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In your opinion, what was the core reason behind the Second Opium War?

Was it that the UK wanted to continue selling opium to China?

Or was it a Sino-British trade deficit?

The Treaty of Nanking in 1842 and the supplementary treaty in the following year did not mention

opium trade.

As a victor, the United Kingdom did not ask the Qing government to allow opium trade.

That means the Qing government had sovereign authority to determine whether opium was legal

in China.

The Qing government could have continued to investigate opium smuggling.

The Treaty of Nanking and its supplementary treaty, the Bogue Treaty, aimed at establishing

a modern trade system.

In fact, in the first 10 years after the First Opium War, the UK exports to China declined,

but it wasn't a key factor in triggering the Second Opium War.

What triggered it was that the Qing government refused to honor certain terms as spelled

out in the treaties.

That caused the British government to take a protective stance to maintain world trade

order.

Frustration and anger continued to accumulate for the British.

Seven years after the Treaty of Nanking, the British were still not allowed to go into

Guangzhou city.

Local government officials from the Guangdong Province did not protect the legal rights

of the British businessmen.

In 1854, the Qing government delayed implementation of the Sino-French Whampoa Treaty.

Frictions continued to escalate until a full breakout took place when both sides were ignited

by the "Arrow" incident in 1856.

In what sense is the current trade war comparable in nature to the Second Opium War in China?

In the sense of the nature of its conceptual structure, although the Chinese government

chose to join the WTO based on its own interests; however, its attitude towards the rules of

the game is similar to the Qing government.

The logic behind its decision-making is to take all opportunities to weaken the possibility

of execution on the terms that restrict the Chinese government's actions, regardless

of whether such terms were fair.

The methods used were also similar to that of the Qing government.

First, they used a delaying strategy.

For example, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi province used a delaying strategy

to stop the British businessmen from entering the city.

Today, the CCP is also using a delaying strategy to prevent foreign investors from entering

certain Chinese markets.

When the CCP was forced to deal with increased pressure, the CCP protested and then slowly

opened up.

Another example is that the Qing governor Ye Mingxi removed the British flag on their

ship in the name of capturing pirates.

Today, the CCP used the excuse of fire protection to shut down Lotte Mart, and in the name of

anti-trust, the CCP worked against Apple and Microsoft.

All these examples reflect that the fundamental conflict between the two sides arises from

their difference in acknowledging, and the willingness to abide by, established rules.

Similar to the Qing government, the CCP is avoiding execution on terms that are fairly

established in the contract.

Their fundamental belief is that the definition of good terms is terms that benefit the CCP.

For more infomation >> In what sense is the current trade war comparable in nature to the Second Opium War in China? - Duration: 3:18.

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Photographer Captures SpaceX rocket phenomenon... what is it?! - Duration: 5:14.

- Hi, it's me Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut.

Check out this photograph.

Whoa.

No, you're not seeing SpaceX's attempt

to create a wormhole to another universe.

This image was captured by my friend

and fellow launch photographer, Trevor Mahlmann,

at SpaceX's most recent Falcon 9 rocket launch

that just took place at 1:50 a.m. local Eastern time,

on July 22nd, 2018.

The mission was to deliver the Telstar 19 Vantage

communications satellite to a geostationary transfer orbit,

which it did successfully.

At one minute into flight,

right around when the SpaceX announcer says

the vehicle's supersonic, we see this.

- [Announcer] Because it means from that moment on,

we're going through thinner and thinner atmosphere,

and less and less stress.

- Okay, so what is this?

Well if you're anything like me,

you may have thought that was the vapor cone

that we might see when a vehicle goes supersonic like this.

Or like this one.

Or this.

How about this one?

I love those, but no, it's not that.

Those vapor cones stay connected to the vehicle.

They move with it.

This, this is different.

Right after this phenomenon, we hear the callout

stating the vehicle's reached maximum aerodynamic pressure.

