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This page brings together the most relevant information on aid worker safety and security from ReliefWeb's extensive collection of humanitarian content. The two main columns show substantive reports such as safety manuals and guidelines, statistical reports on security incidents involving aid workers, and analysis of the implications of engaging with private security providers and the role of peacekeepers in humanitarian interventions.
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Endless Talks on Ending Violence Pointless as Arms Sales to Criminals, Dictators, Terrorists Continue at Same Time, Says Holy See
Despite 15 years of steadily growing international attention to the question of protecting civilians in conflict situations, life in war zones around the world remained grim, with suffering “pushed to the limits” as cities turned into “death traps”, the Security Council heard today as it held an open debate on attacks against medical personnel and facilities.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) welcomes the release of George Livio, its national staff member who has been in detention since August 2014 without trial.
The Mission calls for the release of its two other national staff members who are currently also being held in detention without trial since 2014.
UNMISS continues to urge the South Sudanese authorities to respect national laws and the fundamental principles of due process under international human rights law.
1. Dans sa lettre datée du 25 janvier 2017, le Président du Conseil de sécurité a informé le Secrétaire général que le Conseil avait décidé de dépêcher une mission dans la région du bassin du lac Tchad (Cameroun, Tchad, Niger et Nigéria) du 1er au 7 mars 2017. La mission était codirigée par les Représentants permanents de la France, du Sénégal et du Royaume -Uni. On trouvera dans les annexes I et II la composition de la mission et l’énoncé de son mandat.
1. In his letter dated 25 January 2017, the President of the Security Council informed the Secretary-General that the Council had decided to send a mission to the Lake Chad Basin region (Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria) from 1 to 7 March 2017. The mission was led jointly by the Permanent Representatives of France, Senegal and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The composition of the mission and its terms of reference are set out in annexes I and II to the present report.
Already dealing with raging conflict and the world's worst hunger crisis, Yemen is now struggling to control a cholera epidemic that is spreading across the country at an unprecedented rate. In the last three weeks, health authorities have reported more than 41,000 suspected cholera cases, one third of whom are children, and 418 associated deaths across 19 of Yemen's 22 governorates.
Ongoing violence displaces an additional 200,000 people in April
Health actors report suspected cholera cases in Aburoc
USG announces $142 million in new humanitarian assistance
Violence across South Sudan displaced an additional 200,000 people in April, increasing the total number of displaced people to 3.8 million, including 2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 1.8 million refugees sheltering in neighboring countries.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council at the open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, in New York today:
Thank you for this opportunity to address the critical issue of protection of civilians in armed conflict.
• Afghanistan / Pakistan tensions result in border closure that interrupts lifesaving treatment for thousands of children suffering from malnutrition.
• Returnees living in Gambiri desert still struggling to get water • New PACTEC flights enable immediate assistance to families fleeing conflict in Uruzgan to the seemingly safe but remote district of Jaghori, Ghazni province.
• 1.3 million people reached with life-saving emergency humanitarian assistance, according to the 2017 HRP First Quarter Report.
Mr. President, Members of the Council,
Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Council on the situation in South Sudan and the deployment of the Regional Protection Force.
The United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, concluded today a three-day visit to Sana’a where he met with political leaders from Ansar’Allah and the General People’s Congress and Representatives of other political parties. The talks focused on possible agreements which would to prevent the spread of military activities to Hudeidah and practical ways to ensure the resumption of salaries to all Yemeni civil servants nation-wide.
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The national dialogue just launched in South Sudan by President Salva Kiir would only be credible if opposition groups genuinely participated, the senior United Nations official in that country said today, as he briefed the Security Council on the significant military, humanitarian and political challenges facing that nation.
Central African Republic
Populations in the Central African Republic remain at risk of mass atrocity crimes committed by ex-Séléka rebel factions, "anti-balaka" militias and other armed groups.
Despite a period of relative stability following the peaceful election of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra in February 2016, populations in the Central African Republic (CAR) remain at risk of mass atrocity crimes.
6.9 million people are living in areas with inadequate health services in the northeast, including more than 68% of the 1.8 million IDPs living in host communities across Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states. The lack of qualified staff and essential medicines, and the destruction of medical facilities all continue to hamper the implementation of interventions.
The quantity and quality of food consumed by people in Mosul has deteriorated, according to WFP’s latest mobile assessment. This is due to conflict in western Mosul and lack of purchasing power in eastern Mosul.
Security and safe access to beneficiaries remains a key concern following attacks on WFP distributions in western Mosul at the end of April. WFP continues to monitor the security situation.
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) calls for the immediate cessation of hostilities among armed groups factions in Bria, Haute-Kotto, in eastern Central African Republic.
La République centrafricaine fait face à une détérioration persistante de la situation humanitaire depuis septembre 2016. Cette aggravation se matérialise par une multiplication de foyers de tension, de nouvelles vagues de déplacements et une augmentation vertigineuse des besoins humanitaires.
Elle se caractérise aussi par une réduction drastique de l’espace humanitaire. La présence des groupes armés et la violence qu’ils exercent sur les civils ainsi que les pics de violence que leurs affrontements entrainent ont un impact délétère sur l’accès humanitaire.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator Maria Riberio expresses alarm at the toll the continued fighting in southern Libya is having on ordinary people, including reduced access to humanitarian assistance and health services.
South Sudanese arrivals in 2017, based on field reports as of 30 April
Total South Sudanese refugees as of 30 April 2017 (pre and post Dec 2013 caseload and new arrivals)
Refugees in South Sudan (30 April)
Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in South Sudan, including 223,895 people in UNMISS Protection of Civilians site
Now that military operations move closer to the Old City in Western Mosul, Cordaid has stepped up its aid efforts. 2 km away from the frontline, we managed to distribute aid kits to 2250 displaced people who narrowly escaped heavy fighting. Our colleague Diyar Khosnaw was on the ground. “I hardly ever cry. This time I did. One woman had not eaten for six days.”


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The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted inbound real estate investment in Korea in H1 2020, with just USD 400 million worth of deals concluded, a decline of more than 50% y-o-y on the same period of 2019. Although lockdowns and travel restrictions have inhibited purchasing activity among overseas buyers, many groups retain a strong appetite for Korean commercial real estate.
Purchasing activity among foreign investors in Korea in H1 2020 mainly involved logistics properties but the period also saw the completion of one major retail deal. While foreign investors will continue to seek investment opportunities over the remainder of the year, the ongoing pandemic will inhibit overall investment volume.
The pandemic also constrained Korean outbound investment in H1 2020, with transaction volume falling by almost 60% y-o-y to USD 2.5 billion. Most deals involved relatively stable assets such as office and logistics facilities.
While full-year outbound investment volume will decline on a y-o-y basis due to the pandemic, CBRE expects that capital originally allocated by Korean investors for overseas acquisitions will be moved to the domestic market, resulting in stronger competition among buyers and lower cap rates.

