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As a result of his disruptive behaviour, airline staff called ahead and he was met at Auckland Airport by police.
It’s understood he was spoken to and issued with an infringement notice before being put on a connecting flight to Australia.
After being informed of the incident on Monday, Eels officials took a dim view of his actions and stood him down, making him unavailable for their NRL season opener on Sunday.
“The Parramatta Eels have been made aware of an alcohol-related incident involving Peni Terepo from the weekend in New Zealand,” the club said in a statement.
“The club has stood Peni down immediately, including this week’s round-one game against Penrith.
It is not the first time the Tongan international has fallen foul of the law in New Zealand.
In 2017, he was fined $15,000 and suspended for three games after failing to inform the club he had pleaded guilty to carelessdriving and refusing a blood- alcohol test.
As H1N1 continues to spread on campus, Harvard researchers have taken on important roles shaping the response to the swine flu outbreak that continues to capture national headlines.
Researchers like Marc Lipsitch at the School of Public Health are estimating that, for all the hysteria surrounding the illness, this season’s death rate from H1N1 may not differ substantially from that of a moderate seasonal flu epidemic.
Lipsitch, an epidemiology professor, currently leads a team of biostatisticians, research scientists, and doctors who have spent the last five months estimating the transmissibility and severity of the virus.
But with the peak of flu season fast approaching, such predictions will soon be put to test.
And with a mild outcome far from a lock, a slew of other researchers with Harvard ties are investigating the vaccines and viral pathology necessary to combat the virus if outbreaks balloon into an epidemic and grappling with the question of how government leaders should handle the worst-case scenario.
The newly established Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics—where Lipsitch conducts much of his research—currently has 14 ongoing projects related to the H1N1 virus. Funded through the MIDAS program—an NIH initiative to gather information about how diseases spread—the center will receive more than $15 million over t...
Research Assistant Justin J. O’Hagan, who has worked on several studies with Lipsitch, says that the Center will support a “critical mass of researchers” through collaborations with Harvard specialists as well as international scientists, journalists, and public policy experts.
The Center focuses on research involving methods of disease surveillance, statistical analysis of infectious disease data, and analysis of infectious disease policy, according to Lipsitch.
When swine flu first appeared in Mexico in the spring, it seemed that the cases were more severe than those reported in the United States, O’Hagan explains. In a study led by Lipsitch, researchers performed “disease surveillance” to determine the severity of the flu and see if the strain was similar in both Mexico and ...
The group looked at the number of tourists traveling to Mexico from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, who returned to their home country with swine flu and compared that number to those reported in Mexico. They concluded that Mexico was under-reporting cases and was missing a large portion of the mild ...
Another of Lipsitch’s team spent the summer examining the transmissibility of the H1N1 virus.
“Depending on the characteristic of the epidemic, it will either die by itself, we can control it, or it will take over the world and kill us all,” says HSPH Professor of Statistical Computing Marcello Pagano.
Pagano used statistical models to see how the data accrued, and how accurate it was at the time of the outbreak, he explains.
“Given the quality of the data, we can say that this pandemic could be controllable,” Pagano says.
The project was completed during the summer, before the swine flu vaccine was introduced.
As treatment centers still wait for the H1N1-specific vaccine, two other recent projects at the center are related to the effect of traditional antiviral flu drugs on high-risk patients, and the transmission of H1N1 within households.
HSPH Research Scientist Edward Goldstein was part of a team that included O’Hagan and Lipsitch, the head of the Center. The group suggested the use of Tamiflu—a common seasonal flu treatment—for high-risk patients, including pregnant women and the elderly. By giving the drugs early-on to individuals with a high risk of...
A second project examined the transmission of H1N1 within families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The study presented data showing that early administration of Tamiflu was beneficial in lessening the possibility of transmitting disease within families, in addition to lessening flu symptoms, says Goldstein.
“This study shows the benefit of people seeking medical attention early on,” O’Hagan says, adding that the study has been forwarded to the CDC and is waiting for publication.
While much of the H1N1 research at Harvard is focused in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, other experts are examining the disease through the lens of their own specialties.
Wayne A. Marasco, a Medical School associate professor who also holds a post at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been researching the factors that may influence an individual to produce antibodies for swine flu and other influenza viruses.
