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Hyundai Motorsport fights back to fifth in Wales Rally GB
Hyundai Motorsport concluded a challenging Wales Rally GB, the 11th round of the 13-event 2018 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), with its highest placed crew in fifth place
Thierry Neuville battled back from eighth overnight to finish the rally in the top-five, adding two extra points for fourth in the Power Stage
Andreas Mikkelsen registered three stage wins over the weekend to score a top-six result ahead of Hayden Paddon in seventh.
7 October 2018 - Hyundai Motorsport has suffered a setback in its FIA World Rally Championship bid following a lacklustre performance at Wales Rally GB this weekend.
Thierry Neuville salvaged a fifth-place finish after dropping down the classification following an off on Saturday morning. His Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team colleagues Andreas Mikkelsen and Hayden Paddon completed the rally in sixth and seventh respectively with just four seconds separating all three crews.
Hyundai Motorsport has consequently lost ground to Toyota Gazoo Racing in the manufacturers' fight, now holding a 20-point deficit. With two rounds of the 2018 WRC season remaining in Spain and Australia – and a maximum 86 points up for grabs – the title battle remains fierce.
Neuville continues to lead the drivers' championship, albeit with a reduced seven-point advantage over Wales Rally GB winner Sébastien Ogier. Ott Tanak also remains firmly in the chase in third.
Sunday's schedule included five stages, held over a distance of 55.64km. The 10km Elsi stage kicked off proceedings before crews were faced with the 14.76km Gwydir Power Stage, taking place earlier in the final day than usual. There was no opportunity for a practice run in the slippery conditions, so it was a leap into the unknown. Neuville set the fourth fastest time to add two extra points to his championship total.
A tyre fitting zone at Dolgarrog separated Sunday's two loops with an additional run through Gwydir and two attempts at the shorter Great Orme Llandudno making up the schedule. All in all, Hyundai Motorsport is ready to regroup for the final rounds of the year, in a bid to finish the season on a high.
Five stage wins for the team over the weekend
Hyundai Motorsport holds second in manufacturers' standings
Our aim today was to salvage whatever we could from a difficult weekend. We came to this rally hoping to fight for a podium, or even the win, but it hasn't transpired. We failed to get the correct set-up of the cars for this event. We made improvements during Friday afternoon, and things were better by Saturday but with Thierry's issue we were too far behind. We have to accept the result, learn from the experience and move on. We have allowed ourselves to fall behind in the championship and we now have just two rallies remaining this season from which we can bounce back. It will be an uphill battle but we have to give it everything possible.
Michel NandanTeam Principal
Next Rally
The FIA World Rally Championship moves onto the mixed surfaces of Rally de España later this month, for the penultimate round of the 2018 season
The rally takes place from 25-28 October with Hyundai Motorsport fielding a three-car line-up of Andreas Mikkelsen, Thierry Neuville and Dani Sordo
Hyundai Motorsport sets its sights on both WRC titles in 2020
New year and new look for Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja
Hyundai i30 N TCR customers take second FIA WTCR title


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Sporting KC tops Galaxy, extends unbeaten streak
Benny Feilhaber, Lawrence Olum score in winning effort for KC
Updated: 6:45 AM CDT Jul 20, 2014
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Benny Feilhaber and Lawrence Olum both had goals and Sporting Kansas City defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy 2-1 on Saturday.Sporting (10-5-5) extended its unbeaten streak to six games, while Galaxy's eight-game unbeaten streak was broken.In the 11th minute, Feilhaber opened the scoring, drilling a free kick from just outside the box into the upper left corner past Galaxy goalkeeper Jaime Penedo.Sporting made it 2-0 in the 60th minute. Graham Zusi's cross was headed by Jacob Peterson - which was blocked by Penedo - but the rebound came straight to Olum who headed it past a sprawled Penedo.Zusi and Matt Besler signed long-term designated player contracts to remain with K.C. earlier in the day. Both players had received interest from abroad after their strong performances in Brazil.Robbie Keane cut the Galaxy (7-4-6) deficit in the 79th minute with his 10th goal of the season off a corner kick.Andy Gruenebaum filled in for Sporting's starting goalkeeper Eric Kronberg, who is out with a fractured bone in his left hand suffered at practice.
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Benny Feilhaber and Lawrence Olum both had goals and Sporting Kansas City defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy 2-1 on Saturday.
Sporting (10-5-5) extended its unbeaten streak to six games, while Galaxy's eight-game unbeaten streak was broken.
In the 11th minute, Feilhaber opened the scoring, drilling a free kick from just outside the box into the upper left corner past Galaxy goalkeeper Jaime Penedo.
Sporting made it 2-0 in the 60th minute. Graham Zusi's cross was headed by Jacob Peterson - which was blocked by Penedo - but the rebound came straight to Olum who headed it past a sprawled Penedo.
Zusi and Matt Besler signed long-term designated player contracts to remain with K.C. earlier in the day. Both players had received interest from abroad after their strong performances in Brazil.
Robbie Keane cut the Galaxy (7-4-6) deficit in the 79th minute with his 10th goal of the season off a corner kick.
Andy Gruenebaum filled in for Sporting's starting goalkeeper Eric Kronberg, who is out with a fractured bone in his left hand suffered at practice.

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What is the OTTY mattress made of?
What do we think about the OTTY mattress?
The OTTY is a hybrid mattress. This means that it contains both memory foam and springs. Could this be the best of both worlds? Overall the OTTY is around 25cm deep. That's about average, so you shouldn't find it any taller or lower than your current mattress and it should fit fine in most bed frames. The OTTY mattress is suitable for all bed bases, so whether you have a slatted base or a flat base, you'll be fine with an OTTY.
At the bottom of the OTTY mattress you have a base layer made up of 5 cm of high density foam. On top of this is the spring layer. This is the thickest layer at 14 cm deep and contains 2000 capsule springs. It is thought that capsule springs are the best layer for helping to support your body weight during sleep and so giving you the best support possible. The springs are topped with a 3 cm layer of memory foam. We all know how comfortable memory foam can be, as it moulds itself to our bodies, but it can be rather hot. The OTTY combats this heat with a final top layer consisting of 3 cm of cool blue gel memory foam. This is a special layer specifically developed for OTTY mattresses and is made to help maintain a medium temperature at all times. Not too hot, not too cold, just perfect. Goldilocks would certainly approve!
All these layers are neatly packed within a washable cover. It's not the most stylish of covers, but really, does it matter? How long do you actually spend admiring your mattress cover?
The firmness of the OTTY mattress can be described as medium to firm. More specifically a 7.5 firmness rating out of 10.
The main selling feature of the OTTY mattress is the low price. A UK single costs just £349 but even the largest option, the Super King is a very reasonable £649. I imagine also, that the UK Double at £449 would be highly popular, and it's just £100 more for the king size.
If you have a particularly unusual size of bed, then you might just be out of luck with the OTTY range. However, they do cover all the standard sizes, including small double. There are seven size options in the OTTY range: UK Single, Small Double, UK Double, EU Double, UK King, EU King and Super King.
So now onto the level of service you'll receive when you order a mattress from OTTY. The delivery is really flexible, which is great for those of us with busy lives. No one wants to be waiting in all day for a delivery that might arrive some time between 7am and 7pm on a random day of the week. You know it is bound to turn up just as you decide to go to the bathroom! With OTTY you can specify next day delivery for free on orders placed before 3pm. This is ideal if you've had to dispose of your old mattress and need a new one asap. If you are out at work during the week, then you can also choose to have your mattress delivered on a Saturday for an extra £30, which could be worth it for the convenience.