This is also known as Max Q and it's when the rocket

hits the peak of its aerodynamic stress.

So in other words, the rocket is going faster

and faster and faster,

which increases the pressure on the vehicle.

But a rocket is also getting higher and higher, higher,

so the atmosphere is thinner and thinner.

There's a point where those two things intersect,

where the vehicle is going fast, really fast,

but after a certain point, despite going faster,

the atmosphere gets so thin and eventually

almost nonexistent, which then, of course,

decreases the pressure on the rocket.

But it's also not that at all, it's not Max Q either.

Okay, what is this?

Well what you're actually seeing

is the rocket interacting with the different layers

of humidity and temperature in the atmosphere.

These condensation trails are caused by the temperature

of the rocket exhaust creating water vapor,

which then quickly freeze in the high altitude environment,

forming what are essentially frozen cloudish things.

We actually see this all the time

as rockets pass through different layers of the atmosphere,

and right when the conditions are just right,

ta da, condensation trails.

Rockets also leave a wake of low pressure,

which is where you see

these rings of condensation happening.

That's so incredibly cool.

And then, of course, we're basically seeing the light

from the rocket get scattered through the water

and ice molecules, and pretty much form rainbows.

Dang.

A rocket that farts rainbows.

What will Elon think of next?

Geez. (laughs)

Actually, one of SpaceX's upcoming rockets

will truly utilize what is essentially just farts.

Their Big Falcon Rocket will use liquid methane

and liquid oxygen in the Raptor engines that power it.

So then, surely,

we'll see rockets farting rainbows, I guess.

Oh, and one last thing,

condensation trails like this happen all the time.

We just don't always get the right conditions

to see it scatter like a rainbow.

But in the right circumstances,

even airliners can produce this phenomenon and it's amazing.

Ah, I love that!

If you need a rundown on what this launch was, what it did,

where it went, why, when, what, why, how,

I livestreamed along with it and explained

all the exciting things that went along with this mission.

You can also see my reaction

when I saw those amazing condensation trails start.

Check it out in this video here.

You can join me for upcoming missions.

I start streaming around T-minus 30 minutes or so.

Be sure you're following me on Twitter

so you get notifications when I'll be covering launches.

Also subscribe here on YouTube and hopefully I'll see you

at the next one where I can answer your questions,

and you can join the conversation live.

But even more important than that,

keep up with Trevor Mahlmann's amazing work on Twitter

@TrevorMahlmann, or Instagram @TMahlmann,

and help support him at Patreon.com/trevormahlmann.

While you're at it on Patreon, stop on over to my page

if you'd like to help support me to continue

producing content like this, launch livestreams,

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and news articles on my website everydayastronaut.com.

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Head on over to patreon.com/everydayastronaut.

Thanks, everybody, that's gonna do it for me.

I'm Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut,

bringing space down to Earth for everyday people.

For more infomation >> Photographer Captures SpaceX rocket phenomenon... what is it?! - Duration: 5:14.

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Total Motion Release Explained | What is Total Motion Release | Dean Volk - Duration: 4:57.

Total Motion Release Explained | What is Total Motion Release | Dean Volk

hey there it's Dean from sciatica relief now net and as you can see from my

dining room in Charlotte North Carolina life is short

eat dessert first I never knew that I was doing the total motion release

method in my eating habits and posting them in my dining room when we painted

that on years ago but it's something that has helped us immensely at my PT

clinics as well as here at sciatica relief now working the good side not the

bad side we seem to do everything backwards from what is conventional and

what I'm finding is that most people are told when they have sciatica or

performace syndrome or a problem anywhere in their body that their

therapist that the chiropractor that their osteopath that their doctors have

them stretching and doing a lot of activities to the source side the

painful side the side that is restricted and what I have learned over the past

twelve to fifteen years while studying total motion release is that because

there's pain or discomfort or soreness in one side of your body other parts of

your body tend to compensate and things that throws a balance of your body off

right side versus left so if I have pain over here my other side is probably

going to be overworking meaning that the balance the normal balance in my body is

