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Western Press Review: Romania's Diplomatic High-Wire Act And A 'Policy of Neglect' In Chechnya
By Khatya Chhor
Prague, 16 February 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Among the topics at issue in the press today are Romania's risky role as a U.S. ally, the dangers of cooperating with so-called "moderate" Taliban elements, America's "policy of neglect" in Chechnya, and drawing up viable postwar plans for Iraq.
THE BOSTON GLOBE:
John Florescu, who runs a media company in Romania, says Romania has had to walk a tightrope of competing superpower interests following its decision to support the controversial U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
In a contribution to "The Boston Globe," he says, "When [U.S. President George W.] Bush declared war on terror, Romania -- with its strategic Black Sea ports and airstrips within striking range of Baghdad -- unexpectedly found itself at the front end of a U.S. recruitment line." With the prospect of NATO membership "dangling before their eyes, the Romanian government responded [with] alacrity."
But Bucharest's acquiescence to U.S. wants "enraged the biggest members of the [European Union]," says Florescu. French President Jacques Chirac "warned that if the Romanians stepped out of the European -- read 'Franco-German' -- line, their admission to the EU could end up in a deep freeze."
For Romania, he says, "having just completed the marathon of NATO admission, its skillful foreign minister was now looking forward to getting on with the business of EU admission, only to find himself on a high-wire act between two conflicting superpower agendas."
Ultimately, "ridding the world of the 'evil doers' got quickly lost in the practicalities of not getting yourself run over in the process. The governing class began to hedge its bets, speaking more mutedly about America's ambitious crusade -- while silently calculating whether they had enough time to make nicey-nice with Paris before EU admission, now optimistically set for 2007."
Florescu says that, with a presidential election coming up later this year, Romanian politicians discovered "that no one wanted to hear any talk about a war against any terrorist."
Writing in "The Washington Post," columnist Jackson Diehl says the U.S. administration made a "critical error" last year as it was preparing to invade Iraq, in that it "failed to prepare a workable plan for the postwar occupation."
In anticipation of the 30 June transfer of Iraqi sovereignty to an interim administration in Baghdad, Washington "needs to come up with a clear strategy for how to handle the post-postwar Iraq -- a country that will be far from stable but no longer under U.S. administration."
The greatest danger remains the possibility of civil war erupting between Iraq's Shi'a majority and its Sunni and Kurdish minorities, as each vies for influence in a fledgling government. The specter of conservative clerics seeking to establish "an authoritarian Islamic state" is also cause for concern. The best-case scenario involves a "smooth segue to a pluralistic Iraqi administration, a waning of the resistance, a steady easing of the burden on the American military as NATO and Iraqi forces step in."
Any of these outcomes are possible, says Diehl. "But more likely is a muddle, a mix of nation-building, violence, economic recovery and chaos," with U.S. troops and administration "playing the role of referee and adviser as well as political scapegoat and terrorist target. Even in the best case, the sorting out of these countervailing forces and the emergence of a new Iraq will take years," he says.
And several major questions remain: how will we know when we've succeeded? he asks, and how do we get there from here?
A "Boston Globe" editorial says the United States should not encourage the Afghan government to partner with "moderate" elements of the Taliban in a pragmatic attempt to solidify support for the central government of President Hamid Karzai. Such a hard-nosed ploy "should be dropped both on moral grounds and because it is unlikely to be effective politically."
The paper writes: "Particularly for the women and girls of Afghanistan, the spectacle of Taliban being released from detention at the U.S. air base at Bagram -- or being allowed to [escape] -- represents a frightening sign of regression and betrayal. [Because] fundamentalist warlords now rule areas of the country like personal fiefs, the situation of women and girls in parts of Afghanistan today remains a continuing crime against humanity."
To ally with "so-called moderate Taliban, to encourage them to participate in political life, is equivalent to warning Afghan women that their human rights will have to be postponed indefinitely for the sake of a dubious political strategem."
Washington was tempted to believe an alliance with some Taliban elements might enjoin others to better cooperate with the central government in Kabul. But the Taliban "have to be defeated, not co-opted," says the paper. "Warlords emulating the Taliban's totalitarian ways must be intimidated by U.S. and NATO forces into ceding their absolute powers and accepting the writ of the central government. It would also be best to put off the June election until there is better security and more voters are registered."
The paper says the "electoral concerns of Karzai and [U.S. President] George W. Bush are not sufficient reasons to betray Afghan women or the cause of human rights."
THE WASHINGTON TIMES:
Historian Jeffrey Kuhner says a major news story is receiving little attention in the world press – the "slow, creeping genocide" in Chechnya.
"Using the global war on terrorism as a pretext to consolidate Moscow's iron grip over the breakaway republic, the Russian army has been waging a war of extermination against the Chechen people," he writes.
And yet, "the West has been silent in the face of Russia's genocidal campaign. Instead of demanding the Kremlin withdraw its forces and negotiate a peace settlement with Chechen leaders, the Bush administration continues its shameful policy of neglect." Washington has seemingly accepted the Kremlin's claim that the war in Chechnya is an "internal matter," says Kuhner.
And so Moscow's "scorched-earth campaign" -- which includes "extensive human-rights violations," "widespread torture," and thousands being "disappeared" -- continues. One-fourth of the Chechen population is thought to have died in the past decade. Those that are not direct victims of Russia's policies are "slowly dying through a combination of war, disease, and sky-rocketing suicide."
Moscow's "brutal occupation has convinced most Chechens to abandon their dreams of national sovereignty; many now would gladly accept some form of autonomy," Kuhner says. "Yet [Russian President Vladimir] Putin refuses to even consider the idea. He demands world leaders accept the notion every Chechen leader is a terrorist."
Western "appeasement" of Russia "risks emboldening the Kremlin to continue its anti-democratic and expansionist policies." And Kuhner says, unlike during the extermination of Jews in World War II, the world "cannot claim the excuse of lacking knowledge of the horrors occurring in Chechnya. We know," he says wryly. "We just don't care."
LE MONDE:
"Le Monde's" lead editorial today questions whether the situation in Iraq has improved since the capture of Saddam Hussein late last year. The answer, it seems, is no.
The United States had been counting on the capture of the former dictator to take the wind out of the sails of the Iraqi resistance. And it may indeed have been a blow to some elements of Iraqi or Arab nationalism. But his arrest has not intimidated the suicide bombers, who continue mounting attacks and are responsible for 100 Iraqi deaths and hundreds of others being wounded in only the past week.
The latest targets have not been selected at random, "Le Monde" says, but are rather very specific. Iraqis enrolling in the new Iraqi police and security services are being repeatedly targeted. According to the paper's correspondent in Baghdad, Remy Ourdan, the attacks are not dissuading Iraqis from joining the new police services. However, they do indicate that there is an increasingly well-established and well-informed terrorist network operating in Iraq.
Most Iraqis say these elements are mainly comprised of foreigners, more or less affiliated with the nebulous Al-Qaeda network. "Le Monde" says their aim seems to be to pit one Iraqi group against another, sowing the seeds of civil war in the country. This climate of violence seems incompatible with hopes for transferring sovereignty at the end of June, says the paper.
The UN has dispatched one of its most talented diplomats, Lakhdar Brahimi, to assess the situation. But the paper asks, Will he be able to stop the cycle of political and military failure?


