Abu Dhabi (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that rebels are ready to observe a ceasefire in Yemen starting this week but the government swiftly dismissed the plan.
The Iran-backed Huthi rebels had agreed to a "cessation of hostilities beginning on November 17, provided the other party implements the same commitment," said Kerry.
He was speaking in Abu Dhabi a day after meeting Huthi negotiators in Oman for talks aimed at finding a durable political settlement for the war in Yemen which has killed thousands.
Kerry said the United Arab Emirates and regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia "have both agreed to try to move forwards with this. They believe it makes sense".
Saudi Arabia leads an Arab coalition that has been battling the rebels in Yemen in a bid to restore the legitimacy of the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
But Hadi's government said it was not aware of any new peace initiative.
"The government of Yemen is not aware of the statements made by Mr. Kerry and does not consider itself committed to them," said Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel Malek al-Mekhlafi.
Remarks attributed to Kerry "are a bid to derail peace efforts and a bid to reach an agreements with the Huthis without the government," he said.
The Saudi-led coalition began intervening in Yemen in March 2015, after the Shiite rebels seized Sanaa and swathes of the country forcing the government to seek exile in Riyadh.
More than 7,000 people have been killed and nearly 37,000 wounded in Yemen since then, and the UN says millions are in need of food aid.
Another 21 million people urgently need health services, according to the United Nations.
Six attempts to clinch a ceasefire in Yemen have foundered, including a three-day October truce that fell apart as soon as it went into force to allow aid deliveries to millions homeless and hungry.
Kerry said he met in Oman with a Huthi delegation that travelled there specially to see him and that talks "went into the wee hours of the morning (Tuesday)."
"The Huthi have agreed. The UN envoy is very supportive of wanting to do this. We are on board, the coalition, so to speak. The Saudis and Emiratis," he said.
Kerry also spoke about efforts to set up a new government of national unity in a "safe and secure Sanaa... towards the end of the year."
"The key is now to get everybody on board," he said, adding that it was now essential to implement a UN peace roadmap drawn up by special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed.
The Hadi government has already rejected it, saying it would reward the Huthis.
"We have to have the final pieces, but I'm very hopeful that this can really come together, and has the potential to be a real turning point in this conflict, providing that everybody does their part," Kerry added.
Meanwhile, heavy clashes between rebels and government forces on Tuesday in Yemen's southwestern city of Taez killed 39 people, five of them civilians, and wounded dozens, military sources said.


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Melody Hossaini (born 18 September 1984) is a social entrepreneur, a professional speaker and personal development trainer and coach.   Melody is the Founder and CEO of social enterprise, InspirEngage International.  She is best known as a contestant on the seventh series of the BBC television series The Apprentice (2011) where she made it to week ten out of twelve, before being fired by Lord Sugar 'with regret' and being described as 'a woman with exceptional ability'.

Early life
Hossaini was born in Iran but her family fled to Sweden to escape the Iran-Iraq War when she was aged just two. She was educated at Great Wyrley High School, a state comprehensive school in the large village of Great Wyrley in South Staffordshire, England. She says that her success as a youth leader led to jealousy from her peers, which resulted in bullying and racism. Nevertheless, she performed well in her GCSEs and A-levels before going on to Oxford Brookes University, where she obtained a 2:1 LLB Hons. Law degree in 2006. She has lived in four countries and speaks five different languages.

The Apprentice
Melody Hossaini was the first ever Social Entrepreneur to compete on The Apprentice. She began the series confidently, coming up with the team name 'Venture' and winning as Project Manager on the first week and avoiding the boardroom for a number of tasks.

Hossaini became the target of an online campaign of abuse by Muslims during the airing of the series who assumed wrongly that she was Muslim. The hate campaign branded her a "bitch" and included comments like "You don't deserve your surname." and "Melody is a bitch for eating sinful food". In reality, Hossaini practices the Zoroastrian religion.

Career
Melody Hossaini is the Founder and CEO of social enterprise, InspirEngage International, established in 2009 offering speaking, training and coaching. The company delivers self-development training, preparing people for the future world of work, to set up businesses and to create social impact in communities.  Starting her career aged 13, she now specialises in skills training to support individuals into employment and enterprise, through the delivery of tailored 'InspirEngage Skills Bootcamps'. InspirEngage is the UK's first complete hands-on social enterprise programme to be embedded into the curriculum.

Causes
In 2007, Hossaini was invited to be trained by Nobel Peace Prize winner and Vice President Al Gore at Cambridge, as part of 'The Inconvenient Truth'.  Melody has since adapted materials to be suitable for young people and worked on international projects combating climate change.

Hossaini was approached by JCWI to work on the 'I am a Refugee project' aimed at humanising the immigration debate and celebrating the world-changing contributions and stories made by high-profile refugees.

To launch the 'I am a Refugee' campaign in 2016.  Hossaini became the face of the campaign alongside several other names also supporting the campaign including singer Rita Ora and Michael Marks founder of Marks and Spencer.  A plaque bearing Hossaini's name has been placed in honour at Oxford Brookes University where she studied, in a symbolic gesture for World Refugee Day.

As the UK representative, Hossaini attended PeaceJam in Los Angeles, where she worked with Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other Nobel laureates on peace implementation in communities.

In 2013 Hossaini set up a bootcamp, in partnership with Hillcroft college, supporting women to prosper in business.  Hossaini has also worked on a number of programmes, coaching and providing support to help young people with career choices.

Hossaini delivered an InspirEngage Skills Bootcamp with the finalists from the Apax-Mosaic Enterprise Challenge. The workshop was part of a series of follow-up prizes to the Enterprise Challenge supporting students to set up their own social enterprises.

Personal life
Hossaini was once held at gunpoint at the age of 12 at her family home in Sweden.  It was after this incident that her family decided to relocate to the UK.

Awards
 Winner of 'Women of Europe Awards' in "Woman in Business" category, honouring women striving to advance the European project in their professional or private capacity, 2017
 Winner, 'Woman of the Future Award' – as presented by Princess Zahra Aga Khan, 2008

References

Living people
British businesspeople
Alumni of Oxford Brookes University
British women in business
The Apprentice (British TV series) candidates
British Zoroastrians
Iranian emigrants to the United Kingdom
1984 births

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An approach that is ultimately based on concepts from humanistic psychology. Carl Rogers was one of the key major spokespersons for the humanistic psychology movement. Commonly, the person centered approach to therapy involves nondirective counseling which is ultimately a reaction against the typical and historical directive psychoanalytic approaches that were done during individual therapy.
Person centered approaches tend to create a level of permissive and noninterventionist climate suggesting that the client knows best, rather than the counselor. Typically nondirective counselors avoid sharing a lot of personal information about themselves with clients and tend to focus more on reflecting and clarifying the verbal and nonverbal communications that clients express to them.
Generally, this humanistic approach tends to believe that people are essentially trustworthy and have a vast potential for understanding themselves while also being able to ultimately resolve their own problems when guided properly.
Generally speaking, Rogers himself did not identify that the Person centered theory was a fixed and completed approach to therapy but more of an add-on to other principles that would help individuals work through their goals. Interestingly, the therapeutic process within Person centered therapy tends to focus more on the person rather than the person's presenting problems, ultimately helping the client grow to become stronger, ultimately, being able to better cope with problems they are facing.
Some of the additional goals of therapy include becoming more open to experience, achieving self trust, developing an internal source of evaluation, and even being willing to continue growing in their own selves.
Commonly, specific goals are not set out the clients but that clients choose their own values and goals. The therapist, as a result, can become fully involved in the person the relationship during the therapeutic process.


If the only color that sets a home apart from the others is that of the vehicle in the driveway, then some new exterior color choices may be a good idea. The good news is, this doesn't necessarily mean a complete paint job is needed. If the condition of the siding is fine, then maybe just a refresh on the trim and accents will do the trick. Keep in mind, though there are thousands of colors to choose from, the reality is that there are most likely only a few colors that are suited for your home.
First, you need to take a close look at the elements around your house. Take a look at the other homes in the neighborhood. If they all use a bland pallet, then consider bolder choices for your trim work. If the other homes use a darker palette, then choose something on the lighter spectrum.
Don't forget about your home's history. If it's an older house then consider a palette that accurately takes advantage of the unique design features that older homes possess. Even if you're not sure of your home's original colors, a little research into the houses of that time period can help steer you in the right direction.
The natural colors and features of your landscaping can also play a large role in determining your exterior color choices. This can be a balancing act at times. For example, if your home is surrounded by a lot of shrubbery and other growth, then choosing a white or off-white color can provide enough contrast to help your home look larger. Choosing darker tones in the same situation would cause your house to stand out much less.
When deciding on the color for your trim and accents, conventional wisdom is to use a neutral color for the trim work. That's because if a contrasting color was used, then some less desirable features of the house would be emphasized. Things like garage doors or a window that doesn't quite fit with the exterior symmetry come to mind. Plus, by using a neutral color, you can make the surface area of the home's exterior seem larger, because the base color of the home will appear to reach out further. Complementary colors are better suited for accents, such as shutters and doors— hence the term, accents. These are the things which will stand out the most. Just be careful though. A color choice that is too bold or one that just is not complementary may overwhelm the architectural features of your home and have an opposite effect.


