As we get closer and closer to the full implementation of PPACA (by the way, that is in January, 2014), more and more changes in health insurance and health care will be forthcoming. One universal change is that most Americans will be required to get health insurance. The health insurance plans will be based on metallic coverage levels. All plans, including the ones people are on currently, will be converted to one of the following four metallic tiers – Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum plans.
Gold – A co-pay plus deductible plan seen with a $500 deductible based HMO plan falls into the 80% actuarial range.
Platinum – plans that represent the lowest co-pays and extensive first dollar coverage. Benefits similar to that of a $20 Co-pay HMO plan and represent an actuarial value of 90%.
All metallic tiered plans will have a +/- 2% swing in actuarial value depending on deductible and maximum out-of-pocket limits imposed.
The Metallic Tiers will incorporate essential health benefits as defined the US Department of Health and Human Services. These benefits include Ambulatory, Emergency Services, Hospitalization, Maternity and newborn care, Mental Health and Substance abuse, Prescription Drug, Rehabilitative and habitative services, lab services, preventative and wellness services, and pediatric services including Dental and vision care. There are particular cost sharing requirements such as maximum out-of-pocket expenses and maximum allowed deductibles ($2,000 individual and $4,000 family) that must be satisfied as part of the plans as well.
In a nutshell, a Silver Plan enrollee would pay approximately 30% of their health care cost as the plan would cover approximately 70% of the plan costs. Most Americans will be required to get at least a bronze-level plan, unless claiming an exemption for religious or hardship reasons or face penalties.
One additional kicker, all states must pay for the cost of state-mandated benefits in qualified health plans that are in excess of the essential health benefits built into the metallic tier plans. States such as Massachusetts, which is a notoriously generous state in terms of benefit mandates (to the tune of 11-14% of your premium dollars going to Massachusetts Insurance Mandates); will have to prepare to fund the costs of the mandate benefits.
As your health insurance plan renewal comes up in early 2014 and beyond, you will see a slew of changes from the requirements of the census form required to quote your business, to determination of the metallic tier your current plan falls into and the changes required to meet the 10 essential health benefits.
More than ever, it is crucial to work closely with Spring on everything PPACA. The myriad of changes and complexities of PPACA need the attention and experience to properly position you and your company as 2014 draws near.
Over the past few years, we have witnessed much confusion and uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its accompanying rules and regulations. Thankfully, one area of the ACA that has been ruled on and somewhat finalized recently are the guidelines for workplace wellness programs.
In late May, a joint effort between the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury resulted in a set of guidelines that employers can now use in designing and modifying their workplace wellness programs. These guidelines cover programs that offer a reasonable chance of improving a participant's health or preventing disease and are included in health plans that start on or after January 1, 2014.
The ruling defined the types of wellness programs that employers are permitted to offer their employees, while leaving out a great deal of detail in hopes that employers will creatively design plans that fit their workforce best.
Wellness programs are quickly becoming a staple in any employee benefit package. In fact, in recent a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, found that 41% of employers with more than 200 workers have some sort of wellness program in place for their employees.
Workplace wellness programs are paying off in a number of ways for employers. A Harvard study on workplace wellness programs showed that they lower the cost of health care to an employer, as well as the cost of absenteeism, rather significantly. In addition to the financial benefits, wellness programs can also influence employee morale and productivity.
Participatory wellness programs reward participants based on their activity in some sort of program that is unrelated to their specific health status or improvement. Essentially, you are paid to just sign-up regardless of the outcome.
Probably the most common example of a participatory wellness program is offering employees discounts on a gym membership. Rewards for participatory wellness programs usually are given in the form of a monetary gift such as rewards or discounts.
A key rule for participatory wellness programs is they must be available to all similarly situated individuals.
The new rules focus on defining health-contingent wellness programs and the various provisions that go along with them. There are two types of health-contingent programs set out in the rules: activity-only and outcome-based.
Activity-only wellness programs reward individuals that aim to achieve a specific health goal. The reward is given based on their taking the steps to achieve the goal, but is NOT based on actual achievement of the goal.
These types of wellness programs are completely effort-based. A good example of an activity-only program would be creating a heart-healthy walking program that is aimed at lowering participant cholesterol levels. A reward would be granted to anyone that participated in the program and not just the individuals that actually lowered their cholesterol.
Outcome-based programs are those that reward individuals for achieving and/or maintaining a specific health goal. These types of plans usually require an initial measurement related to the goal and then progress is monitored and measured.
In keeping with the activity-only cholesterol-lowering program example, in an outcome-based program, an individual's cholesterol level would be measured upon joining the program and a reward would be given based on a specific reduction over a defined period of time.
Under these new rules, the maximum reward for employee participation in health-contingent wellness programs has increased from 20-30% of the cost of their health coverage. While this may be a generous incentive to drive participation, some employers have called for increases in this amount to match the tobacco use incentive maximum.
The maximum reward for employees that participate in health-contingent programs aimed at preventing or reducing tobacco use has increased to 50% of the cost of their health coverage.
Health-contingent programs must be offered to all employees at least once a year and there must be an option for reasonable alternatives to the established plan if an individual is medically unable to participate in a health-contingent wellness rewards program. Because of this provision, these individuals will be able to work with their physician and/or employer to create alternative means to qualify for the reward.
The option for a reasonable alternative to a wellness program must be disclosed to all employees at the time that the plan is explained to them. Also, reasonable alternatives do not have to be designed up front and can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
There has never been a better time to start thinking about implementing a wellness plan for your employees or redesigning your current program to ensure compliance. Fortunately, you don't have to do it alone.
Our employee benefits team has a vast amount of experience in developing wellness strategy, designing wellness programs to fit your organization's needs, and helping employers implement and measure wellness ROI. Our team is comprised of industry experts that can help you navigate the daily changes of the ACA to ensure your wellness programs and all of your employee benefits, are compliant.
