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One of several fine houses in the Cathedral Close surrounding Salisbury Cathedral, Mompesson House is a Queen Anne period townhouse dating from 1701. It is elegant like a stately home but on a much more personal scale.
The identity of the architect who designed Mompesson House is unknown. It has been speculated that the house was designed by Sir Christopher Wren but it also could have been done by a member of the Fort family, well-known masons in 18th century Salisbury. In any case, the main section of the house made of gray limestone has a classical balance of proportion. On either side are red brick wings, which are now separate properties.
Over the centuries, Mompesson was occupied by several prosperous families. They were not at the top of the social ladder but were quite comfortable - - think in terms of the people that Jane Austen wrote about in her novels. Indeed, the house was used as a set for a movie adaptation of Sense and Sensibility in 1995.
The present house was built for Charles Mompesson, Member of Parliament for Old Sarum, a notorious rotten borough with an electorate of only 10. His father, who had also been an MP, had inherited the leasehold on the property where the house now stands from his father. The land itself belonged to the Dean and Cathedral Chapter.
Upon Charles death, the leasehold passed to his wife, Elizabeth Mompesson, who bestowed it on her brother Charles Longueville. In about 1740, he added the fireplaces, the center staircase and the large drawing room for entertaining on a large scale. He also added a brick wing to contain new kitchens and extra servants' accommodations.
A bachelor who never married, Charles has been portrayed as a lonely and unworldly bibliophile. However, his dying wish was that his natural son John Clark should have the use of the house for his lifetime. Charles' next-of-kin, Elizabeth Mompesson decided to honor this wish.
Although Charles' wish was honored, John Clark did not occupy Mompesson House for long. In her will, Elizabeth Mompesson gave her friends the Hayter family the reservation rights to the leasehold. When she died the Hayters bought out Mr. Clark's life interest and lived in the house for two generations. They were followed in around 1800 by the three Portman sisters.
In 1846, Mompesson House became the home of local solicitor George Barnard Townsend and his family. One of his daughters, Barbara Townsend, lived at Mompesson for 95 years until her death in 1939. She distinguished herself as an artist and was often seen in her huge hat with an easel painting scenes in the Cathedral Close. Some of her works are on display in the house.
After World War II, Mompesson became the residence of the Bishop of Salisbury. However, the house was found to be unsuited for this task and it was sold in 1952 to London architect Denis Martineau.
Mr. Martineau donated the property to the National Trust but took responsibility for its upkeep so long as he lived there. To this end, he carried out extensive repairs to both the exterior and interior of the house. Following his death in 1976, the National Trust undertook a renovation of the main rooms.
With the exception of one room that remains in the style Mr. Martineau created, the house is decorated as it would have been in the 18th century. The house did not come to the National Trust with its contents so most of the furniture and artwork comes from the National Trust's collection or is on loan from other collections.
Nonetheless, the pieces merge into a whole and one can imagine Jane Austen's characters living here.
Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of the house is the decorative stucco work that adorns some of the main rooms. This dates from 1740 when Charles Longueville owned the house. No one knows the name of the artist who created these designs. Such work was very popular then and there were many Italian and British artists working in this medium.
Visitors take self-guided tours of the house. There are informational leaflets in the various rooms pointing out some of the noteworthy contents and often discussing how the room was used in Miss Townsend's time. In addition, National Trust volunteers are there to answer questions and talk about the house.
The garden at the rear of the house is small but pleasant. Its basic layout was designed by Mr. Martineau. The National Trust has created a tea room in one of the out buildings adjoining the garden and in good weather you can dine al fresco.
For more information on Mompesson House including opening times, see the National Trust website
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Q: Jni C++ findclass function return null I found a problem with jni about C calling Java code.
Environment WIN10 JDK1.8
Currently I need C++ code to call Java code. At first I wrote a demothat was successful. Code show as below:
public class Sample2 {
    public String name;
    public static String sayHello(String name) {
        return "Hello, " + name + "!";
    }
    public String sayHello() {
        return "Hello, " + name + "!";
    }
}

Some of the C++ code is as follows:
int main(){
    printf("hello world");
    JavaVMOption options[3];
    JNIEnv* env;
    JavaVM* jvm;
    JavaVMInitArgs vm_args;

    long status;
    jclass cls;
    jmethodID mid;
    jfieldID fid;
    jobject obj;
    char opt1[] = "-Djava.compiler=NONE";
    char opt2[] = "-Djava.class.path=.";
    char opt3[] = "-verbose:NONE";
    options[0].optionString = opt1; options[0].extraInfo = NULL;
    options[1].optionString = opt2; options[1].extraInfo = NULL;
    options[2].optionString = opt3; options[2].extraInfo = NULL;
    memset(&vm_args, 0, sizeof(vm_args));
    vm_args.version = JNI_VERSION_1_8;
    vm_args.nOptions = 1;
    vm_args.options = options;
    vm_args.ignoreUnrecognized = 0;

    // 启动虚拟机
    status = JNI_CreateJavaVM(&jvm, (void**)& env, &vm_args);

    if (status != JNI_ERR){
        // 先获得class对象
        cls = env->FindClass("Sample2");
    }
}

I used Eclipse to compile the Java code into a .class file, copy the .class file into my C++ project, the above DEMO C++ call Java function is successful, and the findclass function returns to normal.
Because I have to introduce a third-party JAR package org.eclipse.paho.client.mqttv3-1.2.0.jar in my own Java, based on the above example, I modified the Java code in DEMO, but when I want to reference the JAR package function, And then run successfully in Eclipse, when I copy the .class file to the C++ project. JNI_CreateJavaVM in the C++ code is returned successfully, but FINDCLASS always returns null, I don't know why. I have not changed the other parts code.
Some Java code:
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
import org.eclipse.paho.client.mqttv3.*;
import org.eclipse.paho.client.mqttv3.persist.MemoryPersistence;

public class Sample2 {
    public String name;
    static MqttAsyncClient mqttClient = null;

    static String username = "xxx";
    static String password = "xxx";
    static String broker = "xxx";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        System.out.print("hello");
    }

    public static void start() {
        String clientId = "mqttserver" + String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis());

        try {
            mqttClient = new MqttAsyncClient(broker, clientId, new MemoryPersistence());

        } catch (Exception me) {
            me.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

When in start function is added
mqttClient = new MqttAsyncClient(broker, clientId, new MemoryPersistence()); After the code, there will be problems

A: Take a look here
char opt1[] = "-Djava.compiler=NONE";
char opt2[] = "-Djava.class.path=.";
char opt3[] = "-verbose:NONE";
options[0].optionString = opt1; options[0].extraInfo = NULL;
options[1].optionString = opt2; options[1].extraInfo = NULL;
options[2].optionString = opt3; options[2].extraInfo = NULL;
memset(&vm_args, 0, sizeof(vm_args));
vm_args.version = JNI_VERSION_1_8;
vm_args.nOptions = 1;

You are passing three options (array of options with three options defined) but then, you say something like this
vm_args.nOptions = 1;

which means you are passing just one option. It means your options
char opt2[] = "-Djava.class.path=.";
char opt3[] = "-verbose:NONE";

are not even read. You have to change your code to
 vm_args.nOptions = 3;

Also, make sure to put on java.class.path all the JARs, folders, where classes required by your code are.

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Ulrich Erben (born 26 March 1940 in Düsseldorf) is a German painter. From 1980 to 2005, he was a Professor of Painting at the Kunstakademie Münster (University of Fine Arts Münster). He is known as a master of the color field style of abstract painting, closely related to abstract expressionism, in which he creates tension between a defined surface structure, his own method of applying paint to a canvas, and the relationship of various shades of white or color to each other in their placement as part of a composition on the flat plane of a canvas. In 1986 and 2008, he was awarded the Konrad-von-Soest Prize for Visual Arts by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Landscape Society Westphalia-Lippe).