AAF Flanders' patent-pending filter sealing system prevents bypass of unfiltered air. Cassettes and filters are locked in place on the SAAF Track by a combination of cassette notches and cassette locator bars. Designed to maintain optimal positioning of the cassettes, the locator bar compresses the cassette into the sealing gasket. This unique system ensures exceptional filter efficiency.
These SAAF systems contain a variable speed fan (electronically commutated) to provide energy efficiency and adjustable air flow. The fan section uses a sliding fan tray design to allow easy access for required wiring and installation. The control panel uses a hinged panel design for easy access to the on/off disconnect, variable speed control, and pressure gauges.
Supply air grilles are double deflection, providing maximum control for spread and distribution of air. Return air grilles for the SAAF PRU are single deflection grilles with dampers to allow adjustment of recirculation air flow.
The SAAF PRU and RU are constructed of stainless steel, aluminum, or painted steel for maximum protection and durability. Double-walled panels and doors provide whisper-quiet operation and thermal insulation.


So, Joel and I were playing around on the internet the other night (remember how I told you it was a time waster?) and discovered these little music tests.
Being musicians, of course we couldn't pass them up. Very interesting.
First test we took was the "Tone deafness Test" You hear a musical phrase, then you hear it again. You need to decide if the second phrase stayed the same or if it was slightly changed from the first. The little blurb up at the top says, "Even excellent musicians rarely get above 80% correct..." but I scored 86.7%. I am officially not tone deaf. And I am officially an "excellent musician." And, I officially scored higher than Joel on this one, and that's all I'll say about that.
The second test is the "Rhythm deafness Test" Very similar to the first one, except you are listening to drum riffs instead of musical phrases. I felt it was much harder, and sure enough, I only scored 72% on this particular test. Joel scored exactly the same, although we missed different questions. What can I say? We are not percussionists.
Finally, we took the "Pitch deafness Test" In this test, you hear two pitches and you need to decide if the second pitch was higher or lower than the first. Seems easy enough, except they keep putting the pitches closer and closer together (I'm talking microtones here, people) until you are just not sure about it. I have always known I don't have the best ear for this kind of thing, and it has been my struggle as a musician. I have had a severe high frequency hearing loss in my left ear pretty much my whole life, so it makes it really difficult for me. With that it mind, I thought I did pretty well. I scored 1.5 HZ, which is in the 85th percentile. Mr. practically perfect pitch Joel, on the other hand, scored something like .0325 HZ, which is basically amazing.
So, my musical friends (and non-musical friends, too), have some fun wasting a little time on the internet and see just how great your ear is.
It's fun, so it's not a total waste....right?
I SO don't have time to do this right now, but I can't resist!
Eh, not too surprised about the rhythm! That was hard!
Do I really have to tell you??? LOL LOL..
And I'm sure your skillz are sa-weet! I'll have to play around with those quizzes when I have a bit of time. ..
hmmm- I only took the first test and did alright with 83.3%. Guess all those piano and voice lessons along with years in choir taught me something! Fun!


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import scala.collection.mutable.ListBuffer

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  private val lock = new Object

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    }

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    lock.synchronized {
      output += Output.Stderr(s)
    }

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    lock.synchronized {
      output += Output.Display(displayData)
    }

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The information technology-based money lending service industry plans to use a customer fund account to deposit lender funds. In fact, the use of customer fund account has been socialized, but the customer fund account has not been used to date because pending the development of such product by banks.
A customer fund account will facilitate an information technology-based financial transaction process. In addition, the use of customer fund account will improve the service of escrow account which is still currently used. An escrow account is a temporary collection account which is used to deposit lender funds.
However, the use of customer fund account has not been provided for in Regulation of Indonesia Financial Services Authority Number 77/POJK.01/2016 regarding Information Technology-Based Money Lending Service. The regulation only provides for the obligation to use an escrow account. Therefore, it is expected that the use of customer fund account can be immediately realized.


The Queensland Rugby Foundation aims to improve participation and enjoyment across all levels of the game, from the elite level to grassroots and junior rugby.
The Queensland Rugby Foundation supports the State's high-performance program, including the St George Queensland Reds, the Reds Academy, Queensland Under 20s and other representative sides, such as the Junior Gold program.
The Queensland Rugby Indigenous Program was established in 2010 to use the love of rugby to provide mentoring and educational support for Indigenous children in remote Queensland communities.
Queensland Rugby Union Archive and Exhibition Fund: Queensland Rugby Union's semi-permanent exhibition of artefacts at Suncorp Stadium during the 2018 Super Rugby Season to celebrate Queensland's 1000th capped match.
Womens Rugby: Raising funds for Coaching courses for women, participation drives in regional and rural Queensland and building more competitions for women around the state are all areas of focus.
Have transferred $2000 for Qld Rugby from Safedig Services.
Revive Ballymore, went to many games in "the old days" on the Hill.
Ballymore should forever remain the home of rugby in QLD!
Good luck with this goal.
Ballymore is the heart and soul of Rugby Union in Queensland and we should develop and promote the facilities to secure the future of the game.
Go the Reds,.. bring back Ballymore for a game or two!!
Keep Ballymore the home of QLD Rugby Union.
More than happy to keep the heart of Queensland Rugby alive! I can't wait to see the new facility in all its glory. Go QRU!
I have very fond memories of Ballymore. I hope we restore it to play a significant role in Qld and Australian rugby and be sustainable.
This donation was part of the CBRE Make a wish, it is very overdue but better late than never.
Best wishes to Tom and CBRE team in supporting this cause.


WEST CHICAGO – Wheaton Warrenville South's Maria Dohse wasn't thinking about the 30-degree weather Wednesday afternoon at Wheaton Academy.
She might have been the only one who felt that way.
While her Under Armour helped her feel comfortable despite the frigid conditions, she certainly helped fellow sophomore Abbie Brennan feel comfortable in net, as the Tigers were selfish all afternoon, consistently disrupting Wheaton Academy whenever it got into the final third of the field, and using that stingy defense to post a 2-0 shutout.
After dropping its season opener gainst Batavia, the Tigers were thrilled to pick up victory no. 1, especially during a year where they feel they should be able to pile up plenty of victories.
Wheaton Warrenville South (1-1-0) only had three upperclassmen in the starting lineup with seniors Julia Hildebrand and Emily Calloway and junior Claire Kiple.
Wheaton Academy, which earned a tie in the rivalry last season but hasn't beaten the Tigers in at least the past three seasons, did little offensively in the first half. But the Warriors came out strong in the second half, peppering Wheaton Warrenville South goalkeeper Abbie Brennan with shots in the first few minutes.
The Warriors nearly were awarded a penalty kick in the 47th minute, but had to settle for a free kick just outside the box. Senior Emmerson Fuller took it but her shot was well off target.
A few minutes later the Tigers scored what would prove to be the game winner in the 51st minute.
It wasn't the prettiest goal, but the timing could not have been better for sophomore Allie Anderson and the Tigers. Knowing full well that she had the authority to take a shot when the opportunity presented itself, Anderson lofted a long shot that she was able to deposit into the net. She was named MVP of the Match for her clutch effort.
Anderson felt that someone was overdue to deliver a big play, especially because of the defensive effort of her teammates.
It would be all they would need, although the Warriors made things interesting, especially when they nearly netted the equalized about a minute later.
Gretchen Pearson nearly delivered but her shot was deflected by goalkeeper Abbie Brennan and was redirected just enough that it hit the right post squarely and then rolled to the feet of a defender who was able to clear it.
The Warriors wouldn't have a better scoring chance the rest of the afternoon. The Tigers scored again with 2:01 remaining to seal the victory.
Sophomore Page Miller delivered the insurance goal, taking a feed from senior Julia Martz.
Callipari certainly was thrilled to see his Tigers score, especially after struggling to put shots on frame early.
This early on in the season, and with eight underclassmen in the starting lineup, Callipari knows he has to patient with this group, but he also knows the talent is there on the field.
The Tigers were able to minimize scoring chances from Wheaton Academy's Gretchen Pearson and Erin Teevans, who combined for 53 goals last year.
It was the second consecutive year that the Tigers didn't allow the Warriors to score. The teams tied 0-0 last year.
Setran said the game time being moved up from 6:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. wasn't a factor or an excuse for coming up short.
Both teams will enjoy spring break before returning to action on April 4. The Tigers will travel to Wheaton North while the Warriors will host Illiana Christian.


