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Valentine's Day 2016: America's $20 Billion Day Of Love [Infographic]

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This Sunday, countless loved-up couples are going to do something romantic for celebrating Valentine's Day. If this involves the capture of a movie or heading out to eat, Americans are set to spend a lot of money this weekend. Last Sunday was already incredibly lucrative for the US economy with Super Bowl viewers splashing out over $ 15 billion on everything from food TEAM and parties. Valentine's Day is to overcome the soccer craze with all costs to hit a record 19.7 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. Some 54.8 percent of Americans are expected to celebrate the holidays this year, with candy, greeting cards and a night out at the top of the gift list. As usual, men are set to spend significantly more than women for spouses / significant others. The average person will spend $ 133.61 on gifts this year compared with $ 62.14 for women. It is a known fact that Americans love their pets and people across the nation will spend an average of $ 26.24 on gifts for

Bernie Sanders' Favorite Oil And Gas Subsidy

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   Senator Bernie Sanders speaking in Concord, New Hampshire — part of a key region that represents his favorite fossil fuel subsidy.  What is your favorite fossil fuel subsidies? Which may seem like an odd question, but you almost certainly one. Even someone as strongly opposed to the consumption of fossil fuels such as presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a favorite - will get shortly. If you are wondering why there are fossil fuel subsidies despite seemingly overwhelming opposition to their existence, I'm going to explain it here. In short, it is because they require their taxpayers, but does not recognize them as fossil fuel subsidies. Oil Change International is a company that monitors subsidies of fossil fuels, and tabulate figures often cited by those opposed to the fossil fuel industry. For example, a few years ago environmental activist Bill McKibben, founder of 350. org, stated the OCI data support that fossil fuel industry receives $ 1 trillion in annual gra

Google Launches A New Tool To Sell Car Insurance To U.S Web Searchers

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Confirms previous reports that Google is plotting a move to help sell auto consumer in the US insurance, the search giant announced this morning that it is beginning a new feature called « Google Compare Car Insurance ', a comparison-shopping site that you It allows to compare the prices of different insurance providers. The ability to compare prices will start popping up, after the consumer does a search on Google for "car insurance" using the Google search engine. Initially, the service is available to residents of California, but Google says other members will soon follow later in the year. Consumers who enter in this search query, you will see a small gray questionnaire appears, asking the zip code, and other information about their vehicle. If you choose to fill it out, Google will return a comparison premiums Exchange unit, provided by the partners of the insurance advertiser. Alternately, users can also go to www.google.com.com/compare start the same experi

WHAT IS MESOTHELIOMA?

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Types of Mesothelioma: There are four types of mesothelioma: pleural (lung), peritoneal (abdomen), pericardium (heart) and testicular. Pleural and peritoneal are the most common types, comprising nearly 90 percent of all diagnoses. Learn more about the form and what it means for your treatment options. Medical experts recognize four main types of mesothelioma - each named for the area of ​​the body where cancer. The most common type, pleural mesothelioma develops in the lining of the lungs. The peritoneal mesothelioma forms the peritoneum, the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity. This is the second most prevalent type. The vast majority of the specific mesothelioma treat patients with one of these two types. The rarer forms of the disease is pericardial and testicular mesothelioma. Pericardial mesothelioma starts in the lining of the heart, while the testes mesothelioma developed in the inner wall of the testes. Together, these types account for less than 2 percent of all m