Life and work
Ulrich Erben spent his youth on the Lower Rhine and in Rome, where his family moved in 1956. From 1958 to 1965, he studied painting, graphic techniques, fresco painting and drawing at art academies in Hamburg, Urbino, Venice, Munich and Berlin. Starting his career with landscapes and still lifes, his paintings increasingly used geometric forms. During this period he divided his time between Italy and his homeland on the Lower Rhine, interrupted by a longer stay in Paris in 1963.

In 1966, Erben married the writer Ingrid Bachér and returned to the lower Rhine. In 1967, he took his first sojourn in the United States, where, in an intensive personal confrontation with landscape and architecture and their mythological meaning, he reduced the use of forms and colors in his works. Already in these early years of his career, "the landscape as bearer of memory turns into a central category of Erben's art."

1968–1977
In 1968, Erben created his first "weiße Bilder" ("white paintings"). They are defined by a white zone in the center of the painting, which is distinct from the matte background, which is a dimmer white background. In this process Erben developed his primary theme of the reciprocal as understood in relationship to objectless and simple form-areas. He was interested particularly in the boundaries of connections; in the formation of space without perspective; and in the underlayment of white and, later, colored surfaces with paint layers of barely perceptible varying tonality.

In 1972, Erben began his "weiße Bilder" period of white-on-white paintings, in which he engages with manipulated light effects to create light objects (Lichtobjekts) and murals. He showed his first light object installation, Lichtraum (Halogenobjekt) (Light space: Halogen object) in the "Szene Rhein Ruhr '72" exhibition at the Grugapark in Essen, organized by Dieter Honisch of the Museum Folkwang. There he hung an unpainted canvas behind a wall of stretched gauze and illuminated it with a halogen light from the front and the back sides, thus producing the illusion of an actual painting.

In 1975, Erben moved to Düsseldorf, where he is a neighbor of the artist Günther Uecker, without relinquishing his house in Goch on the lower Rhine. In the further development of his "weiße Bilder", the first colored, almost monochrome, works emerged in 1977, and were exhibited at documenta 6 in Kassel.

1978–2014
In 1978, Erben's paintings changed dramatically. He now joined pure colors and irregular forms on his canvases in a single painting process; he used it to create the "prima-vista" series, as well as paintings on bounded and unbounded space, "Interieurs" and "Exterieurs". Yet here as well the "relationship of tension between painterly autonomy and formal order" is a determining principle. From 1979 on, Erben has also created large spatial works, which consist of individual, serially arranged sheets of paper. The transformation of real space through painting repeatedly became the subject of his work.

In 1980 Erben was appointed professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Münster Division (later Kunstakademie Münster). He has been a professor emeritus there since 2005.

In 1988 Erben returned to stricter geometrical image partitions in his works, which display a clear connection to the early "weiße Bilder". In this changed painting technique using acrylic and pigments, a series of paintings arose that Erben calls "Farben der Erinnerung" ("Colors of Memory"): paintings whose colors mutually intensify one another into a luminous appearance that balances harmony and  disharmony. A comparable, but even more enhanced, space and light effect is developed in the work group "Siria" from 2009 to 2010, which harkens back to a journey he made in 2007 through the desert landscapes of Syria.

In 1992, Erben became a member of the Visual Arts Section of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. On the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Shiga Museum of Modern Art in Osaka, he took a study trip to Japan.

Since 1993, Erben has been creating site-specific wall arrangements in public buildings in Hannover, Essen, Stuttgart and Berlin, among others. He also has wall paintings or installations for temporarily conceived spaces in museums or in the context of exhibition projects.

Since 1988, he has also been using oil paint, initially for more representational small-format paintings, with echoes of Italian landscape motifs, under the theme "was ich sehe" ("what I see"). He began using oil paint for large-format, multi-panel paintings, and is increasingly taking up earlier themes and interpreting them anew.

Subsequent to the "Siria" work group, Erben's paintings from 2010 on show a greater variety of geometric forms and their arrangements. As of 2014, through muted color transitions, Erben brings immaterial movement and simultaneously luminous quietude into his paintings, which are designated by the collective title "Festlegung des Unbegrenzten" ["Fixing of the Unbounded"].

Ulrich Erben lives and works in Düsseldorf, Goch, and Bagnoregio (Italy).

Awards
 1974: Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für Bildende Kunst
 1986: Konrad-von-Soest-Preis
 2003: Otto-Ritschel-Preis

Works in public space (public art)
 1988 Kleve: Klever Raum. Museum Haus Koekkoek
 1990 Rome: Underground station Piazza Bologna
 1994 Hannover: Niedersächsischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband
 2001 Berlin: Jakob-Kaiser-Haus (Dorotheenblöcke)
 2002 Berlin: DSGV, Zentrale des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes (Sparkassenhaus)
 2008 Freiburg: Zentrum für Biosystemanalyse, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
 2012 Bochum: Neues Gymnasium

Works in public collections (selection)
 Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart und Berlin: Membran II. 1995. Acrylic and pigments on canvas. 250 x 210 cm (98.4 x 82.7").
 Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen: Untitled. 1975. Oil on canvas. 120 x 100 cm (47.2 x 39.4"). Inv. No.: 1564–2014/12
 LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster (former Westf. Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kultur): Balance. 1989. Acrylic and pigments on canvas. 170 x 200 cm (66.9 x 78.7")
 Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf: Dux, böhmisch. 1994. Acrylic and pigments on canvas. 195 x 145 cm (76.8 x 57.1")
 Museum Kurhaus, Kleve: prima vista (grau). 1995. Oil on Canvas. 190 x 150 cm (74.8 x 59.1")
 Pinakothek der Moderne, München: Untitled (1074 1274-I). Oil on canvas. 130 x 200 cm (51.2 x 78.7"). Inv. No. 14419
 Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn: Untitled. 1973. Oil on canvas. 190 x 150 cm (74.8 x 50.1")
 Schauwerk Sindelfingen: Vertical Continuum (ditych). Acrylic and pigments on canvas. 215 x 150 cm (84.7 x 59.1") each.
 Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal: Metamorphosen. 2004. Acrylic and pigments on canvas. 270 x 190 cm (106.3 x 74.8")

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions
 1971 Galerie m, Bochum
 1972 Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
 1978 Städtisches Museum Haus Koekoek, Kleve: Ulrich Erben – Felder und Räume
 1979 Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich: Atelier I – Ulrich Erben
 1981 Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel: Ulrich Erben – Felder und Räume, Bilder-Collagen-Zeichnungen
 1981 Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen: Ulrich Erben – Felder und Räume, Bilder-Collagen-Zeichnungen
 1983 Padiglione d'arte contemporanea, Parco Massari, Ferrara / Italy: Ulrich Erben – Il colore come presenza
 1984 Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim: Ulrich Erben – Elementare Malerei
 1990 Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf: Ulrich Erben – Das Purpurrot der Worte, Farben der Erinnerung
 1992 Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster: Weiss ist Farbe – Ulrich Erben, Bilder 1968–1978
 1992 Shiga Museum of Modern Art, Osaka / Japan: Ulrich Erben – Freiheit der Farbe
 2002 Museum Kurhaus, Kleve: Ulrich Erben – Was ich sehe, Bilder aus Italien
 2003 Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden: Ulrich Erben – Träger des Otto Ritschel Preises
 2003/2004 Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Cottbus: Ulrich Erben – Was ich sehe, Bilder aus Italien
 2005 Museum DKM, Duisburg: Der stille Raum
 2010 Museum Kurhaus, Kleve: Ulrich Erben – Siria, Erscheinung und Bewegung
 2011/2012 MKM Museum Küppersmühle für moderne Kunst, Duisburg: Ulrich Erben – Lust und Kalkül
 2016 Museum Goch, Goch: Ulrich Erben – Zeiten
 2018 Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum: Die Intimität des Sehens – Lichtbilder von Ulrich Erben
 2019 Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop: Ulrich Erben – Festlegung des Unbegrenzten