Contact us today to get the discussion started about your workplace wellness program.
PPACA's Cadillac Tax – Start Planning Now!
There is an estimated 30-33 million people who will be covered under the health care reform law (PPACA). How to pay for these people is a real concern. Additionally, depending on the immigration bill, an additional 8-10 million people may be eligible to receive partially or fully subsidized insurance. There are upwards of twenty obvious and not so obvious taxes in PPACA. Preliminary effects of the additional taxes and rating changes look to add 8-16 percent onto already high health insurance premiums.
One tax in particular I want to outline is the "Cadillac" tax coming into effect in 2018. You are probably thinking, why talk about something seemingly so far in the future? Well the tax is an onerous one and proper planning is in order to address this before 2018.
The Cadillac Tax is a non deductible PPACA tax levied on businesses for employer and employee contributions towards health insurance plans they offer their staff and families starting in 2018.
In addition, the tax takes into account all employer and employee contributions towards flexible spending accounts, employer contributions for Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and finally, employer contributions for Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRA). Calculation excludes insured, stand-alone dental and vision coverage. The thresholds for the tax are $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families. Therefore, if your Health Insurance plan, FSA (if any), HRA (employer portion if applicable) and HSA (employer portion if applicable) is above the threshold, the employer will be subject to the 40% tax per dollar above the threshold for each employee. Yes, you read this right, the EMPLOYER will be subject to paying the tax.
Armed with this information I put together a quick analysis and used a basic HMO $25 co-pay plan and ran the numbers. I was surprised, or maybe not too surprised to find that many of our clients would hit the threshold at or around 2018.
There are a few reasons why health plans in the Northeast as more expensive than ones seen around the country. We have excellent care in the Northeast with highly regarded physicians and facilities with world-class reputations. As a result, we pay more for that care. Additionally, there are a slew of mandated benefits that impact all our rates in Massachusetts to the tune of 10% or more annually. In a nutshell, our health insurance plans are expensive.
To combat the tax in 2018, there are a few strategies that need to be investigated. From down grading to a consumer directed high deductible plan to reviewing a health savings account.
In addition, there has to be an investment on behalf of all employees/ subscribers and families to take a more active role in their health (through wellness plans), their health care and ultimately their health insurance since all contributions of health insurance plans and flexible spending plans are part of the mix as well as employer portions of HRA and HSA funding. Some thoughts involve moving employees below the 30 hour minimum weekly work hour threshold. This is a real issue if businesses shift full-time employees to part-time status. This will water down the employer funded insurance ranks and potentially force more people into the increasingly expensive individual market.
As things stand now, an estimated 60% of companies nationally may be subject to the tax in 2018. This concerns all involved. Therefore, there are efforts underway to lessen the effects of the Cadillac Tax or repeal the Cadillac Tax all together. Either way, it is essential that businesses continue to plan ahead for 2018 and become an engaged, enlightened health care and insurance consumer. The time is now!
In these challenging economic times, companies need to find ways to get more for less. For HR managers, this means decreasing group healthcare costs while increasing employee productivity.
Many wellness programs are geared towards achieving such a goal through improving employee diet, exercise, and stress management. But wellness programs often fall short in one specific area that has a concrete impact on the bottom line – the discomfort that employees develop and experience at their desks from musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).
Although this issue may sound like the responsibility of a Health & Safety team, the reality is that MSDs, such as back pain and repetitive strain, are one of the leading contributors to group health costs.
What's harder to track – but equally devastating – is that MSDs cause the often-overlooked phenomenon of presenteeism: employees afflicted with pain who arrive at work, but are anything but productive.
By adding a simple and achievable discomfort prevention initiative to your overall wellness program, you can significantly reduce overall healthcare costs while boosting worker productivity across the organization.
Research by Remedy Interactive, a health and safety software company, reinforces these results; however, they measure "discomfort" – the point at which intervention can prevent MSDs. 41.9% of Remedy Interactive's 500,000 person user base, which is 17 times larger than JAMA's sample, experienced constant or frequent work-related discomfort2 before working with Remedy Interactive software.
Think of Maria Wilson, an executive who spends countless hours toting her laptop to various meetings, working from coffee shops and airplanes, and then working into the late night hours from her home office. Because she consistently sits in an uncomfortable position, she develops back pain. Maria uses her group health plan to pay for a doctor's visit, a pain killer prescription, then both physical therapy and chiropractic treatments – all without filing a workers' compensation claim. The Health & Safety team might never know about Maria's pain, and her costs might not be included in their calculation of work-related injury costs. Instead those costs come down to the bottom line for which you are held accountable.
It's likely that others in her company have – or will – follow the same route. According to the National Pharmaceutical Council4, back/neck pain is the second highest driver of medical and pharmacy bills (next to cancer).
Consider the case of a technology company that recently struggled with group health costs. Steps were taken to help employees that reported discomfort – but this system relied on the employees to take the initiative to report their discomfort before they received assistance. At that point, many of them had already sought treatment through their private medical insurance plan.
To resolve this situation, the company implemented an initiative that used software to provide proactive communications and a personal discomfort assessment. Now employees can automatically report discomfort and complete a self-assessment, and receive automated personalized feedback with tips for preventing or improving their work-related discomfort.
Companies can no longer afford the high costs of MSD pain, both in dollars and inefficiencies. Considering the current financial landscape – where costs need to be contained yet productivity needs to increase – weaving discomfort prevention into wellness isn't only smart, it's imperative.
1. "Lost Productive Time and Cost Due to Common Pain Conditions in the US Workforce," The Journal of the American Medical Association, November 2003.
2. OES data collected by Remedy Interactive from 2005-2009.
3. The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States -Copyright 2008.
4. "Cold Case Files," IntraSpectives, Spring, 2008.
5. OES data collected by Remedy Interactive for a technology company, 2006-2009.
6. "Driving Business ResultsThrough Continuous Engagement", WatsonWyatt'sWorkUSA Report, 2008/2009.
7. "Employee Engagement: What's Your Engagement Ratio?", Gallup, Inc., 2008.