All OTTY mattresses come with a 100 night trial offer. This means that you can use the mattress for 100 nights, and if you are not happy with it, OTTY will come and collect it from you and give you a full refund. This might just be the push you need to give an OTTY mattress a try, without having to commit your hard earned cash.
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You get a lot for your money with the OTTY mattress. If you're looking for a cheap mattress, but are worried about compromising on quality then this could be a good choice. It's a medium to firm mattress, so will suit all but those who require a very soft mattress. We did find, as with most memory foam mattresses, that there is a slight chemical smell when you open the packaging, but this does dissipate after a few hours. Just open the packaging, open the window and allow it to air for while before making up the bed. This is a comfortable, quality mattress that will give you comfort and keep you cool.


First impressions usually can't be trusted. Even second, third, and fourth impressions are suspect, especially when it comes to the movies that my friends and I loved in the '90s. As a budding film geek and complete celebrity hound, I devoured movies throughout my childhood and talked about them incessantly with my pals. (That's the pre-drinking age social life of a suburban kid. Staying in? Movies at home. Going out? Movies at a movie theater. Wash, rinse, repeat.) I knew what I liked and what I didn't, but my tastes were still developing. I've grown as a viewer and hopefully as a person, and unfortunately that's completely ruined a lot of movies that I once innocently and ignorantly loved. These '90s movies may be cringeworthy now, but they'll always be a beloved (with an asterisk) part of my past.
Some of these films have lost their luster because the years have exposed them for being not as seminal as they once appeared. Others are so casually offensive in regards to race, gender, and orientation that they'd never get made today. And some have just always been terrible, only as a kid, I didn't really mind. Below are 13 cringe-worthy movies from the '90s that honestly make me a little ashamed of myself.
This hurts me. I have this movie memorized. Jim Carrey was my hero. For about a solid month, I would watch Ace Ventura every single day when I got home from school. The stupid jokes stand up just fine, and Jim Carrey is an aggressive and tireless physical comedian. But the transphobic humor that supports the entire plot is downright appalling when viewing it from 2016.
It's just a found footage movie. That's all. A million of them have been made since. What was everyone so wild about?
Pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe, a big-time monster movie was a rarity to get excited about. But 1998's Godzilla was poorly executed dreck, from the preposterous dialogue to the objectionable Wallflowers cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" on the soundtrack.
If you thought it would be impossible to translate the Super Mario Bros universe from video game to movie screen, you thought correctly. John Leguizamo made a cute Luigi though.
Any time someone on Tumblr starts a post with the phrase, "Not to be fake-deep, but...", I think of American Beauty. Fake-deep was born when Wes Bentley spent an entire movie filming a dirty plastic bag floating in the breeze. It was a plastic bag. Those go in the cabinet under the sink, not in an Best Picture winner.
'90s slasher films were a blessing as a whole. The Scream series in particular, give or take a couple of poor sequels, resurrected a genre with wit and style. But with the truly terrible performances turned in by the entire ensemble (led by Jennifer Love Hewitt), I Know What You Did Last Summer couldn't reach that upper echelon of trash.
Pay It Forward is the kind of emotionally manipulative garbage that awakes more of my cynicism the more sincere it pretends to be.
I can explain my repeated viewings of this schlocky '70s-set club drama with two words: Ryan Phillippe.
I don't know what's more off-putting: Johnny Depp's Lucifer goatee or the embarrassingly poor special effects.
Jocks, cheerleaders, stripper teachers, "good girls," the fat kid...so many stereotypes get a work out in the teen football drama that I don't even know where to start. It's as if Friday Night Lights the series replaced its empathy with a whipped cream bikini. Great soundtrack, though.
The moment when Casper descends the stairs in the form of Teen Beat mainstay Devin Sawa will stay with me forever. But everything that came before it (her boyfriend is a ghost, okay) is vaguely creepy and I can't forget that either.
I know, and I'm sorry. Tom Hanks is magnificent. The score is to die for. But overall, Forrest Gump is what the kids call "problematic." Jenny is a free spirit who sleeps around and gets punished for it by contracting AIDS. (She dies, but not before she can make amends for her liberation by conforming to a normal life.) Forrest's mom lives only to spout Southern-fried faux-wisdom at her son, and then she dies too. Bubba's stupidity is presented as some sort of charming quirk; troubling, since he's the film's token black character (before he dies, of course). And then there's Forrest, a character who could be read as being on the autistm spectrum and thus, is ambiguously magical. Let's agree to stop pretending that this movie is profound.
Bright side: without the movies that make you cringe, how would you be able to really appreciate the ones that don't?


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Apple chief Tim Cook in surprise Edinburgh visit
Tim Cook with staff at the Edinburgh Apple Store. The firm's chief dropped in unannounced. Picture: Neil Hanna
Published: 14:22 Saturday 14 November 2015 Updated: 14:13 Monday 16 November 2015
Apple chief executive Tim Cook gave staff and customers at the company's Princes Street store the surprise of their life by dropping in unannounced earlier this week.
Shop worker Adam Bochor, 23, only realised he was looking at his ultimate boss rather than a lookalike when the 55-year-old, whose wealth is estimated at £500 million, smiled and told him: "Yes, it is."
Robert Darling, 63, of Dunbar, dropped in for one of the new iPad Pros to find that he was personally handed the purchase by Mr Cook.
He said: "I can't believe it. I'm a massive Apple fan.
"It feels like Christmas has come early. He was a lovely guy."
The business leader, who is known within the company for his surprise visits to stores, was making his first visit to Scotland since 1984.
"This was the first country that I visited outside the US, so it has a special place in my heart," he said.
"I've been hearing about the Edinburgh University campus and I'd love to come back and have a look around there."
Mr Cook said sales of the new iPad Pro have been "absolutely incredible" since their launch on Wednesday.


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First December weekend to become chilly, damp
Jimmy Settle
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The first weekend of December is expected to start out dry in Middle Tennessee, before a chilly rain starts moving in later Saturday, says the National Weather Service in Nashville.
Several Midstate counties are planning Christmas parades and other holiday fun, and NWS meteorologist Brittney Whitehead says, keep an umbrella handy Saturday and Sunday, just to be on the safe side.
"The rain will start moving in Saturday afternoon," Whitehead said. "It will start out as a light rain, and the rainfall will stick around for the rest of the weekend, and into Monday."
While the forecasted rain might dampen some outdoor plans, Middle Tennessee is still amid a severe drought with some eastern counties of the Midstate checking in with extreme drought conditions, obviously meaning any rain this weekend is needed.
Saturday's daytime high temperature will feel like early December, hovering around 49 degrees, she said. With cloud cover and rain continuing Saturday night, the overnight low is expected to be around 40 degrees.
"There won't be a whole lot of variation in temperatures over the weekend because of the cloud cover," Whitehead said.
Sunday brings an expected high temperature of 48 degrees with more rain showers, and a nighttime low of 43 with rain continuing. Monday currrently looks rainy as well with a high of 54.
"Right now, the highest rain chance for our area looks to be Saturday night," she said. "The forecast stems from a low pressure area over Texas that will be moving northeast. It's not a strong frontal system, but this is just moisture that will be moving through out ahead of the low-pressure area."
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Jerusalem Post Opinion
Israel's strikes in Syria hurt Iran
IAF attacks are forcing Iran in Syria and its proxies in Iraq to go underground.
By HILLEL FRISCH
IAF attacks Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria, November 20, 2019
(photo credit: YEDIOT M'HASHETACH (TELEGRAM))
The Israel Air Force has been unrelenting toward the Iranian build-up in Syria despite the dangers these attacks pose, most of all, the fear of incidents of clashes between the IAF and Russian Air Force planes.
