method further comprises balancing any unbalance of the rotor caused by the transfer of the at least one fraction of the first separated component into the at least two first satellite bags.
Balancing any unbalance of the rotor caused by the transfer of the first separated component into the at least two first satellite component bags comprises respectively storing the at least two first satellite bags in the at least one container against at least two interconnected flexible pouches containing a volume of a liquid secured to a wall of the at least one container, whereby the at least two first satellite bags press against the at least two pouches under centrifugation forces and distribute the volume of liquid in the at least two pouches so as to balancethe rotor.
The method further comprises sealing and cutting a tube connecting each separation bag to the first satellite component bag connected thereto.
The method further comprises transferring a second separated component from the at least two separation bags into at least two second satellite bags connected thereto respectively.
Transferring a second separated component from the at least two separation bags into the at least two second satellite bags connected thereto respectively, comprises: transferring a second separated component from one of the at least two separation bags into the second satellite bag connected thereto; detecting a characteristic of a component at a second determined location in either the separation bag of which the second component is transferred or a tube connecting the second satellite bag to the separation bag of which


rotating the rotor after a predetermined period of time after detecting a characteristic of a component at the second determined location in one of the at least two separation bags or the tube connected thereto.
The method further comprises balancing any unbalance of the rotor caused by the transfer of the second separated component into the at least two second satellite bags.
Balancing any unbalance of the rotor caused by the transfer of the second separated component into the at least two second satellite component bags comprises respectively storing the at least two second satellite bags in the at least one container against at least two interconnected flexible pouches containing a volume of a liquid secured to a wall of the at least one container, whereby the at least twois mounted on the rotor so as to detect a characteristic of a component in a separation bag contained in the associated separation cell.
The at least one sensor is mounted on the rotor so as to detect a characteristic of a component in a tube connected to a separation bag contained in the associated separation cell.
Each separation cell comprises a substantially closed cavity having a longitudinal axis intersecting the rotation axis of the rotor and comprising a portion closer to the rotation axis of the rotor that is defined by four walls converging towards the longitudinal axis of the cavity.
The longitudinal axis of the cavity of each separation cell intersects the rotation axis of the rotor at an acute angle.
Each separation cell comprises a cavity having a bottom


Dünz. It received extensions by Karl Indermühle in 1915 and 1924 as well as by Karl Indermühle in 1952.  Also in Bümpliz, the Feller country estate, a 1730 construction, was reshaped in the Classicist style in the 19th century, and is now embedded in the Fellergut highrise housing development. In Brünnen, the former lord's estate, a 1648 construction with 1765 extension by Niklaus Sprüngli, features painted wood carvings that are among Bern's best architectural sculptures from the Louis XV period.

In the rural landscape west of Bümpliz many significant works of traditional Bernese countryside architecture remain. The hamlet of Niederbottigen is among the best-preserved such settlements, including among others the Hochstudhaus, a 1675 farmhouse displaying exceptionally fine craftsmanship, and the Hans-Franz-Nägeli-Haus, a 17th-century High Baroque country estate inkilled in the shooting at Santa Fe High School earlier this month – the deadliest since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, which prompted mass calls for gun reform.

Donald Trump says he is considering arming teachers after shooting tragedy

Mr Trump flirted briefly with instituting comprehensive background checks and raising the minimum age for gun purchases after the Parkland shooting. But he has since returned to the idea of arming teachers – a plan he said would allow educators to “immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions”.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott – who Mr Trump met in Texas on Thursday – has expressed support for the idea, as well as for seizing firearms from the mentally ill. The idea is


also supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA), and some school teachers, but has been heavily criticised by the National Education Association and other experts.

Mr Trump was last in Texas to speak at the NRA convention, where he declared that gun rights would “never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your president”.

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At least one parent at Thursday’s meeting praised Mr Trump’s demeanour, writing on Facebook that he “met with us privately and showed sincerity, compassion, and concern on making our schools safer across the nation”.

“He spent time talking to the survivors and asking on what happened and what would have made a difference,” wrote Pamela Stanich, whose 17-year-old


questionnaire. The draft questionnaire was modified after several cognitive interviews with primary care physicians across the 3 study sites. The modified questionnaire was then pre-tested (with primary care physicians as well as a panel of 5 experts in CP/CPPS from North America) and refined following the debriefing. The finalized questionnaire **(Appendix)** included 5 domains; familiarity and experience with CP/CPPS, diagnosis (which included referral threshold), treatment, perceptions on managing patients with CP/CPPS (which included knowledge questions), and demographics. A vignette was presented and used to "anchor" responses to questions regarding how the physicians would evaluate and treat such a patient. The vignette read as follows:

A healthy 38-year old man reports several months of nonspecific perineal pain and urinary frequency. He is in a longstanding, monogamous relationship and has noOntario's 16-month-old government announced its first budget last spring to very mixed reviews. In fact, the finance minister that introduced it, didn't survive the cabinet shuffle that came just a couple of months later. Yesterday Finance Minister Rod Phillips delivered the government's mid-year assessment. The Agenda discusses the numbers and the political maneuvers.


Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper James Robert ClapperOn China, Biden is no Nixon — and no Trump The Hill's 12:30 Report - Speculation over Biden's running mate announcement Trump slams former intelligence officials to explain 'reluctance to embrace' agencies MORE said on Sunday that he believes there are “more shoes to drop” after an indictment stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“Not addressed here is potential involvement of the Russian government, which we certainly saw through intelligence channels that the Russian government was masterminding this,” Clapper saidSunday on CNN's "State of the Union."

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The Department of Justice on Friday announced charges against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian organizations for allegedly attempting to interfere in the 2016 election. The indictment alleges the goal of the Russians was to support then-candidate Donald Trump and damage his opponent, Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Momentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day Warning signs flash for Lindsey Graham in South Carolina MORE.

Clapper, who served as the director of national intelligence from 2010-2017, oversaw the intelligence community's report that concluded Russia conducted an influence campaign in an effort to aid then-candidate Donald Trump.

He said Sunday that the indictment validates that report.

“What was the


Former boxing champ Sergey Kovalev has been arrested in Los Angeles for drunk driving, according to reports.

The 36-year-old fighter — who lost his light heavyweight title to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last November — was stopped around 2 a.m. Monday by California Highway Patrol, ESPN said, citing an arrest report.

The trooper then arrested him for DUI and Kovalev was booked at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Van Nuys jail without incident, ESPN said.

The Russian pugilist was released at 7:35 a.m. on his own recognizance, according to TMZ.

It is just the latest legal trouble for the fighter who faces up to four years in prison for a felony assault charge stemming from a June 2018 incident in which he allegedly punched a woman in the face, ESPN noted.

He denies theSurgical retrieval and histologic evaluation of an endosteal implant: a case report with clinical, radiographic and microscopic observations.
An uncommon opportunity to study an endosteal implant after four months of normal healing is presented. After placement of titanium plasma-spray-coated, apical-vent implants in the mandibular molar area, a 55-year-old female reported discomfort around one implant. This implant was removed, despite normal healing, because of continued symptomatology. Radiologic findings, and remission of symptoms after surgical removal, supported the possible etiologic mechanism of canal roof compression. Histologic preparation and imaging of the specimen permitted the evaluation and measurement of the bone growth between the apical vents and bone apposition against the internal vent surfaces. The bone growth was fiber bone, well-mineralized, and occupied 33.8% of the area within the implant perimeter. The


The days grow short. The air grows cold. The harvest comes to an end. The leaves fade and the plants wither. Summer is dying. Winter lurks around the corner. Samhain has arrived. In Celtic tradition, October 31st marked the end of the year. On that day the old year would die. On that day the world of the living and the world of the dead would intertwine.

For the Celts, this was a time for celebration, preparation, and remembrance as well, for the dead would walk amongst the living once more. Loved ones, long gone, would rejoin their families. The Celts lit great bonfires to guide these spirits safely to their new home. When we light candles and illuminate carved pumpkins for Halloween, we carry on this ancient traditionunaware of its original purpose.

Of course spirits of the otherworld were not necessarily benign. Often mischievous and sometimes malicious, the ghosts would receive food and blessings from the households they visited. If not, the family could expect tricks. Some people would dress up as the otherworldly creatures and once mistaken for one of the spirits would then be left alone. Some would even take advantage of the night to obtain food and gifts for themselves.

However, Samhain was not necessarily a night of terror for the Celts, not for a people who so valued darkness and the dead. Samhain was a time for the people to celebrate the gift of life before they were worn down by the hardships of winter. They could revel in their harvest and enjoy


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Consumer Reports says Tesla should drop Autopilot name

July 14, 2016 by Tom Krisher And Dee-Ann Durbin

In this Sept. 15, 2015, file photo, a Tesla Model S is on display on the first press day of the Frankfurt Auto Show IAA in Frankfurt, Germany. Consumer Reports magazine is calling on electric car maker Tesla Motors to change the name of its Autopilot semi-autonomous driving system and to disconnect the automatic steering feature after a fatal crash in Florida. The magazine says in a statement that calling the system Autopilot promotes a dangerous assumption that Teslas can drive themselves. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Consumer Reports said Thursday that Tesla Motors is misleading car owners by calling its semi-autonomous driving system "Autopilot," potentially giving them too much trust in their car's abilityto drive itself.

The influential magazine said Tesla should drop the Autopilot name and disconnect the automatic steering system until it's updated to make sure a driver's hands stay on the wheel at all times. The system currently warns drivers after a few minutes of their hands being off the wheel.