Group exhibitions
1973 Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf: Prospect 73 – Maler, Painters, Peintres

1977 Documenta 6, Kassel

1982 Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin: Hommage à Barnett Newman

1985/1986 Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin: Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 1945 –1985

Related literature / exhibition catalogues
 Ulrich Erben – Felder und Räume, Bilder-Collagen-Zeichnungen, catalog to the exhibition in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 25 Jan. – 22 Mar. 1981; in the Braunschweiger Kunstverein, 10 Apr. – 31 May 1981; and in the Kunsthalle Tübingen, 11 Jul. – 16 Aug. 1981, Kiel 1981
 Ulrich Erben – Elementare Malerei, catalog to the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Mannheim, 07 Apr. – 20 May 1984
 Dieter Honisch (Preface): Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 1945–1985, Nationalgalerie. Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Verlag Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1985, .
 Ulrich Erben – Das Purpurrot der Worte, Farben der Erinnerung, catalog to the exhibition in the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 19 May – 08 Jul. 1990, Düsseldorf 1990, .
 Weiss ist Farbe – Ulrich Erben, Bilder 1968–1978, catalog to the exhibition in the Westfälisches Landesmuseum, für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, 05 Apr. – 24 May 1992, Karl Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 1992, .
 Ulrich Erben – Was ich sehe, Bilder aus Italien 1998–2001, catalog to the exhibition in the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 21 Apr. – 21 Mar. 2004; in the Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, 19 Jan. – 23. Mar. 2003; and in the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, 20 Nov. 2004 – 21 Mar. 2005, Kleve 2002, .
 Ulrich Erben – Träger des Otto Ritschel Preises 2003, catalog to the exhibition in the Museum Wiesbaden, 23 Nov. 2003 – 21 Mar. 2004, ed. Hanne Dannenberger and Volker Rattemeyer, Wiesbaden 2003, .
 Ulrich Erben, ed. galeria studio G7 die Ginevra grigolo, Damiani Editore, Bologna 2010, .
 Ulrich Erben – Lust und Kalkül, catalog to the exhibition in the MKM Museum für Moderne Kunst Duisburg, 28 Oct. 2011 – 29 Jan. 2012, ed. Walter Smerling and Eva Müller-Remmert, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2011, .
 Ulrich Erben – Festlegung des Unbegrenzten, catalog to the exhibition in the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, ed. Heinz Liesbrock, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne 2019,

References

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Living people
1940 births
German contemporary artists
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
21st-century German painters
21st-century German male artists
German male painters

