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- Gut Health -
Get Smart About Antibiotics
Thinking about taking antibiotics? Here are 6 tips to consider.
By Laine Bergeson Becco, FMCHC | August 1, 2017
Antibiotics haven't had the best press lately. The misuse and overuse of antibiotics have been implicated in the rise of life-threatening superbugs, which have proliferated in recent years. Repeated use of antibiotics is hard on our guts as well — the drugs destroy both bad bugs and good bugs which, over time, can lower immunity.
Yet, in certain circumstances, antibiotics are life-saving medications. Although we're increasingly aware of the dark side of antibiotics, we wouldn't want to live in a world without them.
So, what's the best way to approach antibiotics? Here are some tips:
Make sure they're necessary. Antibiotics are only effective against bacterial infections, not viral infections, but they're often prescribed for both — many times because patients demand them.
It can be tough to quickly tell the difference — bronchitis has both a viral and bacterial form, for example, and many doctors are moving fast thanks to packed patient schedules. But a blood or urine test (or in some cases, a tissue biopsy) can be used to determine the root cause of your cough and fever. If you've got a virus, skip the antibiotics.
"When an antibiotic is not needed, there's a potential to cause harm without providing any benefit — C. difficile diarrhea is an example," says medical epidemiologist Lauri Hicks, DO, who serves as the medical director for the CDC's Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work campaign. "Potential patient-safety issues should be part of the decision-making process when thinking about antibiotics."
Match the antibiotic to the ailment. If you need antibiotics, talk to your provider about which makes more sense — broad-spectrum or narrow-spectrum antibiotics. "You don't want to use a hammer for a pushpin," says functional-medicine practitioner Kara Fitzgerald, ND. "Broad-spectrum antibiotics will damage the healthy bacteria that we want to keep around."
The practice of prescribing an aggressive antibiotic for a less aggressive infection isn't uncommon, says Hicks. "We see a lot of outpatient providers prescribing antibiotics that are much more broad spectrum than necessary."
One popular broad-spectrum drug, Z-Pak, is often prescribed when antibiotics aren't needed at all, such as in a case of viral bronchitis, says Hicks.
In some cases, however, broad-spectrum antibiotics are necessary. "You want to use the appropriate agent for the job," notes Fitzgerald. "If you've got something that is extremely resistant or aggressive, you may need the stronger medication."
Build up your immune system. A robust immune system helps you fight off an infection and can possibly shorten your time on antibiotics. "If you're low on zinc, vitamin A, or vitamin D, immunity is not as robust and you won't be able to fight infection as effectively," says functional-medicine family physician P. Michael Stone, MD.
Vitamin D may play a particularly outsized role in boosting immunity. Research shows that vitamin D "induces antimicrobial peptide gene expression," which is a fancy way to say that it has its own antibiotic effect.
The GI tract is home to a huge number of the body's immune cells, so keeping the gut in good shape is also crucial for immune function. Bone broth is a powerful gut healer — and vegans and vegetarians can get some of the same benefits from veggie-only versions, like Rebecca Katz's Magic Mineral Broth.)
Take probiotics after you finish the antibiotics. Speaking of the gut, probiotics are a great way to help repopulate the good bugs in your system. Take probiotics when you finish a course of antibiotics. You can also take them during your course of antibiotics, says Fitzgerald, as long as you space the doses several hours apart.
Your repopulation efforts will be even more successful if you feed all that good bacteria with prebiotics. Prebiotic foods include garlic, onions, leeks, jicama, artichokes, chicory, and potatoes and are sometimes referred to as resistant starches.
You can also cut off the food supply to the bad bugs. Their No. 1 love? Sugar. So go easy on baked goods, desserts, processed foods, and sweetened beverages in general, but especially after finishing a course of antibiotics.
Talk to your provider about duration. If you've taken antibiotics, you've probably gotten this advice: "Make sure you take every single pill!" But some experts are beginning to question conventional wisdom.
When it comes to duration "you'll get a lot of different answers because there isn't a lot of good research out there to support doctors' decisions," says Hicks. There are two schools of thought: Take the full course no matter what and stop the drugs when you feel better.
The challenge with the first option is that you might end up taking more antibiotics than you need. The challenge with the second approach is that you might feel better even if the problem hasn't resolved. "That's the case with ear infections in kids," adds Hicks. "When kids take a shorter course, they tend to have more relapses."
Stone agrees: "You can't only go by [the disappearance of] symptoms. Older people, for example, don't tend to get as high of a fever response, so they may think they're fully better when they aren't and need to finish the antibiotic course."
Stopping a course too soon can also complicate more pernicious infections. "I see shorter durations fail when infections are more resistant," says Fitzgerald. "With Lyme disease, if we cut off treatment too soon, the organism can hide and flourish."
So, what should savvy antibiotic users do as the duration debate rages on? Hicks, Fitzgerald, and Stone all agree that you should always make the decision to stop taking the drugs (or not) with your provider. Have a conversation when you get the prescription or when you start to feel better.
Stay calm. What we eat directly affects our gut flora, but so does stress. Panicking about taking the drugs can make things worse in your bacterial community. "We need to have a healthy respect for these drugs, but not fear them," says Stone.
If you start antibiotics and feel fatigued (a common complaint), consider supplementing with vitamin B and CoQ10, both of which support the mitochondria, or the little energy powerhouses in the body's cells.
If you have had an "allergic" skin rash when taking antibiotics in the past, talk with your provider. Many times, says Stone, the rash is a result of antibiotics being mistakenly prescribed for a virus: "The antibiotics bind to the protein of the virus, which is what triggers your immune system and gives you the rash. You aren't really allergic to the antibiotic per se."
Laine Bergeson Becco, FMCHC is a functional-medicine health coach and nutrition educator. She believes lifestyle medicine is a blockbuster drug.
Antibiotic Use May Predispose Kids to Obesity and Asthma
By Heidi Wachter
Finnish study finds antibiotic use in young children may alter gut microbiome and lead to weight gain and asthma later in childhood.
9 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Microbiome
By Kristin Ohlson
Here are some tips to protect and revitalize your microbial communities.
Resistant Starch for a Healthy Gut
By Heather Rogers
Long underappreciated, resistant starch is a friendly carb component that delivers healthy microbial balance and weight-loss support.
CoQ10: The Miracle Molecule
By Pamela Weintraub
With an astonishing array of applications, CoQ10 offers something for virtually everyone — from fitness buffs to those at high risk for heart disease and cancer.


