. Since then, the bureau has increasingly referred to itself as the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, or by the acronym BCFP.
During testimony last week on Capitol Hill, Mulvaney said, "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau does not exist."
But swapping "Bureau" from back to front is not a simple word shuffle, said Lisa Donner, executive director for the advocacy group Americans for Financial Reform.
"Doing that signals you want to take the emphasis away from serving consumers – which unfortunately is what Mulvaney's been doing in many ways – and put it on 'this is a bureaucracy'," Donner said.
Republican lawmakers, who have long had issues with the bureau, have been happy to go along with the name change. Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said in a statement "I commend Acting Director Mulvaney's efforts to follow the law as written."
"I've looked at the statute, and I don't see 'CFPB' in the statute anywhere," said Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Georgia, at last week's hearing.
The bureau has quietly rolled out a new logo as well. Since early in its existence, the CFPB used a green, lowercase text logo using the bureau's initials. The new logo is a more traditional government seal, with an eagle in the middle, and the name Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection on the perimeter. The seal is similar to other seals used by agencies overseeing the financial industry, including the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department.
The logo got its first use last week when the bureau announced its $1 billion fine against Wells Fargo.
A logo is often the most visible part of any company or organization, and branding experts say the change is quite stark.
"You couldn't find a better example of contrasting messaging here. One says 'we are here to help' while the other says 'we are the mighty and here to protect,'" said Kit Yarrow, a professor of psychology and an expert on corporate branding at Golden Gate University.
The push to change the bureau's name is still in the early stages. The bureau's website still uses the old logo, and the bureau still refers to itself as the CFPB across its webpage. Email addresses to the bureau still end in @cfpb.gov.
But the CFPB – or BCFP – has requested that The Associated Press change its entry in the AP Stylebook to refer to the agency as the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.
"We are in the process of updating our own materials to reflect our legal name and would appreciate your (Stylebook) being similarly updated," bureau spokesman David Mayorga said in its request.
The AP's Stylebook, published since 1953 and periodically updated, is a road map of rules on spelling, language and journalistic style for the company's journalists. It is also widely used as a blueprint throughout the news industry.
"The Associated Press routinely reviews suggestions for Stylebook entries and considers whether those suggestions will help to make our report clear, fair, accurate, consistent, and easy for audiences to use and understand," said John Daniszewski, the AP's vice president for standards. "In this case, we note that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau website continues to use the initials CFPB."


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Last October I went to Egypt for a good old fashioned relaxing beach holiday. We spent long, lazy days swimming, sunbathing, reading and munching our way through the extensive buffet. It was amazing but I could only do this for a few days before I started to get itchy feet. We were in Egypt and I needed to explore!
We booked a one day private tour to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings to find out more about Egypt's history. Ancient Egypt had always been my favourite topic in history class at school and I couldn't believe I was actually going to see some of the tombs! I would have loved to see the pyramids too but Giza was just too far away from where we were staying in Hurghada. Luxor was about a 4-hour drive from our hotel so it was just about do-able in a one day trip.
You're not allowed to take photos near the tombs so I've added pictures from the Temple of Karnak too, a temple which is usually included in any Valley of the Kings visit.
There are few sites which encompass the mystery and fascination of the Ancient Egyptians quite like the Valley of the Kings. It's a World Heritage Site and was used as a burial ground for Ancient Egyptian royalty between the 16th and 11th century BC. The site's most famous resident was, of course, Tutankhamun, discovered by Howard Carter in the 1920s.
You'll be walking in the footsteps of Ancient Romans, Ancient Greeks and Ancient Egyptians when you descend on the tombs, with over 2,100 examples of ancient graffiti identified here, mostly Latin and Greek and some dated from as early as 278 B.C, with the Valley of the Kings serving as a popular tourist attraction during the Roman era.
The décor of each tomb is unique and relates directly to the Ancient Egyptian buried there. Numerous symbols and illustrations are used to depict the deceased's life, providing the perfect history book to visitors. If a king is buried in the tomb, often those who he ruled over are invited to carve in their very own personal message – let's just hope he made a good impression!
62 tombs have been uncovered and explored in the Valley of the Kings and a number of them have been discovered unoccupied. Their owners, and their fate, remain unknown, and their mystery is likely to never be solved.