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val some_fun : ?opt:a -> b -> c.
My implementation does not need the optional parameter opt.
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Is there an elegant solution (other than [@@@ocaml.warning "-27"]) ?
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In addition to his NATO responsibilities, Jamie Shea also holds a number of academic positions, most notably with the Collège d'Europe, Bruges, and the Brussels School of International Studies of the University of Kent, Canterbury.
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Kremlin Rejects Accusations it Was Behind Poisoning of Russian Opposition Leader
By NDT Bureau September 4, 2020 September 4, 2020
The Kremlin rejected accusations it was behind the sudden illness of a leading Russian opposition politician, one day after a highly anticipated German investigation concluded Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny had been poisoned by a Soviet-produced military grade nerve agent.
The German investigation, whose findings were announced Wednesday by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, concluded Navalny was recovering in a Berlin hospital from "Novichok," a Soviet-era toxin that Merkel said was clearly an attempt on the opposition politician's life by state-sponsored actors in Russia.
"Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack with a chemical nerve agent of the Novichok group. This poison could be identified unequivocally in tests," said Merkel.
"There are serious questions that only the Russian government can answer."
Yet the Kremlin immediately cast doubt about the diagnosis, insisting that Russian doctors did analyses that showed no signs of the nerve agent — much less poisoning — before Navalny was evacuated to Berlin from a Siberian hospital on August 22.
"Before the patient was taken to Germany, in accordance with all international standards, a whole series of tests was done in Russia, and no poisonous substance was found," said Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's spokesman, reacting to Merkel's announcement.
"There are no grounds to accuse the Russian state. And we are not inclined to accept any accusations in this respect," added Peskov.
Russia's Foreign Ministry also cast scorn on the report and insisted its ambassador to Germany had been summoned by German authorities but not presented with evidence.
"Where are the facts, where are the formulas, at least some kind of information?" asked the ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, in an interview on Russia's state-run Channel One.
Yet Navalny's chief strategist, Leonid Volkov, insisted the mere traces of Novichok — a banned military-grade weapon first developed in the Soviet Union — established the direct complicity of the Russian leadership.
"Novichok means it was Putin. It's not something that you can "pick up at the pharmacy," said Volkov in a post to Facebook.
Volkov compared the German discovery of the Soviet-made substance to leaving an autograph in blood at the scene of a crime.
International ramifications
The findings — and dueling realties — suggested Russia was headed for a repeat clash with western powers similar to fallout after the attempted poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia in Salisbury, England in 2018.
Both the Skripal's ultimately survived, British investigators concluded Novichok was "highly likely" behind the poisonings — a term widely mocked by Russia's Foreign Ministry and Kremlin state media as evidence of unsubstantiated and politically motivated accusations against Russia.
A British woman later died from accidental exposure to the substance.
The Salisbury poisonings also triggered the expulsion of more than 100 Russian diplomats and additional sanctions by the U.S., Britain, and other western allies — a specter that Chancellor Merkel suggested may be in the offing once again.
The chancellor said she had notified EU and NATO partners about the German report and that allies would issue "an appropriate, joint reaction" to Russia.
The poisoning also echoed in the U.S. presidential race, with Democratic nominee Joe Biden accusing the Kremlin of an "outrageous and brazen attempt on Mr. Navalny's life" and President Donald Trump of failing to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump's secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has previously expressed concern about Navalny's condition, and he previously called for an investigation "if the reports prove accurate" about deliberate poisoning.
U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Ullyot said Wednesday, "The United States is deeply troubled by the results released today," calling Navalny's poisoning "completely reprehensible."
"We will work with allies and the international community to hold those in Russia accountable, wherever the evidence leads, and restrict funds for their malign activities," Ullyot added.
Meanwhile, the lower house of Russia's parliament is launching its own investigation into Navalny's illness — arguing the opposition leader was poisoned by western security services in an effort to blacken Russia's reputation and, perhaps, derail a key German-Russian gas project.
President Trump has imposed sanctions on European companies that help Russia complete a key gas pipeline deal to Germany known as Nord Stream 2.
There were calls Thursday among German lawmakers to reconsider the deal.
Sudden illness
Navalny fell ill during a flight to Moscow from Siberia August 20 — forcing the pilot to carry out an emergency landing in the city of Omsk.
Within hours, news broke that the opposition leader was in a coma in a local hospital fighting for his life.
Yet Russian doctors initially delayed his transfer for care to Berlin, Germany — arguing his condition was too fragile for travel, despite the wishes of Navalny's family.
Navalny's family and supporters argue the delays were intended to obscure what toxin had felled the opposition leader.
Indeed, in the run-up to the German report, the Kremlin had been arguing there was no basis to even investigate what had caused Navalny's sudden illness.
He is currently receiving treatment at Berlin's Charite Hospital, where doctors say he remains gravely ill in an artificially induced coma.
Navalny has long been a problematic figure for the Kremlin — detailing corruption and excess at the highest levels of the government on his popular YouTube channel.
The channel's mix of investigative journalism and caustic humor has resonated with younger Russians in particular — and made scores of enemies in government and business circles.
Navalny also has made no secret of his own political ambitions. He tried to run a campaign for president in 2018 that ultimately was undone by a lingering criminal conviction.
His supporters — and the European Court of Human Rights — agreed the charges were filed to keep him out of politics.
Despite Navalny's prominence as a leading Kremlin critic, government officials have an unofficial policy to never mention Navalny's name — a tradition the Kremlin spokesman continued even as he fielded questions about the opposition leader's poisoning.
We're without a doubt interested in finding out the cause behind what happened," said Peskov, referring to Navalny merely as "the Berlin patient."
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Lisa Girion was on the country's opioids epidemic before the rest of the country was even calling it an epidemic. Kristina Davis is now tracking the same story, day-in and day-out, from the courts to the morgues.
In a session with National Press Foundation fellows, the two California reporters detailed how they produced their stories.
Girion (bio, Twitter) spent 16 years at the Los Angeles Times and now works for Reuters. She broke into the opioids issue in 2012 with "Dying for Relief," a Times investigation that documented how prescription overdoses kill more people than heroin and cocaine – and that drugs prescribed by a small number of doctors caused or contributed to a disproportionate number of deaths.
For the story, Girion and colleagues built a database of accidental deaths involving prescription drugs from 2006 through 2011 in four Southern California counties. Among the startling conclusions: 71 doctors in the study had three or more patients die of prescription drugs; one doctor had 16.
In 2016, Girion expanded on that with "OxyContin goes global — "We're only just getting started," which detailed the worldwide ambitions of one of the most popular prescription opioids.
Davis (bio, Twitter), of The San Diego Union-Tribune, chronicled the lives of people who died from drugs. The "Death Diaries" project examined which drugs killed 254 people in 2013 and who had prescribed them; it built on the work of the director of a local emergency room.
The lead of her story detailed a 34-year-old woman went to a Walgreens and filled a prescription for oxycodone. It was the 54th prescription she had filled in the past year — prescriptions written by 36 different doctors and dispensed by 21 different pharmacies.
She died of an oxycodone overdose five days later.
Davis also talked about the latest thinking on opioids and treatment, including the push for medication-assisted treatment – still controversial and shunned in parts of the country but gaining adherents around the country.
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1 Donald Miller's excellent, Do you believe you are good at relationships? and how's your collaborative leadership.
2 Tim Keller's brilliant the faith to doubt Christianity article, and never forget that Jesus didn't wait for people to come to him: Steve Addison's best as ever.
5 Ticking boxes: lessons from an overachiever!
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Former Italian / American Player: Mark Loretta (1995 - 2009)
Mark David Loretta was born on August 14, 1971 in Santa Monica, California. The six foot infielder was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 7th round of the 1993 draft. After making the American Association All Star team in 1995 he got a promotion to the Brewers squad as a September call up.
He earned a reputation as a good contact hitter and one of the toughest guys to get out with two strikes. He usually wore the uniform number 8 most of his career, until his final years. He would spend seven and a half seasons in Milwaukee, batting over .285 four times.
In 1998 he batted .316 with a .382 on base percentage, striking out only 47 times in 434 at bats. Loretta would bat .291 the next season and hit over .280 twice more before going to the Houston Astros for the 2002 stretch run. He would play all infield positions in his career, posting fielding percentages at the top of the league at both second base & shortstop. In 2000 he posted the best fielding percentage by all NL shortstops at .995.
In 2001 in an 11-3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds, he volunteered to pitch in order to help out manager Davey Lopes depleted bullpen. Loretta made his pitching debut, throwing one inning allowing one hit, one walk & striking out two batters. He signed on with the San Diego Padres for three seasons as a free agent in 2003, going on to have his best seasons. He hit .314 (10th in the league) with 13 HRs & 72 RBIs his first season in Southern California.
He had an even better year in 2004, with career highs in batting .335 (third in the league) doubles (47) (fourth in the league) hits (208) HRs (16) RBIs (76) and on base percentage (.391). He became only the second Padre in history to gather over 200 hits in a season, the other was Tony Gwynn. Defensively he led all second basemen in assists (451) & was second in putouts (288) posting a .987 fielding percentage, making his first All Star team.
In 2005 he got to his first post season going 4-15 (.267) driving in two runs against the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLDS. In the winter of 2005 he was traded to the Boston Red Sox for another Italian American ball player, Doug Mirabelli.
He hit his first career walk off HR that April, & made another All Star team batting a solid .285 in 155 games played. He returned to Houston for two seasons signing on as a free agent to play a utility role. There he had another walk off HR in June of 2007 against the Rockies. He batted over .280 both seasons, continuing to play a consistent infield.
In 2009 he signed a one year deal with the Dodgers in his home town Los Angeles area. He finished his career there batting only .232 but made another postseason, and went out with the biggest thrill of his career.
Post Season: In Game #2 of the NLDS he pinch hit in the bottom of the 9th inning with the bases loaded & the score tied against St. Louis' Ryan Franklin. Loretta singled to centerfield driving in the games winning run, putting L.A. up two games to none on their way to a sweep.
Loretta finished a 15 year career with a .295 average, 1713 hits 76 HRs 309 doubles 22 triples and a .360 on base percentage, striking out 605 times in 5812 at bats. He has the 10th best all time fielding percentage for second baseman at .991.
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It is difficult to put in words the emotional rollercoaster that Ghanaians have been wrenched through over the past three days. Most of us, together with supporters of the National Football team across the world, went to bed on Friday night exhausted, bewildered and deflated. The high that came with the first goal struck by Sulley Muntari on the stroke of half-time had given way to despondency unknown on this side of personal grief.
But this was nothing compared with the feeling on Saturday morning. For those who were able to sleep as for the traumatised insomniacs, dawn brought that drained and barren feeling: the realisation that there is no prize for nearly there.
The focus of that early emptiness was, of course, Asamoah Gyan, with whom Ghanaians have an amazing love-hate relationship. There is no guessing which side had won the race on Saturday morning. Some people were openly declaring that the deportation would be the most charitable treatment for the hapless striker who had been inconsolable on the pitch after the disaster in Soccer City. Did I say disaster? More on that later. But let us stay with Mr. Gyan for the moment.
For some, decapitation would even be merciful, but radio commentaries and phone-in monitored by this reporter appeared to suggest that by mid-morning, the red mist was lifting, giving way shoulder shrugs and heavy sighs, and of course the belief that even this was the will of God. But Asamoah Gyan who was the first player to score from the penalty spot in the current world cup on June 13 against Serbia, has joined an illustrious club of penalty "miss-ers". They include Diego Maradona (1990), Michel Platini (1986), Socrates (1986), Zico (1986), Roberto Baggio (1994, and Franco Baresi (1994).
Spare a thought for Asmoah Gyan who had been invested who, seconds to go in extra time, had suddenly been installed as the potential restorer of Africa's pride. He was to undo with one foot all the hurt and indignity, not to mention the pillage and spillage of our blood, during half a millennium of colonialism and slavery. Every black person and every person who supports the cause of fairness and liberation, with the possible exception of four million Uruguayans, prayed for Gyan's foot to deliver. It was almost too much to bear for the player and the billion hearts that defied medical opinion and stopped for an eternity.
Spare a thought for the entire team. A group of young men in this bright and unsparing global limelight would do what all young men love to do: swagger and bluster, and follow the coach's indoctrination that they are cool, very cool, thank you and no pressure. But deep down, they would be battle scarred and worn down with the expectation of an entire continent, if not a globe on their backs. Think of running around in very cold night in Johannesburg at an altitude of nearly 6000 feet above sea level, and you can barely begin to imagine what it would feel like with the additional burden of Nelson Mandela's message ringing in your ear.
So Asamoah Gyan missed that critical penalty that would have made all the difference to the billions that had invested such emotion in the outcome of that World Cup match, but should it have been a penalty in the first place? Let us stay on this subject, because a critical examination would lead to the inevitable conclusion that Ghana won the match, or at least secured a moral victory that must have positive consequences for the beautiful game and its rather pretentious notions of fair play.
First, the location of the ball at the time it was handled by the Uruguayan player Suarez (public Enemy Number One) appears to suggest that it had gone over the line. Here, Ghana must join England in putting pressure on FIFA to accept the introduction of goal line technology into international football. If this had been cricket, rugby, or tennis instant replay would have enabled o "fourth official" to reach the right conclusion.
But secondly, and most crucially, what should the outcome be when a ball so clearly destined for goal is scooped out by a player using his hand or hands when he is not the goalkeeper. On the face of it, it appears that the referee acted within the letter of FIFA Law 12 of the FIFA Laws of the Game 2005, which says a free-kick or penalty will be awarded if a player "handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own penalty area)". On page 67 of the Laws, referees are reminded that "deliberately handling the ball is normally punished only by a direct free-kick or penalty kick if the offence occurred inside the penalty area".
It is obvious that the penalty area is big and there are bound to be different effects of handling depending on where the offense occurs, but none would have the same dire consequences as a ball deliberately scooped out of goal, especially when it has gone over the line, with a player's hands. That must be different from say, handling in a goalmouth melee after a corner kick.
Most Ghanaians believe that the Black Stars were robbed of victory by either Luis Suarez, or the referee or both, but our gallant young men have won the moral victory. In 1964, the Cuban boxer Sugar Ramos was given a tainted verdict over the Ghanaian challenger Floyd Robertson after a World Boxing Council Featherweight encounter in Accra. The following day, the President of Ghana, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, caused the Ghana Boxing Authority to "reverse" the verdict. It had no significant impact internationally but it alerted the boxing world that the African nation of Ghana does not take it lying down.
We may not have to go through the theatrics of reversing the football verdict of last Friday because that would amount to crying over spilt ekpeguemi but we can fight for a rule change so that no team, nation or continent will have to go through the anguish that we have suffered over the past 72 hours.
Meanwhile, there should be no reason why we should not hold our team and its handlers in high esteem. There is no reason to throw the flag away and shed the colourful support costume. Our team won the right to make us proud. We should accept them with gleeful arms. Remember they fought for every ball and entered every contest with skill and bravery. Friday night was not a disaster but a moment of truth for the world to know a bit more about our continent and its people.