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BRAZIL: 'Historic' National Commitment to Wind Energy
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A commitment signed by federal and state authorities in Brazil Thursday was described by the energy minister as a "historic step" towards promoting wind powerThe so-called "wind charter" is aimed at
developing public policies and setting targets for the production of
wind energy, which currently accounts for less than one percent of the
power generated in South America's giant.
It also establishes goals for raising funds, formulating
public policies and creating incentives for developing wind power, a
clean renewable source of energy that is growing 27 percent a year
Brazil has the greatest wind power potential in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to experts.
The document "is a historic step forward for wind energy in
Brazil," Environment Minister Carlos Minc told IPS in a telephone
"Today we set goals and outlined financing and regulatory
frameworks, and we won't miss the wind power train again," said the
minister from Natal, the capital of the northeastern state of Rio
Grande do Norte.
Minc was one of the signatories of the "wind charter" at the
end of a two-day National Wind Energy Forum that ended Friday in Natal
and was attended by the state energy secretaries, national authorities,
legislators and representatives of the business community.
The minister announced that the administration of left-wing
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva planned to gradually eliminate all
taxes on wind power-generating equipment.
The first step in that direction was the announcement of the
first auction of licenses for developing wind energy, scheduled for
Nov. 25.
Minc told IPS that his ministry would propose that the
government hold such auctions every year, and that the permits be
increased from a power generation capacity of 2,000 megawatts, to 3,000
megawatts.
The minister said it was "shameful" that a country like
Brazil, which has the biggest wind energy potential in the region,
produces a mere 200 megawatts of wind power.
The short-term outlook is to increase total wind power
generation capacity to 30,000 or 40,000 megawatts, but the potential is
much greater than that: around 140,000 megawatts, according to the
latest wind atlas.
The Brazilian Wind Industry Association, however, estimates
the potential at 300,000 megawatts, which according to the
association's president, Lauro Fiuza, represents three times the
current capacity of all energy sources in Brazil.
Minc said that as well as creating incentives for clean
renewable energy sources like solar and wind power, his ministry has
pushed through initiatives like the requirement that coal- and
diesel-fired thermal power plants pay the costs of their greenhouse gas
emissions with measures like re-planting forests.
He also said large hydroelectric projects, currently the main
source of energy in this country of 190 million people, now face a much
more rigorous environmental permitting process.
Rio Grande do Norte state energy secretary Jean-Paul Prates
said the significance of the "wind charter" lies in its detailed
timeframe for promoting wind energy through incentives for R&D and
by cutting taxes.
Prates told IPS that at the start, government subsidies are
"inevitable" for stepping up wind energy production. He pointed out
that state support was used to encourage development of wind power in
Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal and "even the United States,
which is more free-market-oriented."
He added that it is a myth that wind power is more expensive to generate than traditional sources of energy.
The state energy secretary stressed that "wind is free," and
that some estimates fail to take into account other costs of
traditional energy sources, like pollution and its social and economic
Another common myth, said Prates, is that wind turbines kill
wildlife. He said that idea emerged from early wind parks in the U.S.
state of California, which were located on bird migration routes and
operated with older technology. The newer models have been designed to
reduce bird mortality.
At any rate, power lines, collisions with trucks, automobiles
and buildings, and feral cats are all much bigger killers of birds.
Another misconception discussed by a panel at the National
Wind Energy Forum on "myths and truths about wind energy" is that the
turbines create "visual pollution," said Prates.
Surveys carried out in areas where wind parks have been set up
show that they do not bother local residents, because people are aware
that they generate electricity and thus provide economic benefits, he
Because of its strong, constant winds, Rio Grande do Norte on
the Atlantic coast in the extreme northeast of Brazil is one of the
states with the greatest potential for expanding wind energy.
In a conversation with IPS, Governor Wilma de Faria
highlighted the efforts made by her state to encourage wind energy
The state has two wind parks that generate 53 megawatts.
Faria of the Brazilian Socialist Party emphasised that her state alone
could generate 22,000 megawatts or more, according to new studies that
assess potential in windy areas.
Rio Grande do Norte's aim is to generate 8,000 megawatts of
wind energy a year five years from now, by auctioning permits and
offering incentives.
The state, which is not self-sufficient in energy production,
thus hopes to eventually be able to sell surplus electricity to other
parts of the country.
According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),
Brazil is the world's largest renewable energy market, with around 46
percent of the country's energy coming from renewable sources, which
represent 85 percent of its power generation capacity due to its vast
hydropower resources and its decades-old ethanol industry.
In addition, Brazil accounted for more than 90 percent of new
investment in renewable energy in Latin America in 2008, UNEP reported.
Furthermore, over 90 percent of new cars run on any proportion
of gasoline and sugar cane ethanol, which produces fewer greenhouse gas
emissions than fossil fuels.
Despites its steady growth, wind energy is still considered a
marginal source of energy, with just one percent of global electricity
consumption coming from wind.
But in some countries the proportion is much higher: 20
percent in Denmark, 13 percent in Spain, 11 percent in Portugal and
nine percent in Italy. (END/2009)
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from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
__metaclass__ = type

ANSIBLE_METADATA = {'metadata_version': '1.1',
                    'status': ['preview'],
                    'supported_by': 'community'}

DOCUMENTATION = '''

module: sf_volume_manager

short_description: Manage SolidFire volumes
extends_documentation_fragment:
    - netapp.solidfire
version_added: '2.3'
author: Sumit Kumar (sumit4@netapp.com)
description:
- Create, destroy, or update volumes on SolidFire

options:

    state:
        description:
        - Whether the specified volume should exist or not.
        required: true
        choices: ['present', 'absent']

    name:
        description:
        - The name of the volume to manage.
        required: true

    account_id:
        description:
        - Account ID for the owner of this volume.
        required: true

    512emulation:
        description:
        - Should the volume provide 512-byte sector emulation?
        - Required when C(state=present)
        required: false

    qos:
        description: Initial quality of service settings for this volume. Configure as dict in playbooks.
        required: false
        default: None

    attributes:
        description: A YAML dictionary of attributes that you would like to apply on this volume.
        required: false
        default: None

    volume_id:
        description:
        - The ID of the volume to manage or update.
        - In order to create multiple volumes with the same name, but different volume_ids, please declare the I(volume_id)
          parameter with an arbitrary value. However, the specified volume_id will not be assigned to the newly created
          volume (since it's an auto-generated property).
        required: false
        default: None

    size:
        description:
        - The size of the volume in (size_unit).
        - Required when C(state = present).
        required: false

    size_unit:
        description:
        - The unit used to interpret the size parameter.
        required: false
        choices: ['bytes', 'b', 'kb', 'mb', 'gb', 'tb', 'pb', 'eb', 'zb', 'yb']
        default: 'gb'

    access:
        required: false
        choices: ['readOnly', 'readWrite', 'locked', 'replicationTarget']
        description:
        - "Access allowed for the volume."
        - "readOnly: Only read operations are allowed."
        - "readWrite: Reads and writes are allowed."
        - "locked: No reads or writes are allowed."
        - "replicationTarget: Identify a volume as the target volume for a paired set of volumes. If the volume is not paired, the access status is locked."
        - "If unspecified, the access settings of the clone will be the same as the source."
        default: None

'''

EXAMPLES = """
   - name: Create Volume
     sf_volume_manager:
       hostname: "{{ solidfire_hostname }}"
       username: "{{ solidfire_username }}"
       password: "{{ solidfire_password }}"
       state: present
       name: AnsibleVol
       qos: {minIOPS: 1000, maxIOPS: 20000, burstIOPS: 50000}
       account_id: 3
       enable512e: False
       size: 1
       size_unit: gb

   - name: Update Volume
     sf_volume_manager:
       hostname: "{{ solidfire_hostname }}"
       username: "{{ solidfire_username }}"
       password: "{{ solidfire_password }}"
       state: present
       name: AnsibleVol
       account_id: 3
       access: readWrite

   - name: Delete Volume
     sf_volume_manager:
       hostname: "{{ solidfire_hostname }}"
       username: "{{ solidfire_username }}"
       password: "{{ solidfire_password }}"
       state: absent
       name: AnsibleVol
       account_id: 2
"""

RETURN = """

msg:
    description: Success message
    returned: success
    type: string

"""

from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
from ansible.module_utils.pycompat24 import get_exception
import ansible.module_utils.netapp as netapp_utils

