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How to write the instruction manual
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After briefly telling the story of the instruction manual, or rather, how the evolution of the world of work, after the Industrial Revolution, has led us up to the recent legislation on work, in this article we talk about how to draft an instruction manual, in particular how we do it in SPAI.
The first questions are: what is the instruction manual for? What is the company's policy on the machines it produces?
These are, in our opinion, the first questions to start from when you start to plan the drafting of an instruction manual. Clarifying the company policy of the manufacturer is fundamental to start the work in the right way. In other words, how the company wants to deal with those who buy that machine.
Who will transport the machine to the production site?
Who will install it?
What level of autonomy do you want to leave in the ordinary maintenance of the machine?
These are some of the questions that have a considerable impact on the manual that will be drawn up and which, in our opinion, cannot be overlooked.
Who writes the instruction manual? The technical editor
Until recently, the role of the technical editor, who writes the instruction manual, was marginal. The instruction manual was seen (sometimes it is still seen today) as a burden for the company, an obligation to comply with the law and a cost to be reduced as much as possible. Often the task of preparing the manual was delegated to those who had materially built the machine, who, however, had limited language skills and, at the same time, risked flying over important information taken for granted.
Today, with updates on occupational safety regulations and increased manufacturer responsibilities, the instruction manual has become a key part oft he machine. That's how the figure of the technical editor has become professionally recognized.
How an instruction manual should be
By definition, when we speak of an instruction manual, we refer to information on how to use the machine (or product) correctly, conveniently and safely. The instruction manual uses text, words, signals, symbols or diagrams to convey information to those who will use the machine: transport, install, use, move, maintain.
The main features of the instructions for use concern ease of reference, clarity, simple and immediately comprehensible language.
The instruction manual must accompany the product throughout its life cycle and, according to point 1.7.4 of Annex I to Directive 2006/42/EC, it must contain the following information:
the full company name of the manufacturer (and, where applicable, his authorised representative);
the designation of the machinery, as indicated on the machinery itself, except for the serial number;
the EC declaration of conformity or a document reporting the content of the EC declaration of conformity;
a general description of the machinery, from which the main parts and their functions can be identified;
the intended use of the machinery;
a description of the places of work occupied by the operators;
warnings of the residual risks which remain, despite the fact that the protective measures integrated into the design of the machinery have been adopted and despite the additional protections and protective measures adopted;
instructions on how to carry out the work without risk:
assembly, installation and connection, including drawings, diagrams and fixing systems and the designation of the frame or of the installation on which the machinery is to be mounted;
putting into service; use; transport, indicating the mass of the machinery and its various components as soon as they are regularly transported separately; dismantling; adjustment; maintenance;
where necessary, instructions for the training of operators;
where necessary, the essential characteristics of the tools which may be mounted on the machinery;
the protective measures to be taken by the user, including, where requested, the personal protective equipment to be provided;
the conditions in which the machinery satisfies the stability requirements during use, transport, assembly, dismantling, out of service, testing or foreseeable failures;
the operating method to be followed in the event of an accident or breakdown, for example procedures for releasing persons with body parts trapped between machine parts;
if a blockage is likely to occur, the method of operation to be followed to enable the machinery to be unblocked safely;
the specifications of the spare parts to be used, if they affect the health and safety of the operations
if the machinery is likely to emit non-ionising radiation which could cause harm to persons, in particular persons with active or non-active implantable medical devices, information concerning the radiation emitted for the operator and exposed persons;
if necessary, mounting instructions to reduce noise and vibration emissions (e.g. use of shock absorbers, characteristics of bases, etc.);
the level of airborne noise emitted by the machinery.
The instruction manual according to SPAI
With respect to the information listed above which, according to Directive 2006/42/EC, must be contained in the instruction manual, we at SPAI believe it is essential to pay particular attention to their placement within the text. The Directive does not oblige you to create individual chapters for each of this information, so it is important to insert them where necessary and useful for the correct and safe use of the machine. For example, the description of the machine parts and their functions does not necessarily have to be a separate chapter containing all of them, but the individual descriptions and functions must be found on those pages of the manual that deal with the operating procedure that calls into question them. This is one of the cornerstones of our way of working, which avoids providing the operator with a manual made up of continuous references to different sections of the text, on the contrary, it provides a clear and easy content.
Our phases of drafting the Manual:
Discussion with the company to understand the company's policy towards the product covered by the instruction manual: from this meeting we will understand which information (based on the previous list) must be present in the manual delivered to the customer.
Finding all the technical information to be included in the manual: assembly, disassembly, transport, installation, operation, criticality, maintenance, spare parts…
Writing and layout of the manual.
Verification of the contents and of the communicative effectiveness through the consultation of third parties.
Realization of the masters, which allow to use the parts already prepared and verified to reduce time and costs when new versions of the manual will be needed.
Effective management of language alignment, starting from the law that obliges to provide the manual in the user's language within the European Community. This is another factor with a strong impact on time and costs.
Brief history of the instruction manual
The instruction manual as a safety factor


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Each year, the AHA NOVA Awards celebrate health care organizations that make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable in their communities. While the programs are different, one element is the same: All employ extensive collaboration with like-minded community partners. Here's a brief look at the winners:
Chicago Westside Children's Asthma Partnership, Sinai Health System, Chicago: The partnership has led to reductions in the frequency of asthma symptoms, fewer ED visits and hospitalizations, decreased exposure to asthma triggers in the home and fewer nighttime home asthma emergencies.
Health-E-Access Tele-medicine Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N.Y.: Because of the program, illness-related absences in inner-city child care centers have declined by more than half, ED visits by sick kids have fallen by almost 25 percent and surveys suggest that the remote visits allow more parents to stay at work.
Healthy San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco: Almost 49,000 uninsured residents (81 percent of the city's total) have enrolled in a universal health insurance program, and 78 percent have accessed primary care. That has led to a 27 percent decrease in hospital emergency department visits in the first year of the program.
Lee County Behavioral Triage Center, Lee Memorial Health System, Fort Myers, Fla.: The center provides law enforcement and hospital EDs with alternatives to jailing or hospitalizing people with symptoms of mental illness or intoxication. Patients are offered assessments and are given referrals to more appropriate treatment settings.
Healthy Futures, Munson Healthcare System, Traverse City, Mich.: The program helps young families access health care and other supportive services. Outcomes data through late 2009 show 99 percent of pregnant women are connected with an obstetrician and 87 percent receive prenatal care in the first trimester.
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Q: Tab widget with icon on left of text. Place tabs on bottom instead of top of screen. I'm building a tab activity and but I don't want the tab text to appear below the icon. Is there any XML property to define this behavior?
On the other hand, how can I place tabs in the bottom of the screen instead of the top?

