The 2018 corn crop is on the fast track to harvest, in fact in many areas it's one to two weeks ahead of average. Will that influence how USDA's August yield estimate is calculated? The short answer: not really.
Every year, USDA collects as much information as they can in the field, according to Pro Farmer editor Brian Grete.
So while they might weigh more ears than they normally do when estimating yield for the August report, their methodology will not change.
Here's a refresher on how USDA figures their yield estimates, according to USDA NASS.
Survey procedures: Objective yield and farm operator surveys are conducted. Last year, those surveys were between July 25 and August 4 to gather information on expected yields as of August 1. The objective yield surveys for corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat were conducted in the major producing states that usually account for about 75 percent of the United States production.
Farm operators were interviewed to update previously reported acreage data and seek permission to randomly locate two sample plots in selected fields for the objective yield survey. The counts made within each sample plot depend on the crop and the maturity of that crop.
In all cases, the number of plants is recorded along with other measurements that provide information to forecast the number of ears, bolls, pods, or heads and their weight. The counts are used with similar data from previous years to develop a projected biological yield. The average harvesting loss is subtracted to obtain a net yield.
The plots are revisited each month until crop maturity when the fruit are harvested and weighed. After the farm operator has harvested the sample field, another plot is sampled to obtain current year harvesting loss.
The farm operator survey was conducted primarily by telephone with some use of mail, internet, and personal interviews.
In 2017, approximately 21,700 producers were interviewed during the survey period and asked questions about probable yield. These growers were surveyed throughout the growing season to provide indications of average yields.


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$6.8M gift to UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing from Helene Fuld Health Trust funds simulation center, scholarships to educate nurses
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Nursing received $6.8 million to fund a world-class nursing simulation center and scholarships for second-career nursing students. The donation from the Helene Fuld Health Trust, the nation's largest charitable trust devoted exclusively to supporting nursing students and nursing education, is the largest private donation in the history of the UNC School of Nursing.
This gift contributes to a larger project to renew Carrington Hall, the home to the UNC School of Nursing since 1969. The renewal project received $45 million in appropriations from the North Carolina General Assembly in July 2020 and is scheduled to break ground in January 2023.
The $6.3 million Helene Fuld Health Trust Quality and Safety Education Center will be a centerpiece of the new Carrington Hall, providing a state-of-the-art simulated clinical environment for nursing students and for interprofessional health education at Carolina.
"We are incredibly grateful to the Fuld Trust for this significant investment in our nursing students and faculty," said UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz. "This center will transform the educational experience for future Carolina nurses and provide lasting advancements in nursing education and in the health of North Carolina's citizens and communities. We are proud to have the number one ranked public school of nursing in the United States."
The gift also provides $500,000 in scholarships for students enrolled in the school's accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program. The ABSN is a rigorous and fast-paced second-degree program for students who already have a bachelor's degree in another subject and would like to obtain their nursing degree in just four semesters.
"Carolina Nursing is home to some of the best clinical simulation faculty in the world, and this new Center will give them the optimal platform from which to advance the pedagogy in this increasingly important aspect of nursing education," said Nilda Peragallo Montano, dean and professor at the UNC School of Nursing.
The primary mission of the Helene Fuld Health Trust is to support and promote the health, welfare, and education of nursing students.
This gift counts toward the Campaign for Carolina, the University's most ambitious fundraising campaign in history, launched in October 2017 with a goal to raise $4.25 billion by December 2022.
About the School of Nursing
Established in 1950, the UNC School of Nursing is part of a cutting-edge, research-intensive university with top-ranked schools of medicine, public health, pharmacy, dentistry and social work located just steps away and adjacent to the renowned UNC Hospitals.
Ranked #1 among public schools of nursing for graduate education (U.S. News and World Report), Carolina Nursing provides a diverse, energetic and collegial environment for participating in world-class interprofessional education, scientific inquiry and practice opportunities. The school offers BSN, MSN, DNP and PhD degree programs, as well as post-graduate certificate programs. For more information, visit nursing.unc.edu.
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A curse on capital: queer occultism as radical spirituality?
Witchcraft is radical, and it's on the rise in young queer and feminist subcultures in the west. From queer shamans protesting the demolition of a historic gay sauna to queer-occult cyborg manifestos in Berlin to Azealia Banks, sorcery has swept through radical queer, feminist communities and its influence is truly global.
VICE, The Guardian and Art21 Magazine all contend in the links above that witchcraft – as a subversive and powerful act – is providing ways for oppressed subjects to harness power. I agree, but I'm interested in communal resistance as opposed to that of an individual. Why is witchcraft so popular with queers? What does it have to do with capitalism? What are the radical potentials of these subcultures, whether you believe in magic or not?
Fio (Gede Parma), an Indonesian-Australian witch, is sitting in my room in Brisbane. He is fluent in the crossover between witchcraft and politics, and he gives me a glimpse into some of its history.
The 'reclaiming' tradition of witchcraft, developed in the 1970s, sought to 'unify spirit and politics'. It grew alongside feminist and anti-nuclear movements, and operated by consensus processes, dual-leadership models and activism workshops.
In its present-day manifestation, this hasn't changed. From summoning spirits in Manhattan to influence Senate votes on an international fracking pipeline to workshops for activists in regional Australia, this subculture is staring directly at systemic issues and attempting to tackle them through both occult ritual and traditional activist action.
What has changed, however, is the demographic of these groups. Originally a women-only tradition, this branch of occultism is now dominated by queer – and particularly trans – people. They're young, they're politically engaged and they're embracing spiritual experiences. They are melding together, in the nature of their tradition, their politics and their spirituality.
To be queer, for one, is to be perpetually on the outside. José Esteban Muñoz describes it as a 'horizon of potentiality', as something that is always on the fringe. In this way, it is not only used as an umbrella term for LGBTQIA+ subjects, but as a description of radical politics, of sexual and gender fluidity, and a marker of anti-normative ideals.
Witches, in folklore, are also considered outsiders of the human collective. They are often found in hidden enclaves (covens), or in isolation from society. They straddle the gap between the civil and the wild, the human and the element, and it is they who provoke, attack, agitate, heal and enliven the social order.
The queer and the occult, then, walk hand-in-hand – if only under cover of darkness –stealing furtive kisses where no one else will see. They both dwell at the edges of society, re-forging the outsides they inhabit into their homes.
So is this relationship between the queer and the occult a radical one? To the skeptics focusing on the magic itself, this is surely aligned with the self-love movement that focuses on self-preservation instead of community activism. Surely it's an illusion of power, a drowning-coping mechanism of the individual against the system: a straw-man solution, a falsehood?
If we consider a radical as someone who lives against the dominant system, these witches are radicals. The current economic system is based on global exploitation, individual success at the expense of communal capital, and the entrenching of wealth through family inheritance. In contrast, these witch communities vote through full consensus, have dual-leadership instead of singular, and celebrate non-normative forms of gender, sexuality and family.
Magical or not, the political project of queer witchcraft upsets the ideals of capitalism: it attempts to disrupt, wherever possible, the social mechanisms that entrench it.
Though it speaks in old tongues and tarot cards, this new notion of queer activism is taking hold. If queerness is a horizon that never arrives, then that distant glow is not the sun, but a bonfire. There, just out of sight, the queers dance and cast their spells; through cast-out and scoffed-at means, they continue their revolutions.
'If we consider a radical as someone who lives against the dominant system…' then by this definition we are also obliged to consider a queer CEO or a fascist vegetarian as 'radical'. And we would have comprehensively shifted the term 'radical' away from issues of power and political praxis, and reduced it to matters of social identity and private gratification. In short, it would be a version of 'radical' with all of the radicality expunged.
It seems like magical thinking to suppose that one can simply step outside of capitalist economic relations by way of a coven or commune. Capital has no 'outside', and living 'off the grid', however democratically, is radical only in the sense that it leaves existing structures of oppression and exploitation comprehensively untouched. It is true that one's 'lifestyle' is political, but it is also true that capital is sufficiently dynamic to accommodate every variant of lifestyle that leaves the circulation of money and power unfettered.
You cant' be a 'queer CEO'. A homosexual CEO is a gaytriarch by virtue of their deliberate engagement with the patriarchal matrix.
Just wondering – how did women with this spiritual orientation take this influx of queer youth? I would think, rather badly?
Are we done with Foucault then?
The Left is in a bad way if the ideas in this post are gaining ground.