HAS_SF_SDK = netapp_utils.has_sf_sdk()

class SolidFireVolume(object):

    def __init__(self):

        self._size_unit_map = netapp_utils.SF_BYTE_MAP

        self.argument_spec = netapp_utils.ontap_sf_host_argument_spec()
        self.argument_spec.update(dict(
            state=dict(required=True, choices=['present', 'absent']),
            name=dict(required=True, type='str'),
            account_id=dict(required=True, type='int'),

            enable512e=dict(type='bool', aliases=['512emulation']),
            qos=dict(required=False, type='dict', default=None),
            attributes=dict(required=False, type='dict', default=None),

            volume_id=dict(type='int', default=None),
            size=dict(type='int'),
            size_unit=dict(default='gb',
                           choices=['bytes', 'b', 'kb', 'mb', 'gb', 'tb',
                                    'pb', 'eb', 'zb', 'yb'], type='str'),

            access=dict(required=False, type='str', default=None, choices=['readOnly', 'readWrite',
                                                                           'locked', 'replicationTarget']),

        ))

        self.module = AnsibleModule(
            argument_spec=self.argument_spec,
            required_if=[
                ('state', 'present', ['size', 'enable512e'])
            ],
            supports_check_mode=True
        )

        p = self.module.params

        # set up state variables
        self.state = p['state']
        self.name = p['name']
        self.account_id = p['account_id']
        self.enable512e = p['enable512e']
        self.qos = p['qos']
        self.attributes = p['attributes']

        self.volume_id = p['volume_id']
        self.size_unit = p['size_unit']
        if p['size'] is not None:
            self.size = p['size'] * self._size_unit_map[self.size_unit]
        else:
            self.size = None
        self.access = p['access']
        if HAS_SF_SDK is False:
            self.module.fail_json(msg="Unable to import the SolidFire Python SDK")
        else:
            self.sfe = netapp_utils.create_sf_connection(module=self.module)

    def get_volume(self):
        """
            Return volume object if found

            :return: Details about the volume. None if not found.
            :rtype: dict
        """
        volume_list = self.sfe.list_volumes_for_account(account_id=self.account_id)
        for volume in volume_list.volumes:
            if volume.name == self.name:
                # Update self.volume_id
                if self.volume_id is not None:
                    if volume.volume_id == self.volume_id and str(volume.delete_time) == "":
                        return volume
                else:
                    if str(volume.delete_time) == "":
                        self.volume_id = volume.volume_id
                        return volume
        return None

    def create_volume(self):
        try:
            self.sfe.create_volume(name=self.name,
                                   account_id=self.account_id,
                                   total_size=self.size,
                                   enable512e=self.enable512e,
                                   qos=self.qos,
                                   attributes=self.attributes)

        except:
            err = get_exception()
            self.module.fail_json(msg="Error provisioning volume %s of size %s" % (self.name, self.size),
                                  exception=str(err))

    def delete_volume(self):
        try:
            self.sfe.delete_volume(volume_id=self.volume_id)

        except:
            err = get_exception()
            self.module.fail_json(msg="Error deleting volume %s" % self.volume_id,
                                  exception=str(err))

    def update_volume(self):
        try:
            self.sfe.modify_volume(self.volume_id,
                                   account_id=self.account_id,
                                   access=self.access,
                                   qos=self.qos,
                                   total_size=self.size,
                                   attributes=self.attributes)

        except:
            err = get_exception()
            self.module.fail_json(msg="Error updating volume %s" % self.name,
                                  exception=str(err))

    def apply(self):
        changed = False
        volume_exists = False
        update_volume = False
        volume_detail = self.get_volume()

        if volume_detail:
            volume_exists = True

            if self.state == 'absent':
                # Checking for state change(s) here, and applying it later in the code allows us to support
                # check_mode
                changed = True

            elif self.state == 'present':
                if volume_detail.access is not None and self.access is not None and volume_detail.access != self.access:
                    update_volume = True
                    changed = True

                elif volume_detail.account_id is not None and self.account_id is not None \
                        and volume_detail.account_id != self.account_id:
                    update_volume = True
                    changed = True

                elif volume_detail.qos is not None and self.qos is not None and volume_detail.qos != self.qos:
                    update_volume = True
                    changed = True

                elif volume_detail.total_size is not None and volume_detail.total_size != self.size:
                    size_difference = abs(float(volume_detail.total_size - self.size))
                    # Change size only if difference is bigger than 0.001
                    if size_difference/self.size > 0.001:
                        update_volume = True
                        changed = True

                elif volume_detail.attributes is not None and self.attributes is not None and \
                        volume_detail.attributes != self.attributes:
                    update_volume = True
                    changed = True
        else:
            if self.state == 'present':
                changed = True

        result_message = ""

        if changed:
            if self.module.check_mode:
                result_message = "Check mode, skipping changes"
                pass
            else:
                if self.state == 'present':
                    if not volume_exists:
                        self.create_volume()
                        result_message = "Volume created"
                    elif update_volume:
                            self.update_volume()
                            result_message = "Volume updated"

                elif self.state == 'absent':
                    self.delete_volume()
                    result_message = "Volume deleted"

        self.module.exit_json(changed=changed, msg=result_message)

def main():
    v = SolidFireVolume()
    v.apply()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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#NigeriaDecides2019: Foreign Observers Call for Calm After Delay
Reports | SIGNAL
on February 17, 2019 at 12:48 pm
Foreign election observers have appealed for calm following the last-minute postponement of the Nigerian election by a week, the BBC reports.
"We call on all Nigerians to remain calm and support the electoral process", said a statement from EU, UN and African Union representatives.
President Muhammadu Buhari and his main rival Atiku Abubakar condemned the election delay.
The presidential and parliamentary polls will now be held on 23 February.
Election officials cited "logistical" reasons for the 11th-hour postponement.
In a press conference on Saturday, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, said the decision to delay had "nothing to do with political influence".
The foreign observers urged INEC to adhere to its new election date and provide regular updates to the public.
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huthayfah, may allaah be pleased with him, reported: "i offered qiyaam with the prophet, sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam, one night, and he started reciting chapter al-baqarah. i thought that he would bow at the end of one hundred verses, but he continued reciting; i, then, thought that he would perhaps bow on completing the whole chapter in a rak`ah, but he proceeded on, and started reciting chapter an-nisaa' he then started chapter aal `imraan and his recitation was unhurried. and when he recited the verses which referred to the glory of allaah, he glorified him (by saying subhaanallaah – exalted is allaah and far above any imperfection), and when he recited the verses that entailed supplication, he supplicated, and when he recited the verses that mention seeking refuge of the lord, he sought (his) refuge. then he bowed and said: "(subhaana rabbiyal-'atheem) my lord, the great is far above any imperfection" his bowing lasted about the same length of time as his standing (and then on returning to the standing posture after rukoo`) he said: "(sami` allaahu liman hamidah, rabbana wa lakal hamd.) allaah listened to him who praised him. our lord the praise is yours" then he stood about the same length of time as he had spent in bowing. he then prostrated himself and said: "(subhana rabbiyal-a`la) my lord, the supreme is far above any imperfection" and his prostration lasted nearly the same length of time as his standing." [muslim] the narration in the book of imaam ahmad indicated that this took place during ramadhaan.


