Children swimming competitively start at a very young age, and by 12 years old, they can spend 8-11 hours a week in the pool. It is very tough for the kids and their parents to juggle school, swimming and, well, the rest that goes on in peoples lives.This young lad is already a competitive swimmer at a regional level in England at 13!Here he is seen in a streamline about to explode in a bout of energy. Photo by Richard R. Schünemann on Unsplash [Download]

Frances competition watchdog orders Google to pay for news reuse

France’s pageant authority has ordered Google to barter with publishers to pay for reuse of snippets of their content material subject material — related to can also be displayed in its Information aggregation service or surfaced by means of Google Seek. The rustic used to be as soon as the main of the Ecu Union Member States to transpo…
France’s competition authority has ordered Google to negotiate with publishers to pay for reuse of snippets of their content — such as can be displayed in its News aggregation service or surfaced via Google Search. The country was the first of the European Union Member States to transpo…

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