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Wizz Air has welcomed Marion Geoffroy as the new managing director of Wizz Air UK.
Owain Jones, the outgoing managing director, will continue at the company as chief supply chain and legal officer.
Geoffroy brings to the role over a decade of experience in the aviation industry, having joined Wizz Air in 2015 as head of legal and general counsel before being appointed chief corporate officer in 2018.
Is this role she was responsible for overseeing the Legal, data protection and health and safety as well as government affairs and sustainability departments.
Prior to joining Wizz Air, Geoffroy held senior leadership roles in the legal department of Air France-KLM and served as general counsel at Verlingue Insurance Brokers.
This appointment comes at an exciting time for Wizz Air, following the launch of over 65 UK routes in the past year and opening of two new bases at Gatwick and Doncaster Sheffield, with its fourth base at Cardiff Airport due to launch in summer 2022.
Geoffroy said: "There is no doubt the past year has been challenging for the industry, but at Wizz we have remained focused on nimbly adjusting to changing travel restrictions, quickly rebuilding capacity to meet demand, and taking advantage of new market opportunities.
"Looking ahead, we can see there is a huge appetite for travel and the booking trends are very encouraging, which is why we are planning to hire more than 120 cabin crew members and pilots in the UK by December, so that we can bring all our UK aircraft back into service by the end of the year."
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Analysis: Attack is North Korean bid for attention
A frustrated North Korea is lashing out again, this time with a deadly volley of artillery aimed at reminding rival South Korea — and the world — that it will not be ignored.
The barrage of shots fired Tuesday at a South Korean island lying within sight of its shores did not come out of nowhere. For weeks, North Korea has been angling for credit for reaching out to the U.S. and South Korea, and has warned that the cool response would come at a cost.
The destruction that set homes ablaze, sent civilians fleeing for underground shelters and killed two South Korean marines may have been more than Pyongyang bargained for in its game of chicken with the South.
But it gets attention, which is what Pyongyang wants as it seeks to restart negotiations to barter its nuclear program for much-needed aid.
It can be hard to remember in bustling, cosmopolitan Seoul that the Korean peninsula remains in a state of war.
Sixty years after the fighting began, the U.S.-backed South has risen to become the world's 15th-largest economy, an example of industriousness and pluck.
Two weeks ago, Seoul basked in the limelight of hosting more than 30 world leaders for the Group of 20 summit in what was seen as the country's diplomatic debut. Next week, South Korea will make its case for the right to hold the 2022 World Cup.
But a rising South Korea does not sit well with its poorer northern neighbor. Once the richer of the two Koreas, the North has suffered over the years from the loss of Soviet aid, economic mismanagement and natural disasters that destroyed its precious few resources.
And as the rest of the communist bloc has crumbled, North Korea has remained staunch in its "juche" policy of self-reliance, continuing to build up a nuclear program that has earned it pariah status with the West.
Its nuclear bombs and its unpredictability remain North Korea's most valuable assets, and Pyongyang has played its cards shrewdly over the decades.
The last two years have been a particularly delicate time in Pyongyang, with leader Kim Jong Il reportedly suffering a stroke in 2008 and then paving the way to name his youngest son as his successor.
But Kim Jong Un, still in his 20s and known as the Young General, won't have the benefit of decades of preparation that his father had before taking over from his father, the late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung.
There are at least three things Kim will want to secure before he can comfortably hand over the reins: loyalty to the Young General, economic stability and political security ensuring the regime's grip on power.
Time may be running out. Health issues notwithstanding, Kim is likely to want to formally anoint his heir in 2012, the centennial of Kim Il Sung's birth, a significant milestone that would cement the family's ruling status in ritualistic North Korea.
Winning the military's loyalty will be key in a society that operates under a "military first" policy.
The armistice signed in 1953 was designed to keep the peace, but North Korea has never accepted the maritime border drawn by the U.N. at the close of the Korean War, and the western waters have long been a flashpoint.
They've fought three deadly skirmishes there since 1999. The last one, a year ago, was particularly humiliating, with the North suffering one death and more wounded.
Revenge may have been behind the plot to take down South Korea's Cheonan warship, which investigators say was torn in two by a North Korean torpedo in March. If the young son wanted to earn the military's loyalty, it would have been a prize: 46 South Koreans died in the worst attack on Seoul's military since the Korean War.
Pyongyang denies involvement, as it has past provocations.
However, neither nation wants another war, and both have sought ways to repair relations without losing face.
Since taking office in February 2008, South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak has been sticking to a hard-line policy of demanding concrete action on denuclearization before offering the North any significant aid.
Yet in recent weeks, he has shown a limited willingness to yield, offering North Korea a shipment of rice and other humanitarian aid to help with devastating flooding and backing off demands that Pyongyang apologize for the Cheonan sinking.
North Korea, which is suffering under U.N. economic sanctions for its nuclear defiance, also has been reaching out, eager to get back to talks on winning aid in exchange for nuclear concessions.
Pyongyang has been putting out feelers in unprecedented fashion, allowing foreign journalists to cover a massive 65th anniversary parade for its ruling Workers' Party that served as an international debut for his son and heir.
Both sides also agreed to let families divided since the Korean War meet at a North Korean resort for reunions that inevitably draw attention to the emotional toll the peninsula's division has taken. There are rumors that top-level aides were trying to negotiate a summit between their two leaders.
But Pyongyang has become frustrated by the slow pace of restoring relations with Seoul and eventually the U.S., a key step toward its goal of securing aid and stability. That impatience has bubbled over into petulance.
The regime wants respect. And though it increasingly has turned to neighboring China for political and financial support — a strategic alliance that has broader geopolitical consequences — its sense of being rebuffed by the U.S. and South Korea still stings.
The decision to show off a new uranium enrichment plant to a U.S. scientist recently was a clear ploy to pressure Washington and Seoul and remind the allies what's at risk in putting off disarmament talks.
Drawing South Korean troops into a skirmish on an island populated by civilians was a pointed escalation that emphasized that Pyongyang, or the Young General, is prepared to play tough.
Smoke billowed into the air and screams sounded as Yeonpyeong's islanders ran from burning homes with shells raining down upon them.
For those who lived through the Korean War, the scene recalled the death and destruction of that conflict. It was North Korea's way of reminding the world that the war is not over and that ignoring it comes with dire consequences.
Jean H. Lee is AP's bureau chief in Seoul, South Korea, and recently visited North Korea.


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No Evidence of Sexual Selection in Brassica rapa, a Hermaphroditic Plant
Name: Julia Ajello
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The presence of sexual selection has been identified in animals since Darwin first wrote On the Origin of Species in 1859. However, it took much longer for this concept to be applied to plants. Two prominent mechanisms of sexual selection, female choice and male-male competition are evident in animals, but these same processes look very different in plants and they often take many different forms. Advantages to reproductive fitness are often incurred due to sexual selection, however, these effects are less well known in plants. In order to experimentally determine the influence sexual selection has on the reproductive fitness of a plant, I hand-pollinated flowers on Brassica rapa plants, a hermaphroditic annual. To indicate the presence of female choice, one or five sires were used to pollinate a single flower. Likewise, in order to simulate pollen competition, low or high pollen loads were also used to pollinate the plants. The seeds that the plants produced after pollination were counted as an indication of reproductive fitness. No evidence was found that supported the notion that sire number and pollen load size affected the number of seeds produced. Sire number and pollen load size also did not affect the probability of producing at least one seed. However, the maternal plants could better predict the number of seeds produced as well as the production of at least one seed. The differences due to maternal plant is a clear indication that maternal effect is playing a larger role on affecting the reproductive fitness of the plants used in this study versus female choice and male-male competition.
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Every year, Microsoft has a competition (the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship) amongst academic institutions who teach Microsoft Office Specialist certification to students around the world.
This year we expect that over half a million students entered this competition. Last year, over 344,000 entered. The categories are Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Around 100 students make it to the world finals from around 90 countries around the world.
We have just finished the Canada National Competition, where we pick the three students with the highest scores who will represent Canada at the World finals. Our National champions for PowerPoint and Word are from British Columbia and Alberta. Our National champion for Excel is Florence Ngan, a double-degree honours student with the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.
Microsoft Office Specialist certification is the official Microsoft Learning and certification for Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint and OneNote. It is the world's largest ICT certification and are relevant to everyone given that over 95% of employers standardize in the Microsoft Office Suite of applications.
Schools like the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, and PRISMRESOURCES labs are attacking the problem of the digital divide by providing students the opportunity to train, test, and obtain industry recognized certifications. Certifications boosts resumes, it creates leaders, and provides teachers with the ability to give real life skills and experience. Florence is a highly productive student, has industry recognized certifications, and is ready to compete on a global level. As the National Champion for Excel 2010, Florence wins an all-expenses paid trip to Disneyland where Microsoft hold the finals this year in late July.
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CCI Learning is pleased to announce the Canadian Excel 2010 winner of the 2014 Microsoft Office Specialist Nationals Championship. Florence Ngan will be representing Canada in the 2014 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championships in Anaheim, California on July 27-30, 2014.
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Florence, a double-degree honours student taking Actuarial Science and Statistics at University of Waterloo and in Business Administration at Wilfrid Laurier University, ranked number one in all of Canada in the Excel 2010 category. Florence was able to train and test for Excel 2010 at the PRISMRESOURCES labs at Wilfrid Laurier University. Florence has won an all-expenses paid trip to Disneyland in Anaheim, California to compete against world class competitors in the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championships for the top spot in Microsoft Office Excel 2010.
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The woman allegedly concealed the illicit drug, which weighed about 930 grammes, in four big tomato tins. She was caught when officials at the gate insisted on a thorough check of every item brought into the prison. When the tomato tins were opened, Indian hemp, a phone, and a sim card were discovered.
The Deputy Controller of Prisons (DCP), Ikoyi Prisons, Tolu Ogunsakin, has begun an investigation to determine if the woman's husband was involved in the matter.
Lagos State Controller of Prisons (CP) Tunde Ladipo told The Nation that the suspect would not escape justice. He expressed surprise that a woman, under the guise of humanitarian service, could attempt to smuggle Indian hemp into the prison.
Ladipo said the prison was not taking the matter lightly, adding that those found culpable will not be spared. He also revealed that the woman has been handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
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Q: Firestore Rules: How to allow specific editing of someone else's record? I have an app that has Users, and Jobs.
Each Job is owned by 1 User. Only that User can edit the job.
Any User can apply to any Job. When a User applies to a Job, I want to add that user to the job.appliedCandidates array. Basically the structure is this:
Jobs
    - Job1
        - owner = User1
        - candidatesApplied
            - User2
            - User3