In an e-mail, a Tesla spokeswoman said the company has no plans to change the name, and that data it collects show drivers who use Autopilot are safer than those who don't.

With its statement, Consumer Reports joined a debate over autonomous driving technology that escalated after authorities revealed that Joshua Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio, died in a May crash in Florida with the Autopilot on in his 2015 Model S. The system didn't detect a tractor-trailer that had


turned in front of the car in bright sunshine, and Brown also failed to react.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the wreck and the functioning of the Autopilot system. After the Brown crash, critics accused Tesla of giving drivers access to a system that wasn't ready, while supporters contended the company was improving automotive safety.

Tesla's Autopilot system uses cameras, radar and computers to detect objects and automatically brake if the car is about to hit something. It also can steer the car to keep it centered in its lane. The company says that before Autopilot can be used, drivers must acknowledge that it's an "assist feature" that requires both hands on the wheel at all times. Drivers also must be prepared to take over at anyAutopilot known as Summon, which lets owners start cars and move them out of a garage or parking spot automatically using a key fob or a smartphone. The magazine found that users couldn't stop the cars right away if they pressed the wrong button on the key fob. It also found that the cars kept moving when the smartphone app was closed. Tesla responded with a software update that limited the Summon feature to smartphones and required the user to keep a finger on the phone screen when the car was being summoned.

The first U.S. fatality using self-driving technology took place in May when the driver of a Tesla S sports car operating the vehicle's "Autopilot" automated driving system died after a collision with a truck in Florida,


match having won its last four conference games. The Bulldogs used that momentum to defeat Harvard in straight sets.

Johnson had a phenomenal game, with 13 kills on .722 hitting percentage to go along with her 20 assists and nine digs. She committed no errors despite her 18 attack attempts. Outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 contributed nine kills and a match-leading 14 digs, while setter Kendall Polan ’14 led the team with 28 assists in addition to her 10 digs and six kills.

Harvard struggled to generate counterplay and fell behind in kills, assists, and digs by huge margins. The Crimson did, however, score the first six points in the second set and held a 12–4 lead before Yale went on a 13–2 run and left them behind. The Cantabsenough, the site says Groot comes to Earth, looking to experiment on humans but Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) talks him out of it.Probably the most interesting bit of info is the report that one of the most important figures in the movie will be the character, Rhomann Dey. HitFix reports that Marvel has already made an offer to John C. Reilly to play the part. The character has been described as "the Agent Coulson of the "Guardians" movie. However unlike Coulson, Rhomann Dey is the leader of his organization and in the comic books, he eventually passes his powers to Richard Rider, better known as the superhero Nova. Dey will reportedly be in communication with S.H.I.E.L.D. during the film.The last bit of news is that Rhomann Dey


up at his house in Pine Mountain Club, California, a small community northwest of Los Angeles. They clambered around on his roof, making a racket. They perched, one by one, on his large patio umbrella, seeming to enjoy the slow slide down its slippery surface and onto the deck below. Once, Reid, a former member of the Sierra Club's board of directors, came home to find that eight young condors had ripped a hole in his screen door and were enthusiastically tearing apart his mattress. When he'd walked in on them, one of the birds had a pair of his underwear dangling from its beak.

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles and San Diego, the scientists and zookeepers who had been responsible for these birds since birth were shaking their headstheir nests in caves carved into cliff faces. They navigate a complex social hierarchy. They do not break into houses and eat underwear.

Angry conservationists accused Reid of corrupting the condors by illegally supplying them with raw meat from the local grocery, a charge he vigorously denied. After all, he'd fought to protect the condor's range back in the 1960s, when he and his wife would often see the vultures on hikes, soaring miles above them. 'That's the way you're supposed to see a condor,' he told Nielsen, decades later. He believed that such wild birds deserved to be left alone, and he knew better than to tempt them toward civilisation.

That hands-off approach to protecting the condor was shared by most mid-century conservationists. But when the total condor population


dropped to a mere 22 birds in 1987, scientists decided they needed to take aggressive action to save the species. So they rounded up every last wild condor and brought them to live in the Los Angeles Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

These birds proved prodigious breeders and, a decade later, their children were being regularly released in California and Arizona by scientists working with the condor reintroduction programme. The mischievous birds that began showing up at Reid's house were members of this zoo-bred generation. And it wasn't just the Pine Mountain Club condors that were acting strangely. Around the same time, condors released near the Grand Canyon posed for photographs and swooped past hotel balconies to wild applause from the guests. They lurked along theedges of trails and lunged at passing hikers, ripping off their shoelaces. A field crew in Arizona told The New York Times in 2003 that they'd seen four condors experimenting with what appeared to be group sex. The scientists tasked with keeping the young birds in line (and away from people) compared the job to running a rowdy middle school.

If the captive-breeding programme succeeded in its mission of raising birds that didn't depend on humans for food, shelter, or any other basic necessity of condor life, it failed in other ways. The zoo-bred birds refused to adopt the manners we demand of wild animals. They weren't scared of humans; they weren't even willing to politely ignore us. Rather, they seemed fascinated by us.

Critics of the condor-reintroduction programme –


including Reid – were quick to point fingers. The blame, they said, lay with the birds' shoddy parenting. The condor's wild essence had not been passed down to this new generation, and now it was gone forever. For, you see, these birds had never met their biological parents. Instead, they were raised by puppets.

Head on over to Aeon Magazine to read the rest of this excellent essay: Reared by Puppets.

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Kolakowski Dead – Good Riddance

Posted by Steve Palmer on July 18, 2009

Kolakowski the Clown

News is that Leszek Kolakowski is dead. Since most of the reviews of his life will be snivelling sycophantic paens to his anti-communism – especially amongst the so-called ‘left’ – I intend to present at more balanced picture – it’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
He was an intellectual fraud and liar. He was a hired prize-fighter for the ruling class – literally. He provided ideological air-cover for the efforts of selfish petit-bourgeois to destroy socialism. He was richly rewarded for his efforts: in 2003 he was awarded the Kluge prize, worth $1,000,000, by the Library of Congress.

We can assess his intellectual caliber by examining one of his later essays “What is


than any actor with whom I have worked at truly holding contradictory feelings onstage at the same time. When I accepted her resistance to playing Sophocles' Clytemnestra and asked her which Greek heroine she would be interested in exploring instead, she immediately said she wanted to take on the title role of Euripides' Hecuba. This is why, many years later at A.C.T., we joined together to explore the torment and vendetta of a dispossessed Trojan queen and the men who dared to take her on.

One incident in rehearsal with Olympia has always reminded me why long-term collaborations with truly curious artists are so key. We were working on the penultimate scene in Hecuba, in which the Trojan queen, having murdered the children of Polymestor and put out theFrancisco and we arranged to meet at A.C.T.'s studios to hear the revisions. It happened that San Francisco's enormous Pride Parade was going on down Market Street that afternoon, and for many hours it looked as if Waits was going to retreat back into the Four Seasons Hotel rather than try to cross through the crowds. When we finally all arrived in the studio, we listened to members of A.C.T.'s core company read the script, which was a series of short scenes punctuated by songs. Knowing little about Wilson's aesthetic, they had no idea how to approach the material, and they read it as naturalistic dialogue, whereupon Wilson pronounced this the "A Streetcar Named Black Rider reading" and launched into a two-hour disquisition about the kind of performers


Critically hurt Alexandra biker 'not wearing helmet'

A 19-year-old Alexandra man was in a critical condition in
Dunedin Hospital yesterday after he was found by friends
lying beside his motocross bike in the Pines, near
Alexandra's Boundary Rd, on Sunday evening.

Central Otago sub area commander Senior Sergeant Ian Kerrisk
said the man sustained serious head injuries and early
indications were that he had not been wearing a helmet when
he apparently crashed.

It appeared alcohol was involved.

The man left a friend's house on Pine Rd about 8.30pm on
Sunday and his friends went to find him when they heard the
bike's motor stop suddenly.

They found him beside his bike.

The man was airlifted from Dunstan Hospital in Clyde to
Dunedin Hospital, where he was in the intensive care unit
yesterday.other neighborhoods.

As announced last spring, 13 hubs were awarded Hub in A Box grants and many of those were brand new hubs and who have now been added to our map. This brings the total of hubs in Seattle to 151.

New networked hubs in 2018 – Spring Street P-Patch, Hillman City P-Patch, Rainier Vista West, St John United Lutheran Church (Phinney), Magnuson Park, Windermere North Sand Point, Ballard P-Patch, Braeburn Condominiums, Haller Lake Community Club, Peace Lutheran Church (Gatewood), Volunteer Park Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Collectively, our network of hub captains and volunteers:

Held 13 local training and skill building events

Gave 10 presentations, including one to FEMA Region X

Hosted 21outreach tables

Worked on strengthening preparedness with partners:

Planning for joint outreach with Community Low Power FM radio stations

Working with AIA and SEAW


to understand WASafe Building Inspectors Program (and sat in for part of ATC20 training)

Consultation with MBA grad students UW Foster School of Business for a Capstone Project on community power needs after a disaster

Discussion with Scott Zafram, FEMA Region X on lessons from Puerto Rico that the Hubs should know about

SHAG housing emergency preparedness planning discussion, for multiple facilities

Discussion with Ballard and West Seattle Food Banks for continuity of operations planning.

Hub-In-A-Box Grants Awarded!