No doubt the major reason for Israel's offensive posture toward the Iranian build-up in contrast to the containment policy directed both toward Gaza in the South and Hezbollah in the North, stems from the desire to prevent the introduction on a mass scale of precision-guided missiles against Israel and the establishment of a local Iranian-run weapons industry in Syria. Israeli leaders and just recently the IDF's chief of staff have spelled this out clearly on numerous occasions.
But there is clearly another reason behind Israel's resolve in striking the Iranians in Syria that dovetails with the American strategy toward Iran: increasing the costs of Iran's imperialism.
United States-led sanctions against Iran have struck hard. The BBC in six charts tells a woeful tale equivalent to thousands of words of recent Iranian economic decline. The Iranian economy boomed with the announcement of the nuclear deal struck between Iran and the world's major powers to record a 12% growth rate in 2016. With Trump's inauguration that growth rate decreased to 3% the following year. By the end of 2018, during which the sanctions against Iran were renewed, the Iranian economy had contracted by more than 3% and by a further 9% in 2019.
Most of that decline can be attributed to the effects of sanctions on Iran's oil production and even more critically, the decline of oil exports. Iran's oil production has declined by nearly 40%, from 3.8 to 2.4 million barrels a day, with an even steeper decline for exports, from nearly 2.5 million barrels daily to less than half a million.
The black market rate for the Iranian rial meanwhile has slid from 40,000 to the dollar to stabilize at 120,000. Little wonder then that car sales in Iran declined from a high of 1.5 million in 2017 to just less than one million a year later.
Worse still, China, one of the few friends the Islamic Republic has, and certainly the strongest and least threatening, which was heavily invested in Iranian energy production, has recently diversified its oil imports away from Iran in the fear of disruptions of oil supply due to tensions with the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, especially after its attack on Abkaik, Saudi Arabia's largest oil field and nearby oil processing center. It is choosing instead to increasingly rely on Russian energy sources.
NOW IT is the turn of Israel's destructive sorties against Iran's military and economic infrastructure in Syria to increase the costs of a regime just at the time it faces decreasing revenues and a disgruntled and protesting public.
IAF attacks are forcing Iran in Syria and its proxies in Iraq to go underground. Jonathan Spyer reports that the Iranians in the Imam Ali Base in Abu Kamal along the Syria-Iraq border have already created a tunnel system for the storage of missiles and heavy weaponry, which presumably Israel attacked on December 25. The area forms a land bridge between Iran, its Syrian ally Hezbollah, and its Iraqi militia proxies.
The recent devastating US Air Force attack on the military base of the Iraqi Shi'ite Hezbollah Brigades in retaliation for its attack on US personnel in Iraq, which killed at least 25 of their fighters and injured at least double that number, has had much the same effect as Israeli attacks in Syria and Iraq, forcing Iran to expend considerable costs to enable its Syrian and Iraqi proxies to go underground in an attempt to reduce vulnerability.
Building the infrastructure below ground is an expensive proposition, so expensive that even the existing US military bases in the Gulf risk the dangers of operating above ground rather than incurring the costs of building a safer underground infrastructure.
Will such increasing costs prove to be the hair that broke the camel's back?
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and the conservative clerics who back him, are probably willing to pay a high price to continue the build-up project in Syria. Creating a missile siege around Israel based on precision-guided missiles in their strategic thinking is on par in importance with achieving nuclear-strike capabilities.
The regime is also banking on the 2020 presidential elections in the US to bring about the removal of sanctions that will enable it to bring both projects to fruition. As for the European states, three of the most important among them, Germany, France and Great Britain, have been seeking ways to undermine the sanctions in the desire both to develop Iran as a market for their goods and a source of diversifying away from energy dependence on Russia.
So the Iranian leadership is most likely to buy time by depleting its monetary surplus, the CIA estimated to be 80 billion in 2014, and the monies Iran received as part of the thawing of monetary assets deposited in the United States during the reign of the shah as a result of the nuclear deal.
Fortunately for Israel, even if the probability that increasing costs will not fundamentally change Iranian resolve in pursuing both projects, forcing the Iranian underground in Syria is a benefit incurred at no extra cost to the major aim of denying the buildup in the first place.
The writer is a professor in the Political Studies and Middle Eastern Studies departments at Bar-Ilan University.
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Russell Harold Lester Smith (born 22 November 1946) is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 2003, representing the electorate of Bega.

Smith was a farmer and businessman before entering state politics. He had also served as a councillor and deputy president of both the Bombala Council and the Monaro County Council. Smith was preselected as the Liberal candidate for the newly re-established safe Liberal seat of electoral district of Bega at the 1988 election and was easily elected. He was re-elected three more times, and retired at the 2003 election, when he was succeeded by Andrew Constance.

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Wests Tigers winger Pat Richards speaks about his excitement to celebrate the Club with its members at the upcoming 2014 Members Day on Sunday, June 29.
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France to probe microplastic pollution on Atlantic beaches
Knocks, kudos greet Eko Telemed
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Patients who use the Lagos State Government owned 'Eko Telemed' platform have expressed diverse opinion about the virtual medical consultation service.
Again, healthcare professionals say though the service should be extended beyond the post-COVID-19 pandemic experience, certain structures should be in place in order to make it acceptable to the generality of Nigerians.
Launched on April 22 by the state government through the Lagos State Health Management Agency, the 'Eko Telemed' initiative is designed to cater for health issues not related to COVID-19.
According to the General Manager of LASHMA, Dr. Emmanuella Zamba, 'Eko Telemed' would increase access to care, reduce the challenge of going to hospitals during this period of restricted movement, except for emergencies.
The General Manager said doctors and case managers are available round the clock everyday of the week to provide medical services to residents for a period of eight weeks.
Speaking with PUNCH HealthWise, the South-West Chairman, Diabetes Association of Nigeria, Abdulwahab Dauda, said he had used the platform and had informed his members to take advantage of it.
"Because of the pandemic, I've not been to the hospital and I've been having some pain; so, I called them and we talked at length and the doctor prescribed some medication for me.
"I was also called the next day for a check-up. I've told some people about it and I will definitely inform my members about it because I know most of them won't be able to go to the hospital this period," Dauda said.
Mrs. Sade Adetola, who called the Eko Telemed's 08000356633 toll-free line for consultation, said she was given maximum attention by the doctor who attended to her.
"At first, I thought I wouldn't be properly attended to; but to my surprise, the doctor attended to me very well.
"He took his time to listen to me when I told him I was having irregular menstrual flow. He told me to monitor the situation for a week and call back if I experience it when I am due for another flow.
"It's such an experience I think everyone should explore instead of risking going to the hospital for now.
"I also called in the night to make inquiries on behalf of my diabetic mother and I was attended to," Mrs. Adetola said.
Another Lagos resident who had also used the platform, Seyi Majekodunmi, said when he complained that he had a wound that wouldn't heal on time, he was asked basic and necessary questions that he thinks every doctor would ask.
"The female doctor who attended to me asked if I knew my genotype, family medical history, what I've been taking so far, and then advised that I visit a nearby health facility."
Mrs. Ifeoluwa Yusuf, who resides in Ajao Estate who also called the toll-free number said though the platform was a good initiative, she condemned the advertisement that greets callers before they are attended to.
"I was uncomfortable when the customer care officer first used the opportunity to market the health insurance programme of LASHMA.
"She didn't even know if it was an emergency, because what I needed at that time was medical attention.
"After the marketing, she told me to hold on as the doctors were busy, and I told them I would call back.
"Two minutes later, they called back and that was commendable," she said.
Speaking with our correspondent on behalf of the General Manager of LASHWA, Dr. Emmanuella Zamba, Head, Business Development and Marketing for LASHMA, Mr. Rotimi Olatunji, said the platform had been effective and provides services to reduce the number of hospital visits by patients.