So User1 owns Job1. Let's say User4 comes along and applies to the job. Now I want to add him to candidatesApplied. But he doesn't have editing access to that job because he's not the owner!
And if I give him editing access, then he can change all the job data. Not what I want.
I'm pretty sure in Firestore you can do rules on a per-field basis, but this still doesn't solve my problem. If User4 can edit job1.candidatesApplied, that means he has access to delete the other users from the array!
I'm pretty sure that the array setup I've got going is not the way to go. One idea is to have "applicants" be a subcollection of a job, and allow any user to create a record in that subcollection, but not do anything else. But I'm not sure if this is right either.
How best should I handle this?

A: Given that you haven't set limits on how many applicants can apply for a job, let's just assume that the list of applicants can grow massively.  If that's the case, then even modeling that data as a list in a single document is prone to error since there is a discrete max size to a document: 1 MB.  And we're not even talking about security yet.
In order to avoid the max document size problem, the best way to deal with this is by putting each applicant in their own document.  Whether or not that's a collection or subcollection is mostly irrelevant.
If you choose to store each applicant as a document in a collection, now you are not constrained to some arbitrary maximum of applicants, and it's easier to write rules for that.  What those rules should be are outside of the scope of what you've proposed here so far.  But flexible data modeling suggests that the subcollection approach is less prone to problems.