Congratulations to the 15 groups who were awarded funds to establish a hub location in their neighborhoods. These funds were secured by the Seattle City Council, and are managed through the Department of Neighborhoods with assistance from the Office of Emergency Management and Parks and Recreation Department. The hubs are in the process of receiving theirAt least 11 candidates have filed notices of their intentions to run for governor next year, a mix of established politicians and newcomers.

Candidates can't officially qualify with the Democratic and Republican parties until January 8. But they could begin raising money in June, one year before the primaries.

Five Democrats and five Republicans have notified the secretary of state's office that they are raising or will raise campaign funds.

That does not include some who changed their minds or decided to seek another office.

State Agriculture Commissioner John McMillan, who initially planned a run for governor, filed notice on Dec. 12 that he would run for state treasurer instead. McMillan, a Republican, was term-limited from seeking a third term as agriculture commissioner.

McMillan is at least the fourth gubernatorial candidate to opt


out of the GOP primary race. Public Service Commission President Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh chose to run for lieutenant governor. Jefferson County Commissioner David Carrington and Stacy Lee George, a state correctional officer and former Morgan County Commissioner, dropped out of the race.

That leaves, on the Republican side, Gov. Kay Ivey, Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle, Birmingham evangelist Scott Dawson, state Sen. Bill Hightower of Mobile and Birmingham businessman Josh Jones.

On the Democratic side, those who have announced include former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, Jason Childs, a truck driver from Oxford, James Fields of Hanceville and Anthony White of Dothan.

Mark Johnston of Hayden is running as an independent.

This story was updated at 6:17 p.m. to add city and occupation for candidate JasonAfter ID of remains, police investigating death of Jessica Runions as a homicide

The family of missing woman Jessica Runions has confirmed one set of human remains found in Cass County this week belongs to their daughter.The Cass County Sheriff's Office said this evening the Jackson County Medical Examiner's Office positively identified those remains as Runions. The Kansas City Police Department now says they are investigating Jessica's death as a homicide. The second set of remains found off of Route Y has yet to be identified.The family of Kara Kopetsky - another missing woman linked to the Runions case by an ex-boyfriend is still waiting for information Wednesday night."In my heart of hearts I believe it's Kara," said Rhonda Beckford, Kara's mother. Beckford said the second skull found in


Cass County was not a complete skull and they have been told it could take up to a year to identify. Jessica Runions went messing in September 2016 after reportedly getting a ride home from a party with Kylr Yust.Her vehicle was later found burned in Kansas City. Yust was arrested and charged in connection with burning that vehicle. He is still in jail on that charge.Kara Kopetsky went missing nearly 10 years ago in may 2007. Days before her disappearance she filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend Kylr Yust.For breaking news on the go, download the KMBC 9 News App.

The family of missing woman Jessica Runions has confirmed one set of human remains found in Cass County this week belongs to their daughter.

The Cass County Sheriff'sfound burned in Kansas City.

Yust was arrested and charged in connection with burning that vehicle. He is still in jail on that charge.

Kara Kopetsky went missing nearly 10 years ago in may 2007. Days before her disappearance she filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend Kylr Yust.

For breaking news on the go, download the KMBC 9 News App.


opinion on tolerating Zoroastrian incest marriages.

Instead of parroting the opinions of past jurists and exegetes, such neo-conservative Muslim leaders can avoid needless defensive posturing by a careful reading of the tradition.

The Islamic legal and literary tradition has classified people on the basis of their sexual expression. These categories include but are not limited to mukhannathun (effeminate males), zarifat (courtly lady lovers) and haba'ib (female beloveds).

The tradition values modesty. While sexual conduct is a private matter, it would be erroneous to conflate that with the 'Don't Ask Don't tell' prescription.

The 11th century jurist Ibn Hazm went so far as to assert, "Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law..." He openly stated of his friend, "... beauty itself was created in his likeness, or fashioned outof its war machine in Gaza neighborhoods and uses Gazans as human shields.

Sixty-eight people have died on the Israeli side: 64 soldiers and 4 civilians, most recently a four-year-old boy killed by mortar fire on Friday.


The beauty of isolated tracks is that they allow us to hear an old
piece of music in a completely new way. They give us a fresh perspective
on something we thought we already knew.

Today we bring you a series of
isolated tracks showing how Led Zeppelin pieced together one of its
classic early songs: “Ramble On.”

The song was written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and recorded in
New York in the spring of 1969. Led Zeppelin was on its second tour of
North America. Along the way, the band popped into various studios to
lay down tracks forLed Zeppelin II.

The remainder of the album was recorded in the same fashion, between
shows in Europe. “We were touring a lot,” bassist John Paul Jones wrote
in the liner notes to the Led Zeppelin boxed set.

“Jimmy’s
riffs wereMassive new delays for NBN customers

MORE THAN two million Australian households will need to wait months longer to connect to the National Broadband Network after the company behind the rollout admitted some of its connections were simply too unreliable.

About 2.5 million households are expected to be affected by delays up to nine months, which NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow said he would not categorise as "a stuff-up" but evidence the company was trying to improve customers' experiences.

National Broadband Network CEO Bill Morrow, with Minister for Communications Mitch Fifield, said the delays were designed to improve the customer experience. Picture: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

The delays will affect households due to connect to the NBN using pay-TV cable, also known as Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial (HFC), including 780,000 homes in areas "ready


The quadrennial challenge for state Democrats is finding the perfect candidate to unseat – or at least, shake the throne – of the reigning Republican emperor. Someone who's polished, with enough name ID, political goodwill, policy experience, and Democratic bona fides to satisfy progressives without alienating moderates. Dems have spent much of the past four years stinging over 2014's 20-point gubernatorial loss of former state Sen. Wendy Davis to Greg Abbott, and with the rush of political backlash following Trump's election, have the appetite to come back swinging. It seemed as though the Democratic establishment had a golden opportunity to put forth the ideal candidate.

Then last year's legislative session came and went, and summer rolled through without any legitimate prospects. U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro squashed rumors of arun in September, around the same time as his brother. The horizon started to look hazy. So voters waited. And waited. And waited.

We’re not saying Texas has turned blue, but there might be enough pissed-off Republicans and motivated Democrats to make a dent during this election cycle.

With the filing deadline almost up, one name finally surfaced. On Dec. 6, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez announced she'd run for governor; one day later, Houston entrepreneur Andrew White made his own long-teased bid official. At the tail-end of four years, primary voters had only four months to familiarize themselves with the two most prominent candidates (there are nine in total), neither of whom are particularly recognizable political names to the general public. Talk about playing catch-up.

The position they've signed up


for is a governorship that doesn't hold as much technical power as its counterparts in other states – or, arguably, its own lieutenant governor. However, the role accumulated more weight during Rick Perry's entirely-too-long tenure, and his hobby of appointing like-minded pals to influential state boards and agencies. (During his own tenure, Abbott has made about 900 appointments, of mostly Anglo men, many of whom were big donors to his campaign.)

The governor can also take advantage (as both Perry and Abbott certainly have) of slashing would-be laws through vetoes; calling special sessions; and pushing legislative priorities. For Abbott, that's meant a sanctuary cities law, anti-choice legislation, and efforts to pass a bigoted bathroom bill. (To say nothing of his war on heritage trees.) And of course, there's thebully pulpit. Abbott has helped foster fear of the LGBTQ and immigrant communities; oppressed women's bodily rights; disregarded environmental protections; the list goes on.

But for Texas progressives it's a struggle to feel hopeful that a Democrat could actually replace him. The party hasn't won a statewide election since 1994, the longest drought of any state. And while we can't escape the near-constant and optimistic refrain that Texas will soon turn blue through Hispanic voters, it'll be a long road ahead: More than 1 million Latinos in Texas are still unregistered to vote.

And let's not forget non-voters, the most troubling faction of the state's political landscape. During the last gubernatorial election, only 25% of the voting age population bothered to cast a ballot. Less than 3% of eligible Democratic


instead it helped me be a good leader. I feel like we are getting close to that way of thinking" about the anti-immigrant tone of the state's current leadership.

Valdez, 70, spent the past 42 years in law enforcement, resigning from her position in Dallas County just before announcing her candidacy. She's the youngest of eight children in a Mexican-American family, and when she was younger would help her migrant worker parents out in the fields. She joined the U.S. Army, rose to captain, and eventually senior agent with the Department of Homeland Security, from 2002 to 2004. That's when she decided to run for sheriff. Considered an underdog in her first election, Valdez ended up ousting two decades of Republican leadership and held her office for four terms.She prides herself on having cleaned up a mismanaged and corrupt department. "It was known for abuse and beating up inmates. I spent the first few years just trying to change the culture."

Valdez is against the death penalty and open carry, supports increased background checks on gun purchases, and diverting border security funds to local law enforcement. Her platform seeks to boost the blue- collar worker, by raising minimum wage to $15 per hour and expanding Medicaid. She's secured the endorsement of Texas AFL-CIO's political arm.

As a queer Latina – and the state's first openly gay and first Latina sheriff – Valdez's run against an anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant opponent feels deliciously poetic. Growing up in a strict Mexican-American family, Valdez says her sexual orientation would have been grounds for


do not need to have those people here."

And while her main challenger is "personally pro-life," Valdez isn't shy about retelling her story of offering to finance her niece's abortion in the Eighties. (Her niece eventually changed her mind, and Valdez helped with the out-of-wedlock pregnancy.) All women should be allowed to make their own choices, whatever that choice is, she says. She sharply admonished the state's slew of anti-choice laws.