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Can you go back to the old Josephine (Street) wrestling arena and bring back some good memories, please?
— Jesse Arredondo
Do you know of any photos of the building where the Wrestlethon was and if the wrestler known as “The Destroyer” was there?
— Ernest Lavin
Even people who weren’t fans of professional wrestling knew the Wrestlethon, located at 405 E. Josephine St. from 1948 to 1967.
It was one of the anchors of a popular entertainment district, often referenced by readers who ask about the Chatterbox barbecue restaurant, 329 E. Josephine St. (covered here March 14, 2015); the Circle B dance hall, 427 E. Josephine; Boehler’s Beer Garden, 328 E. Josephine; Fincke’s Meat Market, 400 E. Josephine; and other thriving businesses.
“We own Josephine Street Café on Josephine near the Pearl, which used to be Fincke’s Meat Market,” wrote Pat Molak in 2016, seeking photographs of the area back in the day. “That neighborhood was pretty hoppin’ at one time, with Wrestlethon across the street, Boehler’s and the Chatterbox across from Fincke’s.”
Wrestlethon was the sport’s home in San Antonio for nearly two decades, bringing some of its most famous names to San Antonio in televised bouts from the early 1950s onward. Weekly Wednesday night programs packed the 2,700-seat facility with fans who came to boo or root for their favorite “heels” (villains) or “babyfaces” (wholesome-looking heroes) in the ring.
The San Antonio wrestling scene didn’t start there, though. Not counting the high school and college versions of the sport, its first home was the Municipal Auditorium (once located where the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts now stands). From the late 1920s, professional wrestling had an uneasy relationship with the auditorium, muscling in between other presentations of grand opera, graduations, Boy Scout pow-wows, educational lectures and other more elevated events.
From time to time, there would be calls to eject it from the city’s sacred space. Decrying pro wrestling’s “grunts and groans” and “make-believe brutality,” an editorial in the San Antonio Light, April 7, 1930, claimed that “the so-called wrestling exhibitions staged in San Antonio by no means cultivate the sense of fair play” and urged following Dallas’ example by banishing the pseudo-sport from our Municipal Auditorium, dedicated as a memorial to the fallen soldiers of World War I.
When wrestling did get the boot, it migrated to the Walkathon Arena at Augusta and Navarro. Nobody would worry about defiling this place, a bone of contention in late 1933 when it was the scene of a truly seedy dance marathon that defied a city ordinance, cheated and mistreated its pitiful contestants (think “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”) and had ties to the local criminal underworld.
Its name is also the source of Wrestlethon’s somewhat unwieldy moniker — because a young woman, Dorathy Livengood, who had worked there provided the continuity between the old and new venues.
Livengood, a 1928 graduate of Brackenridge High School, was a stenographer who lived at home with her parents and worked at Studer’s photography studio before making the leap in 1931 into the rock ’em, sock ’em world of pro wrestling.
After more than a decade as secretary and ticket manager for former wrestler Harry Coffman, who arranged the fights at the Walkathon, she made headline news by subbing for Coffman after he suffered what turned out to be a fatal stroke.
“Woman makes wrestling promoter debut tonight,” reported the San Antonio Express, March 29, 1944, noting that Livengood knew “the twists of the trade almost as well as the boss himself.” With his family’s blessing, she kept the business going as Coffman struggled to recover and after his death, even bringing the sport back to the Municipal Auditorium.
Meanwhile, a wrestler named Frank Evan Brown was readying for “a well-deserved main-event opportunity,” reported the Express, March 15, 1944. Brown, born in 1913 in Philadelphia, had lived in Chicago and was working for the Ensco Derrick and Equipment Co. in Houston in 1940, according to his draft registration card.
He had brown hair, blue eyes and dark skin, stood 6 feet, 1 inches tall and weighed a heavyweight 225 pounds. He was referred to as “handsome” and “likable” by the press, described by the Light as “one of the most pleasing personalities the wrestling ring has yet developed.”
Brown also had a sympathetic hard-luck story; he had become a professional wrestler five years earlier — “He had the build, he had the gameness, he had the courage and ability” — until he suffered “a peculiar, puzzling knee injury” while practicing with wrestling great Lou Thesz for a bout with Bronko Nagurski, football star turned wrestler. Brown’s blown-out knee “did not respond readily to treatment.”
It kept him out of the war and rendered him “completely inactive in wrestling for four long years,” during which he sat ringside and studied other wrestlers’ holds, grips and leverage techniques. Cleared at last by his doctor, he came off the bench early in 1944 and started winning some matches.
Did Livengood arrange any of his future bouts? Maybe. In a later profile, she is said to have met “matmen by the score.” Though she rarely had time to watch a match — her job kept her in the ticket booth — she got to know the wrestlers, reported the Light, July 2, 1972, having “listened to tales of woe and tales of triumph, helped some with their finances and lent an ear to some personal problems.”
Brown and Livengood, who undoubtedly met at work, were married March 3, 1947, in Guadalupe, outside Victoria. He was 34, and she was 42. The couple had no children, but they founded and operated Wrestlethon together. She supervised construction on the land at East Josephine and Isleta, where League Park was home to the city’s Texas League team from 1915 until it burned down in 1932.
When Wrestlethon opened, July 14, 1948, she was its business manager and promoter, and Brown was the “matchmaker,” arranging and scheduling the bouts at all levels of the card.
The couple would host some of the most famous names in wrestling, including Brown’s old nemesis Thesz, “Gorgeous George” Wagner, a young Vern Gagne and the future Destroyer, then still a two-sport college athlete. Over Wrestlethon’s nearly two decades, the Browns would be challenged by some unexpected changes.
Next week: What sent wrestlers to the mat; the road forward.
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A number of months in the past, the NBA introduced a possible growth crew might find yourself calling Las Vegas its residence.
Two huge names within the NBA are able to battle it out to turn into the proprietor of a possible Las Vegas crew – LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal. Sharing possession within the new crew may sound like the proper resolution, however O’Neal desires all of it to himself!
LeBron James And Shaquille O’Neal Each Have Their Eyes On Proudly owning The Potential Las Vegas NBA Staff
Whereas it’s been no secret that each NBA legends have an curiosity in proudly owning an NBA crew, notably one in Las Vegas, speak of the brand new doable growth crew has actually introduced these needs to the floor extra recently.
O’Neal, 51, has made it crystal clear that whereas he desires to personal a crew in Las Vegas, he doesn’t need to associate with anybody.
“I want to have my very own group. I do know Vegas hasn’t been awarded an NBA crew but, but when they ever get to some extent the place they’re awarded a crew, I want to be part of that,” O’Neal advised Arash Markazi of The Messenger throughout The Shaquille O’Neal Basis’s annual charity gala over the weekend. “I don’t need to associate up with no one. I would like all of it for myself.”
Having possession in an NBA crew wouldn’t be something new to O’Neal, who was half proprietor of the Sacramento Kings again in 2013. He offered his curiosity within the crew final 12 months and when he introduced his resolution to promote his stake, he parted with, “Until we meet once more…” leaving the door open to the potential of possession once more down the highway.
O’Neal has been dwelling in Las Vegas for greater than 20 years, so it simply is smart that he would need to be a part of a crew within the metropolis he calls residence.
“I find it irresistible right here. Las Vegas has at all times been a metropolis you knew was going to develop,” he mentioned. “You can see completely different casinos, completely different actual property initiatives and completely different night time golf equipment popping up. I’ve at all times been part of it. I used to personal one of many hottest night time golf equipment, offered it and now I obtained 9 to 10 eating places right here. I’m doing very, very nicely and I need to proceed to develop with Vegas.”
LeBron James Additionally Needs To Personal The Doable Las Vegas Franchise
James, 38, was courtside for Sport 1 of the WNBA Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty in Las Vegas over the weekend. He defined why it simply is smart to deliver the NBA to Vegas.
“Clearly you’ve got the Raiders right here, you’ve got the Golden Knights right here, you’ve got the Aces right here. You bought F1 coming very quickly,” he mentioned. “All-Star Weekend has been a couple of instances. You’ve obtained the NBA Summer time League. I believe including an NBA franchise right here would simply add to the momentum that’s happening on this city. I believe it’s solely a matter of time, and I hope I’m a part of that point.”
James has voiced his need to be part of a Las Vegas growth crew on multiple event. Earlier than this weekend, he talked about his curiosity to personal the Vegas growth crew throughout an episode of “The Store: Uninterrupted” in June 2022. And through a preseason go to to Vegas in 2022, James additionally talked about it saying, “I’d like to deliver a crew right here. I need a crew right here Adam, thanks.”
The Lakers star already owns stake in Liverpool FC, the Boston Purple Sox, and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver talked in regards to the doable growth earlier this 12 months throughout NBA Summer time League in Las Vegas. He introduced that the league will look into the doable growth when the media rights offers are finished in 2025. The 2 cities rumored to be the more than likely locations for brand new groups – Vegas and Seattle.