A: You need to do a few things.  First off you need to find yourself an example of a TabHost using a custom TabHost layout like this. Notice the Relative layout and the use of android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
One example is this:
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html
Be careful about using examples like this "extends TabActivity  implements TabContentFactory"  .I am not sure where you set the layout in this case. It inflates its own as you call addTab().

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Dental bonding and porcelain veneers are ways to enhance the beauty of your smile. Both treatments can improve common cosmetic concerns such as discoloration, cracks, chips, gaps, and more.
With dental bonding, a resin is applied to the surface of your teeth and then cured with a special light. This light hardens the material and ensures that it securely adheres to your teeth. Veneers, on the other hand, are thin, custom-made restorations that are bonded to the front surface of your teeth.
Both options are applied to cover a cosmetic concern. They can be completed in as little as one visit, though veneers may take up to three appointments for the entire process. Each treatment can be an excellent choice, given the right circumstances.
Treatable concerns: Both procedures can address many of the same cosmetic issues. However, veneers may be a better option for improving more pronounced concerns.
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Dr Fox: From radio show host to potential Prime Minister
Posted on July 4, 2016 by Dan Vevers in Entertainment, Politics, UK
Who is Dr Fox? What is Dr Fox? Why is Dr Fox? How is Dr Fox?
These are some questions.
One thing the former DJ is apparently doing is running for the Conservative Party leadership, a move at which close friend Louis Walsh expressed his surprise at the weekend.
Does he have a chance? Should he be given a chance? Did he give those chickens a chance? Does he have a chance?
These are some more questions.
Let's take a running jump at his chequered past and analyse whether or not he has a Prime Ministerial face.
Primordial life
Dr Fox was just Fox when he was born, due to a lack of foresight.
He was born in East Kilbride where he learned how to be racist. After he was orphaned, Big Mama the owl, Boomer the woodpecker and Dinky the finch arranged for him to be adopted by a kindly farmer named Widow Tweed.
At age 15 he starred in the Canadian television series Leo and Me produced by CBC, and in 1979, at age 18, he moved to Los Angeles to further his acting career – leading to Fox's memorable star turn in Back to the Future.
It wasn't until he returned to British shores that he got his medical degree and began sniffing around the Conservative political scene because he could smell roadkill.
Middle life
Dr Fox's middle years were utterly dominated by an intense rivalry with former hound dog friend Copper – but it's not important.
In 1988 he had his first pop smash with 'Touch Me (I Want Your Body)', which hit Number 1 in 17 countries and saw him receive a Brit award nomination for Best British Female Artist.
But it was DJing he really loved – that, and spitting on candles.
He spent 11 happy years on Magic 105.4 FM and was also a judge on nature documentary Pop Idol along with Simon Amstell and Brian Blessed.
But as the witch had always told him it would, eventually the siren call of a nation came knocking on his telephone – and leadership was thrust upon him like an unwanted lasagne.
A political star is no phrase
After working briefly as a Civilian Army Medical Officer, he realised how much of a laugh war was, and set about getting into politics to start as many as he could.
He famously took on his old friend Copper and hunter Amos Slade by employing a large bear to fend them off, but that's not important.
His brief stint as defence secretary was crushed after he became a laughing stock following an episode of 'Brass Eye', but now he has finally bounced back.
He announced his candidacy for leader of the Conservative Party on Whenday and his key policies are changing the name of New Year's Day to New Year's Brexit and trying not to die of Parkinson's.
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Before a group of 60 fourth-graders, Carole Cliffe recalled her days as a teacher at Leona Cox Community School, where she read Dr. Seuss books aloud to her elementary school kids.
It was 40 years ago, and her life as a teacher at the Canyon Country elementary school inspired her to become a children's author. "I would look out the window and say, 'I'm not going to give up,'" Cliffe said, as her audience sat attentively on the floor with legs crossed.
On Wednesday, Cliffe returned to the elementary school as the author of "Alowishes Unusual Birthday" to celebrate Read Across America Day, an annual event that honors reading and literacy.
In 2004, Cliffe brought together 1,300 parents and students from Fair Oaks Ranch Community School for a public reading of "The Cat in the Hat." It earned Cliffe and the school a place among Guinness World Records for the most people reading the book at once. Wednesday's reading also served as a fundraiser. Cliffe plans to donate a portion of her book sales to Leona Cox so the school can buy Smart Boards, an interactive white board for the classroom. "This is my way to pay back the school," Cliffe said.
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Remembering Yankees of the Past: Jorge Posada
As we learned or remembered on This Day in Yankees History this morning it was this day in 2015 that the New York Yankees honored their long-time catcher Jorge Posada with Jorge Posada Day at the stadium. Posada's #20 was retired and a plaque was placed in Monument Park to honor him. With this day one year ago in mind let's remember a great Yankee of the past. Hip Hip, Jorge!
Here is my post from 2015 from Jorge Posada Day:
Welcome ladies and gentleman to Jorge Posada Day! Jorge Rafael Posada Villeta was born on August 17, 1971 in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico to Tamara and Jorge Posada Sr. Posada spent 17 seasons in Major League Baseball, all with the New York Yankees, and helped open the door for the offensive minded catcher along with the New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza. Posada finished his career with a .273 batting average, 275 home runs and 1,065 RBI as a switch hitting catcher. Jorge was a five-time All-Star, five-time Silver Slugger Award winner and received four World Series rings as a member of the Yankees. Posada wasn't always the man we see before us today, at one time even Jorge Posada was a prospect.
Posada attended Alejandrino High School in San Juan where he not only played baseball for the school but other sports as well. Posada was a shortstop in High School and did enough in his time there to earn a scholarship from Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Alabama. CCC recruited Posada without even scouting him and Posada accepted the scholarship without even visiting the school after his SAT scores kept him from going to a traditional four-year college. Posada was voted the best hitter in his first season, 1990, while earning the co-captain position as well. Posada's bat, rifle arm and attitude was enough to earn the attention of the New York Yankees who drafted him in the 24th round of the 1990 Major League Baseball First Year Players Draft. Posada signed for roughly $30,000 on a three year deal.
Posada began his Yankees career as a second baseman but the team feared that he lacked the speed to remain as an infielder so the team began the move from second base to catcher in 1992. Posada was not happy about the transition reportedly but after a bumpy beginning he agreed to it and ended up flourishing at the plate while catching some lanky lefty named Andy Pettitte for the first time that season. In his first full season as a catcher Posada hit 17 home runs and knocked in 61 RBI in 118 games garnering a promotion to Double-A. Posada's defense behind the plate needed work, he committed 38 passes balls in 1993, his bat was good enough to earn a promotion to Triple-A with the Columbus Clippers for the 1994 season. Posada's season started out well as he had 11 home runs before a collision at home plate broke his left leg, dislocated his ankle and prematurely ended his 1994 season. Posada was recovered from the ankle injury in 1995 and found himself almost immediately in the middle of multiple trade discussions.