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Are the canal boats easy to operate?
Yes, the waters are mostly current free and cruising speed is only three to four miles per hour making operating a canal boat child's play. We give you full training and tuition on the canal boat and operating the locks - all included in the price you pay!
Do you offer day hire / trips ?
No, our canal boats have sleeping accommodation which day boats do not need. Our minimum canal boat rental is 3 nights, but if you wish, you can bring the canal boat back earlier.
Do I need a license to operate the narrow boat ?
No you will not need a license and you will be given all the training you need to get started.
Where can with stop with the canal boat?
You can moor anywhere along the canal where it is safe to do so and there are no signs prohibiting this ie : permanent mooring/private moorings. It is advised to moor adjacent to the towpath for easy access. Mooring pegs are provided on the canal boat if there are no tie off points. You also have the option of mooring in a marina if they offer vistor moorings. There may be a small charge for this.
Free car parking is available at all our canal boat marina locations.
Our dedicated team are on hand twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for emergencies. Your safety and enjoyment are our paramount concern.
The only thing that is not insured by us are (a) your car which is probably protected under your motor policy and (b) your personal possessions which are also probably covered under your house contents insurance but please check your own policies carefully.
We have listed some frequently asked questions below to help you with your canal boat holiday.
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Explore the Anime and Manga town of Akihabara with a Samurai Cosplayer. The Samurai Cosplayer who is also a photographer name Karma, will help you look for costumes for cosplaying, and take you around Manga book shops and souvenir shops in Akihabara. Karma is very knowledgeable of Akihabara district so whatever your looking for he will help you find in Akihabara.
Explore Akihabara with a Samurai Cosplayer! This program is conducted by a Samurai Cosplayer who is also a photographer name Karma. He will help you to look for costumes for cosplay, Manga book shops and souvenir shops in Akihabara. He can choose the shops matching your request and makes it easier to find what you want in Akihabara. You will enjoy Akihabara much more than exploring on your own. Enjoy the Japanese Otaku culture!
Akihabara is the center of Japanese Otaku culture and known for many shops which devotes to Anime and Manga, among with many electric devices. On Sundays, Chuo Dori, the main street through the district, is closed to car traffic from 1Pm to 5PM and becomes "Pedestrian Paradise."
This tour starts at Akihabara Electric Town Exit at 1 PM and the group walks through Chuo Dori to Suehirocho and come back to the station at 5 PM. Karma will show you many things to do in Akihabara depending on your request. In Akihabara, you can even make your own stamp quickly and play Gachapon, a capsule toy vending machine. If you are interested in Japanese subculture, Akihabara is the place for you.