"This is part of efforts to protect citizens and reduce their risk of contracting COVID-19; as well as to save health workers from likely infection.
"We have call data and call logs to follow-up on the people, but we do not attend to emergency cases.
"It's for non-COVID-19 and non-emergency care only because there are some people that need to visit the hospital for thorough care so that physicians can be perfectly sure of their case," Olatunji explained.
He said the agency receives an average of 600 calls daily on the platform and follows up on people.
"We are thinking of a possible sustainability of the platform beyond the stipulated eight weeks," he said.
The Founder/CEO of Tremendoc, a technology service firm whose pilot application is a 'doctor on demand' for connecting patients to licensed doctors,
Mr. Ugochukwu Jay Chikezie, also said the telemedicine had been helpful during this pandemic.
"The current pandemic has educated people about telemedicine. Though, it has been around for a while, the fear of contracting coronavirus when you go to the hospital has made people to seek out telemedicine.
"Health Maintenance Organisations have also started signing telemedicine partners as an extension service for their enrollees.
"Banks have also started providing telemedicine services for customers.
"Telemedicine has played a big role in the current pandemic," he said.
Chikezie noted that 70 percent of the consultations in the hospital can be done via telemedicine.
"Some of those consultations and follow-ups can be done via telemedicine, but in Nigeria, it's just catching on.
"Telemedicine helps people to have access to professionals who give them the best advice instead of resorting to self-medication."
The anchor of Doctors On Air, Dr. Pamela Ajayi, also said many HMOs have responded to the 'lockdown' with their individual telemedicine solutions.
"At this time, the most important aspect of telemedicine is the accessibility it provides, giving patients a fast and cost-effective way to see a doctor and get help, especially at a time like this where there is so much uncertainty and people are afraid of going to the hospital.
"They are also not sure whether the hospitals are open and receiving patients.
"There are lots of challenges in healthcare during this period and we are in the process of setting up a "Doctors on-call" call centre to provide free call lines for people to help them access care, because people are afraid of going to the hospital and feel they might catch COVID-19 and that the hospitals might reject them when they get there," Ajayi submitted.
Chikezie noted that the pandemic will help transform outdated methods of health care delivery and reveal new ways to use virtual care to improve patients' health.
He stressed that telemedicine will help collapse the barriers of time and distance in providing healthcare because it is patient-centered and more convenient, with greater productivity than the traditional methods of delivering care
"According to the World Health Organisation, the ratio of a doctor to a patient in Nigeria is one doctor to 6,000 patients but it is meant to be one doctor to 600 patients so we have a lack of doctors.
"Beyond now, telemedicine will be needed and a lot of Nigerians are not in the habit of going to the hospital. So, telemedicine platforms can help them wherever you are. It's here to stay."
Chikezie, however, said lack of trust and education among patients are some of the barriers to telemedicine in Nigeria.
"There is still a lack of trust among patients. A lot of people are a bit skeptical about telemedicine, they wonder how a doctor will prescribe medication without examining them.
"A lot of people need to be educated about what it is and make them understand how useful it is to them."
Dr. Ajayi added that one of the challenges of telemedicine is internet connectivity, which is required for full video conferencing, as the service is only accessible to a certain class of people who can afford it.
"In Nigeria, not everyone has access to that standard.
"Also, for a diagnosis to be made, a person may need to have a physical examination or even have their vitals taken.
"You cannot do everything by telemedicine. For example, in an emergency, it is imperative that people are taken to hospital as soon as possible," Ajayi said.
She, however, said there was a huge future for telemedicine in Nigeria because the world is going virtual and it will become the 'new normal'.
"There will be far more things done on the internet than were done in the past.
"As more people go online, and it has an assurance of confidentiality, with time, the doctors will also become more comfortable using telemedicine and it will become accepted practice.
"However, there is need for more education so that people can become more aware of the benefits and more comfortable accessing the service.
"There needs to be improved internet access, particularly in the rural areas where the services of doctors are required," Ajayi added.
Olatunji, alongside Chikezie and Ajayi, revealed that telemedicine has seen a surge in the number of users.
"Since the pandemic started, consultations have spiked from 200 to 1,000 daily," Chikezie said.
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ascertaining the best way to introduce the entire population of Earth to the Land of Tall Bees, one person at a time, with Foundation personnel given priority.
SCP-3454 is the designation for individuals who don't agree that the bees are tall.
The Land of Tall Bees10 is accessible via a temporospatial tear1112 located inside an abandoned Target Canada store in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The bees are very tall.
The portal to the Land of Tall Bees was discovered in 2016 by an individual who understood the bees and their tallness. The portal was brought to the Foundation's attention after numerous SCP-3454 instances contacted the police, outing themselves as anomalies. After securing the location, Foundation personnel were introduced to the Land of Tall Bees14 and the location began operation as Site-BEES.
It is currently unknown why some individuals are SCP-3454. Unfortunately, the only way to determine whether or not an individual is SCP-3454 or not is to send them through the portal. This often upsets the bees. You do not want tall, upset bees.
interfering in Foundation operations at Site-BEES.
Note that testing began prior to all Site-BEES staff being introduced to the Land of Tall Bees. Some tonal inconsistencies persist.
Methodology: Initial record of human interaction with SCP-3454 the Land of Tall Bees.
Test Results: Subject directed to extend right arm through SCP-3454 the portal to the Land of Tall Bees. Subject does so without adverse effect.17 Doctor Page, former Lead Researcher, commences with second test. Subject is tethered and given a camera before being sent bodily through SCP-3454 the portal to the Land of Tall Bees. Exploration lasts three minutes, and subject returns unharmed.
Methodology: Find out just how tall the bees are.
Test Results: Subjects enter the portal to the Land of Tall Bees with measuring tapes. Tapes are not long enough to measure the bees.20 Average bee height confirmed as being greater than 3.6 meters.
Methodology: Convince SCP-3454-145 that the bees are tall. Again.
- A great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. The picture is a digital copy of my old film picture.
- Roscon Rock'09, Zaragoza. Shots in the street while playing live. Flash hand shoted.
14. Subsequently finding that the bees were tall.


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The Big Row Exploring the 18th century via Mohawk River bateaux
2019 – Ticonderoga
2017 – Prescott
2016 – Mabee Farm
2015 – Vergennes
2014 – Plattsburgh
2013 – Beacon
2012 – Bolton Landing
2010 – Ogdensburg
2008 – Lake George
2007 – North to Kingston
2006 – Battle Island
2004 – South to Kingston
2003 – Rogers Island
Rowing Commands – Short
Rowing Commands – Full
Bateau Plans
Bateau Wagon and Portage
Transporting a Cannon
Making a Square Sail
Man-Overboard Drills
Female Crew
Period Images
Dutch Fenders
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"The eight caravel ships as they lay on the river every evening" by Cornelis Liefrink, 1622.
"The Battle of Gibralter between the Dutch and the Spanish fleet, 25 April 1607", by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, 1622
"Ships on a Dutch Roadstead" by Adam Willaerts, 1627
"Fishing Boats off an Estuary" by Jan van Goyen, 1633
"Ships by a pier" by William Van de Velde the Elder, 1638.
"A kaag and other vessels off a pierhead" by William Van de Velde the Elder, 1638.
"A View of the IJ from the Old City Inn in Amsterdam" by William Van de Velde the Elder, c. 1640-1645.
"A fleet of Dutch frigates anchoring off the coast during the First Anglo-Dutch War" by Willem van de Velde the Elder, 1653.
"The Maagd van Enkhuizen and other Dutch warships coming to anchor near the shore" by Willem Van de Velde the Elder, 1653.
"A kaag and other vessels off a coast, possibly near Den Helder", by Van de Velde the Younger, c. 1655.