The Yankees attempted to trade Posada to the Seattle Mariners for Tino Martinez before those talks fell apart. Just three weeks later the Yankees attempted to trade Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera to the Cincinnati Reds for David Wells but thankfully the Cincinnati GM turned the deal down. Deals like this is what makes me wonder why people state that they want George Steinbrenner back or GM's like Gene Michael running the team again. This also goes to show you how GM's, managers and owners simply get lucky sometimes but that is another discussion for another post I guess.
Posada was called up to the Major Leagues in 1995 and made his MLB debut replacing Jim Leyritz in a game on September 4, 1995. Posada was included on the postseason roster despite that debut marking his only game in the bigs and even allowed him into Game 2 of the 1995 American League Division Series as a pinch runner. Posada was back in Triple-A in 1996 before being added back to the roster as a September call up. Posada lasted just eight games in 1996 and was added to the postseason roster once again. Posada did not appear in the postseason in 1996 but he earned his first World Series ring in 1996 when the Yankees beat the Atlanta Braves in six games.
Posada was handed the backup catcher position in the 1997 season as he quickly became the student of starting catcher Joe Girardi. Posada appeared in 60 games that season before their season was ended prematurely by the Cleveland Indians in the 1997 ALDS. Once again in 1997 the Yankees offered Posada in a deal along with Mike Lowell for Pedro Martinez of the Montreal Expos. Martinez was ultimately traded to the Boston Red Sox instead as the Yankees once again dodged a bullet with their soon to be starting catcher. Posada used the trade rumors as motivation for the 1998 season and it seemingly worked as he finished the season with a .268 batting average, 17 home runs and 63 RBI while catching David Wells perfect game on May 17. Another season, another postseason and another ring for Posada, his second of his career.
Posada split time with Girardi in 1999 as well and once again won a World Series ring with the Yankees as he slowly saw his playing time increase. Girardi left the Yankees as a free agent before the 2000 season allowing Posada to become the full-time catcher in the Bronx. Posada made his first All-Star Game appearance after hitting .287 with 28 home runs and 86 RBI and won his fourth World Series as a member of the Yankees. Posada was right back in the Mid-Summer Classic in 2001 as well and was right back into the World Series as well when he came up one out short of his fifth World Series ring in pinstripes. While Posada didn't reach the World Series in 2002 he did make his third consecutive All-Star Game appearance and got a fourth nod in 2003. Posada was back in the World Series in 2003 after hitting the game tying hit against Pedro Martinez late in Game 7 of the ALCS but the team was unable to stop Josh Beckett and the Florida Marlins in the team's second World Series loss in three seasons. Posada finished the 2003 season in third place of the MVP Award voting behind Alex Rodriguez and Carlos Delgado after hitting .281 with 30 home runs and 101 RBI.
While Posada rode the emotions of the 2003 ALCS after getting the big hit to tie the game he watched in the dugout in the 2004 ALCS when the Boston Red Sox came back from a 3-0 deficit to win the series and eventually their first World Series in 86 seasons. Posada hit free agency after the 2007 season and ultimately turned down a five-year contract offer from the New York Mets before re-signing with the Yankees on a four-year deal worth $52 million. Posada had the security of a large contract in 2007 but in 2008 he had to deal with a disabled list stint for the first time in his career. Posada underwent surgery in his right shoulder to repair a glenoid labrum that ended his season. This season was cut short by injury and was the first time in Posada's career that he did not see his team make the postseason.
Posada entered the 2009 season healthy along with a slew of new teammates and broke in the new Yankee Stadium in a big way hitting the first regular season home run in the stadium. Posada was back from the shoulder surgery and finished the season with a .285 average, 22 home runs and 81 RBI before winning his 5th World Series in a victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Posada's power was on full display in 2010 as the team looked to defend their crown and even became the first Yankee since Bill Dickey in 1937 to hit grand slams in back-to-back games against the Houston Astros. Posada also collected his 1,000th career RBI but could not collect his 6th World Series ring as the team lost to the Texas Rangers in the 2010 ALCS. Following the 2010 season Posada underwent an arthroscopic surgery in his left knee to repair a torn meniscus that forced him out of the catcher position and into the DH position for the Yankees, something that did not go over well with Posada.
Posada had to watch as the Yankees signed Russell Martin to be their every day catcher and had to watch as former teacher, and current manager, Joe Girardi dropped him to 9th in the Yankees batting order. Posada asked to be removed from the lineup and told reporters he needed to clear his head and also mentioned he had some stiffness in his back as the reasons for asking out of the lineup. Posada was delegated to a bench role in August of 2011 but it earned him one more final trip to the postseason. Posada played well in the ALDS but the team lost the ALCS to the Detroit Tigers in five games as we all watched Posada on the baseball diamond for the final time.
Posada reportedly received interest from five or six teams during the offseason before the 2012 season but the New York Yankees were not one of them. In January of 2012 Posada decided to announce his retirement from the game of Major League Baseball. Posada has rejoined the team as a guest instructor during spring training since his retirement but has rarely been back to Yankee Stadium outside of Derek Jeter Day and Jeter's final game in the Bronx.
Posada is a legend, Yankees or not, and say what you will he deserves this honor of having his number retired by the Yankees. Not many players win five World Series or almost change a position for the better single-handed. Posada is a Yankee and now he will always be remembered as one. Congrats Jorge!
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The unique structure of the sheepshead fish's teeth is a distracting feature, but local angler is excited about that capture of this nine-pound fish.
A Fish with A Bite
A smile worth writing about was found by an angler in August 2021, off Jenette's Pier in North Carolina.
The angler had a bizarre fish with a mouth full of what looked like human teeth hooked on their line.
The creature looks like a normal fish at first glance, but once it opens its mouth, the sheepshead fish looks like a cartoon version of a basic fish. The fish is a common resident of the Atlantic Ocean, yet still sparked conversations when photos of the catch were shared on Facebook.
The nine-pound sheepshead fish most likely gets its name from sharing similar dental features with sheep. It uses its impressive dentition to crack open clams, oysters, and other crustaceans.
The toothy fish was reeled in by Nathan Martin, a frequent fisher at the pier.
Martin was using sand fleas as bait when he caught the sheepshead fish.
"It's a very good fight when you're fighting on the line, it's a really good catch, and it tastes very good," said Martin to McClatchy News. Martin also included that he plans to mount the fish in his home.