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A friendship that defined a lifetime.When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship. Based on the international bestselling novel by Elena Ferrante. American-Italian drama TV series with 8 episodes – a co-production between HBO and Italian network RAI. It marks the first foreign-language TV series venture for HBO.
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Yin Yoga is a practice of holding specific poses for longer periods of time. This allows for us to slow down and let go, reaching deep beyond the 'yang' tissue – the muscles of the body, and accessing the deeper set fascia and 'yin' tissue within the body. The practice allows us to restore health and well being on a deep level by reducing stiffness and stagnation, sending hydration to areas within, and allowing for reflection, relaxation, self-study and observation. A great way to reduce stress!
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Butterfly Gardens Bring Biodiversity to British Columbia's Urban Areas
It's finally spring, and spring brings gardens and butterflies.
Suzuki Elders and many other seniors are a driving force behind the creation and renewal of butterfly gardens popping up in many communities all over Canada.
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Butterfly gardens are designed to create a habitat for not only butterflies but pollinator insects of many kinds – first of all in the Lower Mainland and on southern Vancouver Island.
Beginning now to work with the dirt are dozens of David Suzuki Foundation's volunteer "Butterfly Rangers." They know that the cities and towns where most of Canada's population lives need not be biodiversity deserts.
Planting in Connaught Heights, new Westminster
Indeed planting the proper species of flowering plants can serve as a lifeline for bees, various flies, and yes, butterflies. Biodiversity in urban areas is vital, especially since many rural areas are dominated by the industrial farming of huge fields for cereal crops and hay production—and fewer flowers.
The David Suzuki Foundation five years ago began its Butterfly Project to train Rangers, from school children to seniors, how to find urban space and set up a garden, which are the best flowers to plant, and how to tend them.
Municipalities throughout the Lower Mainland are often happy to encourage urban gardens. In West Vancouver, the city made available a plot at Ambleside about a year ago.
Ranger Jane Sherrott organized a group from the seniors' centre in West Vancouver, and others community members to work on a pollinator garden near the sea walk at Ambleside Park. The garden area takes up only about 40 by 20 feet, but within it have been placed about 200 plants representing 75 species. Many plants were donated.
"You really don't need that much space to help the environment," Jane said.
Jane said the group has planted about 70% native plants and the rest other compatible species. While the garden is delightful to visit, plantings are based on what insects and birds need, not decoration.
"I think we have to change our aesthetic," said Jane. "A really clean garden isn't necessarily ecological."
An important part of the effort is to observe what insects and birds use the garden. Observing and logging the insect visitors is an important part of the work. Butterfly Ranger reports help scientists at the University of BC keep track of the state of regional biodiversity.
In New Westminster, Suzuki Elder Bob Petusa organized his Connaught Heights neighbourhood at the far west end of the city, to plant a pollinator garden last year. After much negotiation the municipality and BC Hydro, the group got access to a large area, four building lots owned by the utility.
Suzuki Elder Bob Petrusa organizes volunteers
With the help of a Vancouver Foundation Neighbourhood Grant began work with donated and purchased plants. Once engaged, the municipality pitched in and helped till the area for planting and contributed mulch.
The outdoor activity has been undertaken by a couple of dozen people. As everything happens outdoors, it's been a safe and welcome activity by Bob's neighbours during the pandemic.
Other pollinator gardens have sprung up near Riley Park, Trout Lake Park in Vancouver, on Raymur Avenue in Vancouver's Strathcona neighbourhood, plus planted patches in North Vancouver, Richmond, South Surrey, and Burnaby.
Vancouver's Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) has been involved in pollinator gardens for years, and lately seniors who love gardening have joined Connaught Heights the movement in numbers.
And do these gardens attract the butterflies? Indeed they do. Last year the rangers together made over 600 observations and logged some 47 butterfly species in the Vancouver area.
The Cabbage White (Pieris rapae) and the Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio rutulus) were the most common, but there were many rarer species like the, the Canadian tiger swallowtail Papilio canadensi, a pan Canadian species or the Western Pine Elfin (Callophrys eryphon) found in pine woods.
British Columbia has at least 184 local butterfly species, the most diverse in Canada, but many are endangered and, in cities, need gardens.
Although the Butterflyway Project in BC started in the Lower Mainland and Victoria in 2017. Since 2020 the Project has become a national project and in BC it covers the entire province. We have Rangers from Northern BC as well as the Okanagan.
For more information about butterfly gardens, check the David Suzuki website (https://davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act-locally/butterflyway/). Returning biodiversity to the land is not difficult and a great way to bring about a bit of environmental healing.
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This delightful person we encountered while they gave people abuse for supporting people regardless of their race. They maintain that "coloured people have a lower IQ and are a drain on the world" and "black people share more DNA and traits with bonobo chimps than white people". Clearly this idiot fails to realise that their rancid racism shows that they're a poorly advised and stupid individual.
While my friends and colleagues were discussing the shortcomings of her views, I had a look at her Twitter timeline and ended up reporting nearly everything I found.
Not only is this woman a racist, something that she seems to wear as a badge of honour, but is also a raving Holocaust denier and blatantly antisemetic. Then I also looked at the posts that she shared as well as the ones she had written. I discovered lots of photos of Nazis from the WWII era, lots of posts supporting National Socialism and how she loves their ideals etc. I therefore have no reservation in stating that she is a Nazi, pure and simple. I have failed to find a single positive aspect to her character based on all the details I've uncovered.
I've attached screen shots from her online rants on Twitter, there's so much more on here, Twitter etc but I really couldn't stomach actually seeing any more of her mindless stupidity and pro Nazi rhetoric.
I've ended up reporting 99% of her posts as they are all a mix of her own hate speech or her chatting publicly to her friends and inciting racial hatred, which is against Twitter Terms of Service. I'm hoping that by doing so we could get her account removed and keep on going until she has no platforms on which to spout her ignorance and racism.


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Scour at the Base of Hydraulic Structures: Monitoring Instrumentation and Physical Investigations Over a Wide Range of Reynolds Numbers
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Hydraulically induced scour of the streambed at the base of bridge piers is the leading cause of bridge failures. Despite the significant scientific efforts towards the solution of this challenging engineering problem, there are still no reliable tools for the prediction and mitigation of bridge scour. This shortcoming is attributed to the lack of understanding of the physics behind this phenomenon. The experimental studies that attempted the physical investigation of bridge scour in the past have faced two main limitations: i) The characterization of the dynamic interaction between the flow and the evolving bed that is known to drive scour, was not possible due to the limitations in the available instrumentation and the significant experimental difficulties; ii) Most of the existing literature studies are based on the findings of laboratory experiments whose scale is orders of magnitudes smaller compared to bridges in the field, while the scale effects on the scour depth have never been quantified. The objective of this research was to enhance the existing understanding of the phenomenon by tackling the aforementioned experimental challenges. To accomplish this, the first part of this work involved the development of a new underwater photogrammetric technique for the monitoring of evolving sediment beds. This technique is able to obtain very high resolution measurements of evolving beds, thus allowing the characterization of their dynamic properties (i.e. evolving topography and scour rates) and overcoming existing experimental limitations. Secondly, the underwater photogrammetric technique was applied on a bridge scour experiment, of simple geometry, and the dynamic morphological characteristics of the phenomenon were measured. The detailed measurements along with reasonable comparisons with descriptions of the flow, from past studies, were used to provide insight on the interaction between the flow and the bed and describe quantitatively the mechanisms of scour. Finally, the scale effects on scour were studied via the performance of two experiments under near-prototype conditions. In these experiments the effects of the Reynolds number on the flow and the scour were quantified and implications concerning existing small-scale studies were discussed.


To be quite frank, we are all aiming towards the same goal; for this woman and her family to have a positive birth experience, and by working together, we hope to achieve this.
I do have five tips though, that I would like to share with you and I hope you will find them helpful.
When I arrive at hospital with a client in labour, I tend to take a step back as I appreciate that the midwife who will be assigned to my client is usually keen to get to know her and her partner a bit. I smile a lot and contribute to the discussion only when I feel it would be appropriate or when asked to by my client. I tend to make very short notes in a notepad while we're at home so I can help with some of the information such as frequency of contractions, last time my client emptied her bladder and if the waters have gone and what time that happened.
When I get a chance, I will introduce myself to the midwife and explain that I'm there to support my client and not to interfere with what she is doing. If I've been to this hospital before, I might mention a midwife's name that I've worked with before or find something else we might have in common.
If during labour and birth, there are procedures that my client finds painful. I will always keep an eye on her face to see how she is feeling. If her face shows pain, I will say to her: "That looks like it's painful!" The midwife or doctor who is carrying out the procedure will usually be alerted and ask my client if it is painful, giving her a chance to say 'yes'. It would be very rare for me to directly address a midwife or doctor to tell them to stop. I always say to the woman's partner that if there is anything that they see which they feel should be stopped, they should speak out. I feel it is more appropriate coming from the partner than from the doula, and if a doula's role is to empower couples, then we should not speak on their behalf. That's taking their voice away in my view.
When the baby has been born and my client and her partner are bonding, I usually help tidy up the room a bit. This is the only time that I will put a pair of gloves on, picking up soiled inco pads (disposable absorbable pads) and other bits and pieces to put in the bin. You don't have to do this of course, but I realise I'm representing all doulas so want to make it easier for my colleagues when they come to this hospital.
So, these are just a few things to consider but the biggest thing you can bring to a birth is a big warm oxytocin-filled smile!