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Great news tonight for anyone who’s really been hurting for pictures of some relatively adjusted thirtysomethings sitting in a fake castle together: HBO Max has just released the first pictures from its upcoming Harry Potter retrospective, Return To Hogwarts. And, wouldn’t you know it: There they are, franchise stars Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Harry Potter), and Rupert Grint (Thunderpants), sitting on a weird faux-medieval soundstage together, just like old times.
HBO Max announced the special last month, as part of its ongoing efforts to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Harry Potter film franchise (and only the Harry Potter film franchise—J.K. Rowling’s name appears in the press release accompanying the photos exactly once). Said special will reunite Radcliffe, Watson, and Grint together on camera for one of the first times since the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Pt. 2, allowing them to all agree that, yes, it’s perfectly nice to see each other.
(And now we’re once again spinning our brains at the fact that these former youths have been having “Oh, hey former office mate I feel cordial toward but am not actually friends with” interactions since they were like 21.)
In addition to the three stars in the photo, the special will also draw on a deep bench of Harry Potter related folks (who are not widely derided transphobe J.K. Rowling), including Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Tom Felton, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Mark Williams, Bonnie Wright, Alfred Enoch, Matthew Lewis, and Evanna Lynch.
Return To Hogwarts will air on HBO Max on January 1. Meanwhile, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore—produced, like the special, by Warner Media, and co-written by widely derided transphobe J.K. Rowling—is currently set for an April 15, 2022 release date in the United States.


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Sixteen teens from Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland will learn the construction trades and use those skills to rehabilitate houses this summer as part of an innovative workforce development program.
Building Great Futures, a joint venture between Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland, Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity and Youth Opportunities Unlimited, is introducing Cleveland high school students to careers available to them in the building and construction fields and related skilled trades.
Youth in the program started training on April 28th and will help rehabilitate two Habitat for Humanity homes in Cleveland over the course of 10 weeks, from June 4th through August 10th.’
The workers – eight each from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland teen centers at John Adams and East Tech high schools – will be paid $10 per hour. They will receive formal classroom training each Monday from Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. and work on homes, applying classroom instruction to the rehab of the Habitat homes. ABC is donating its facility and instructors’ time.
“We think this is a terrific opportunity for our teens to learn construction and possibly even open a meaningful career path,” said Ron Soeder, president and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland.
John Habat, president and CEO of Cleveland Habitat, said, “In addition to providing new homes for families in search of affordable housing, this program intends to show the students that their future is within their own control and that a successful career, including home ownership, is available to them.”
Funding for the project will come from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, according to Soeder. He said the donor is passionate about getting teens to learn how to work with their hands.
Cuyahoga County is providing resources for case management, career coaching, and training/education through the County Internship Program. “I’m proud to work with YOU and the Boys and Girls Club to connect these young residents to a meaningful career exploration experience” said County Executive Armond Budish. Home Depot is providing a stipend for safety boots for all participants. At the project’s conclusion, each teen will receive his or her own tools and tool belt; they will be making their own toolboxes as part of their classroom training.
Both homes being rehabbed are located on East 130th Street in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, and are part of a larger neighborhood revitalization campaign being undertaken by Habitat in 2018. In all, eight houses will be fully rehabbed for new homeowners, and up to 100 existing residents assisted with exterior projects in that community. An interesting side note: One of the homes will be owned by the family of one of the teens in the program.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland provides safe, fun places for kids ages 6-18 after school at 14 locations throughout the city, focusing on healthy lifestyles, academic success and character development. Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity strengthens communities, restores homes, revitalizes local neighborhoods and invests in those who seek to become a homeowner. Habitat changed its model in 2013 and now fully rehabs vacant homes concentrated on the same street or in the same Cleveland neighborhood. Youth Opportunities Unlimited is a nonprofit workforce development organization based in Cleveland, Ohio that serves teens and young adults ages 14-24 living in economically distressed areas in Cuyahoga, Lorain, and Lake Counties.
Cuyahoga County is committed to making the region vibrant and prosperous where everyone thrives and all things are possible.


Geely is developing a supersonic train, similar to the hyperloop.
Company Geely signed an agreement with Chinese company aerospace science industry Corporation to begin development of supersonic trains, which are similar to those on which they had been planning to work on Elon Musk.
It is planned to create magnetic levitation to air resistance is decreased, whereby it is possible to achieve hypersonic mode of transportation.
The company claim that the developed system will be able to run trains, which in turn will be able to move at crazy speeds(1000 miles per hour), also examines the technology that will be able to see that the train of the future will be able to move at a speed of 4,000 kilometers per hour. Engineers of China’s plan to build a comprehensive transport network of hypersonic trains.
As reported by Geely and Casic high-speed trains can become a reality.
“Technologies developed in the framework of supersonic trains will help Geely holding to promote the field of new energy vehicles, automobile safety and new material science”.
The proposed system is very similar to the system Hyperpaths, which was developed in the United States.
The system also uses tube magnetic levitation and vacuum, with the ultimate goal of slorenia to the speed of 1,120 miles per hour.