Tut's tomb is perhaps most famous for being the only royal tomb found more or less intact upon its discovery.This is due to the way his tomb was designed, locating the burial chamber deep within the tomb and covering the entrance in stone – like some sort of Ancient Egyptian safe house. The tomb still contained the majority of its gold objects, including a solid gold death mask and a gold coffin.
The Valley of the Kings was rife with corruption and crime and many of the tombs were discovered plundered and damaged. The guards who watched over the tombs became susceptible to bribery and were paid-off while robbers got their hands on gold and precious artefacts. This became such an issue that the royal mummies were later removed from their tombs and re-buried elsewhere to keep them safe.
The Valley of the Kings was used as a burial site for 400 years before being abandoned due to incessant robbery. The first pharaoh to be buried at the site was Thutmose 1 in 1493 B.C, while the final burial was made in 1107 B.C, with Ramses X being laid to rest. It took a staggering 3,000-year gap for the tombs to be discovered.
The final tomb to be discovered, and the one that everybody has heard of, was that of Tutankhamun, uncovered by Howard Carter in 1922. While the tomb's discovery was a majestic and fascinating discovery, the extracting of Tut's remains was anything but. The mummy was essentially 'glued' to the bottom of the coffin, leading to Carter breaking off the mummy's arms and legs, cutting off its head, sawing the body in two and scraping the remain out with hot knives. Not the most dignified re-awakening.
Such was the efforts to discover King Tut's story and identity, those that discovered the tomb were able to go as far as determining the king's blood type. Bizarrely this process began by collecting a scrap of the mummy's skin and transporting it home in an envelope. King Tut was A2MN in case you were wondering.
I went here on my first 'big' solo holiday – I'm fascinated by Ancient Egypt and so glad I got to see it. I can't believe that was over 15 years ago, I'd love to go back again.
I visited the pyramids at Giza years ago, and it is still one of my most surreal travel experiences. Most people don't realise that they actually sit right on the edge of Cairo, so they're surrounded by modern buildings on one side. It was pretty bizarre to be eating a chicken burger in KFC directly across the road from the Sphinx, with a great view of all three pyramids! The Valley of the Kings looks very dramatic though – love the photos!
I didn't realise it was so close to the city until recently either. You've made it sound really cool to see the contrast between old and new.
Valley of the Kings looks amazing, I really want to visit as it sounds so interesting as well as looking magnificent.
I did Cairo and Luxor a few years ago and it was amazing. I actually liked Luxor a lot more than Cairo since it felt more authentic and it was less pushy. Great place to soak up the culture.


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Charges Against Flint Water Crisis Criminals Officially Thrown Out
Criminal charges have been officially thrown out against former Michigan governor Rick Snyder for his role in covering up the Flint water crisis. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Mike Papantonio: Criminal charges have been officially thrown out against former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder for his role in covering up the Flint water crisis. Quick reminder of what the Flint water crisis is. The, the governor said we're going to change a water source because we have lead in our pipes and we have to fix some stuff, put it into a, put it into Flint River. And what ended up happening is that it, it's contaminated, not which lead, it's contaminated with just a dozen toxins that affect the health of human beings. And it's causing, Legionella was one of them.
Mike Papantonio: But aside from that, it wasn't just heavy metals. It was, it was bacteria toxins. It was viral toxins. And people are drinking this every day because they did nothing to, to, they did nothing to purify the water. They just said, drink this. It was brown. It smelled bad. And, but they were telling the public, it's no problem. Go ahead and drink it.
Farron Cousins: Right. And, and their own, you know, research at the top of the state with Rick Snyder's office showed this is dangerous. People are going to get hurt from this. And, and that's where all of course, the liability comes in. You, I mean, I don't have to tell you that, you understand that better than anybody. So what's happened now is he is now what the eighth individual who had been criminally charged. We thought maybe we're gonna get some accountability. And then they come back and say, well, because of the one person grand jury fiasco.
Mike Papantonio: Well explain that. That, that's, that is what they're hanging everything on, which is ridiculous. There are, you know, talk about the one person, first of all, they don't need a grand jury to indict. You don't need a grand jury to indict. But talk about that.
Farron Cousins: Yeah. What, what had happened was that the lead state prosecutor on this, instead of in paneling a grand jury, instead of just doing an investigation and issuing charges, used a single judge. And the judge oversaw everything. And the reason for that was because they were investigating state officials.
Mike Papantonio: Mm-hmm.