Photos of the fish were uploaded to Facebook on Aug. 3 and soon went viral as users commented with confusion after discovering the creature and its several rows of human-like teeth. The fish has a top row of teeth that resemble those of a human, followed by rows of shallow molars down the throat.
The fish is also sometimes referred to as the 'convict fish' because of the dark stripes that run down its light grey body, resembling the uniform that is worn in prison.
Although the mouth of the sheepshead fish is intimidating, the possibility of being bitten is slim. According to snopes.com, the fish "pose no threat to humans unless harassed."
Because they are good to eat, the sheepshead fish is a common target for anglers. The capture of the fish does warrant the possibility of being bitten or poked by their sharp dorsal fin spines; however, they are still a desired catch.
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Марта Прикартц (; урождённая Калл (); 18 сентября 1924 г. — 6 мая 2015, Концен) — немецкий игрок в скат, одна из учредителей Международной ассоциации игроков в скат (ISPA). Чемпион мира и Германии (по версии ISPA), трёхкратный чемпион мира по скату среди ветеранов.

Биография
Марта Калл родилась 18 сентября 1924 в семье игрока в скат. С игрой познакомилась в юношеском возрасте благодаря отцу. К 17 годам она уже на равных играла в скат с ним и сёстрами на семейных турнирах. Она жила в Концене недалеко от Моншау, вышла замуж и взяла фамилию Прикарц.

В 1976 году она вместе с предпринимателем Питером Брандтом учредила Международную ассоциацию игроков в скат в Ахене. В 1978 году Марта Прикартц приняла участие в первом чемпионате мира, проводимом ассоциацией в Анахайме. Позже она не пропускала ни одного турнира, проводимого ISPA, до самой смерти. В 1987 году она стала чемпионом Германии среди женщин на турнире, проводимом в Бад-Урахе.

В 1994 году Марта Прикартц победила в личном зачёте среди женщин на девятом чемпионате мира, проводимом в Мюнхене. В более зрелом возрасте принимала участие в категории ветеранов, где трижды становилась чемпионом мира в личном зачёте среди женщин: 2004 году в Пуконе (Чили), 2006 году в Нассау (Багамы) и 2010 году в Кейптауне (Южно-Африканская Республика). Свой последний титул чемпиона мира Марта завоевала в возрасте 86 лет. В 2013 году она во второй раз стала чемпионом Германии среди женщин (Кёльн), только в этот в категории ветеранов. В следующем году, на чемпионате Германии, проводимом в Магдебурге, 90-летняя Марта Прикартц заняла второе место.

Кроме игры в скат, Марта Прикарц любила готовить еду для всей семьи и вязать спицами и крючком. Вязанию она посвящала всё своё свободное время. Из-за того что Прикарц постоянно возила спицы с собой, у неё возникали проблемы с таможенной службой. Так летом 2010 года, возвращаясь с победы среди ветеранов на турнире, посвящённом 25-летию испанскому клубу «Torrox», её спицы посчитали холодным оружием и потребовали сдать.

Умерла Марта Прикарц 5 мая 2015 года и была похоронена на местном кладбище в Концене. В том же году в Концене был проведён благотворительный турнир, посвящённый памяти Марты Прикартц, победителем стал Рейнхольд Винандс, чемпион мира 1984 года. Деньги, вырученные за вступительные взносы за турнир, были переданы родственникам Марты.

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Shaw Systems associates wearing lei's to celebrate Bank of Hawaii choosing our software.
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Bank of Hawaii is looking to expand their RECOVERY and COLLECTIONS loan management capabilities through their new partnership with Shaw. This includes automated decision strategies and leveraging Shaw's capabilities around improving recovery rates and minimizing delinquency.
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The Beginning Of Harper's BAZAAR — The First in Fashion
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On February 28, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris will mark the reopening of its newly renovated fashion galleries with an exhibition devoted to Harper's Bazaar. "First in Fashion" will examine the history of fashion as it has unfolded in the pages of the magazine, spotlighting a collection of watershed moments and seismic shifts in the way we dress, think, and live as they were captures in—and, in some cases, instigated by—Bazaar. Overseen by MAD director Olivier Gabet and curators Éric Pujalet–Plaá and Marianne Le Galliard, with Bazaar's editor in chief, Glenda Bailey, and design director, Elizabeth Hummer, the exhibition charts Bazaar's evolution from a 19th-century literary lifestyle journal that billed itself as "a repository for fashion, pleasure, and instruction" into the first modern fashion magazine.
A story on the "New Look", photographed by Avedon for the October 1947 issue
The name of the exhibition is fitting. Since its founding in 1867, Bazaar has been present for an epoch of "first" in fashion, as well as myriad creative, cultural, and social revolutions.
Bazaar—or Bazar, as it was originally spelled—was the first American magazine to dedicate itself to exploring the lives of women through fashion. Bazaar's first editor, Mary Louise Booth, was involved in the women's suffrage movement, and it was one of the first mainstream publications to advocate for voting rights, equal pay, and educational and professional opportunities for women. Bazaar was the first magazine to look at fashion within the context of art and culture, and the first to depict women in fashion in real environments, moving through real spaces in real time. It was the first magazine to commission Richard Avedon, and the first to anoint denim and bikinis as fashion (the latter of which Diana Vreeland deemed "the most important thing since the atom bomb"). Bazaar was also the first to celebrate Dior's New Look, the first to put a man on its cover, and the first to introduce Kate Moss to America.
The list of creative talent who launched their careers in Bazaar and contributed to the magazine is equally impressive. Editors like Bailey, Booth, Carmel Snow, Nancy White, Anthony T.Mazzola, and Liz Tilberis all shepherded Bazaar during long, transformative periods. Creative and art directors like Alexey Brodovitch, Hanry Wolf, Marvin Israel, Ruth Ansel, Bea Feitler, Fabien Baron, and Stephen Gan broke new grounds and helped change the visual vocabulary of magazines. Artists like Erté, Christian "Bébé" Bérard, Marcel Vertès, A.M. Cassandre, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí, and Andy Warhol all did illustrations for Bazaar. Writers and editors like Vreeland, Daisy Fellowes, Gloria Guinness, Eugenia Sheppard, Carrie Donovan, Tonne Goodman, Paul Cavaco, Sarah Mower, Melanie Ward, and Carine Roitfeld brought in new perspectives on fashion. Photographers like Avedon, Martin Munkácsi, Toni Frissell, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Lillian Bassman, Melvin Sokolsky, Hiro, Francesco Scavullo, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Jean-Paul Goude, and Karl Lagerfeld, who shot for Bazaar, expanded the potential of fashion imagery.