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Julie's Birthday Brown Bear with ProStaffer Rick Kreuter
Editor's Note: Rick and Julie Kreuter are the hosts of "Beyond the Hunt" that appears on the Outdoor Channel Mondays at 8:30 am EST and Thursdays at 3:30 and 8:00 pm EST. Rick and Julie have been married for 14 years, have hunted together for 15 years and have worn Mossy Oak for 8 years.
We were hunting coastal brown bears out of Sand Point on the Alaskan peninsula last October with Canoe Bay Outfitters. Most of the foliage along the beach and the sides of the tributaries was the same color as our Brush camo. There were also moss-gray rocks, yellow grasses and brush and a lot of underbrush with no leaves, so we felt really comfortable and invisible in our Mossy Oak Brush camo.
We saw numbers of great bears, but none we could classify as shooters. We hoped to take a bear that would measure close to 10 feet. The last day of our 10-day hunt also was Julie's birthday and the day we planned to fly out. PenAir is the only airline that flies into Sand Point, and the company called to tell us they didn't have seats for us on the plane, even though we'd confirmed our flight before we went to camp. We decided it was Julie's birthday, and the powers that be had decided to give Julie an extra day to hunt as a birthday present.
We climbed to the top of a mountain on an island, so we could see 360-degrees around the island. Finally we spotted a big mature brown bear walking along the shoreline and eating seaweed. We came off the mountain and got back into the boat. The whole time we were in the boat the wind was coming from our back, so we knew there was no way we could get close to that bear without spooking him. I believe a bear's ability to smell human odor is far superior to that of a white-tailed deer.
When we were about 400-yards out, glassing the bear from the boat, we spotted an eddy where the wind was swirling in front of the boat. For no reason at all, the wind turned 180 degrees and was now hitting us in the face, giving us the perfect wind to stalk the bear. We decided Julie was getting more and more birthday presents as this hunt went along. We steered the boat across this little bay and tucked it into a nook about 200 yards in front of the bear. We got out and stalked to within 100 yards of the bear. We set-up the cameras, and Julie waited for the shot on the bear. Everything was working out just perfectly for Julie's birthday hunt.
After we were all set-up, the bear decided to leave the beach and go into the brush. Normally when the bears leave the beach, they're bedding-down for the day. We thought the hunt was over, and that we had lost the opportunity for Julie to take her birthday bear on camera. But a few minutes later, the bear came out of the brush about 40-yards away and walked straight toward us. I was videoing as the bear came to us. I had him in full frame. At 30 yards, he stopped and looked at us. I think he knew we weren't part of the rock we were hiding behind. I really think he saw the camera sticking-up above the rock and perhaps a reflection off the lens of the camera. Julie asked our guide and confirmed this was the bear she should take, took dead aim with her Savage .338 rifle and shot the bear.
The bear ran into the brush. Immediately, Julie took off after the bear. Our guide had told us, "These coastal brown bears are big, tough and hard to put-down. If you can get a second shot, always take it. If the bear gets in the brush, you can create a potentially-dangerous situation for us, if we have to go in after him." Julie ran toward the bear to try and get that second shot, to keep us from having to go deep in the brush to recover a wounded bear. The guide also had told Julie, "As long as you can see the bear, take another shot." Julie felt certain the bear was mortally wounded, but she did the right thing by attempting to get to the bear. When she took the second shot, Julie was only about 20-yards from the bear. Julie was rock solid, from her first shot through her second shot. However, when we got to her, she was having a really-hard time walking up to the bear to touch it. She was overcome with a huge adrenaline rush. Julie said, "Oh my gosh, this bear is huge. I know he's dead, but he's still intimidating." Finally, Julie picked up the bear's paw and put it over her face. You couldn't see any of Julie's head on either side of the bear's paw. Julie got her birthday bear, and what a birthday present he was!
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More teal in early-season bag, higher possession limit encourage hunters
This fall, early-teal-season hunters may have an opportunity to bag more teal. Additionally, if the Department of Interior finalizes the waterfowl harvest regulations as initially proposed, the possession limit would increase. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a six-teal bag limit for early teal season and a possession limit for all seasons equivalent to three daily bag limits.
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American Conservation Now Celebrates its 150th Birthday
December 1871, the 42nd United States Congress in Washington officially papered the idea of Yellowstone National Park, a new reality that had most recently been inspired by the artworks of Jackson, Elliot and Moran.
Fourth of July Recipes with Wild Game Meat
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UK money-laundering ring used network of women including 'Kim Kardashian lookalike' to smuggle cash to UAE
UK money-laundering ring used network of women including 'Kim Kardashian lookalike' to smuggle cash to UAE /node/2132031/middle-east
The National Crime Agency's investigation into Tara Hanlon, 30, began in October 2020 when she was prevented from boarding a flight from Heathrow to Dubai. (NCA)
https://arab.news/rrduc
Updated 29 July 2022
Abdulla Alfalasi oversaw scheme to transport cash in suitcases on planes
National Crime Agency: 'Network smuggled astronomical sums of money out of the UK'
LONDON: The UK's biggest ever money-laundering case enlisted a network of 36 people, including a "Kim Kardashian lookalike" and other British women in white-collar jobs, to smuggle cash to the UAE.
The UK National Crime Agency discovered the scheme, which saw money sent to flats in central London from across the UK to be counted and packed into suitcases in quantities of up to £500,000 ($609,000) a time, each weighing around 40kg.
The bags would be packed with mouthwash and coat hangers to evade detection by X-ray machines, and sprayed with substances including coffee and air freshener to mask the smell and distract airport sniffer dogs.
They would then be transported by the network of mules, who flew business class with the money to utilize extra baggage allowances, were paid up to £8,000 per trip for their services, and siphoned off at least 10 percent of the transported cash for themselves.
Among them were 30-year-old recruitment executive Tara Hanlon and 55-year-old communications professional Nicola Esson.
The latter made three trips to Dubai between August and September 2020, checking in 19 suitcases of cash weighing almost half a ton in total.
Hanlon, described as a "Kim Kardashian lookalike" by sections of the UK press, was arrested in Dubai in 2020 trying to return to London with several suitcases that she claimed were for outfits for a "girls' holiday."
A month later another mule, Czech national Zdenek Kamaryt, 39, was detained boarding a flight from Heathrow to Dubai with £1.3 million of cash in his bags.
Another courier arrested was Muhammad Ilyas, who was detained after declaring four suitcases containing around £1.5 million in cash to customs in Dubai.
One of them, containing £431,360, went missing and was subsequently discovered by the UK Border Force.
In total, £104 million was ferried over the course of a year. Some of the cash was transferred into cryptocurrencies and laundered through gold operations in Africa.
It was Hanlon's arrest that sparked the investigation, eventually leading to the group's ringleader Abdulla Alfalasi, who was arrested at a London flat owned by an offshore company registered in the British territory of Gibraltar.
He was found to have traveled extensively between London and Dubai between November 2019 and March 2020, carrying £6 million in cash himself.
His signature was discovered on documents purporting to relate to a company called Omnivest Gold Trading, which was used as a front for cash declarations.
Prosecutor Julian Christopher QC, speaking at Isleworth crown court in west London, said that Alfalasi enlisted British woman Michelle Clarke to recruit the couriers, who were "typically young people, attracted by the money."
Hanlon was sentenced to 34 months in prison in 2021. Esson and Ilyas will be sentenced later this year.
Alfalasi, 47, was sentenced to nine years and seven months in jail for sending money acquired through criminal activities to Dubai.
Judge Simon Davis told Alfalasi: "There is no doubt that this was a considerable network under your charge, not your sole charge, you were a principal but it is clear that there were others involved."
Ian Truby, the NCA's senior investigating officer, said: "This money-laundering network smuggled astronomical sums of money out of the UK … Cash is the lifeblood of organized crime groups, which they reinvest into activities such as drug trafficking, which fuels violence and insecurity around the world. Disrupting the supply of such illicit cash is a priority for the NCA and our partners."
Topics: UK Dubai
Saudi citizen, two expatriates held in SR63 million money laundering case
Yemenis elated as 5 Taiz policewomen handed key security roles /node/2243191/middle-east
Saeed Al-Batati
The five were given roles at sites and police stations in the Taiz Security Department as part of a security overhaul
The appointments were intended to empower women in security roles as part of a push to end the disorder and lawlessness that has plagued Taiz
AL-MUKALLA: Five Yemeni policewomen were appointed to key security posts for the first time in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz, sparking excitement among gender equality advocates and the media.
The five were given roles at sites and police stations in the Taiz Security Department as part of a security overhaul that saw the appointment of 12 new security heads, said local officials.
The appointments were intended to empower women in security roles as part of a push to end the disorder and lawlessness that has plagued Taiz for years.
Second Lt. Amera Al-Bukaili, who was recently elevated to the role of deputy director of training for Taiz security, told Arab News that women's fight for empowerment and senior positions had finally borne fruit.
"I am so delighted today. The appointments have restored a portion of our rights, which is something that should have occurred a long time ago," she said.
A holder of a master's degree in social science, Al-Bukaili has almost two decades' experience in the security field. She was made second lieutenant in 2019, while her male counterparts with similar levels of experience and education were promoted to higher ranks, she added.
"When women hold positions of authority, they will have the capacity to influence and innovate. This is an opportunity to get more rights."
The appointments have been welcomed by both men and women who have long advocated for the promotion of women to positions of power in the country.
Sara Qassem, a human rights activist from Taiz, characterized the appointments as "special milestones" toward granting women greater rights, urging other Yemeni provinces to follow suit by appointing women to crucial posts.
"We applaud this action, which is in response to efforts to empower women in politics, human rights, security and other areas," Qassem told Arab News, adding that the move would improve security in Taiz at a time when the city is teetering on the brink of chaos and facing a renewed Houthi siege.
Journalist Zakaria Al-Sharabi agreed, saying that deploying policewomen to key security positions will enable operations in areas that are inaccessible to men due to social barriers. The appointees will also help in combating sexual harassment and other crimes against women, she added.
"Without a doubt, the participation of women in the police force is critical, since many police duties and services, particularly those involving women, children, harassment offenses and juvenile protection need the presence of women," Zakaria said.
Human rights and gender equality campaigners in Yemen say that women's rights have been trampled upon and abandoned throughout the country's civil war, particularly in Houthi-controlled regions, where the militia restricts women's freedom of movement and other rights.
The Houthis have prohibited women from traveling between Yemeni cities without a male companion or mahram, according to observers in Sanaa.
Women also report that some service departments no longer assist unaccompanied women.
Angela Abu-Asba, an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Sanaa, said that a technician at an auto repair shop in Sanaa refused to fix her vehicle because she was unaccompanied by a male guardian.
"He said that women are not permitted to enter without a mahram. Bring your mahram and come. I told him, oppressively and bitterly, that my father was in Ibb and my brother was at work," Abu-Asba said on Facebook.
She later deleted the social media post over fears of Houthi reprisal, with the militia frequently targeting critics from the public sector and elsewhere.
Topics: Yemen Taiz Amera Al-Bukaili
Fighting flares in Yemen's Taiz as Houthis attack military base
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Egypt officials: Hospital fire in Cairo kills 3, injures 32 /node/2243126/middle-east
The fire took place at the Noor Mohammadi hospital in eastern Cairo's Matariya neighborhood
Firefighters were able to put out the blaze
CAIRO: A fire broke out Wednesday at a hospital in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing at least three people and injuring at least 32 others, health authorities said.
The Health Ministry said the fire took place at the Noor Mohammadi hospital in eastern Cairo's Matariya neighborhood. The facility is run by a charity.