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Game #4: Hirsh vs. Maddux
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It's that time of year again: the first road tilt of the year. Hirsh faces 300-game winner and sure-fire Hall of Famer Greg Maddux to open his season. Hirsh made his Major League debut against the Padres last year, as the official site's preview will tell you. He'll want to have a quick start to his season, much like 'Zona's Micah Owings. Owings made his debut about tonight and as of this posting he's gone 4 innings, allowed one hit and struck out 5 batters. Owings was drafted by the Rockies in 2002 out of high school but elected to honor his commitment to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The money earmarked for him went to signing Jeff Baker instead.
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Steve Cohen attending a prayer breakfast is like Harvey Weinstein attending a MeToo slumber party.
Put this in his big bag of stupid comments that he carries with him wherever he goes.
It's not thin skinned when it happens to Democrats. It's racism, mysogynistic, homophobia, Islamaphobia, whatever. Then it's an apocalypse of anger, fury and media going nuts.
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Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1929. What happened was that he noticed that, on a agar plate streaked with a bacteria, Staphylococcus Aureus, there was a contaminant mold that got onto the plate and that there was no bacterial growth directly around this mould.
The fungus was found to be Penicillum notatum and thus the substance that was found to have these anti-bacterial properties was called penicillin.
It was not until the 1940s that penicllin was purified by two other scientists, Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Walter Florey. It has since become the most widely used antibiotic to date and is still used for many Gram-positive bacterial infections.
Penicllin works by inhibiting the formation of peptidoglycan cross links in the bacterial cell wall by directly competing for the reaction site (the beta-lactam ring of penicillin is a chemical analogue for the enzyme that links the peptidoglycan molecules in bacteria) and thus preventing the bacteria from multiplying (or rather causing cell lysis or death when the bacteria tries to divide)
Antibiotic resistance to penicillin is now common amongst many hospital acquired bacteria. The resistance to penicillin has been partly (maybe mostly) due to the rise of beta-lactamase producing bacteria which secrete an enzyme that breaks down the beta-lactam ring of penicillin, rendering it harmless to the bacteria.
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Symptoms of an allergic reaction to Penicillin can include the following:
Swollen lips, tongue, or face
Rarely a Penicillin allergy can lead to an anaphylactic reaction, usually occurring within an hour of taking Penicillin. Some symptoms may be difficulty breathing, hives, wheezing, dizziness, loss of consciousness, rapid or weak pulse, drop in blood pressure, swelling of the throat or tongue, skin turning blue, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting.
Chances of an allergic reaction are greater if you have had a positive skin test for a Penicillin allergy, had hives that showed up soon after taking Penicillin, or if you have previously had an anaphylactic reaction to Penicillin.
Usually during emergency treatment for an emergency allergic Penicillin reaction an epinephrine shot is given to the patient. Also antihistamines and corticosteroids may be given intravenously.
For less severe allergic reactions a person may want to take over the counter antihistamine(s).
A significant number of people who think they have a Penicillin allergy may not have one. Their sensitivity to Penicillin may have changed from what it was in the past. Adverse reactions to Penicillin may me mistaken for an allergic reaction. Some frequent adverse reaction symptoms may be:
Hypersensitivity (an undesired reaction caused by the normal immune system)
Neurotoxicity (exposure to natural or artificial toxic substances, neurotoxins, that alter the normal activity of the nervous system in such a way as to cause damage to nervous tissue): limb weakness/numbness, loss of memory, delusions, cognitive and behavioral problems, and headache.
Superinfection (when a cell previously infected by one virus is co-infected with a different strain of the virus or another virus, at a later date).
Less frequent adverse reactions include:
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An predecessor to the tetrapods – the extinct lobe-finned fish Tiktaalik roseae Wikimedia Commons
These genes are made for walking – another step from fins to limbs
Published: January 21, 2014 6.27pm EST
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It's one of the most tantalising questions in evolutionary biology: how did our aquatic ancestors first move from water onto land?
Thanks to research published today in PLOS Biology, new light has been shed on this exciting area of biology.
Joost Woltering and colleagues from the University of Geneva compared modern day four-legged (tetrapod) limbs to fishy fins and found that limbs emerged though the modernisation of a pre-existing DNA structure.
In other words, ancient fish actually had the genes capable of producing limbs and digits – but these were not actually expressed until animals made the move onto land.
"This work has shown that although fish have similar gene regulatory toolkits to produce digits, the actual process is not activated until the evolution of four-legged animals, so the presence of fingers and toes remains a unique character of us land animals," Flinders University's John Long said.
What makes us different to fish?
The evolutionary changes that occurred some 350 million years ago, when fish fins transitioned into limbs, are still shrouded in mystery.
"This study will help us understand how the highly specified structure, such as a digit, could have evolved from a simple structure like a fin," said Yann Gibert from Deakin University.
By looking at this video of the mud-skipper – an amphibious fish that walks using its strong pectoral fins– we can visualise how ancestral fishes first made their way out of the water onto land.
An excerpt from BBC's Life series with David Attenborough.
But to really understand the process, Woltering and his colleagues had to delve deeper – not just looking at the external structures of the animals, but the underlying DNA as well.
This area of biology, known as Evo-Devo, combines embryonic development and evolutionary theory. Evo-Devo sets out to determine the ancestral relationship between species, and understand how developmental processes evolved.
Woltering and colleagues were interested in the development of digits. By comparing this to genetic expression in the fish to a tetrapod limb, they hoped to uncover whether these structures were ancestrally the same (homologous.
"This new research represents a fascinating advance in our knowledge about the regulatory mechanisms surrounding one of evolution's greatest events – the origin of four-legged animals, or tetrapods, from fishes," Professor Long said.
Clues in the DNA: Hox genes
All fishes and land animals possess Hox genes. These are a set of genes responsible for the specification of embryonic cells – for instance, which part of the embryo will form the head, torso or limbs.
Woltering and colleagues where interested in a certain clusters of Hox genes, called HoxA and HoxD, that are involved in both fin and limb development.
HoxA and HoxD genes specify tissue structures along the proximal-distal axis (the axis running between your torso and fingertips). HoxA and HoxD genes are expressed in distinct waves to specify which cells become parts of the arms and legs.
However, these genes work differently in tetrapod development compared to fish development. In particular, the subdivision of bones to form digits is a defining feature of tetrapods, and is not present in fishes.
The evolution of limbs and digits shown in a range of lobe-finned fishes (A-D) and early tetrapods (E-G). Wikimedia Commons
Differences in expression
Another key differences observed between fish and tetrapod limb development is the "bimodal expression pattern" of HoxD. This means half of the HoxD gene specifies the development of long bones above the wrist or ankle, while the other half specifies the area below the wrist or ankle (including fingers and toes).
In the current study, Woltering and colleagues examined whether this bimodality occurs in HoxA genes as well. They reasoned that if it did, the "bimodal expression pattern" arose before the move onto land – meaning the regulatory capacity to form digits arose before our aquatic ancestors left the ocean.
Although there were some differences between HoxA and HoxD expression, the researchers found enough bimodality in HoxA to conclude that the regulatory system arose before the move onto land.
This indicates that modern fish have the genetic capacity to form digits, but it is not expressed.
Woltering and colleagues must now investigate the mechanism behind their findings. They hypothesise that the ancestral DNA that is capable of producing limbs and digits is turned off in fish by a repressor.
"The next step would be to try and identify the repressors of the Hox gene in the distal part of the limb in the mouse – the repressor would still be active in the fish fin," said Professor Gibert.
But for now, these findings add further intrigue to a fascinating part of our evolutionary history. We are now one step closer to understanding exactly how fish moved out of the water to become our first four-legged ancestor.
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New grant will explore popular app functions for telecoaching people with disabilities and diabetes
by Adam Pope
Approximately one in four people with disabilities are diagnosed with diabetes.
Mohanraj Thirumalai, Ph.D.Mohanraj Thirumalai, Ph.D., has received a three-year National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research grant to investigate and develop an artificial intelligence-assisted telecoaching solution for people with disabilities and diabetes.
"Think of the virtual assistant apps, plus the apps that give you recommendations, and then think about how they can work for health purposes," said Thirumalai, assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and director of Information and Communications Technology for the UAB/Lakeshore Research Collaborative. "We are working on tailoring mHealth apps that will have voice-based interactions on command and will be able to recommend the proper foods for you to eat or provide physical activity suggestions based on your condition."
It is in this context that Thirumalai's project plans to develop an artificial intelligence-assisted, individualized, family-focused, lifestyle modification telehealth intervention program for people with disabilities and Type 2 diabetes.
"Approximately one in four people with disabilities is diagnosed with diabetes, in contrast to about one in 10 people without a disability being diagnosed with diabetes," said Thirumalai, who is also a member of the Center for Disability Health and Rehabilitation Science in the School of Health Professions. "Despite this inordinate level of disparity in diabetes prevalence, the lack of accessible and inclusive diabetes management solutions is simply unacceptable — especially with today's technology."
Thirumalai has a 19-year history designing various telehealth intervention delivery systems targeting various channels of communication. He has been involved with multiple telecoaching projects and noticed several possible improvements to the process.
In conceptualizing the needed improvements for this work, he won the UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center's "Creativity is a Decision" award in 2017 and the UAB Diabetes Research Center's "Pilot & Feasibility Program" award in 2018 for related ideas.
"This is a cyclic problem. Diabetes can lead to a disability, and a disability can lead to diabetes," Thirumalai said. "The only way this will end in the near future is by making accessible and inclusive diabetes management programs available for everyone across the country using telehealth."
"This is a cyclic problem. Diabetes can lead to a disability, and a disability can lead to diabetes. The only way this will end in the near future is by making accessible and inclusive diabetes management programs available for everyone across the country using telehealth.'
- Mohanraj Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Telecoaching has proved to be an effective strategy for various health behavior change interventions among many people. Thirumalai has seen this firsthand as he carries a wealth of experience in designing large intervention delivery systems. He worked on an online exercise and nutrition program for National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability that currently has more than 40,000 registered users.
Thirumalai will combine his experience, with the various expertise available at the NCHPAD, UAB Diabetes Research Center and the UAB/Lakeshore Research Collaborative to design and deliver this much-needed program to many people in need of quality health care.