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Ding Junhui scored a 10-7 victory over Mark Davis in the first round of the World Championship. The Sheffield-based player looked in danger of another early exit when he lost the first four frames against Davis, but managed to win the next three frames with breaks of 66, 109 and 76. Mark Davis won the first frame of second session, trough a century of 106 points, increasing the length between him and his rival to 2 frames. In the next Ding potted 12 reds with blacks and looked to have a clear chance of a 147, which would have been the 11th maximum ever made at the Crucible. Remarkably, though, he failed to notice that he was on for a 147, and played for the blue off the 13th red. As the crowd gasped, Ding immediately realized his mistake, but was unable to cut a thin black into the top corner. In the next six frames we saw only 1 break of more than 50 points, made by Ding which saw leading for the first time in the match, 8-7. He finished strongly with runs of 73 and 85 to book an intriguing last 16 clash with John Higgins.
“The start of the match was not very good but I think I grew into it and played ok. I was just thinking about enjoying the World Championship, in the same way that the fans enjoy being able to watch it.”
“John Higgins is an old friend of mine and I’ve played him many, many times. I lost the first five times we played but I learned a lot from him and I’ve got more confidence to play him now. I need to just stay focused and play the right shots in the match, then I have a chance.”
For Higgins, the match proved to be a relatively comfortable one, a 10-5 victory over Milkins seeing him through to the last 16 at the Crucible for the first time since 2012 when he lost heavily to Stephen Hendry. Breaks of 62, 64 and 72 saw John leading 5-1 in the first session of the match, played in the afternoon session of the first day at the Crucible. In the sixth frame, after a missed black by Milkins while being on a 13 points break, Higgins was not able to produce a winning break, and after a long safety battle Milkins missed a red to the green pocket, Higgins misjudging another red saw Milking closing the gap in that frame to 50-41. The winning chance for Milkins came after Higgins failed to pot the yellow and sent it flying off the table, Robert taking that frame 66-54 and the next one with a break of 50. The crucial moment of the match was the last frame of the first session, with Milkins nearly edging the game to a single frame difference with a 58 break and counting, but missed a pink with the rest, Higgins winning that frame 67 by 58 points. Next day John started the second session with winning break of 77 and 75, losing the next two frames, but performed two winning break in the last 2 frames of the match, 69 and 106.
H2H: Junhui 9-7
Prediction: Higgins to advance.

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Crock Pot Garlic Lime Chicken sounds great for an easy weeknight meal that can be low-carb, gluten-free, dairy-free, and South Beach Diet friendly.
To me this Crock Pot Garlic Lime Chicken from Diethood sounds like the perfect chicken dish made in the slow cooker. Tangy lime mixed with garlic sounds amazing, and when you add Worcestershire sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, and a few other ingredients, it’s easily over the top with a balance of tangy, sweet, and bright flavors. Better still, it all comes together in the slow cooker without much work. Just leave it alone for a few hours and let it do its thing. You’ll be glad you did.
This sounds delicious for a healthy dinner idea, but if you skip the carrots and don’t thicken the sauce it can also be a delicious low-carb or South Beach Diet meal! Take your pick and I’m sure it will be tasty either way!
Ingredients for this CrockPot Recipe:
- boneless, skinless chicken breast
- salt and fresh ground pepper
- broccoli florets (optional)
- carrots (optional)
- lime juice
- liquid aminos or soy sauce
- Worcestershire sauce
- rice vinegar
- sesame oil
- garlic cloves
- sesame seeds for garnish (optional)
- fresh cilantro (optional)
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'It's like using a penknife to get out of the Amazon jungle': Pensioners describe never-ending 'nightmare' of living next to '15ft high weed jungle' on former allotment site... that NO ONE is known to own
- The '15ft high weed jungle' grew on a former allotment site in Cleethorpes
- The local council has refused to fix the problem as they do not own the land
Residents have spoken of their never-ending ‘nightmare’ of living next to a ‘weed jungle’ on a former allotment site that no one is known to own.
Thick brambles, weeds, bushes and trees growing ‘up to 15ft high’ have become so dense and overgrown that the jungle of weeds is now totally out-of-control.
As well as being an eyesore to more than a dozen homes surrounding the site, the roots of bushes are damaging surrounding passageways and the quickly growing foliage blocks access to a sewage drain on the site in Cleethorpes, North-East Lincolnshire.
The local council have refused to do anything as they insist they don’t own the land. Efforts by a group of residents to trace the site owner, in the hope of renovating it and turning it into a community garden, also failed.
So every year the weeds grow bigger and bigger and the problem escalates.
Thick brambles, weeds, bushes and trees have grown out of control on a plot of land
Pensioners have spoken of the never-ending ‘nightmare’ of living next to a ‘weed jungle’ on a former allotment site that no one is known to own
The site has also been a favourite location for fly tipping but many of the household items dumped there have also been covered in weeds.
Pensioner Geoffrey Johnson, 71, and his wife Susan, 59, have lived at their £125,000 Hinkler Street home for three years and has appealed for help to identify the owner.
There were allotments, with sheds and greenhouses, on the land more than a decade ago, but it went to rack and ruin when they were closed down.
‘It’s a nightmare and it has affected our mental health,’ he said. ‘Getting through there is so difficult, it’s like using a penknife to get out of the Amazon jungle.’
‘At this rate in another three years it will be higher than our roof.’
He said: ‘It’s like an actual jungle, some of the brambles the roots are so thick I cannot even span it with my hand. I have to chop it down with an axe. While tree roots are pushing the pavement flags up.
‘We have been in touch with the council and they said they have no idea who owns it. But when I threw some of the tree branches overhanging my garden on to wasteland I got a call from the council saying someone saw me doing it and it was fly tipping and I would have to move them.’
He said the greenhouses and sheds remaining from the allotment era were now hidden from view by the overgrown foliage.
Mr Johnson said: ‘The sewage drain from these four houses in our terrace is on that land. We had it blocked once and I had to fight my way through with my shears and axe and clear all around it so they could come and unblock it. If you leave it a week the weeds are growing so quickly it’s covered again.’
The couple say residents can’t afford legal advice and don’t see how the problem will be solved.
The Johnsons have been told the land is ‘unregistered’, meaning the Land Registry have no record of the owner.
The local council has refused to cut the 'weed jungle' down as they do not own the land
Chef Karen Unsworth, 61, said she regularly clear the passageway between her house and the land on a regular basis.
She has rented her home for 10 years and the problem keeps getting worse every year.
‘A neighbour down the street and some other residents spent several years trying to find out who owned the land, they contacted councillors and went to Parliament and everything but they just couldn’t find out who owned the land.
‘It’s terrible, there is fly tipping there and it’s a real eyesore. There’s loads of wildlife there and rats and all sorts.’
She said: ‘Over the years it's just got worse and worse and worse. People used to light fires early in the morning and fly tip things there. There's double glazing, wood and metal just dumped there, and it's an overgrown mess.
‘In the summer I've noticed all my plants in the garden are covered in black and green flies, and it's all coming from there. The other dangerous thing is, because a huge sycamore tree is growing on there, it's pulled all the cement up because the root has come under the pavement in the passage and lifted the pavement, so it's quite dangerous.’
A North-East Lincolnshire Council spokesperson said: ‘We do not own the land and are not responsible for it.’