Steve McQueen photographed by Richard Avedon for the February 1965 issue
The MAD show is firmly grounded in fashion, drawing upon the museum's robust archive of more than 150,000 pieces. But the thread of Bazaar's ongoing dialogues with fashion animates much of the material.
The way Bazaar has covered fashion was undeniably shaped by the moment at which it as born. Patterned after a German publication called Der Bazar, Bazaar was originally conceived as a general interest weekly aimed at the women of the rising American leisure class that would cover fashion and the aristocratic social swirl in places like London, Paris, and Vienna, and offer advice on topics such as homemaking and etiquette alongside fiction and poetry. Under Mary Louise Booth's leadership, Bazaar delivered glitzy coverage of the codes, clothes, manners, and modes of old-world high society, with a smattering of New York for good measure. But it also encouraged women to think more consciously about the roles that were being imposed upon them—domestic and otherwise—and even rethink aspects of their own lives and possibilities.
Bazaar was at once of its time and ahead of its time. An essay in the June 12, 1869, issue argued for "fairer laws for women, the opening to them of new avenues of employment, the gradual approximation to the just rule of equal wages for equal work, and the very general admission that is a few years all judicial distinctions between the rights of the two halves of humanity will be swept from the statute-books." This was more than 50 years before the 19th amendment was ratified in 1920, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
It wasn't until the turn of the 20th century, as designers like Paul Poiret and later Coco Chanel, Madeleine Vionnet, Jeanne Lanvin, and Elsa Schiaparelli cast off the old strictures of the Victorian era, that Bazaar began to more closely resemble the magazine it is today. But Bazaar's definition of fashion had already come to embody the spirit of what Carmel Snow would later refer to as "well-dressed women with well-dressed minds." The question of what it means to live as a woman in the modern world has hovered over the magazine for 153 years—and is one that's at the centre of the MAD exhibition.
The cover of the May 1943 issue featuring a denim playsuit by Claire McCardell, photographed by George Hoyningen-Huene
"Visualize yourself as you looked on a beautiful autumn day last year," Bazaar implored in the August 1947 issue. "There's not much in the old picture that survives."
In some ways, that is fashion: a powerful gust that blows through each season leaving a Rorschach of adjusted hemlines, reimagined silhouettes, and artistic, cultural, social, political, and economic implications in its wake. To Bazaar, though, the job of fashion magazines has never been just to describe the weather. It's to be the wind.
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When your blood pressure becomes too high, the baroreceptors tell the veins to expand and return less blood to the heart, lowering the blood flow and blood pressure. The veins can also become narrower and send more blood to the heart and in turn, increase the blood pressure. The baroreceptors tell the arteries the same thing, to constrict when the pressure is too low to raise it and to relax when the pressure is too high in order to lower it.
Just a quick note, arteries and veins have two different jobs to do. Arteries are responsible for transporting oxygenated blood away from the heart to the body and veins carry the deoxygenated blood back from the body to the heart. An easy way to remember this is the 'a' for arteries stands for A for AWAY!
How can I help my body to maintain a healthy blood pressure reading?
While our bodies are naturally adept at maintaining healthy blood pressure, there are factors which can influence it negatively, resulting in an imbalance and either high or low blood pressure.
Exercising regularly - exercise offers a host of blood pressure benefits. It not only stimulates the release of nitric acid which causes blood vessles to dilate, reducing blood pressure, but it also lowers stress, strengthens the heart muscle and aids in weight loss, all of which have a positive influence on blood pressure.
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Avoid or quit smoking - Nicotine causes the constriction (narrowing) of blood vessels, which in turn elevates blood pressure.
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I'm just going to continue the Doodle- off because I am really enjoying the fact that I have another motivation to draw.
And because I want to see if I can do it and get 100 done.
i have about 18 doodles coming your way but don't stop because i'm slow to post.
i like the direction your going in with them. i really like these little circle/pebble ones...so let me see more!!!!
i think the winner might have to be whoever makes it to 100. haha.
:) thanks racheal because i was getting discouraged and kind of felt like a looser to be the only one posting :) but i am glad u are working on them! :) they've actually become a sort of release for me. its good. and i can't help but draw these circles a lot.
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"Here We Go Again"- Henry Cavill Family And Friends React To See Him As The Witcher
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Henry Cavill got the title of King of Netflix because of his magnificent performance in novel based fantasy series The Witcher. Even those who were a fan of novels and games, after watching Henry's performance became his die-hard fan. Critics have applauded Cavill's determination towards the iconic role of title character The Witcher. But fans are curious to know about the reviews from the actor's family and friends about his portrayal of the witcher. Let us find out now!
Henry Cavill Says His Family Is Happy
Everyone knows him as Superman but when Henry Cavill took the role of a mutant in The Witcher, he surprised his fans with his performance. He was asked about what was his family's reaction after watching him slaying the monsters, in long blonde hair, and playing with swords.
He got the question, "What are your friends and family say about all this because you know every single film you look different. Do you worry about their reaction? There are some naughty scenes in this as well, is it awkward?"
Henry laughed and said, "my mum has got very used to that ever since the Tudors. She is like oh okay here we go again."
Henry said that it is very important for him that his family likes whatever he does. "So for it's very important that my family likes it and but as importantly it's for me doing justice to the character. My family is big readers of this kind of stuff and if they like it makes me very very happy. But I can't necessarily control that it's pretty sure they will."
The host joked and said, "yeah, mom I am mutant." Henry completed it and replied on behalf of her mom, "yeah, I know you are."
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Henry discussed how his brothers reacted to his big muscles and changed looks. "And the brothers do they give you tease a little bit about this hair and makeup?" To this Henry agreed and said, "absolutely! there is always a lot of ribbing going on but we all realize how much hard work we put into our jobs respectively. So there is a lot of respect when it comes to hard work. But regardless of that hard work, we definitely take the mickey out of each other as often as we can."
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Fikile Mogodi on Bringing a Bestseller to the Small Screen in 'The Wife'
As the series prepares to wrap its third and likely final season, the director talks tweaking the source material for TV, shooting sex scenes with care, and what fans can expect in the current season of the hit Showmax show.
When the first season of The Wife premiered in November 2011, it smashed Showmax's first-day viewing record. The South African drama wasted no time in drawing viewers into its choppy world of romance and crime. A taxi rank run by feuding gang families (the Zulus and the Majolas) sparks night-time shoot-outs, home invasions, and counter-heists.
Based on the series of books from South African author Dudu Busani-Dube, The Wife ties together the perspectives of the women married to the men in the Zulu family. In the first season, the focus is on Hlomu, a journalist played by Mbalenhle Mavimbela, and Mqhele (Bonko Khoza), a taxi driver, who instantly falls in love with her while she's on her way to work.