Farron Cousins: That is high caliber stuff here. They had to make sure that stuff wasn't going to be leaked because they didn't want these people to delete evidence or anything like that. So they put the judge in, the judge oversees it all. State Supreme Court this summer says, oh, nope, that's a one man grand jury. Totally illegal. So all of it's false.
Mike Papantonio: Here, here's the connection. Councilman connected politically to the, to the supervisor. Supervisor connected politically to the judge. Judge collected, connected politically to the governor. It's just an, it, it's just a cesspool. It's an absolute cesspool that was actually worse than the water in Flint River there. But, but the, the truth is these people are, there's not gonna be anybody responsible.
Farron Cousins: None.
Mike Papantonio: For, for not, and, and people are still dying from it, you understand?
Mike Papantonio: The, the, some of these illnesses are long-term illnesses. They're latent defect illnesses. And so there's nobody that's ever gonna pay for that. And these people are ever, are, are the, the money that they put on the table was almost meaningless.
Mike Papantonio: And so, and these people are gonna walk and it's gonna be business as usual.
Farron Cousins: Well, and, and the real issue here too is not just that the charges got dropped because you could bring the charges again. The problem is now.
Mike Papantonio: They won't. They, they won't.
Farron Cousins: Yeah. They won't and they almost can't, they're almost out of time because that six year statute of limitations.
Farron Cousins: Everybody's gonna walk. They covered up the disease. They covered up death.
Farron Cousins: They all got away with it. They get their happy ending.
Mike Papantonio: Exactly.


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A wish list of what is to be shopped, is always on the cards for women, be it fancy gadgets, apparel, jewellery, accessories, books, electronics, home products and much more. There is no occasion required when you want to buy something that could be an absolute necessity. But sometimes, when you just want to just indulge in buying something which interests you, you might look for some special occasions, be it birthdays, anniversaries etc. Online shopping is fun and refreshing, and you have a whole lot of new products added every day, leaving you open to an exhaustive array of products to choose from. What more, these online stores have some awesome deals to offer you, for almost all occasions!
How do you look for good deals and discounts?
Too many online retail online websites have come up in India, where you could pick up the products of your choice, add them to your cart, pay the price online, and get the product get shipped directly to your home. With so many websites online like flipkart, snapdeal, jabong, amazon, myntra etc, you really sometimes get confused on the prices, and wonder which are the most genuine ones. So, to help you, there are many sites available for which you could consult the prices and take the best decision. Some of these sites that could help you are junglee.com, MypriceIndia, Shopmania, pricedekho etc. Search for a product and see what each Indian online retailer has to offer. Get the best price and shop.
Check out for discounts through Coupons and Cashbacks: Some online shopping sites allow coupon codes and offers to be entered that you can apply when you do the final check out, and hence give you further discounts on the product that you buy. Active coupon codes are available on a lot of Indian Coupon sites like couponduniya.in, buy1get1.in, couponzguru, cashkaro etc. These are a few of the many coupon aggregating sites that are available to give you more attractive discounts. In addition to coupons, there are cashback websites like Cashkaro, which allow you to click on links to other retailer sites that provide you cashbacks if you purchase on their sites.
Keep watching deals, and best time to buy: Set price alerts, using Amazon's Junglee, so that you know when the price of something you wish to buy comes down. You can also participate in lots social media quizzes set up by the online retail giants, answer correctly, and win exciting deals, coupons and prizes. In addition, you could also follow them on twitter to get to know when new discounts and deals are offered. Flipkart, Jabong, Snapdeal have separate pages on social media where they keep promoting their products and announcing about new offers and deals.
You can keep a tab on these pages, and decide to shop your favourite products when exciting deals are announced. Indian shopping sites offer great deals during festive seasons like Dasara and Diwali. Take advantage of such shopping festive seasons, and splurge on your interests.
Get Discount Offers on Electronics, Fashion, Travel – Buy1Get1.in is the key to your happiness and heavier pockets!
What is the one thing that has been bringing a sort of a revolutionary change in the lives of many in the present times? ONLINE SHOPPING! Well, today's generation loves two things, the internet (the most, of course) and shopping (goes without saying, well). What's better than having a combination of both, right in your hands (fingers actually, the keyboard part…)!