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Stream Erosion: Developing a Stream Habitat Rating Scale
Is there more erosion on the inside or outside bend in a stream?
I chose this project because I had prior knowledge to what the outcome would be.
My project deals with the concept of erosion and my question is, is there more erosion on the inner or outer bend in a stream? Based on the background information that I gathered I hypothesized that there would be more erosion on the outside bend in the stream. I got my idea for this science fair project after I did a lab on the water quality of Gravel Run (the stream that I measured) and wanted to know more about the health of Gravel Run. Since it was so close to the school and in a convenient location, I decided that it was the ideal place to do my project.
To do this project I went to the stream and on the inside, outside and straight bends in the stream I measured the undercut, if there was one; I gave the vegetation a rating based on the percent of growth on the banks; erosion evidence; and root exposure. Then I gave the bend or straight away a rating from 1-10 based on the data I collected. I next organized it into tables and charts.
From the data that I gathered I found that there was a very great difference between the average rating of the inside and outside bends. The average of the outside bend was a two and the average of the inside was a six. The straightaway banks had a rating closer the inside average then the outside with the rating of five. This meant that there is more erosion on the outside bend and my hypothesis was correct. This project was significant because I have learned about water quality and the health of Gravel Run and can now use this information in the future.
First of all I would like to thank Mr. George Radcliffe for the extra time that he has given to me to improve my project and for all the advice that was needed. Secondly I would like to thank my parents. My Mom for enduring the pouring rain whilst helping me collect data and my Dad helped me with the computer technology that I have used.
Due to all the background information that I gathered about stream erosion, curves and currents I hypothesis that there will be more erosion on the outside curves and when the current is strong.
- The scale that you will be measuring your data with
- A yardstick
- Two pencils (one incase the other one breaks)
- A helper
- A clipboard
- A pair of hip boots
- Make a chart that has inner bend, outer bend and straight away written in columns.
- Go to the location were you are going to measure first bend or straightaway.
- Get your helper to hold the clipboard so that they can write down the data you collect.
- Wearing the hip boots wade into the water.
- Use your yardstick to measure the under cut of the outside bank and if there is one and tell your helper to write it down.
- Then asses the vegetation on the bank and erosion evidence using the scale (get your helper to write that down too)
- Do this on the inner bend as well.
- If you are doing a straightaway do the same on both sides but label the sides, side A and side B.
- Do this every few yards until you have enough data to analyze.
Making the scale
Making the scale was one of the hardest tasks that I had to do with my project. This is how I did it.
- Using a scale just like the one I made as a guide a came up with the main parts of the scale that I needed. They were erosion evidence, vegetation, root exposure and undercut.
- Then I broke each category down into what a though was the worst vegetation, etc. that could possibly be and what was the highest.
- I next filled in the rest of the scale and put it in a chart.
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You can literally never do too much distraction training! Especially "dog distraction."
Halo is conflicted with her dog-distraction work. A young, friendly dog like Halo wants to immediately greet and offer appeasement behaviors ("appeasement" behaviors is anything to indicate to the other dog or person that she is harmless and non-threatening.) From her perspective, this is the most crucial thing she can and should do in this type of situation.
From my perspective, of course, I want her to ignore the other dogs and focus on me. She understands this but her instinct makes it difficult for her. You can almost see the conflict in her eyes! Wanting to stick with me...but *needing* to go meet the other dogs!
How can we help our dogs work through things like this?
First, keep it easy. If it were not a couple of easy-going pit bulls in the yard, I wouldn't ask her to do it at all. If the neighbor dog was behaving aggressively (unfortunately, many "yard dogs" ultimately become quite aggressive but these two dogs are nice and socialized) then I would not have asked Halo to be stopping, sitting, and taking her eyes off the dog. I would have let her look at the dogs, get the information she needed, and then choose to get out of there if she wanted. The last thing you want is for your dog to have to "choose" between obedience to you and safety! Never ask for obedience unless your dog feels safe in the environment.
Secondly, patience. Yes, this was literally an entire training session where we walked back and forth over a half of a block. It takes time for dogs to really settle in and focus. If I'd just popped a treat in Halo's mouth and called it good for one tiny check-in, it would not have had the same effect as waiting for and rewarding true, 100% attention.
Finally, "repeat." After this lesson, I'd expect Halo to have good focus and attention to me around...these two other dogs. In this tiny 1/2-block section of North Portland. I'd *not* expect it to then immediately carry over to all other dogs, in all other yards, in all other places. Eventually it will carry over and be generalized to other contexts. But we're going to have to do the same sort of exercise multiple times in other locations before it does.

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Here’s the contents of Singletrack issue 50 in a bit more detail…
Is racing the social glue that binds the mountain bike world together or has Chipps been sniffing too much of said glue?
8. Fell Runner v Mountain Biker
Which is the quickest way of getting around off-road? Benji saddles up and does battle with a lean, mean, skimpy-short wearing machine.
16. Red Hot Racing
Ed Kenny Herbert finds that, even in Dubai, there’s always a mountain bike race going on if you look hard enough.
20. Spine Lines
Take a look at the spine of this magazine (our 50th issue, no less). See that nonsense written on there? Here’s a tribute to all the ones that have gone before.
22. Column: Nature Boy
Nature Boy takes a pop at racing and racers. What’s wrong with just riding your bike, eh?
24. Interview – Chris Akrigg
The quietly unassuming, yet jaw-droppingly talented all-round bike-handling genius, Chris Akrigg dropped in for a chat. And a mess about on bikes.
30. Blame The Dog
Mike Ferrentino looks at the complete lack of measurement standards in the world of bicycles.
33. Bike Test: Carbon Race Bikes
Three XC race rigs made from the fantastic plastic. The Cannondale Scalpel, the Specialized Epic and the Trek Top Fuel. Where do they finish on our podium?
42. Man And Boy
Ed Oxley waxes lyrical about the thrills and spills, the laughter and the tears and the fear and loathing that goes on when Dads ride with their Lads.
Tony Hart R.I.P.
Chipps goes riding with the ‘Goldtec Massive’ down Stoke on Trent way.
56. Through The Grinder
More products real-world tested in slightly less mud than in the previous issues.
66. Grouptest – XC Race Wheelsets
A bunch of top-of-the-line wheelsets rounded up and shot. Most are impressively light. Some are insanely expensive.
68. Benji’s One Ton Weekend
Benji decides to blow his £100 on frivolous thrills rather than eking it out. A day out for three on an uplift day at Innerliethen.
76. Race Fast Now!
Matt Hart’s tips on fine tuning your race-ready body with a race-ready mind.
80. A Day In The Life Of Mountain Biking
Somebody somewhere is riding a bike… or racing one… or fixing one… or buying one… or designing one… or dreaming of riding one…
90. Competition – Win £1000 Of Camelbak
Win yourself one of ten excellent Camelbak HAWG NV hydration packs.
92. Grouptest – XC And DH Race Tyres
We’ve gathered up some skinny skimpy tyres for the XC race set and some chunky sticky tyres for the DH crew.
100. Column: Roly Lambert
Roly plays the Kindly Uncle and fixes the in-laws bike supermarket bikes, much to his bike-snob horror.
102. Why Subscribe To Singletrack?
Here’s why. And how.
104. Grouptest – XC Race Shoes
Stiff. Garish. Expensive. Ratchets and dials all over them. We made like Geishas and did them up to 11, so you don’t have to.
110. Column: Sim Mainey
Sim talks nerves and French professionals while doing the Kielder Megavalanche.
112. Long Term Test Bikes
An update on how we’re getting along with our machines: Benji’s Cannondale Prophet MX, Sim’s Gary Fisher Roscoe, Chipps’ Orange Blood and Salsa Fargo.
116. Route Guide: The Howgill Fells
Benji guides Sim around those intriguing hills that you look at as you pass through the Lake District on your way to ride a Scottish trail centre.
Peel slowly and see…
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I had close to a $3000 balance on my Discover card due to a business trip. I promptly paid it off 2 days ago but both Trans Union and Equifax are still showing the balance.
I am planning on applying for credit this week for a used car. How long will it take until my credit score reflects the paid off balance? Should I wait until this clears before applying for credit?
I only paid for the one time fee to MyFico and I would hate to continually plop down $15 to see when the balance disappears.
It depends on your statement drop date and their reporting date.
You can pay your balance off, as you did, then dispute the balance with the CRA's if you need quicker resolution. Usually this would be something you did if you had a balance and were facing a 20-30 day wait for update and need it sooner (like for a mortgage or loan application). Transunion is easy to dispute the balance online.....Equifax is sometimes a little more complicated depending on if your credit file is owned by CSC Credit Services. They are a non-user friendly site.
Otherwise, you should wait till you know the CRA's have updated. There are cheaper ways to monitor you CR's, such as TrueCredit.com and other subscription services. You pay $14.95 per month and get unlimited Transunion (even daily) updates and 1 3-in-1 report monthly. You can cancel at anytime (so you could avoid paying more than $14.95 if you like).
You can also subscribe to Equifax ScoreWatch which will provide alerts to you when there are changes to your Equifax CR and Equifax FICO (real FICO).

