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Alumni recognized for pro bono work
Abel Garza, associate at Pepper Hamilton
True to Villanova Law's values, our students and alumni utilize their skills to advance the greater good. Recent graduates Mark Wilhelm '15 and Abel Garza '16 are making pro bono work a priority as they launch their respective careers in Big Law.
Both associates at Pepper Hamilton LLP, Wilhelm and Garza are fighting for the rights of tenants who lack attorney representation through pro bono work with Philadelphia VIP, a nonprofit organization that provides legal services for low-income residents and families facing legal problems that threaten their basic human needs—shelter, employment, financial stability, education and health.
Wilhelm and Garza jumped into landlord-tenant work when they learned that the City of Philadelphia was overwhelmed with underrepresented tenants. A recent study indicates that one in seven Philadelphia renters faced an eviction case in 2015, and over 90% of tenants confront these cases without an attorney.
Wilhelm works in Pepper Hamilton's Corporate and Securities Practice Group, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings and compliance. "In corporate law, attorneys primarily spend their time in the office. But growing up, I always thought of attorneys as being 'in the courtroom.' Volunteering with VIP helps me fulfill that vision."
Mark Wilhelm, associate at Pepper Hamilton
The firm has its own pro bono Tenant Representation Practice Group, which encourages attorneys to take on these cases. It is co-chaired by Garza, who works in Pepper Hamilton's Health Sciences Department and represents pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in products liability, consumer fraud litigation and government investigations.
"With a large support network of colleagues, Pepper Hamilton's Tenant Representation Practice Group creates a real sense of community for attorneys working on cases solo," Abel notes. "Philly VIP does that too."
For clients, going at it alone in court and navigating the system without counsel is extraordinarily difficult. "Not only do many tenants not know their rights, they must go up against experienced attorneys who know the law," Garza explains. "We help level the playing field."
Case in point: One of his VIP clients was sued for $4,000 in unpaid rent, even though the client had proof of payment. Thanks to Garza, the landlord actually had to pay a money judgment to the client, who was able to stay in his unit rent-free. "My client was ecstatic," Garza recalls.
For attorneys taking their first Landlord-Tenant case, Wilhelm suggests going to court to observe, even for an hour. "Just watch what happens," he says. "You will pick up 80% of what you need to know." Garza adds, "You can be the reason someone gets to keep her or his home. Our work affects clients on a personal level more than you can ever imagine. That feeling is what keeps me going."

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Trump Attacks Washington, D.C. Officials for Spoiling His Parade
HE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
Updated Aug. 17, 2018 9:38AM ET / Published Aug. 17, 2018 8:52AM ET
Donald Trump has attacked Washington, D.C. local officials for charging what he claims was a "ridiculously high" price for his military parade that led to its cancellation. On Thursday, a new estimate for the cost of the parade came out at $92 million—about $80 million more than previous projections—including $50 million from the Pentagon and $42 million from agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security. It was then swiftly postponed, with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis batting down claims it was canceled over costs as idiotic. However, Trump appeared to confirm what Mattis denied on Twitter Friday. "The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up! I will instead attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Force Base on a different date, & go to the Paris parade, celebrating the end of the War, on November 11th. Maybe we will do something next year in D.C. when the cost comes WAY DOWN. Now we can buy some more jet fighters!"
Shortly afterward, the mayor of D.C. responded: "I'm Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, the local politician who finally got thru to the reality star in the White House with the realities ($21.6M) of parades/events/demonstrations in Trump America (sad)."
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You will be assigned following lecturing duties: Theatre History (6 credits), Text and Representation (3 credits), Performance Analysis (6 credits) and Adaptation in Theatre, Film and Literature (3 credits) in the bachelor Theatre, Film and Literature Studies, and Dramaturgy (6 credits) in the Master Theatre and Film Studies.
You will expand the scientific research in the area of theatre, performance and intermediality, following the objectives of the Research Center for Visual Poetics (www.visualpoetics.be).
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You hold a doctorate degree (PhD) in Theatre Studies or in a related area of research.
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Native or near-native speaker of Dutch is an asset.
As a course unit coordinator, you are able to demonstrate that you master the language of instruction at the CEFR level C1 before the beginning of the module(s). As a course unit coordinator, you also master the language of administration, Dutch, or you are willing to gradually learn the language up to the CEFR level B2. The University of Antwerp supports international staff members by offering them an integration programme and provides adequate language tracks for course unit coordinators within the framework of the Flemish statutory language regulations.
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In April of 1951, Kathy Lienau, a woman with a vision and a dream, got a group of 18 women together at her home. Led by her enthusiasm, to learn more about barbershop harmony and Sweet Adelines, Inc., they continued to meet on a regular basis and hone their skills. About a year later they applied for a charter to become an "official" chorus. In April 1952, under the name of Minnesota No. 1, (the first chapter formed in Minnesota) our chorus was "born". Just a year later, the chapter was renamed City of Lakes and as they say…"the rest is history"!
First row, left to right: Rose Liepke, Delpha Sporrong, Dana Reed, Kathy Lienau, Mavis Burtness, Joan Sunde (Heaberlin), Pat Warner and Merri Liepke.
Second row: Marcie Bury, Caryl Cordes Hanson, Pat Dougherty, Eleanor Langsdale, Bev Broderson, Naomi Reishus, Loretta Dahl, Abbie Rye.
Third row: Grace Denner, Florence Liepke, Dorothy Hallberg, Irene Wasick, Joan Hyland.
Not pictured: Randine Hattlestad, Ruth Ogilvie.