The ministry said in a statement that flames broke out at the hospital's radiology department without elaborating on what caused it. Provincial authorities said firefighters were able to put out the blaze.
Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said the injured patients suffered from burns, fractures and smoke inhalation. They were transferred to other hospitals in Cairo.
He said the causality tally was a preliminary one, suggesting it could increase.
Safety standards and fire regulations are poorly enforced in Egypt and have been linked to many deaths. A 2020 fire at an intensive care unit at a private hospital in Cairo killed seven coronavirus patients.
Topics: Egypt Cairo fire hospital
US affirms support for Egypt as Blinken visits Cairo on Mideast tour
Airport customs officials in Cairo foil bid to smuggle in 45 bladed weapons, narcotic pills
Militants kill eight soldiers in northwest Syria: monitor /node/2243111/middle-east
"HTS fired shells and rockets at a Syrian military post, killing eight soldiers," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
The Idlib region is home to about three million people, around half of them displaced
BEIRUT: Eight Syrian soldiers were killed in the country's northwest on Wednesday in an attack carried out by the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham militant group, a war monitor reported.
"HTS fired shells and rockets at a Syrian military post, killing eight soldiers near Kafr Ruma in Idlib province," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
HTS is headed by ex-members of Syria's former Al-Qaeda franchise.
Syrian state media did not immediately report the attack.
About half of the northwestern province of Idlib and areas bordering the neighboring provinces of Hama, Aleppo and Latakia are dominated by HTS and other rebel factions.
The Idlib region is home to about three million people, around half of them displaced.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that since the end of 2022, the militants "have intensified operations against regime forces in Idlib... in the context of a rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus."
He said exchanges of fire and clashes between regime forces and militant factions had killed 63 people since the start of the year, 45 of them pro-regime forces. One of the 18 militants was a French national.
Ankara became a sworn enemy of Damascus when it began backing rebel efforts to topple Assad at the start of the civil war.
But in late December the defense ministers of Turkiye and Syria held landmark negotiations in Moscow — the first such meeting since 2011.
The mooted reconciliation has alarmed Syrian opposition leaders and supporters who reside mostly in parts of the war-torn country under Ankara's indirect control.
President Bashar Assad said in January that a Moscow-brokered rapprochement with Turkiye should aim for "the end of occupation" by Ankara of parts of Syria.
Turkiye has military bases in northern Syria and backs some local groups fighting the regime and against Syrian Kurdish forces which it considers "terrorist" groups.
Ankara has never publicly backed hard-line group HTS but is believed to coordinate with its forces.
HTS, which is sanctioned by the UN as a terrorist organization, formally broke ties with Al-Qaeda in 2016 and incorporated a number of smaller Syrian rebel factions in a major re-branding effort.
Widely seen as the strongest and best organized of Syria's rebel groups, it has presented itself as the mainstay of Syria's opposition.
With Russian and Iranian support, Damascus has clawed back much of the ground lost in the early stages of Syria's conflict, which erupted in 2011 when Assad's government brutally repressed pro-democracy protests.
The war has killed nearly half a million people since it broke out over a decade ago, displacing almost half of Syria's pre-war population.
Despite periodic clashes, a cease-fire reached in 2020 by Moscow and Turkiye has largely held in the northwest.
Topics: Syria Idlib Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham attack
Russian strikes on Syria's Idlib province kill 7: monitor
Two women, two children among six killed in Syria regime shelling on Idlib
Israel steps up demolitions of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem /node/2243106/middle-east
Israel steps up demolitions of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem
Mohammed Najib
Properties were razed in the city's Sur Baher, Wadi Al-Hummus and Silwan neighborhoods on Wednesday
Residents of Al-Khan Al-Ahmar are staging a sit-in amid fears they will be displaced after a final deadline to leave the village expired
RAMALLAH: Israeli authorities have stepped up their demolitions of Palestinian homes in parts of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, following a policy formulated by extreme right-wing ministers in the country's new government, local leaders say.
On Wednesday, Israeli bulldozers knocked down buildings in the Sur Baher, Wadi Al-Hummus and Silwan neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Rights activists urged people to publicly denounce the demolitions by posting messages on social media sites such as Twitter using the hashtag #Stop_Demolishing_Jerusalem.
They also called on the Palestinian Authority, the international community and global institutions to intervene immediately to force Israel to halt the demolitions and displacements that threaten the Palestinian community in Jerusalem.
Since the beginning of this January, occupation forces have razed 30 homes in a number of the historic city's neighborhoods. Last year, 211 Palestinian homes were demolished in Jerusalem.
In the village of Al-Khan Al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem, a sit-in protest by villagers and activists from the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission continued for a second day on Wednesday.
Residents of the village and surrounding Bedouin communities fear Israeli authorities will demolish their homes, after a final six-month deadline for them to leave expired on Wednesday.
Eid Khamis Jahalin, a Bedouin leader from Al-Khan Al-Ahmar, told Arab News that people are scared that Israeli bulldozers will destroy the village and displace its 250 residents.
"The electoral program of both Itamar Bin-Gvir (the new Israeli national security minister) and Bezalel Yoel Smotrich (the minister of finance) is based on the demolition of Al-Khan Al-Hamar and the displacement of its inhabitants," he said.
Hussein Al-Sheikh, from the Palestine Liberation Organization, called on the international community to intervene immediately to halt the demolitions carried out by Israeli occupation forces in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which he described as a continuation of a policy of displacement and "apartheid." He said the Palestinian leadership would meet on Friday to discuss ways to respond.
Elsewhere, Israeli army forces continued to besiege Jericho, in the eastern West Bank, for a fifth day on Wednesday as they searched for two young men responsible for an attempted gun attack on a settlers' restaurant at the entrance to the city five days ago.
Critics accused Israeli authorities of imposing a collective punishment policy in the city by obstructing the free movement of residents, searching their cars and checking their identities, resulting in long queues and people being stuck in their vehicles for hours.
Journalist Adel Abu Nima from Jericho told Arab News that the Israeli army on Saturday set up military checkpoints at all main entrances to Jericho city and its camps, Aqbat Jabr and Ein Al-Sultan, and blocked secondary entrances with mounds of earth, causing great disruption to the lives of city residents and visitors.
"Some citizens and workers wait at the Israeli military checkpoints for four hours, and some are prevented from leaving Jericho," Abu Nima said.
Jericho is the only place from which 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank can travel to other countries, so the checkpoints have affected people traveling abroad and those who are returning.
"As a journalist covering the events in West Bank, including Jenin and Nablus, I have not seen such Israeli military measures against entire cities as is happening now against Jericho," Abu Nima said.
Meanwhile, an Israeli human rights organization has accused Israeli authorities of tolerating settler violence against Palestinians for more than 17 years.
Yesh Din said in a report published on Feb. 1 that only 3 percent of cases of ideological crimes committed by Israelis against Palestinians in the West Bank during that time resulted in convictions and 93 percent of cases were closed with no indictment filed.
Data contained in the report showed that between 2005 and 2022, Israeli police failed to investigate 81.5 percent of alleged crimes committed by Israelis against Palestinians and their property.
The researchers said: "The state of Israel is evading its duty to protect Palestinians from Israelis who seek to harm them in the West Bank, as international law requires.
"Yesh Din's long-term monitoring of the results of police investigations into incidents of ideological crime committed by Israelis demonstrates the enduring systemic failures of the Israeli authorities to enforce the law on Israeli civilians who harm Palestinians and their property in occupied territory.
"The fact that this systemic failure has persisted for at least two decades indicates that this is a deliberate policy of the state of Israel, which normalizes ideological settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, supports it and then reaps the rewards resulting from it."
In another development, the Israeli Cabinet is due to discuss a decision to stop recognizing degrees awarded by Palestinian universities.
Avi Dichter, the Israeli agriculture minister, who previously was chief of the Israeli spy agency Shin Bet, said: "During the studies of Palestinian students from Israel in Palestinian universities, they are exposed to anti-Israel materials and messages, with which they return to the country and pass on to their students."
Sheeran Haskel, a member of the Likud Party, claimed that more than 20 percent of teachers in Arab schools in Israel had graduated from Palestinian universities "after they absorbed the implications of portraying Israel as an enemy."
Thousand of Palestinians who live in Israel study at universities in the West Bank.
Topics: Israeli Palestinians demolitions homes
Israel court again delays ruling on demolition of Bedouin village
Israeli demolition of Bedouin homes in West Bank 'unlawful and heartless,' says UN expert
IAEA chides Iran for undeclared change to Fordow uranium enrichment setup /node/2243061/middle-east
IAEA found the change during an unannounced inspection on Jan. 21 at the Fordow Fuel enrichment Plant
Fordow is so sensitive that the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers banned enrichment there
VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog criticized Iran on Wednesday for making an undeclared change to the interconnection between the two clusters of advanced machines enriching uranium to up to 60 percent purity, close to weapons grade, at its Fordow plant.
The International Atomic Energy Agency found the change during an unannounced inspection on Jan. 21 at the Fordow Fuel enrichment Plant (FFEP), a site dug into a mountain where inspectors are stepping up checks after Iran said it would dramatically expand enrichment.
Fordow is so sensitive that the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers banned enrichment there. Since the United States pulled out of the deal in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions against Iran, the Islamic Republic has breached many of the deal's restrictions on its nuclear activities.
In a confidential report to member states seen by Reuters, the IAEA did not say how the interconnection between the two cascades of IR-6 centrifuges had been changed except that "they were interconnected in a way that was substantially different from the mode of operation declared by Iran (to the IAEA)."
In a public statement summarising that confidential report, the IAEA said its chief Rafael Grossi "is concerned that Iran implemented a substantial change in the design information of FFEP in relation to the production of high-enriched uranium without informing the Agency in advance."
"This is inconsistent with Iran's obligations under its Safeguards Agreement and undermines the Agency's ability to adjust the safeguards approach for FFEP and implement effective safeguards measures at this facility."
The IAEA has had regular access to Fordow to carry out verification activities like inspections and it is in talks with Iran on stepping up those activities, the report said.
"The Agency and Iran have continued their discussions. The Agency has increased the frequency and intensity of its verification activities at FFEP. However, some other safeguards measures are still required and are being discussed with Iran," the report added.
Topics: IAEA Iran uranium
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Information Brochure for JEE Advanced 2017 has been released by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). JEE Advanced 2017 will be conducted on 21st May 2017 (Sunday). The prior condition is candidate should be among the top 2,20,000 (in all category) in JEE Main 2017 entrance exam and he/she should not have appeared JEE Advanced entrance exam earlier. All the details regarding admission and important details you can find in the brochure. JEE Advanced 2017 information brochure contains important details like Exam date, application date, how to fill up the form, eligibility criteria, age limit, entrance exam syllabus, exam centers, rules and regulations in the exam and more. Candidates are advised to read the information brochure carefully before filling up the form.
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Месяцослов — нецерковный календарь, появившийся в России в 1702 году и издававшийся ежегодно с 1708 года. Не путать с месяцесловом. Представлял собой книгу состоящую из 2-х частей. 1-я часть — непосредственно сам календарь. 2-я часть — иногда страницы с описанием солнечных и лунных затмений на предстоящий год и разного рода статьи в зависимости от тематики данного месяцослова.