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Navigating the waters of the festival circuit can be a daunting task for a filmmaker, and a festival’s desire for premieres and exclusivity can make things even more complicated. How do you know what’s best for you and your film? Filmmaker and festival director Nic Beery joins Bob and Konrad to share his insights from both sides of the aisle. A must watch for anyone with a short film!
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Austin >Faught Service Co Inc
Bad first impression. Called for a quote for a Lennox unit and got a very high estimate. When I mentioned that the estimate was much higher than what I saw other places the salesman got immediately defensive and rude. I'm going with another Lennox dealer who was a lot nicer and had more reasonable pricing. Maybe their technical staff is nicer but their sales was less than impressive .
Great technician that can actually diagnose a problem!!!.
I had a problem A/C, that had had a rash of other "technicians" from other companies work on it. These other people were pretty much clueless. One company, when the two stage thermostat went out, put in a single-stage thermostat, and rewired the main unit to run in high speed, only. When they came back to put in the two stage thermostat, did they put the compressor wiring back? Nope. Only today, 4 years later, did the KNOWLEDGEABLE fellow (Mark) at Vaught fix all of the screwups done by others. Worse, many companies came out (Amercian Conservation and Air, Strand Brothers) and totally missed the screwed up system. Worse, they tell me the system needs to be immediately replaced.
BUT the good folks at Faught, had a REAL technician working for them. He came out, diagnosed the improperly wired thermostat, the improperly wired compressor unit, the improperly wired fan control in the attic, and the bad expansion valve. ALL of this was fixed over the next 4 hours for around $660.00.
My hats off to Faught, and their technician Mark. FINALLY I found a company that actually knows what they are talking about, and will DIAGNOSE and FIX the problem!!!!
They will do ALL of my work in the future!!!!
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Fashion editor, blogger, aesthete, trend detective, model connoisseur, runway critic, off-time bookworm, happy New Yorker.
Alexander Patino is a fashion and lifestyle editor living and working in
New York City. A native of Miami, FL he has contributed for numerous
publications, including The Ground magazine, FreeStyle magazine,
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years. A bookwork, model-obsessed, runway addicted trend-spotter.


Donald Trump’s lawyer on Sunday said that the US president is not under investigation in the probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections, reported Reuters. Trump had claimed exactly the opposite in an enraged tweet on Friday. However, Jay Sekulow said Trump had not received any notification from special counsel Robert Mueller in this regard.
Sekulow’s statements directly contradicted Trump’s admission on Friday that he was being investigated for firing Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey in May. Trump had tweeted: “I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.”
However, Sekulow claimed that Trump was merely reacting to a Washington Post story that said special counsel Robert Mueller was examining whether Trump had tried to obstruct the investigation by firing Comey. “The fact of the matter is the President has not been and is not under investigation,” Sekulow said on CBS show “Face the Nation.”
Counsel Robert S Mueller III has sought interviews with senior US intelligence official Daniel Coats, the current director of national intelligence, Mike Rogers, head of the National Security Agency, and Rogers’s former deputy, Richard Ledgett, in connection with an investigation into whether Trump campaign officials colluded with Russia to influence the election.
Mueller’s office has also asked the National Security Agency for any documents or notes related to the agency’s interactions with the White House as part of the Russian investigation. The special counsel has also collected fired Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s written accounts of his conversations with Trump. Trump’s possible contacts with Russian operatives as well as any suspicious financial activity is being examined.


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Alan Spearman/The Commercial Appeal - $5 Cover project - Valerie June (cq) drifts through cypress trees at Horseshoe Lake on a summer day. Her folk music conjures themes of freedom and loss, drawing on June's journey from Jackson, Tenn. to a new life in Memphis.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Rauenhorst Ballroom, Coeur de Catherine
Join us for an engaging community conversation with racial justice scholar and Fordham University theologian and social ethicist, Father Bryan Massingale.
The evening is co-sponsored by the Myser Initiative on Catholic Identity along with the Multicultural and International Programs and Services (MIPS) of St. Catherine University together with St. Peter Claver Catholic Church.
While the event in the ballroom is over-subscribed, there is still time to participate. Join the community in Jeanne d'Arc Auditorium to watch the live stream, and participate in the Q&A by emailing your questions to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Afterward, visit the Rauenhorst Ballrom (CdC) for a book signing with Fr. Massingale and a stroll around the atrium — visit tables from our community partners and learn how you can join the movement against racism.
For more information on this free event, visit:
Our community partners include: St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, Archdiocesan Black Catholic Community,Building an Anti-Racist Community of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Community, Coming Together—Monthly Prayer and Peace Walk, Discussions that Encounter: Bi-monthly Conversation on Race, Twin Cities Nonviolent, Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality and YWCA Minneapolis Racial Justice Department.

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Friday, August 02, 2013
For years, unpaid internships have been a media industry standard. But over the past couple of months, there have been a rash of lawsuits against media companies for not paying interns. Brooke investigates the state of the unpaid internship.
Mark Mothersbaugh - Let me tell you about my boat
- The Cancer Show
- Podcast Extra: After Oregon
- That Facebook Disclaimer? Ignore It.
- We Got Scooped: SCOTUS Edition
- The Cancer Show: Part I
- Debunking Migration Memes
- Pope-ular Opinion
- The Cancer Show: Part 2
- Every Edit You've Ever Made to a Facebook Post Is Visible
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Mars with Global Dust Storm on June 29, 2018
The dust storm on Mars now covers the planet. The planet’s features are muted
and subtle at-best through the reddish atmospheric dust. Even the south pole
(south is up in the drawing) appears to have dust above, or on, it. Not since 2001
have I seen this large of a dust storm on Mars.


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The waiting room for ER is a stupid long time. Also staff was not friendly anytime i went there. As well as there killed both grandmothera and grandfather at this location because nurses dont want to do there job.. SOLUCKY IUT GOT 2 STARS
Was visiting from out of town and I had to go to the er. They were extremely nice she fast. Solved my problem very fast
Worst hospital around. The nurses were terrible in the er. Waited in the waiting room for more then 6 hours to get my kid in. I will go to another hospital

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On the 6th of December 2008, John got married to Joan Bush. Joan Bush is a sweet loving wife. As a married couple, they have been parents twice.
John received his formal education from Dickson County Senior High. He graduated from there and then he began pursuing his singing career. Initially he worked at Opryland USA singing. In 1992, he joined the country music group, Lonestar whose original name was group Texas. He worked there as a bass guitarist and also as an occasional vocalist. He also wrote some of their songs like Come Cryin' to Me and Say When. However, he was fired from Lonestar in 1998. Then he began pursuing his solo career. In 1999, he released his debut single I Pray for You and it was followed by the 2000 Forever Loving You. In 2002, he formed the country music duo Big & Rich and released their debut album, Horse of a Different Color on 4th of May 2004. His net worth is said to be around $6 million dollars.