There is an 800-pound gorilla in the room, and the 535 members of our Congress have done their best for several years to ignore him. However, he is getting bigger and bigger, and he can't be ignored any more. The same 800-pound gorilla can be seen from time to time at the Tea Parties and may be responsible for several Congressional "retirements" that have been announced.
Misguided policies have squandered many billions on "saving" a few businesses "too big to fail" or too essential for other partisan political reasons. Money that has come back from these businesses or that wasn't initially spent is being squandered in new "stimulus" efforts rather than being used to reduce the deficit or debt. Terrible and wasteful government spending is hastening the government into a box created by the entitlement programs everyone loves -- Social Security and Medicare -- and slammed shut by the interest payments that will be required to service the humongous debt created by too much government and too little economic growth.
We cannot go on and on with deficit spending. We are already at the point where we cannot tax our way out of the debt trap, and even with a relatively robust recovery, the current level of government spending will still create deficits. There is only one way out that prevents monetizing the debt and creating inflation that will make us a banana republic: Drastic cuts in spending.
The misguided Keynesian-style, prime-the-pump approach hasn't worked. The current recession has lasted too long and caused too much trouble for most of us (and untold misery for some). Recessions as corrections for bubbles and other artificial inputs to economic performance need not be long, drawn-out affairs.
Drastically reduced government spending and lower taxes would leave money in the economy in private hands (remember that even now, a large proportion of the workforce, approaching 90%, is gainfully employed) that will take advantage of the deflating housing and other bubbles when the excesses have been wrung from them. Whatever asset-deflation there is would happen quickly rather than slowly. Stability would come faster, and recovery would take place sooner. This would benefit the economy as a whole and the large majority of the people. It would also raise tax receipts sooner without enacting any new taxes.
Those who speculated or overextended themselves toward the end of the bubble would be hurt. But those people are hurt now, along with a large number of others who must suffer just because government is preventing the bubbles from deflating faster.
There is also an opportunity here for smart government leaders to make changes in government structure that would make government cheaper to run in the future -- rather than the present course of building in more expense for the future. Now is the time to permanently reduce the size of government, more rationally group services, eliminate whole departments, and cease entire functions.
President Obama has proposed a spending freeze for 13% of the government to begin next year. This is way too little and way too late. Freezing spending of only part of the government at levels that are already too high is not enough. And this activity should have started a year ago (or many years ago), not a year from now.
Making government smaller (and building in savings for the future) faces some real difficulty, built into the system by entitlements. Social Security and Medicare in particular eat up so much of the budget that those two items are by themselves almost twice as big as the two most legitimate functions of the central government: defense and foreign affairs. The rate of growth of entitlements almost guarantees that the federal government must restructure these items or stop doing almost everything else.
Note 1: Estimated budget authority as presented in the president's budget (in million USD).
Many of the government functions in the above table are performed partly in one department and partly in another. Some savings could be achieved by performing these functions in the same department. The Department of Energy could be dissolved and its functions that are not already in the Defense Department could be moved there. The Department of Education could be dissolved and its functions picked up by the states. The Department of Agriculture could be closed, and all agricultural subsidies could be stopped. The other functions of agriculture could be picked up by the states. Medicaid and all other federal "welfare programs" could become wholly state-funded and administered programs with no federal input or control. And so on. However, since it will be difficult, to say the least, to quickly get control of Social Security and Medicare, the quick fix will have to take place in other areas, and the only fix that will be effective is to stop doing almost everything.
Kicking the problem down the road to the next Congress or the next administration is not an option any longer. The real culprits here are Social Security and Medicare, but the political departments of government (president and Congress) will find it hardest to quickly fix those programs. The federal government may eventually have to perform only the Defense, Foreign Affairs, and major entitlement (Social Security and Medicare) parts of government and relegate all the rest to the states or to private enterprise. The Congress has created this problem by taking on more than it can handle. Now it is time to bite the bullet and shed government activity. Can the Congress do that? Only if the people demand it loudly and often and at the ballot box in November.
Jeff Scribner is president of ASI Enterprises, Inc., an investment bank in Raleigh, North Carolina serving primarily small- and medium-sized business. E-mail: jscribner@asienterprises.com.