In addition to research on the ground level, a collaboration between HSPH, the Harvard Kennedy School, the CDC, and the U.S. government, is working on ways to train leaders in crisis management and leadership responsibilities—from dealing with terrorist attacks to natural disasters.
Co-Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative Leonard Marcus has been meeting with both health policy experts and White House representatives on how to cope with crisis.
“We give an opportunity for leaders to make good decisions based on science,” he says.
As the flu hits the Harvard campus this fall, Medical School Professor and Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Health Publications Anthony L. Komaroff has been involved in public outreach, including creating videos to show people how to protect their families from swine flu.
“I think in the next few weeks we will see some policies issued, and the first swine flu vaccine given as early as October,” he said.
For the Harvard researchers, much of the next few months will be a time of waiting, as they monitor the data of new swine flu cases and see if their hypotheses, which were based on initial research from the summer, were supported.
—Staff writer Huma N. Shah can be reached at hshah@fas.harvard.edu.
For recent research, faculty profiles, and a look at the issues facing Harvard scientists, check out The Crimson's science page.
Oh my goodness. This is no ordinary b&b. Yes, there are beds and yes, there’s breakfast. But there’s something intangible about Abbots Grange and its 14th-century building. There’s a sense of serenity, to describe it simply as a b&b doesn’t really do it justice; this is a destination in its own right.
Twenty yards off the main street in the centre of the very popular Cotswold village of Broadway – a one-minute walk through the garden takes you there. Cafés, restaurants and a host of independent shops abound within the village, along with two notable museums, The Gordon Russell Museum and the Broadway Museum and Art ...
Broadway Tower and The National Trust’s Snowshill Manor are within three miles of the village. The Cotswold Way National Trail passes the entrance to the property.
Discreetly screened from the High Street behind tall yew hedges, the b&b has a sense of retreat. Built 1320 by the Abbot of Pershore, Abbots Grange is the oldest property in Broadway – that’s quite a claim, but then so too is it’s usage as an artist’s colony in the late 19th century when American artists Francis Davis ...
The Great Hall, with its vaulted ceiling, large stone fireplace and deep-recessed fleur-de-lys windows, is the focal point of this rambling Cotswold stone house. The hall – grand in stature but domestic in size – feels homely, lit by candles and with soft music playing. Guests are encouraged to kick off their shoes her...
This is, first and foremost, a private home but there are full-time staff living on site to assist with your every need. House Manager Aggy is evidently proud of the home in which she works, will show you to your room upon arrival and assist with anything required throughout your stay. She is very knowledgeable and del...
Complimentary tea and cake is provided upon arrival (note check-in is between 3-6pm), with after-dinner drinks provided in the Great Hall. Red or white wine and champagne are available for purchase. The parkland gardens, with tennis court and croquet lawn (equipment supplied), and a helicopter landing pad, are at guest...
No two rooms are the same in shape, design and decoration. The collection includes 'Millet', a unique barrel-ceilinged room with four-poster bed and sofa that looks out across the rear garden to the countryside beyond, or 'Monet', a room once used by artists as a studio, which has a private Art Deco bathroom.
In the oldest part of the building and reached by a set of 14th-century Cotswold stone steps, the vaulted Abbots Chamber, historically recorded in Millet’s paintings, has its own fireplace beside which is a roll-top bath while the cosy oak-panelled Elizabethan Suite offers the best of historic English furniture and mod...
All rooms have a high quality hospitality tray, digital television and DVD player, iPod docking station, wine holder and glasses, snuggly bathrobes and bath sheets and complimentary Cole & Lewis toiletries. Beds are extremely comfortable with fine quality Egyptian cotton sheets.
Breakfast, which is pre-ordered the evening before, is served from 8-9.30am (later on Sundays) in the wood-panelled dining room where guests are seated around a central, formally laid dining table. Attention to detail (for example decorative piped butter, Bishop’s Mitre serviettes, high quality porcelain) is marked whi...
A cooked breakfast selection, using local suppliers, includes a Full English, eggs or mushrooms on toast, Kippers, smoked salmon or porridge. Food tastes sensational and dishes are beautifully presented.