going to be off from the normal tension so if I have soreness over here and this

side over works this is going to be pulling more than normal

what that does is causes an effect all through the body so the right side

versus the left side of the body is going to be out of its normal balance of

tension of strength of stability of flexibility that's going to put a undue

stress all through the entire body it's sort of like watching somebody who has a

sprained ankle try to walk on a sprained ankle

they're hobbling around now their entire body

is affected by that bad ankle whether it be the bad side knee the bad side hip

taking up more of the weight than the ank then they normally would because

they're trying to absorb extra weight because the ankle is not it could be the

opposite leg because the opposite leg is on the ground more so it is absorbing a

higher percentage of weight over time than it normally would be which affects

the hips the low back and all the way up the shoulders as people are hobbling

around like this that's sort of a big picture if you shrink that down if you

have pain somewhere in your body the body is still responding the same way as

walking on that bad ankle you may not see it as much but what I have found

just like eating dessert first tastes better much sweet very sweet to

start and then you work backwards not that we do that it's just a good saying

but with total motion release and what we do is sciatica relief now is we work

the side of the body that's more comfortable looser less restricted to

balance out the imbalances because when you put your body in a position of

comfort when you move to the side of ease when you work the side that's

stronger what that does it makes the body feel good it comes down the central

nervous system the body tends to relax which takes tension off the bad side

which allows more movement which allows normal blood flow which allows healing

to take place I hope that makes sense I hope you don't think I'm totally

backwards just to be backwards and to be counter to everything that everybody

does but I have found over the past 12 to 15 years of practicing total motion

release in my practice on friends on family that when somebody has sciatica

and you stretch the good side I've made videos about this I've showed actual

patients if you want to see the videos searched in the video section of my

youtube page but you will see that when you stretch and work the good side not

the bad side the good side the bad side actually comes down at the same time I

hope this is helpful for you I hope it's clear if you have any questions as

always please feel free to reach out to me at info at sciatic

relief now dotnet I hope you have a wonderful day and please please take

advantage of the free consults that I offer people so that I can help you and

you can see the benefit of working the good side of the body have a wonderful

day

For more infomation >> Total Motion Release Explained | What is Total Motion Release | Dean Volk - Duration: 4:57.

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What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)? Not what you might think - Duration: 7:39.

For more infomation >> What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)? Not what you might think - Duration: 7:39.

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✅ What is ligma? The fictional disease involved in Fortnite streamer Ninja's death hoax - Duration: 2:24.

 It may be a fictional disease, but it has proved highly contagious across the internet in recent days with thousands now talking about 'Ligma'

 The obvious question arises, 'what is Ligma?' and that is the whole point of the pretty questionable joke, because the answer is meant to be funny

 This all came about from someone on Instagram posting a fake picture that suggested the renowned gamer Ninja was dead

 The post included the caption 'let's make fake news' so it was clearly a joke and it got very silly, very quickly

 Tyler 'Ninja' Belvins' fictional death was blamed on the equally fictional disease 'Ligma' by someone else on Instagram and this rumour became pretty popular

 When those unaware of the joke asked what 'Ligma' is, the witty protagonist can reply, 'ligma balls'.  Then we all have a big old laugh and no one is actually dead or infected with a deadly new disease

 Here is an example of the first-class gag in action on Twitter…  It first appeared that Ninja wasn't a fan of the joke as he asked Twitch moderators to ban users from commenting the word 'Ligma' in chat

 However, he seems to have come round to it, as he himself tweeted it at YouTube star PewDiePie and the two internet celebs had a lovely old time and lolled all the way home

 Not only is Ligma nothing to fear, but it can do plenty for the health of your internet following.  Internet comedian SupremePatty posted this video of his own 'Ligma' diagnosis and at the time of writing it has been viewed over 3

1m times.  Get well soon Patty.