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Watch: Johnny Cash & June Carter Perform Legendary 'Jackson'
By Spring Sault | April 20, 2020
Those of you looking for new ways and means of being entertained can look to old methods. Among the hobbies, movies, and to-do lists that are keeping you occupied during this time of social distancing, YouTube videos of our favorite singers and musicians are keeping Texas occupied. Why? Because "music has charms to soothe the savage beast," and singers and concerts that bring up positive feelings make for an uplifting experience. Such has always been the case with the unforgettable performances by Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter.
In the amazing clip below featuring June Carter and Johnny Cash performing their classic "Jackson," fans from everywhere are granted the opportunity to experience their ability to make an electrifying connection with their audience. The love (and humor) shared by these two country music superstars was apparent then and still results in the type of experience you have to see to believe.
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Shared on the official Johnny Cash YouTube channel, despite the song's lyrics, the video above generates a smile for fans and the feeling that they're welcomed into a part of the country couple's life. Having always known how to appeal to their audience, Johnny and June appear to effortlessly own the stage and have a presence that makes listeners appreciative. With smiles on their faces, singing this ballad poking fun at each other, they performed the hit that was originally recorded on film at San Quentin prison in the state of California back in 1969. Although the song didn't appear on the final cut for the original Cash recordings at San Quentin and wasn't released on the CD reissue in 2000, it did appear on the 2006 San Quentin Legacy Edition, covering the entire setlist.
Cash and Carter fans here in the Lone Star State can look to the official Johnny Cash YouTube channel for even more videos that share his talents and the couples' features together. While you're spending time with your family or sitting by yourself in some quiet Coronavirus or COVID-19 quarantine time, it never hurts to hear some music, enjoy the artists you haven't followed in a while, and lift your spirits.


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Dr. Osman Lotfy Elsayed received his B Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering (Communications) from Cairo University in 1965 and the "Docteur Ingenieur" (Ph. D) degree in Electronics and the "Doctorat d'Etat es Sciences Physiques" both from the University of Aix-Marseille I (France) in 1974 and 1977 respectively. He is a Professor with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Cairo University since 1987.
Dr. Elsayed was the co-founder of the National Telecommunication Institute (NTI) of which he was the first Deputy Director (1984-1994). He also directed the founding team of the "French University of Egypt" and acted as its President from 2008 to 2012. Moreover, aside from his membership in several research councils in the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (Transport & Communications, Space & Remote Sensing, URSI, ICT), he was the first Chairman of the ICT Research Council (2002 – 2006). He also directed the "Development Research and Technology Planning Center" of Cairo University for more than 8 years (1997 – 2006) and chaired the MTT-APS local Chapter of IEEE (1987 – 1994).
Apart from his academic and research activities, Dr. Elsayed occupied eminent positions in industry and government. As Chairman and CEO of the National Telecom Organization (presently Telecom Egypt) he introduced for the first time in Egypt the GSM mobile telecom and VSAT services (1996). He also founded the first public internet service provider company (Geganet) and initiated an intensive program for network digitization (Megaprojects) and for the deployment of optical fiber in the backbone network. During, his term as Chairman, the first steps towards telecom sector deregulation were undertaken, with the award of licenses for VSAT services and public cabin telephony for private companies.
Dr. Elsayed served on the board of several ICT companies (EGTI, Arab Sat, Nile Sat, NCN, ICN, EGID), organizations (National Railways Organization, ERTU, National Meteorological Organization) and institutes (Laser Institute -Niles, NTI, IFAO, DRTPC). He also served as a Senior Expert for the ITU on several projects and was Egypt's candidate for directing the ITU Arab Regional Bureau (1997). He was also a Senior Consultant for the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Education. Dr. Elsayed served as Cultural Counselor and Head of the Academic Mission in the Egyptian Embassy in Paris and represented Egypt in several meetings of the Francophone Organization and its agencies.
For his distinguished research and academic activities, Dr. Elsayed received the "State Encouragement Award (1984) from ASRT, the "Order of Merit – 1st class" from the President of the Republic (1995) and the medals of Chevalier and Officier des Palmes Academiques (1985 & 2007 respectively) from the French Government. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) since 2001 and member of the Board of DRTPC since 1997.


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Q: How to make the two child classes as a key in a Map where key type is a parent class So, I have a map..
Map<Class<? extends ISwarmEntity>, Object>  map = new hashmap;

If I were to have multiple classes that extend ISwarmEntity I can't put them all in the map as keys. How would I go about doing this?
Example:
Map.put(swarmmob1.class,1);
Map.put(swarmmob2.class,2);

Swarmmob1 will be overwritten by swarmmob2
Guys it works. I'm sorry!!

A: Why exactly do you think it doesn't work?
Is it possible you made a different mistake but the generics confused you?
import java.util.*;

class MapExtend {

    public static void main (String[] a) {
        Map<Class<? extends I>,Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
        map.put (A.class, 1);
        map.put (B.class, 2);
        System.out.println (map.get(A.class));
        System.out.println (map.get(B.class));
    }

}

interface I {}

class A implements I {}

class B implements I {}

When I compile & run this program it first outputs 1 and then 2.

A: Override the hashcode and equals method of different classes which extends ISwarmEntity in order to use them as a key in a HashMap.
But it's a really bad idea, always use immutable objects as a key for HashMap.
Immutabiility is required, in order to prevent changes on fields used to calculate hashCode() because if key object return different hashCode during insertion and retrieval than it won't be possible to get object from HashMap.