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this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
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#
# This test uses Samba's nmblookup command to query WINS servers.
#
# =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
# 1) Install this file in $XYMONHOME/ext/
#
# 2) Create $XYMONHOME/etc/tasks.d/wins with this block:
#    -or-
#    Modify $XYMONHOME/etc/tasks.cfg and add this block:
#
# [wins]
# 	ENVFILE $XYMONHOME/etc/xymonserver.cfg
# 	CMD $XYMONHOME/ext/wins
# 	LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/ext/wins.log
#	INTERVAL 5m
# =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

# Path to Samba's nmblookup.
$::NMBLOOKUP = '/usr/pkg/bin/nmblookup';

# Xymon Files/Programs
$Xymon::XYMONGREP = "$ENV{XYMONHOME}/bin/xymongrep";

%Xymon::STATUSCOLOR_PRIORITY = (
	'red'    => 4,
	'yellow' => 3,
	'green'  => 2,
	'clear'  => 1
);

$::HOSTTAG = 'wins';
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

#
# Define the queries to perform and their expected IP address response.
# format: 'query' => 'expected response'
#
%::test_hosts = (
	'windc1' => '129.186.6.1',
	'windc3' => '129.186.78.28',
	'windc4' => '129.186.124.249',
	'windc5' => '129.186.88.245'
);

##
## Start of Test
##

#
# Scan hosts.cfg for 'wins' tag.
#
# Note: while Perl is perfectly capable of scanning a file and picking
# out keywords, there's no reason to reinvent the wheel. Plus, xymongrep
# supports additional options which makes it even more pointless to
# reimplement in Perl.
#
open(XYMONGREP, "$Xymon::XYMONGREP wins |") || die "$!";
while(<XYMONGREP>) {
	next if /^#/o;  # Skip comments.
	chomp;
	my($ipaddr, $host, $flags) = split(/\s+/, $_, 3);
	#print "${ip_addr}:${host}:${flags}\n";
	&wins_check($ipaddr, $host);
}
close(XYMONGREP);

exit;

sub
wins_check
{
	#
	# Query each host.
	#
	my($MACHINEADDR) = shift(@_);
	my($MACHINEDOTS) = shift(@_);

	my($TESTNAME) = $::HOSTTAG;
	my($MACHINE) = $MACHINEDOTS;
	$MACHINE =~ s/\./\,/go;
	my($DIAGINFO) = "";

	my($hosts) = join(" ", sort keys %::test_hosts);

	$Xymon::STATUS_COLOR = "clear";

	open(NMBLOOKUP, "$::NMBLOOKUP -U $MACHINEADDR -R $hosts |") || die "$!";
	while(<NMBLOOKUP>) {
		#print "debug:=>$_";
		next if /^\s*$/o;
		chomp;
		my($LINECOLOR) = "";
		if (/^name_query failed to find name/io) {
			$LINECOLOR = "red";
		}
		elsif (/^(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\s(.+?)\</i) {
			my($ip, $hostresp) = ($1, $2);
			#print "DEBUG: ip=$ip, hostresp=$hostresp\n";

			if ($::test_hosts{$hostresp} eq $ip) {
				$LINECOLOR = "green";
			} else {
				$DIAGINFO .= "MISMATCH! ".
					"expected=$::test_hosts{$hostresp}, ".
					"received=";
				$LINECOLOR = "red";
			}
		}

		if (/^querying (\S+)/) {
			s/querying (\S+) on \d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+/Query: $1 => /;
		}

		$DIAGINFO .= $_;
		if ($LINECOLOR ne "") {
			$DIAGINFO .= " &${LINECOLOR}";
			&Xymon::set_testcolor($LINECOLOR);
		}

		if (! /^Query: /io) {
			$DIAGINFO .= "\n";
		}
	}
	close(NMBLOOKUP);

	#
	# Generate message.
	#
	my($STATUS_SUMMARY) = (&Xymon::get_testcolor() eq "green") ?
	                      "OK" : "NOT OK";
	my($LIFETIME) = "";
	my($GROUP) = "";
	my($COLOR) = &Xymon::get_testcolor;

	my($MESSAGE) = sprintf("status%s%s %s.%s %s %s - %s: %s\n\n%s",
	               $LIFETIME, $GROUP, $MACHINE, $TESTNAME, $COLOR,
	               scalar(localtime(time)), $TESTNAME, $STATUS_SUMMARY,
	               $DIAGINFO);

	#
	# Send to Xymon or to stdout if run interactively.
	#
	if (defined($ENV{XYMON})) {
		# "at" sign as argument means "read message data from stdin".
		# DON'T USE A DASH AS THE xymon USAGE MESSAGE SHOWS ELSE ONLY
		# THE SUMMARY INFORMATION IS DISPLAYED AND NONE OF ${DATA}.
		# THE MANPAGE USAGE OF "@" IS CORRECT.

		open(XYMON, "| $ENV{XYMON} $ENV{XYMSRV} @") || do {
			print "Error invoking $ENV{XYMON} $ENV{XYMSRV} @ - $!";
			exit;
		};
		select(XYMON);
	}
	else {
		print STDERR "*** Not invoked by Xymon; sending to stdout ***\n\n";
	}

	print $MESSAGE;
	close(XYMON);
}

sub Xymon::set_testcolor
#
# Set the canonical test color. Returns the canonical test color.
#
{
	my($new_testcolor) = shift(@_);

	if (! defined($Xymon::STATUSCOLOR_PRIORITY{$new_testcolor})) {
		return &Xymon::get_testcolor;
	}

	if ($Xymon::STATUSCOLOR_PRIORITY{$Xymon::STATUS_COLOR} <
	  $Xymon::STATUSCOLOR_PRIORITY{$new_testcolor}) {
		$Xymon::STATUS_COLOR = $new_testcolor;
	}

	return &Xymon::get_testcolor;
}

sub Xymon::get_testcolor
#
# Returns the canonical test color.
#
{
	return $Xymon::STATUS_COLOR;
}

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I love these outfits and these differents styles. Karlie is very elegant in this outfit.
Especially loving that striped Burberry coat!
I am shocked....Jane Aldridge showed up to nyfw???? Last year in an interview she didn't want to go, saying it was "boring since everyone wants to go."
Greatt styles, i see some gorgeous coats!!
Wow, these are all so stylish!
Hi ya!! thanks for coming by to visit my blog!! I love some of the outfits you have posted above as inspiration.. some great patterns and shapes thats for sure.. and some pretty wild ones too!!!
I adore your amazing sense of style, these looks are just fantastic.