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Posted by Simon Wintle • June 23, 2014 at 11:10am
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German card games from the collection of Rex Pitts
Wilhelm Busch was a German caricaturist and humourist who lived from 1832-1908 (during the aftermath of the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848-49). He was immensely famous in his own country and loved by all Germans due to his satirical "picture stories" in which he mocked the "Biedermeier bourgeoisie". He is credited as the inventor of the comic strip and his cartoons and comic verse are as well known in Germany as Edward Lear's cartoons and limericks are in England. Most famous of his characters are Max and Moritz, a couple of bumbling nitwits always in trouble. Their adventures continued from very early in Busch's career to the very end. A later entrant was Fipps the Ape, also very popular. Many card games were produced in Germany using his characters and several are illustrated here. The Germans definitely do have a sense of humour! See: Wikipedia article →
Above: "Lustiges Wilhelm Busch Quartett" card game published by Franz Schmidt Nuremberg, 1937.
Above: "Fipps der Affe" (Fipps the Ape) quartet game with cartoons by Wilhelm Busch published by Bielefelder Spielkarten GmbH, c.1960.
Above: "Der Lohn des Fleisses" (The reward of diligence) card game coupled with "Die Strafe der Faulheit" (The punishment of sloth) in verse and pictures, with cautionary tone.
Above: "Schwarzer Peter Quartett" card game published by VEB Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik, c.1960.
Gladwell, Joan Elizabeth: Wilhelm Busch: The Art of Letting Off Steam Through Symbolic Inversion, PhD thesis, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2013
Other German Comic Card Games
from the collection of Rex Pitts
Besides the range of children's card games published by B. Dondorf and J.W. Spear & Söhne which tended to be more educational, a number of comic games were produced by other German manufacturers with perhaps a preponderance of "Schwarzer Peter" games, where the main focus of the game is towards the last card, which might be a black cat, chimney sweep or homourous character:
Above: "Das Lustige Familien-Quartett" humourous card game published by Eugen Schmidt K.G., Dresden, 1930s.
Above: Walt Disney "Schwarzer Peter" game published by Vereinigte Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten-Fabriken A.G., Stuttgart.
Above: "Schwarzer Peter" game published by Ensslin & Laiblin, Reutlingen (Stuttgart), c.1890s.
Above: "Humouristic Quartett" game made in Germany.
Above: "Schwarzer Peter" game published by Dr. Herbert Schulze Buch und Kunstverlag Nachf., artwork by Herbert Zeise.
Above: Card game based on Grimms' fairy tales.
Above: "Schwarzer Peter" published by Vereinigte Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten-Fabriken A.G., Stuttgart.
Above: "Struwwel-Peter Quartett" card game.
See also: Dondorf's Pierre l'Ebouriffé→
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'Politically, intellectually unfit to serve Guyanese'
Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton
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MINISTER of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, on Monday dared the political opposition to put forth a budget that could equivalently compare to the one presented by the government.
Minister Hamilton, the first speaker for the government on the opening day of the budget debate, said while the parliamentary opposition has much to say to disparage the budget, they will once again come with nothing to replace what the government proposes.
"They are incapable of presenting any programme and policies to the Guyanese people towards their development and well-being.
"They will denigrate, they will chastise and even demonize the budget, but they will put nothing comparable to what we have already put forward. They are politically and intellectually incapable of doing that. They have no capacity to put a vision before the Guyanese people. Nothing productive, nothing constructive, nothing developmental they will bring," he said.
Hamilton, amidst loud heckling from the opposite side of the house, said the opposition must be lost if it cannot understand how the vast infrastructural projects taking place across Guyana is benefitting the people in every way.
"If you do not understand what the positive impact will be on citizens by building a bridge across the Demerara River, then you are lost. If you are incapable of understanding what the positive impact will be of allowing tens of thousands of Guyanese to own their own homes, then you are lost.
Minister Kwame McCoy displaying the sugar bought at $160 per pound in Mocha, after Opposition member Nima Flue-Bess claimed sugar had increased from $300 to $500 (DPI Photo)
"If you are incapable of understanding what the impact is of making available thousands of scholarships to young people so that they can elevate themselves, then you are lost," Minister Hamilton said.
Energized by the positive applause from his government colleagues, he added: "[They say] poverty alleviation is absent from the budget, this seems to be a budget for the rich. [But let me ask] building tens of thousands of houses and giving out house lot to tens of thousands of people that is for the rich? Making scholarships available… that's for the rich?"
Addressing a few "fragmentary" measures proposed by the opposition, including calls by the Alliance For Change (AFC) for a monthly electricity and water subsidy, Hamilton said parliamentarians on the opposite side of the House were being "hypocritical."
He said this is the case because the former APNU+AFC government had removed the subsidies for electricity and water. This has since been restored by the government.
Minister Hamilton also reminded the Opposition that other measures proposed by AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan such as duty-free concessions and Value Added Tax (VAT) exemptions on equipment and machinery for businesses, are in fact existing relief measures implemented under the People's Progressive Party/Civic (PP/PC) government.
"The AFC is proposing a measure already executed since 2020. Ramjattan's party is asking for something that was already done two and a half years ago," Hamilton said.
Opposition MP Nima Flue-Bess
Pointing to the five-year period during which the APNU+AFC was in government from 2015 – 2020, Hamilton accused the Opposition of having "failed miserably" at executing and completing programmes that they took over from the PPP/C government, even though money was available for those projects.
Hamilton then called out Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton for his comments on the need for manufacturing, when it was the Opposition that shot down the Amaila Falls Hydropower project, which would have contributed to lowering electricity cost and vastly benefit the manufacturing sector.
Hamilton also called out the Opposition for failing, during its five years in office to use any of the money from the REDD+ fund to improve and invest in projects supporting alternative energy
Minister Hamilton was preceded on the floor by Opposition member Nima Flue-Bess, who set the stage for the Opposition's debate by bewilderingly commencing with a rendition of "The Song of Guyana's Children."
Her choice of opening was never quite explained, though it had little relatedness to her speech, in which she described the budget as "uninspiring, hopeless, misleading, and troubling."
Even as she questioned how the government was giving back directly to the people, Flue-Bess nonetheless listed a string of direct cash measures implemented by the government to place money into the pockets of Guyanese.
Those included the increases to old-age pension, $150,000 given to each fisherfolk in 2022, as well as salary increases and tax-free bonuses given to the joint services, and the part-time job initiative that saw persons being paid $40,000 per month.
Refusing to acknowledge the benefits those measures have had, Flue-Bess instead made note of how the inflation rate has been affecting the economy.
LAYING OUT THE FACTS
However, she found her attempt at quoting inflated commodity prices demolished by Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Public Affairs, Kwame McCoy, who took the floor armed with household commodities, sourced from Flue-Bess' native community of Mocha, with displayed prices lower than what was quoted by Flue-Bess.
While Flue-Bess claimed that sugar had been raised from $300 to $500, Minister McCoy produced a pound of sugar that was bought in Mocha for $160 per pound, and $800 for five pounds, while Flue-Bess' claim that a small bottle of oil had gone from $360 to $800 was challenged by a bottle of oil bought for $400 by the minister.
"We cannot come here and tell stories that don't represent the reality; we can't come here and pretend that something is what it is not," Minister McCoy asserted.
The vociferous minister added: "It is not about how much you can dramatize. It's not about how much theatrics you possess that would make a difference in terms of the debate, it is about people being able to understand the reality in any given situation that you wish to present to them and a lot of what has been said here today [by the Opposition] is really far away from the reality."
Minister McCoy accused the opposition of deliberately inflating, and sensationalizing the inflation situation occurring globally to mislead Guyanese and the wider world on the situation in Guyana.
"Anyone not knowing what happens here in Guyana would go away with the impression that the cost of living issue is so damning, and a most horrible situation exists in Guyana and only Guyana. This is a worldwide phenomenon. We as a government have owned this issue, we have been speaking about it," Minister McCoy noted.
He added: "We have addressed these issues and that is why you have seen us all over this country over and over. It is because we want to be in touch with people. We want to feel what people are feeling; we want to know what they're feeling."
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Q: My JUnit tests executes with maven build in Java 11, but unable to run same Junit tests via RunIT->Run As->Units, which always says not JUnits found My module test project is supposed to be built using Java 11 as it is referencing to a jar which is build in Java 11. Hence I had to compile my code in Java 11. When I do Maven clean install, my JUnit test cases are executed without any issue. But when I tried to run my test cases via RunIT->Run As-> JUnit tests, it says "no JUnit tests found"