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After medical expense for a knee amputation and kidney transplant wiped out nearly all of her retirement nest-egg, she learned that her societal safety and tiny pension weren’t enough to pay bills.
Given that Marine Corps veteran waited for endorsement for a unique pension from division of Veterans matters, she racked up loans with a few more and more costly online debts.
In May 2015, the Rancho Santa Margarita homeowner borrowed $5,125 from Anaheim loan provider LoanMe at the eye-popping annual interest of 116percent. Here period, she lent $2,501 from Kansas firm finances middle at a level greater APR: 183percent.
a€?I really don’t see my self a foolish individual,a€? stated Hesson, 68. a€?we know the costs were high, but used to do it of frustration.a€?
Recently, unsecured loans of the dimensions with sky-high interest levels had been nearly unusual in Ca. But over the past decade, they will have erupted in popularity as struggling families – generally with dismal credit scores – have found a supply of fast profit from an emerging course of online loan providers.
Unlike payday loans, that may bring higher still annual amount rates but are capped in Ca at $300 and tend to be made to be distributed off in just a few days, installment financial loans are usually for a couple of thousand cash and organized become paid back over per year or even more. The end result is financing that may cost many times the total amount borrowed.
Hesson’s $5,125 mortgage got arranged becoming repaid over a lot more than seven age, with $495 because of monthly, for a total of $42,099.85 – that is almost $37,000 in interest.
a€?Access to credit of this kind is similar to providing starving folk poisoned ingredients,a€? stated consumer recommend Margot Saunders, legal counsel making use of nationwide customer Law Center. a€?It does not really help, and possesses damaging consequences.a€?
These pricey financing is completely legal in California and a small number of more shows with lax financing regulations. While Ca has actually strict procedures overseeing payday advance loan, and a complicated system of interest-rate limits for installment financing of below $2,500, there’s no limitation into number of interest on larger debts.
Condition lawmakers in 1985 eliminated an interest-rate cap on financing between $2,500 and $5,000. Today, more than half of all financing in that variety bring triple-digit interest levels.
During 2009, Californians got on $214 million in installment debts of between $2,500 and $5,000, now the most widespread sized loan without a rate cap, according to research by the state Department of company supervision. In 2016, the amount strike $1.6 billion. Financing with triple-digit rates accounted for over fifty percent, or $879 million – a nearly 40-fold boost since 2009.
The number of financial loans between $5,000 and $10,000 with triple-digit costs even offers observed a remarkable 5,500per cent increase, though they’ve been less frequent. 06 billion, with $224 million carrying rates of 100per cent or higher.
Many of the debts can be tied to only three loan providers, exactly who account fully for half the triple-digit rate of interest loans within the popular $2,500-to-$5,000 dimensions number. LoanMe, Cincinnati company Check a€?n Go and Fort Worth’s Elevate credit score rating each issued over $100 million this kind of financial loans in 2016, including 10s of huge amount of money of debts doing $10,000 with triple-digit APRs.
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a€?Lenders don’t possess an important way to get over an individual which walks far from it,a€? stated Doug Clark, chairman of Check a€?n Go. a€?There’s a section for the populace that knows that features no intention of spending us.a€?
For those individuals, pawn shops and neighborhood storefront loan providers had previously been the most likely options, but those organizations cannot accommodate the amount or ease of the on the web lenders, that could attain an incredible number of potential individuals on the internet.
Lots of banking institutions don’t promote unsecured loans at all – and definitely not to consumers with poor credit score rating looking for fast funds. After the financial crisis, financial institutions reined in their charge card offers and quit offering mortgage loans and room equity financial loans to visitors with bad credit.
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The limit on the sized payday advances also has played a role. In California, after charge, the most a person can leave with is $255.
Clark of Check a€?n Go, which for decades granted merely payday loans, mentioned quite a few of his subscribers flipped to installment debts the moment the business going providing them this year.
There are plenty of place between $255 and $2,500. But the majority of lenders – like LoanMe, Elevate and look a€?n get – simply pick not to promote debts in the middle, because they are subject to price caps.
In 2016, financial loans of these title loans size totaled $1
High-cost loan providers attract buyers simply by spending heavily on advertising, bombarding Californians with direct mail, broadcast jingles and TV adverts encouraging easy money quickly. LoanMe alone spent $40 million on advertising in California in 2016, in accordance with the annual report to the section of company Oversight.

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Friday, April 20, 2012
And the winner is…..
Early last week, we were told by our tutor Nooruse Maja will the place where a children and youth theater competition will be held the Friday after this conversation. I was curious about it and already wanted to check this. Uudo asked us if we wanted to be part of the jury who will give away some awards for best group and best actor or actress. We were a bit afraid at first but the challenge was appealling. The only downsize I saw from this was the time of start for this contest. At 9am, it’s a bit early for me. As I work mainly in the afternoon, I can go to bed late and sleep through the morning.
So when the day finally came, I went to my organisation for 9am to meet with the last of the jury member. This old lady was very friendly and at the nice age of 73 years old, she was still pretty active in the drama are. The day was divided into two parts. The 1st one was dedicated to after-school clubs when we had 3 groups to judge. This was more easy than I think since we agree on all the awards we had to give away. The 2nd part of the contest was for school drama clubs. As we already had some experience before we all thought it woulld be very similar but on the contrary, it was harder. Even with the list of actors, some times we couldn’t get who was who in the play. Even the last memver of the jury who was Estonian couldn’t make the difference between all the actors and actresses. We managed to overcome this difficulty but i’m pretty sure if it was not that hard we would have made other choices.
I was pleased with our choices. We were there to judge for drama acts not musicals as some of them turned out to be. It was a shame as two classes were very good and made a huge effort on the decoration. We went for those with the less songs, and we elected the first group who played something about the twelve months. Apparently it was some kind of fairy tale know in Eastern and South-East Europe. We give them the Mask for the 2012 best school drama club. I really like the idea of the trophy being a Mask. Instead of having a ugly cup with which you cannot do a thing, on this mask, they could write all the winners from the first year of this contest. I also appreciate the white chocolate with strawberries we had as part of the thank you gift for being in the jury.