A: What you do is
static class BaseClass { }

static class ClassA extends BaseClass { }

static class ClassB extends BaseClass { }

@Test
public void yourCase() throws Exception {
    Map<Class<? extends BaseClass>, Object> map = new HashMap<>();

    ClassA x = new ClassA();
    ClassA y = new ClassA();

    map.put(x.getClass(), 1);
    map.put(y.getClass(), 2);

    assertEquals(1, map.get(ClassA.class)); // fails, x and y have same class
}

What you want to do is either this
@Test
public void testClasses() throws Exception {
    Map<Class<? extends BaseClass>, Object> map = new HashMap<>();

    map.put(ClassA.class, 1);
    map.put(ClassB.class, 2);

    assertEquals(1, map.get(ClassA.class));
}

Or more likely this - have actual instances as keys:
@Test
public void testInstances() throws Exception {
    Map<BaseClass, Object> map = new HashMap<>();

    ClassA instanceA = new ClassA();
    ClassB instanceB = new ClassB();

    map.put(instanceA, 1);
    map.put(instanceB, 2);

    assertEquals(1, map.get(instanceA));
}

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People start to heal when they are heard.
Individual therapy is an important part of my practice. In the course of couples or family therapy, I often see clients in individual sessions. Those sessions are important aspects of the overall therapy project.
Individual therapy is somewhat different in terms of therapeutic goals. Whether focused on psychiatric symptoms or some other form of suffering, the process involves guiding a client in developing attitudes and practices that secure a sense of meaning and purpose through facing suffering and difficulty.
It is the nature of our species that our minds arise and take shape as we are seen by those around us, who give meaning and words to an internally developing sense of self. Other people's opinions matter. We learn intuitively about trust as we go about the business of exploring the world. Some people we encounter are helpful, some are hurtful. Some care for us, and some exploit us. When we come to a place of needing help with troubling questions about life and love, we need to feel safe in revealing our more troublesome experiences or desires if we are going to understand how to face our lives. Individual sessions create a special and deeply confidential environment for those processes.
What I find particularly interesting at this stage of my career, is how all of my years of practice have lent themselves to who I am in the room with a client. I know so many lives, so many outcomes, and I do believe that all of the people I have worked with are watching me, in helpful ways. That might sound crazy, but I believe that what we work toward in individual therapy is an unusual state of vulnerability and trust that helps us to see things more clearly. The specific techniques or practices that shape this work for me have their own rationales and purposes, but at the center of the shared experience is the client's own unfolding of a sense of self that is grounded in a voice that does articulate essential needs and capacities. Many of us would think of it as "personal growth" but when the work is successful, what happens is much more than that.
If you are interested in knowing more about my work as an individual therapist, I offer a free consultation appointment to help you decide.


Recently, I have spent quite a bit of time working with PowerShell's Out-String cmdlet. The basic idea behind using this cmdlet is that sometimes text output within PowerShell can become a bit unwieldy. The Out-String cmdlet gives you an easy way of taking text and assembling it into a string that you can then display or manipulate on an as needed basis. Let me show you a few of the things that you can do with this powerful cmdlet.
The thing about this command is that it only displays the contents of a text file. It isn't well suited to allowing you to manipulate the text file's contents (although you can do it in a roundabout way). As an alternative, you can use the Out-String cmdlet to not only display the contents of a text file but also to format the output to suit your needs. So let's take a look at a couple of examples.
If you look at the screenshot below, you can see that I have used the Get-Content cmdlet to display the contents of a text file named License.txt. This file is simply the Python license file, but I shortened it for the sake of getting the file's entire contents to fit on the screen.
Now, if you look at the next screen capture, you can see that I have appended the Out-String cmdlet to the command that I already used. At first, it would seem that I'm not doing anything different because the output is exactly the same. The important thing, however, is that the text is now being treated as a string, and strings can be manipulated.
You can see these commands in action in the screenshot below. I have also displayed the full contents of the $A variable so that you can see that I am indeed displaying a subsection of the text file.
One thing to keep in mind is that because I am working with string output, I can manipulate that output in a variety of ways. For instance, I might replace some characters with alternate text, or I might truncate part of the output. PowerShell provides a number of options for string manipulation.
You can see the output in the screenshot below. As you look at the output, you will notice that even though the $A variable contains both hashes, they are listed on separate lines. The documentation for the Out-String cmdlet indicates that you can remove the line break by appending the NoNewLine parameter. In practice, however, this parameter is not supported (at least not in the Windows 10 version of PowerShell that I am using).
There is one more trick that I want to show you. If you work with PowerShell, you are probably familiar with commands like Get-Process, Get-Service, or Get-VM that display long lists of items in their output. You can use the Out-String cmdlet in conjunction with such commands. In doing so, you can write all or part of the output to a string variable. The advantage to doing this is that you can filter the output in pretty much any way that you want.
If you look at the screenshot below, you can see that I have created a variable named $A and mapped it to the Get-VM cmdlet. When I output the variable's contents, I am presented with a list of the VMs on my computer.
My $A variable contains a list of my VMs.
As you can see in the screenshot below, the output is not only concatenated, it has also been filtered to show only VM1.
As you can see, the Out-String command allows you to do a variety of creative things within your PowerShell scripts. In fact, this article really only just begins to scratch the surface of what you can do with strings in PowerShell.
Excuse me, but that is now how you PowerShell.
You don't need to delimit PowerShell output by tabs, char count, commas or anything. $a contains an array of objects, each having a Name and State property among others. Format-Table can read objects and it can selectively display some of their properties in a neatly formatted table for the human to look at.
to filter out the one you want right at the source. This is faster.
PowerShell does not work like an old UNIX shell. It is a couple decades newer.