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*When I first set up this project, I was able to run via RunIT->Run As-> JUnit tests, which worked absolutely fine. But I had another module in my workspace, which was working on Java 1.8. After testing the tests in that module and coming back to my test project, this stopped working.

*When I set compiler to Java 1.8, my tests are identified

*Following are the configurations I have tried with

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*I am working on Eclipse Java 2019-03, which supports Java 11

*I have set Preferences-> java -> Compiler -> Compiler compliance level to 11, and Installed JREs point to Java 11.

*Project -> Properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries -> set to Java 11

*Project -> Properties -> Java Compiler -> set to Java 11

*In my module pom, I am referencing to JUnit 4

*While executing RunIT-> Run As -> Run Configurations, I have selected Java 11 JRE.

*I have done maven clean install, and all the test-classes are present in the expected target folder. I have Maven-> clean, deletes the target folder.

*After building my project via Maven, I have done "Maven Update" as well.

*In my module pom file, I have set compiler version
<plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
        <configuration>
        <source>11</source>
        <target>11</target>
        <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
        <testSource>11</testSource>
        <testTarget>11</testTarget>
        </configuration>
</plugin>

A: The issue got solved by opening the Java 11 project in different workspace. Before that I ensure that JAVA_HOME is set with to JAVA 11 and then open the eclipse.

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The Avengers made me laugh a whole lot. That may sound to fanboys like a sacrilegious way to sing the praises of Marvel's all-star extravaganza, but it's great news for everyone whose affection for the Marvel universe favors puckishness over awe. Even if one or two of the separate character reboots leading up to this group unveiling left you indifferent—and I confess, I never did get around to checking out Thor—watching the ensemble unite in fractious action is well-nigh irresistible. And the best thing about the movie is that I can't think of another Marvel-derived summer blockbuster that came this close to channeling Stan Lee's own antic spirit.
True, my own lonesome all-time Marvel fave is Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, which just proves I was never one of the cool kids. (Future critics never are, but Lee himself thinks the Howlers are some of his best work—so nyah, nyah.) But anyway. When people put Marvel's 1960s mastermind on a pedestal, they've been known to underappreciate that Lee was, among other things, a great wisecracker. Not only didn't he take himself too seriously—that was a given—but nobody in comics was better at using grumpy asides and tomfoolery to establish character. That was a big part of why readers identified with his creations (and him) more intimately than we ever did with Superman, Batman and the rest of D.C.'s Easter Island superhero gallery.
Any Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan knows how much Avengers director and co-writer Joss Whedon learned from Lee, making Whedon the ideal guy to fuse trad and new tricks here. The gags never ring false; they are quick ways of reviving our affection for characters who, in another of Lee's innovations, were mostly at least semi-conscious—downright painfully so, in the Incredible Hulk's case—of their own absurdity.
The plot does have its unwieldy side. Under the supervision of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), scientists at a remote S.H.I.E.L.D. research site are futzing with an energy cube called the Tesseract when it starts acting up, creating a portal in space for Thor's evil half-brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), to zap back from celestial exile. Brainwashing Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) into changing sides, he swipes the Tesseract so he can use its power to summon an alien army of creepy-looking space gargoyles he's met somewhere up there and get busy conquering the Earth, abetted by subjugated physicist Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard). Time for Fury and Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg, doing a real nice job as the movie's own disguised version of a fanboy) to get the Avengers together, wouldn't you say? Oh, you would?
Whedon takes his time assembling them, though. Maybe more than he needs to, in fact. Reintroducing us to the whole gang requires separate set-up sequences for each, and that's sometimes lumpy going early on. But once they're all bickering and bantering aboard the giant flying aircraft carrier that serves as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mobile headquarters—sardonic Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), newly defrosted 1940s relic Steve Rogers a.k.a. Captain America (Chris Evans), sultry Natasha Romanoff a.k.a. Black Widow (Scarlett Johannson), and sheepish Bruce Banner a.k.a. the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), with muscle-bound Thor (Chris Hemsworth), the Marvel equivalent of Archie's Moose, winging their way—the movie is off to the races.
By then, Loki is aboard himself, held in a maximum-security fishbowl originally designed to quarantine the Hulk whenever the, you know, green thing happens. He's been captured by Captain America and Iron Man after unwisely rehearsing his ruler-of-Earth bit in Germany—of all places, right? (Whedon knows how to allude to the real world without overdoing it; puncturing the idealism balloon, the later revelation of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s own unlovely plans for the Tesseract has its modern-day resonance, too.) Thinking he can talk sense to his half-brother, Thor busts him out for a Norse-style therapy session that doesn't take, which is the reason Loki's back in the airborne slammer in time for Hawkeye, who's still under his spell, to lead the rescue mission that turns into the movie's big second-act action brawl.
Even as plot logic goes by the wayside—Black Widow has already tricked Loki into revealing his plan, but she never acts on the info or thinks to pass it along—you may not be able to stop giggling in pure pleasure at the fantastically elaborate derring-do Whedon uncorks in this sequence. Not only does he keep it going well after someone less inventive would have run out of gas, but he's practically teasing us into wondering how in hell he'll top it come Act 3. He does, though, and one reason his humongous set-pieces don't degenerate into the usual demolition derby is that he never loses sight of opportunities for character-driven comedy, no matter how many CGI baddies are whizzing all over the screen.
That's why this is one of the rare comic-book movies that people may come out of talking about the acting, not just the stunt work. By now, there aren't many surprises left in Downey's Tony Stark, but he sure knows how to pretend otherwise. Better yet are Evans's proud-to-be-square Captain America—reminded that Loki and Thor are practically gods, he sternly answers "There is only one God" before thoughtfully adding, "And I'm sure He doesn't dress that way"—and, especially, Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner, a really beautiful (I'm not kidding) compound of disguised woe and rueful gallows humor. Ruffalo has a wonderful moment when he breaks his rule of only calling his battering-ram alter ego "the other guy." Realizing he's just said "Hulk" instead amuses and pains him all at once, and it's the movie's single most poignant grace note.
As for Tom Hiddleston, a dude who can go in the space of a year from expertly facsimilizing F. Scott Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris and adding welcome dash to Steven Spielberg's soggy War Horse to playing Loki with this much wit—and feeling, too—is pretty clearly an actor destined to make Michael Fassbender worry that he's yesterday's news. Otherwise, Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury is maybe more tamped-down and less fun than you'd expect, but the only cast member who seems less than clued in about what kind of movie she's in is—gee, howdja guess?—Scarlett Johannson. She's not bad, exactly, but to put it gently, projecting brainy cunning isn't her strong suit. And one thing nearly all of Marvel's characters have in common is that they're not only smart, but enjoy it.
That's a minor glitch, though. It isn't the only one, because no director has ever totally mastered the insane logistics of a giant comic-book movie, and Whedon is no exception. But as usual, we've got a glut of those coming our way this summer. Feel lucky that things kicked off with one this good.