While Valdez has been severely outraised by the GOP incumbent – literally a thousand times over – she remains confident. Asked what her priorities would be if she won the Democratic primary, Valdez cuts in self-assuredly, "What do you mean if?"

"Everyone keeps telling me it's going to happen in 2020. I'm saying it's going to happen now," she says."It's always 'mañana' – I say it's today."

The Conservative Democrat

Shortly after delivering the eulogy last summer at the funeral for his father (former Texas Gov. Mark White), Andrew White found out the state's current governor was calling a special legislative session to, among other priorities, pass an anti-transgender bathroom bill and regulate tree ordinances. The 45-year-old Houston businessman had never entertained the idea of entering politics, especially growing up with a governor as dad. But hundreds of people at the funeral reminded him that the elder White had made tough decisions during his governorship in the Eighties, like his "no pass, no play" policy, which forced student athletes to pass their courses in order to play sports.

"It just hit me that we don't have leaders like my dad


anymore," White relayed to me last week. "He made decisions that could jeopardize his career in politics but made them anyway because they were the right decisions." That realization, coupled with his assistance during Hurricane Harvey, led White to rethink things. "I need to step up and get involved in our state."

An entrepreneur of 20 years, White's businesses included tech and manufacturing. He grew up in Austin, attending Zavala Elementary and O. Henry Middle School, and graduated UT with a master's in business. ("If it weren't for Matt's El Rancho chile con queso, I wouldn't be here today," he added.)

On the campaign trail, White dubs himself a "commonsense" and conservative Democrat who will instill "sanity and reason" to Texas. He's focused heavily on reforming health care and educationhis Christian beliefs. But he said that he supports Roe v. Wade and, if elected governor, would veto "all" bills that limit a woman's right to choose. He attributes the difference between his personal beliefs and campaign policies to his commitment to the separation of church and state. While he's against Senate Bill 4, White's centrist colors show with his lament of "our weak" borders, which he said on his website "read like an 'Open for Business' sign to millions of undocumented immigrants and the criminals who take advantage of them." For 20 years, White headed Geovox Security, which sells heartbeart detectors used at prisons, border crossings, and military facilities to track people. And though it's since been removed, that same website caught flak in December when the


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One Hundred Views of Famous Places of Edo

This series published late in the life of Hiroshige is celebrated as the final summary of his landscape prints. The series appears to have been published parcel after parcel as it won popularity, 37 designs in 1856, 71 in 1857, 10 in 1858, totaling 118 designs. The publisher was Uoei (Uo-ya Eikichi) at Shitaya Ueno Hirokoji.

Many pieces of this series have extremely magnified and detailed foregrounds, to emphasize the perspective, or bird's-eye views from high above. Even in his latter years, Hiroshige had a surprising vitality and maintained his creative powers to explore more new ways of expression.top octaves of the piano rang forth clearly and brightly, and the muted trumpet in the beginning of the concerto’s second movement had a satisfying amount of bite. Like many romantic composers, Rachmaninoff relied as much on a broad tonal palette as on melody and harmony. The strings were lush in the first movement, though not overly so, and more sprightly in the second movement, a scherzo. The sound of the brasses ranged from rich and burnished to superbly brassy, and the glockenspiel had an excellent combination of tone and sparkle. The LCD-Xes also helped me appreciate Rachmaninoff’s weaving of the melodic line through the woodwinds, rendering the diverse timbres of clarinet, oboe, and English horn in a distinct way that made each instrument immediately recognizable.

For many audiophiles,


to listen to the Audio Fidelity edition, pressed on 180-gram vinyl. The laid-back sound of the earlier Audeze headphones made them a great match for some of the brighter jazz and classical recordings from the 1950s. The LCD-Xes may be an even better pairing, as it gave those albums a bit more life without making them fatiguing to listen to. The only time the LCD-Xes crossed the line into edginess was when I drove them directly from the headphone output of a Harman/Kardon CD player/recorder with recordings that had a lot of treble energy.

One of the great strengths of the first Audeze headphones was the depth, potency, and linearity of their bass, which was superior to what other open-back headphones offered. The LCD-Xes carry on that tradition. Thethe individual Plaintiffs is over 70 years of age, and acquired his dwelling unit as a permanent residence prior to September 13, 1988 with the reasonable expectations:
a. That these documentary restrictions, which violated no statutory or constitutional provisions of the law or Constitutions of the United States or the State of Florida, would continue to be valid and enforceable property and contract rights, free from impairment by any law of the State of Florida so long as they were not arbitrarily and selectively enforced, and that these property and contract rights would not be taken by action of the United States Government.
b. Of privacy in continued peaceful possession of their respective dwelling units without the permanent presence of children under the age specified in their respective documents.
3. Each


in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
5. The Act, and the regulations promulgated thereunder by Defendant, deprive Plaintiffs of due process of law by virtue of the vagueness of the "Housing for Older Persons" exemptions, in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
6. Finally, the Act violates Plaintiffs' property and contract rights guaranteed them by the State of Florida, in violation *1533 of both the Tenth Amendment and the principles of federalism embodied in the Constitution. The Act regulates purely local conduct, and is not a proper matter for federal regulation.

THE PLAINTIFFS
The individual Plaintiffs are all residents of Pinellas County, Florida, and are all members of Plaintiff, Senior Civil Liberties Association, Inc. (hereinafter "SCLA").
Plaintiffs MOTYL own a detached single-family home in a subdivision known as Highland Lakes in Palm Harbor. Theyare retired, are in their seventies and are originally from Detroit. Prior to their retirement, they decided they wanted a quiet place to retire, in a "senior citizen's retirement subdivision", with no children. They found no such facility in Michigan, or in the Atlanta area and eventually came to Florida. After looking at several advertised areas, they decided on a new home in Highland Lakes. Moving to a new state and severing life-long relationships and friendships was very difficult, but their new adopted lifestyle without children "supersedes all previous sacrifices and hardships encountered so far."
All of the advertising by the developer described Highland Lakes as an "adult retirement community." A sign at the front entrance says "Highland Lakes for the Retirement Time of Your Life."
Highland Lakes is comprised


of 2,360 single-family houses and villa units, plus a three-story, thirty-unit condominium apartment building. The entire subdivision is subject to a Declaration of Restrictions, which originally required at least one permanent occupant of a lot to be at least fifty years of age and prohibited permanent occupancy by anyone under sixteen. The common areas of the subdivision, including two clubhouses, two swimming pools and a twenty-seven hole executive golf course are, pursuant to the Declaration, owned and operated by a homeowner's association. The Declaration makes membership in the association mandatory with acquisition of title to an encumbered lot and grants the lot owner the right to use the association properties.
In 1989, the Declaration was amended to raise the minimum age to fifty-five and give the homeowners' association thepower to assess for any alterations or improvements in order to provide facilities or services designed to meet the requirements of the Act.
The facilities presently include a twenty-seven hole executive golf course, two swimming pools, two clubhouses (each with a kitchen, auditorium, offices, small meeting rooms, management office and card rooms), tennis courts, shuffleboard courts, exercise classes, swimming classes, aerobics classes, ceramics, dances, entertainment, speakers at association meetings and association sponsorship of various clubs such as the men's club, theater club, travel club and organ club.
Plaintiff PRIEL is the owner of a double-wide, "tied-down" mobile home in Golden Crest Mobile Home Park, in Dunedin. She is seventy-eight. She and her late husband retired from upstate New York to the park in 1971. In 1975 they "traded up" to


the present unit. When they purchased, they intentionally chose to live with people of their own age.
The original advertising for the park said it was a "retirement community." The Park Rules, which were part of the only lease she ever signed, in 1975, said it was an "adult park", although children could visit as guests. The Prospectus approved by the Florida Bureau of Mobile Homes in 1985, pursuant to Chapter 723, Florida Statutes, restated the adult-only rule by requiring that every resident shall be eighteen years of age or over.
Golden Crest Mobile Home Park has 176 mobile homes. The present facilities include a swimming pool, shuffleboard courts, pool table, laundry facilities, recreation building (with kitchen, library, piano, television, stereo and large tables), dinners, pot luck coffee hours, mealson wheels, congregate dining and public bus service. Most of the furnishings and equipment have been paid for over the years by the residents, and not the park owner. The recreation facilities are run by a Recreation Board, an unofficial entity created by the *1534 park owner. The Board has no assessment powers. There is also an incorporated homeowners' association, created in 1987, pursuant to Chapter 723, Florida Statutes.
The Complaint alleges that shortly after the passage of the Act, the park owner threatened to stop enforcing the no-children rule unless the residents came up with money to pay for the installation of additional facilities and services. This demand was dropped in the face of pressure from the homeowners' association. The park owner amended the rules anyway, in 1989,