For more infomation >> ✅ What is ligma? The fictional disease involved in Fortnite streamer Ninja's death hoax - Duration: 2:24.

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UK spies broke law for 15 years, but what can you do? shrugs judge - Duration: 8:21.

 The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has re-ruled that GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 engaged in indiscriminate and illegal bulk cable-tapping surveillance for 15 years – and has once again refused to do anything about it

 In a 113-paragraph judgment handed down today filled with assurances that he was "anxious to assist in achieving improvements" in spying practices, Sir Michael Burton, president of the IPT, found that for a decade and a half, the spy agencies were operating outside section 94 of the Telecommunications Act 1984

 In a previous judgment from last October, the IPT said the law-breaking period ended in March 2015

Today's judgment extends that period to October 2016, although the IPT said "no declaration [of unlawfulness] will be made, nor any further relief granted" to victims of this illegal surveillance

 Privacy International, the charity which first brought this case two years ago, lost its attempt to overturn an earlier ruling that legal oversight of GCHQ's bulk spying regime was fit for purpose

It also failed to have the agencies' dragnet surveillance practices declared incompatible with Article 8 of the EU Convention on Human Rights, which is a privacy right

Needling the law in a haystack  Section 94 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 is the legal key to British governmental snooping on phone and internet networks

The Foreign Secretary, to whom GCHQ and MI6 must report, makes a legal "direction" every six months under section 94

 That direction forces telcos and ISPs to let the spy agencies slurp up copies of every single piece of data that passes over their networks, whether voice calls, emails, Skype chats, your web browsing history, and everything else in between

This process is known as bulk data collection. Snippets from that then get passed around British and foreign law enforcement agencies

 Crucially, section 94 states that only the Foreign Secretary can authorise such snooping

By law the Foreign Sec cannot delegate that power and let, for example, the head of GCHQ decide what kind of data to grab or how much of it they wish to browse through

However, in practice, what was happening, the IPT ruled, was that the Foreign Sec rubber-stamped a "general direction" prepared by the spy agencies themselves that included a very broad form of words authorising them to do whatever they liked

The IPT stated in its judgment: "In form a general direction was a carte blanche

"  Having received its carte blanche, GCHQ would then send telcos a "trigger letter", which set out precisely (or not) what it wanted

Privacy International argued that the trigger letters' contents were what should have been signed off by the Foreign Secretary in his section 94 directions

 "We conclude that most of the relevant directions made between 29 November 2001 and 7 November 2012 were not lawfully made under s

94," said Sir Michael in his judgment, to which his fellow IPT judges Mr Justice Edis, Sir Richard McLaughlin, Charles Flint QC and Susan O'Brien QC also contributed

Yeah, they broke the law. And?  Remarkably, although Sir Michael stated that "there had been an unlawful delegation of the power conferred by s

94(1)" from the Foreign Sec to the agencies, he also ruled that there was no need to do anything about it because "the Foreign Secretary had from 2010 imposed a requirement that any variation in the scope of data to be provided under a direction required his approval"

By 2015, said the IPT's judgment, "there was in substance no delegation of power from the Foreign Secretary"

 Put another way, when Conservative minister William Hague was appointed Foreign Sec in 2010 following that year's general election, it appears he took one of the first steps to bring the agencies to heel – notwithstanding that for two years after that he allowed them to break the law, whether knowingly or not

His successor in 2014, Philip Hammond, tightened this up to ensure the spies gave him a detailed review of what they wanted and why every six months before he would sign it off, giving him direct control over what types of bulk data they were slurping

 Privacy International first took the spy agencies and their masters at the Home Office and Foreign Office to the IPT two years ago, broadly arguing that their hacking and indiscriminate spying was illegal

The case, which has dragged on over two years, saw the government's position change substantially from saying "all is well, nothing to see here" to admissions that, in fact, all was not well in terms of obeying the law of the land