"The Battle of Terheide" by Willem Van de Velde the Elder, 1657.
"Ships in the Roads" by Willem Van de Velde the Younger, 1658.
"Ships in the Roads" by Willem Van de Velde the Younger, c. 1658.
"The Warship Vrijheid on the Amsterdam roadstead" by Ludolf Backhuysen, circa 1660.
"Coastal Scene with a square-sterned yacht and rivercraft" by Jan Van de Cappelle, c. 1660.
"The return of the warship Hollandia in the Landsdeip near Huisduinen on 3 November 1665" by Ludolf Backhuysen, 1666-1667.
"Meeting of the Royal Prince and the Gouden Leeuw" by Willem van de Velde the Elder, 1684.
"Back at Marsdiep" by Hendrick Dubbels, c. 1667.
"Meeting of the Royal Prince and the Gouden Leeuw" by Willem van de Velde the Elder, 1684
"Singel with the Round Lutheran Church" by Jacobus Storck, c. 1685.
"Mock battle - re-enactment of a navel battle by yachts - on the IJ in honour of the visit by Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, 1 September 1697" by Abraham Storck, circa 1700.
"Feyge Dam and part of the Fish Market at Amsterdam" by Thomas Rowlandson, 1794
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Romney's "little bit of disrespect" and fundraising woes
September 23, 2012 National
It's been a tough week for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Stories of infighting in the campaign gave way to heavy media coverage of the leaked tape, in which he put down nearly half of the American population.
What was the "little bit of disrespect"?
One quasi-bright spot for Romney was his appearance at an event hosted by the Spanish language station Univision. Appearing separately was President Obama. And while Obama has a huge lead among Hispanic voters, his reception was quiet, while Romney received cheers.
However, it turns out that reactions to Romney were due to special demands made by his campaign.
As reporter McKay Coppins notes, "the enthusiasm gap may have been an optical illusion formed by a series of last-minute demands by the Romney campaign."
Only students were supposed to attend the event.
But after exhausting the few conservative groups on campus, the Romney camp realized there weren't enough sympathetic students to fill the stands on their night — so they told the network and university that if they weren't given an exemption to the students-only rule, they might have to "reschedule."
The organizers relented. One Democrat with ties to the Obama campaign noted that Rudy Fernandez, the university official charged with coordinating the forums, is a member of Romney's Hispanic steering committee. Fernandez did not respond to BuzzFeed's questions about whether he gave preferential treatment to Romney's campaign.
In any case, Romney's team was allowed to bus in rowdy activists from around southern Florida in order to fill the extra seats at their town hall.
The noisiness of these activists, which broke the ground rules of the appearance, was what a Univision anchor called a "little bit of disrespect." Romney himself almost refused to go on at the last minute because he didn't like the introduction, which truthfully stated that that he had agreed to less time than Obama.
Meanwhile, Romney is facing fundraising problems
Over the course of the campaign, Romney has had stronger SuperPAC support than Obama.
However, it is now clear that he is lagging in contributions to his campaign organization, particularly from smaller donors.
Obama (left) and Romney (right) fundraising. Source: Center for Responsive Politics
Obama's campaign has raised more money overall. Using data from the Federal Elections Commission, the Center for Responsive Politics shows the patterns when it comes to individual giving.
While Obama and Romney are not far apart on large contributions, there is a gulf on small contributions.
Several things are important about this difference:
1. More giving from small contributions can be seen a proxy for greater enthusiasm among supporters and a stronger, more effective campaign organization. Those factors — enthusiasm and organization — help campaigns win, especially in close races. In a presidential race, the close races are swing states.
2. Romney's inability to raise as much from small contributors has forced him off the campaign trail to raise money from big donors, like the people to whom he made the "47%" comment. This exacerbates Romney's difficulties, since public activities like rallies yield free publicity from local media and rev up and help to organize activists. Thus he has to rely more on paid media, even as his campaign faces financial limits.
3. A number of recent Romney fundraisers have often taken place in states that are locked up for one candidate for another, places like California, New York, Texas and Utah. Again, these give him no benefit from local media coverage for visiting the state.
4. While the Romney SuperPACs are flush with cash, they and the Republican party cannot do certain things with their money that Romney's campaign can. Obama's campaign has run ads with him speaking directly to the camera. This sort of option is not available from the Romney SuperPACs.
So the big overall cash advantage for Romney — due to huge individual contributions to SuperPACs — appears to have limits.
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Three key U.S. coronavirus officials in self-quarantine after COVID-19 exposure: reports
(Reuters) – Three key U.S. officials guiding the coronavirus response were in self-quarantine on Saturday after coming into contact with someone who had tested positive for COVID-19, according to spokesmen and media reports.
FILE PHOTO: Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health arrives for the daily coronavirus task force briefing with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Anthony Fauci, a high-profile member of the White House coronavirus response team, is considered to be at relatively low risk based on the degree of his exposure, according to a representative for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Fauci, the 79-year-old NIAID director, has tested negative for COVID-19 and he will continue to be tested regularly, the official said in an emailed statement.
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Robert Redfield "will be teleworking for the next two weeks" after a "low-risk exposure" on Wednesday to a person at the White House who has the disease, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing a spokesman. Redfield is 68 years old.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn, who is 60, is in self-quarantine for a couple of weeks after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, an FDA spokesman told Reuters late on Friday.
All three officials were scheduled to testify on Tuesday to a Senate committee looking at steps states and the federal government are taking to reopen businesses and schools, which have been shut in an attempt to control the spread of the highly-contagious virus.
The coronavirus is especially dangerous to the elderly. According to the CDC, eight out of 10 deaths in the United States from COVID-19 have been people 65-years and older.
Hahn immediately took a diagnostic test for the coronavirus and the results were negative, FDA spokesman Michael Felberbaum said in an emailed statement.
"As Dr. Hahn wrote in a note to staff today, he recently came into contact with an individual who has tested positive for COVID-19. Per CDC guidelines, he is now in self-quarantine for the next two weeks," the FDA spokesman said.
Politico reported Hahn had come into contact with Katie Miller, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary.
Miller, the wife of one of Trump's senior advisers, tested positive on Friday, raising alarm about the virus' potential spread within the White House's innermost circle.
The diagnosis of Miller, who is married to White House immigration adviser and speech writer Stephen Miller, was revealed by Trump in a meeting with Republican lawmakers on Friday. A valet for Vice President Mike Pence has also tested positive.
Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru and Mike Stone, Chris Prentice and Richard Cowan in Washington; Editing by Jacqueline Wong, Dan Grebler and Chris Reese
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By MARTY LEVINE
The University is just beginning to determine what technology is needed in which classrooms to make possible this fall's move to HyFlex teaching, an instructional model that offers live classes for simultaneous in-person and remote attendance, Adam Hobaugh, Pitt IT's deputy chief information officer, told the University Senate's Computing and Information Technology Committee.
Committee members expressed much concern at the June 10 meeting for faculty readiness for fall courses in Canvas, the learning management system replacing Blackboard fully by 2021, and for the June 4 announcement that computers using University resources must replace Symantec Endpoint Protection anti-virus software with Microsoft Defender ATP by June 13.
"It's my suspicion that the active faculty are going to be hit right between the eyes with making (the HyFlex model) happen," said committee chairman Michael Spring, retired School of Computing and Information faculty member. "I can't find any precise statement of what that means faculty are going to need to do between now and Aug. 19."
Hobaugh told the committee: "We are working in a partnership with the Center for Teaching and Learning to determine exactly what technology is available out there and how it can be used in this HyFlex model … (and) which rooms in terms of tiering should get a certain kind of technology" to handle the HyFlex classes.