PhillyInc: SBA loan guarantees set a record; hooray?
I'm not sure whether it's a good thing or bad that the U.S. Small Business Administration set a record for its lending programs in the federal fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
Small firms obtained 61,689 loans for a total $30.5 billion - up from 60,771 loans and $22.6 billion the previous year.
It's good that so many small businesses were able to tap new credit. But keep in mind that turning to the SBA programs generally means those businesses weren't creditworthy enough to obtain conventional bank loans.
The SBA doesn't make loans directly, but guarantees loans made by approved banks and other lenders. Last week, the commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. crowed that it made more SBA loans nationally than any other lender. It made 5,363 loans for a total of $1.11 billion.
However, Wells Fargo & Co. had higher dollar volume of SBA loans - $1.21 billion for 3,135 loans.
The SBA's Philadelphia District also cranked out the loan approvals last year, signing off on 1,356 loans for a total of $549.92 million. That's up from 1,199 loans for $369.90 million in the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2010.
Different lenders top the local rankings. With 207 SBA loans, M&T Bank Corp. made 100 more loans than its closest rival, Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. The total amount of M&T loans was $27.91 million, for an average loan size of about $135,000.
The lender with highest local dollar volume was Parke Bancorp Inc.'s 44 Business Capital L.L.C. subsidiary. It made 35 loans for a total of $39.20 million, exceeding the $35.79 million that the much bigger Susquehanna Bank approved for 62 loans.
Based in Washington Township, Gloucester County, Parke Bancorp partnered with several veteran SBA lenders in August 2009 to form 44 Business Capital, which is 51 percent owned by the bank.
Greg Poehlmann, president of Blue Bell-based 44 Business Capital, said the loans they've made over the last two years tend to be bigger than those of other SBA lenders. In all, those loans helped create or preserve a total of 1,200 jobs, said Poehlmann, citing data from the customers' loan applications.
Businesses funded by those SBA loans made by 44 Business Capital are a diverse lot: a hardware-store owner opening a second location in Phoenixville, a concrete manufacturer in Pottstown in need of refinancing, and a motel owner seeking capital to improve a property in Wildwood.
They sound like the types of businesses that banks ordinarily would fund. But then, as we're constantly reminded, these aren't normal times.
"SBA lending expands in times of crisis," Poehlmann said.
The clients of 44 Business Credit generally can't get conventional bank loans because they're either missing or short on collateral; have lower cash-flow coverage than banks like to see; or they're in an industry that's out of favor.
There are indications from data analyzed by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco that the business lending environment has stabilized over the last year. So perhaps we're getting closer to banking as usual.
What's crystal-clear is that the SBA won't break a lending record in the current federal fiscal year because all of the special incentives contained in the Small Business Jobs Act that helped juice the 2011 numbers have expired.
Monday: Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, FMC, Harleysville Group, Triumph Group; Tuesday: AmerisourceBergen, Checkpoint Systems, Chemtura, Entercom Communications, Kenexa, PHH, Public Service Enterprise Group, Radian Group, Tenet Healthcare, Tengion, Vishay Intertechnology, Vishay Precision Group, West Pharmaceutical Services; Wednesday: American Water Works, Aqua America, Comcast, Hersha Hospitality Trust, inTest, Lincoln National, NutriSystem, Orasure Technologies, Penn Virginia, Resource Capital; Thursday: Hill International, ICG Group, J&J Snack Foods, Lannett, PPL, Sunoco, TE Connectivity; Friday: Central European Distribution, Marlin Business Services.
at 215-854-2980 or marmstrong@phillynews.com, or @PhillyInc on Twitter. Read his blog, "PhillyInc," at www.phillyinc.biz.


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package regression_tests

import "testing"

func TestDefercheck(t *testing.T) {
	t.Parallel()
	source := `package test

func test() {
	r, _ := os.Open("test")
	defer r.Close()
	defer r.Close()
}
`
	expected := Issues{
		{Linter: "defercheck", Severity: "error", Path: "test.go", Line: 6, Col: 2, Message: "Repeating defer r.Close() inside function test"},
	}
	ExpectIssues(t, "defercheck", source, expected)
}


Being positive and staying true to myself – these are the virtues I live by as my life has been nothing but a constant challenge after challenge.
You see, having a nerve condition causing involuntary facial movements and slightly slurred speech had me being labelled as "cerebral palsy", "disabled" and "handicapped", among others, in the past. I don't blame nor hold grudges against those who judged me so. I understand it is hard for many people to get past that flawed appearance to see the real potential in me. Many easily dismissed me or are afraid to take a chance on me.
This predicament of mine has done little to put me down or make me stop believing in myself. Why should I? In fact, it has spurred me to work even harder to prove myself.
I went on to graduate with First Class Honors in Bachelor of Economics majoring in Business Administration from University Malaya – an achievement which I am extremely proud of till today. Writing has always been my passion, embedded deep within my soul. My first job as a researcher exposed me to the art of academic writing but it didn't take long to make me realise that this form of writing stifled my creativity.
I began to gravitate towards other avenues to express myself, that's when I ventured into copywriting. Taking a bold step to pursue my passion in writing, I switched job to become a junior copywriter with a dotcom company and never looked back.
Since then, I worked in various positions on a freelance or permanent basis in large corporations, advertising agencies as well as SMEs that allowed me to hone my copywriting, writing, editing and translation skills. My working experience has exposed me to different forms of commercial and business writing commercial and business writing for print and online mediums.
Through the years, I have worked with many clients both on the job and as a freelancer. Many expressed gratitude and were happy with the work I delivered. More significantly, many were also impressed by my determination to overcome my life challenges.
Rest assured, it is this determination that drives me to produce the best for my clients. I also find helping others to put their thoughts down in words a very satisfying experience. It is especially so when the written copy serves its intended purpose, whether it is to provide information, secure a business deal, or simply to entertain.