On January 28 and 31 Cineplex is playing the excellent 1963 movie Charade as part of the Classic Film series.
Directed by Stanley Donen, the film is kind of mix between a romantic screwball comedy and a thriller. Regina "Reggie" Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) while on a skiing trip decides she's going to divorce her husband Charles when she gets back to Paris. While at the ski lodge she meets Peter Joshua (Cary Grant). When she returns to Paris she finds that her husband has been murdered.
The funeral is attended by three mean looking strangers, Tex Panthollow (James Coburn), Herman Scobie (George Kennedy) and Leopold W. Gideon (Ned Glass). Reggie meets with CIA administrator Hamilton Bartholomew (Walter Matthau) who tells her the three men and her husband along with another man named Carson Dyle robbed the U.S. army of $250,000 in gold during WWII. The men murdered Dyle and then Reggie's husband Charles double crossed the other three and took the money for himself. Bartholomew believes that Reggie is now in possession of the money and believes the other three men do to and will stop at nothing to get it.
Peter shows up to help Reggie to move into a hotel. He then helps protect her against the three men until Scobie tells her that Peter is in on it. Peter then tells Reggie that he is really Dyle's brother and wants to trap the men who killed his brother. Later Bartholomew tells Reggie that Dyle had no brother. When confronted Peter/Dyle tells Reggie he's really Adam Canfield a professional thief who only wants the money. Soon bodies start piling up.
The movie has many twists and turns and the chemistry and banter between Grant and Hepburn works. The film is a ton of fun.


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Q: How to use list comprehension to simplify code I'm solving a problem on codewars, and I needed to create a function that found the smallest number in an array. This is my code:
def find_smallest_int(arr):
    smallest_number = arr[0]
    for num in arr:
        if num < smallest_number:
            smallest_number = num
        else:
            continue
    return smallest_number

My answer is correct. But I want to know how I could simplify my code using list comprehension (I'm fairly new to coding). This is what I tried, but I received an error:
def find_smallest_int(arr):
    smallest_number = arr[0]
    x = [smallest_number for num in arr if num < smallest_number , smallest_number = num]

What would be the correct way to use list comprehension in this case?

A: In Python you can just use the min function like so
min(arr)

It'll return the smallest value in the list. If for some reason you don't want to do it this way, then write your own function like so
def min_of_arr(nums):
  min_num = float('inf') # +infinity
  for num in nums:
    if num < min_num:
      min_num = num
  return min_num

P.S. List comprehension is used to get a list, not a single / atomic value.

A: List comprehensions are used to apply a simple function to an iterable and returns a list
list_ = [num**2 for num in numbers]

If a function is more complex, define the function (or use a lambda expression) and use map() to apply that function like
new_list = list(map(function, iterable))

or like
new_list = list(map(lambda num: num**2, num_list))

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Industrial/Construction
How Daily Fantasy Sports Are Reaching New Fans
For years, fantasy sports had been the playing field of diehard fans. The commitment was lengthy and the financial risk was high. After all, in traditional fantasy sports leagues, the competition wasn't over until the season was as well, meaning that you only had one chance to make your picks and hope for the best.
An injured player could spell disaster, laying waste to your money and your time and leading to an agonizing season of hoping for the best and expecting the worst.
It's no wonder fantasy sports attracted only the biggest fans. But that has changed with the rise of daily fantasy sports. Now, it's often "regular" fans who join up and end up becoming avid fans through playing daily.
The Major Differences Between Traditional and Daily Fantasy Sports
Perhaps the most obvious difference between these two playing methods is evident in the name. Daily fantasy sports are played, well, daily. So you chose a bad line-up today?
You get a clean slate tomorrow—and another shot at the cash prize. This means you can make a smaller financial commitment versus joining a season-long league, because if you decide this isn't for you, you can quit at any time, having forked over less cash to join.
The time commitment difference can be a bit deceiving. On the outset, it may seem like traditional season-long fantasy sports leagues require a greater time commitment, but in reality they simply require more waiting time. And that also means less instant gratification, something which today's Internet generation has come to expect.
On the other hand, you don't have to wait any more than 24 hours to know whether you won or lost a daily fantasy competition. But that means you have to start over again each day with a fresh analysis.
You can use apps and authority sites to give you projections and suggestions for stats in order to spend as little as 10 minutes a day figuring out your latest team.
Or, you can go in-depth and pore over figures and statistics for hours each day, as many people who have made daily fantasy sports their main source of income are prone to do.
Ultimately, whether you play daily or traditional fantasy sports is, like anything, a matter of preference. But the truth is that the advent of daily fantasy sports has led to an explosion of players, so clearly the preference is for short-term games.
For those who like a bit of both worlds, there are now weekly and monthly competitions available that present a fresh challenge.
The Challenges of Weekly and Monthly Competitions
For those looking to balance the shorter time commitment of season-long leagues with the instant gratification of daily games, you'll find your calling with weekly and monthly games.
In baseball, for example, the game schedule is far more important in daily games than in season-long games because you can add players to your team who have a favorable history against certain pitchers or batters in the upcoming game.
In an entire season, powerful and weak players will meet all the time, so this metric isn't one that is commonly taken into consideration.
In a weekly or monthly competition, however, the schedule becomes an important element once again. It's reasonable to plan your line-up based on the upcoming week or month of games.
And if things go awry, you can start over next month, giving you more time to enjoy the analysis process without getting overwhelmed by the frequency of daily games.
After all, pro players say that the key to winning from daily games is to play them as often as possible, meaning you have to be either very organized or a bit obsessive (or perhaps both) to make meaningful gains.
Daily, Weekly or Monthly—It's All About Engagement
Ultimately, it doesn't matter which format you choose to play. Daily, weekly and monthly fantasy sports have the ability to turn passive fans (who tune in to watch a game on TV or perhaps head to the ballpark a couple times during the summer) into engaged fans, actively watching games and keeping up with the latest developments.
In the end, that level of passion is what sports are all about.
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Massaleit Community in Exile (RMCE) Press ReleaseApril 25, 2004.
The Representative of the Massaleit Community in Exile (RMCE) strongly condemns the UN Commission on Human Rights for its failure to take to task Sudan's brutal regime for its role in the ongoing ethnic cleansing in western Sudan. The credibility of this UN body is compromised by the ability of rogue regimes to shield each other from scrutiny.
Sudan's regime welcomed the mild resolution adopted at the meeting of the UN body on Thursday 23 April 2004. The regime is aware that the international community lacks the political will to take decisive measures to hold it to account for disregarding the fundamental norms of the institution charged with protecting human rights around the world. Government forces and their allies in Arab militias (or Jangaweed) have displaced over one million people internally, and forced a further 110,000 people to flee and seek refuge in neighbouring Chad. They have murdered, raped, looted and committed other grave human rights violations with impunity. It is almost certain that these atrocities will continue in the absence of any meaningful action.
We call on the countries and organizations committed to protecting human rights to take decisive action against Sudan's leaders for targeting their own people. This is the only way to avoid a repeat of the Rwandan tragedy.
The Representatives of the Massaleit Community in Exile (RMCE) - USA.