 The tribunal's public judgment today contained few criticisms of the Peeping Tom agencies themselves, though Sir Michael went as far as to say he was "disappointed that inaccurate information was given to the tribunal" about the number of contractors with admin privileges working at GCHQ

The agencies also had to amend their witness statements several times after it became obvious that their original contents, claiming they and the Foreign Secretary obeyed the law in full, were simply not true; something that forced the IPT to allow cross-examination of a GCHQ witness in open court

 The IPT hinted obliquely that its closed (non-private) judgment contained some criticisms of the spy agencies

This document will never be seen by the public. The public judgment is IPT/15/110/CH dated 23 July 2018 and should be available on the IPT website in due course

 There is no legal way to appeal against an IPT ruling. Privacy International tried and failed in the High Court and Court of Appeal to establish a precedent allowing it, and the issue is now set to be heard by the Supreme Court in December this year

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For more infomation >> UK spies broke law for 15 years, but what can you do? shrugs judge - Duration: 8:21.

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Justine Damond's family alleges officer who killed her was unfit for duty and conspired to hide trut - Duration: 5:41.

 The lawsuit filed in the US District Court alleges Justine Ruszczyk Damond's civil rights were violated when she was shot July 15, 2017, by former Minneapolis officer Mohamed Noor

 It claims Noor and his partner that night, Officer Matthew Harrity, conspired to cover up facts surrounding the shooting and made a conscious decision not to activate their body cameras

 "Had they done so, there would be video and audio recording of the fatal shooting of Justine, and Harrity and Noor would not be free to concoct a story in a vain attempt to insulate Noor from civil and criminal liability," the lawsuit says

 It alleges the Minneapolis Police Department failed to discipline officers who didn't use body cameras, and that a change in the way job candidates were screened put dangerously unqualified officers on the street

 The shooting of Ms Damond, who had been living in the US for more than two years when she was killed, drew international attention last year, cost the police chief her job and forced major revisions to the department's policy on body cameras

 The lawsuit, filed by Ms Damond's father, John Ruszczyk, seeks monetary damages. It names both officers, the city, and the current and former police chief as defendants

Justine Damond's legal name is Justine Ruszczyk, but she had been using the last name of her fiance, Don Damond, professionally

 The police department referred questions about the lawsuit to the city lawyer, who didn't immediately return a message seeking comment

Noor's lawyer, Thomas Plunkett, has said previously that the officer acted as he had been trained

 Prosecutors have charged Noor with murder, alleging he acted recklessly with disregard for human life

They say there was no evidence he encountered a threat that justified the use of deadly force

His criminal case is pending and he was fired from the police department.  Prosecutors say Ms Damond, a 40-year-old life coach, had called 911 on July 15, 2017, to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home

Noor responded with Harrity, who was driving. Prosecutors say Harrity told investigators he heard a voice and a thump on the back of the squad car, and glimpsed a person's head and shoulders outside his window

 Harrity told investigators that both officers got "spooked" before Noor fired. The officers did not turn on their body cameras until after the shooting

There was no squad camera video. Noor has refused to speak with investigators, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination

The lawsuit alleges Harrity's account of what happened changed after he spoke with an lawyer

 According to the lawsuit, at the time Noor and Harrity were hired, the city used only one psychological test to determine whether candidates were fit to be on the street, down from five tests in use prior to 2012

It says the city failed to ascertain whether hundreds of officers are actually fit for duty

 "The consequence is that certain MPD officers are ill-prepared, ill-equipped and unfit to perform obvious and recurring duties of police officers, including the use of force and the use of deadly force," the lawsuit says

 "Here, it led to the fatal shooting of Justine who stood unarmed, in her pyjamas, and ready to help others

"

For more infomation >> Justine Damond's family alleges officer who killed her was unfit for duty and conspired to hide trut - Duration: 5:41.

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Treachery of Cold War spy Anthony Blunt was kept from Tory prime minister - Duration: 4:05.