Ago Bay (英虞湾, Ago-wan) is a bay in the city of Shima, Mie Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the Ise-Shima region.
The bay is known for its beauty and sees many tourists each year, in particular due to a train network owned by Kintetsu which runs trains from both Osaka and Nagoya to Kashiko-jima, an island in the bay.
Pearl cultivation was first invented in this bay by Kōkichi Mikimoto in 1893.
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Hi, all! I am really confused now and need some expert assistance. I have been in Pain Management billing for 4 years. I was always taught that when we did an L5-S3 nerve block that we billed 4 units of 64450. My physician, who attends coding classes with us, feels the correct way to code this is 64450 X 4. We have been fighting with our state Medicaid as they only want to pay for 3 units. I have just received an "Edit Clarification" for 64450 from them. I have attached their response (scroll to attachment below).
A patient was seen at our facility and underwent a left-sided L5 and S1, S2, S3, and S4 lateral branch nerve block for diagnostic purpose with C-arm fluoroscopy. What are the correct codes for a lateral nerve block?
Based on the operative report a medial branch nerve block was performed at the L5 and a lateral branch nerve block was performed at the S1, S2, S3 and S4.
For the 4 lateral branch block injections at S1, S2, S3, and S4, report 4 units of CPT code 64450, Injection, anesthetic agent; other peripheral nerve or branch."
It has been my understanding that we can't bill a 64493 because we are not blocking a joint. Are we incorrectly coding a L5-S3 nerve block with 64450 X 4? If not, then how do I fight this. I can't find anything that definitively states this other than ablations of L5-S3 nerves are coded with 64640 X 4. We submitting that to them and, again, they came back with the attachment below.
"Procedure 64450 is used to report the introduction/injection of an anesthetic agent into a peripheral nerve or branch. A peripheral nerve refers to any motor and/or sensory nerves and ganglia that exists outside the brain or spinal cord that is not specifically listed elsewhere in CPT.
The Global Duplicate Value is the total number of times per date of service that a given procedure may be appropriately submitted. This is reflective of the total number of times it is clinically possible or clinically reasonable to perform a given procedure on a single date of service across all anatomic sites. After the maximum number of times is reached, additional submissions of the procedure are not recommended for reimbursement. Duplicate values are assessed for accuracy based on the number of submissions of a specific procedure according to anatomic sites and CPT/CMS guidelines.
Procedure 64450 is typically used for dorsal branch paravertebral nerve injections undertaken at several levels. An example is facet nerve injections which can done multiple levels and would encompass 3 branches, unilaterally or bilaterally (6 total)."
Email me the attachment. I cannot open it here.
We have always done 6449_ series for blocks for anything other than S1, S2, S3, S4 (64450 is the correct code, The lateral branches of the dorsal sacral nerve plexus are considered peripheral nerves). The description of the 6449_ codes states paravertebral facet (zygapophyseal) joint (or nerves innervating that joint). If you read bullet point 4 below it states if the injection is made around or into the spinal nerve, the service should be billed as a paravetebral nerve injection. I got this information from a previous LCD from the local MAC and was used to educate my physicians.
procedures Modifier 50 should be appended to the procedure codes with number of services of one.
Last edited by josephmglick; 10-10-2018 at 11:33 AM.
According to the AMA, the code series for medial branch blocks and the facet joint injections are the same (i.e., CPT series 64490-64495), with reporting based on the number of facet joints injected, not the number of nerves injected. For example: If three (3) medial branch nerves are injected only two (2) facet joint injection codes would be reported despite the fact that three nerves were injected, since each facet joint is connected to two medial nerves.
Therefore, it would be appropriate to report CPT code 64493, Injection(s), diagnostic or therapeutic agent, paravertebral facet (zygapophyseal) joint (or nerves innervating that joint) with image guidance (fluoroscopy or CT), lumbar or sacral, single level, for the L5 medial branch block.
S1, S2 and S3 will be considered as lateral branch blocks and lateral branch nerve is a peripheral nerve that would be reported with CPT code 64450, Injection, anesthetic agent; other peripheral nerve or branch, when a lateral branch nerve block is performed.
Please note: CPT code 64450 should only be reported per nerve or branch and not per injection. Report multiple units of the injection for the three lateral branch block injections performed.
Procedurally, the work of the described SI joint destruction differs from that described by code 64622, Destruction by neurolytic agent, paravertebral facet joint nerve; lumbar or sacral, single level. Code 64622 may be reported for L5-S1 rhizotomy (nerve destruction since this joint lies between two spinal segments for which the anatomy and procedural work at L5-S1 is similar to that at other spinal segments (e.g., L4-5). Therefore, the unlisted nervous system code 64999 would be reported once for SI joint or sacral rhizotomy (nerve destruction).
To differentiate between the work when performing sacral nerve destruction of S1, S2 and S3 each individually separate peripheral nerve root neurolytic block is reported as destruction of a peripheral nerve, using code 64640, Destruction by neurolytic agent; other peripheral nerve or branch. In this instance, code 64640 is reported four times. It is suggested that Modifier 59, Distinct Procedural Service, be appended as well.


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es una novela ligera japonesa escrita por Ryō Asai, con base en la animación masculina. Fue publicada por la editorial Shūeisha desde el 5 de octubre de 2010 al 20 de febrero de 2013. La novela fue adaptada a una serie de manga ilustrada por Kenichi Kondō y comenzó su publicación el 5 de abril de 2016. Una adaptación a serie de anime comenzó su transmisión el 5 de julio de 2016 y finalizó el 27 de septiembre de ese mismo año. Fue dirigida por Ai Yoshimura y auspiciada por el estudio Brain's Base.

La novela se basa en "Shockers", un equipo real de animadores masculinos de la Universidad de Waseda.

Argumento
La historia se centra en los miembros de un equipo de animadores masculinos de la Universidad Meishiin. Haruki "Haru" Bandō es un luchador de judo que luego de sufrir una lesión en el hombro decide abandonar el equipo de judo de su universidad. Sin embargo, Haruki en realidad se siente aliviado de dejar el equipo debido a que su familia es dueña de un dojo y se sentía presionado por ejercer en dicha área. Su mejor amigo, Kazuma Hashimoto, el cual también decide abandonar el judo, lo persuade para crear y formar parte de un equipo de animadores masculinos y, a pesar de las numerosas dudas de Haruki, este finalmente accede a su propuesta.

Personajes

Principales

Voz por: Yūki Yonai
Tímido y de personalidad vacilante, Haru es un exluchador de judo que es convencido por su mejor amigo Kazuma de crear y unirse a un equipo de animadores masculinos. Esto, sumado al hecho de abandonar el judo, provocó una fuerte desaprobación por parte de su hermana mayor, Haruko, quien comenzó a ignorarlo y a perder en sus competiciones de judo. Eventualmente, Haru decide hablar con su hermana con el fin de reconstruir su relación fraternal y asiste a una de sus competiciones para demostrarle que aún continuaba apoyándola a pesar de haber abandonado el judo. Su posición en el equipo es top.

Voz por: Nobuhiko Okamoto
Kazuma es el mejor amigo de Haruki y también un exluchador de judo. Kazu fue a vivir con su abuela luego de la muerte de sus padres en circunstancias no especificadas. Se siente motivado con respecto a la animación debido a que su madre solía ser porrista durante la universidad, por lo que decide crear un equipo de animadores, The Breakers. Sin embargo, más tarde se revela que sus verdaderas intenciones detrás de la creación del equipo era con el fin de lograr que su abuela, quien padecía de alzheimer, lograse recordarlo, puesto que al ver un video de su madre mientras realizaba una presentación ella pareció recordar quien era momentáneamente. Su posición es top.

Voz por: Yūki Ono
Es el entrenador de The Breakers y su posición es base. Solía ser parte del equipo de animadores Sparks, sin embargo, luego de dejar caer accidentalmente a una compañera durante una presentación decidió abandonar la animación. Este hecho persiguió a Shō por mucho tiempo y se sentía culpable por lo sucedido, hasta que finalmente logra superar sus adversidades y seguir adelante.

Voz por: Tomokazu Sugita
Fue el tercer miembro en unirse a The Breakers y su posición es base. Su padre es chef profesional, por lo que sabe cocinar numerosos platillos. Wataru tiende a recitar frases de personas famosas.

Secundarios

Voz por: Yū Hayashi
Fue el cuarto miembro en unirse al equipo y su posición es base.

Voz por: Kōsuke Kuwano
Es el mejor amigo de Gen y su posición es base. Solía jugar béisbol durante la secundaria.

Voz por: Katsuyuki Konishi
Es el mejor amigo de Sōichirō y su posición es spotter. Solía jugar fútbol durante la secundaria.

Voz por: Ayumu Murase
Ryūzō, apodado Saku, es un estudiante de primer año de la universidad y su posición es top. Solía bailar ballet cuando era pequeño y está enamorado de Kazu. Su nombre significa "dragón", pero su apariencia y personalidad delicada contrastan enormemente con esto, un hecho que divierte a sus compañeros.

Voz por: Tasuku Hatanaka
Hisashi es muy estricto y tiende a enfadarse si ve que malgastan el tiempo. Sin embargo, a pesar de su personalidad difícil, es un buen compañero. Antes de entrar a The Breakers, intentó formar parte del equipo de animación Sparks pero fue rechazado. Su posición es base.

Voz por: Chiharu Sawashiro
Takeru decidió unirse a The Breakers luego de quedar impresionado con la presentación de estos en el festival escolar. Solía tener conflictos con Hisashi, hasta que luego ambos lograron hacer las paces. Su posición es base y es apodado "Brócoli" debido a su afro.

Voz por: Ryūichi Kijima
Takuya es el hermano menor de Takumi y ambos solían bailar break dance. Su posición es base. Le molesta que su hermano se preocupe por él y no quiere ser una carga para este.

Voz por: Takefumi Yumihara
Takumi es el hermano mayor de Takuya y ambos solían bailar break dance. Su posición es base. Se preocupa demasiado por su hermano, a pesar de que Takuya insiste en que puede valerse por su cuenta.

Voz por: Anri Katsu
Kaneda está en su tercer año de universidad y su posición es base. Es apodado "Kin" (palabra japonesa para "oro") debido a su cabello rubio.