Double rooms from £165 in low season; and from £220 in high. The Elizabethan Suite and Abbots Chambers are from £255 in low season; and from £310 in high. Breakfast included. Free Wi-Fi. Reduced rates for more than one night. Returning guests receive discounted rates.
Children from 12 years. Portable beds are available and can be erected in certain rooms.
Church Street, Broadway, WR12 7AE, United Kingdom.
WINNIPEG — Motorists in Manitoba can give the pedal a little more gas on most twinned sections of the Trans-Canada Highway throughout the province.
The speed limit has been raised to 110 km/h from 100 km/h west of Winnipeg.
Areas around Virden, Brandon, Carberry, Portage la Prairie, Elie and Headingley are excluded from the increased speed limit because of road geometry and traffic signal locations in these areas.
The province says the raised limit follows increased safety measures including improving intersections, paving shoulders, creating rumble strips, and installing better signage and guardrails.
The speed limit from the Saskatchewan border to Virden (a distance of 47.7 km) was increased to 110 km/h in 2009.
Russian and Georgian troops continued to fight a pitched battle Monday that has spilled beyond the borders of South Ossetia and toward the Georgian city of Gori, where Jewish relief organizations continued to make contact with local Jews.
More than 200 Jewish residents fled the Russian bombardment over the weekend. More have decided to leave amid fears that the Russian army is advancing toward them.
Jews on either side of the conflict zone expressed starkly contrasting impressions of the battle as the war-weary Caucasus region weathered its latest conflagration — Russia’s largest use of force outside its borders since 1989.
On Aug. 8, Russian tanks and soldiers poured into South Ossetia, a breakaway republic that fought a war for independence from Georgia in the early 1990s. Russia said it was protecting its citizens and peacekeepers from a Georgian attempt to secure the capital, Tskhinvali.
Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had made the reunification of Georgia with its breakaway republics a central plank of his campaigns as he cultivated close ties with the West, sending soldiers to U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as seeking entry to the NATO alliance.
Saakashvili’s distance from Russia chafed at then-President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Moscow holds little love for the poster child of democracy in the former Soviet sphere.
Jews are caught on both sides of the conflict.
Alex Katz, the Jewish Agency for Israel’s liaison to the former Soviet Union, visited Gori on Monday and met with the few holdouts in the city closest to the Ossetian border. He said Russian troops were nine miles north of the city.
Katz visited with a community leader, Vissarion Manasherov, trying to convince the stragglers to leave the area and offering them a chance to immigrate to Israel. One family agreed, and another decided to remain in Gori, he said. A third family could not be found.
During his conversation with JTA, Katz’s vehicle was fleeing Gori with a convoy of Georgian soldiers on the way back to the republic’s capital of Tbilisi. The convoy passed a hospital with long lines of wounded soldiers, Katz said.
Gori had been used as a staging ground for Georgian troops during their initial offensive on Tskhinvali.
Most of the more than 200 Jewish refugees who have made their way to Tbilisi are staying with relatives and friends there. Between 10,000 to 12,000 Jews live in Georgia, mostly in the capital.
Speaking from a central planning room in Israel, Jewish Agency spokesman Alex Selsky said more than 60 people had applied to make aliyah at the agency’s behest. A group of eight emigres arrived Sunday night in Israel from Georgia, but their relocation already had been planned, he said.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has a 10-person team in the region dispensing food and other humanitarian aid, as well as assisting those fleeing the war-torn areas.
The JDC, which assists 1,500 elderly and 735 children at risk and their families in the region, has deployed additional workers to tend to the elderly in areas most affected by the fighting. It also is working with the local Jewish community to absorb and provide assistance to the estimated 100 Jewish refugees who left...
Meanwhile, the government of Israel is also sending two consular representatives to Tbilisi, according to the Jewish Agency.
Arkia Israel Airlines said Monday it could not fly out 100 Israeli nationals waiting to leave Georgia because the airport radar had been bombed beyond function, Ha’aretz reported.
The airline is working to reroute passengers through Azerbaijan, another pro-Russian breakaway republic on Georgia’s border with the Black Sea.
Georgian troops withdrew Sunday from South Ossetia, a pro-Russian de facto state since 1992. Russia has issued passports to South Ossetian citizens for years and served as a peacekeeping force in the region.