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They're Going Dancing: Men's and Women's Soccer Make Surprise Bids for the NCAA Tournament
by Francis Eddy Harvey
For the first time ever, both the men's and women's soccer teams will be competing in the NCAA soccer tournaments. For the men, this achievement marks their eighth overall appearance and first since 2012. The women's team, however, has competed in the NCAA tournament for the past five years, including an impressive run to the Sweet 16 last season.
Of the hundreds of collegiate soccer teams, only 64 make the Division III NCAA tournament. There are two ways that a team can qualify for the tournament: winning the conference or receiving what is called an at-large bid. An at-large bid is given to teams who have records that are considered deserving of a spot in the NCAA tournament. Teams hoping to receive at-large bids are judged on their overall record, record against ranked opponents, and strength of schedule among other factors. Often, teams that receive at-large bids reach the semi-finals or finals of their conference tournament.
The selection process helps give some perspective on how unique a feat it is to have both Swarthmore teams qualify for the tournament, as both the men's and women's team qualified via an at-large bid, despite not making the conference tournament.
Both teams, although hopeful, knew that their chances for a bid depended on the favorites around the country winning their conferences. If the best teams receive automatic qualifications to the tournament, they would not compete with the Swarthmore teams for at-large bids. However, if the best teams did not win their conferences, then they would almost certainly receive at-large bids ahead of Swarthmore.
"My teammates and I were really hanging on to the very last thread of hope of making the playoffs, said Samantha Barnes '22. "There had to be like twenty games to go our way in order to make it and seventeen of those games did."
The men's team was a little more hopeful as they had a higher chance of making the tournament, and hosted a selection viewing party for the team. Given the team's regional ranking of fourth, the men knew that they had a decent chance of receiving a bid. However, after the first 32 teams of the bracket were announced and with Swarthmore yet to be selected, doubts were starting to settle in.
"I didn't even really expect us to make it going into the selection show," said team captain Oliver Steinglass '20. "As results started to go our way across the country, I got hopeful but tried to keep my expectations low."
When Swarthmore's name was announced, it was pandemonium. A previously a silent room became filled with shouts from the men's players.
Although there was no viewing party for the women's team, they were just as enthusiastic to hear their season would be continuing.
"I was shocked, surprised, happy, and started to tear up because I love this team so much and I'm so grateful that I get a few more practices and (hopefully!) games with them," said forward Brittany Weiderhold '20. "I was so excited that I dropped my laptop. Thankfully, it still works."
The women's team closed off their regular reason with a win at Haverford, bringing their final record to 12-5. Led by seniors Sydney Covitz, Brittany Weiderhold, Louise Rosler, Seneca Kinn-Gurzo, Emma Tapp and Eléonore Moser, the Garnet hopes to use their experience to go far in the tournament. Up top, the team is led by strikers Sophia Stills '21 (five goals, four assists) and Weiderhold (seven goals, three assists).
Barnes noted how the team's depth and experience will be key.
"Our team is definitely extremely confident going into the tournament and the fact that we have made it to NCAA for the past five years gives us incredible momentum to build off of and fuel us," said Barnes. "We are an incredibly deep team with a lot of experience in the NCAA and coming off a tough season. We are buzzing for wins."
Weiderhold has been to three NCAA tournaments; for her and the other seniors the uncertainty offered a unique challenge.
"As a senior it was a very odd feeling not knowing if my soccer career was over or not. In terms of this team and this year, I would say we've been unlucky in a few of our games this season, but I think luck is starting to shift our way and I am super excited to see what this team can do this weekend."
On the other hand, the men's soccer team finished the season with a 11-3-3 record, their best since 2013. Captained by Steinglass and Joseph Bradley '20, the Garnet held an impressive 6-0-1 out of conference record. Woojin Shin '21 and Joseph Barile '21 led the team in goals with six each, while Trevor Homstad '20 bagged five. Not any of the players on the men's soccer team have experienced the conference playoffs, let alone the NCAA tournament, but they are looking to make some noise.
Steinglass remembers all too well that it was only two seasons ago when the team won a total of four games.
"To go from winning four games my sophomore year to making the tournament this year has been a testament to how hard the entire team has worked," said Steinglass. "Thinking back to how poor our season was two years ago and the state of the program as a whole makes this achievement that much sweeter."
Bradley also notes the change in the program, but his metric for the team's standard predates his collegiate career.
"It's pretty special. I grew up locally so I remember coming to watch Swat play in the NCAA tournament when I was younger, and being a part of bringing this team and program back there has been really cool."
Although the men's team is elated to be playing in the NCAA tournament, they are not satisfied with just an appearance. The Garnet are training to win and, for Bradley, this is nothing new.
"We're just going to keep doing what we've done. There's a reason that we're here now, so it's just business as usual. Hopefully, this second chance at keeping our season alive will give us the motivation to crank it up a notch in training and on game day."
Steinglass echoed his fellow captain's sentiment.
"I fully believe in the quality of this team and now that we have an opportunity to show ourselves on the national stage, I'm really excited to see how far we can go."
Both teams will be playing this Saturday, November 16. The men play Roanoke in Jefferson Newport, VA, while the women face Arcadia at Carnegie Mellon University.
[Editor's Note: Author Francis Eddy Harvey is a member of the men's soccer team. Sports editor Joseph Barile is also a member of the men's soccer team.]
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Francis Eddy Harvey '21 is from Pittsburgh, PA. This is his second year as sports writer for the Phoenix. Francis is pre-med, majoring in Economics, and is on the Men's Soccer Team. In his free time, he enjoys rooting for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Steelers, and Pirates.
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Challenges for new Franco-German eurozone plan
The Franco-German plans need to factor in the Italian government's behaviour - with a sequel of the Greek drama not excluded for Italy (Photo: European Parliament)
By Robert Steenland
Warsaw, 21. Nov 2018, 14:21
A long-awaited plan for eurozone reform was announced after the Eurogroup meeting of Monday (19 November) by finance ministers Olaf Scholz and Bruno Le Maire.
The German-Franco driven initiative is expected to bring discussion on the Eurozone back to the political forefront.
However, at the same time its chances to succeed faces several obstacles and challenges.
The plan is a worked out version of the Meseberg declaration of June, and consists of no more than two-pages.
It foresees a budget for the eurozone by 2021 – a direct wish of France.
However, it is to be linked with the EU's multi-annual financial framework (MFF) to keep it small and controllable – a German wish.
While it speaks of investments, they are conditional upon reform and imply limited room for solidarity in case a country gets into trouble, given the wording that the budget would: "foster convergence and incentivise reform, implementation in particular by co-financing growth-enhancing public expenditures such as investments, research and development, innovation and human capital".
"Moreover, it could also play a stabilising function in the eurozone, especially as investments are prone to be shed in case of pressure on national public finances".
Plus, the budget will be determined by intergovernmental agreement, which seriously undermines its firing power, and nowhere near the "big bazooka" former UK PM David Cameron once urged.
Therefore, it is far from ambitious enough to solve future crises, although a small step forward towards a stronger monetary union.
It characterises the EU's overall "too little too late" approach it followed throughout the eurozone crisis.
Domestic obstacles in France and Germany
The Franco-German compromise also faces several obstacles.
One of them is the fact president Emmanuel Macron struggles with his reputation at home, as his popularity has been declining rapidly.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has also been unable to govern with authority in an unstable coalition composed of a declining SPD and a rebellious CSU. Lost regional elections prompted her giving up her chair position of the CDU recently.
If this position would be won by the more conservative Friedrich Merz or Jens Spahn it could bury the eurozone reform plans.
'Hanseatic' opposition
Another obstacle has been Netherlands led so-called Hanseatic League 2.0, composed of ten eurozone and non-eurozone members.
It has pushed for a stricter and revamped European Stability Mechanism (ESM) with more tools and powers to scrutinise and monitor member states' finances, and bailouts with more conditions and strings attached, while it opposes more risk mutualisation of risks.
In short: less solidarity.
Dutch finance minister Wopke Hoekstra called the Franco-German plan unconvincing and stated: "If this is not in the interest of the Netherlands or the Dutch taxpayer, then we are out".
Italy's political hooliganism
Things are not made easier with Italy's populist government, composed of left-wing and right-wing populists that have a history of questioning eurozone membership.
They refused to back down in adjusting its current budget plans that would imply rising budget deficits in its fight with the European Commission.
The government's behaviour has increased the risk of Italy exiting the EU by accident.
The Italian problem is expected to further postpone reform. As one diplomat said: "Italy has made this much more difficult. We want all skeletons out of the closet before we continue [with eurozone reform]".
Salvini made clear he is no fan of the eurozone reform plan, stating he would potentially oppose it as well.
European elections
Another obstacle is next year's European elections in May 2019, which will mean most of Europe will go into campaign mode next year. This in turn will make any compromise difficult to reach and put it under additional scrutiny.
The prospect of populist fringe parties increasing their presence in the European Parliament at the expense of moderate mainstream political parties add up to this.
The anti-EU leader Marine Le Pen of France's National Rally already surpassed Macron's political party in recent polls.
Need of eurozone reform
Refusal to have risk-sharing in some form of fiscal capacity that many economists have argued is needed, has arguably made the euro crisis worse and almost broke the euro.
Greece could have been pushed out of the eurozone with likewise domino effects if it wasn't for Mario Draghi's "whatever it takes" pledge in 2012, or if a last-minute bailout deal was not reached back in 2015 by the Eurogroup with the radical left-wing Syriza.
While Greek corrupt and inept politicians are mainly to blame, the focus on fiscal discipline prevented a swift resolution.
It showed the failure of national and European policy caused by an almost religious battle over eurozone reform.
While economic growth has been positive lately, recent forecasts have warned of growing uncertainty due to US-China trade tensions as well as the public finances 'sustainability of certain member states (read: Italy) that could cause the economy to slow down.
This makes it more troubling the eurozone remains unfinished.
European Stability Mechanism (ESM) president Klaus Regling stated recently it needed to be more robust to prevent another crisis (resolution). Given US president Donald Trump's unpredictable behaviour and the explosive political situation in Italy, a sequel of the Greek drama is not excluded for Italy.
Its weak banks and high public debt of over 130 percent could mean even bigger trouble.
With both president Macron and chancellor Merkel losing support domestically, it is questionable whether their plans will succeed.
Even more, given the opposition by the Hanseatic states, the upcoming European elections and Italy's political hooliganism.
Even if some compromise would be reached, it would be too watered down to make a difference in case of a serious economic recession or crisis.
Therefore, the eurozone and EU will face serious political and economic risks that will continue to affect it for a long time to come.
Robert Steenland is an associate at the Warsaw-based Centre for International Relations
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author's, not those of EUobserver.
Cold shoulder for Franco-German euro budget plan
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Macron and Le Pen compete for 'yellow vest' votes
First EU talks on Franco-German plan to create a eurozone budget got a cool reception on Monday, with both northern states and Italy wary of the move.
6. Nov 2018, 09:18
Eurozone finance ministers tell the reluctant Italian government to revise its budgetary plans in discussions with the European Commission.
Both the examples of Greece and Italy test the limits of a system with inherent weaknesses that feeds internal gaps, strengthens deficits and debts in the European South, and surpluses in the European North respectively.
Businesses in northern Italy are anxiously watching the standoff between the European Commission and the Italian government. They used to be the 'Northern League's' most important electorate - but the party's profile and priorities have changed.
4. Dec 2018, 13:06
After an all-night, 18-hour negotiation, finance ministers take steps to reinforce the defence of the euro, the single currency which celebrates its 20th birthday next month. However, the reform measures still need to be agreed by EU leaders.
French leader Macron and far-right leader Le Pen have reached out to 'yellow vest' protesters, as debate on the EU elections heats up in France and Germany.
Why nations are egomaniacs
A nation, Reinhold Niebuhr wrote, is not capable of altruism. Even less so, if such a group has formed on the basis of strong emotions and casts itself as the "saviour of the nation".
Maltese murder - the next rule-of-law crisis in EU?
While Poland's government is escalating its rule of law crisis by introducing even more drastic measures against the country's judges, another problem is looming over the EU's commitment to upholding the rule of law: Malta.