Voz por: Hayato Kimura
Gin está en su segundo año de universidad y su posición es spotter. Es apodado "Gin" (palabra japonesa para "plata") debido a su cabello plateado.

Voz por: Yūya Hirose
Gou está en su segundo año de universidad y su posición es spotter. Es apodado "Gou" (palabra japonesa para "bronce") debido a su cabello rojizo.

Voz por: Yōsei Bun
Chen es el hijo del director de la Universidad Meishiin y proviene de China. Solía ser gimnasta y su posición es top. Se sabe que aún está aprendiendo el japonés.

Voz por: Hiroki Yasumoto
Dōmoto es el entrenador de Sparks y un viejo compañero de Shō.

Voz por: Yoshitaka Yamaya
Hanasaki es un miembro de Sparks y su posición es base. Al comienzo, no creía que The Breakers pudiera lograr triunfar en la animación y se mofaba de ellos por ser solo un equipo de hombres.

Media

Anime
Cheer Boys!! comenzó su transmisión el 5 de julio de 2016 y finalizó el 27 de septiembre de ese mismo año con un total de doce episodios emitidos, junto con un capítulo extra lanzado el 9 de agosto. El tema de apertura es Hajime no Ippo por el grupo musical Luck Life, mientras que el tema de cierre es "LIMIT BREAKERS" de Breakers.

Lista de episodios

Musical
En julio de 2016, fue anunciada una adaptación a obra musical de la novela titulada Live Performance Stage Cheer Danshi!!, la cual tuvo funciones en el teatro AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo en Tokio desde el 9 al 18 de diciembre de 2016.

Live action
Una película live action fue anunciada en septiembre de 2018 y está programada para estrenarse en 2019. La película será dirigida por Hiroki Kazama y protagonizada por Ryūsei Yokohama y Masaki Nakao en los roles de Haruki Bandō y Kazuma Hashimoto, respectivamente.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Anime official website

Anime de 2016
Anime y manga de deportes
Series de televisión de Japón
Series de manga