Before wave after wave of ethnic conflict shook the foundations of Tskhinvali starting in 1992, there was a growing Jewish community of more than 2,000 people in the city of 30,000.
That number has dwindled to about 15, said Mark Petrushansky, the chairman of the Jewish community for Vladikavkaz, the closest Russian population center to the conflict zone.
Petrushansky said he visited Tskhinvali last month and spoke with community leaders. He has not been able to find any members of the community since the fighting broke out Aug. 8, though Petrushansky said that at least one prominent member was in Moscow with family.
Leaders from South Ossetia and Abkhazia have sought recognition of the initial assault on Tskhinvali as genocide.
According to estimates from the Georgian and Russian governments, the death toll in the conflict is near 2,000, though there has been no independent confirmation of the numbers.
Russia television has broadcast near-constant footage of wounded Ossetians while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew from the Olympic Games in Beijing directly to Vladikavkaz to meet with refugees.
“The American agencies are broadcasting and we’re watching these lies meant to manipulate people,” he said by telephone Monday.
Russian media have portrayed Saakashvili, the Columbia University-educated president who has courted U.S. favor and sought Georgia’s membership in NATO, as a puppet of the West. They have broadcast a loop of his interviews with Western news organizations such as CNN and pronouncements from his presidential desk in Engl...
Petrushansky also had heard reports that Israel had provided weapons and military training to Georgia, which he likened to Germany under Hitler.
The Israeli daily Ha’aretz cited an anonymous senior defense official who said Israel feared that further aid to Georgia would provoke Russia into providing more advanced weaponry to Iran and Syria. Israel has sought to distance itself from Georgia since the conflict began.
Israel has a longstanding defense relationship with Georgia and over the years has sold rockets, night vision and aerial drones to the former Soviet republic. A drone that was shot down by Russian forces in the breakway republic of Abkhazia earlier this year came from Israel.
In contrast, soldiers and citizens in the midst of the fighting in northern Georgia have expressed a sense that the United States betrayed them by not providing more support as the conflict unfolded.
They see Russia’s actions as heavy-handed, a return to the Soviet mentality in which neighbors are either puppets or enemies.
Russian planes bombed targets across Georgia on Monday, including bridges, roadways and military facilities on the outskirts of Tbilisi, Brodsky said.
In Abkhazia, Russian forces have demanded that soldiers in the Georgia-controlled regions lay down their weapons — a sign that Russia may be ready to open a second front in the war.
The Abkhazian capital Sukhumi is home to some 120 Jews who are no stranger to tanks and rebel armies prowling across the hilly seaside region, though the capital is on the coast far from where border skirmishes would take place.
Alexander Glusker, the chairman of Sukhumi’s Jewish community, told JTA that he and his fellow Jews are “Abkhazian patriots,” though he shrugged at the possibility of Abkhazian independence in the near future. He said he had seen too many wars, three or four at last count, to become too excited.
FORMER Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann has accused Manchester United's Ashley Young of 'blatant cheating' far worse than anything ever done by Luis Suarez.
Young won a penalty, that Robin van Persie went onto miss, in the goalless Champions League draw away at Real Sociedad despite appearing to go down under minimal contact.
Hamann, however, believes Young's tumbling tops anything committed by Liverpool star Suarez, who has been involved in a number of diving scandals and only last month appeared to go down easily to win a penalty in Uruguay's World Cup qualifier victory over Argentina.
“If you remember the stick Luis Suarez got, he’s cut it [diving] out of his game, but Ashley Young is much worse than Suarez has ever been," he told talkSPORT.
“I would say to Young, ‘if you want to stay in the game for the next ten years, you’ve got to cut that out’. He’ll end up not getting decisions any more."
Young was booked in September for diving in United's home victory over Crystal Palace with manager David Moyes, in the aftermath of the incident, eager to stress he would not accept diving at the club.
Hamann, who also spent time at Newcastle United and Manchester City, is adamant that simulation is now part of Young's make-up.
“If the incident against Real Sociedad happened in the Premier League, he wouldn’t have got a penalty. He only got it because the referee didn’t know him," he said.

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