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Saint Sophia Cathedral
Vologda, Russia
Saint Sophia Cathedral is the oldest surviving building in the city of Vologda. It was built in 1568-1570, when Ivan the Terrible introduced the Oprichnina and made Vologda its capital. The model after which the cathedral was built was the Assumption Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin. Ivan personally supervised the construction, and the builders were permitted to use almost unlimited resources. Ivan also, for unknown reason, ordered the cathedral's unusual orientation: its altar apse does not face east as is common in Orthodox Churches but rather northeast.
In 1571, Ivan the Terrible unexpectedly left Vologda and returned to Moscow. Soon afterwards, he abolished the Oprichnina and never showed any further interest in Vologda. He even gave an order for the cathedral to be demolished before he left the city, but subsequently withdrew it. By that time, the cathedral was constructed but not yet decorated or consecrated. The cathedral was completed during the reign of Feodor Ivanovich, the son of Ivan the Terrible, and consecrated in 1587. The frescoes inside the cathedral were made between 1685 and 1687 by a group of painters from Yaroslavl under the direction of Dmitry Plekhanov.
The bell-tower of the cathedral is the highest construction in Vologda, and is 78 metres high. The first wooden bell-tower of the cathedral was built at the end of the 16th century. The octagonal stone bell-tower was built in 1654-1659. The vaulted dome of the bell-tower in the pseudo-gothic style was built in 1869 by Vladimir Schildknecht, the chief architect of Vologda Governorate, by order of Bishop Palladius. The bells have proper names. The Big Holiday Bell was cast in 1687, the Water Carrier Bell was cast in 1643, the Watch Bell was cast in 1627, the Archangel Bell was cast in 1689, the Big Swan Bell was cast in 1689, and the Little Swan Bell was cast in 1656. The Bell-tower also known as a Watch tower. The chimes have been manufactured on the Brothers Gutenop factory in Moscow in 1871. The observation deck has a panoramic view.
In Soviet times, the cathedral was shut down and now it serves as a museum.
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Шедевр русского зодчества XVI века. Древнейшее сохранившееся каменное сооружение на территории Вологды, построенное в 1568 — 1570 годах по распоряжению Ивана Грозного. В соборе сохранилась роспись XVII века ярославских живописцев. А фреска «Страшный суд» занимает площадь около 400 квадратных метров. Прекрасен барочный иконостас, созданный в 1733—1741 годах.
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Saint Sophia Cathedral (Софийский собор) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral, the oldest surviving stone building in the city of Vologda. It was constructed between 1568 and 1570 under personal supervision of Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the period when Vologda was the capital of the Oprichnina lands in Russia, and completed in 1587. The cathedral is located on the right bank of the Vologda River
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зимой закрыт. очень жаль. но в целом в комплексе симпатичный
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Древнейшее сооружение на территории Вологды Софийский собор Премудрости Божьей 1568-1570 создан по указу Ивана Грозного. Своего рода жемчужина Вологодского кремля. Между Софийским и Воскресенским соборами возвышается колокольня с видовой площадкой и действующим музеем колоколов. Хотя реставрация собора завершена в 2007, с режимом туристического посещения бывают сложности.
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From 1239, Raynaud, the Bishop of Quimper, decided on the building of a new chancel destined to replace that of the Romanesque era. He therefore started, in the far west, the construction of a great Gothic cathedral which would inspire cathedral reconstructions in the Ile de France and would in turn become a place of experimentation from where would later appear ideas adopted by the whole of lower Brittany. The date of 1239 marks the Bishop's decision and does not imply an immediate start to construction. Observation of the pillar profiles, their bases, the canopies, the fitting of the ribbed vaults of the ambulatory or the alignment of the bays leads us to believe, however, that the construction was spread out over time.
The four circular pillars mark the start of the building site, but the four following adopt a lozenge-shaped layout which could indicate a change of project manager. The clumsiness of the vaulted archways of the north ambulatory, the start of the ribbed vaults at the height of the south ambulatory or the choice of the vaults descending in spoke-form from the semi-circle which allows the connection of the axis chapel to the choir – despite the manifest problems of alignment – conveys the hesitancy and diverse influences in the first phase of works which spread out until the start of the 14th century.
At the same time as this facade was built (to which were added the north and south gates) the building of the nave started in the east and would finish by 1460. The nave is made up of six bays with one at the level of the facade towers and flanked by double aisles – one wide and one narrow (split into side chapels) – in an extension of the choir arrangements.
The choir presents four right-hand bays with ambulatory and side chapels. It is extended towards the east of 3-sided chevet which opens onto a semi-circle composed of five chapels and an apsidal chapel of two bays and a flat chevet consecrated to Our Lady.
The three-level elevation with arches, triforium and galleries seems more uniform and expresses anglo-Norman influence in the thickness of the walls (Norman passageway at the gallery level) or the decorative style (heavy mouldings, decorative frieze under the triforium). This building site would have to have been overseen in one shot. Undoubtedly interrupted by the war of Succession (1341-1364) it draws to a close with the building of the lierne vaults (1410) and the fitting of stained-glass windows. Bishop Bertrand de Rosmadec and Duke Jean V, whose coat of arms would decorate these vaults, finished the chancel before starting on the building of the facade and the nave.