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Cold War 2.0 Euro-Atlantic
"Do Not Enter:" Using OSINT to Monitor Russia's Wargames in the Black Sea
April 20, 2021 4:25 pm April 20, 2021
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Russia has concentrated warships from all fleets, except the Pacific fleet, in the Black Sea for joint drills. While not unprecedented, it is rare to see such a show of…
Russia has concentrated warships from all fleets, except the Pacific fleet, in the Black Sea for joint drills. While not unprecedented, it is rare to see such a show of force.
The cross-theater deployments and large-scale exercises bear the hallmarks of a maritime build-up intended to intimidate Ukraine and deter NATO activities in the Black Sea.
This report showcases the Russian assets and maneuvers and analyzes how these actions are shaping the Black Sea theater of operations.
OBJECTIVE FEAR
Russia's maritime build-up in the Black Sea has two aims:
intimidate Ukraine;
deter and complicate NATO activity in the Black Sea.
CROSS-THEATER DEPLOYMENTS
Russian naval task forces from the Caspian, Baltic and Northern Fleets have joined the Black Sea Fleet for exercises near Crimea.
Caspian Flotilla: Around 15 vessels of the Capsian Flotilla, namely gunboats and landing crafts, entered the Black Sea on 16 April.
Assets identified:
6x Project 11770 landing crafts (no. 721, 722, 723, 724, 725, 726) – NATO/AFIC reporting name: Serna-class.
3x Project 1204 artillery gunboats (no. 042, 044, 045) – NATO/AFIC reporting name: Shmel-class.
1x Project 16611 small hydrographic survey vessel (no. 01817).
The deployment was announced on 8 April but in a smaller number. The ships set sail on 11 April, with social media photos documenting their passage through the Don-Volga channel. Footage dated 16 and 17 April shows some of the Caspian task force vessels transiting the Kerch Strait that links the Sea of Azov with the Black Sea.
OSINT map shows sail path of the Caspian task force (T-Intelligence 2021)
Baltic and Northern Fleets: Both fleets deployed Project 775, or Ropucha-class, landing ships to the Black Sea. Capable of carrying over 450 tones of hardware, primarily tanks or other vehicles, the Ropucha was purpose-built for beach landings. As a versatile hauling platform, the Ropucha has been Russia's maritime logistical workhorse to deploy and support forces in Syria.
Shispotters documented their northbound pass through the Bosphorus strait on 17 April.
Russian Navy Russian Navy Ropucha Class Landing ships Alexander Otrakovsky 031, Kondopoga 027 (Cф Northern Fleet), followed by Kaliningrad 102 and Korolev 130 (Бф Baltic Fleet) have transited northbound through Istanbul today towards Black Sea pic.twitter.com/CsuNkn4Gdv
— Mihail Gorbachev (@MihaelGorbachev) April 18, 2021
Baltic Sea assets:
2x Project 775 landing craft ( Kaliningrad no.102 & Korolev no.130)
Northern Fleet assets:
2x Project 775 landing craft ( Kondopoga 027 & Alexander Otrakovsky 031) – NATO reporting name: Ropucha-class
The maritime build-up augments Russia's land maneuvers near Ukraine's border that have been ongoing for the past month.
In addition to land and naval movements, Russia has also redeployed over 50 aircraft to Crimea. Ukraine estimates that Russia is now garrisoning nearly 110,000 troops near the Ukrainian border.
MANEUVERS: COASTAL DEFENSE, AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT
Russian forces in Crimea will hold a myriad of land, air, and naval exercises until 1 May. Some are already underway, while others will commence this week.
The Russian drills have so far simulated the defense of Crimea and amphibious assaults of the enemy littoral – undoubtedly a message to Ukraine. Exercises involving marine and amphibious assaults are expected to continue. For example, in the next stage of a multi-phase campaign, Russian marines "will deliver artillery fire against a notional enemy's coastal targets that will precede a seaborne assault on the shore."
The satellite imagery below likely shows a Russian naval formation conducting a military exercise off the Crimean coast and near the Kerch Strait. Dated 19 April, the imagery was captured by the Sentinel-1's synthetic aperture radar, a sensor that allows us to see through cloud cover. The exercise area is covered by a notice to mariners (NOMAR) that Russia issued a few days ago.
Sentinel-1 SAR satellite shows large and organized naval formation in a known Russian training area (T-Intelligence 2021)
The timelapse below shows the build-up of military hardware and logistics at the Opuk firing range. High-resolution imagery obtained by Der Spiegel provides a closer look at the staging ground.
Urban SAR timelapse (20 March – 20 April/today) shows Russia's massive hardware & logistical build-up in #Opuk firing range. North of where the vessels (from previous tweet) were operating yesterday. #Crimea #Russia #Ukraine #OSINT #GEOINT pic.twitter.com/KvGLFrwZtF
— T-Intelligence (@T_intell) April 20, 2021
Update: Monitoring the waters off Opuk, we have observed another spike in maritime activity on 21 April. The SAR imagery shows new Russian naval manoeuvres that are consistent with a coastal assault. With the exception of one search and rescue vessel (MMSI: 273145123), none of the ships were broadcasting AIS. No activity has been noticed on the previous day (April 20).
New Russian maritime drills spotted on satellite imagery on 21 April (T-Intelligence)
Using visual evidence published by Zvezda TV on 22 April, we were able to confirm that these vessels and movements are connected to Russia's exercises.
RUSSIAN NO-FLY/NO-SAIL ZONE?
As it is standard procedure, Russia issued a series of notice to airmen (NOTAMs) and notice to mariners (NOMARs) ahead of its exercises, informing seafears and pilots of which areas they should avoid.
Map of NOTAMs and NOTMARs issued by Russia in connection to its military exercises in the Black Sea (T-Intelligence 2021)
Most "danger areas" are in effect until the end of April. However, in the Kerch strait, Russia plans to suspend the right of passage of foreign warships and "other state ships" until 31 October (purple rectangle). Russia's state agency later claimed that "the planned restrictions will not affect navigation in the Kerch Strait or its entry points."
Russia's temporary air-naval restrictions will have severe ramifications for maritime traffic to and from the Ukrainian port cities in the Azov sea, such as the strategic city of Mariupol. Russia's de facto blockade of the Kerch strait will also prevent the Ukrainian navy, primarily based in Odessa, from reaching Mariupol in the event of a crisis.
In addition, Russia aims to deter NATO countries from even considering a "freedom of navigation" operation through the strait or a port visit on Ukrainian coast in the sea of Azov. However, the alliance has never suggested that it is considering such missions.
DENYING NATO ISR ADVANTAGE?
Another key effect of Russia's excessively large NOTAMs and NOMARs is that it could deter or significantly limit NATO's ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) missions on Russia's exercises.
U.S. and British reconnaissance aircraft have been intensively monitoring eastern Ukraine, Crimea, and Russia's Black Sea for the past weeks. Drones and maritime patrol aircraft are surveilling Crimea's coast daily up until 19 April, keeping a close watch on Russia's build-up – read more about NATO's ISR operations here.
FORTE10 and P-8A Poseidon are doing their daily runs. Russian NOTAMs will probably complicate or even deny ISR sorties in some areas as RU naval drills are expected to grow. pic.twitter.com/XfJC2l4MEm
Given the latest NOTAMs, NATO surveillance platforms could be targeted by Russian anti-air fire or electronic attacks. From a legal standpoint, Russia has no authority to restrict the regional airspace, as Crimea is still internationally recognized as Ukrainian territory and falls under the Kiyv flight information region (FIR). However, the Russian build-up displays a credible capability and threat. It remains to be seen if NATO ISR missions will continue, and if so, how.
DETERRENCE TEST FOR NATO
The movement of extra-regional NATO vessels will also be indicative of whether Russia's muscle-flexing and deterrence work. Two U.S. warships are currently on station in the Aegean Sea after President Biden abandoned plans to sail into the Black Sea, fearing that this move would provoke Russia.
Despite Washington's reluctance, London has instructed two Royal Navy warships, one Type 45 destroyer and one Type 23 anti-submarine frigate, to deploy to the Black Sea. It remains to be seen if London will go through with the plan in May and if the U.S. warships will continue to idle in Greek waters.
One thing is certain, regional NATO countries and Ukraine would breathe easier knowing that advance British and American destroyers are in the Black Sea just in case Russia's wargames turn out to be something else.
editing by Gecko
Update 23 April – added a new satellite image of Russian naval drills from 21 April and two explanatory paragraphs.
Update 22 April – additional comments have been added on the paragraph about NOTAMs and NOMARs to clarify Russia's perspective on its plans to limit navigation through the Kerch strait.
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A 'Swift Response' from the 'Saber Guardian': Recognizing the Strategic Importance of the Black Sea Region
July 23, 2017 7:10 pm July 23, 2017
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Strategic Analysis – Saber Guardian 2017 (SG17) is an annual, multinational exercise held in the Black Sea region as pat of the U.S. European Command Joint Exercise Program. This year's…
Strategic Analysis – Saber Guardian 2017 (SG17) is an annual, multinational exercise held in the Black Sea region as pat of the U.S. European Command Joint Exercise Program. This year's iteration took place between July 11 – 20. The exercise's aim was to assure allies and partners of the enduring U.S. commitment to the collective defense at the Black Sea region, to enable the Alliance's command and control functions, and to reinforce deterrence measures agreed to by NATO allies at the Warsaw Summit in 2016. The exercise was organized by the U.S. Army Europe and co-hosted by Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, that saw numerous drills and simulations taking place all over these countries.
Approximate 25,000 troops participated in the exercise, while 14,000 of them being U.S.forces; the rest coming from member or partners countries of NATO: Armenia, Bulgaria, Czechia, Croatia, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, FYRO Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Throughout this analysis we explore the Saber Guardian exercise through the 'Swift Response' mission that took place at the 71st 'Emanoil Ionescu' Air Base in the village of Luna, near Campia Turzii town, Cluj county (Romania), where Transylvania Intelligence was present obtain exclusive footage and information. Moreover, the massive military effort will later in this article be explained through the geopolitical lens as it relates to the Black Sea, as 'Saber Guardian' upholds its exclusive dedicated nature for this expanded region.
'Swift Response': a 'Saber Guardian' exercise
Swift Response is a series of airborne operations and joint force entries that functions within the framework of 'Saber Guardian' and took place in Papa Airbase (Hungary), Bezmer & Shabia (Bulgaria) and Campia Turzii-Luna & Cincu (Romania).
The mission that Transylvania Intelligence had the chance to assist to, took place from the 21st to the 22nd of July, 2017 in Luna, near Campia Turzii, Cluj county, Romania, at the 71st 'Emanoil Ionescu' Airbase of the Romanian Air Force. The employed scenario foresaw an Allied operation to attack and capture the airbase that was occupied by enemy forces. The operation involved 800 U.S. Troops from the 143rd Texas Regiment and the 2nd Cavarly Regiment, and it stretched on three main phases, the first two referring to the 'Joint Forcible Entry' while the last to the 'Airfield Seizure' objective:
1.For 3-minutes, eight AC-130's parachuted hardware, supplies and logistics at 11.00 A.M., July 21st on a plain-field near the Airbase. These resources were to be collected by units already on the ground and be used in the airfield seizure.
2.Later that day, a night airborne operation took place around 23.00 A.M, that saw 500 paratroopers insert the area previously used to deploy the supplies. These forces regrouped with friendly troops on the ground and used the collected logistics to prepare and later execute the main objective: 'Airfield Seizure'
3.Around 4.00 AM, July 22nd, the joint Romanian-US force conducted a dawn raid on the airbase that lasted 4 hours and saw the capture of strategic 71st Base.
The exercise was deemed as a huge success in regards to accomplishing the planned timeline, maneuvers and tactics. This scenario was one of the vastly different and creative operations sketched throughout the 'Saber Guardian' framework. Other missions that enabled or took place within 'Saber Guardian were:
Szentes Axe, Danube crossing in Gyor, Hungary, U.S. and Hungarian troops;
Olt crossing in Bordusani, Romania U.S. and Romanian troops;
Night crossing of Olt, Valcea, Romania, U.S. and Romanian troops;
Live Fire Exercise at Novo Selo training field, Bulgaria;
A Mass Casualty and Air Defense exercise at Mihail Kogalniceanul Airfield, Romania.
Other parallel exercises that enabled and supported 'Saber Guardian' as presented by the U.S. Army Europe – see the last map.
Black Sea Region: An emerging strategic vector?
The Black Sea region has a unique tradition and history as a geopolitical entity. It was in the 18th Century when the Ottoman Empire lost its hegemony over this sea as a direct result of the Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca (1774) that gave the Russian Empire access to its first warm water port in the Black Sea, and the status of protector of the Orthodox Christians living under the Sublime Porte. The Ottoman-Russian rivalry is directly linked to these area , and spilled-over to the Balkans and to the Caucasus, attracting external inputs that tried to maintain a balance of power in the region, or internal elements that marched to form their own states and movements. As it was the case of the Crimean War of 1853-1856, when France and the United Kingdom intervened in favor of the Ottoman Empire in order to defeat Russia and avoid a hegemony over the region by Sankt-Petersburg.
The Black Sea was also a significant front in the First World War when the Ottoman Navy engaged the Russian ships stationed in Sevastopol. But while witnessing a declining importance in the Second World War, the Black Sea region essentially vanished as a geopolitical entity in the Cold War. The traditional Turkish-Russian balance of power disappeared and instead, a Soviet and Warsaw Pact hegemony was installed. However, the situation changed when the URSS collapsed, despite the Russian Federation's desperate attempts to conduct damage control over its ex-territories. One one hand, Moscow saw how its strategic territories as Crimea taken away, how ex-Soviet Republics, as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, or ex-Warsaw Pact allies, notably Poland, Romania, became hardened Euro-Atlantists that integrated in NATO, the European Union and called for a significant increase of U.S. troops on the Eastern Flank.
The critical 'belt' that Moscow looked after was its ex-Soviet Republics. While enjoying a friendly government in Kiev and Minsk for most of the time, the Romanian sentiment swiftly grew in Moldova upon assuming its independence in 1991, which triggered an immediate Russian invasion. While not managing to fully subdue Chisinau, a breakaway region was created east of the Dnister that would hold a perpetual leverage over the country. The Republic of Transnistira still hosts today thousands of Russian troops from the 14th Army. Similar interventions also took place in Azerbaijan (much more indirectly) or Georgia, a conventional invasion that sought to cripple the small republic's future of joining NATO. After the Russo-Georgian War of 2008, two breakaway republics were formed under Moscow's direct military and political foothold: South Ossetia and Abkhazia; these regions still host a number of Russian basses and thousands of troops eyeing Tbilisi. Then, came the 2007 cyber attacks on Estonia that crippled the country's infrastructure.
However, the Black Sea began to fully resurface as a geopolitical battleground when Russia lost Ukraine. After the radical decision by the Yanukovitch government to go ahead with the E.U. association protocol, protests from Moscow made the government reverse the decision, but instead stirred massive street movements in Kiev and all over the country. The crisis of 2014 escalated when the government began shooting at the over 1 million demonstrators in the main square of the capital. In support of the 'Euromaidan' movement came opposition parties, the United States and the European Union. And as Yanukovitch flew to Russia in an attempt to escape the angry population, it became clear the Ukraine was now radically driving out of the Kremlin's sphere of influence and into the Euro-Atlantic one.
Vladimir Putin ordered a seizure of Crimea in yet another attempt of damage control of it's weakening influence. Under a strict political deniability complemented by an ambiguous informational campaign, topped by targeted cyber and electronic warfare, Russian forces stationed in Sevastopol alongside incoming troops from the mainland managed to encircle Ukraine bases in the peninsula. And under a mock-referendum guarded by the Russian troops and local separatist groups, the population of Crimea, indeed overwhelmingly ethnic Russian, voted in favor of uniting with the Russian Federation.
A similar strategy was applied in Eastern Ukraine, in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, but given the immense Euro-Atlantic support for the Ukrainian Army, and without a doubt, the fierce resistance put by the National Guard and Armed Forces at Mariupol, Ukraine managed to keep the Kremlin in check, and contain the malign separatist conflict. Through the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) and the LNR (Luhansk People's Republic) Russian attempted to create a land bridge to Crimea. And from there, according the Vladirim Putin's speech, to form a New Russia (Novorossyia) for all the Russian speaking people in Ukraine – from Harkov, through the Black Sea littoral (Prychornomoria) and that of the Azov Sea (Pryazovia), including Zaporizhia and Kherson Oblasts, all the way to Odessa Oblast.The two hybrid republics, LPR and DPR formally formed the Federation of Novorossyia in 2014; this ended in January 2015 after it failed to expand the project. Attempts of Russian separatist movements were made in Odessa (strategic to this plan) and all over the Russian-speaking regions, however, those have failed to escalate and evolve in armed uprisings similar to what caused the crisis and the de facto succession in Eastern Ukraine
The combination of international pressure and fierce resistance from Kiev, managed to cancel Novorossiya; at least for now. The self-declaration of 'Little Russia' (Malorossyia) as an independent state, made by the leader of DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, draw hostilities (at least publicly) from the LPR and Moscow, dully because it might have been a sign of abandonment of the larger, grand project for a patch of stable influence. Althought Kiev is still facing with a fragile and status quo-friendly treaty, the Minsk Agreement 2, and a potential volatile breakaway territory in the east, it's maintaining its path of Euro-Atlantisism; with U.S. forces regularly conducting joint drills in the western region and on the seaboard, while cooperation with the E.U. is unprecedented.
The Black Sea region has recently emerged as a potential energy hub in regards to natural gas and even oil. The underwater deep shells have attracted interests from the biggest energy investors as Lukoil, OMV and Exxon Mobil to contract the licenses. After years of research and drilling, Romania's maritime shell was confirmed and estimated at around 20 billion metric cubes of gas, enough to make the already energy sufficient country, a gas exporter. Together with Exxon Mobil, Bucharest will begin to exploit the deposit as of 2018. On the other side, Russian companies are already drilling into the shells near Crimea, and could have extended more if Odessa entered the separatist project, and would have changed the Black Sea's exclusive economic zones in Moscow's favor. Such a move would have offered Russia the opportunity to contest Romania's maritime exclusivity and claim the deep water gas deposits thanks to an island, the Snake's Island, that sits within the Romanian EEZ and next to XXI Pelican shell, but belongs to Ukraine.
Additional military moves from Moscow are expected in NATO's maritime perimeter. And as both Bulgaria and Romania suffer from an outdated, weakened and underwhelming military force, a stronger NATO presence is needed in the area. Romania's sole objective at the 2016's Warsaw Summit was to receive support for a Black Sea Fleet framework to be formed within the Alliance. Given Bulgaria's opposition, skeptical of military build-ups in the area, Bucharest only received a multinational battlegroup in Craiova, formed by American, British, Polish and Bulgarian troops. But Washington's aid had doubled in size in regards to military and political cooperation. Furthermore, the latest two National Security Strategies of Romania named as an objective for the country to become 'a strategic vector of the Black Sea'.
Black Sea region exercises; source: U.S. Army Europe press kit
Saber Guardian, the largest exercise ever held in the Black Sea area was organized by U.S. Army Europe and co-hosted by Hungary (logistic hub for south-east Europe), Romania and Bulgaria. It massed 25,000 troops in additional to the already many ongoing exercises by NATO in the area. All the simulated scenarios tested, subjected crisis situations and responsive actions to aggression emanating from the Black Sea. It simulated how logistics could be swiftly transferred from the main U.S. military hubs in Germany, to coordination centers in Hungary and then to the hypothetical frontlines of Romania and Bulgaria. It tested and exercised inter-operability and battle-space versatility, in critical and diverse missions as: air defense operations, mass casualty situations, seizures and counter-offensives; taking place in diverse regional realms, from the Hungarian Danube, to the Romanian plains or Carpathian mountains, to the Black Sea's ports or waters.
Black Sea Area Support Team (ex- Joint Task Force-East), the operational unit within U.S. Army Europe, that deals with Romania and Bulgaria, had its most busy days from its founding in 2007. Together with local allies, it attempts to stop the maritime area from becoming a 'Russian Lake', as an ex-Romanian President once referred to Russia's resurgent posture in the Black Sea. The region is one of the few that indeed resurfaced after decades of strategic 'sterilization' into a vital geopolitical vector.