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    });

    it('should create', () => {
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Home » Celebrities » Martin Short and Selena Gomez SAG Awards: 4 Times We Loved This 'Only Murders' Friendship
Martin Short and Selena Gomez SAG Awards: 4 Times We Loved This 'Only Murders' Friendship
Only Murders in the Building fans were treated to a night of laughs when Martin Short and Selena Gomez hung out together at the SAG Awards on Feb. 27. The co-stars were there to represent their Hulu comedy, as Only Murders received three nominations: Ensemble in a Comedy Series and Male Actor in a Comedy Series (Martin Short and Steve Martin).
Although Martin couldn't be there to round out the Only Murders trio, Gomez and Short reminded fans of just how perfect their unconventional friendship is. Here are some of Gomez's, Short's, and Martin's best friendship moments.
Selena Gomez and Martin Short's hilarious presentation at the SAG Awards 2022
Gomez and Martin couldn't keep straight faces as they took to the stage together to present the SAG Award nominees for Female Actor in a Supporting Role. The two showed off their comedic timing as they joked about botox, the "Shag" Awards, and their family dynamic.
"Thank you so much," Short said after a round of applause when they entered the stage. "You're very kind. And right."
Gomez feigned an exasperated look as she corrected Short for saying "Shag" instead of "SAG." Exasperation turned to shock when Short cracked a joke about Meryl Streep, as seen below.
Later, Gomez couldn't contain her laughter when Short said, "Let's continue doing God's work and give another actor an award." The audience ate their banter up, proving that Gomez and Short are quite the dynamic pair.
Short's description of the first time he met Gomez
Short once admitted that he was intrigued by Gomez from the very moment he met her. As ET Canada notes, Short described their first meeting on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he appeared alongside Gomez and Martin in September.
"I met her in the makeup chair the first day we shot. And I was right away struck by this beautiful, engaging, and right away charming person," he explained.
Some co-stars might take time to build chemistry with each other, but Gomez fit right in with Short and Martin. Short added that she made filming "very easy." And with that chemistry established on day one, the three Only Murders stars could begin a beautiful friendship.
When Selena Gomez taught Martin Short and Steve Martin about 'OG' and 'WAP'
In that same interview on The Late Show, Gomez revealed that the generational gap between the three of them led to some hilarious times. Gomez is 29 years old, while Martin is 76 and Short is 71. Gomez said she exposed her co-stars to some modern trends and phrases, like Cardi B.'s song "WAP."
"I enjoyed listening to the music that we all listen to — Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong — but I decided one day it'd be cool if I played 'WAP,'" Gomez said. "They were very confused at first, but then they were on board with the female empowerment part."
Gomez also taught her co-stars that they were the "OGs." On TikTok, she shared a video of herself asking Martin and Short what they were. They both responded with, "The OG," which made Gomez very proud.
When Selena Gomez gushed about her 'crazy uncles' and their life lessons
While Gomez teaches Short and Martin about current trends, her co-stars teach her some valuable life lessons. As Showbiz Cheat Sheet reported, during a TCA panel in September, Gomez called Short and Martin her "crazy uncles."
"Sometimes I find that comedy people can sometimes be a little bit distant, and so I didn't know what I was getting myself into," she admitted. "And now I have, like, these two crazy uncles in my life that basically give me boy advice, and I sing rap songs to them."
In addition to boy advice, Gomez said she learned a lot about comedy from Martin and Short. She also appreciated their leadership on set.
"They are so humble, and they are kind, and they are there till the very end. They've set such an example for me," she continued. "I would be so lucky to have a career that lasted that long. I love the way they talk to people, I love the way that they just come to set and make everybody feel good, and that makes me want to be that and do that more."
Only Murders in the Building Season 1 is now streaming on Hulu. Stay tuned to Showbiz Cheat Sheet for updates on season 2.
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Every time an inquiry is made on a property, the contact is added to a contact list within the MyVR account. A complete history of all interactions is stored and the range of features available makes contact management easy and thorough.
Navigate to Reporting > Views Contacts and select View Contacts. All contacts will be listed and users may view, search and edit specific contacts. Contacts will be automatically created from inquiries but may also be manually added by users. Use Search & Filters to filter out the contact type.
To view contact details, click on the contact name. Details may be reviewed and revised as necessary.
Access the relevant tab to see all Inquiries and Reservations associated with the contact. Users may log additional information in the Notes tab. If there are photos associated with the contact they are stored under the Photos tab.
MyVR offers three methods to export contacts.
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Q: Documentation for LLDB's GUI I've been recently been playing around with LLDB's gui feature. (A stackoverflow link about this feature is described here. My current lldb is lldb-320.4.156)
So far, it seems very convenient, especially the ability to view local variables in the current stack frame. But is there any documentation (or tutorial) on how to use the LLDB's GUI mode?

Aside: I specifically have a few questions:

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*How to show the source code upon going into GUI mode. (Unless I stop at a breakpoint and type gui within LLDB, I can never get source code to show up.)

*How to rerun a program while in GUI mode. (There is nowhere to type while in GUI mode.)

*Are there colors in GUI mode? I notice if you type lldb --help in the command line, lldb tells you you could invoke it with a --no-use-colors option. (That being said, I've never seen colors with normal lldb mode...)

