The Marine Mammal Center, the world’s largest marine mammal hospital, admitted an endangered Hawaiian monk seal suffering from fishing gear ingestion and moderate malnutrition at its hospital in Kailua-Kona.
The juvenile male monk seal, known by researchers as N2, is currently in stable condition.
Hooked juvenile Hawaiian monk seal N2 was captured and rescued Jan. 27 at Hanauma Bay on Oʻahu. Credit: NOAA Fisheries (Permit #18786).
“The ingested fishing gear clearly impacted this monk seal’s condition and we’re hopeful thanks to a successful procedure, that this animal is on the road to a full recovery,” said Dr. Sophie Whoriskey, the Marine Mammal Center’s Hawaiian monk seal conservation veterinarian. “We’re proud to be able to support patients like N2 as the only partner organization permitted by (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Fisheries to treat and rehabilitate Hawaiian monk seals. We will do everything we can to give this endangered animal a second chance to return to his ocean home.”
Hawaiian monk seals suffer from very high rates of entanglement in ocean trash and fishing gear, as well as ingestion of fishing hooks.
During the seal’s initial critical care period, Marine Mammal Center experts stabilized the animal before performing a successful procedure to remove an ingested hook from his stomach. During the procedure, the team also took a series of blood samples and a fecal sample for further analysis.
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The center’s veterinary team noted that N2 was moderately malnourished but is alert and quiet. The plan is to slowly begin offering sustainably caught live and dead fish feedings as well as subcutaneous fluids to help boost his nutritional status and hydration in the coming days.
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N2 made the trip from Oʻahu to the Marine Mammal Center’s Kona hospital thanks to a combined effort from local responders.
On Jan. 22, NOAA received a report of a seal on the Ka Iwi Coastline with a wire fishing leader and a swivel hanging from its mouth. NOAA Fisheries staff responded to evaluate the seal’s condition, but it was not possible to attempt to remove the gear at the time because of logistical constraints.
Hawaiʻi Marine Animal Response then deployed 13 people, for 54 hours, spanning five days to look for and ultimately find the seal Jan. 27 at Hanauma Bay. Trained experts from NOAA and HMAR performed a successful rescue that day, and the response team transported the seal to NOAA’s Daniel K. Inouye Regional Center in Honolulu.
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Because of the seal’s condition and need for long-term rehabilitation after the endoscopy procedure, NOAA initiated travel plans to bring the seal to the Marine Mammal Center’s hospital on the Big Island. The U.S. Coast Guard airlifted the seal Jan. 28 as part of training operations.
The public should keep a safe distance from monk seals and report sightings on Hawai‘i Island to the Marine Mammal Center’s response team by calling the 24-hour hotline at 808-987-0765.
Report hooked, stranded or entangled monk seals to the NOAA Fisheries statewide toll-free hotline at 1-888-256-9840.
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Beijing officials announced Sunday that they have sealed off several residential areas where two COVID-19 cases were detected, AP reported.
Why it matters: Government officials have urged local districts to maintain "full emergency mode" as coronavirus cases continue to be detected in the run-up to the opening of the Beijing Games on Friday.
State of play: Residents of Beijing's Anzhenli neighborhood, in the Chaoyang district, will not be allowed to leave their compounds after being put on lockdown Saturday, per AP.
Officials are setting up 19 testing points in the area in order to test all residents daily until Friday, AP reported, citing local state media.
The city also conducted millions of tests this past week on residents in the Fengtai district, where some areas are locked down.
The city detected 12 coronavirus cases between Saturday and Sunday afternoon, according to Pang Xinghuo, the vice head of the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, per AP.
Another 34 cases were reported among Olympic athletes and related personnel, Reuters reported.
The big picture: Of the 8,000 people who have arrived in Beijing for the Games by the end of Saturday, 211 have tested positive so far, per AP.
Games-related personnel maintain a "closed loop" bubble that separates them from the public and is meant to help stop the spread.
Athletes must test negative twice within 96 hours of their flights and again once they arrive in Beijing. Masks are required and testing is conducted daily.
SEAL Team left us needing more after its Season 5 finale — but that could very well be it for the military drama.