to require that residents be fifty-five years of age or older.
Plaintiff SHIPLEY is in her seventies and from Virginia. Her husband is in his nineties. Neither of the Shipleys are in good health. They live in the Heather Lake Condominium Community, in Dunedin, comprised of twelve low-rise apartment buildings in ten separately declared condominiums. She purchased a unit in Condo II in 1979 or 1980 were she lived for a year before marrying her husband and moving into his unit in Condo X in 1981. Her husband's unit was purchased in 1979 or 1980 on re-sale from a speculator who had purchased from the developer.
Both of the SHIPLEYS purchased their units because the complex was for adults only. They have raised four children, but now, in their "lateryears", they cannot tolerate the noise which would be made by children residing in the complex.
All of the Declarations of Condominium in Heather Lake have the same provisions. The originally recorded Rules and Regulations require that each unit shall be used as a single-family residence of persons over the age of sixteen. In 1989, the Declaration was amended, with the expressed intent of qualifying for an exemption under the Act, to require that 80 percent of the units have at least one permanent occupant 55 years or older, and that all permanent occupants be at least 18 years of age.
The Heather Lake complex contains a recreation clubhouse (with kitchen, library, bathrooms, lounge, pool table, card tables, sofas, chairs, piano, television and tables), swimming pool, shuffleboard courts, entertainment, coffee


hours, cookouts, "stitch & chat", card games, bingo, hospital volunteer program, Neighborly Senior Services, Inc., meals on wheels, "walking for fitness", Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas dinner dance, and outings.
In late 1988-1989, Plaintiff SHIPLEY put her unit in Condo II on the market for sale. When the Act took effect in March, 1989, she could not continue advertising the unit as "adults only" or "no children", for fear this would constitute a violation of the Act. Advertising consisted of a notice on the clubhouse bulletin board, and ads in two small local newspapers: the Palm Harbor Sounder and the Dunedin Times. The unit was eventually sold, in October, 1989. Plaintiff SHIPLEY did not use a real estate broker.
Plaintiffs RIEDEL are in their eighties and retired to Florida from New YorkCity in 1963. They rented in various places, mostly in Clearwater Beach, until purchasing their unit in the Clearwater Point Condominium complex in December, 1982. They never saw any printed advertising materials, as they purchased on re-sale, but "it was generally known in the area that Clearwater Point was and is an `adult community.'"
Plaintiffs RIEDEL are not in good health either. The prohibition against children contained in the condominium documents was also an important consideration to them when they purchased because of their age and their health.
Clearwater Point is comprised of eight separately declared condominiums, six of which are three-story townhouse clusters. The other two condominiums, including theirs, are each comprised of two high-rise apartment buildings. The two buildings which comprise the RIEDELS' condominium contain a total of


the market for resale and she wishes to preserve the age-homogeneous environment of her community, yet has ceased using "adult only" language in advertisements *1536 for her unit for fear of potential liability for violation of the Act.
4. Plaintiff SHIPLEY is further in need of the requested declaratory relief by virtue of her being a member of the Board of Directors of her condominium association charged with the ultimate responsibility of approving or disapproving resales and rentals of units in the condominium administered by her association.
5. Plaintiff PRIEL is further in need of the requested declaratory relief because the owner of her mobile home park has notified the homeowners association, of which she is a Director and the Secretary, that unless the lot owners pay for the installationwas a problem for families in all types of housing units and transactions. Defendant contends that Congress was presented with evidence that documentary age restrictions were a problem in ownership housing and did in fact intend to alleviate discrimination in ownership housing as well as in rental housing by passing this Act.
Most of the pertinent legislative history is contained in the Hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session on H.R. 1158, Fair Housing Amendments act of 1987 (hereinafter known as House Hearings), and the Hearings before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session on S.558, A Bill to Amend Title


VIII of the Act Commonly Called The Civil Rights Act of 1968, to Revise the Procedures for the Enforcement of Fair Housing, and for Other Purposes (hereinafter referred to as Senate Hearings).
After reading all the pertinent legislative history, this Court agrees with Defendant that the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 applies to both rental and ownership housing.
Although nothing in the reports and hearings of both the House and the Senate directly states that this Act includes discrimination in ownership housing, all materials speak to "the housing market" and "housing discrimination" in general.
The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 came before Congress exactly 20 years after the Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed. Congress stated when they passed the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that they couldno longer tolerate discrimination in the sale or rental of housing on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. In 1974, sex was added to this list. Twenty years later, with discrimination and segregation well-documented, Congress saw the need to add to the list of protected classes, families with children and individuals with handicaps. In short, it was the legislature's intent to open up all forms of housing to parents with children under 18 except those that are designed for older persons and qualify for an exemption
Defendant also asserts that a substantial amount of the legislative history focuses on criticism of the discrimination laws of other states. According to the statement and testimony of James Morales found at Senate Hearings, pp. 166-210, sixteen states and the


Fall of Haifa (1265)

In 1265, the army of Baibars the Mamluk captured Haifa, destroying its fortifications, which had been rebuilt by Louis IX of France, as well as the majority of the city's homes to prevent the European Crusaders from returning.

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Category:Period post Seventh CrusadePoroshenko pointed out that the Kremlin regards the Moscow Patriarchate as “one of the key tools of influence over Ukraine.”

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced on April 17 that Ukraine might have an independent, unified Ukrainian Orthodox Church as early as July 28—the anniversary of Kyivan Rus’ adoption of Christianity.

He made the prediction after the Ukrainian parliament voted to support the president’s efforts to convince Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to grant autocephalous status to the combined Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC)-Kyiv Patriarchate and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, John Coyle wrote in an op-ed for the Atlantic Council.

During an official state visit to Istanbul, Poroshenko met with Patriarch Bartholomew on April 17. The two leaders held seven hours of closed-doors discussions before the president announced “Ukraine is as close as ever to


There have been other goalie prospects for the Canadiens since Carey Price was drafted in 2005, with Trevor Timmins rolling the dice with late round selections in Jason Missiaen (4th round, 2008) and Petteri Simila (Mr. Irrelevant 2009) , but no pick has come close to generating even a notable buzz the way Price's pick did until the team took Zachary Fucale with pick #36 this year. While Fucale doesn't come with the weight of a top-5 selection, he is similarly a Canadian goalie picked by the Canadiens who was the first goalie selected in his draft year. He also comes with great expectations for the Canadian national junior program, and a lot of favourable press as well, regarding his talent and mental toughness.

Oh yeah, and he grewup a Canadiens fan in the suburb of Rosemère, is fluently bilingual and just won a national championship. So yeah, he's just another ho-hum Canadiens prospect like the three guys who preceded him on this list.

We've tempered our expectations on Fucale here at Eyes on the Prize for his first appearance on the Top 25 Under 25. Unlike 23rd ranked Dalton Thrower, who was the Canadiens second 2nd-round pick a year ago, Fucale had a fantastic 2012-13 season while competing for the Memorial Cup. Every challenge set before him he succeeded at, and he and his teammates walked away with a league regular season title, a league playoff championship, and a national championship as well. It obviously was a near perfect situation to play behind, but make no


a lot of additional value over a position player as an investment. Consider that Tuukka Rask only played 105 NHL regular season and playoff games by age 25 (with only one season as a starter) and you can see how a young forward or defenseman could be viewed as more valuable in terms of taking advantage of a player's 'cheap' years.

Strengths:

Okay, enough semantics. Let's talk about his talent level. Zach Fucale is most often described as having a calm demeanour in net, who has honed his training based on what The Goalie Guild refers to as his 'economy of movement.' Simply put, Fucale tries to maximize the percentages by playing the angles and squaring up to the shooter. He is less reactionary and tries to keep his movementsto a minimum. Corey Pronman of Hockey Prospectus notes his "quick, powerful feet" as one of the main reasons for his talent for squaring up to the shot.

Another strength of Fucale is his demonstrated workhorse ability. He took over the reigns of starting goalie at an almost unprecedented age of 16 and has already played 151 major junior regular season and playoff games plus ten games for a Canadian international team (U17s as Quebec, Ivan Hlinka, Subway Super Series as QMJHL) before being drafted. That's a volume of games forwards and defensemen would be in tough to achieve. No goalie in the QMJHL has played more, or faced more shots, since he entered the league.

Weaknesses:

For this profile, I contacted Kevin Forbes, a Halifax-based scout/writer for Hockey's Future and


Future Considerations. While he confirmed many of the strengths listed above, he also noted that one of the challenges for Fucale this year was maintaining his focus with so little action. His Shots/60 rate dropped from 29.4 in 2011-12 to 25.4 in 2012-13, and the lack of action was noted by Forbes as a contributing factor in allowing weaker goals. If it was an issue, however, it was something he was able to adjust to as the year went on. Viewing his month-by-month splits, Fucale consistently improved his save percentage throughout the year and, as you can see in his stat line above, improved his SV% from the regular season to playoffs both years.

As an 18-year-old, there aren't a lot of warts showing just yet. And he's provingto face more shots this year and play an even larger role in Halifax's success with players like Nathan MacKinnon, Jonathan Drouin, Martin Frk, Konrad Abeltshauser, and Stefan Fournier all moving on to professional hockey.

Another achievement for Fucale would be to try and get the CHL's Goaltender of the Year trophy. He won the Defensive Rookie of the Year Award in the QMJHL in 2011-12 and was named to the 2012-13 QMJHL First All-Star Team.

Statistical Breakdown (Bonus):

As a bonus, I did a breakdown on Fucale's junior hockey career from a statistical point of view. I decided to track his Quality Starts (QS) as well as try to measure how many extra goals he prevented based on a strict SV% analysis, called "Saves Above Replacement (SvAR)" or "Saves Above


for the second ranked QMJHL team, Baie-Comeau, and he was exactly average for a starting goalie in the QMJHL, netting them no extra saves or goals against compared to the average. The two teams finished only 20 goals apart in terms of goal differential for the regular season and playoffs, so one can infer that the main difference in talent between the clubs was in goal. Halifax defeated Baie-Comeau in five games for the President Cup, with Fucale recording a quality start in each game in the Final.

