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Payday Mayday: The law should treat adults as adults
Beginning Oct. 1, 2007, no U.S. lender may charge more than 36-percent interest to a military person on active duty, or his family — a measure Congress aimed principally at protecting soldiers from payday loans. Several states have effectively banned such loans; in Oregon, a 36-percent cap goes into effect July 1. A group led by the Service Employees International Union is pushing for a similar cap in this state. Rep. Sherry Appleton, D-Poulsbo, has introduced such a bill. "We're not asking for a ban," Appleton told a Senate hearing in Olympia Dec. 1, but a ban is what it amounts to. Current Washington law sets a ceiling of $15 in interest and fees per $100 loan amount, up to a loan of $500. If you want $100 for two weeks, you write a check for $115 and postdate it.
Roulston faces fitness test
Ashburton cyclist Hayden Roulston's fitness will be fully tested next month with a busy schedule on the bike. Organisers of Wellington's Trust House cycle classic yesterday confirmed Roulston as part of the strong Trek-Zookeepers Cafe team for the January 24-28 tour. The five-day tour comes off the back of the Tour Down Under where Roulston will lead a New Zealand team for the first time in the South Australian event. The Commonwealth Games silver medallist hit headlines in August when he retired from the sport with a potentially fatal heart condition. But he announced his return a little over a month later, winning the national road title near Dunedin in October and is likely to defend it when the championships take place on January 13. BikeNZ is following the example of its Australian counterpart, separating the elite road championships from the rest of the age-group competition.
Bid to reduce health debt by £2m
The PCT, Weston Area Health Trust and the council's executive have also agreed to work more closely after councillors called an emergency meeting to make sure the PCT's cash crisis was not having a knock-on effect on council services.The council's adult social services and housing department is also facing an overspend due to a demand in home care and the three parties have agreed to meet again in January to decide how to work together to provide the services.
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A wild and wicked night out with Mrs Brown
A MIX-UP in starting times meant that I had arrived late at Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre, and I could not believe what I found when I entered the auditorium. The place was in uproar with some of the loudest and longest laughter I had heard for years. Women in the audience were choking, brushing tears from their eyes and almost falling off their seats. On stage was Brendan O'Carroll in one of his own plays, one in which he played a brassy Irish woman named Mrs Brown, a woman who used colourful language, dominated every scene in which she appeared, and went through the jokes at full blast. Mrs Brown has become a comedy legend, so much so that after a three-year break she is heading back to Liverpool to star at the city's largest theatre, the Liverpool Empire. .
Fitness fanatics take charge
Advertisement boards that hang outside most martial arts institutes in Sri Lanka might confuse a few but not the majority. The message is clear: If you are a fitness buff walk right in. Martial arts gurus in Sri Lanka are now facing a challenge to cater to fitness enthusiasts who will easily outnumber those who wish to learn fighting in any given class.
Grand Master Hassen Khalid, a fourth dan black belt holder from Karate Budokan International, says that he was able to foresee this change many years ago. Once a student asked me whether he could leave after doing the physical fitness exercises that led to more vigorous forms of fighting-oriented training? Thats the day I realized that the focus in martial arts classes would shift towards fitness and started preparing to meet this new challenge, Khalid told The Nation.
Fit for the slopes, part III
Over the past few weeks, Club Fit's Tony Patenaude has worked us through a collection of exercises and routines to get us in shape for the slopes.
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