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It's important to do something different. Recently, I started walking Oscar and discovered an amazing array of walks in the local woods. We roam aimlessly for an hour or two with the glistening, autumn sunshine peeping through the trees. Even I'm surprised how much I enjoy the walks and talking to Oscar, a miniture schnauzer. The owner is fast becoming a friend too.
Ultimately, it has been uplifting, refreshing and challenging. It also helps me make my life more diverse, valid and interesting. Maybe, we should do a yearly challenge whereupon you do something different every month, week or even , on a smaller scale, every day!


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New passenger car registrations dropped by 42.2 per cent last year compared to 2010, but a hike of 54.6 per cent was reported in the case of freight vehicle registrations. "In 2011 new passenger car registrations dropped by 42.2 per cent compared to 2010, while new freight vehicle registrations grew by 54.6 per cent," a National Statistics Institute (INS) communiqué reads. In Q4 of 2011 new passenger car registrations dropped by 54.5 per cent compared to the same period the year before. New car registrations dropped by 54.8 per cent, new registrations of buses and minibuses dropped by 44.2 per cent and new registrations of mopeds and motorcycles dropped by 16.3 per cent.
Dan Petrescu: "Steaua can eliminate Twente"
FATA Asigurari has new General Manager
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The best way to become rich is to enrich others.
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As a nurse practitioner, she provides diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive healthcare services; takes medical histories; examines patients; orders and interprets laboratory tests and X-rays, and makes diagnoses; treats minor injuries by suturing, splinting and casting; performs pre-employment physicals; oversees worker's compensation and disability cases; and serves as case manager, coordinating medical services to ensure quality and cost-effective care at each stage of treatment. "I strive to serve our community and help people live healthier and happier lives," according to Chouinard. "I would like to become involved in the community by working with the area companies to help bring wellness programs to their employees. I enjoy teaching and educating about wellness." Chouinard earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, and her master's degree as a family nurse practitioner from the Chamberlain College of Nursing Family Nurse in Addison, Illinois. Chouinard and her husband live in Beaver Dam with their two children. In her free time, she enjoys fishing, camping, watching the Packers and going to the beach.


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Toloseta (en francès Toulouzette) és un municipi francès, situat al departament de les Landes i a la regió de la Nova Aquitània.