The CBS-turned-Paramount+ series has yet to be renewed for a sixth season, though star and executive producer David Boreanaz noted to TV Insider, “We’ve done great for Paramount+. You look at the numbers and the streaming, and then we’ve been trending as one of their number one shows for the past few weeks. So we’re doing good for ’em.”
This comes as Boreanaz’s Jason Hayes and the rest of Bravo was last seen ambushed and under heavy fire (including RPGs!), just after Clay Spenser (Max Thieriot) announced his plans to leave the team and be home for his wife and new baby. Will everyone survive? That’s only one of the questions we have for a possible sixth season. Scroll down for more.
A charity caring for baby seals bitten by dogs says it has been "overwhelmed" with salt donations to help treat their wounds.
Earlier this month the RSPCA East Winch Wildlife Centre in Norfolk said it had been treating dozens of pups found hurt on beaches with various injuries.
It appealed on social media for a specific type of salt to be donated and people responded in their droves.
Manager Evangelos Achilleos said staff had been "humbled" by the generosity.
"The response has been incredible and we have had so much salt delivered we are having to make space to store it," he said.
"We are so grateful to everyone who gave so generously and it is hard to put into words just how humbled we are."
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Mr Achilleos said the centre had more pups coming into care recently following dog attacks.
"We know that seals in the wild are an incredible sight to see, but people must remember that these are wild animals," he said.
People should never "interfere or get too close to them", he said, as they could give a "very nasty bite which could become infected by the bacteria that live in a seal's mouth".
The animals are a common sight on the Norfolk coastline and in December an appeal was put out by Friends of Horsey Seals after children were seen trying to stroke them.
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The group said there had been a "marked increase" in the number of people getting in touch to say they had witnessed attacks.
Sally Butler, a rescue team member, said incidents of pups being bitten seemed to be on the rise.
The mammals are "particularly vulnerable" from dogs, she said, as they hide in the dunes until they have moulted.
"We appeal to dog owners to keep their dogs on leads on any beach where seals are known to be," she said.
Do you have an impending sense of doom that you will be unlucky enough to be struck by a meteorite? Or, even more consequentially, do you think Earth as we know it will end with the supersonic arrival of a giant flying rock from space? The effect of Hollywood disaster movies on the human psyche is hard to overstate here, but as you may have recently read, like, perhaps in all previous chapters of this book, space-based material landing on Earth is a thing that happens. And if it hits you or it is big, it will quite likely be problematic. As such, addressing the dangers and annoyances associated with flying bits of space rock is probably worth doing, because—and I cannot stress this enough here—I dooonnn’t wanna miss a thiiiiing.
Historically, people have not feared death by meteorite. The main reasons for this are (1) only the last few hundred years did most people become aware that rocks could fall from space, and (2) past generations had other, more pressing things to worry about (for example, avoiding cholera, famine, and/or oxen stampedes). However, modern humans widely understand that they could die from a flying rock and many of us have loads of extra time to worry about such things. This combination, and the fact that stray meteorites are far more exciting to worry about than realistic issues like heart disease, car accidents, pandemics or gun violence, means there has been a significant uptick in the death-by-meteorite fear department, which is why it feels prudent to address it here.
Numerous stories suggest that meteorites have hit people, and many of these may be true; but, unless the fall is witnessed by other people, recovered, and analyzed, the authenticity of such events can be difficult to parse, particularly given the financial incentives now realized for possessing a physical piece of such a bizarre event or the short-lived notoriety associated with human/meteorite interaction. This is certainly not meant to disregard other stories of meteorite strikes on people, but confirming such events is not straightforward.
The hole in the Hodges house caused by the Sylacauga meteorite in 1954.
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Certainly, an interesting addition to this book might be a list of the hundreds of deadly meteorite strikes, narrow escapes, and associated harrowing stories, but thankfully, this is not possible. Even generously, historical evidence of death by meteorites is thin. However, there is solid evidence of an unfortunately positioned cow in northwestern Venezuela that met an untimely end thanks to a direct hit from the Valero meteorite on October 15, 1972. After seeing an intense flash of light and hearing a loud bang in the evening, three farm hands went out the next morning to investigate and found that one of their bovine buddies had been in the direct path of a ~110 lb. (50 kg) falling rock. It did not end well for the cow, but the farmer did report that what was left of the cow was butchered and eaten. Moooo-ving on.