For Hlomu, it takes a little while longer to figure out her feelings -- especially since she's already engaged -- but she comes around soon enough. Mqhele is dangerous, though. Bit by bit, she realizes he's a criminal with like-minded brothers. Yet, she stays put, lodging herself further into the Zulu household. There might be the "women love bad guys" trope implied from her relationship with the men, but the show's appeal only grew throughout the season.
Around 25 minutes per episode, The Wife packs in practical action beats with familial drama. "It's been such a groundbreaking show in many respects, in terms of the story, and the scope in which we engaged with the written text," director Fikile Mogodi tells OkayAfrica. "But it's been a ride. It's been fun."
Adapting the book for television has been tricky. The series spans over seven years and couldn't be shoehorned into a television format verbatim. Stained Glass, the production studio behind The Wife, had to make creative maneuvers to sustain the interest of television viewers.
As one of the talented minds behind the show, Mogodi believes Stained Glass was the right creative outlet for the adaptation. They'd already produced shows like Uzalo and eHostela that had drawn healthy audiences. "From a filmmaking and production perspective, we decided to be inspired by some of the events that happened in the book," says Mogodi. "The love dynamic between the couples were very specific, so that we couldn't deviate from. The first book was dealing with a very volatile love between Hlomu and Mqhele, and we stuck to that." Then, he says, they dove into the dynamic between the brothers, aiming to keep viewers engaged for the 24-minutes of each episode. "We took creative license to keep it pacy and intriguing, while respecting the source material."
With pockets of sex scenes in season one, things took an explicit turn in the second season. The love story between Nkosana (Mondli Makhoba) and Zandile (Khanyi Mbau) is explored as the Zulu brothers deal with treacherous stakes. Episode 11 is famous for the couple's sex scene, which went viral on social media, and caused much pearl-clutching among viewers.
While the clips have seemingly disappeared from Twitter, viewers remarked that the scene looked real. A casual observer may have concluded it was ripped from a porn website, but in fact, it showed the technical feat that was achieved. Inspired by the sex scenes from the Power series, Mogodi had the express willingness of the actors (Makhoba and Mbau) to play the scene.
"The challenge was, how do we shoot something this explicit but in the most safest environment? We observed safety precautions and implemented all barriers, making sure genitals don't touch," says Mogodi. "Technically, the scene involved stunts and demanded proper stunt coordination between the actors. From a camera-angle perspective, the question here was, how do we make sure that everything is the way that it's supposed to look and feel? How do you hide things in place and make edits?"
The two-minute sex scene that viewers saw took the director 4 hours to shoot. It was Mogodi's intention for it to look realistic, nudity and all, taking risks from a creative perspective. He carried this over into episode 23 of season 3, which spotlights a different couple, Naledi (Gaisang K. Noge) and Qhawe (Kwenzo Ngcobo). Their shower sex scene was also a moment of choreography.
If African viewers can comfortably watch sex scenes on shows like Power or elsewhere, and don't feel scandalized, why can't African content have the same? These were Mogodi's thoughts, but he's also aware that Africans love their cherished conservatism, the puritanical veneer that guides their moral taste.
Behind the Veil, an 8-part special, takes fans behind the scenes of the show with interviews from the actors. A whole episode is dedicated to the care with which the sex scenes were shot, explaining the technicalities involved on a closed set.
Beyond sex, the show wants viewers to reckon with domestic violence. It's one of the themes in the book series, embracing the dynamic of Hlomu and Mqhele's relationship. To prepare viewers, content warning messages appear before the start of new episodes.
"Domestic abuse is a major part of their volatile love story and it was something that we couldn't change. If not, then we would have really departed from the story," says Mogodi.
The Wife is exclusively available on Showmax, MultiChoice's video-on-demand streaming service that first launched in South Africa in 2015. As a rival to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, the streamer is unlocking Africa's creative potential regarding storytelling. In this streaming age, Mogodi doesn't want authenticity to be lost. This is most evident in how The Wife is portrayed, where characters only speak Zulu.
Kwenzo Ngcobo and Gaisang K. Noge play the couple Qhawe and Naledi at the center of season 3 of 'The Wife.'
This is, perhaps, the edge Showmax has over other international streamers that have opened divisions in Africa, supporting local creatives to be as authentic as they can be. Mogodi is happy that local projects can receive international funding, but he bemoans how these projects sometimes cater towards Western sensibilities.
"We have seen many of these projects," Mogodi says. "Yes, the future is streaming but we just need to make sure we have the infrastructure in place to make sure we are able to make and consume the projects that are made by a multitude of talented creatives across the continent."
As The Wife draws to a close with the third and final season, Mogodi isn't certain the show will return if Busani-Dube publishes more installments in the series. But he's grateful for the feedback and for viewers sticking with the show. On what fans can expect for the remaining stretch of the season, Mogodi says "lots of heartaches and happy moments" with "twists and turns."
The Zulu brothers are finding new avenues to make their money, despite in-fighting and dealing with deaths in the past. In this final lap, who is left standing will perhaps be the show's greatest reveal.
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10 of the Best African TV Shows of 2022
From debut dramas to returning series, we sift through this year's television releases and pick our favorites.
Last year, Love Island received the South African treatment, and although the show's lack of Black contestants soured its regard, it still went on to thrill legions of fans around the world. The series didn't return this year, however, and a Nigerian version has been stuck in limbo for quite some time. And yet, African viewers love reality TV. Just look at how Netflix's Young, Famous, & African, which plucked a handful of the continent's jet-setting stars for a reality series, was lapped up by audiences.
With global streaming corporations making inroads into the African market, we have seen an uptick in stylized TV content making a splash. And in 2022, streaming services have continued the battle for eyeballs. Young, Famous, & African was the first of its kind from Netflix, while Savage Beauty, The Brave Ones, and Justice Served were other productions that, while not as flashy, found their audiences, too, thanks to being gripping scripted dramas.
Showmax is turning up the heat, investing in original shows like Blood Psalms, Igiza, Crime and Justice: Lagos, Flawsome,County 49, Dirty Laundry, andThis Body Works for Me, while ordering new seasons of The River, Gomora and The Real Housewives of Durban.
Prime Video just launched in Nigeria, premiering the riveting family drama Riches, and a future slate that includes originals like Gangs of Lagos and LOL: Last One Laughing Naija. These shows are setting the tone for a streaming war. But more broadly, we are on track towards Africa's own peak streaming.
Here are our TV picks of 2022:
1. The Real Housewives of Lagos
Even before The Real Housewives of Lagos premiered on Showmax in April, fans were already supercharged with excitement. This version of the popular reality franchise was a Showmax hit (read our review), its 13 episodes arriving week-to-week and the season capped off with a deliciously tumultuous reunion.