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Samoa Airways: no place for pride in policy
Of all the contentious projects entered into by the previous Government, the shambolic management of Samoa Airways must surely rank as the most poorly thought through.
There were questions raised about infrastructure projects such as the Tiavea Airport and its short runway or the $20 million-plus Tanumalala Prison with a high security fence that inmates found little trouble getting around.
But whatever else might be said about these projects, they at least created jobs for local employees and pumped money, however inefficiently, into the local economy.
The same cannot be said for the disastrous process of leasing of a new Samoa Airways jet: a case of substituting the usual dispassionate measures for what makes good policy with national pride; an irrational project that has brought us nothing but job losses and financial losses when we can least afford them.
It was more than a year ago that the previous Government gave us the most transparent insight into the progress of the project of acquiring a new plane for the national carrier.
A series of unfortunate events connected to a safety failure that led to the Boeing 737 MAX model’s grounding led us into making hasty and costly arrangements with the Malaysian headquartered Malindo Air for what was known as a “wet lease”.
That lease, which came at a cost of hundreds of thousands of American dollars a month, was curtailed soon after the nation’s borders were closed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
For a moment it seemed that the Government was going to follow the only possible logical response to a business environment in which international travel had fallen to a fraction of its international levels and the nation’s borders were closed to incoming passengers: a wait-and-see approach.
“When will the plane arrive? No idea,” said the former Minister of Samoa Airways, Lautafi Fio Purcell, in an interview with this newspaper in May of last year.
“When will flights resume? When borders are open and when we have a plane,” added.
That was logical business thinking. But it did not last long.
Only a week later did the former Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Dr. Sa'ilele Malielegaoi, contradicted his former Minister when he said: “We have decided to fly our new aircraft in [by] around the end of June.”
And here we are, 13 months later, and it is clear that the former Government’s promise has never materialised
Why Tuilaepa was so hell-bent on procuring a plane for the national carrier was never made clear.
Late last year this newspaper revealed that the airline was in seriously bad financial shape. It owed more than $400,000 to the local business the Aggie Grey’s Hotel.
Its financial reports for the fiscal year of 2018-2019, before the ravages of the pandemic had even hit the international tourism industry that its liabilities exceeded its assets by some $11 million.
That figure can only have reached toe-curlingly high levels of debt as the airline has been unable to bring in virtually any revenue and forced to lay off the majority of its staff, after progressively cutting their pay.
Creating a successful airline was clearly a fixation for the former Prime Minister, despite his having been in Cabinet in 1992, at a time when the airline’s debt reached $200 million and nearly brought the country to bankruptcy.
“There is nothing to worry about!” Tuilaepa said after the Samoa Observer revealed the true state of the national carrier’s finances.
“So what if the losses accumulate to $100 million, the [airline] is to cater for our people.”
This was an utterly reckless statement by the previous Government and ignores the costs borne by the airline’s unpaid contractors, its employees and, of course, the taxpayer.
These were made plain in an article on the front page of the Weekend Observer (“Grounded: new jet not fit to fly) makes clear that the financial decision making by the H.R.P.P. Government will loom large over Government finances for this term of Parliament and beyond, and seemingly for no good reason.
In an interview with this newspaper the new Minister of Samoa Airways, Leatinu’u Wayne Fong, revealed that the Government had left the Government with a bomb that was going to blow a hole in the budget.
He said that the new Government had been briefed by the head of Samoa Airways, Seiuli Alvin Tuala, that laid bare the shabby deal the new Government had entered into and for which we are now paying.
“Sadly, they had already signed a six years lease contract with the company which owns the aircraft,” the Minister said.
“So basically we’re stuck with it now. So now we are looking at ways to use it and to generate revenue so it can service the monthly lease, especially during COVID-19 times with border closures.”
The new aircraft is, according to the previous Government, taking more than USD$250,000 out of the budget every month (or more than $675,000).
At $8.1 million a year that is a lot of teachers’ or doctors’ salaries.
It was also revealed that the airline is not even certified to fly in the airspace of its two largest markets, New Zealand and Australia. (Aside from that Australia is almost in complete lockdown with citizens refused permission to leave the country).
The process of securing approval and appropriate training from the Pacific Aviation Safety Office is not a simple one.
It requires spot checks, evidence that pilots are qualified to fly that model of aircraft and that maintenance measures are in place to ensure the airline’s safety.
As was revealed on Saturday another Cabinet Minister, Olo Fiti Vaai, has refused to grant the airline permission to land in the airport without certainty about how the airline’s qualifications will be met and its contractual obligations will be met.
We wish the new Government the best of luck in extricating itself from the financial that the new jet proposes; given the amount of money on the table every option should be considered, including breaking the contract for a fee or even sub-leasing the aircraft for ourselves.
Nations often view their airlines as a source of international national pride. But that should never be a factor in policy making which should be a dispassionate process of spending taxpayers’ money to generate its maximum benefit for the people.
A plane that made no financial sense should never have been on our policy agenda as we continue to be plagued by issues such as rising poverty and declining standards of health and education.


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The BJP on Tuesday wrote to the Enforcement Directorate and the Rajasthan chief electoral officer, expressing apprehensions of horse-trading and the use of black money in the June 10 Rajya Sabha polls. The Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, Gulab Chand Kataria, Rajasthan BJP president Satish Poonia, Deputy Leader of Opposition Rajendra Rathore and party whip Jogeshwar Garg accused the Congress of misusing government machinery to intimidate MLAs.
They said some of the disgruntled MLAs were openly giving statements against the government till recently but later they went to Udaipur in a chartered plane with CM Ashok Gehlot. The ruling Congress has shifted its MLAs to a hotel there alleging poaching attempts by the BJP.
The BJP leaders, however, claimed that there are chances that temptations were given to the MLAs. They also expressed apprehension that there could be black money in the Udaipur hotel and demanded action on corrupt practices to ensure free and fair elections.
Earlier in the day, Congress leader Mahesh Joshi gave a letter to the chief electoral officer demanding action on horse-trading attempts. Joshi, however, did not name anyone or any party in the complaint. He had also given a similar complaint to the Anti-Corruption Bureau on Sunday. Elections to four seats of the Rajya Sabha from the state will take place on June 10. The Congress has fielded three candidates, BJP one and media baron Subhash Chandra is contesting elections as an independent candidate. He is backed by the BJP.
While the Congress with its 108 MLAs in set to win two seats, it requires the support of Independents and legislators of other parties to win a third seat. Chandra has the support of 33 legislators–30 of the BJP and three of the RLP–and is short of eight votes to win the contest.
The BJP with its 71 MLAs is set to win one seat.


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Joint Status in Subjects With Severe Hemophilia A in Relation to Different Treatment Regimens
A Diagnostic Interventional, Controlled, Cross-sectional Evaluation of Joint Status Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Subjects With Severe Hemophilia A Treated With Primary Prophylaxis, Secondary Prophylaxis, or On-demand Therapy
The joint status (knees, ankles) of patients suffering from severe Hemophilia A (too little blood clotting factor VIII in blood) is evaluated in a single magnetic resonance imaging session. No study medication is given.
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Inclusion Criteria: - Males aged 12 - 35 years - Severe hemophilia A ( < 1 % FVIII:C) - No history of Factor VIII inhibitory antibody - For prophylaxis groups, having received at least two prophylactic infusions per week for 45 weeks per year for the prevention of bleeding without relevant interruption and continuing until the present. - Complete documentation of joints bleeds and their locations prior to start of prophylaxis, - Bleeding history and/or treatments received during the last 5 years documented in the subjects medical records. - For the on-demand subjects > 12 bleeds/year in the last 5 years. - Written informed consent by subject and parent/legal representative, if < 18 years Exclusion Criteria: - Individuals with other coagulopathies (e.g., von Willebrand disease) - HIV seropositive subjects - Individuals for whom the most clinically severe joint is not one of the 4 index joints (ankle, knee) - HCV seropositive individuals who underwent interferon therapy during the last 12 months - Individuals for whom high-magnetic exposure is contraindicated (see section 7.1) - Synovectomy performed within the six months prior to investigation enrollment or orthopedic surgery planned to be performed within the investigation period - Joint replacement - For the on-demand treatment group, any period greater than 8 consecutive months having received >/= 50 IU per kg per week Factor VIII for the prevention of bleeding
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