An essential addition to the perennial vegetable bed, rhubarb will produce year after year, and it's easy to grow from seed. Just be patient for the first year and a half after sowing, as plants need to become established prior to harvest. Follow along with this handy How to Grow Rhubarb from seeds Guide and grow some pies.
Sow indoors in April and transplant or direct sow in mid-May where plants are to grow permanently. Optimal soil temperature: 16-25°C (60-75°F). Seeds should sprout in 5-10 days.
Sow 2cm (1″) deep, but plan for large plants. One plant will satisfy the needs of one household. Farm rows 100-120cm (36-48″) apart, plants 120 (48″) apart in the row.
Ideal pH: 6.0-6.8. Any well-drained moderately fertile garden soil will do. Mulch around plants in fall with finished compost or well rotted steer manure. Choose a sunny spot. Rhubarb is cold hardy and drought tolerant. After growth stops in the fall, the plants go dormant, and require a period below 4°C (40°F) to stimulate good spring bud growth. In the second year, remove flower stalks as they appear. Divide plants every 4-5 years. A well maintained plant should produce for over a decade.
Do not harvest during the first year of growth. Cut the tart red stalks from February to April after the first year of undisturbed growth. Do not eat the leaves. Stalks can be harvested all at once or selectively as required.
In optimal conditions, at least 50% of seeds will germinate. Usual seed life: 3 years.
Pests: Watch for slugs around new seedlings. Otherwise, rhubarb is a tough, hardy plant with few pests.


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АФК Борнемут () е английски футболен клуб от едноименния град Борнмът. Основан е през 1899 г. За първи път в своята история от сезон 2015/16 ще играе в Английската Висша лига.

История
Клубът е основан през 1899 г. под името Боскъмб. От 1920 г. играе в Трета дивизия, когато е основано първенството. През 1923 г. името на отбора е сменено на Борнемут и Боскъмб футбол клуб. Клубът се задържа в Трета дивизия, поставяйки рекорд за най-много проведени сезони в този ешелон. През 1946 г. отборът печели първия си трофей – Южната купа на Трета дивизия. Борнемут и Боскъмб става последния неин носител.

През 1972 г. от името на отбора остава само Борнемут. За клубни цветове са установени червено и черно, по пример от италианския Милан. През сезон 1983/84 Борнемут печели първия в историята Трофей на Футболната лига. Същия сезон във ФА Къп отборът отстранява Манчестър Юнайтед, а по това време начело на "черешите" е Хари Реднап.

Под ръководството на Реднап през 1987 г. Борнемут печели Трета дивизия и за първи път се класира във Втора. Там отборът играе до 1992 г., като най-доброто постижение е 12-о място. Най-близо до завръщане Борнемут са през сезон 1998/99, но остават извън зоната за плейофи в Трета дивизия.

В началото на 21 век Борнемут е средняк в Трета дивизия (по-късно Лига 1), а през 2008 г. изпада в Лига 2 и е под администрация. Клубът е лишен от 17 точки и му е наложено трансферно ембарго.

През 2011 г. отборът е закупен от руския бизнесмен Максим Дьомин. Под негово ръководство започва възхода на клуба. През сезон 2012/13 тимът завършва втори в Лига 1 и се класира за Чемпиъншип. В първия си сезон в това първенство Борнемут завършва на приличното 10-о място. На следващия сезон състава е подсилен с имена като Артур Боруц, Дан Гослинг и Кенуайн Джоунс. "Черешите" печелят Чемпиъншип през сезон 2014/15 и си осигуряват първо в историята участие в Английската Висша лига.