Asked whether the new HyFlex model would tax the University's bandwidth, Hobaugh said: "It's one of the first considerations. At this point, we don't see any problem with it," considering that, during a normal semester "we don't come close to leveraging half of our bandwidth," even with all students and faculty on campus using Pitt's network.
Dwight Helfrich, director of enterprise initiatives in Pitt IT, reported that 80 percent of summer instructors, encompassing 85 percent of summer courses, were employing Canvas. He also noted that all courses from the last six semesters had been transferred to Canvas by Pitt IT, for full conversion by instructors where desired, including all 4,200 courses that will be offered this fall. But his office could not tell how many faculty members had finalized the adaptation of older courses, or finished constructing new courses, until each course was released for student use.
Committee member Susan Sereika, a School of Nursing faculty member, said she recently took a look at her fall class's conversion from Blackboard to Canvas and discovered "it's a mess. If someone is a new adopter … it may take more time than you think to adopt Canvas."
"We're kind of recommending that people start from scratch, because there's such a new tool set" in Canvas, even when placing old classes into the new learning management system, Helfrich said.
Given all this, Spring said, faculty need to be told that their fall courses are available today for completion before Aug. 19, and that they should begin now to finalize them for students. Some faculty will have "significant" conversion tasks from Blackboard to Canvas, he stressed — although an entire course does not have to be ready on the first day of the semester.
Committee member Kenny Doty, a Swanson School of Engineering staff member who has been aiding school faculty with technology since the spring pivot to remote-only courses, was confident that Canvas's ability to integrate Zoom, Panopto and other central classroom software would make the switch ultimately worthwhile. "Once we get over these hurdles, we're going to be a lot better off than we were before," he said.
New cybersecurity
The sudden switch of cybersecurity software from Symantec to Defender ATP may put even more strain on faculty, Spring added.
The decision to move to Defender, explained Joel Garmon, Pitt IT's chief information security officer, was based on Symantec's new owner, Broadcom, being too difficult to contact, and an increase of $200,000 in cost for the same protection as Defender, which he called "one of the high-rated security platforms."
About 55 percent of Windows machines and 45 percent of Apple computers under Pitt IT control had been converted to Defender in the few days since the announcement, reported John Duska, executive director of technical services with the department. And even though Pitt's Symantec license ends on June 13, he expects University computers to have a two-week grace period where the software will still work during the transition to Defender.
Hobaugh said Pitt employees had filed 114 help desk tickets about the transition up until now. Nearly half requested assistance uninstalling Symantec or installing Defender, while another 20 percent merely had questions about those same processes.
"We potentially haven't seen the spike in problems yet," cautioned Spring, and should be on the lookout for increased faculty and student issues as fall approaches.
Marty Levine is a staff writer for the University Times. Reach him at martyl@pitt.edu or 412-758-4859.


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When the thought of first starting a Blogathon on So-Saree struck my mind, I knew one thing for sure; with my schedule this task is next to Impossible. I most certainly cannot do it alone.
And that is when I decided to call my Gang of Bloggers Friends to do guest posts for So-Saree.
And in spite of the tight time frame that I gave them, they managed to draft guest posts for So-Saree without any complaints but with a lot of love.
The first Guest post to go live on So-Saree, is by Kalyani of Klassy Style Files.
Kalyani has already featured on So-Saree's list of Fav Mommy Bloggers.
Her style is casual, chic and klassy, and I so relate to her fashion sense.
So without much ado, I pass on the baton to Kalyani.
First of all I'd like to congratulate Aditi on her blogaversary! I think she has done a wonderful job so far in sharing stories and sarees close to her heart :-) I'm really glad I could contribute to this special post.
Unlike Aditi, I was not much of a saree lover, don't get me wrong..I loved the six yards of elegance but just hesitated to style it on myself.. until a while back! My romance with the saree is fairly recent and now I'm so much at ease with it that I tend to surprise myself. When I was in India last year I even managed to design one..and it was an extremely satisfying experience! It started with picking the perfect, most luscious chiffon and shading it with an ombre effect. I then picked an intricate lace in a copper shade for that festive touch and got the blouse made to compliment the saree in style. The compliments flowed in so generously when I sported this self designed creation that I immediately decided I had to expand my saree wardrobe. There have even been requests for more designer sarees..just like mine! So what next? Well, that's another story..!
Thank you so much Kalyani. You look gorgeous in that saree, and I am so motivated to design a saree myself too.
Kalyani blogs on Klassy Style Files, and you can follow her FB page here.
Such a beautiful color....& Kalyani you look gorgeous in saree!!
I'll be regularly visiting sosaree blog .... I really loved your blog !
I love the shade of the saree! and Kalyani u looking absolutely gorgeous!
WOW kalyani your loooking fabulous!!
I know..! M glad she agreed to feature.
Thanks Aditi for this feature and all you lovely readers for your comments!!
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Greatest Days – The Official Take That Musical Tickets London
Relight Your Fire with this sensational new production of Take That's smash hit musical Greatest Days.
Greatest Days features more than 15 record-breaking Take That songs, alongside a heart-warming and hilarious story of love, loss and laughter from award-winning writer Tim Firth that will make your heart Shine.
The musical follows five boy band obsessed best friends in the 1990s, who reunite over 20 years later to see their heartthrobs one last time in what could be the Greatest Days of their life.
There are no current dates for a West End run of Greatest Days, but sign-up for updates, and check back for details.
What's the story of Greatest Days - The Official Take That Musical?
Greatest Days follows a group of five best friends in the 1990's who are obsessed with their favourite boy band. The girls then reunite more than 20 years later with a plan to see their heartthrobs one last time in what could be the Greatest Days of their lives.
Who is in the cast of Greatest Days - The Official Take That Musical?
Casting for Greatest Days is yet to be announced.
Who are the creative team of Greatest Days - The Official Take That Musical?
Greatest Days features the songs of Take That. Take That – Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen – are one of the most successful band's in British chart history, with over 45 million records sold worldwide and 12 number 1 hits in the UK.
The book for the musical is written by Tim Firth, whose credits include recent Gary Barlow collaboration Gary Barlow – A Different Stage at the Duke of York's Theatre; Olivier Award winning musical Our House, This is My Family, Neville's Island, and Calendar Girls.. Tim's film credits include Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots.
News about Greatest Days - The Official Take That Musical
Greatest Days the Take That musical to tour the UK and Ireland in 2023 / 2024
Producer Adam Kenwright has announced that Greatest Days - The Official Take That Musical, is to embark on a UK and Ireland tour in 2023. Previously known as The Band, the show has a book by award winning playwright Tim Firth, and the tour kicks off from 5 May 2023. The tour coincides with the release of the official movie version of the musical in Summer 2023, starring Aisling Bea and Jayde Adams. The timing also coincides with the 20th Anniversary of Take That's first ever UK number 1 single - Pray. Casting is to be announced, plus further dates will be added in cities including Blackpool, Glasgow, Bristol, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Southampton, Truro, Leeds, Leicester and Birmingham. Take That - Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen - are one of the most successful band's in British chart history, with over 45 million records sold worldwide and 12 number 1 hits in the UK. Writer Tim Firth's credits include recent Gary Barlow collaboration Gary Barlow - A Different Stage at the Duke of York's Theatre; Olivier Award winning musical Our House, This is My Family, Neville's Island, and Calendar Girls.. Tim's film credits include Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots. Take That said: "We are so thrilled that this new production now titled 'Greatest Days' is launching next year. We had an enormous amount of fun working on the original version and can't wait to help bring this new production to over 30 cities across the UK and Ireland from May 2023." The musical follows a group of five best friends in the 1990's who are obsessed with their favourite boy band. The girls then reunite more than 20 years later with a plan to see their heartthrobs one last time in what could be the Greatest Days of their lives. Greatest Days includes more than 15 of Take That's classic songs. The show was originally produced as The Band by David Pugh & Daffyd Rogers, plus Take That and toured in 2017 to 2019, including a run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket at Christmas 2018. 2023/ 2024 Greatest Days Tour Schedule 5 - 13 MayBromley Churchill Theatre 16 – 27 MayManchester Palace Theatre 29 May – 3 JuneNewcastle Theatre Royal 5 – 10 JuneWoking New Victoria Theatre 12 – 17 JuneSheffield Lyceum Theatre 27 June – 1 JulyCardiff Wales Millennium Centre 3 – 8 JulyMilton Keynes Theatre 10 – 15 JulyLiverpool Empire Theatre 17 – 22 JulyWolverhampton Grand 24 – 29 JulyCheltenham Everyman Theatre


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Radiohead raided by Karma Police after leaking own music
Damon Berg
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By Damon Berg
Famed musician Thom Yorke has today been thrown in jail following an incident with the Australian Federal Police that saw the Radiohead frontman unexpectedly raided after leaking unreleased material.