Isolated from its environment in the 19th century, the cathedral was – on the contrary – originally very linked to its surroundings. Its site and the orientation of the facade determined traffic flow in the town. Its positioning close to the south walls resulted in particuliarities such as the transfer of the side gates on to the north and south facades of the towers: the southern portal of Saint Catherine served the bishop's gate and the hospital located on the left bank (the current Préfecture) and the north gate was the baptismal porch – a true parish porch with its benches and alcoves for the Apostles' statues turned towards the town, completed by an ossuary (1514).
The west porch finds its natural place between the two towers. The entire aesthetic of these three gates springs from the Flamboyant era: trefoil, curly kale, finials, large gables which cut into the mouldings and balustrades. Pinnacles and recesses embellish the buttresses whilst an entire bestiary appears: monsters, dogs, mysterious figures, gargoyles, and with them a whole imaginary world promoting a religious and political programme. Even though most of the saints statues have disappeared an armorial survives which makes the doors of the cathedral one of the most beautiful heraldic pages imaginable: ducal ermine, the Montfort lion, Duchess Jeanne of France's coat of arms side by side with the arms of the Cornouaille barons with their helmets and crests. One can imagine the impact of this sculpted decor with the colour and gilding which originally completed it.
At the start of the 16th century the construction of the spires was being prepared when building was interrupted, undoubtedly for financial reasons. Small conical roofs were therefore placed on top of the towers. The following centuries were essentially devoted to putting furnishings in place (funeral monuments, altars, statues, organs, pulpit). Note the fire which destroyed the spire of the transept cross in 1620 as well as the ransacking of the cathedral in 1793 when nearly all the furnishings disappeared in a « bonfire of the saints ».
The 19th century would therefore inherit an almost finished but mutilated building and would devote itself to its renovation according to the tastes and theories of the day.
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Scholars and Poets Talk about Queens
by Carole Levin (Editor), Christine Stewart-Nunez (Editor)
"Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations, but the book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally. Queens include such famous and fascinating women as Hecuba, ... Read More
"Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations, but the book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally. Queens include such famous and fascinating women as Hecuba, Cleopatra, the Empress Matilda, Margaret of Anjou, Catherine of Aragon, Mary Stuart, and Queen Elizabeth I, and Grace O'Malley, a pirate queen. One can find, for example, an essay on Mary Stuart's responses to her widowhoods paired with Mary's lamentation from the afterlife. After reading the analysis of the Empress Matilda's efforts to gain the throne of England, one can also see the character of the much older Matilda playing chess with her daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitaine"-- Read Less
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Amazon's Well-Meaning Revisionist A League of the Own Falls Short of a Home Run
By Judy Berman
August 10, 2022 9:00 AM EDT
"This used to be my playground," Madonna laments in the hit theme song for A League of Their Own, the classic 1992 film about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. It's a fitting image, if an uncharacteristically tame one by Erotica-era Madonna standards, to attach to what is essentially an outstanding kids' movie. Stacked with stars including Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Rosie O'Donnell, and Lori Petty, as well as Queen Madge herself, the original League was a PG-rated chronicle of baseball, friendship, and sibling rivalry amid the sexism of the World War II era. For little girls in the '90s, this was nothing short of exhilarating. (I should know: I was seven and playing intramural softball, badly, when the movie premiered.) Revisit this playground as an adult, however, and you might find the story a bit incomplete. Where, for instance, are all the lesbians?
A new Amazon series, also titled A League of Their Own, answers that question with relish. Premiering Aug. 12, the historical dramedy from co-creators Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) and Broad City star Abbi Jacobson—one presumably aimed at the grown-ups who cherished the film as kids—takes pains to do right by the many queer women on the AAGPBL's roster. (Maybelle Blair, a 95-year-old former player who consulted on the series, just came out as gay this past June.) It highlights misogynistic details the movie glossed over and offers a glimpse into the experiences of white-passing Latinas in the sport. It also carves out substantial space to represent the Black athletes who were excluded from women's baseball when the League formed in 1943, four years before Jackie Robinson broke the MLB color barrier. Despite the show's casually anachronistic dialogue, this heartfelt but overly dutiful revisionism almost works.
Graham and Jacobson's League comes off as, in equal measure, a reference-packed tribute to and a pointed correction of its predecessor. Although none of the characters in the two versions are exactly the same, protagonist Carson Shaw, played by Jacobson with the same flustered sweetness that made her Broad City alter ego so endearing, is a married country girl like Davis' Dottie Hinson. The first future Rockford Peaches teammates Carson meets after impulsively hopping a train to Chicago for tryouts are glamorous Greta Gill (The Good Place and Barry breakout D'Arcy Carden) and her gallant sidekick Jo De Luca (Melanie Field, who was so funny in the canceled-too-soon comedy Florida Girls)—two best friends and women of the world who are fairly close analogues for Madonna and Rosie's characters, respectively, in the movie.
The Rockford Peaches in 'A League of Their Own'