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David brings more than 32 years of health care expertise to Encompass Health, formerly HealthSouth, of which ten years have been at the senior management level. He received his undergraduate degree in education from Northeastern University and a master's degree in physical therapy from Boston University. David became the CEO at HealthSouth New England Rehabilitation Hospital in December 2017, after serving as the director of marketing operations.
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Teresa became the business development director at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England, formerly HealthSouth, in January 2018, after spending two and half years providing clinical consulting to acute rehabilitation hospitals across the country. With more than 15 years of experience in post-acute healthcare, Teresa leads a team that assists community members in accessing the acute rehabilitative level of care. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of South Alabama and a master's degree in social work from Boston College. Teresa is the immediate past-president of the board of directors for the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts and is still an active board member.
Lauren joined the Encompass Health, formerly HealthSouth, leadership team in August of 2015.
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Kevin brings more than 20 years of inpatient rehabilitation experience to his role of director of quality and risk management.
Kevin brings more than 20 years of inpatient rehabilitation experience to his role of director of quality and risk management at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England, formerly HealthSouth. After graduating from Quinnipiac University with a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy, he began his career as a therapist and developed a wide range of clinical skills with multiple diagnostic populations. Since earning an executive master's degree in business administration in 2002, Kevin has held a number of leadership positions within the inpatient rehabilitation setting. He has also served on the executive board for the Massachusetts Association for Occupational Therapists and remains active in initiatives that relate to the advancement of occupational therapy services within the state.
Tom has experience in multiple settings of physical therapy, including acute rehabilitation, outpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, home care and school based.
Tom is a graduate of Northeastern University, and has been practicing in the field of physical therapy for more than 16 years. He is experienced in multiple settings of physical therapy, including acute rehabilitation, outpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, home care and school based. His treatment areas focus on spinal cord injury, stroke, spasticity and wheelchair seating. Tom started with Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England, formerly HealthSouth New England Rehabilitation Hospital, in December 2007, and became the director of therapy operations in December 2015.
Deb brings more than 20 years of extensive nursing and case management experience to her role of chief nursing officer.
Deb brings more than 20 years of extensive nursing and case management experience to her role of chief nursing officer at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England, formerly HealthSouth New England Rehabilitation Hospital. She began her career as a certified nursing assistant and then attended nursing school to become a rehabilitation nurse at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. While at Youville Hospital, she spent many years as a liaison before advancing to the director of admissions. Deb joined the case management team at Encompass Health New England in 2007 as the director of case management, and in September 2017, Deb transitioned to her current role of chief nursing officer.