Часть 1-я

В начале XVIII века дни недели имели иной порядок и обозначались знаками планет, Луны и Солнца: (Н) неделя, (П) понедельник, (В) вторник, (Р) среда, (Ч) четверток, (Т) пяток, (С) суббота. Полные названия дней недели преведены из месяцослова за 1719 год.

Воскресенья тогда не было.

В месяцослове на 1779 год воскресенье уже есть, но оно ещё стоит в начале недели.

В отдельном столбце на определённые дни знаками проставлялись фазы Луны.

Часть 2-я
Месяцословы были разные по тематике. В них печаталось довольно много статей по истории, географии, медицине и др. Были и особенные месяцословы.

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Печатные календари

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Meeting Professional International recently highlighted our work at the 2017 Startup Health Festival in San Francisco in their article "Nimble Planning". When Vice President, Joe Biden became a last-minute keynote speaker at this "go-to" event for healthcare innovators in January, expected attendance was already well over 2016's numbers despite the fact that we were hosting the second festival in the same venue we used in 2016. Limited capacity, double the crowd – how did we do it?


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Minister talks to poultry industry as another suspect case of Avian Flu detected
Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has briefed a range of key stakeholders from both the NI and GB poultry sectors following the detection of another suspect case of notifiable Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in County Londonderry over the weekend.
By Edwin Poots MLA
Lagan Valley
The suspect case is a broiler breeder flock consisting of approximately 28,000 birds in Ballinderry. The Minister also told stakeholders that the two previous suspect cases in a commercial poultry flock near Markethill, County Armagh and a commercial duck flock in Coagh, County Tyrone were confirmed as positive for HPAI H5N1 following results from the National Reference Laboratory. This takes Northern Ireland's number of confirmed outbreaks so far to four, with one suspected, awaiting confirmation.
Speaking after the meeting with a wide range of key stakeholders from the poultry industry including producers, transporters and feed companies, the Minister said: "Unfortunately, over the weekend, we have detected one more possible incursion of HPAI H5N1 in a commercial flock in County Londonderry.
"There is no doubt that this is a very difficult time for the poultry industry as they try to prevent an outbreak in their own flock and I do not underestimate how stressful it is, to be so vigilant every hour, of every day. But I can assure you, suffering an outbreak and facing the cull of your flock is even more devastating and I urged the poultry industry to take further steps to assist farm families and business to take every precaution possible to protect their birds and their livelihoods.
"Right across Europe and the UK, we are seeing this strain of Avian Influenza wipe out small backyard keepers with one or two birds, to large commercial businesses with over 500,000 birds.
"It's extremely disappointing that this is now the worst outbreak ever across the UK and yet another stark reminder of the importance of excellent biosecurity measures which ultimately, are the only protection we have in preventing Avian Influenza getting into our housed flocks. This is a particularly persistent strain and it will use any lapse in biosecurity to gain access to a flock. Everyone must not only use our biosecurity checklist to see if they've ticked all the boxes, but get into a routine of checking it every morning. Make sure there are no forgotten or damaged access points and review your procedures every day to reduce the risk.
"I would like to thank the poultry sector for working so hard to protect our valuable industry and for how willing they are to make significant sacrifices to minimise the spread of this outbreak."
The self-assessment biosecurity tool can be found: Biosecurity self-assessment tool | Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (daera-ni.gov.uk)
As a precautionary measure following initial laboratory results, appropriate disease control measures have been introduced including the humane culling of the affected birds (approx. 28,000) and the introduction of a Temporary Control Zone (TCZs), to mitigate for onward disease spread. Samples have been sent to the National Reference Laboratory to confirm strain and pathogenicity. Should HPAI be confirmed, these TCZs will be revoked and a 3 km Protection Zone (PZ) and 10 km Surveillance Zone (SZ) established around the infected premises.
The Minister also thanked his staff for their work over the last few weeks: "I would like to extend my thanks to the veterinary, technical, policy and comms staff within my Department as well as those in AFBI, PHA and FSA who are working together night and day to advise our poultry industry and help contain this outbreak. Many will be giving up family time over the Christmas period. I would particularly like to thank the veterinary and technical teams on the ground who are undertaking the culls – it is a very difficult job, both physically and emotionally and I appreciate the very important task you are doing."
Full details of the scope and measures required within the TCZs are included in the declaration, which will be published imminently online and available to view on the DAERA webpage at the following link: Disease Control Zone Declarations | Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (daera-ni.gov.uk)