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The supporting cast coalesces once the Peaches move into a Rockford boardinghouse, under the tough but tender eye of chaperone Beverly (the great Dale Dickey), and start training with washed-up MLB pitcher turned coach Dove Porter (Nick Offerman, in a less drunkenly incapacitated take on Hanks' role). And it's a great ensemble. Roberta Colindrez, who smoldered as Nico on Vida, plays ambitious pitcher Lupe Garcia, who's saddled with the obligation of translating for Spanish-speaking teammate Esti González (Priscilla Delgado). Molly Ephraim (Perry Mason) brings sweetness and light as platinum-blonde bombshell Maybelle Fox. Comedian Kate Berlant is anxious, self-dramatizing Shirley Cohen, a millennial before her time.
Meanwhile, a parallel story line follows the tenacious Max Chapman (Chanté Adams from Roxanne Roxanne), a Rockford-native pitching prodigy who's turned away from tryouts because she's Black. While the Peaches train, Max works in her mother Toni's (Saidah Arrika Ekulona) beauty salon and plays third wheel to her best friend Clance Morgan (Gbemisola Ikumelo), a comics superfan who draws her own stuff, and the new husband Clance adores, Guy (Aaron Jennings). Rightly confident in her athletic talent, she beseeches team after team to give an extraordinary Black woman a chance. It isn't easy. Neither is hiding her true self from Toni, a conservative churchgoer who doesn't speak to her own queer sibling, Bertie (Lea Robinson).
What Carson and Max have in common, besides baseball and gender-neutral names, is that they're both attracted to women. For Carson—one of the more outwardly feminine members of a team whose owners are desperate to present polished "ladies," complete with skirted uniforms—this is new information, something she only realizes about herself after falling for the lively but emotionally distant Greta. These emotional stories, along with side plots about some other Peaches' same-sex exploits and the homophobia they face, make for show that's just as much a lesbian romantic drama as it is a women's sports drama. O'Donnell, who came out a decade after League, even makes an appearance as the proprietor of a queer speakeasy.
Abbi Jacobson, left, and D'Arcy Carden in 'A League of Their Own'
Nicola Goode—Prime Video
The performances are endearing enough to offset the season's familiar, underdogs-chase-glory narrative. Max and Carson make easy heroines to root for, and a retelling of the AAGPBL era that honors the identities, relationships, and desires of the characters' real-life counterparts is welcome. The women's frustration, in a world that scorns queerness and ignores gender dysphoria, resonates. "I feel like I'm screwing up my entire life, and I don't know why," says Carson, early in her affair with Greta. Convinced that she must choose between marrying a man to keep her family and Clance, and losing them to live as a lesbian, Max vacillates between one heartbreaking option and the other. "Everyone wants me to be some way," she sighs.
There are a few very funny scenes and lines. In one episode the team's only lodging option for an away game is a convent (motels at the time had all sorts of alarming ideas about women traveling in groups) and, even in God's house, roommates Carson and Greta can't keep their hands off each other. Tasked with delivering the traditional pre-game pep talk, Shirley coaches her teammates to repeat the mantra: "We are not afraid of the inevitability of death!"
Description: Gbemisola Ikumelo, left, and Chanté Adams in 'A League of Their Own'
But these moments mostly feel like glimpses of the looser, lighter League I wish we'd gotten. Yes, it's realistic to depict the adversity queer people and women of color faced during the war years, and to show the poor Peaches trying to play while creeps on the bleachers scream things like, "Hey honey, what's your bra size?" And I'm glad the show doesn't gloss over that stuff. At the same time, oppression on the basis of identity does not a complete character make. It shouldn't take nine episodes to find out more about Lupe than that she is queer and Latina.
One issue is the disconnect in tones between the Peaches' story—which, done right, would be more than enough to fill hour-long episodes—and Max's equally complicated family drama. Both plots are worthwhile, but they crowd each other out. Which leads to an even bigger problem: with runtime at a premium, Graham and Jacobson rarely find space for fun. I think the fondness so many women who grew up with the movie retain for it has a lot to do with the enjoyment we got out of watching female characters goof around together, with no expectation of or interest in seeking male approval. Some of this League's best moments are as simple as Max and Clance bantering about comics. It's too bad Jacobson, Carden, Field, Colindrez, and Berlant, all charming personalities who were presumably cast for that reason, rarely get such playful material.
A League of Their Own used to be our playground, but maybe, 30 years later, it's like Madonna also said: Don't hold on to the past.
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72 Blockbuster stores to close in the UK
452 jobs lost.
News by Tom Phillips Deputy Editor
Blockbuster's administrator has confirmed the closure of 72 stores in the UK, a move that will cost 452 jobs.
The closures will bring the number of UK Blockbuster outlets down from 264 to 192 and help "turn around the business", administrators Moorfields Corporate Recovery stated.
Blockbuster is currently in administration for the second time this year after another period of poor sales.
In a statement to BBC News, the administrator said it had not been an "easy decision to make".
"We must reiterate that, as part of our attempts to turn around the business, today's decision is necessary if parts of Blockbuster are to be saved and a buyer found."
160 Blockbuster stores were shut in January this year. Another 164 closed their doors in February.
The retailer has been working with Sony and Microsoft to ensure customers with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One pre-orders would still get a console, although at least one customer had already taken matters into his own hands.