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Australian rules football in Nauru
Coordinates: 0°32′S 166°56′E / 0.533°S 166.933°E / -0.533; 166.933 (Nauru)
Nauru (/nɑːˈuːruː/ nah-OO-roo or /ˈnɑːruː/ NAHR-oo), officially the Republic of Nauru (Nauruan: Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, 300 kilometres (186 mi) to the east. With 9,488 residents in a 21-square-kilometre (8.1 sq mi) area, Nauru is the smallest state in the South Pacific and third smallest state by area in the world, behind only Vatican City and Monaco.
Settled by native peoples from Micronesia and Polynesia, Nauru was annexed and claimed as a colony by the German Empire in the late 19th century. After World War I, Nauru became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. During World War II, Nauru was occupied by Japanese troops, who were bypassed by the Allied advance across the Pacific. After the war ended, the country entered into UN trusteeship. Nauru gained its independence in 1968.
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Nauru is a small village in Tanzania.
Nauru lies on a path and on two Ruvuma River tributaries. There are almost no paved ways. The village is situated 15 km from the frontier with Mozambique (which is formed by the Ruvuma).
Shosholoza - Greetings from Nauru, Tanzania
Coordinates: 11°08′S 38°37′E / 11.133°S 38.617°E / -11.133; 38.617
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Australian rules football in Nauru dates back to the 1930s and quickly established itself, along with weightlifting as the national sport of the country.
The overall participation rate of over 30% is the highest for the sport in the world.
The football league system consists of one national league, run by the Nauru Australian Football Association (NAFA), based in the Linkbelt Oval, the country's only active stadium. The surface of the oval is crushed phosphate dust.
An interim Nauru Australian Football League (NAFL) has established after two workshops has been held under the Ministry of Sports led by Honorable Minister for Sports, Justice, & Health Mr Matthew Batsiua MP.
The Interim new Board Executives for NAFL elects Mr Roy Harris, Former Lions full back Player as the new President, football administration elects youth advocator a female to be part of the NAFL, Ann Hubert as Secretary others former interim president of NAFA Mr David Dowiyogo, and other passionate members Fidelis Amwano, Samuel Grundler and Andy Cain are all elected by community groups.
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Peter Dutton brought child refugee to Australia after lobbying from Nauru
The Observer 14 Jul 2019
Peter Dutton approved a plan to bring a refugee child to Australia after lobbying from Nauru, despite warnings from his department that it would be seen as a contradiction of the policy not to resettle people in Australia who came by boat ... Judge accuses Australia of putting relationship with Nauru before the law....
A new cage: Coming to Australia from Nauru has failed to free refugee women
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Refugees transferred to Australia from Nauru for acute medical treatment have finished up in a detention centre or remained in a hotel for a prolonged period in order to receive a community detention visa ... Mahbobeh, a 26-year-old Afghan woman, was transferred from Nauru to Sydney four years ago, but still lives with a community detention visa....
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Since 2013, New Zealand's government has publicly offered to settle at least 150 refugees being held on Nauru or Manus Island, but has been rebuffed by successive Australian prime ministers ... to come to Australia and get a visa on arrival," he said....
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To be sure, fear remains as powerful a currency as it was in 2001 ... August 26 2001 was a turning point ... Meanwhile, there was a frantic rush to establish a detention centre on Nauru, money no object ... Manus and Nauru are still in operation ... Challenges to journalism have been relentless since 2001, and visas to Manus and Nauru nearly impossible to obtain ... ....
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UNHCR continues to urge that solutions be found for all refugees and asylum-seekers under Australia's 'offshore processing' in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. Switzerland granted Muhamat a temporary visa allowing him to travel to Geneva for the prize-giving ceremony on Wednesday and ......
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Australia Closes Two High-Security Immigration Detention Centers
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However, the Perth center isn't being closed ... "Labor opened 17 detention centers ... Several hundred migrants remain in an offshore camp funded by Canberra on the Pacific island of Nauru. The mandatory detention of asylum-seekers without valid visas was introduced in Australia in 1992 in response to a wave of boat arrivals from Southeast Asia. ....
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They are boat arrivals dating back to 2013 or earlier, people who have had their visas cancelled on character grounds and those who have overstayed their visas ... About 1000 people remain in immigration detention in offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus, some have been there since 2013 ... - those who have overstayed their visas....
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US believed Australia would take more refugees in exchange for Nauru and Manus deal
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The US offered to resettle Australia's refugees from Nauru and Manus Island on the understanding that in exchange Australia would "do more" to help other refugees, the US architect of the deal has said ... New Zealand rejects Nauru's claims it stopped refugees from visiting on holiday visas....
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The Observer 16 Nov 2018
The New Zealand government has rejected suggestions it has blocked refugees on Nauru visiting the country on holiday visas, and that it has offered to accept 80 on a permanent basis ... Nauru has been criticised in the past for restrictions on media access in part due to its decision ......
Air France passengers bound for Shanghai spent three days in Siberia
Yahoo Daily News 16 Nov 2018
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In what seemed like a game that took forever to end, baseball battled it out to defeat Western Michigan University, 10-7. The Spartans improve to 11-21 on the regular season.
The Wednesday night matchup finished just under four hours with a total of 26 base hits, 14 Spartans left on base and 13 total pitching changes.
It was another back-and-fourth type of game for the Spartans after tying with the Broncos at one a piece before heading to the the third to take a 5-1 lead.
Nine different Spartans took the plate in the third inning alone which lead to Western Michigan's pitcher Andrew Reisinger being pulled after 1 and 2/3 innings pitched.
The Broncos threw a total of 216 pitches opposed to the Spartans 153 pitches.
It would be the same for the Spartans as the Broncos came back to tie the game at five a piece. This would lead to freshman starting pitcher Jesse Heikkinen being pulled after two innings. Heikkinen let up five runs on four hits.
The Spartans quickly pulled away midway through the game after a disastrous third inning.
Sophomore infielder Justin Antoncic singled to right field that would bring home sophomore outfielder's Bryce Kelley and Danny Gleaves to take the a 7-5 lead at the top of the fifth.
In the sixth, junior infielder Marty Bechina would double to left to bring home freshman catcher Adam Proctor and freshman infielder Ryan King to take a 9-5 lead.
However, the Broncos would not go away easily as infielder Jimmy Roche doubled to left to cut the deficit to two.
Roskelly would seal the deal in the top of the ninth with a single to left that would bring home Kelley to take a 10-7 lead.
Roskelly led the way for the Spartans hitting twice and scoring two runs. Bechina had three hits to go along with a run and two RBIs. Kelley finished with three hits as well to go along with two runs.
Redshirt sophomore Caleb Sleeman took home his first win, while redshirt senior Jake Lowery took home his second save on the season.
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Since becoming single last year, Brad Pitt has surely been associated to a lot of famous women. The famous actor and his wife, Angelina Jolie, separated in 2016, and as imagined the divorce was not free of allegations. Actually, Brad was linked to a huge scandal, the famous actor being accused of physical and verbal abuse against one of his children.
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Heads up, hoops fans! The best month of the year is finally here, with the 2018 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament set to start this week.
Games officially begin tonight with the First Four, and the tournament gets underway in earnest later this week, with 32 games on Thursday and Friday. If you haven't already, print the bracket and make your picks.
The Final Four is scheduled for March 31, and a national champion will be crowned April 2. Here's a full schedule of the games. And below is a roundup of the different ways you can keep up with the action.
All games will be broadcast on CBS and the Turner family of networks: TNT (100/1100 HD), TBS (102/1102 HD) and TruTV (130/1130 HD). TBS (102/1102) will carry the Final Four games and the national championship game. Check your channel lineup to make sure you know where you can find CBS on your TV.
On the Internet, March Madness Live is the NCAA's one-stop shop for streaming the games. All games broadcast on CBS are free to watch for anyone. Games on TBS, TNT and TruTV require customers to log in using their TDS authentication information. However, everyone can enjoy a free trial that will allow you to watch for 3 hours.
March Madness Live will live stream all 67 games across 16 platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Android handset, Android tablet, Amazon Echo family of devices, Amazon Fire tablets, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream, mobile web, Roku players, Roku TV models, web and Xbox One. Read all about the various streaming options.
Now that you know when, where and how to watch the games … let the madness begin!


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I was not sold on the idea of cute Japanese teens singing to heavy music while dancing about in frilly skirts. And to claim that "that" was metal? Audacious. Sacrilege. But when their second album, Metal Resistance, was featured by Loudwire alongside the likes of Megadeth's Dystopia and Amon Amarth's Jömsviking as the year's best metal albums so far, I was tempted. I eventually gave in.
Metal Resistance is a refreshing record. One reason for that is simply the fact that listening to the usual metal bands takes a toll on your senses, physically and mentally. Just listen to a Meshuggah record. Yes, it is ultimately rewarding but the abrasive singing (growling? grunting?) enervates your ears and the technicality of the instruments strains your brain. It becomes exhausting. With Babymetal, there is something reinvigorating and welcoming about the clean, and at times, almost graceful vocals. This is not to say that Metal Resistance is a low-tech no-frills album. Quite the contrary actually as the top-notch production and the stellar musicianship attest. Yet, it is accessible without being tawdry.
The other reason is the variety. Really. Metal albums are, as a general rule, genre specific. Not so with Metal Resistance. Each song in the album has a different character. You'd be surprised at how much the creators crammed into this album. The album keeps you on your feet. It doesn't bore you with repetition. From the power metal pryotechnics in Road of Resistance (thanks to, not unexpectedly, Herman Li and Sam Totman of DragonForce) to the military rhythms of Meta Taro to the full-on ballad complete with an uncanny Brain May-esque solo that is No Rain, No Rainbow, the album is on the whole an aural treat. The standout track for me was Amore. It is fast; it is refined and damn it, it is, as you might have guessed from the title, a song about love. Well there are other songs about chocolate and bubblegum but that's beside the point!
Or so would Blabbermouth have us believe. I initially disliked the band based on nothing more than a vague description of their external imagery. I had not heard a single song then. How foolish of me! I am glad that I checked them out. I am a convert now. It is difficult to imagine the band having the same appeal in say ten years from now, but for the moment, resistance is indeed futile.