The best-documented case of a meteorite impacting a human comes from near the small town of Sylacauga, Alabama, in 1954. On November 30, Ann Hodges was enjoying an afternoon nap on the couch when a grapefruit-sized meteorite crashed through the roof of her home, ricocheted off a large wooden radio, and struck her on the hip. Even though it caused some serious bruising, things could have been worse for Hodges—she managed to survive a meteorite hitting her, and she became a minor celebrity in the process, which is far more productive than most of my afternoon naps.
A more recent case of a person being struck by a meteorite comes from Mbale, Uganda, in 1992. The rather large Mbale meteorite exploded in the sky during its journey through Earth’s atmosphere, causing a loud noise that was heard widely throughout the heavily populated area. The resulting meteorite shower covered over eight square miles and resulted in over 330 pounds (150 kg) of material being recovered, mostly by local military personnel. While many buildings were peppered and many falling stones were observed, the only strike victim was a young boy who was hit, luckily, by only a very small piece of the meteorite after it had bounced off a tree.
Downed trees remained as scars when scientific expeditions were studying the Tunguska Event about twenty years later.
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Digging through historical archives, it is at least possible to get a sense of meteorite strikes and their direct effect on humans through the generations, even though it is almost impossible to confirm these cases so long after the fact. One very impressive list was compiled by researcher Kevin Yau and colleagues by looking through ~2,600 years of reported Chinese meteorite falls that have impacted humans or human structures. Yau came up with seven events that resulted in human casualties, some of which were reported to have killed tens of thousands of people, although there are good reasons to believe the absolute numbers from the larger events are unreliable. Just uncovered in 2020 were three corroborating government documents written in Ottoman Turkish that discuss the death of one man and the serious injury of another from a meteoritic airburst that occurred in what is now modern-day Iraq on August 22, 1888. It is hard to argue that this is not a legitimate record of a human death caused by a meteorite, but the offending stone has yet to be located and verified. There are other reported, and undoubtedly many more unreported, fascinating events such as these reports scattered throughout history, but most historians who keep track of such things likely would claim they have better things to do than comb through generation after generation of governmental records in various languages to find evidence of a truly obscure way of dying. Understandable. But even if we are extremely charitable to the records, known and unknown, and say that 50,000 people in all of history have died a meteorite-related death, then this would still be an incredibly rare way to die when statistics are considered. Fifty thousand people killed by meteorites would still be less than the number of people in the last fifty years that have died by falling off ladders.
Even though deaths caused by meteorite strikes are few, there have still been consequential events over the years that have raised some serious eyebrows when it comes to the potential dangers of rocks from space. The first serious wake-up call to people and governments around the world happened in 1908, in what is almost the geographic center of Russia. The Tunguska Event, as it is known from the name of a nearby river, is the largest “impact” event in recorded human history, although the event did not result in the formation of a traditional crater. The exact nature of the event is still unknown, but scientists largely agree that the massive explosion was caused by an airburst from a meteorite or comet. Seismic readings from the event were noted across Europe and Asia, and airwaves from the blast were detected on the East Coast of North America. The destruction caused by the explosion is almost unimaginable: it leveled almost a hundred million trees over ~830 square miles, an area larger than twenty-five of the countries on Earth. It would have destroyed any major metropolitan area, and deaths could have been in the millions. Fortunately, the event happened in an incredibly sparsely populated area of Siberia where only three people were reportedly killed, along with a herd of reindeer. Just like for Ann Hodges, things could have been much worse for humanity.
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Due to the remoteness of the location, proper study of the Tunguska Event was limited, and scientific expeditions did not reach the site until 1921, thirteen years after the event occurred. Damage from meteoritic material, particularly significant damage, is rare, so the fact that the Tunguska Event did not spur much action may not be surprising given its limited financial and human toll—and it was 1908, so technology was a bit more limited by today’s standards. But Tunguska at least put the planet on notice of the dangers that lurk in deep space.