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In around 51 A.D., Paul, Silas and Timothy wrote a letter to the Christians in Thessalonica, which was one of the cities they had visited and preached Jesus on the Second Missionary Journey. The letter deals with a number of topics, and its purpose is to encourage the brethren there and communicate the love that Paul, Silas and Timothy had for them and to remind them of certain truths that they needed to continue to follow. There are a lot of potential topics that we could select for today's devotional, but I would like to focus on the information that the Holy Spirit revealed about the resurrection and the return of Jesus.
13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.
Jesus told the apostles that when He returned, He would come like a thief breaking into a house at night. Everything would continue as usual up to that point. Paul said that Jesus would return with the voice of an archangel and the trumpet. The dead in Christ would arise from the ground. The living Christians who remained would be called up to meet Jesus and the others in the air, together with Jesus forever, never to be separated again.
These are beautiful truths from GOD's word and, like Paul said, we need to comfort and encourage one another because of these things. Praise GOD for His great and wonderful plan for us.


Proactive: Creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened.
Photograph by Cedrone Knowles, JR.
Isn't this a great quote. Especially for those reactive people like myself.
Did you know that being reactive is the exact opposite of being proactive. I sure didn't. Actually it is just something I never thought of. Something that never occurred to me. I reacted to almost everything in my life. I played the blame game a lot. I had no idea that everything that was happening in my life, good or bad, was actually my own doing and I was responsible for. It's pretty tough to hear, right? Are you with me. It takes a lot of self refection and self discipline to change your entire way of thinking around and to take responsibility of your own thoughts and feelings and in turn actions.
Everything we think and feel can turn into an action for better or worse depending on weather we are reactive or proactive. Let's take this photo above for instance. Are we reacting to the cold, wet, frigid, long winter with feelings of depression and despair and in turn thoughts of boredom and confinement and in turn actions of complaining and whining? OR are we taking this opportunity to look around and see the beauty of the winter wonderland that is snow and ice, think about the rush of winter fun like ice skating and snowboarding, feel the warmth of hot cocoa and fireplaces, take the time to experience ALL things that belong only to those few short winter months. See how quickly we realized that those "long" winter months are actually a few "short" winter months. It's all about perspective. It's all about being proactive with each and every situation we are in.
Now if you don't mind a fire burning wood stove in front of sliding glass doors with a view of my backyard winter wonderland is calling my name.
Join me for more about being proactive tomorrow on the Thoughtful Thursday Blog. I have a great book for you.


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Facts • There are nine judges on the court • The judges are called "justices" • The main justice is called the "Chief Justice" • Justices are appointed by the President and approved by the U.S. Senate • They serve for life
The Current Court
What Cases • They only hear cases that are brought to them by people who are unhappy with an earlier ruling (called "appeal") • Of thousands of cases brought to them each year, they only hear about 50. • The cases always have something to do with the Constitution • The first name is always the person doing the suing (Plessy v. Ferguson)
Oral Arguments • The day of the "trial," lawyers on each side present their arguments to the 9 justices (called oral arguments) • They each have about 45 minutes to make their case • Then the justices ask them a bunch of very hard questions to try to poke holes in their arguments
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Conference/Ruling • After the oral arguments, the justices discuss the case • They vote who they think had the better argument. Majority rules • A unanimous decision would be 9-0, but this is rare. • Usually the decision is more like 5-4
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Opinions • A justice is chosen to write the "opinion" of the court • If some justices disagree with the other justices they write a "dissenting opinion" (a protest) • If some justices agree with the majority, but for different reasons they write a "concurring opinion"
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Q: Was a question of mine deleted / removed? How do I tell? I THINK I asked a question on Stack Overflow years ago, but I can't find it. Was it deleted / removed? How do I tell?
From my memory (which could be false), the question was about "entropy" and asked on either Stack Overflow or Cross Validated. The question probably had an "R" tag. Reading through the auto-deleted criteria here or here, I doubt it met the criteria. Again from memory, the question received at least 1 answer and a handful of comments.
How does one tell if a question was deleted / removed (e.g., are there notifications or timeline indicators)? If a question was indeed deleted, how does one find it?
Note: while I am curious as to the why my question might have been deleted (the context), my core questions is how to tell if question is deleted.

A: That is embarrassing but I found your question.
I used a SEDE query to narrow down the number of posts I had to visit: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1411279
Your question was deleted by a moderator two years ago after it was closed for being too broad by five close voters. A comment under your question reads:

It is preferred if you can post separate questions instead of combining your questions into one. That way, it helps the people answering your question and also others hunting for at least one of your questions.

I have now read your question three times and I honestly can't find the "separate" questions the comment talks about. Worst of all: that means the close reason is bogus and that a moderator followed up with a binding delete vote is unexplainable. Unless a burnination took all closed questions with it ...
I've gone ahead and pinged the moderator involved and they confirmed the burnination was the trigger to delete your question.
If you only wanted to have access to that question again, you now can. If you feel undeletion is warranted then do flag for a moderator as you can't undelete it on your own. In anticipation on that I've already removed the "weight" tag from the question to prevent it from becoming unburninated at undeletion.
Guess what? Undeleted!

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Chinese probe successfully lands on far side of the moon
Photo Credit: CGTN Official
This is the first time a man-made object has landed on the side of the moon not visible from Earth
by TR Pakistan
, Published: January 3, 2019
Chinese state media has announced that the unmanned Chang'e-4 probe has successfully landed on the far side of the moon. This is the first ever attempt at such a landing and is being considered a major milestone in space exploration, especially for the China National Space Administration (CNSA); which is much younger and less experienced than its American and Russian counterparts.
Numerous previous missions to the moon have landed on the side facing Earth, but until now the far side of the moon has remained unexplored.
The probe touched down at 10:26am Beijing time, landing on the moon's South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin. The Chang'e-4 has also sent back pictures from the moon's surface, which have been shared with state media. All pictures and data have to be bounced off a separate satellite before being relayed to Earth, as no direct radio link can be established with objects on this side of the moon.
Read more: Chinese spacecraft begins journey to far side of the moon
The Chang'e-4 was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China on December 7 and arrived in lunar orbit on December 12. It aims to study the Von Kármán crater, which is located inside the much larger SPA Basin. It is thought this crater came into existence as a result of a giant impact early in the moon's history. The structure is 2,500 kilometers in diameter and 13 kilometers deep. The CNSA also hopes to study parts of sheets of rock that would have filled the SPA Basin following the impact that created it, and identify variations in its composition.
Scientists also believe that the far side of the moon would be an appropriate place to perform radio astronomy as it is shielded from radio noise from Earth. This idea will be tested using a spectrometer which will perform low-frequency radio astronomy observations.
The Chang'e-4 also carries a 3 kilogram container carrying potato and arabidopsis plant seeds, along with silkworm eggs to perform a biological study called the "lunar mini biosphere" experiment, which was jointly designed by 28 Chinese universities.
This mission is part of a larger Chinese program of lunar exploration. The first and second Chang'e missions were designed to gather data from orbit, while the third and fourth were built for surface operations.
(Source: CNSA)
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Q: Create subsetted multiband image from multiple files using gdal or python? Given a time series of an area (single band), how you subset them and combine the subsets into a single multiband file (eg. vrt) using gdal or gdals' bindings for python?

A: I would use gdal_translate and gdal_merge.py:
Translate the images to crop (subset them) using gdal_translate.  You could use a bash script to automate.  Something along the lines below.
for f in *.tif;do gdal_translate -projwin ulx uly lrx lry "$f" "$f".cropped.tif ; done
Use gdal_merge.py to 'stack' the images.  Here we are not explicitly controlling stack order.  I believe these will stack alphanumerically in ascending order (0-9, then a-z).
gdal_merge.py -separate -o myoutput.tif *.cropped.tif
I used -o myoutput.tif because I do not know if myoutput.vrt will work with gdal_merge.py.  I assume it would, as it is a GDAL supported format, but I have never tested it.

A: I would first 'stack' them:
gdalbuildvrt -separate -input_file_list my_files.txt my.vrt

where the my_files contains a list of the files you want to use, in the specific order.  Then crop with gdal_translate:
gdal_translate -projwin ulx uly lrx lry my.vrt my.tif


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If you own a website, then chances are that you have considered taking part in SEO training. Search engine optimization can be quite complicated at times due to the fact that the major search engines are often changing the rules of the game.
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Samantha Bee turned to a former Doctor Who for help in her latest rant against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The "Full Frontal" host called on Scottish actor David Tennant to read a series of anti-Trump tweets that his fellow countrymen posted after the real estate magnate erroneously said they were "going wild" for Brexit.
By proxy, "Jessica Jones" star Tennant called Trump a "wiggy slice," "weapons-grade plum" and "ludicrous tangerine ball bag" in the segment that aired Monday.