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Britain Says Receives Video Of Iraq Hostage
Kidnapped Briton Peter Moore in a 2008 video released by his captors
LONDON (Reuters) -- A video featuring one of five Britons taken hostage in Iraq almost two years ago has been handed to British officials, they said on March 21.
The Britons, a computer instructor -- Peter Moore -- and his four bodyguards, were seized by a Shi'ite militant group from inside an Iraqi Finance Ministry building in a raid in Baghdad in May 2007.
"We can confirm that we have received a video of one of the British hostages taken in 2007," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said. "We continue to work actively for the safe release of all the hostages."
The spokeswoman would not confirm any details of what was on the video, or when and how it had been received.
However, Channel 4 news, citing an unidentified source, said the footage featured Moore, who appeared healthy, and who said he and the other men were well.
There has been no official news of the captives for more than a year, and last July British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was taking seriously a claim by Iraqi militants that one of the hostages had killed himself.
In February 2008, a video featuring Moore, who appeared tired but not distressed, was aired by Dubai-based Al Arabiya television in which he called on Brown to free nine Iraqis in return for their freedom.
An earlier video, released in December 2007, showed another of the captives who identified himself as Jason saying the militants holding the Britons would kill one of the five unless Britain withdrew its troops from Iraq.
Britain has barely 2,000 soldiers left in the country and all of them will be out by June.
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In short: Google has now confirmed it's rolling out its 'group planning' feature to Google Maps. The feature is set to arrive on Android "this week" with the rollout having officially started today. So while it may be the case the new feature is already live for some users, it might not be for others. Once the update does land, users will be able to better plan group events using Maps.
Background: Google first unveiled its group planning feature during this year's Google I/O event along with a host of other changes and upgrades that where set to come to Maps. Since then those changes have been slowly rolling out at intervals with this update being the most recent. The crux of the new feature is an improved way to decide on where a group of people will go during a day or night event. As users are now able to add places of interest (for example, restaurants) to a shortlist which can then be shared with others. Likewise, those others can also add different places to the same shortlist, delete places from the shortlist (including ones you or someone else might have added), and even vote on the places listed.
Impact: Besides the general motivation to get people more involved with Maps, Google is promoting this feature as a way in which users of the navigation-based service can spend less time talking about where to go, and more time going to those places. As this is meant to solve the age-old problem of having to create a chain message which involves multiple replies from multiple people, and keeping track of all those replies and ideas. Instead, users can quickly add a place to the shareable list by long-pressing on it which will then send the place to a floating bubble located on the side of the screen. From here, everyone who has access will see your suggestions and agree or disagree, and so on. Whether this actually results in places getting chosen quicker and in a more amicable way remains to be seen, though it should cut down on all those text messages and emails.


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Today, Saturday, the military engineering unit of the joint forces on the west coast of Yemen began clearing the recently liberated areas north and west of the Hays district of mines and remnants of the Houthis war.
And i media of the joint forces quoted a source in the Military Engineering Unit, according to which engineering teams are working continuously and intensively to put in securing the liberated areas and clearing them of mines left by Houthi militias after being expelled from large areas in recent military operations.
The source confirmed that the unit was in capable of extracting large quantities of mines and explosive devices, as well as found missiles, various explosives and a group of devices camouflaged according to the geographical nature and dismantled them as part of the tasks of normalization of the situation in the liberated areas.
THE media of the joint forces had confirmed today, the continued progress of the joint forces north of the district of Hays, and the liberation of large areas in continuous battles since early morning.
He stressed that the joint forces were in able to control the strategic triangle of Al-Aden north of Hays, which connects the district of Hays in the governorate of Ibb and the district of Al-Jarrahi.
This has happened in coinciding with the advance of the joint forces in direction of the city of Al-Barah, center of the Maqbna district, west of the city of Taiz, a few hours after imposing fire control on thearea of Al-Barah after tightening his grip on the strategic Al-Aaraf mountains that dominate large areas in Al-Barah and Hays, south of Al-Hodeidah.
Earlier, the correspondent of Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath reported that The Yemeni army has recaptured the district of Hays, south of Hodeidah From the control of the Houthi militia.
The reporter added that legitimate forces imposed control of the district after violent clashes with militias, which suffered heavy losses in the battles.
On Friday night, the southern fronts of the Yemeni province of Ma'rib witnessed violent clashes between the army and popular resistance on the one hand, and the Iranian-backed Houthi militia on the other.
The battles rage on three fronts: the "Dhanna" front on the outskirts of Al-Rawdah in Sarwah, the Laeref front in the Juba district and the Umm Reish front in Harib.
Sources on the ground confirmed that dozens of Houthi victims were killed or injured, in light of the coalition's intense air support to bolster legitimacy in Yemen, which destroyed both fixed and mobile targets for the militias.
Interestingly, the Houthi militia had admitted to the killing of 14,700 of its members in the battles of Ma'rib since last June.
was The coalition to uphold legitimacy in YemenIn addition, today, Saturday, it was announced that 15 targets have been made against militias in Marib and Al-Bayda in the past 24 hours, in referring to the destruction of an air defense system and 11 militia military vehicles in Marib, and the killing of over 70 militiamen in Marib and Al-Bayda.
The coalition added: We targeted 19 militias on the west coast to support coastal forces and protect civilians, noting that operations on the west coast targeted a command and control center, as well as a place to store and direct drones.
The coalition added: "We support the operations of Yemeni forces on the west coast outside the texts of the Stockholm agreement."
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