Would You Trade Him?

There's a lot to really like about Zach Fucale at age 18. Certainly, there are a lot of people who think he has the talent to make it in professional hockey and view him as a cut abovehis peer group. There is plenty of statistical evidence to back that up based on his results to date. Still, for me, the uncertainty of projecting a goaltender's future, and the very competitive nature of the position with only a handful of new goaltenders having lengthy careers each generation, makes it relatively easy to take a position player instead of him.

Still, the Canadiens don't have many goaltending prospects. I actually ranked Fucale behind Dustin Tokarski, due to the fact that I think Tokarski has had notable success as a professional and is much closer to becoming a NHL goalie, and therefore has more value. The majority of voters didn't agree with me on that assessment. Would you trade Fucale for any of the players ranked below him?


across the competition. Fox Sports is reporting a four per cent ratings uplift after eight rounds and a three per cent rise for Australian home games.

The early rounds were most promising, before numbers softened when the NRL and AFL started in March. The Waratahs' round two home game against the Stormers drew an average audience of 102,000, while the Rebels v Reds game in round three was the next highest rating game to date with 84,000. Last week's Waratahs v Reds game drew 61,000.

Sanzaar boss Andy Marinos said the uplift was also reflected in South Africa and New Zealand.

SCOTT BARBOUR/ GETTY IMAGES The Melbourne Rebels have a point to prove this year after surviving the Super Rugby axe in 2017.

"What we've seen so far this year in termsthis year formulating a preferred model before taking it to market in about 12 months' time.

To that end, RA boss Raelene Castle has brought on board consultant Michael Tange, who forged a career with sports marketing firm Repucom before it was acquired by Nielsen Sport. Tange was presented to RA members at its annual general meeting last week and will draft Australia's response to the Sanzaar strategic review, which is understood to canvas a number of options for the next iteration of Super Rugby, including expansion, further contraction, and the status quo.

Smith says Tange has his work cut out given the broadcast climate at home and abroad. Much of the 148 per cent uplift in the current rugby rights deal was delivered by a fierce battle between UK


NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Gov. David Paterson on Monday said Wall Street might lay off 40,000 workers in a worst-case scenario following Lehman Brother’s bankruptcy filing and problems at other big financial firms.

Paterson, speaking a news conference where he also noted the impact of Bank of America’s surprise agreement to purchase Merrill Lynch and problems threatening insurer American International Group, said the impact of the financial sector’s downturn may not be known for months or even years.

The Democratic governor at the news conference also announced plans to aid American International Group, allowing the insurer access to $20 billion of its own capital, staving off a liquidity crisis.

Paterson, who said he would not put any taxpayer dollars at risk, said his efforts to shore up AIG focusedlawmakers to cut the state’s budget by more than $400 million in August in an emergency session, on Monday said he might have to recall lawmakers again, saying he would not be surprised if the deficit spiraled back up.

In addition to job cuts on Wall Street, Paterson as many as 120,000 jobs might be cut if positions in service industries that rely on Wall Street are included.

Bankers, brokers and traders earned an average salary and bonus of $340,312 a year in 2006, according to James Brown, a labor market analyst with the state Labor Department.

AIG employs 8,500 people in the state, including 6,000 who work in the city, Paterson said. Merrill Lynch has around 60,000 employees around worldwide, while Lehman Brothers has about 26,000 workers.

Wall Street’s job force


totaled 181,000 in July, which was down 11,000 from July 2007, Brown said. Employment on Wall Street peaked at 200,300 in December 2000.

Financial sector jobs help create as many as four other positions in services ranging from legal to sales, according to Ross DeVol, director of regional economics, for the Santa Monica, California-based Milken Institute.

The total amount of compensation Wall Street pays is equal to almost 35 percent of all salaries and wages earned in the city, according to city officials.Wellbriety - to become sober and well in a Native American cultural way."

The Red Road to Wellbriety is a book of healing that is culture-specific to Native Americans, but it may be used by all people. The book includes 12 chapters of cultural information about healing from alcoholism and addictions, including "how-to" information about working the 12 Steps in a Native way. The Red Road to Wellbriety also offers 17 personal recovery stories from Native Americans and others who have used Native culture or a Medicine Wheel and the 12 Steps approach to their own recovery from alcohol and other drugs.

The book also features chapters on healing from ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) behavior, and co-dependency, as well as chapters on strengthening the family and community. The Red


commercial basis. It is believed that attempts to provide an apparatus to remove silage from feed storage bags has generally been unsuccessful due to the complexity of proposed self-contained machines which present a cost problem and to the fact they have not been capable of dealing with the variations in the size of bags utilized, and particularly, with the irregularities in the shapes assumed by such bags. The bags used for storing agricultural feed are purchased on the basis of desired diameter, and depending on a number of factors, such as the type of forage used, its moisture content at time of harvesting, and the initial compression achieved when filling the bag, the final cross sectional shape of the compacted mass of silage and size of the bagComplete 2015 Projections

ESPN's projections are the product of an analysis of a player's past performance, growth or regression potential and expected playing opportunity. While the overall ranking is based in large part on the player's projected performance, it also takes into account risk factors such as age, injury history and past statistical fluidity, the players' ceiling (upside), as well as positional and categorical scarcity.

2015 Outlook: Concussions have stifled Jaso's production in each of the past two seasons since a breakout in 2012. His position alone continues to give him value, but with only one season north of 400 plate appearances (that was five years ago), it is really hard to view him as a legitimate option in anything besides AL-only OBP leagues. Even worse, his value took a


big hit in those leagues last year, as his walk rate dropped sharply to 8.1 percent after back-to-back seasons north of 15. When healthy, he is still someone to be trusted on the strong side of a catcher platoon, so on a per-at-bat basis, he should remain a productive asset in his first season with Rays. Perhaps he is best used against weaker righties in leagues that allow daily roster moves, given he amassed a .285/.387/.457 triple slash line against them over the past three seasons.

2015 Outlook: Vargas made the leap from Double-A New Britain to Minnesota and continued to display steady power, as he finished with 26 home runs between the two levels after hitting nine over 234 plate appearances with the Twins in the second half.A switch-hitting DH, Vargas started 53 of 55 games upon debuting with the Twins on Aug. 1, and he served as the team's cleanup hitter for 48 of those contests. A .400 BABIP buoyed a fast start in August, which enabled Vargas to carry a .309/.336/.463 line during his first month in the big leagues, despite a 27.5 percent strikeout rate. He slumped in September, when the BABIP crashed to .258, and if his minor league levels are any indication, his true baseline is somewhere between those extremes. The Twins will likely give Vargas an opportunity to solidify his hold on the DH job during spring training, but he's a candidate to be sent down to Triple-A if he goes through a prolonged slump early in the year.


On the flip side, if he proves capable of drawing walks at a rate closer to his Double-A level (10.6 percent), Vargas should stick as a regular and offer a much-needed boost to the heart of the Minnesota lineup.

2015 Outlook: Despite being a straight platoon bat, Joyce had established himself as a solid power source, good for a mid-teens home-run total. His power inexplicably dried up against righties in 2014 with just 8 home runs after clubbing at least 14 in each of the prior three seasons. A drastic shift in his batted-ball profile looks like the culprit. After carrying a fly ball slant throughout his career, he hit more groundballs than fly balls for the first time in his career last year. Add in a big dropin his HR/FB rate and it's no wonder he halved his home run output. Given his history, there is reason for some optimism regarding a bounceback, but if he continues to skid against righties, his playing time could start to dry up. That said, it looks like he could see significant playing time to begin the season, with Josh Hamilton (shoulder) not expected to be ready for Opening Day.

2015 Outlook: Pinto showed his tiny sample from 2013 wasn't indicative of an impending breakout, despite earning some sleeper status coming into the season. A massive 21 percent walk rate in April made his production look markedly better than his true talent level. Once pitchers realized they could challenge him more, his production all but vanished (.555 OPS in May


and June), and he was demoted in early June, a move made easier by Kurt Suzuki's production. He did hit again once back in Triple-A, but Suzuki was re-signed to a three-year deal, so Pinto remains blocked from a full-time gig. His pop is appealing enough that he could steal some time at DH, especially if Kennys Vargas isn't quite ready for prime time after he skipped Triple-A and held his own for 53 games in the majors.

2015 Outlook: The arrival of Matt Joyce in Anaheim may throw Cron onto the short side of a DH platoon, robbing the bulk of his fantasy value in the process. However, he'll likely be afforded regular time to begin the year, with Josh Hamilton not expected to be ready following Februaryshoulder surgery. Cron had negligible platoon splits last year (20-point difference in favor of him facing lefties) but he hit lefties (.888 OPS) far better than righties (.810 OPS) during his minor league career. He had an anemic second half of 2014, but that felt more like growing pains than a chronic problem, especially since he floundered against lefties in that time, too. At his best he was as advertised: a power beast who could lengthen a lineup with that home-run threat in the six or seven hole. He never showed enough patience in the minors to believe that his 15 percent strikeout rate would hold at the major league level, but he has to improve upon the four-percent walk rate he had in his MLB debut if


he is going to strike out nearly a quarter of the time. Otherwise, he will end up as a severe batting-average liability like former Angels slugger Mark Trumbo.