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Frankfurt had a delightful week after picking up an away win over Marseille in the Europa League and a draw with RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga. Borussia Mönchengladbach may be looking to put the brakes and pick up their first win over this opponent since March 2016. Dieter Hecking's team are well placed to capitalise on home advantage and beat Frankfurt. The club has picked up back-to-back wins at Borussia-Park – over opponents like Schalke and RB Leipzig. I would go with a win for the hosts.
The form of Alassane Plea, who made a €23 million switch from Nice in the summer, has been a huge positive for Mönchengladbach. The 25-year-old has come up with a goal or an assist in all but one of his games this season. Frankfurt are not too bad going forward and continue to profit from Sebastian Haller's presence. I would back over 2.5 goals in the match.


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Ideal for those who like a spot of history with their hotel breaks
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the start of restorations to Hartwell House, a Grade I listed 17th century stately home in Buckinghamshire which draws thousands of visitors every year. The house, which was once the home of exiled King of France Louis XVIII (for five years from 1809), was lovingly restored by Historic House Hotels and opened as a hotel in 1989. It became a National Trust site in 2008.
Hartwell House is ideal for those who like a spot of history with their hotel stays. The building itself is beautiful and still boasts original Jacobean and Georgian features -you'll marvel at the incredibly ornate decorative ceilings, original oil paintings and antique furniture. Unlike the uniformed styles of purpose built hotels, each room in the house is entirely different and has its own unique charm, thanks to the original period features. All have been decorated in a traditional country house style, but those looking to treat themselves should opt for one of the Royal Rooms which each come with a theatrical four-poster bed and views over the garden (and with 90 acres of garden, there's a lot to look at). Alongside the main house, guests can also stay in Hartwell Court, a magnificently restored 18th century riding school and stables. It's conveniently located next to the spa and features classic and Queen-size rooms - as well as dog-friendly suites for those travelling with their four-legged friend.
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No visit to Hartwell House would be complete without a visit to the spa. Situated in a former orangery, it features a spacious swimming pool, steam room, saunas and hot tub, plus a series of relaxing treatment rooms. While there are dozens of tempting treatments on offer - from Aromatherapy Associates massages to body scrubs and wraps - the Bioffect cellular hydration facial is top of our recommendation list. Incorporating Icelandic practices, the "mini ritual" uses a volcanic exfoliator to eliminate dead skin cells and reveal a brighter, smoother complexion. A rollerball eye massage also works to de-puff eyes and disguise dark circles (and who doesn't want that?)
For visitors during the summer months - and if you can tear yourself away from the spa - Hartwell House also boasts two outdoor all-weather tennis courts, which are free for hotel guests to use (rackets and balls are supplied). You could also get lost in the gardens themselves for hours on end.
B&B priced from £230 per night based on two sharing a court bedroom and £310 per night based on two sharing a bedroom in the main house.
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If they play, Furman wins. Other than that, yeah, we agree.
H. Cross and Colgate pull the upsets this week.
I see their performance so far this year, but are the two teams we've beaten by one possession really better than the Paladins?
Much as I would love to dive into this quagmire of gloom, I'll wait a bit to see if Navy game is actually on.
Ditto.....But "Florence" wins over "Gate/Furman" if the weather predictions are correct..
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We have home and home games scheduled with them in '20 and '21. Might make sense to play in Hamilton Saturday and just play those later games in Greenville.
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Home Newsroom News and press releases Although Tajikistan's parliamentary elections provided some political alternatives, campaign space was restricted and a fair count could not be guaranteed, international observers say
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Although Tajikistan's parliamentary elections provided some political alternatives, campaign space was restricted and a fair count could not be guaranteed, international observers say
DUSHANBE 2 March 2015
A voter casting his ballot during parliamentary elections in Tajikistan, 1 March 2014 (OSCE/Thomas Rymer) Photo details
DUSHANBE, 2 March 2015 – Some contestants provided political alternatives, yet the March 1 parliamentary elections in Tajikistan took place in a restricted political space and failed to provide a level playing field for candidates, the international observers concluded in a preliminary statement released today. Although the government stated its ambition to hold democratic elections, and some improvements were made to electoral law, restrictions on the right to candidacy, on freedoms of expression and assembly, and on access to the media limited the opportunity to make a free and informed choice.
"Engagement by various political forces in this campaign was, unfortunately, not enough to result in truly competitive elections. Uneven treatment by the authorities and remaining legal restrictions limited the space for debate on the real problems facing Tajikistan," said Marietta Tidei, the Special Co-ordinator and leader of the short-term OSCE observer mission. "The voters, many of whom I was pleased to speak with yesterday, deserve more genuine discussion about the future of their country."
"I was pleased to observe that the vote took place in a calm and peaceful manner, however significant shortcomings, including multiple voting and ballot box stuffing, and disregard of counting procedures meant that an honest count could not be guaranteed." said Norbert Neuser, Head of the EP delegation. "I encourage the authorities to introduce the changes necessary to make the voting procedure transparent and credible."
More than half of the vote counts observed were assessed negatively.
Despite the existence of some political choice, the campaign took place in a controlled environment, as regulations limited the possibilities for candidates to campaign. The distinction between the state and the ruling People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan was often blurred in the campaign. There were credible allegations of harassment and obstruction of some opposition parties, as well as pressure on voters, the observers said.
The imbalanced coverage by state media, negative reporting on the opposition Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, and the absence of genuine political debate considerably limited the opportunity for voters to make an informed choice, the statement says. The state-owned media outlets – the only broadcast outlets with nationwide coverage – focused overwhelmingly on the activities of state authorities, and not on contestants' campaigns.
"While we have noted some improvements, for example in the election law, the advantages of incumbency were still misused. Greater equal treatment in law and in fact for all political forces is required for Tajikistan to live up to its democratic commitments," said Geir Jøergen Bekkevold, Head of the OSCE PA delegation. "I was pleased to see that some choice existed for voters, and hope that in the future there will be more space for a vibrant campaign."
Amendments in 2014 to the election law addressed some long-standing recommendations by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), but further reform is needed to bring this in line with OSCE commitments and other international obligations and standards. While it includes important electoral principles, the legal framework does not comprehensively regulate the process and certain aspects lack clarity and coherence, the observers said. The law was often selectively interpreted in a manner that restricted the freedoms of expression and assembly, as well as the right to access information.
Legal deadlines were met, and the sessions of the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER) were generally open to observers and the media. The lack of transparency in the appointment of election commissions and the strong role of the government administration contributed to a lack of confidence in the election administration's independence and impartiality on the part of opposition representatives. While there was a comprehensive voter information campaign in state media and training for lower-level commission members offered an opportunity to clarify vague procedural matters, the failure by the CCER to address unclear aspects of the campaign, registration and polling procedures contributed to inconsistent implementation, the statement says.
The voter registration process was inclusive and allowed voters to verify their registration, but the lack of safeguards against multiple voting undermined the integrity of the process, the observers said. Significant questions remain as to whether the number of polling stations abroad was sufficient to facilitate voting for the large number of citizens outside the country.
All eight political parties registered candidates, but only two had enough registered to potentially win a parliamentary majority. Eligibility requirements related to education, residency, language and criminal conviction and investigation records are contrary to international obligations and standards. In a positive step, the financial deposit was halved, although some parties reported this remained too high. There are no special legal measures to promote women candidates, and few women were placed in winnable positions on party lists.
"Genuinely democratic elections cannot be held without real debate in the media, an independent election administration and an environment free of repression. Unfortunately all of these were missing," said Miklós Haraszti, Head of the OSCE/ODIHR long-term election observation mission. "The deeply felt desire for peace among all players gives me hope, however, that the electoral reform process will move forward in addressing the serious shortcomings we have observed."
Thomas Rymer, OSCE/ODIHR, +992 98 91 877 32 or +48 609 522 266, thomas.rymer@odihr.pl
Andreas Baker, OSCE PA, +992 98 796 0076 or +45 60 10 81 26, andreas@oscepa.dk
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GLO examines two- and three-digit lottery schemes
The board of the Government Lottery Office (GLO) is mulling over the two and three-digit lottery and lotto schemes before proposing them to new government for approval and implementation.
Excise Department director-general Patchara Anuntasilpa, in his capacity as the GLO board chairman, said the two and three-digit lottery tickets aimed to compete with the underground lotteries estimated to be worth Bt200 billion. He said the tickets would be sold online and via a mobile phone application.
The online lotto payment method was now under consideration especially as the jackpot could be as high as Bt100 million. If the board gave the green light to these two schemes on Monday, public hearings could be organised within the next two months, he said.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Political Office Holders found ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra guilty of a criminal offence under Section 157 (official wrongfully exercising his functions) regarding the illegal launch of a two and three-digit scheme in 2003-2006 and sentenced him to a two-year imprisonment without suspension. The court also issued an arrest warrant for him to comply with this ruling.
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Did you hear the one about the major US city that accidentally endorsed a possible boycott against Israel? On January 11th, the New Orleans City Council passed a resolution that called on the city government to "protect, respect, and fulfill the full range of inherent human rights for all, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and numerous other international human rights instruments," milquetoast and bureaucratic language that made no specific mention of Israel and effectively masked the legislation's actual intent. The resolution asked the city government to consider "the creation of a process to review direct investments and contracts for inclusion on, or removal from, the City's list of corporate securities and contractual partners." This call for a mechanism to end unspecified city investments and contracts was reportedly "drafted by the New Orleans Palestine Solidarity Committee," according to JTA. On January 26th, the City Council unanimously repealed the resolution, as protesters chanted and sang from an adjacent hallway.
Credit to New Orleans Palestine solidarity activists: It's impossible to ignore the humor of an entire legislative body being duped into weighing in on a far-away international conflict without their consciously even realizing it. The resolution itself was so remote from the actual intents and beliefs of the New Orleans City Council that the chamber had no apparent idea of what it was really voting for, and reversed itself as soon as the origins and intentions of the resolution were exposed. Getting one over on an entire municipal government for a city of 400,000 people is an impressive accomplishment and reflects a mastery of the democratic process that even a Naftali Bennett fan probably couldn't help but admire.
On the other hand, this success resulted from a cheap sleight of hand: Again, the City Council didn't know that they were voting for a stealth Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions-movement (BDS) resolution. With Israel's economy, foreign trade, and international relations expanding in recent years, the BDS movement has had to satisfy itself with such Potemkin successes of dubious long-term importance. In a time when nearly half of US states have some kind of anti-BDS law on the books, the movement's victories have been limited to non-binding campus votes, furtive procedural maneuvers, and pressure campaigns aimed at people who are uninvolved with the conflict's politics or distant from any actual political power .
Without any durable victories of real significance, the BDS movement might be starting to aim lower. In New Orleans, the movement injected its particular agenda into the softest of possible targets: Namely, a city legislative body that few people were really paying attention to, including, apparently, its actual membership. The past few years have shown that there are few walks of life that are totally immune from Israel-Palestine activist warfare, and the spectacle of a city council endorsing and then un-endorsing a BDS resolution is just a particularly absurd example of how far the conflict's frontiers have expanded—and of the tactics that activists are using to push them ever further outward.