While certain bits were exaggerated for fan service, the series did reveal Lagos as seen through the eyes of its affluent cast. Friendships disintegrated, dirt laundry was aired, and drama ensued from unlikely places. RHOL had fans pitch their tent with their favorite housewife (Team Toyin! Team Laura! Team Chioma!), and pushing for a second season.
2. Blood and Water
Viewers won't forget how the first season ended in a cliffhanger. Up until 2020, Netflix didn't have anything like Blood and Water, the teen drama set in South Africa about 16-year-old Puleng (Ama Qamata), who is hellbent on solving the cold case of her older sister adopted as a baby 17 years ago.
Those club scenes with acid neon lighting, pulsing soundtrack and enchanting camera angles embodied how the show became a young-adult obsession. Directed by Nophiso Dumisa, Blood and Water in its third season is still a mystery show, introducing bigger stakes and more secrets to uncover.
This Netflix limited series from the late Biyi Bandele and Kenneth Gyang does something refreshing: taking Nollywood's wedding trope and turning it into a high-stakes thriller. The story follows Sarah (Ini Dima-Okojie) as a bride on her wedding day, surviving a crime and taking off with her close friend Kemi (Nancy Isime) as an accomplice.
Guarding a chilling secret that could get them killed, the two women become targets in a manhunt. Mixing police procedural flourishes with real-world issues (like domestic violence, classism, corruption), Blood Sisters cuts through the fluff with its tight pacing, and delivers a rewarding pay off.
4. How to Ruin Christmas
Spending Christmas together between feuding families (the Sellos and Twallas) has been the backdrop of How to Ruin Christmas,a South African holiday special that first premiered in 2020 on Netflix. Once more, they dreadfully reunite again for a baby shower in the just-released third season. Beauty (Thando Thabethe) is expecting her first child with Sbu (Sandile Mahlangu), so what could possibly go wrong?
Created by the Ramaphakela siblings, How to Ruin Christmas has perfected the art of well-timed disasters, and this holiday season won't be spared.
5. Diiche
This whodunnit from James Omokwe layers itself as psychological thriller, and has been praised by critics for its creative storytelling. Big-time actress Diiche (Uzoamaka Onuoha) ends up being the prime suspect of a murder investigation. The deceased is her fiancé Nnamdi (Daniel K. Daniel), and to prove she's innocent, she must do what she can to find his killer. As a side note, Diiche is Showmax's first Nigerian original series.
6. Country Queen
Country Queen is one of the African Netflix shows that didn't enjoy much marketing or promotion. If you are hearing about it for the first time, this could be the reason. Also, the six-episode drama is Kenya's first Netflix original series, tapping Vincent Mbaya to direct and Kamau Wa Ndung'u to produce.
Event planner Akissa (Melissa Kiplagat) has her world thrown into crisis when she leaves Nairobi and returns to Tsilanga, her childhood home, and struggles against corporate powers grabbing communal lands. It's a slow burner, weaving in old-flame romance as the protagonist makes a stunning discovery about herself.
7. The Wife
Adapted from Dudu Busani-Dube's bestselling Hlomu series, The Wife broke Showmax's first-day viewing records when it first aired in 2021. Viewers haven't been from South Africa alone, drawing in numbers from Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and the like.
Set in a small South African town, it tells the story of the titular Hlomu (Mbalenhle Mavimbela) who falls in love with taxi driver Mqhele (Bonko Khoza). But things aren't what they seem, as she's sucked into a dark underbelly of crime and gang rivalry.
Showrunner Guguu Ncube-Zuma and creative director Fikile Mogodi have been lauded for the deftly shot sex scenes, which explore triggering themes like domestic violence. With its ongoing third season promising a hefty 60 episodes, there's no doubt that viewers will stick around for it all.
8. Young, Famous & African
Co-creator Peace Hyde wanted to depict a "cosmopolitan" Africa. So Young, Famous & African was the answer, gathering the biggest (and, questionably, youngest) stars in Johannesburg for Netflix's first African reality show.
From Nigeria's Swanky Jerry, Annie Macaulay-Idibia and Innocent '2Baba' Idibia to Tanzania's Diamond Platnumz and Zimbabwe's Kudzai Mushonga, we see flirting, feuds, and drama over seven episodes, wrapped up extravagantly with a lavish little ribbon.
9. Riches
A few months after Nigeria's Prime Video launch in August, Riches premiered on the streamer and took viewers by surprise. The six-part drama series has also received glowing reviews from critics. What's more, it's bingeable, and rightfully earns a spot on this year's best African TV shows.
It follows a Nigerian family in the U.K. who fight over control of their family-owned cosmetics empire, after the death of its founder. Created by Abby Ajayi, the show holds appeal for many fans in the diaspora, and could see a second season green-lit in no time.
10. Only Jokes Allowed
A little-known gem that premiered early in the year on Netflix, Only Jokes Allowed is a comedy stand-up special that features six of South Africa's top comedians: Schalk Bezuidenhout, Gilli Apter, Celeste Ntuli, Nina Hastie, Robby Collins, and Mpho Popps. It's an easy-to-digest series, with quick-set performances, each around 15 minutes per episode.
The stand-up leans into adult themes like porn and sex, but there's also social commentary on racism, relationships, and body positivity.
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Though GNU Radio was first thought of for being a software defined radio (SDR) platform capable of receiving or transmitting arbitrary waveforms such as to take the airwaves back to the people, the development of the software has lent itself very useful for the possiblity of abstracting statistical RF channel models for simulations.
For what purpose would this be a good idea? Who needs simulation, you ask?
When designing adaptive equalizers or RAKE receivers, it might be good to know the typical performance given a specific channel type. For some cases - such as dense areas like urban settings it might be better to use one setting versus another.
I think that RF channel simulation blocks, though boring and possibly not quite as exciting as some of the other blocks, will bring GNU Radio to the forefront of SDR development and might possibly lead to the software package being used more commercially.


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Special Report: How COVID-19 swept the Brazilian slaughterhouses of JBS, world's top meatpacker
S?O PAULO (Reuters) – JBS SA, the world's largest meatpacker, has vowed to keep the world fed during the coronavirus pandemic. Executives say the company has added more than 15,000 new workers in Brazil this year to crank out cuts of chicken, pork and beef, a lot of it for export. The meat giant's $629 million second-quarter net profit was almost twice what analysts expected.
But that windfall has come at a cost: More than 4,000 JBS employees in Brazil are known to have tested positive for coronavirus and at least six have died from COVID-19, according to records from local health authorities and information gathered by prosecutors and three employee unions investigating the company. Outbreaks have struck at least 23 plants in seven states, prosecutors, health officials and union representatives told Reuters, helping to fuel the pandemic across South America's largest country.