Men's lacrosse player Shane Hayes played one of his best games so far, being awarded with Humboldt's player of the game sledgehammer on Feb.25. Despite losing 13-3 to Sierra Nevada College at their home field, Humboldt State Men's Lacrosse, otherwise known as the Humboldt Hogs, still has hope for the season.
"We'll be in playoffs,"Hayes said.
looking forward to the season immediately after the game.
"If things work out, we're going to see them again," Silvaggio said.
With a loss, it is important to look at what you can improve on. Two of the Humboldt Hogs defenders, Logan Salcuni and Matt Lopez, know which part of their game they would like to work on prior to the next match.
Salcuni wants to switch the focus over to lots of work with an emphasis on taking shots at the net at the right time.
"Work on the basics, passing and catching and definitely conditioning," Lopez said.
The hogs look forward to a chance to play Sierra Nevada, who were last season's champions, again as there are high tensions between the two teams. Sierra Nevada seemed to have talk more trash than the amount of goals they scored.
"These guys are wealthy and they recruit, they think they are D-1 [Division One] but they're not," Lopez said.
The Hogs will be getting the month off after the loss, giving them plenty of time to improve before going on to play University of the Pacific on April 1. in Stockton, Calif. This is followed by a match against UC Davis the day after on April 2., at Davis.
The Humboldt Hogs next home game will be on April 15., against San Jose State, on the College Creek Field at 1 p.m.


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ACS swallows Serco education unit
Advanced Computer Software (ACS) has picked up outsourcer Serco's education unit, Serco Learning, for £7.25m in a deal that will add around £13.5m to the rapidly expanding firm's top line
Advanced Computer Software (ACS) has picked up outsourcer Serco's education unit, Serco Learning, for £7.25m in a deal that will add around £13.5m to the rapidly expanding firm's top line.
The Serco business specialises in training and support services to over 2,000 local authority, academy, independent school and higher education customers, and will form part of ACS' Advanced Business Solutions unit, which claims to already have 49 universities and colleges buying into its back office and student records lines.
ACS said it would be paying £6.25m to Serco and £1m to iGate for the novation of a material services contract.
ACS chief exec Vin Murria pointed to increased long-term recurring revenues, understood to amount to a significant proportion of the unit's sales, as a key motivator behind the deal.
"This earnings enhancing acquisition is complementary to the Group's existing education offering [and] provides us with greater critical mass and a broader offering for the growing education market in the UK, Ireland and APAC," said Murria.
In a note on the acquisition, TechMarketView analyst Tola Sargeant said that the deal would provide: "good cross-selling opportunities for its Advanced 365 IT outsourcing and managed services business, a key tenet of ACS' strategy for organic growth".
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