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James Lin's perfect score extends Exeter's tradition of success at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
What does 594 competitors from 107 countries crunching six brain-bruising math problems in nine hours add up to?
No. 1 for James Lin.
The 2018 Exeter graduate steered the United States team to first place at the 59th International Mathematical Olympiad last week in Cluj Napoca, Romania, turning in one of only two perfect individual scores in the two-day competition.
The gold medal is the second for Lin. Last year, he ranked sixth individually at the competition, helping the U.S. to a fourth-place finish.
Exeter's Thomas Guo '21 earned a silver medal while representing his native Canada. The Canadian team finished 16th.
The IMO recognizes team success, but the participants work on the problems individually. Each has nine hours — split into two sessions over two days — to crack six problems, with judges grading work on each problem on a zero-to-seven scale.
Problem No. 3 proved particularly challenging; 548 of the 594 participants scored a 0. Lin, bound for MIT in the fall, chalked up a perfect 7 on the question that featured an anti-Pascal triangle.
Making noise with numbers is an Exeter tradition. Three of the nine perfect scores at the IMO over the past four years belong to Exonians. Alex Song '15 completed a record-setting career at IMOs with the lone perfect score of the 2015 competition. The next year, Yuan Yao '17 helped the U.S. win the team title with perfect marks.
A commitment to STEM
The math competition success reflects a strong commitment to STEM disciplines at PEA. Here are some stories about other Exonians challenging themselves and making a difference in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math:
Building a power plant on a chip
Conversations about clean, renewable sources of energy tend to focus on solar and wind power. But Jared Schwede '03 has his eye on another option: thermionics, the conversion of heat into electricity on a chip not much bigger than a postage stamp. https://www.exeter.edu/people/jared-schwede
Looking up at the stars
Sipping hot cocoa before dawn at the Grainger Observatory during her upper year, Aomawa Shields '93 didn't mind the cold or even waking up at 4 a.m. to join her physics classmates in observing Jupiter's moons with a telescope. "What originally drew me to [astronomy] was just being outside and looking up at the stars." https://www.exeter.edu/people/aomawa-shields
Everything's an unknown — till it's discovered
Ask Bridgette Han '18 to talk a little about herself she seems distracted, quickly turning to polymers and amino acids and her fascination with degenerative diseases instead. For Bridgette, it's the work that counts. https://www.exeter.edu/people/bridgette-han
Exeter alumna shares her passion for math, machine-learning
Christine Robson Weaver '99 is taking aim at some of mankind's greatest challenges while working at Google, and she owes much of that to doing her math homework at Exeter. https://www.exeter.edu/news/exeter-alumna-shares-her-passion-math-machine-learning
Maker Fest: Hand-to-hand collaboration
Learning to make, to experiment hands-on, to fail and recover — it's all part of the growing maker culture at Exeter that is expanding the traditional Harkness classroom model of collaborative learning to new venues and rewards. https://www.exeter.edu/news/exeter-hosts-48-hour-maker-fest
Meet the young physicists who wowed the judges
We caught up with the one senior and five uppers who snared top honors at the recent United States Invitational Young Physicists Tournament competing against 14 high school teams from the U.S., China and Tunisia.


The woman who burned crosses in the "Like a Prayer" video probably is not the best Catholic in the bunch. This is a questionable statement from the Queen of Pop, herself.
Hmmmm…made them out of meat, eh? So, what really came first Sarah: the steak or the cow? Did she not go to school?