Shopping has always and always been something that everyone loves to do, even if they claim not to because well, who wouldn't want to purchase new things for themselves? The only problem has been moving out of our homes for doing so and of course, our generation is ONE LAZY generation of youngsters. Well, no issues, online shopping comes to you as the solution to the problem of moving your behinds and going out for shopping by allowing you to do the same, sitting on your bed. Yes, convenient as they come.
With the concept of FREE ONLINE SHOPPING, came along the concept of Discounts, deals and special offers that not only makes you save money but persuades you to look for more and more! Online shopping discounts have lured me into buying a total of 10 jeans and pants, both for me and my father, thought PayTm.com, whereas my search had begun with the aim of purchasing a total of 4 for both of us (Tricksters! But such tricks are really appreciated because…) but the best part was, the price i had in my mind for 4 jeans or pants was same as the price i bought all those 10 for! ₹4500/-!
We all love to get more for the same price and the one website that comes to my mind when someone says the word "discount" is buy1get1.in!
Buy1get1 is an online portal where one can find deals, coupons and discount offers from anywhere and everywhere, ranging from printvenue.com to snapdeal.com or stalkbuylove.com to Amazon.in! Yes they've got them all.
The website claims to have more than 500+ such offers and deals and a number this big is mouth watering. Spectacular, isn't it?
Buy1get1 is not only for those who like to shop, but also for those who love food more than anything else (I'm an example) and those who love to wander around in this world, i.e. frequent travellers as buy1get1 also presents you with deals from websites like Dominos and Foodpanda for the foodies and Makemytrip.com and yatra.com for the travellers. These are mere examples, so to get the real story, check our buy1get1!
2015 comes to us as an year where gadgets have taken over our daily life, the most used gadget being the smartphone. I remember how i had bought my first phone. I went for a phone search and looked in multiple stores for different-different models of the latest phones available. It was after the search of 3 complete days that i finally rounded up to one phone which was back then one of the top phones by samsung, viz. Corby Plus! The latest phone i have, is the Xiaomi RedMi Note phone, which when i compared to my Corby, not only had a whole lot of extra features, a better user interface, better operating system, but also came at a price lesser than that of the phone i had initially bought! What's even better was that to buy the phone, all i had to do was summon enough energy to switch on my laptop, go to Flipkart.com, look up the different available phones, being easily guided about the phone with product descriptions, and place the order in the easiest manner possible, with a click of the mouse! I was provided with a bunch of payment methods and that made it even better for someone like me without the cash to crash! The product i ordered not only was delivered within 2 days but also was EXACTLY how the seller had given the description, hence leaving me completely satisfied. Now, a chocolate to the one who guesses correctly where i found out about this deal. (well of course, buy1get1.in)!
Low price mobile online shopping is something I personally am a big fan of because why pay more when buy1get1 presents us with deals like "15% off on XYZ phone" or like "₹4000 off on buying the iPhone 6 today!"?
Sometimes when the super sales of websites like Amazon and Snapdeal pass by, we also get a chance to buy such electronics, fashion accessories, clothes and all at staggering discounts of up to 70%-80% and all of the details of such deals are provided to us by buy1get1.in!
Search for buy1get1.in > All Stores > Choose you desired store > Pick the deal/discount you wish to avail and BOOM, you'll be taken to the page of the deal directly through buy1get1.in! The stocks are limited and our needs are always on the rise, and buy1get1 is where the equilibrium point is so hurry and hustle, go check out the offer you wish to avail before it expires. They won't (these alluring deals) wait for you for long!


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My husband is a big believer in body wash, but he's seen me using craft soaps so many times, I knew eventually he'd have to get curious. We were able to try the Black Forest Timber variety from Soap.Club!
Soap.Club sells a large selection of handmade essential oil soaps for both men and women. They are crafted right in the USA! The soaps themselves are beautiful, and they also come in a decorative outer box, which makes them great for gift giving.
One reason my husband had preferred body wash over bar soap was that he though a bar soap wouldn't be able to lather enough to get him clean. I'm happy to say he was proven wrong. The bar lathered up very nicely, and rinsed easily from his skin. He also remarked that he thought it left his skin feeling pretty soft. I noticed that even after he got out of the shower, the delicious, manly smell of Black Forest Timber remained on him!
The only thing I would change is that I don't think the bar lasted long enough–I've had other craft bars of soap this size last several months, while my husband's bar lasted only a couple of weeks. Maybe it's because it was in the shower and getting hit by a lot of water?