*Is there a way to set breakpoints, prior to running lldb?

A: The GUI mode in lldb is a feature that Greg Clayton did over a few weeks of nights & weekends -- it's a really cool hack.  But it's not completed to product-quality level and there's no documentation short of the command key tips that you can see with its built in help system.  The biggest omission is definitely the lack of a console window where you could type arbitrary lldb commands - but adding a console pane like that was where things started to get tricky. :)
Hopefully an interested developer will pick up the gui mode work and add these features.  For people who can't use a full IDE, it can be really helpful to have a text mode windowed UI when using a debugger.

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But is there any documentation (or tutorial) on how to use the LLDB's GUI mode?

I don't know any official documentation. But this random video was helpful for me. Also, pressing h in TUI gives you a minimal documentation.

1. How to show the source code upon going into GUI mode. (Unless I stop at a breakpoint and type gui within LLDB, I can never get source code to show up.)

As you observed, unless gui command is executed while the program is paused due to a breakpoint or something, nothing happens in TUI.

2. How to rerun a program while in GUI mode. (There is nowhere to type while in GUI mode.)

AFAIK, impossible. Press Esc and execute run again.

3. Are there colors in GUI mode? I notice if you type lldb --help in the command line, lldb tells you you could invoke it with a --no-use-colors option. (That being said, I've never seen colors with normal lldb mode...)

In my environment (M1 Macbook Air), color works with no option (i.e. by default) both in CUI and TUI.

4. Is there a way to set breakpoints, prior to running lldb?

See @Johan's answer. You can also use ~/.lldbinit file if the breakpoint condition is fixed.

A: Don't have an answer for all your questions, but regarding breakpoints, you can save all your debug session "setup" commands in a file and then just load that file:
lldb -S <filename>

Found this option from here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/34275770/1345329


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The Business of Computer Vision: Transportation
By Marty Beard • Aug 04, 2021
Follow along as alwaysAI CEO, Marty Beard, discusses how Computer Vision is driving us towards the future of transportation.
What Will Be the Future of Transportation?
According to a recent study, 75% of the world's population will live in cities by 2050. At that rate, cities will be over-crowded, and energy consumption and space will be at a premium. New modes of transportation are required. Computer Vision can provide the real-time data to help cities provide transportation that is safer, energy-efficient, autonomous, and more productive for the rider. The future of transportation is 'smart'.
What is 'Smart' Transportation?
Smart transportation refers to an approach that incorporates modern technologies into transportation systems. This includes wireless communication, AI, computer vision, and other tools to enhance smarter mobility. Smart transportation makes it possible to improve in-cabin monitoring, optimize passenger flow, and bolster security and fleet manager liability across a wide variety of vehicles.
There are a plethora of transportation modes, including:
Electric vehicles (EV)
Autonomous vehicles (AV), both private and public
"Micromobility": e-bikes, e-scooter, e-mopeds, etc.
Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for delivery and assistance, etc.
And even Autonomous Vessels like boats, ferries, ships, etc.
These new modes offer clear advantages - and fit better - with the emerging future and its need for cleaner, more efficient mobility.
For example, did you know that 29% of US gas emissions come from transportation? Electric vehicles are changing that. Did you also know that cars can take up to 50% of the available space in dense cities? With micromobility options such as e-scooters and e-mopeds, space and energy can be conserved. For example, you can park 12-e-bikes in a single-car spot. Smart transportation is not just a theory for the future; it is being implemented today in several cities powered by Computer Vision capabilities.
How Does Computer Vision Help inside and outside the vehicle?
Computer Vision is at the center of all this new/smart transportation. Edge CV helps in all aspects of smart transportation, inside and outside the vehicle. Sensors and vision are critical to really make transportation smart. Inside the vehicle, Computer Vision enables stakeholders to gain analytics and real-time data about what's happening inside the cabin, improving the safety and security of public and private modes of transportation. Outside the vehicle, stakeholders can also use Computer Vision to create smarter real-time options for drivers and passengers.
Benefits of using in-cabin monitoring:
Real-time alerts on driver/pilot/captain fatigue, distraction
Liability protection of drivers and fleet managers
Real-time health emergency detection
Crime prevention and mitigation
Regulatory compliance, audit, and legal protection
How Computer Vision helps outside the vehicle:
More robust, real-time data for route optimization and safety
Lane departure and sidewalk detection
More real-time, surrounding information
Help riders make the right decisions
Provide information to passengers about their surroundings
alwaysAI Provides Enterprises with a Platform to Leverage Smart Transportation Solutions
alwaysAI's cutting-edge development platform enables enterprise developers to prototype, implement, and deploy Computer Vision applications onto IoT devices at scale. We provide easy-to-use starter applications to get going quickly, then customize for your specific use case. Leverage alwaysAI's end-to-end development platform to build, train and deploy CV applications for in-cabin monitoring, navigation, fleet management, passenger flow, and drive new revenue-producing information today. Customers leverage insights gained through the use of the alwaysAI platform and our model catalog to make effective business solutions. This is quickly becoming a best practice for all industries and essential to achieving a competitive advantage in the years ahead. Make advanced AI easy for your organization. Register for free to get started today, or schedule a demo and talk to our Computer Vision experts about your business.
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package hudson.model;

import hudson.Extension;
import jenkins.model.Jenkins;
import org.jenkinsci.Symbol;

/**
 * Adds the "Manage Jenkins" link to the top page.
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 * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
 */
@Extension(ordinal=100) @Symbol("manageJenkins")
public class ManageJenkinsAction implements RootAction {
    @Override
    public String getIconFileName() {
        if (Jenkins.get().hasPermission(Jenkins.ADMINISTER))
            return "gear2.png";
        else
            return null;
    }

    @Override
    public String getDisplayName() {
        return Messages.ManageJenkinsAction_DisplayName();
    }

    @Override
    public String getUrlName() {
        return "/manage";
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who is Ghislaine Maxwell?
Who is she??
She is a convicted sex trafficker known for her association with the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She worked for her father Robert Maxwell until his death in 1991.
Her matter
In March 2021, Maxwell was charged with two new US federal charges, one of sex trafficking conspiracy and one of sex trafficking of a minor.
Current matter
On 29 December 2021, she was convicted on five counts related to the sex trafficking of a child.
Ghislaine Maxwell was a prominent member of the London social scene in the 1980s. She founded a women's club named after the original Kit-Cat Club
According to Epstein's former business partner, Steven Hoffenberg, Robert Maxwell introduced his daughter to Epstein in the 1980s. Maxwell at a New York party following "a difficult break-up with Count Gianfranco Cicogna Mozzoni" in the early 1990s
Net Worth - $20 Million
Ghislaine Maxwell has a net worth of $20 million. She is best-known for being the alleged accomplice of serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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L'Emiciclo, per esteso Palazzo dell'Emiciclo e anche noto come Palazzo dell'Esposizione, è un complesso monumentale dell'Aquila, sede del Consiglio regionale dell'Abruzzo.

Storia
L'area compresa dentro le mura dell'Aquila a sud dell'attuale Viale Luigi Rendina — storicamente suddivisa nei locali di Monticchio, Fontecchio e Fossa — rimase quasi interamente inedificata per diversi secoli dopo la fondazione della città. Gli unici edifici di cui si ha debole documentazione sono le scomparse chiese di Sant'Andrea, di Santa Maria a Graiano e di Santa Maria ai Quattro Coronati.

Solo a partire dal 1606, su proposta di Francesco Vastarini, frate cappuccino nonché celebre studioso e predicatore, venne ipotizzata la costruzione di una sede dell'ordine dei frati minori cappuccini da realizzarsi dentro le mura, in contrapposizione al convento di San Giuseppe extra moenia, fondato nel 1540 da Matteo di Leonessa. Il Vastarini acquistò un vasto appezzamento di terreno al margine settentrionale del locale di Monticchio e, nel 1610, cominciò la realizzazione della struttura su progetto di padre Bernardo Romano.