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Assodé fue una ciudad situada en las montañas de Aïr, en el actual norte de Níger.

Historia
Fundada alrededor del siglo XI, fue la más importante ciudad tuareg, beneficiándose del comercio transahariano. Empezó a perder su importancia a partir del siglo XVIII —a beneficio de la ciudad un poco más al sur de Agadez— y fue totalmente abandonada después de ser desolada por los tuareg de Ag Mohammed Wau Teguidda Kaocen en 1917, aunque muchos de sus edificios se conservan en buen estado, por lo que permanece como un destino turístico.

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The Offenbach Block
URBED were recently invited to take part in the Architektursommer Rhein-Main Lab involving 8 architecture and design practices from across Europe*. This culminated in a week long residency in a temporary pavilion in Goetheplatz in the centre of Frankfurt. The film of the installation can be seen here.
Frankfurt is actually a conurbation of six cities and, on the southern bank of the River Main, lies the City of Offenbach. This once the focus of the city's Jewish community and is now home to a large Arab community. People in Frankfurt told us that we should be careful when walking its streets but, as people who have lived all of our lives in the cities of Northern England it didn't seem very threatening.
We became fascinated by the large urban blocks of Offenbach enclosed by a grid of streets but retaining the older geometry of field boundaries and plot divisions from a time when the area was rural. These messy urban blocks stood in contrast to the looming presence of the European Central Bank being constructed over the river. The Offenbach blocks were full of life, ringed with shops and cafes below apartments housing a wide range of people. Deep within the blocks could be found all manner of activities, workshops and garages, artists studios and warehouses all alongside more housing. It seemed to us, as outsiders, that this was the interesting part of the city, and was likely to be where new ideas, creativity and start-up businesses would emerge, rather than the shiny towers of the banks and corporate offices. The Offenbach Block was the building-block of the creative city.
The Offenbach Block (illustration Ste Garlick)
In her book the Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs said something like 'you can only have new ideas in old buildings'. New buildings are too expensive and tightly controlled, you have to sign up to long leases and you can't make a noise or a mess. Old buildings, by contrast, paid for themselves years ago, they are cheap, flexible, relaxed and you can occupy them on easy in-out terms if your idea doesn't quite work out.
This is true in Frankfurt/Offenbach as it is in our home town of Manchester and particularly the city's Northern Quarter where URBED has its studio. The block structure of Manchester, made up of former textile mills and is very different to Offenbach but it serves a similar function. Old building provide cheap, low-commitments space for people and businesses trying new ideas and the old warehouses have filled with architects, designers and other creatives alongside the remaining wholesale clothing retailers and scores of bars and cafes at street level. The problem in Manchester as with Frankfurt, is that there is precious little of this type of space left. It has been squeezed out by the corporate city centre, new residential schemes, fancy refurbishments and suburban areas of industry and housing.
In the modern world of tech start-ups and the weightless economy cities have become reliant on their creative class. Those that can foster a strong counterculture and a diverse economy of creative business will become magnets of young people, energy and investment. This has profound implications for the way that we plan cities, places that were once dismissed as ghettos or backwaters could become more important than shiny business parks and office blocks. The Offenbach block or the Northern Quarter block could be the building block of a whole new economy.
The former textile warehouses around URBED's studio in Manchester (illustration by Ste Garlick)
* Recently in this context is a relative term – we were initially involved in ASRM In 2014 and the installation took place in December 2105. It just takes me a long time to put things up on this blog.
As part of the installation in December 2015 we built a large plasticine model with the people of Frankfurt. This was done over three days and can be seen in the film of the event
We built the model with quite a lot of help in a temporary pavilion designed by the architect Ian Shaw (who practices in Frankfurt but comes originally from Manchester)
The URBED/Rudlin team: Ste Garlick, Sam Atkinson, Nan Wang and Helene, Jonah and David Rudlin
When Nan returned a week later she found that the people of Frankfurt had added to the model!
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