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Hood: Defining proper role of government
By JOHN HOOD
Very few conservatives are "anti-government." We believe government should be limited in scope in order to maximize the freedom to make your own decisions and live according to your own values. But we also recognize that protecting that freedom is impossible without government.
By definition, that means coercion. What distinguishes government from the other social institutions that make up a society isn't public spiritedness, organizational flowcharts or periodic elections. Other institutions have one or more of those features.
What makes government unique is that if you do not fund and obey it, you can be fined or arrested. For conservatives, government turns tyrannical when push comes to shove, when it exceeds its proper, constitutional bounds.
I believe human beings have many moral obligations to each other. In most cases, however, your failure to discharge your moral obligation cannot justify me or anyone else using force to compel your obedience. Aggregating all of us as individuals into "society" doesn't change the calculation of justice. We can ask you to do the right thing, we can present arguments and evidence in an effort to convince you. But to resort to force would be to treat you as less than a moral agent, as less than fully human.
Some people take this line of argument so far that they deny a role for government at all in a just society. They are mistaken (and rare). Government is inevitable and necessary because human beings are flawed creatures with temptations, inherent in our unchangeable human natures, to break the very rules that allow civilization to flourish.
Government's proper role is to maximize freedom. That means passing laws and issuing rules that define and uphold our rights, deter and punish acts of force and fraud, and facilitate private, voluntary agreements. It means safeguarding the interests of those who are not in a position to conduct their own affairs, such as minor children and those with severe disabilities.
Most conservatives also believe that means ensuring the provision of certain public goods that make a free society functional and sustainable, such as education — although they typically reject the idea that these services must be delivered by government monopolies.
If you would understand the origins of today's most contentious public disputes — from Medicaid expansion and fiscal policy in North Carolina to Medicare for All and religious liberty in national politics — you have to start with the basics. At root, these disputes aren't about facts and figures. They aren't about administrative competence or political probity. The origins lies upstream of all that. They spring from differences in definitions.
Does that mean conservatives and progressives have nothing of consequence to say to each other? No. We can debate specific policy alternatives, perhaps finding instances of agreement. And I'm going to continue to explain what I mean by "government." I assume progressives will continue to insist that government is just a name for "the things we do together."
Perhaps one side or the other will have an epiphany. At the very least, the conversation may lead to less mutual recrimination and demonization, which would be most welcome.
John Hood is chairman of the John Locke Foundation and appears on UNC-TV's "NC SPIN."
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Get ready for what's sure to be one of the year's most divisive releases: an October 2 release has been announced for New Bermuda, the third offering from Deafheaven. The cover art is a little less memorable than that for their last album, Sunbather, and a lot less likely to end up on an iPhone commercial… but it's also really cool, and, as Metal Insider points out, more traditionally metal. Check it out below; the painting is by Allison Schulnik.
There's no music for us to listen to an argue about yet, but those of you who are already down with Deafheaven can pre-order New Bermuda here. For everyone else… I'm sure there will be a single soon.
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Here's your guide to all of this week's heaviest new releases! Includes Between the Buried and Me, Deafheaven, Wolves in the Throne Room, and more!!
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In today's blog update Albert aka Loft speaks about the studio's recent achievements and plans and shows fresh in-game footage.
A few days ago we launched our pre-order program and we're sincerely grateful to those of you who have already pre-ordered or will order the Standard or Premium edition of IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad in the coming days. We appreciate your support and confidence in us.
Most of you must have noticed that the video trailer features an IL-2 with a rear gunner; however this version of the IL-2 is not in the announced list of planes that will be available at launch. Today we happily reveal that the IL-2 weapon modification with a rear mounted ShKAS gun will be available from the start to everyone who pre-orders the game before September 1st, 2013.
1C Game Studios, a leader in air combat simulations, is thrilled to announce the pre-order for IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad. This brand new title is the continuation of the legendary IL-2 Sturmovik series that has set the standard for combat flight games for more than 10 years. This new entry into the series will offer virtual pilots an even more accurate simulation of the legendary air battles of World War II. A new higher level of physics modeling, damage modeling and aerodynamics has been achieved which allows for far greater realism than in any other title.
"Flight-simulation games are a product of the love and dedication of their development team, often it takes a lot more of both than people realize," said Jason Williams, executive producer of 1C Game Studios. "There is always more that can be done from new planes to better ground details. We want to be able to add that extra care while also allowing our closest fans to become part of the beta team this summer, simply by placing a pre-order. Our fans get to help us craft the game they truly want and it allows us to reward people by beginning work sooner on additional features. In the end, giving back when people show their faith in us just seems like the right thing to do."
"1C is proud to take the next step in flight-simulation history with 777 Studios, a company and team that has grown to be one of the best flight-simulation developers in the world and has proven that their attention to detail and product quality speaks volumes about their talent and dedication," said Nikolay Baryshnikov, VP of 1C Company. "We look forward to bringing a new era of development and spirit of enjoyment to the combat flight-simulation community together."
Jason Williams, President of 777 Studios, had this to say, "The 777 Studios team is very excited to be partnering with such a publisher and developer like 1C. Their passion and support for PC combat flight-simulation as well as historical warfare titles has always been a blessing to these genres and we look forward to producing an excellent product for the Sturmovik legacy and continuing to bring additional content to our existing Rise of Flight product line."
This partnership is also a turning point for the combat flight simulation genre that will streamline development of flight-simulation products and allow collaboration between former competitors. The outcome should be increased opportunities for combat flight simulation fans to enjoy their passion while also increasing the likelihood of success in the marketplace. Both 1C and 777 Studios see the flight-simulation genre as an important one for PC gaming with a dedicated fan-base that is eager to support interesting and immersive products. 1C Company is located in Moscow with offices throughout Europe and 777 Studios is headquartered in Southern California with development teams in Russia and Ukraine.
Battle of Stalingrad will include both single-player and multi-player scenarios for virtual pilots to enjoy as well as brand new gameplay modes. Initial client release is slated for early 2014 with add-on content and additional features and theatres to follow. IL-2 Sturmovik is an award winning WWII flight-simulator video game franchise and includes such bestselling titles as IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles, Pacific Fighters, 1946 and Cliffs of Dover. IL-2 Sturmovik titles feature intense aerial combat and dozens of historically accurate warplanes and missions. Named in honor of the famous Soviet Ilyushin IL-2 ground-attack fighter, the Sturmovik series features all major theatres in WWII, from the freezing eastern front to carrier combat in the vast pacific theatre. The IL-2 Sturmovik series of titles is widely regarded as the standard by which all other combat flight-simulators are measured and remains a top seller worldwide.


What is "Lifetime Free Upgrades"?
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Once a new version released, we will inform you immediately and send the download link to the email you provided when purchase the product.


DIY Photo Canvas using photo and modge podge and no peeling off the back or extra steps. Trying this!
DIY Picture Christmas Balls - i think this would be great with last years Christmas cards!
DIY pillow covers - Glad I saw this. I would have made this project unnecessarily difficult.
DIY pom pom rug. this just looks really comfy. id for sure use white and creamy colors.
diy pvc chicken coop watering system going to do this with the next flock I get.
DIY Restoration Hardware Copy Concrete Farmhouse Table For Less than ONE TENTH of the Price !
diy reusable sandwich bags. love these.
DIY roman shades from cheap mini-blinds. tutorial on her blog. this way is a lot easier than the other types ive seen.
DIY Rose Of Coffee Filter Pictures. Click On Image For More Craft Projects.
DIY ruffle curtain. You don't have to be good at sewing!!
DIY Scented Bath Salts in 3 Minutes!
DIY Screen Print (University Foodie) Got a couple of images that will work aweome!!!!
DIY Sharpie Plates - Buy plates from Dollar Store Use a Sharpie and decorate...Bake at 350 for 30 min. Becomes permanent and safe - could do with quotes, monogram, or special days of the year. Birthday plate!!! Great idea for taking holiday cookies to neighbors.
DIY Shoe Box Organizer. This is actually really smart. Store different boxes in the closet and pull out the one(s) you need.
DIY Shoestring Wall Art Ideas & Tips!
DIY shrinking Christmas Ornaments for Kids these are fun and easy. We made SO many.
DIY Skirt Tutorial from Make It & Love It.
DIY Snowman Can - using a soup can and acrylic paint to create this adorable snowman.
DIY Snowman Gum Stocking Stuffer/Cute Tiny Gift. Use a sharpie and/or acrylic paint.
DIY Stocking Hangers • Projects and Tutorials! Including, from listfully blissful, this wonderful diy stocking hanger.
DIY Super Easy Paper Plate Crown I like this crown! Reminds me of pom-pom textiles from central asia.
Diy swaddle blanket template. Easy tutorial. Pulled it together in a couple hours, even with the boys awake!