Il complesso fu intitolato all'arcangelo Michele e consisteva in una chiesa, con facciata a coronamento orizzontale, affiancata a sud dal convento; quest'ultimo era di forma quadrangolare con cortile al centro e si strutturava su due livelli con ambienti di servizio al piano terra e 45 camere per i religiosi al primo piano. Alle spalle del complesso, verso la cinta muraria, si stagliava un'area di orti e campi coltivati gestita dagli stessi frati cappuccini.

Nel 1866, in seguito all'Unità d'Italia, la residenza fu soppressa; i cappuccini si trasferirono poi, sul finire del secolo, nel complesso di Santa Chiara a Borgo Rivera, mentre il convento di San Michele divenne dapprima sede della Guardia di Finanza e, nel 1885, passò nelle mani dell'amministrazione comunale che decise di localizzarci l'Esposizione Regionale.

La riconversione del complesso avvenne nel 1888 su progetto dell'architetto Carlo Waldis che, nell'ambito di una complessa e lunga riqualificazione urbanistica dell'intera area meridionale della città, realizzò l'attuale caratteristica facciata ad esedra porticata in corrispondenza dei giardini della Villa comunale.

Il complesso ospitò l'Esposizione del 1903 e, nei decenni successivi, tutte le principali mostre ospitate in città. Tra il 1929 e il 1932 il palazzo fu affiancato dalla Casa del Balilla realizzata in stile monumentalista su progetto di Luigi Cardilli e Vincenzo Di Nanna.

Nel dopoguerra, con la costituzione delle regioni d'Italia, si rese necessario individuare una sede idonea ad ospitare gli uffici. Nel 1971 la giunta regionale si riunì nella sua prima seduta all'interno del Palazzo della Prefettura; nei mesi successivi, anche in virtù dei moti dell'Aquila, l'assemblea si riunì all'interno del Forte spagnolo. Infine, nel 1972, con delibera dell'assemblea legislativa, la sede venne definitivamente trasferita all'Emiciclo che — su intuizione dell'allora soprintendente Mario Moretti e dell'architetto Renzo Mancini — era stato prontamente restaurato per quello scopo. Inizialmente la sala del Consiglio fu localizzata nell'ex navata della chiesa per poi essere trasferita nel salone dell'Esposizione Regionale. Nel 1984 il complesso fu ampliato ad est con la realizzazione di nuove strutture su progetto dell'architetto Giuseppe Santoro.

Il terremoto dell'Aquila del 2009 ha danneggiato gravemente l'intero complesso, con danni localizzati soprattutto alle estremità del porticato e nell'ex navata della chiesa. L'Emiciclo è stato quindi oggetto di un radicale progetto di ricostruzione e miglioramento sismico, per un importo di circa 8,8 milioni di euro, approvato dal Consiglio regionale dell'Abruzzo nel 2012; i lavori hanno avuto inizio l'11 gennaio 2016 e si sono conclusi due anni dopo; l'Emiciclo è stato riaperto al pubblico il 22 giugno 2018. L'intervento ha permesso la realizzazione di una nuova fondazione al di sotto del complesso e la posa in opera di 61 isolatori sismici; si tratta del primo palazzo pubblico in Italia ed uno dei primi in Europa ad adottare una soluzione antisismica di questo tipo.

Descrizione

L'Emiciclo è situato nel quarto di Santa Giusta, in Via Michele Iacobucci, adiacente ai giardini della Villa comunale. Si tratta di un vasto complesso caratterizzato dalla sovrapposizione di diversi edifici storici, la cui realizzazione è iniziata nel XVII secolo.

Esterno
La facciata dell'Emiciclo è rappresentata dal palazzo realizzato su progetto di Carlo Waldis sul finire del XIX secolo, caratterizzato da un ricco colonnato in stile neoclassico e di forma semicircolare, da cui il nome dell'intero complesso. Si volge ad ovest verso i giardini pubblici di cui realizza la terminazione orientale.

Il porticato — anticipate da due insolite colonnine lapidee che, nel XIX secolo, sorreggevano le lampade dell'illuminazione pubblica — è costituito da dodici colonne in stile ionico sostenenti un soffitto ad orditura semplice che a sua volta sorregge una vasta terrazza; è suddiviso in due parti da un corpo centrale, impostato su quattro pilastri a base quadrate, e si conclude con due edicole, entrambe con un'aquila nel frontone. Nel mezzo delle due porzioni di porticato sono due bassorilievi: il primo è l'Italia che distribuisce ai vincitori le corone, il secondo la Storia che scrive i fasti che la tromba canta. Inoltre, nella parte centrale, il marcapiano reca la dicitura «» in omaggio alla funzione di sede del Consiglio regionale dell'Abruzzo.

Il colonnato è anche caratterizzato, nel percorso interno, dalla presenza di sedici busti di illustri personalità abruzzesi, vale a dire in ordine alfabetico: Anton Ludovico Antinori, Andrea Argoli, Bernardino Cirillo, Cola dell'Amatrice, Pietro Antonio Corsignani, Giacinto De Vecchi, Leonardo Dorotea, Giacinto Dragonetti, Muzio Febonio, Carlo Franchi, Giovanni da Capestrano, Niccolò dell'Isola, Venanzio Lupacchini, Luigi Marchesani, Giulio Mazzarino e Lucio Silla. Di questi quattordici sono rivolti verso la piazza mentre due — i busti di Dorotea e Dragonetti — sono rivolti verso l'ingresso al complesso.

Interno

L'ingresso al complesso avviene tramite il corpo principale della facciata che immette direttamente in una vasta aula quadrangolare, denominata Navata, che costituisce ciò che rimane dell'originaria chiesa di San Michele. La Navata si conclude sul fondo, verso est, con I giorni e le opere, grande vetrata istoriata opera dell'artista Franco Summa e vincitrice di un apposito concorso internazionale. In essa, secondo Franco Purini si racchiudono «elementi impliciti che agiscono a livello subliminale», tra cui il rosone della basilica di Santa Maria di Collemaggio.

Alla destra della Navata si ci immette nel chiostro, reso nuovamente accessibile nel 2018 dopo la dismissione della sala Michetti che ne occupava lo spazio. Il chiostro è posto al centro dell'antico convento dei cappuccini: presenta una copertura vetrata e costituisce uno spazio di disimpegno per i vari ambienti che lo circondano. Dal chiostro è possibile inoltre accedere all'ala moderna del complesso posta ad ovest dell'Emiciclo. Il chiostro si apre, al piano superiore, agli uffici di rappresentanza e, al piano inferiore, ad ambienti di servizio ed alla Sala della Biblioteca.

Dal chiostro inoltre, oltre che direttamente dall'esterno, si raggiunge la sala ipogea realizzata al di sotto della piazza del colonnato durante i lavori di ricostruzione del 2016-2018 e destinata a sostituire la precedente sala Michetti. La sala, anch'essa a semicerchio, occupa una superficie di 590 m² e può contenere 186 posti nella sua configurazione ad assemblea del Consiglio regionale dell'Abruzzo, oppure 250 posti in caso di evento aperto al pubblico.

I sotterranei dell'ex convento dei Cappuccini, restaurati nel 2018, ospitano la Biblioteca regionale "Giuseppe Bolino".