A woman was arrested in Seal Beach this week after police searched a house and found evidence to suggest she was running a drug house, authorities said.
Officers served the search warrant about 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the 1700 block of Crestview Avenue after several neighbors had reported suspicious activity in and around the home, Lt. Nick Nicholas said Friday, Jan. 28.
Inside, they found a large quantity of narcotics, Nicholas said. Investigators said it was a drug house, but no further details were provided.
Amber Conley, 37, of Seal Beach was arrested on suspicion of possession of narcotics for sale and operating or maintaining a residence for narcotics use or sales, Nicholas said.
As part of the investigation, Nicholas Nicks, 27, of Garden Grove, was arrested on an outstanding warrant, but was later released with a citation.
Officers had also been called to the same house on a call of an alleged overdose and found a dead person inside, Nicholas said, but police did not immediately specify when that call came in.
A standoff with police and closed streets on Saturday morning may have been be related to the investigation.
Police posted on Facebook:
“The Seal Beach Police Department is actively working an investigation in the 1700 block of Crestview Avenue and the 700 block of Balboa Drive. We are asking residents and visitors to avoid the area. As soon as the police activity is completed we will let you know on our various social media platforms. Currently there is no imminent danger to the community as law-enforcement personnel are in the area.”
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A 20-year-old Virginia man was arrested in Seal Beach Friday, Jan. 28, after he was accused of walking up to a man in a parking lot and holding a knife to his neck, authorities said.
The victim was not injured, but feared for his life, Lt. Nick Nicholas said.
No words were exchanged and the suspect did not demand money or property, Nicholas said.
The victim had parked in a CVS parking lot in the 900 block of Pacific Coast Highway and had just exited his car about 8:15 a.m. when the suspect approached, pulled out a knife and held it inches away from his neck, Nicholas said.
Seconds later, the suspect lowered the blade and walked into the CVS, Nicholas said. Police later found him in the store and arrested him without incident.
He was identified by police as Christopher Patino-Guzman of Arlington, Virginia. He was booked into jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
What he was doing in Seal Beach was not immediately known. The motive was unknown.
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Following a search warrant served at a residence on Crestview Avenue, two subjects were arrested in connection with allegedly operating a drug house and possession of narcotics for sales.
Over the past several days, the Seal Beach Police Department received numerous complaints from neighborhood residents of suspicious activity in and around a residence located in the 1700-block of Crestview Avenue. Officers also responded to an alleged overdose of narcotics which resulted in the death of an adult at that location.
On Thursday, January 27, 2022 at about 7:30 pm, Seal Beach Police Department Detectives served a search warrant of that residence. During the course of the investigation, it was discovered that the individuals associated with that residence were allegedly running a drug house and were in possession of a large quantity of narcotics for sale.
Amber Conley, age 37, of Seal Beach was arrested for §11378 H&S, possession of narcotics for sale, and §11366.5(a) H&S, operating/maintaining a residence for narcotics use/sale. She was later booked at the Orange County Jail.
Nicholas Nicks, age 27, of Garden Grove was arrested for an outstanding warrant and later released on citation.
There is currently no threat to the public as a result of this incident. However, this is an active and ongoing investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Ryan Bedard at (562) 799-4100 ext. 1113 or [email protected].
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The NM State men's tennis team opened up the spring portion of its season at the Fertitta Tennis Complex on the campus of UNLV Friday, securing a 4-1 victory over Big West foe UC Riverside.
NM State won its spring season opener for the first time since 2020 and started its four-match weekend off on a winning note.
DOUBLES
• As they had done for most of the fall, Gijs Akkermans and Corey Clarke got the job done on line two of doubles action. That NM State duo, the WAC's Doubles Team of the Month for September 2021, generated a 6-2 victory against the Highlanders' tandem of Nolan McCaig and Ryan Huynh.
• UC Riverside, though, made sure the doubles point would remain up for grabs. Partnering together for the first time, Martin Simecek and freshman Itay Feigin suffered a 6-2 loss at the hands of Daniel Velek and Aarav Sane.