What's New and Updated on Foothill Farming?
Financial Resources - Looking for ways to fund your operation? Search no further! Here are some resources to put you on the right path to Funding Your Operation.
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Online Newsletters, Blogs, and Webinars - A slew of You Tube videos (new addition), online newsletters, blogs, webinars, and magazines that offer insights, tips, information, and knowledge for new and experienced growers alike.


Science and pseudoscience: How do you identify between the two?
What is a scientist and what are the characteristics a scientist should have?
What is the best way to study science books and textbooks?
How should go about receiving a science grant to conduct scientific research?
What are some of the important and fundamental pieces of evidence for evolution?


Gonzo was adopted on April 11th 2018 when his foster family thought they may lose him to another family. They said the cried the whole way home thinking that life without him would be not be the same.
Sweet Gonzo is a 2 year old terrier mix who was picked up our animal control officers in Asbury NJ. Scared, emaciated and covered in sores we nursed this boy back to health and taught him to trust humans again.
In February this special guy was placed in an amazing foster home who say nothing but great things about him!


Raudel Felix García drinks plenty of water to cope with the hot days. His brother Abdon died in 2008 from heat-related complications.
Abdon "Audon" Felix García lost his life on a brutally hot day working in the fields of California's Central Valley.
Workers harvest and package cantaloupes near Firebaugh, California.
Raudel Felix García thinks about how the heat affects him and his landscaping crew on a daily basis. He wears long sleeves and a hat to protect himself from the sun, drinks plenty of water (sometimes upwards of 15 to 20 16 oz. bottles a day), and takes frequent breaks when temperatures are soaring over 100 degrees.


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Pine Tree Legal has been able to help several tribal members who received Notices of Overpayments from Social Security. There are several things you can do about overpayments, but it is very important to take action quickly when you receive a Notice. It becomes harder for us to help if you wait. If you ignore the notice, SSA will start taking money out of your payments. Contacting SSA promptly can stop the collection of the overpayment until a decision is made by SSA.
If Social Security finds that you have gotten too much money in your disability or SSI check, they will send you a Notice of Overpayment. Sometimes an overpayment happens because you did not report a change in your income or household to SSA. Maybe you did not know that you were supposed to report the change. Or maybe you did tell SSA and they didn't record it. In some cases, you may have reported the change, but SSA delayed in decreasing your monthly check.
Ask for Reconsideration if you think the amount of the amount of overpayment is wrong or the reason SSA gives for the overpayment is wrong.
You have trouble reading. You did not know what you had to report to SSA.
You have trouble remembering or understanding directions.
You believed you reported every change that might have caused an overpayment.
You were not told about the reporting requirement.
You applied for SSI a long time ago and do not remember the reporting rules.
Ask for a Payment Arrangement if you think that the overpayment was your fault or you can afford to pay it back.
The amount is $1000 or less.
If you have lost all of your appeals or have decided not to appeal any further, you must pay the money back. Tell SSA that you want to repay it in small amounts each month that you can afford. Otherwise, SSA may automatically take your whole Social Security disability check or 10% of your SSI check. Usually you will have to pay back at least $10.00 a month. SSA tries to get the money back within 3 years. However, they cannot take more than 10% of your SSI check, even if it takes more than 3 years.


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August 24, 2019 musingsEwen
The other day I randomly decided to look into ways to type faster. There are things like the Dvorak keyboard layout (and some newer alternatives, most notably Colemak), but the differences in speed between those and a QWERTY keyboard seem to be relatively minor. There were several attempts at creating chorded keyboards–where you use combinations of keys to produce text–but none of them really caught on, so that the hardware is hard to find and overpriced. I eventually arrived at stenography.
Strictly speaking, "stenography" is a term for any method of quickly recording text, and thus it also includes things like shorthand and even speech-to-text technologies. The most recognizable form of stenography today is court reporting, which is usually done with a stenograph machine, also known as a stenotype. Stenograph machines have been around for over a century, dating back to the late 1800s. They now have a standardized 22-key keyboard, and a trained operator can use chords to produce text. To get certified as a court reporter in the U.S., you have to be able to type at 225 words per minute (fast enough to comfortably record conversations in real time), and exceptional stenographers can reach 400 or more WPM, compared to 216 being the world record for QWERTY typing. Even if you don't get anywhere close to being qualified as a court reporter (which typically takes 2-6 years), with a few months of practice at steno you can get significantly faster than you'd be on a QWERTY.
Early steno machines produced a tape showing the chords, which someone with the proper training can interpret and transcribe into normal text. Today they're mostly digital, and turn the chords into regular text on the fly. On the other hand, since steno machines and software are something that a niche market needs in order to make a living, they tend to be outrageously expensive (easily $5,000 for a pro-level machine, and a few grand more for software), and the software is kind of limited and clunky. Even more basic steno machines for students rarely go for less than $1,200, it's not something people would pick up unless they were hoping to make a living from it.
A professional stenographer named Mirabai Knight has led the way to creating an alternative with the Open Steno Project. The project produces a free open-source program called Plover that lets you do stenography on computers running Windows, macOS, or Linux, and since it works through keyboard input, it works with pretty much any program that takes text input.
The hardware is a little trickier, but you can buy a mechanical keyboard (those are a little easier to customize, plus they commonly have the n-key rollover feature required to handle the elaborate chords of steno) and modify it for $50 or so. If you were without a computer, you could get a cheap laptop or rig up a Raspberry Pi to run Plover and OpenOffice for $100 or so. A steno setup that costs $150 is about one tenth the cost of even a low-end stenotype aimed at students.
You can even get fancy with 3D printed keycaps, and there's now a whole mechanical keyboard enthusiast scene that among other things has produced some compact ortholinear keyboards (like the Planck) that, although not cheap, can work nicely for steno. Some members of the Plover community have gone as far as to make and sell hobbyist steno keyboards, and I ended up getting a SOFT/HRUF Splitography that I'm very happy with so far. Hobbyist steno keyboards run around $100 to $200, which is a lot to spend on a keyboard (though fancy mechanical keyboards can easily cost that much), but still a tiny fraction of what a professional steno machine would cost.
Plover is a bit bare-bones compares to professional CAT software, since it doesn't have things like the ability to tie a transcript to an audio recording, but it's totally free and works with basically any software. Rather than being limited to the CAT software's built-in word processor, you can sent the output from Plover into Discord, Word, OpenOffice, Outlook, and so on.
How Does It Even Work???
Stenography isn't simple, but it has a clear logic to it, so that you don't have to totally memorize every single word you want to type. Once you understand that keys have to go in a certain order and that the F key makes S sounds in certain contexts, it's pretty easy to figure out that to type "trust" you key in "TRUFT." Likewise, although the standard steno keyboard only has 22 keys (with some letters repeated no less), you can produce all the letters and punctuation you'd need with the right combinations of keys. You can produce more complex words as multiple strokes, and the software can recognize when you key in certain chords for things like prefixes and suffixes and edit the word being produced accordingly.
Even so, stenographers will put a lot of effort into curating dictionaries, thereby ensuring that they have quick access to the vocabulary they need for the kinds of things they're transcribing. Stenographers working with medicine or legal matters will have dictionaries that cover the jargon in those fields, and there are tons of books of "briefs," steno chords for specific terms. Once I get properly going with stenography, I'm sure I'll have a dictionary with words like "Kagegami" and "catgirl."
Other Languages?
While English has a highly developed practice of stenography, it does exist for other languages, and in fact the earliest steno machines were invented in Germany and Italy in the 1860s. The logic of how the stenotype translates key presses into text is called a "theory," and getting stenography up and running for another language is essentially a matter of creating a theory for that language. That's not a small undertaking, but it is something a person can do.
From what I've seen, stenotypes for other European languages tend to use the same basic hardware as English ones, albeit presumably with substantially different theories. Other languages can call for different hardware, and for example the standard for Japanese stenography (which there's very little information about online) primarily uses a single row of keys with 5 for consonants and 5 for vowels. Plover is for the Western-style steno keyboards (though it does let you customize keys), but that didn't stop a hobbyist from creating a new Japanese steno theory.
What's It Good For?
Stenography has a lot of potential value, and I think it's incredible that the Open Steno Project is making it more so much more accessible. There are surprisingly few people who can do real-time captioning, and if it were more available, we could have live captioning of things like convention panels (like in the video below!) for better accessibility and archiving.
Even if you don't take it to that level, it still lets you type faster and with less strain, which is useful for just about anything where you type. People are using it for coding for example, and it doesn't take all that much effort to do up a custom dictionary for your programming language and text editor of choice.
I'm still just getting started learning steno with the free Learn Plover! textbook and the Typey Type practice site, but I'm looking forward to being able to use it with practically everything I do on computers, but especially for writing RPG stuff. Anyway, I randomly got all inspired and excited about this thing and wanted to share it!
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In a bid that has frequently been sensationalized as a "modern Silk Road", China has invested more than $14 billion in creating railways, ports, and other avenues of trade and travel between Asia and Europe, which are otherwise connected only by Russia. China is set to invest much more in this Silk Road, but that may change, if their current difficulties, mostly resulting from relations with Pakistan, continue.
Officially called the "Belt and Road Initiative", China has financed a wide array of projects across 65 European countries to improve its trading power. Many countries have welcomed the project, which runs alongside $26 trillion of investment by 2030, but Pakistan, often thought to be one of China's most unquestioned allies, has cancelled or renegotiated most of its Belt Road projects. Other countries are now doing the same as well, citing that they gain less than China despite the cost and required infrastructure and compromise.
Additionally, Hong Kong, a former colony of China that is technically autonomous but has arguably lost independence over time, is gaining more attention from its host country due to increasing investment from abroad as well as the growing importance of its naval ports in Belt and Road's current situation.
Overall, investors who have watched China's actions in the past should watch them more closely now that China is experiencing several setbacks. It is unlikely that China will stop investing money in the United States, but in the current situation, its investments in Europe could surge or drop at any time. Hong Kong also stands to become more powerful in this current situation, and achieve more independence under the idea of "one state, two systems". Investors should particularly watch Hong Kong law and investment numbers as they become likely to change.