Soap.Club makes a great product and I would be happy to try the other varieties!
Posted on July 7, 2015, in bath, product review. Bookmark the permalink.	1 Comment.
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What is an enterovirus infection in children?
An enterovirus is a very common type of virus. There are many types of enteroviruses. Most of them cause only mild illness. Infections most often occur in the summer and fall. The viruses mostly cause illness in babies, children, and teens. This is because most adults have already been exposed to many enteroviruses and have built up immunity.
The viruses may not cause any symptoms, or they may cause only mild symptoms. Enteroviruses often cause what is known as the "summer flu." They can also cause a rash known as hand-foot-and-mouth disease. This is generally caused by coxsackievirus, a type of enterovirus.
But in some cases, an enterovirus can be more severe and cause complications. Some of the viruses, such as polio, can cause serious illness. Polio can be prevented with a vaccine and is uncommon in the U.S.. Some types of enteroviruses can cause inflammation of the tissue that covers the brain and spinal cord (meningitis). Enterovirus 68 can cause severe symptoms in some children, such as trouble breathing.
What causes an enterovirus infection in a child?
Enteroviruses can be spread when an infected person sneezes or coughs droplets into the air or on surfaces. A child may then breathe in droplets, or touch a contaminated surface and touch his or her eyes, mouth, or nose. Some of the viruses can spread through contact with infected feces (stool). This can happen when children don't wash their hands or don't wash them properly. It can also happen from eating or drinking food or water that contains the virus.
What are the symptoms of an enterovirus infection in a child?
The symptoms of an enterovirus can be like other health conditions. Make sure your child sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
How is an enterovirus infection diagnosed in a child?
A healthcare provider will ask about your child's symptoms and health history. The provider will do a physical exam. This may include an exam of the mouth, eyes, and skin. The healthcare provider will listen to your child's chest as he or she breathes.
Virus culture. The healthcare provider takes a small sample of saliva, blood, urine, or stool. It is then tested for a virus.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The healthcare provider takes a small sample of blood, urine, or saliva. The sample is tested for a virus.
Spinal fluid test. The healthcare provider takes a small sample of spinal fluid. This is done by putting a small needle into your child's back. The fluid is tested for levels of certain chemicals and cells.
Blood test. The healthcare provider takes blood from a vein. It is then tested for chemicals that may show the cause of your child's illness, or show organ problems.
X-rays. This test is done to look at the lungs and heart.
Electrocardiogram (ECG). This test is done to look at the electrical action of the heart.
Echocardiogram. This test uses sound waves and a computer to look at the structure and movements of the heart.
How is an enterovirus infection treated in a child?
Pain medicine. These include acetaminophen and ibuprofen. They are used to help ease pain and reduce fever. Don't give aspirin to your child if he or she has a fever.
Oral pain reliever (anesthetic). This is a gel used to help ease the pain of sores in the mouth.
Bed rest. This helps your child's body fight the illness.
Change in diet. If your child has painful mouth sores, give only bland, soft foods. Don't give your child salty or crunchy foods.
Symptoms such as muscle aches, fever, and sore throat usually go away in a few days. The red sores known as hand-foot-and-mouth disease usually go away in 7 to 10 days.
Talk with your child's healthcare providers about the risks, benefits, and possible side effects of all medicines.
What are possible complications of an enterovirus infection in a child?
How can I help prevent an enterovirus infection in my child?
Teach children to wash their hands after using the toilet, before eating, and before touching their eyes, mouth, or nose.
Wash your hands often, especially if caring for someone who is sick. Use a hand sanitizer if you don't have soap and water handy.
Try to have less contact with people who are sick.
Clean surfaces at home regularly with disinfectant.
Fever that lasts more than 24 hours in a child younger than age 2. Or a fever that lasts for 3 days in a child 2 years or older.
Enteroviruses are very common. The viruses mostly cause illness in babies, children, and teens. This is because most adults have already been exposed to many enteroviruses and have built up immunity.
The viruses often don't cause symptoms, or cause only mild symptoms.
Enteroviruses can be spread when an infected person sneezes or coughs droplets into the air or on surfaces. A child may then breathe in droplets, or touch a contaminated surface and touch his or her eyes, mouth, or nose.
The viruses are treated with supportive care such as pain medicine.
In some rare cases, the viruses may cause inflammation of the brain, heart, or other parts of the body.


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