• That left the fate of the Aggies' doubles point in the hands of Louis Menard and Jordy Visser. In their first dual match together since May 2, 2021, Menard and Visser claimed both a win and the doubles point by getting by Andreas Whelan-Merediz and Joshua Roth by a 6-4 score in top-flight action.
SINGLES
• UC Riverside managed to knot things up at 1-1 after Akkermans suffered a 6-2, 7-5 setback to Whelan in flight four singles action.
• By receiving some strong one-on-one play of their own, though, the Aggies made sure the Highlanders never jumped in front. Visser, who missed his team's entire fall season, secured a 6-2, 7-6 win over Sane in line six action.
• Simecek continued to keep things moving in the right direction for NM State by making all the right moves late in the second set of his one-on-one battle. NM State's flight two singles competitor out-dueled Velek by a 6-3, 7-6 tally.
• Clarke conjured up the match-clinching point for NM State by battling back from a second-set loss. Slotted in flight three, Clarke collected a 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 triumph over Roth to seal the deal for the Aggies.
• At the time NM State clinched the win, Menard was ahead 7-6, 5-3 over McCaig in top-flight play. Feign, competing in his first collegiate dual match, was locked in a 7-5, 4-4 battle with Justin Lamy when things went final.
COMING UP NEXT
• NM State makes its move to go 2-0 in the 2022 spring season Friday afternoon at the Fertitta Tennis Complex when the Aggies duke it out with Weber State. First serve has been set for 3:00 p.m. MT.
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Opening a certificate of deposit (CD) is ideal if you have extra money to lock away for a set period of time to earn interest on it. And you'll generally earn a higher interest rate through a CD than you could with a traditional savings account — and won't have to deal with the temptation of spending.
Before you open a CD, though, you'll want to take note of one important caveat — early withdrawal penalties. Understanding how early withdrawal penalties work will be instrumental in avoiding potential fees.
What are CD early withdrawal penalties?
Early-withdrawal penalties occur when you take money from a CD before its term ends. For instance, let's say you've opened a 3-year CD. Any money deposited into the CD will have to stay in your account for three years. If you decide to withdraw some money a year early, the bank will charge you a fee.
Fees vary between different financial institutions. However, financial institutions will usually penalize you by having you pay back some of the interest you've earned. As a result, many banks tend to charge more on longer terms since you've accumulated more interest over time.
Daniel Forbes, CFP® and owner of Forbes Financial Planning, says there might be instances where you'll be charged more than interest. "There's a possibility, if a CD has a penalty, that you could actually lose part of their principal depending on how much interest the bank will charge them to get out of the CD early," says Forbes.
CD early withdrawal penalties at different banks
Below you will find certificate early withdrawal penalties from several of the largest financial institutions.
This may help you better understand early withdrawal penalties and how they vary by term. Some banks and credit unions offer more terms options, so they'll have a greater range of early withdrawal penalties.
Financial Institution
Penalties for one-year terms or shorter
Penalties between one-year terms and five-year terms
*At Truist Bank it will depend on your specific term. If your term is less than three months, your penalty is all the interest you've earned. For longer terms, it varies between 3 months of interest to 12 months of interest.
How to choose the right term and avoid CD penalties
Forbes recommends CDs for anyone looking to save money at a bank and generate more interest than with savings or checking accounts .
"For us, we look for promotional a lot of times. Some financial institutions will offer a rate in order to try to get clients business by offering them higher rates. We're in a really low interest rate environment, so I would say every little bit helps," said Forbes.
When choosing a term or CD, Forbes says you should take some time to consider whether you'll possibly need the money within a particular time frame. Also, keep in mind that while no-penalty CDs are free from early withdrawal penalties, there are still some other potential downsides.
"To get a no-penalty CD, you're going to get a lower interest rate than what otherwise might be available to you," Forbes told Insider.
Ultimately, you may have to look at several CDs before settling on the term and rate.