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Edinburgh sheriff finds man entitled to paternity test as part of child compulsory supervision order
A man who appealed the decision of a children's hearing not to require the local authority to organise a DNA test as part of a compulsory supervision order has been successful in an appeal to the sheriff.
Sheriff Court 14 January 2021
Scottish creel fishers succeed in challenging rejection of fisheries proposal by Marine Scotland
A Scottish fishing federation has succeeded in overturning a decision by the Scottish government not to move forward with a proposed pilot scheme affecting inshore fisheries around the Isle of Skye.
Court of Session Outer House 13 January 2021
Sheriff grants division and sale of Bearsden home jointly owned by feuding ex-sisters-in-law
A sheriff in Dumbarton has granted a crave for division and sale of a property in Bearsden jointly owned by two feuding former sisters-in-law following several years of legal correspondence between them with no agreement.
English High Court rules GCHQ general warrants require sufficient specificity
A privacy rights group has succeeded in having part of a tribunal decision on the use of wide-ranging warrants by UK intelligence services quashed in its application for judicial review in an English court.
England and Wales High Court 11 January 2021
Sheriff Appeal Court upholds decision allowing servitude car parking right off narrow Carnoustie street
The Sheriff Appeal Court (Civil Division) has dismissed an appeal by a property owner in Carnoustie against an order requiring him to give access to his property for to the owner of a neighbouring house to park his car.
Sheriff Appeal Court 8 January 2021
English judge orders recovery of funds from fraudulent car buying company account
The National Crime Agency has succeeded in an action under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to recover monies from the frozen bank account of a former English car sales company as the proceeds of unlawful conduct.
England and Wales High Court 7 January 2021
English High Court rules South African government does not have immunity from salvage payment action
A UK salvaging company that retrieved 2,364 silver bars from a shipwreck in the Indian Ocean has successfully established in an English court that the Republic of South Africa did not have state immunity from an action for payment for salvage.
Building contractor successfully enforces adjudicator's decision in school extension dispute
A building contractor that was hired to construct an extension at a school in Ayrshire has succeeded in an action to enforce an adjudicator's award following a dispute with the local authority.
Court of Session Outer House 5 January 2021
Family attacked in London hotel burglary loses breach of duty appeal in English Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has rejected an appeal by nine claimants, who were injured when a man broke into the hotel they were staying in, against a High Court decision that the hotel was not responsible in law for their injuries.
England and Wales Court of Appeal 24 December 2020
Sheriff Personal Injury Court rules 'online travel agent' deal could be considered a package holiday
A woman who was injured during a two-week holiday to Turkey has successfully established that consumer regulations on the provision of package holidays applied to the booking she made with an 'online travel agent' for flights, accommodation, and hotel transfer.
Sheriff Court 23 December 2020
Outer House rules no servitude exists between 300+ year-old Fife coastal homes
The proprietor of a 350-year-old coastal home in Fife has failed to establish the existence of a servitude right of access over a strip of land within the curtilage of a neighbouring property, either by prescription or by necessity.
Court of Session Outer House 22 December 2020
Edinburgh man has 'mouth punch' culpable homicide appeal upheld
The High Court of Justiciary has allowed an appeal by an Edinburgh man against his conviction for culpable homicide after he argued that the trial judge had misdirected the jury in relation to the definition of the offence.
Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary 21 December 2020
Sheriff Appeal Court refuses appeal against permanence order by recovering alcoholic mother
The Sheriff Appeal Court (Civil Division) has refused an appeal by a mother against the decision to grant a permanence order in respect of her 10-year-old son, Z, to allow him to stay with his maternal grandparents.
Sheriff Appeal Court 18 December 2020
German artist whose vehicle was unlawfully auctioned by Welsh police awarded £36,500 in damages
An English judge has awarded a German artist £36,500 in damages after her vehicle was unlawfully sold by Welsh police before she was able to recover it.
England and Wales High Court 17 December 2020
Outer House dismisses landfill operator's action to recover unpaid waste tax from contractor
A waste disposal and landfill operator that sought payment under a tax statute from a contracting company for not paying the correct amount of tax on hazardous waste material it sent has failed to obtain an order for payment.