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49ers training camp 2018: Top 5 takeaways from Aug. 5 practice
Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports
By Peter Panacy follow
The San Francisco 49ers wrapped up their ninth day of training camp practice Sunday and are now gearing up for their first preseason contest this week. Amid some notable injuries, here are some top takeaways from the day's session.
The injury bug has officially bit the San Francisco 49ers, and Sunday's training camp session further reinforced that problem.
Cornerback Richard Sherman, who exited practice early last Friday with a hamstring issue, was later diagnosed with a Grade 1 hamstring strain. Head coach Kyle Shanahan later indicated that the Niners will hold Sherman out for at least a week, meaning he'll miss the team's preseason opener this Thursday against the Dallas Cowboys.
The 49ers were easing Sherman back into practices anyway, following him being cleared from his 2017 Achilles injury. And while this is a setback, it doesn't appear as if the Niners are overly worried about his availability come Week 1.
Yet San Francisco also lost starting nickel cornerback K'Waun Williams, who appeared to roll his ankle during Sunday's practice and had to be helped off the field. In his place, the Niners gave rookie corner D.J. Reed some extra reps.
Meanwhile, offensive guard Joshua Garnett (knee) continued to be absent from practice. On the positive, Garnett's knee won't need surgery after he banged it against another teammate three days into training camp. But with Garnett locked into a key battle with Jonathan Cooper for the starting right guard spot, it's safe to say the third-year pro needs all the reps he can get between now and the regular season.
Here are the top five takeaways from 49ers training camp, Aug. 5.
Cornerback Depth Will Be a Major Test
Outside Sherman, Williams and Jimmie Ward, who is dealing with a minor hamstring issue, the Niners' depth at cornerback is pretty untested. Second-year cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon is poised to be the team's No. 2 corner opposite Sherman, which is fine. But behind this group, the 49ers primarily have a makeup of first-year defensive backs.
Reed getting some extra reps should help and increase the 2018 fifth-round NFL Draft pick's stock ahead of the regular season. And yet the injuries also mean a lot to other cornerbacks, such as Tarvarius Moore and Tarvarus McFadden.
McFadden, an undrafted rookie, experienced a number of one-on-one losses on Sunday but finished strong with a diving interception off a deflected pass from quarterback C.J. Beathard.
If both Sherman's and Williams' injuries and recovery drag on, the chances for players like Reed and McFadden to make the roster increase significantly.
Jonathan Cooper Is Winning the Battle for Right Guard
Speaking of that injury to Garnett, Cooper managed to see his first 11-on-11 drills during training camp today. Cooper, who was just cleared following an offseason MCL surgery, has done a lot of individual work throughout camp so far. But Sunday's session marked the first time he saw full-team drills.
While Cooper has dealt with serious injuries over his entire career, unlike Garnett, who was primarily a power blocker at Stanford, Cooper does possess the movement skills head coach Kyle Shanahan prizes for his outside-zone blocking scheme.
And as long as Garnett remains out, the chances of Cooper taking over starting duties increase dramatically.
Wide Receiver Trent Taylor Looks Fine
Second-year wideout Trent Taylor also saw his first 11-on-11 drills Sunday after a minor offseason back procedure and starting camp on the PUP list. While he had been working on a number of one-on-one drills earlier in camp after being cleared, the sight of him in full team sessions is a good one.
And it doesn't appear as if he's showing any signs of stiffness either (h/t Niners Wire's Rob Lowder):
#49ersCamp 1-on-1s: Trent Taylor with an impressive whip route against D.J. Reed. #49ers pic.twitter.com/82xFpEtVUe
— Rob Lowder (@Rob_Lowder) August 5, 2018
Taylor finished with 19 third-down receptions for a first-down last season -- tied for ninth most in the NFL and also tied for first among rookies (Cooper Kupp). He was also Pro Football Focus' top-rated receiver on slant routes his rookie season.
He had a nice individual drill in this category too.
Dante Pettis Continues to Shine... Again
It seems like a nearly daily training camp statement, but rookie wide receiver Dante Pettis remains arguably the team's best pass catcher.
Such was the case again during Sunday's session, as Pettis' exceptional route-running skills made him a nearly impossible cover for Niners defensive backs.
It looked like everybody had a tough time covering Dante Pettis today. He is legit. #49ersCamp
— Dylan DeSimone (@DylanADeSimone) August 5, 2018
The 49ers still aren't practicing a lot of press coverage, which could be the biggest weakness the relatively smallish Pettis will have to overcome this season. And it will be interesting to see how Pettis matches up against some of the bigger, more experienced corners he'll have to face on game day.
For now, however, Pettis' stock continues to soar.
George Kittle Is Primed for a Breakout Season
A year ago, then-rookie tight end George Kittle ended up setting records, and for all the right reasons. His 43 receptions for 515 yards were the most out of any tight end, drafted in Round 5 or later, during the modern football era. And considering a good chunk of those stats came with quarterbacks Beathard and Brian Hoyer, one can only think how those numbers could see a big spike with Jimmy Garoppolo under center.
Kittle has been putting in the extra work, too, staying after practice today to work with Garoppolo and the rest of San Francisco's tight ends.
But the biggest difference might be the level of maturation Kittle now has after his first year at the pro level.
"My head doesn't feel like it's going to explode every single play," Kittle told reporters after Sunday's practice. "It's more of a reaction, not thinking which, in football, is everything. If you have to think, you're already kind of losing. Once you already know, you hear it and it clicks. ... Now you can read the defense and say, 'hey, I can release like this' to help my guy get open."
Related side note, Sports Illustrated's Michael Beller called out Kittle as the tight end to watch in fantasy football this upcoming season.
That's important. And when looking back at how Garoppolo and Kittle connected five times on Aug. 3, including a 25-yard touchdown during the team's red-zone period, one can see how Kittle is primed to have a massive campaign in 2018.
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L. Woullard walked (3-1 BBBKB).
Jake Mason walked (3-0 BBBB); L. Woullard advanced to second.
Brandon Hale walked (3-0 BBBB).
B. Blaylock singled up the middle (3-2 BBKBSFF).
Will Brooks singled up the middle (0-0); B. Blaylock advanced to second.
Will Brooks stole second; B. Blaylock stole third.
Hunter White singled to center field, 2 RBI (1-0 B); Will Brooks scored; B. Blaylock scored.
Robbie Woody walked (3-1 BKBBB).
Justin Milam walked (3-1 BBBKB).
Leatherwood singled to left field, RBI, advanced to second on an error by lf, advanced to third on the error (1-0 B); Justin Milam scored.
B. Van Cleve hit by pitch (2-1 BBK).
B. Blaylock singled to right center, RBI; B. Van Cleve advanced to second; Leatherwood scored, unearned.
L. Woullard tripled to left field.
L. Woullard scored on a wild pitch.
Luke Hudson walked (3-2 BSBBSB).
Brandon Hale doubled to left field, RBI (3-2 BKBSB); Luke Hudson scored.
H. Harris walked (3-0 BBBB).
N. Harrison to p for Ian Hawkins.
H. Harris advanced to second on a wild pitch; Brandon Hale advanced to third on a wild pitch.
S. Matthews walked (3-1 BBKBB).
Robbie Woody reached on a fielder's choice to pitcher (0-0); S. Matthews advanced to second on the error; H. Harris scored on the error, unearned; Brandon Hale scored on an error by p, unearned.
R.J. Brown singled to third base, 2 RBI (1-2 BFKF); Robbie Woody scored, unearned; S. Matthews scored, unearned.
L. Woullard doubled to right center (1-1 BF).
Luke Hudson singled through the right side, RBI (0-1 F); L. Woullard scored.
D. Dailey doubled down the lf line (1-0 B).
M. Morgan to 1b for Jake Mason.
S. Sasser to c for H. Harris.
Will Freeman to p for Jay Simpson.
Hunter White walked (3-2 BBBKKB).
D. Dailey singled to third base (2-1 BBK).
D. Dailey advanced to second on a wild pitch; Hunter White scored on a wild pitch, unearned.


Week 2 was "Clubs and Societies (CNS) Week", whereby club booths were set up by students of their respective clubs with the intention of signing up new recruits. Such booths were mainly found at the foyer as well as the walkway leading towards the old cafeteria (behind the library).
The environment and vibe of CNS week definitely helped with the typical Monday Blues.
Life was happening all around campus as students scrambled to secure a slot within their desired clubs and societies.
Taekwondo 101: How to shoulder roll.
When it's CNS week, you can definitely expect performances.
The performances that garnered huge attention amongst the student body were from Cheerleading, Music and Monash Street Dance (check out their cover of EXO's Love Shot!).
Some clubs emphasized on the decorations of their booths.
One fine example was the Christian Fellowship club. Their decorations were so legit that I felt I was at a café instead of a booth when my friend and I were enquiring.
Look at those fairy lights!
Most of the students generally enjoyed CNS week and its performances, giving it a huge thumbs up.
"I think CNS week is a good opportunity not just to promote your clubs but showcase your talent. The performances really send off a strong statement about us Monash-ians, that we aren't just bookworms but are talented in our own ways." – Ashley, a sophomore commented.
However, a few felt mildly disturbed by the volume overspill from the performances due to its location right in-front of the library.
In case you were trapped under a rock and missed out on CNS week, you can still join the clubs you're interested in.
Contact the respective club heads and committee or head on over to their social media pages to find out more!
Photos by: Derrick Ser, Joseph Ma, Nadiah Azra, Izyan Iman, Soon Ying Ze.