 Prime minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home was kept in the dark about one of Britain's biggest Cold War spy scandals over fears it would "burden" him, newly released papers show

 The Conservative politician was not told how Anthony Blunt, the British art historian, had confessed in 1964 to being the "fourth man" in a Cambridge spy ring

 Professor Blunt, an adviser to the Queen on art who was knighted, admitted to being a Soviet spy, connected to his Cambridge University friend Guy Burgess, and Donald Maclean and Harold 'Kim' Philby  His double life was kept secret in return for his confession until Margaret Thatcher revealed his treason in 1979 during her first year as prime minister

 Downing Street then received a series of letters, now declassified, which explain how the espionage scandal had been hushed up

 Henry Brooke - who was home secretary between 1962 and 1964 and who later became Lord Brooke of Cumnoor - wrote to Mrs Thatcher to thank her for her "kind words" about him when she made Blunt's confession to treason public

 But his 1979 letter, released by the National Archives at Kew, also explained how he regretted not informing his then prime minister

 He wrote: "I have written to Alec [Douglas-Home] to explain why in April 1964 I did not bring him in on what was happening about Blunt, and to say how sorry I am if in my well-meant effort not to add to his burdens I may, with hindsight, have exercised my discretion wrongly

"  In return for Blunt's confession, as well as naming others involved, the wartime MI5 'operative' was granted immunity from prosecution and allowed to continue his academic work, including as an art adviser to the Queen

He admitted being an agent of Russian intelligence and talent-spotted for them at Cambridge in the 1930s

He also helped with Burgess and Maclean's defection.  Mrs Thatcher's decision to reveal Blunt's treachery 15 years later was said to have been an attempt to underline how politicians, rather than the civil servants, should decide what could and could not be released into the public domain

 Just minutes after her Commons statement revealing Blunt as a spy, Buckingham Palace stripped him of his knighthood

 He went into hiding but issued a retaliatory statement insisting that the then prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, had personally granted him immunity from prosecution in return for his confession

However, the declassified papers suggest that this was far from the truth.  A letter written in 1990 from the former prime minister, then Lord Home, to Andrew Turnbull, Mrs Thatcher's principal private secretary, reads: "My memory is pretty faulty, but I wasn't told about Blunt's activities before the knowledge was public property [in 1979]

"  Blunt, who was professor of art history at the University of London and became a Marxist while at Cambridge, later said he "bitterly regretted" his spying activities

He died in disgrace in 1983.

For more infomation >> Treachery of Cold War spy Anthony Blunt was kept from Tory prime minister - Duration: 4:05.

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Family say extension was ruined by paint which 'smells of cat wee' - Duration: 6:45.

A family say their dream extension to their home has been ruined by B&Q paint which smells of cat wee when the weather heats up

Jenny Ballard and her husband Paul splashed out more than £35,000 to create an open plan living room in the downstairs of their home in Colchester, Essex

The couple started work back in May and it was going perfectly until they decided to spend £80 on seven-and-a-half litres of 'the perfect white' Valspar paint from B&Q for the finishing touches

Their builders coated the walls of the extension on Monday July 9 but by the Friday Mrs Ballard noticed a strange smell

She initially wondered if one of her two dogs was responsible for having an accident - but to her horror she realised it was the paint that was producing the horrible scent

Mrs Ballard claims the smell is like cat urine and becomes so unbearable when the weather is warm that the family are refusing to spend time in the room and go upstairs instead

She has also felt too embarrassed to let friends come into the house to see the finished job which should have added significant value to their £280,000 three-bedroom semi-detached home

Mrs Ballard said: 'The smell is unbearable - it's so bad that none of us want to be in the room together

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It's just heartbreaking.'The couple, who have two children, Molly, 19, and Layla, 11, were initially left bemused as to what was causing the urinal smell

She added: 'The paint actually looks lovely - I can't fault the finish but oh, that smell