The leak comes in the wake of threats by extortionists to release previously unheard music from the 'OK Computer' recording sessions if York did not pay up ransom. Responding to the threats, Mr York instead decided to release the material himself, with all profits from its sale being donated to hiring a paramilitary hit squad to hunt down and kill the extortionists.
Asked whether it was necessary to raid someone for leaking their own material, head of the AFP Chief Captain Detective Constable Clive Pugh said that it was not up to him who the AFP do and do not raid, and for all they know the OK Computer recordings could contain all kinds of classified government secrets.
"We at the AFP take leaks of any kind very seriously," said Pugh, "and just because a person or persons claim to be the owner of material or materials, we will always need to verify such claims independently before drawing any conclusions. We have it on good grounds that this so called Mr Yorke goes by at least three other aliases, including Sisi Bakbak, Tchock, and Zachariah Wildwood."
"We have also obtained evidence that Mr Yorke is both a creep and a weirdo, and is often found in places he doesn't belong. Does that sound like the description of an innocent man?"
"Rest assured we are currently raiding every member of Radiohead, as well as Mr Yorke's elderly parents, neighbours, the staff at his local Asda, and his dog, in order to confirm that Mr Yorke really is who he says he is."
The AFP later dropped the investigation, after learning that Mr Yorke had donated to the Liberal party at the last election


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Espiche Golf clubhouse overlooks the golf course
Espiche Golf
Espiche, Lagos , Algarve, Portugal
Located within a nature reserve and just five minutes from Lagos, Espiche Clubhouse & Golf is an eco-resort which has been perfectly integrated into the surrounding natural environment and offers a unique and authentic experience in the western Algarve.
Preservation, conservation and innovation of resource management are at the heart of Espiche Golf & Clubhouse. The 18 hole, par 72 golf course was designed to integrate effortlessly into the surrounding Algarve countryside and the indigenous flora and fauna of the area have been preserved, in keeping with the company ethos of nature preservation and conservation. This commitment to maintaining natural resources is one that we believe will allow Espiche Clubhouse & Golf to continuously contribute to a sustainable future.
The Espiche Golf Clubhouse, which is also home to the Gecko restaurant, has been awarded internationally for its architecture, design and environmental efficiency, in reference to both the choice of materials used for the building and in its resource management. The exceptional location of the Clubhouse, situated on top of a hill overlooking the resort, offers breathtaking views across the golf course and the nature reserve. The views, coupled with the exceptional quality of the food available, makes the Clubhouse a reference for both lovers of golf and those who value the tranquility and beauty of nature itself.
Espiche Golf: Views of the course
We offer our clients guaranteed tee times with discount green fees on Espiche Golf.
Get a price quote for a golf holiday including Espiche Golf and/or Espiche Golf Academy
Algarve Accommodation
View from above Espiche Golf
Architect: Peter Sauerman
4 sets of tees ranging from 5496/5026 yards/meters on forward tees to 6410/5862 yards /meters from championship tees.
Paspalum warm-weather grass has been used for the greens and a mixture of Bermuda grasses has been used elsewhere on the course.
Accolades & Awards:
Golf Inc. pulbication ranked Espiche Golf Clubhouse as being third in the world in the New Construction category for 2015. It is the only golf club outside of the US to be recognised as a Clubhouse of the Year 2015 by the prestigious publication.
Club house with bar and restaurant and Pro Shop. Golf cars, trolleys, electric trolleys, golf clubs available for hire. Driving range. Lockers available in the changing rooms.
Practice Facilities:
• Espiche Golf inaugurated a new short game area on June 30, 2017.
• Driving range with artificial "Huxley Golf" mats to allow for year round use of the area regardless of weather conditions.
Handicap Requirements:
Max for men: 28, ladies 36. The starter/marshal has the right to direct certain players to play from forward tees if deemed to be holding up play. Players who do not have the stipulated level of play may be asked to leave the course, with no refund given.
Trousers made of denim material, tracksuits and tennis wear are not allowed on the golf course. Men's shorts must be at least of Bermuda length. Shirts must be golf shirts or of similar style. Golf shoes with soft spikes or appropriate sole should be worn.
Professional Ethan Shaw is available every day for lessons. Junior Golf Lessons available on Sunday, Ladies Group Lessons on Fridays and Roll Up Golf Lessons on Wednesdays.
Environment and Sustainability:
Espiche Golf takes an exceptional responsibility in the way it carries out its course maintenance with a history of environmental research and is commitment to an ongoing process for sustainability. This is a monitored course on an environmental program linked to the University of Algarve and various departments within The Commission of Co-ordination of Algarve "C.C.D.R.A". The land on which the course is built is classified as an Ecological Reserve. This means that the land is made of a geological structure of a karst rock (Lime Stone) which has a water lens" Aquifer" below it. The covering landscape is of a fragile morphology that has taken thousands of years to establish. This morphological structure stops the erosion of the land and helps the percolation of water through its root system to the veniqualer rock passage to the replenishment of the Aquifer below in times of rain fall. Warm season Grasses have been established for a greater drought tolerance.
In summer time the course is a vivid shade of green while in mid-winter it goes a browner green. This is because it lays dormant during the season of maximum rain fall when the temperatures are lower. The grass changes its colour but not its playability. By not needing to be fertilized or watered during the winter season the grasses on the fairways act in harmony with the existing landscape by helping to reduce run off, stop erosion, and in the sustainability and replenishment of the aquifer. The grass on the greens is Paspalum and elsewhere, including the fairways Bermuda grass has been established. This ensures a playable sustainable course that is environmentally compatible and enriching to the existing Western Algarvean Mediterranean landscape.
Get a price quote for an Algarve golf holiday including golf on Boavista Golf


The 26,000-acre Rancho Chico was purchased in 1845-50 by John Bidwell. In 1865 he began construction of the mansion, which in time became the social and cultural center of the upper Sacramento Valley. It was through his advancement of agriculture, however, that Bidwell made his greatest contribution. Plants from all over the world were introduced to Rancho Chico to open the door to California's present agricultural treasure house.
The official marker plaque located at the front parking lot.
A porch at the mansion.


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This Devine community is all about the great outdoors. Here, your family can enjoy the parks, gardens and open spaces that make this neighbourhood so inviting. The network of hike and bike trails along beautiful waterways make Orleana Water's country lifestyle perfect for the whole family. You'll never be short of things to do.
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Future EU 25-03-2019
Europe is not a project!
The perspective that the Union is a project is holding us back. The Union simply needs to be pragmatic, writes Žiga Turk.