Sophia Acevedo is a junior banking reporter at Insider who covers banking and savings for Personal Finance Insider. She joined Insider in July 2021 as a fellow for the Personal Finance Insider Reviews team.Before joining the Insider team, she was a freelancer based in Los Angeles and worked briefly in publishing. She also graduated from California State University Fullerton in 2020.You can reach out to her on Twitter at @sophieacvdo or send a quick email at sacevedo@insider.com.Read more about how Personal Finance Insider chooses, rates, and covers financial products and services >>
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See?! When I tell you to pour yourself come bubbly, it is because I care!
News 12 just came out with the most amazing study that will give you no other choice but to leave your pinky permanently raised.
According to UK researchers, those who drink red wine, white wine and champagne are less likely to contract COVID-19.
Did I necessarily need a reason to sip wine with dinner? No.
But now I can simply say It's alllll for my health as I pop the cork and pour. There is scientific reasoning behind this study.
According to News12.com, "Researchers believe wine protected more against COVID-19 because of its other health benefits like decreasing blood pressure and reducing inflammation."
You know what I just read there? That wine is healthy!
And can you believe it, different types of wine offer different types of protection.
According to LadBible.com, those who drink, "one to two glasses of red wine a day had a 10% to 17% lower risk of testing positive for coronavirus."
Well that's a nice decrease.
Those who drink white wine have, "a 7% to 8% lower risk" of contracting COVID-19.
Not as much but I'll take it.
But now for the bad news.
While wine and champagne help protect you from COVID-19, primarily drinking beer and liquor gives a 28% higher chance of contracting COVID-19.
Makes sense when you think about it.
Not only are there no major health benefits attached to beer or liquor but a red wine drinker may be more prone to stay home and sip while a beer drinker prefers a local pub where they will be exposed to more people.
And as always, all health experts say to avoid excessive alcohol consumption because it is not a "the more you drink, the more protected you are" situation.
So, are you low on wine? Do you need to stock up on prosecco?
WELL DO IT because it's for your health!
Take a look at some of the best local wineries so you know where to get started!
And remember, pinky out!
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HONG KONG, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Iran became the first Asian nation to qualify for November's World Cup finals in Qatar on Thursday as a goal from Mehdi Taremi earned Dragan Skocic's side a 1-0 win over Iraq in Tehran.
Taremi, who had been recalled to the squad after missing November's games following a fall-out with Skocic, struck three minutes into the second half at the Azadi Stadium to take Iran back to the top of Group A and seal their spot in Qatar.
The win delivers qualification for a third consecutive World Cup finals for the Iranians, after appearances in Brazil and Russia, and the country's sixth in total.
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The Iranians should have taken a lead into the halftime break in Tehran after Ali Gholizadeh was released on goal by Alireza Jahanbakhsh, only for Iraqi goalkeeper Fahad Talib to deny the Charleroi striker.
Three minutes after the restart, however, the Iranians did take the lead. Jahanbakhsh's through ball from deep was missed by defender Ahmed Ibrahim and Porto striker Taremi raced in to score.
Jahanbakhsh, who impressed throughout, was denied a second for Iran in the 64th minute by Talib while Hossein Kanani and Saman Ghoddos also missed opportunities for the home side.
Manchester United midfielder Zidane Iqbal made his debut as a late substitute for Iraq but was unable to deny the Iranians.
South Korea moved to the verge of qualification as Cho Gue-sung's goal earned a 1-0 win over Lebanon in Sidon.
Missing injured duo Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan, Paulo Bento's side were made to work for a win that moves them on to 17 points from seven games in Group A of Asia's preliminaries.
Cho scored the game's only goal when he latched onto Hwang Ui-jo's low curling cross from the left, the forward steering the ball home from close range.
Lebanon were far from outplayed, however, with brothers Alexander and Felix Melki both hitting the woodwork for Ivan Hasek's side.
The Koreans will join Iran in securing their spot at the World Cup if the United Arab Emirates fail to defeat Syria in Dubai later on Thursday.
In Group B, Australia thrashed Vietnam 4-0 in Melbourne but remain in third place in the standings after second-placed Japan downed a poor China side 2-0 at Saitama Stadium.
Only the top two nations in each of Asia's two groups are guaranteed to advance to the World Cup, with the third-placed finishers facing off in a playoff for the right to meet a South American side for a possible fifth Asian berth in Qatar.
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