'I was checking the floor for wee but it was on the Thursday that I was cleaning the windows and my face was close to the walls that I then realised what it was

'I told Paul and he said "don't be stupid" and we were both stood there sniffing the walls and realised what it was

'The catering manager went back to B&Q to complain about the product which she had chosen because it boasts that it is scrubbable and stain resistant

She was put on the phone to a representative of Valspar pain, which is made by B&Q, and was told that the problem occurs in about one in 100,000 jobs

B&Q has since offered to pay £100 compensation as well as paying for the builders to return to carry out the repair work needed

She added: 'I was told that it was due to the walls being porous and the weather conditions but we painted on to new plaster and an old wall yet both smell of cats' wee

'The chap from Valspar described it is a "ghost smell" - whatever that means - I think he was just hoping to spin me a line

'It's got to be the worst £80 we have ever spent. The extension has been ruined and £100 compensation is an insult

'Mrs Ballard and insurance worker Paul will now have to splash out on stain blocking paint in a bid to 'seal in' the smell before re-painting the walls in the hope that the stench can be banished

She said: 'It stinks from the moment you walk into the house,'The mum of one of Layla's friends called round and I was itching to show her round the new house but I was too embarrassed to let her in because of the smell

'We've tried putting a dehumidifier in the room but that doesn't help.'A spokesman for B&Q said: 'In very exceptional circumstances, paint may emit an unpleasant odour when used on walls that are particularly porous, and where the wall is exposed to excessive heat or direct sunlight

'This is an issue known within the global paint industry - we are in contact with Mrs Ballard and are investigating

'

For more infomation >> Family say extension was ruined by paint which 'smells of cat wee' - Duration: 6:45.

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What Is Uber Vomit Fraud? Drivers Are Being Accused of Scamming Customers - Duration: 4:53.

 Some Uber drivers in the U.S. are being accused of faking cases of passengers being sick in cars to charge them additional fees of up to $150 in a scheme known as "vomit fraud

" Several customers have complained of being hit with hefty cleanup charges for leaving a mess in vehicles, often having to go through lengthy email exchanges in order to be reimbursed

Uber is currently "actively looking" into the reports, according to the Miami Herald newspaper

 On its website, Uber policy states that riders are responsible for any damage to the interior or exterior of a vehicle

It says that the charge for food or drink spills is $20, vomit and larger spills on fabric are $80 and significant amounts of bodily fluids will be billed at $150

"In the event you are charged a cleaning fee, you will receive an updated trip receipt," the company says

 But since at least 2016 reports have emerged that some drivers could be taking advantage of the policy to make money

Two years ago, The Gothamist.com reported on the case of one frustrated customer who alleged she had been charged an unwarranted cleaning fee for vomiting

The Uber driver had produced fake photographs of the incident, alleged victim Meredith Mandel claimed

 Uber did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The U.S.-based ride hailing company told the Miami Herald's Spanish-language sister paper El Nuevo Herald that if any culprits were found it would "take appropriate actions on those accounts

" The news outlet received one report from a customer who was hit with two charges in a single night

William Kennedy, of Miami, claimed neither trip should have cost more than $20. "It was a total fraud by two different drivers," Kennedy stated

"They have everything planned for the fraud." Another individual, Andrea Pérez, claimed that she was charged a $98 cleanup fee for a trip last year and was only reimbursed after complaining to her credit card company

 Several commenters on Reddit have also claimed to be victims of the fraud. From the inside, an unnamed Uber driver appeared unsurprised by the underhanded practice

 "They've been doing it for a long time," the driver told the Herald. "Many people don't review their emails or credit card statements, so the drivers wind up pocketing the $80 or $150

" It's not the first time that drivers have been accused of exploiting customers' bank accounts

 Last year, some cases of so-called "phantom trips" emerged from Singapore. Channel NewsAsia reported at the time that the unauthorized transactions were being discovered on accounts for trips that had never been taken

Credit card charges were tied to rides in Europe, victims said.