RV Remodel Day 1! The back bedroom and flooring. Before and after photos are at the bottom of this post!
I love to remodel. This RV is a blank canvas for me. With only 8 days before we depart, we have a lot to do.
Now, I realize that none of these changes are necessary. However, if I am going to live in this for 2 weeks, I want to feel like it's mine. Plus, it's just fun to do. With every design choice, I think of resale and what others will like as well. Also, important to think about, is that this is a moving home. Every design choice must be light, flexible, and stable.
Remove queen bed and build two twin beds and a closet.
First thing is to clean it from top to bottom. Although, the previous owners took good care of it, it had been parked and the weather had got her a bit grimy. Friends helped us scrub from the roof down.
After the scrub down, we set out to tackle the back bedroom. We demoed the bed and cabinet to reach the floor for its new flooring and to build the new layout and storage.
The reason we removed the queen bed was because this room originally was a bunk bed room. The people we purchased it from converted it into a queen bed. They ran the bed horizontally. It was a pretty tight squeeze to try to walk around and it minimized the storage that I wanted. Also, it meant you have to share a bed back there. I wanted twin beds so that I could put storage under, have a good size walkway, and a large closet in between. I was able to add a shelf over both beds for more storage. Having twin beds also means that we aren't locked into ever having to share that bed. So if my husband and his friends and their sons wanted to go on a guy trip, they had better living arrangements.
As a major plus, the people before us also put up wainscoting. It really makes the room feel like a beach cottage!
This is what we had to demo out.
After demo, we started the floors. We used peel and stick faux wood floors that we bought from Home Depot. This stuff was super easy! This job went much faster than my husband expected it to go, to his relief. The only tool needed was a knife to cut around corners and cut some pieces to length. Even my little guy joined in on the job.
As you can see, on the right side is where some of the mechanics are for the RV. So we had to keep that box. It fits a twin bed perfectly. So all we had to do was build a box on the left side. We used wood and a pipe for one leg. We left the space underneath open for storage bins.
Here is what the before and after of the floor looks like.
Once the flooring was laid, we were able to begin construction on the bed and closet.
Here is the new twin bed! We built a wooden frame., placed what is called a bunkie board on that, and bought some new mattresses.
We built a simple shelf and used a wooden dowel to keep the bins in place. Unlike building things for a house, in an RV, I had to keep in mind things are moving. Remember to keep everything stable. Not only will this prevent things from falling, but it will also minimize rattling sounds as you drive down the road. That can get super annoying!
My husband also built this closet. My plan is to fold pants, shorts, underclothing, etc into the bins. I want a closet to hang all shirts , sweat shirts and for me dresses. Here is a tip! Use the felt covered hangers. As a result, while driving clothes wont slip off!
That is a ton of change already!
Finally, the before and after of back bedroom. More in the next post!


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Between Verses
Poet and literary scholar Maureen McLane, PhD'97, explores the hybrid spaces in writing.
by Lydialyle Gibson
McLane's published poetry often begins with jottings in her notebooks.
Read McLane's poetry in the University of Chicago Magazine
It's hard to get a simple answer out of Maureen McLane. Mostly it seems like there aren't any—and that's the way she likes it. A poet and professor at New York University since 2008, McLane, PhD'97, inhabits the in-between: the hybrid spaces that mix poetry and prose, past and present, lyric and narrative, the cosmic and the terrestrial. McLane's poetry is infused with her literary scholarship (much, but not all of it, on the romantics), and her essays are infused with poetry. There is an echo of formalism in her free verse. And her formal poems sometimes seem ready to break free from their harnesses.
Perhaps the book most emblematic of McLane's work as a whole is a 2012 collection of autobiographical essays called My Poets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). A finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, My Poets is disarming, luminous, and piercing; it feels at once experimental and old fashioned. Interspersing her own prose with lines from poets canonical and contemporary—Shelley, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Bishop, Louise Glück, Fanny Howe, Frederick Seidel, Anne Carson—My Poets stitches together memoir and poetic criticism, charting McLane's reading life from young adulthood onward as it coincided with her private life: friends made and lost, a marriage that fell apart, new romance, college, graduate school, adulthood.
Tucked between chapters are two centos, poems made up entirely of lines borrowed from other poems; the centos offer their own summations of an intermingled life and library. An abecedary midway through the book presents a songlike alphabetical catalog of what she calls "My Translated," works in translation that have been meaningful and important to her: Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, Dorothy Sayers's Dante, David Grene's Sophocles, David Hinton's Wang Wei. Explaining how My Poets came together, McLane returns to the idea of the hybrid: she's always been interested, she says, in writing that disrupts traditional concepts of genre. "I was thinking about poets who have mattered a lot to me and when and how they came into my life, and that snowballed."
McLane grew up in a middle-class suburb of Syracuse, New York, the oldest of three children in a house full of books and music. "It was a very church-home-school kind of life," she says. "Which had its pleasures and securities and also its limitations." McLane took piano lessons and played the organ ("very badly," she claims) at two churches; she sang in community and school choral groups and still sings. She went to Harvard for college, where she studied poetry with the famous critic Helen Vendler and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. In the early 1990s she came to the University of Chicago to study English and American literature and wrote a dissertation that became her first scholarly book: Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species (Cambridge University Press, 2000). In graduate school and afterward, she wrote book reviews for the Chicago Tribune and later the Boston Review and the New York Times.
After nearly ten years as a teaching fellow and lecturer at Harvard, McLane joined the English Department at NYU, where she teaches poetry and romantic literature to undergraduates and leads graduate students through their "boot camp" seminar on literary studies. In 2008 she published Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge). She spent early 2014 on a London sabbatical with NYU classicist Laura Slatkin, with whom she is working on a new book. Tentatively titled "British Romantic Homer," it will examine how Homer's poetry was received in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England and Scotland. "Was he a national poet?" McLane asks. "Was he an illiterate bard?" Romantic poets' conceptions of Homer, she says, illuminate their thinking about the poetry of their own period as well as their ideas about ancient poetry.
Somewhere along the way, McLane herself became a poet. If you ask her when and how, the answer is complicated. "Keats says a poet is the most unpoetical thing in existence, and I think that's a useful thing to sit with," McLane says. "I could say that I always felt that I reverberated in a certain way to language and rhythm, and that was for me and probably for a lot of people the necessary predisposition to becoming a poet." She wrote poems as an adolescent, but even before then she was composing, experimenting, putting one word next to another.
On the other hand, even now—with her third book of poems, This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), in bookstores as of April 2014—she resists the label of poet. Some people have ready answers for when they crossed that threshold and became poets, fully realized, full stop. She could too, she says, but she believes that's not how poetry writing works. Instead, she says, even after one becomes a poet, "it's always a horizon, an always receding horizon."
Over the years, McLane's poetry writing has crystallized into a process that's "messy," she says, but more or less systematic. "I acquire poems like the British acquired an empire, in a fit of unconsciousness," she jokes. McLane keeps a series of notebooks, in which she records stray thoughts and images, snatches of overheard conversations, quotes from her reading, lists of books read or to be read, and the beginnings of lines and stanzas. After a notebook has gestated for a few months, she returns to it, to mine out the shards of what will become a poem.
All three of her poetry collections were written this way. The most recent, This Blue, meditates often on the idea of time and finitude, and on a world that remains ancient even as it's made new, forever broken and also full of fresh possibilities. Poetry itself is a bit like that: proliferating in unexpected directions but always rooted to the same source, new poems perpetually in conversation with the poetry that came before, like the British romantics deciphering Homer. As she writes in "A Situation," the poem that opens This Blue,
Take it up Old Adam—
every day the world exists
to be named.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JASON SMITH
Published: Spring 2014
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