2015 Outlook: One of the more bankable 20-HR guys in the game finally hit a wall in 2014 as Swisher clubbed just eight home runs and was limited to just 97 games thanks to injuries on both knees that eventually required surgery. With 12 more home runs, he would have joined Miguel Cabrera and David Ortiz as the only hitters with at least 20 every year since 2005. The group of seven who have done it nine out of 10 times is still impressive, though. It isn't completely unreasonable to give him a pass for the busted 2014, but at 34years old, any expectations of a full rebound should be tempered. The number of 15-HR hitters fell below 100 for the first time since 1995 last year with 94 (there were 120-plus players in 14 of the past 20 seasons), so even a muted Swisher has some value, though his best value remains in OBP leagues, where he can deliver more than just a modicum of power.

2015 Outlook: Wait, so you mean to tell me Navarro's inexplicable 1.123 OPS with six home runs in 71 PA against lefties in 2013, after seven seasons of a combined .703 OPS, wasn't sustainable? Weird. It was enough to earn him a full season of play in Toronto last season, but all that did was expose just how fluky his 2013 was,


as he managed fewer total home runs, despite getting just about double the playing time. On the positive side, he did rake in his new home with a .300/.333/.456 slash line and nine of his 12 home runs coming at Rogers Centre. Despite Russell Martin's coming in to take over the catching duties, Navarro is penciled in to be the primary DH for the Blue Jays, so that favorable ballpark remains an asset. Slot him in as a second catcher for long homestands or as a cheap backstop when you want to save money in daily games.

2015 Outlook: Young surpassed expectations in his first season in Baltimore, despite getting a modest 35.1 percent of his at-bats against left-handed pitching. While certainly capable of hitting right-handers, Young has typicallyfared better against southpaws, and he was expected to see a good chunk of his playing time against them. He still finished the year with a surprising .302/.337/.442 slash line, though he managed just seven home runs and two stolen bases over 242 at-bats. While an uncharacteristically high .359 BABIP contributed, Young owns a lifetime .324 BABIP, and his fly ball rate plummeted in 2014. Some regression can be expected, but Young still figures to post a BABIP well above the league average in his upcoming age-29 season. As always, the bigger issues are his lack of plate discipline and inability to play in the field, which should limit his opportunities at the plate. With Travis Snider and Alejandro De Aza offering capable options in the corner outfield


spots, Steve Pearce will now challenge Young for starts at DH. Even as an everyday player, Young lacks significant appeal, and the smart money is on Pearce to cut into Young's playing time in a major way in 2015.

2015 Outlook: Moreland was one of many Rangers ravaged by injuries, appearing in just 52 games before undergoing season-ending surgery on his left ankle in June. The 29-year-old has posted decent power numbers when healthy, smashing 54 home runs in his past three full seasons, but he struggles to hit for average, particularly against lefties. In his career, Moreland has a .227/.289/.347 slash line against left-handed pitching, which could cause the team to limit his at-bats against southpaws. Regardless, because of his ability to hit the long ball, hitting anencouraging 23 in his last full season in 2013, he could make for a decent play in deeper formats. However, his poor splits and middling average could bring down his value in more standard leagues with not as many roster spots.

2015 Outlook: Montero was once again limited to infrequent playing time at the major league level as he spent the majority of last year with Triple-A Tacoma, where he slashed .286/.350/.489 with 16 homers in 97 games. The 24-year-old has had a checkered history since being acquired by the Mariners as part of the trade that sent Michael Pineda to the Yankees in 2012, being suspended for 50 games in 2013 for PED usage, and receiving another suspension in 2014 after an altercation with a team scout, but


he remains in the Mariners’ plans. On the field, Montero had a decent year, but he simply hasn't been able to stick at the major league level on a consistent basis, appearing in just 35 games with the Mariners the past two seasons. Barring a particularly strong spring, Montero will likely be headed back to the minors to start 2015.

2015 Outlook: Former Rays manager Joe Maddon was strict in regard to DeJesus' usage last season, limiting him to a mere seven at-bats against left-handed pitching. In 231 at-bats against right-handers, DeJesus hit .251/.345/.411, with six home runs and 19 RBIs, respectable numbers but below his career averages (.277/.352/.416), and certainly not good enough to earn him much attention in fantasy circles. At this point in his career, DeJesus'offensive ceiling is well-established, and even if new manager Kevin Cash deploys DeJesus in a similar fashion next season, he'll continue to make for little more than a last-ditch option in very deep AL-only leagues. The 35-year-old will be only DH-eligible in many formats, having appeared in just 15 games in the outfield in 2014.

2015 Outlook: Hart returned from a one-year absence in 2014, but was once again unable to avoid the injury bug and appeared in just 68 games for the Mariners. He struggled for much of his brief stint with the team, hitting a meager .203 in 232 at-bats. The 33-year-old will try to bounce back with another new club, as he signed with the Pirates and figures to back up Pedro Alvarez at first base.


There's some reason for optimism if he can remain healthy, as he did bash 30 home runs and hit .270 in his last fully healthy season in 2012, and he has hit 93 homers in his past four seasons, even with all the injuries he faced in 2014. Those days could be behind him at this point, but his production will likely hinge mostly on his ability to stay on the field.

2015 Outlook: Callaspo used to have decent value as a utility infielder who could take a walk and avoid striking out and he even had a modicum of pop. For his career, he has just nine more strikeouts than walks and he has reached double digits in home runs four times in his six full seasons. Theapproach remained strong in 2014, but the power evaporated, and given that he has played the bulk of his career in pitcher-friendly parks, it is hard to just blame it on his being in Oakland, especially since it was a .495 road OPS that really hampered him. He may just be the seat warmer for Jose Peraza in Atlanta, but even with some guaranteed playing time, he isn't particularly appealing. That lineup isn't nearly as potent these days, and with no carrying fantasy skill, he is little more than a Band-Aid to be used exclusively in NL-only leagues.

2015 Outlook: With a more regular role, Forsythe's 2014 campaign marked an improvement over his 2013 effort. The bar wasn't set too high though in his first season in Tampa as


2013 was a mostly dismal year for him, and his struggles largely carried over from the NL to the AL. In over 300 at-bats, the 28-year-old hit just .223 and had an OPS of .616, and he got even worse as the season went along with his average dipping to .185 in August and .146 in September. Forsythe struggled mightily against right-handed pitching in particular, with a .206/.279/.256 slash line last season. He should see some playing time as a utility infielder, but his inconsistent play at the plate makes him a risky play for both the Rays and prospective fantasy owners.

2015 Outlook: Fresh off an offseason trade to the Pirates, Rodriguez will try to start anew in Pittsburgh. While there were some positives to take away fromhis 2014 campaign -- including career highs of 12 home runs and 41 RBIs -- his walks, batting average and on-base percentage dropped while his strikeout rate climbed. He figures to be Josh Harrison's primary backup at second base, but his .200/.214/.452 slash line against righties last season should be a concern even when the 29-year-old does get playing time. For his career, he's at least been able to partially make up for that with serviceable numbers against southpaws, but that too has been on the decline as he hit just .221 against lefties in 2014, his worst production in any full season. Unless he can reinvent himself on a new MLB team, Rodriguez is unlikely to help out most fantasy teams in 2015.


>> Israel’s Explosive Message to Russia Sent in Syria, Received in Tel Aviv

The Israeli army attacked an anti-aircraft battery in Syria, near Damascus, Monday after it fired a missile targeting Israel Air Force planes.

The attack was prompted by the launch of an SA5-type missile at Israeli reconnaissance planes. The Syrian missile did not hit its Israeli targets but the Israel Defense Forces decided to hit the battery, the army said.

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The army targeted the battery with four bombs and, according to the IDF, the battery was damaged to the extent it was no longer operational. TheIsrael for an official and he will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who is hosting him.

In September, the Israeli military struck a chemical arms plant in in Syria, foreign media reports claimed at the time. The Syrian army general command confirmed in a statement the attack on what they called a military facility, and said that two people were killed and extensive damage was caused. Israel refused to comment on the reports.

Israel has attacked convoys bringing arms to Hezbollah and groups on several Israeli fronts dozens of times over the last five years, a top Israeli military commander confirmed for the first time two weeks ago.

The number of Israeli attacks on such convoys since 2012 is approaching triple digits, Maj. Gen. Amir


NEW YORK – The Columbia women's soccer team followed an Ivy League opening win at Cornell on Friday, with a historic performance at Rocco B. Commisso Soccer Stadium on Sunday, Sept. 24. Scores from six players, including a hat trick and two assists by junior Forward Emma Anderson, propelled the Lions to an 11-0 shutout victory over Wagner. 11 goals mark a new program single-game record, surpassing the 30-year old previous mark of 10 set in 1987.

The Columbia women's soccer team kicked-off Ivy League play on Friday, Sept. 22 with an impressive 2-0 shutout victory over Cornell. Dominating play on both sides of the pitch, including two goals in the opening 22 minutes of play, the Lions roared to their first road win of the year.

Ivy League playHealth Minister David Clark has revealed the decision to remove the public reporting of health targets was not taken to Cabinet and was his own directive.

OPINION: Can you smell that?

That sour odour that comes with being spun something that is in no way for the public good, but for the good of the Government's bare arse alone.

It's wafting from the direction of Health Minister David Clark and his decision to stop the public reporting of National Health Targets, which aim to keep District Health Boards in line on a number of key measures.