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Architetture neoclassiche dell'Aquila
Emiciclo

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Em Rusciano – The Rage and Rainbows Tour
Federation Concert Hall, Davey Street, Hobart CBD, Hobart
Davey Street, Hobart CBD, Tasmania
Wed 24 Jul 2019, 8:00pm
Frontier Comedy
Em Rusciano
Stand-up comedian, singer, writer and broadcaster Em Rusciano is making an unprecedented Australian theatre tour this July and August! With a phenomenal career trajectory that has launched her from finalist and audience favourite in a hugely popular national talent show to hosting brekky radio and selling out shows around Australia, the glitter cyclone embodied by Em Rusciano continues to take no prisoners and tell no lies. The Rage and Rainbows Tour will see Em leave a trail of sequins, singalongs and sore bellies from Hobart to Perth and everywhere in between.
Last year has been huge for Em—she had a baby, turned 40, left a high profile job and had a combined 45 minutes sleep. There's been next-level rage. There's also been love. There's been day drinking and breastfeeding…no, not at the same time.
With her The Rage and Rainbows Tour, Em is finally giving voice to that gnawing rage we all try to hide. She's unleashing the rage, dunking it in white wine, rolling it in glitter, and giving it an eight-piece back-up band and four costume changes. She's also going to tell you what you can do with it, to send it on its way.
With sell-out shows around Australia for the past five years consecutively, a best-selling memoir, award-winning audiobook and two Top Ten singles, Em is one of Australia's most prolific performer—and let's not forget she's done all of the above and more while raising a young family. With a Facebook following of 275,000 fans, 32,000 on Twitter and 180,000 on Instagram, Em's social media community is fierce, loud and passionately loyal.
"Had the crowd utterly spellbound." - Herald Sun
"Hilarious." - Theatre People
"Manic hilarity, chaotic extroversion and one huge and beautiful voice." - The Age
Em has teamed up with MSquared Productions, as well as Australia's 2019 Eurovision representative, the ridiculously talented Kate Miller-Heidke, and her partner Keir Nuttall to write original, fabulous songs especially for the tour. The songs are now available, and learning all the words so that we can have a knee-trembling singalong is strongly encouraged.
As Em puts it, "Now, listen here: I want you to learn them before the show. Study them. Press play/pause on your stereo and write out the lyrics while lying on your bed with a lollipop, like the good ol' days. I want you to be able to sing along with me, lighter in the air, hand on your heart."
The Rage and Rainbows Tour is more than a show. It's a festival for anyone who's felt fed-up, furious, exhausted, demoralised...but still maintained a passion for sequins.
Don't miss the unstoppable force of female empowerment, nurturing motherhood and sheer moxie that is Em Rusciano as she scatters truthbombs, rage and rainbows to theatres across Australia in her most epic show yet. This tour will sell out so book yours fast!
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Number of organisations reporting gender pay gap figures down by 11%, new CIPD analysis finds
CIPD analyses latest gender pay gap data and calls for mandatory narratives with action plans to accompany reporting
The CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, has analysed this year's gender pay gap data for Great Britain, finding the number of organisations reporting their figures is down 11%.
Gender pay gap reporting was suspended last year, in recognition of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organisations. Enforcement action was also delayed by six months this year, with data for 2020-21 now available.
However, both times the CIPD has encouraged employers to continue reporting as usual, to help organisations understand any gaps and take action to address any inequalities in their workforce.
There were significantly fewer companies that reported data in 2019-20, so the CIPD has compared data from the years 2018-19 and 2020-21, providing a two-year review of gender pay gaps. The CIPD's analysis found:
The number of organisations reporting their gender pay gap figures is down 11% – 9,627 reported this year compared to 10,827 previously. The drop may reflect some employers falling out of scope for mandatory reporting or could be an indicator that gender pay reporting has been less of a priority.
By region, the biggest falls have been: Yorkshire and the Humber (-16%), West Midlands (-15%) and Scotland and Wales (both –14%).
The headline median figure has got worse – rising from 9.5% in 2019 to 10.4% - a change of 0.9%. Women are earning roughly 90p for every pound earned by men.
The mean figure is virtually unchanged at 13.3%
There are regional differences, with the highest median hourly gaps in the south of Britain, with London at 12.4% and the South East at 11.6%. The median is lowest in Wales (7.2%) and Scotland (7.6%).
The figures also show that around 65% of companies provide a URL to information on their gender pay gap, suggesting over a third do not provide any form of narrative of their figures (although the presence of the URL does not necessarily indicate that an organisation has provided a narrative about their figures). Previously, 69% of companies provided a URL.
Charles Cotton, senior policy adviser for reward and recognition at the CIPD comments:
"It's disappointing that the number of organisations reporting their gender pay gap has fallen. We encourage those who haven't yet reported to do so as soon as possible, otherwise they risk enforcement action and possible damage to their reputation. Evidence suggests that economically, women have been adversely and disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and now is not the time to be taking the foot off the pedal when it comes to equality in the workplace.
"The CIPD is calling for accompanying narratives and action plans to be mandatory alongside the reporting of gender pay gap figures. It's more important than ever that employers don't just report figures; instead, they need to fully engage and understand the reason for any gap and be transparent about how they plan to tackle it and improve gender equality in the workplace.
"Transparency is important not just for external stakeholders such as investors or customers, but also for employee engagement. Until narratives and action plans become compulsory, we encourage employers and our members to publish them voluntarily, using the CIPD's guidance on how to communicate this information effectively."
Companies with 250 or more employees are required to file their gender pay gap report. Not filing a report breaches the Equality Act 2010 and could prompt enforcement action by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The CIPD's guidance to support employers with gender pay gap reporting is available here.
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Where to go in Epping Forest
Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge
Explore the Tudor history of Epping Forest at Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge, built in 1543 for King Henry VIII and renovated by order of Queen Elizabeth I. At the Lodge, you can:
learn about Tudor food in with the sights and sounds of our Tudor kitchen
discover Tudor fashion with our period dress-up clothes
find out how this unique building was constructed
hunt down mysterious marks left by the carpenters who built the Lodge nearly 500 years ago
enjoy one of the best views of Epping Forest from the Lodge's top floor
Due to COVID-19 and constricted space in the Hunting Lodge, we aren't open as usual at the moment, but you can book a private tour of the Hunting Lodge for up to six people at a ticket price of £5 per person, adult or child.
Please call our front of house staff at Epping Forest Visitor Centre at Chingford on 020 7332 1911 during opening hours - Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm - to arrange your tour in advance. Staff may also be able to offer you a tour if you drop into the Centre but this will depend staff availability on the day.
Please pay for your tickets at time of booking, either by credit over the phone, or in person at the front desk.
The Hunting Lodge is well-connected to public transport by Chingford Station, ten minutes' walk away, which is served by London Overground and several bus routes.
Visit TfL's Journey Planner to plan your trip to the Centre.
Our Chingford Visitor Centre next door has a small car park with two disabled parking bays and three for non-disabled drivers.
We also have four larger car parks nearby and within short walking distance:
Barn Hoppitt car park
Warren Pond car park
Chingford Plain car park
Connaught Water car park
Fees, charges and opening times for our car parks can be found on our car parking page.
Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge is a medieval Grade II*-listed building and has been adapted to be as accessible as possible. Please read the following for a breakdown of the building, with access requirements for each area of it.
the ground floor is fully accessible
the floor has a multi-sensory display of Tudor food displayed at an accessible height
both rooms have flagstones and offer level access
our written displays are written in Plain English
a magnifying glass, pen and paper are available
a hearing loop is also available
Upper floors
our upper floors are reachable by shallow wooden stairs with a hand rail
costumes are available to handle and try on (Presently unavailable)
if you are unable to access the upper floors a folder explaining what can be seen upstairs is also available
Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge is set in its own grassed area with benches and a picnic table
a resin bonded path leads to Butler's Retreat where refreshments are available
the cafe has ample seating around the building and a ground floor accessible toilet
accessible toilets are also available at our visitor centre next door
Entrance to the Visitor Centre permanent galleries is free.
A charge is made for tours, which need to be booked in advance. These can include handling sessions.
Sensory days and events are listed on our Eventbrite page when running.
British Sign Language interpretation is provided for selected events listed in the diary, or if booked in advance (the latter may be subject to a fee).
Epping Forest Visitor Centre at Chingford