Merkel's move poses risk of paralysis for the EU, analysts say
As Europe's most powerful leader, Angela Merkel's decision to quit as German chancellor in 2021 spells uncertainty and possibly paralysis for the EU as populists rally, diplomats and analysts warn.
With one year to go, UK and EU have much to prove to the young generation
Policymakers on both sides of Brexit negotiations owe a duty of care to the young Britons who overwhelmingly voted "Remain" by delivering a fair deal and putting the future above political intentions, writes Andrianos Giannou.
Juncker jabs at Macron as EU jobs race heats up
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker chided French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday (14 February) for failing to form clear Europe-wide party political alliances, as manoeuvring warms up over next year's EU parliament elections.
France urges Germany to spend more and boost EU
France's finance minister on Wednesday (10 January) urged Germany to loosen the purse strings to help boost European growth, reminding Berlin of its wider responsibilities as Chancellor Angela Merkel struggles to forge a new coalition at home.
Parliament poll: Public confidence in the EU is growing
A clear majority of EU citizens now believe that EU membership is good for their country, according to a survey of how they view the EU and its institutions, released on Wednesday (18 October).
On EU's 60th anniversary, leaders give Union a 10-year horizon
On the day proclaimed as the EU's 60th anniversary, with the Union looking weaker than ever, EU leaders adopted the Rome Declaration and gave a ten-year horizon for the project of the founding fathers to be reset.
Tusk row threatens to overshadow EU summit
A row over Poland's bid to replace EU President Donald Tusk threatens to overshadow a summit this week that was meant to focus on post-Brexit unity.
EU citizens invited to join March for Europe in Rome
As the anniversary of the signing of the EU's founding treaties approaches, a group of over 300 European academics and personalities have endorsed an appeal to relaunch European integration, inviting members of civil society, scholars, youth and citizens to participate in a March for Europe in Rome on 25 March.
Visegrad group to table proposals at Bratislava summit
Four eastern European countries will stake out a joint position at next week's Bratislava summit on the EU's post-Brexit future, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło said yesterday (6 September).
'Dialogue of the deaf' threatens Europe
Arnaud Montebourg criticised the fragility of the French-German relationship at a forum on the future of Europe, describing it as a grave cause for concern, along with the rise of nationalist politics. EURACTIV France reports.
Social Europe & Jobs 19-12-2013
Next Commission's main concern will be inequality, analysts predict
Social inequalities will be the main challenge for future European leaders, according to an EU-commissioned report released on Wednesday (18 December). Europe's economy is expected to continue its decline, and policymakers should focus on a 'new growth paradigm' centred on society - not growth - the report argues.
Verheugen: Europe cannot do it without Turkey
The European Union needs Turkey if it is to succeed as a global player, former Commission vice-president Günter Verheugen tells EURACTIV.
Public Affairs 07-01-2010
On the Primacy of Process: Brussels and Copenhagen
"It is process rather than personalities which holds the key to understanding the European Union as it totters into a new world after the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon," writes Tom Spencer, executive director of the European Centre for Public Affairs (ECPA), in a Christmas briefing paper, predicting that "it will be some months yet before we can say with any certainty how the Union will function in its new Treaty garb".
EU president picks Catholic forum to outline vision
Herman Van Rompuy, Europe's newly-appointed president, spelt out his political vision before hundreds of people at a Brussels gathering of the 'Grandes Conferences Catholiques' shortly before Christmas.
An EU 'fit for purpose' in the global age: Can we rise to the challenge?
Although the imminent completion of the Lisbon Treaty ratification process should allow the EU to emerge from its "period of introspection", "we should be under no illusions" as the "long and painful" ratification experience revealed problems with the legitimacy of EU integration and the direction the Union is taking, write Loukas Tsoukalis, Olaf Cramme and Roger Liddle in an October paper for the Policy Network.
Where next for the Lisbon Agenda?
"Creating the next framework for structural reform in Europe right now is a priority – and a challenge EU leaders must take up," write Hans Martens and Fabian Zuleeg, Chief Executive, and Fabian Zuleeg, a Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre in a May paper.
Interview: European Parliament needs 'ideological coalition'
An "ideological coalition" holding a majority in the European Parliament should be formed after the EU elections in June 2009 to push forward a substantial package on the economy, Graham Watson, leader of the liberal group in the Strasbourg Assembly, told EURACTIV in an interview.
Interview: 'Political reality hampering Sarkozy's EU ambitions'
France's EU Presidency objectives, primary among which is the much-vaunted 'Union for the Mediterranean' project, are so ambitious that the government may not have the means to implement them, Olivier Ferrand, the president of Terra Nova, a new progressive think tank, told EURACTIV France in an interview.
Europe's trance of unreality
The institutional crisis after the negative vote in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty has made Europe "boring and unattractive", says the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Ivan Krastev, in a 25 June commentary for Open Democracy.
Professor: Citizens want 'concrete, pragmatic EU'
Demand is growing among Europeans for a "pragmatic" EU which focuses on "concrete" issues, Dominique Reynié, a professor at Paris's prestigious Sciences-Po university, told EURACTIV France.
EIB enters EU top job reshuffle
European Investment Bank (EIB) President Philippe Maystadt could find that his term comes to an early end as the race for the EU top jobs heats up and member states seek to achieve a new balance of power.
'Le Monde' goes Europe, the UK goes chicken
National communication plans on Europe tend to see the EU as a problem, implying that "how to communicate" dominates "what to communicate," write Judith Merkies and Marcel Canoy of the European Commission. Instead, we'd better accept Europe as a fact of life, they argue.
Forum seeks to address 'gulf' between youth and policymakers
An innovative online forum has been launched to narrow the 'yawning gulf' between the concerns of young professionals and those of the EU institutions.
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I hate to say it, because I wish it would actually work like a miracle to make a wish and make it all go away instantly. But no matter what, bellyaching over the lag on this forum and demanding sudden change and I mean right f-ing NAO will do zilch to solve the issue. Begging will not help either. I know.
Do what I do, if you possibly can, and play during less busy times. That is your only real hope to alleviate the lag issue from the high population. I'm guessing this is one of the absolute busiest nights/weekends in the history of Maplestory, because every one and their mom, dad, brother, sister, cousin, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle, friend, friend of friend, friend of friend of friend, pet, and lowly insect within 1,000 yards of all the aforementioned wants to test their 5th job ablities, take a crack at the new holiday content, and take advantage of the 2x EXP weekend on top of that ungodly mess.
You're gonna have to deal with some nearly intolerable lag if you play right now, and there is absolutely NOTHING you can do about it sadly. And right now, nothing Nexon can do about it, either. They already set up the events for this catastrophic funnel to everything new happening all at once. The floodgate is open...gonna have to let it run its course.
Even worse, they plugged this in during the most popular annual event of the game, which is the Maplemas content, where a lot more people are on vacation, off school, off work for a good couple weeks or more. That is my theory on why it is so very bad with overcrowding right now. I can only imagine how bad it would be if they had not already taken additional measures to try and alleviate some of the extreme traffic they are getting right now.
Also, remember this- if you are trying to play right now, you are as much a part of the problem you are whining about as any one else logged in.


The distance between Asuncion, Paraguay and San Rafael, Argentina is approximately 1,464 km or 910 mi.
To reach Asuncion in this distance one would set out from San Rafael bearing 47.9° or NE and follow the great circles arc to approach Asuncion bearing 42.5° or NE .
Asuncion has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) whereas San Rafael has a mid-latitude cool steppe climate (BSk).
Asuncion is in or near the subtropical moist forest biome whereas San Rafael is in or near the warm temperate thorn steppe biome.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 9.2° higher in Asuncion than in San Rafael.
The table shows values for Asuncion relative to San Rafael. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of San Rafael vs Asuncion.