There are six of them, and you may have seen them published in newspapers and websites throughout the country on a quarterly basis - report cards, so populations could see exactly how their DHBs were performing.

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Billionaire businessman Bernard Arnault may be under fire over alleged plans to flee France's 75% tax band in Belgium, but he is unlikely to be the last

Bernard Arnault, chief executive of Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. The French press speculates that his ultimate destination is Monaco, where Belgian citizens can live tax-free. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP

The news that the billionaire businessman might head to the land of moules-frites generated headlines, insults, a lawsuit and divided France roughly down right-left lines: those who saw Arnault as a symbol of the "selfish rich" and those who saw him as a standard bearer for the tax-bludgeoned entrepreneur trying to create jobs and wealth.

Arnault, 63, a friend of former rightwing president Nicolas Sarkozy (he was a


witness at Sarkozy's second marriage), denied he was planning to up sticks to get out of paying a new 75% "supertax" on the rich, one of the vote-winning pillars of Socialist François Hollande's election campaign in May.

The explanation from an LVMH spokesman was that Arnault was seeking dual citizenship to make "sensitive" investments in Belgium, a response shot down by the Belgian authorities who said foreign investors enjoy the same fiscal treatment as locals.

Living in Belgium, which Arnault – net worth an estimated at $24.4bn (£15bn), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index – said he had no intention of doing, would conveniently free him of French taxes on income, inheritance and wealth.

However, the mayor of Uccle, a chic suburb of Brussels where Arnault has a property, said thebillionaire had voiced his unhappiness with the French tax system even before the presidential election.

"Mr Arnault came to see me at the end of last year, wanting to be domiciled here, to live here," Mayor Armand de Decker told the newspaper La Libre Belgique. "He has a feeling about the policies of his country, which he considers unfriendly to business."

Was Arnault paving the way to Monte Carlo, the French press wondered. The route to Monaco via Belgium is a well-trodden one: once he had dual nationality, the businessman could theoretically renounce his French citizenship and move to the Riviera principality where Belgian nationals – but not French citizens – can live tax-free.

Shortly before the Arnault scandal erupted, the businessman had met the French prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, to


the French middle class is likely to be pummelled too.

As well as the new 75% tax, a 45% band is to be introduced on incomes over €150,000 a year (up from 41%) and households will be limited to a maximum €10,000 savings on tax reduction schemes (down from €18,000).

France is also looking to beef up its "wealth tax", imposed on households with assets worth more than €1.3m including their main home. The threshold for inheritance tax has already been lowered from €150,000 to €100,000, a move expected to raise around €2.5bn by 2014, and there are moves afoot to raise the rate of capital gains tax.

Even low earners will pay more income tax after the household allowance (the same as the personal allowance, only applied to families notindividuals) is reduced from €2,336 to €2,000 a year.

Hollande is also said to be considering a fiscal law, similar to that in the US, under which French taxpayers would be subject to French taxes even if they leave the country.

For Socialists, the 75% supertax is considered the vote-winner in May's presidential and legislative elections. Even though a small number of French people, probably fewer than 30,000 in a country of 64 million, will be affected, it is hugely symbolic for the leftwing president and his administration.

However, Jean-Philippe Delsol, a tax lawyer and member of the IREF economic thinktank which supports "economic freedom", says the tax is populist and plays on a historic Gallic antipathy to the rich.

"If you are wealthy in the UK, there is no hate. There


to advance their cause by it. It's just some micro groups wanting to advance their PR."

The threat from Irish-related terrorism to Britain is still lower than the overall threat from international terrorism, which remains unchanged at "severe".

The new category of threat from Ireland applies to England, Wales and Scotland but not Northern Ireland, where the level also remains "severe".

Mrs May said the information was being released to encourage people to remain vigilant, and a balance needed to be struck between keeping people alert and not alarming them.

Peace process

MI5 Director-General Jonathan Evans said last week there had been a "persistent rise" in activity and ambition by dissidents in Northern Ireland over the past three years.

Dissident republicans were responsible for more than 30 attacks or attempted attacks on national securitytargets since the start of the year compared with about 20 for the whole of last year, he said.

The Real IRA recently hit out at Britain's "colonial and capitalist" system, threatening to target the City of London's financial institutions.

A spokesman for the Police Federation in Northern Ireland said its chairman, Terry Spence, had predicted that the threat would move to Britain.

Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Shaun Woodward said that, however serious the threat posed to Britain, it should be recognised that the peace process had changed Northern Ireland forever.

Nationalist SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie claimed MI5 was not sufficiently in control of the threat.

Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, a former Army officer who served in Northern Ireland, told BBC Two's Newsnight why he thought the threat level was raised.

He said: "The


be ratified by 38 states (three-fourths)."

They add, “CSG director Eric O'Keefe has deep ties to Charles and David Koch and has been a founder and funder of numerous right-wing groups including Wisconsin Club for Growth,” and the CSG, “through its Convention of States project, is pushing for a constitutional convention in order to severely restrict federal power, for example by redefining the Commerce Clause to prohibit Congress from enacting child labor or anti-discrimination laws, or by adding a balanced budget requirement.”

And they're actually doing it. As Wikipedia notes,

“In December 2013, nearly 100 legislators from 32 states met at Mount Vernon to talk about how to call a convention of states. … In February 2014, U.S. Senator Tom Coburn announced that after his retirement from Congress, he would focuson promoting the Convention of States to state legislatures. “In December 2015, Marco Rubio endorsed CSG's efforts to a call an Article V Convention. In January 2016, Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for a Convention of States to restrict the power of the federal government. "As of 2016, CSG's application for a Convention of States has been passed in eight states: Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Alaska, Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.”

Now that they have mobilized thousands of enthusiastic billionaire-supporting conservatives across the nation, with help from one of America's most widely heard right-wing talk-radio hosts, Wikipedia notes:

“In September 2016, CSG held a simulated convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution in Williamsburg, Virginia. An assembly of 137 delegates representing every state gathered to conduct a simulated convention.


of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

As Wallace's president, Franklin D. Roosevelt said when accepting his party's re-nomination in 1936 in Philadelphia, "out of this modern civilization, economic royalists [have] carved new dynasties…. It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction."

We stand at the same crossroads Roosevelt and Wallace confronted during the Great Depression and World War II, only this time the Supreme Court (in 1976 with Buckley, 1978 in Bellotti and in 2010 with Citizens United) has given American billionaires the power to spend virtually unlimited amounts of money toLast summer Eddie Izzard decided to run around England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales though not necessarily, as Eric Morecambe said, in the right order. The touching and thought provoking programme, Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man, was buried alive quite late at night on BBC3 but, if you missed it, there are two more episodes.

To say he did it for Sports Relief is true up to a point. The real reason is harder to fathom. He had to run 1,000 miles – 43 consecutive marathons – followed by a motorised rickshaw (with the camera crew) and an ice-cream van (with Flake 99s). To see him stumbling along in blinding rain, no cheers, no crowds, no pavements, carrying the sodden flag of the appropriate country, made you want to shout: "Excelsior!"

He


was 47 and far more accustomed to six-inch heels than trainers. The director of the Olympic Medical Institute, Professor Greg Whyte, rallying from the initial shock, said: "Being a competitive athlete is fundamentally miserable. What he needs is people around him." You could, of course, say the same of a comedian. In Thurber's story The Day the Dam Broke, one man starts to run and the whole town joins in. So, along the way, Eddie started to attract what I can only describe as sympathisers. In Devizes a man began involuntarily to run beside him, saying: "Let me shake your hand, because I think there's summat wrong wi' you." Seventy-two-year-old Bruce Tulloch, who once ran across America, joined him for a while, wondering why runners run. A coupleof wild Welsh ponies, manes flying, galloped up to watch. On the Brecon Beacons, when the motorised rickshaw ran out of puff, his whole camera crew (fluffy caterpillar and all) got out and ran after him.

In Skewen, South Wales, he knocked on a door and said: "My name's Eddie Izzard. I used to live here." His mother, however, died there. "I was six, so I think it's all about that loss of love and my desperation for it. I turned to an audience as a substitute." As a teenager he cycled to Skewen from London. "I keep going back. Probably to recapture the time before my Mum died. It makes you very independent. Very cold and shut off, really. This drive, because of something that disappeared . .


all the way? Yes, to the very end."

Towards the end of the 10th marathon, he collapsed. When they told him there were three switchback miles to go, he said: "I do that then." His therapist begged him to walk, but he did it running and, to celebrate, freewheeled downhill into Builth Wells (pop. approx 2,000) and a rousing civic reception. "I like making a little bit of a rumpus, a little bit of a circus coming to town, because I grew up in Bexhill, and not much happens in Bexhill." Even less, I suspect, in Builth Wells, but when it does they make the most of it. Twitter had gone ahead like a carrier pigeon and the street was packed with cheering people, boys pulling faces at theHer manager confronted the guest, and Moreno said the guest denied ever having solicited her.

In the days following, she said, "nobody cleaned his room."

It wasn't the first time Moreno had been subjected to inappropriate behavior at work, she said. One time a man approached her in the hallway, offering to pay for a massage. He asked several times and promised to pay her "good money."

"He said he wanted massage ... maybe he wanted something else," she said.

Similar incidents happened at the first hotel she worked at, 14 years ago, but there, she said, the management didn't do anything.

The management at her current hotel is responsive to workers' concerns, she said, but she worries because they only have security guards on the weekend.

Sometimes she also fears her hotel's daily