JBS, based in S?o Paulo, denied wrongdoing. The company repeatedly has defended its response to the pandemic in Brazil, saying publicly that the health of its workers is the "principal priority." It declined to comment on infections and fatalities, saying it shares COVID-19 data only with authorities.
With more than 4.1 million confirmed coronavirus cases, Brazil trails only the United States and India in the size of its outbreak; almost 127,000 Brazilians have died. Some JBS plants have become a locus of community spread, Brazilian health officials and prosecutors said.
JBS's initial brush with the virus came in its U.S. operations in March when it cut production at a Pennsylvania beef plant after managers displayed flu-like symptoms. The temporary closing of two JBS facilities due to major outbreaks, one at a Colorado beef plant, the other at a pork facility in Minnesota, also made headlines.
Less well-known are its difficulties in Brazil, where the company has become a magnet for litigation. Since April, prosecutors in some of the nation's biggest agricultural states have filed 18 lawsuits in the country's specialized labor courts to force JBS to implement stricter worker protections in at least 17 of the meatpacker's Brazilian plants that have experienced coronavirus outbreaks.
Other meatpackers, too, have battled the virus in their plants. Brazil-based companies including Marfrig and BRF have reached agreements with prosecutors to conduct systematic, ongoing testing of their workers to minimize spread and keep operating.
JBS, in contrast, largely has resisted prosecutors' calls to perform such testing, which is not expressly required under Brazilian law.
"There is no obligation coming from the government, the regulatory or the health agencies for meatpackers to carry out tests," JBS said in a statement.
Reuters reviewed judges' rulings and information submitted by prosecutors as part of their JBS investigations. The news organization also interviewed more than 30 people with knowledge of the infections at JBS plants in Brazil, among them prosecutors, former and current health officials, union leaders and workers.
Among the claims made by prosecutors as well as by government labor inspectors who documented conditions at two JBS plants: The virus spread at JBS because the company did not perform its own workplace testing, failed to provide frontline employees with sufficient masks and other safety equipment, and did not quickly isolate workers who tested positive or showed symptoms of COVID-19.
Prosecutors are seeking rigorous testing and quarantine protocols, adequate personal protective gear and greater spacing between laborers in the Brazilian meat factories. They are also asking JBS for damages ranging between 3 million reais ($566,091) and 20 million reais ($3.77 million) to help local communities near most of the affected plants procure medical equipment and fund social projects.
"JBS is a world leader in its industry and should set an example," said Heiler Natali, a prosecutor overseeing legal action against the company in southern Paran? state. "JBS does not want to test workers and take responsibility."
The legal disputes resulted in the temporary shutdown of six JBS plants in Brazil this year, according to prosecutors.
JBS said only five of its hundred-plus Brazilian facilities were affected by the shutdowns, and that the sixth factory cited by prosecutors was never closed.
The sixth plant is a pork operation in Tr?s Passos in southern Rio Grande do Sul state. A local labor judge ordered that plant to furlough with pay for 14 days all workers who had tested positive for COVID-19, and to test the rest for coronavirus, according to a June 22 court order seen by Reuters.
Some 40% of that facility's workforce of 1,017 tested positive for coronavirus, and one died, according to prosecutors.
JBS declined to comment on pending litigation. It defended the measures it has taken, telling Reuters that, among other steps, it has hired consultants to advise it on health protocols such as proper physical distancing at plants. The company in July arranged for mass testing of workers at a pork plant in the southern city of Dourados in southwestern Mato Grosso do Sul state under a deal worked out with prosecutors.
Chief Executive Officer Gilberto Tomazoni said on an August 14 earnings call that he was "proud" of JBS's response to the crisis, which he said included $400 million in investment worldwide to safeguard workers and communities surrounding its facilities.
All told, JBS operates 135 facilities in Brazil, including beef, chicken, pork and leather plants, as well as offices and distribution centers. Those operations account for about one-fifth of its global revenue. JBS employs 240,000 people worldwide, including 135,000 in Brazil.
Coronavirus is the latest headache for JBS, which has been rocked by graft and food-safety scandals in recent years. Those woes battered its stock price, pushed back a coveted U.S. share listing and led to massive fines.
Global demand for animal protein has bolstered JBS, though. It reported record profits last year. When the virus hit in early 2020, the incentive to keep its Brazil plants running was high. Shutdowns at its U.S. facilities led to production cuts in that key market. A weakened Brazilian currency, meanwhile, made meat produced in Brazil cheaper for foreign buyers. JBS' Brazilian beef exports to China, for example, rose by 53% in dollar terms in the second quarter. The company sells in 190 countries.
In a March conference call, CEO Tomazoni promised investors he'd keep the product flowing, but said employee health would come first. He announced measures for JBS plants worldwide, including paid furloughs for employees in high-risk groups, deep cleaning of factories and increased spacing on company buses that transport workers to its plants.
Tomazoni said those actions might not be implemented in all countries due to local laws, but JBS later confirmed to Reuters that all the steps mentioned would apply in Brazil. In addition, Tomazoni said on that call that JBS would screen its Brazilian workers for fever, vaccinate them for H1N1 to boost their immunity and increase employee spacing in common areas of plants.
In Brazil, JBS has not always followed its own pledges, according to court documents and interviews with prosecutors, unions and employees.
One example is a mid-May audit by government labor inspectors of a JBS chicken plant located in Ipumirim, a city in southern Santa Catarina state. The audit report, reviewed by Reuters, found that JBS sent at least one plant employee with a confirmed coronavirus infection back to work, and kept 42 workers with underlying conditions such as hypertension on duty — seven of whom later tested positive for COVID-19.
Inspectors found 86 confirmed COVID-19 cases at Ipumirim after reviewing workers' medical records, representing 6% of the facility's workforce, their report said.
JBS declined to comment on the report.
A JBS worker at a beef plant in Col?der, in Mato Grosso state, became the first confirmed COVID-19 case in that town in May, according to public health data cited by prosecutors in court documents. Of the facility's 602 workers, 84 had tested positive for coronavirus as of June 17, an infection rate almost 12 times higher than that of the town itself, prosecutors alleged.
JBS denied wrongdoing at Col?der. It said it followed federal rules as well as advice from renowned medical institutions to deal with potential infections there.
At a beef facility in the city of Araputanga, also in Mato Grosso, prosecutors said the situation was "out of epidemiological control," with 51 infections among a workforce of 1,070, court filings dated Aug. 4 show.
JBS disputed the Araputanga infection tally, but did not elaborate.
WORKING 'SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER'
Brazil's meat sector, like that in much of the world, has been hit hard by COVID-19. Federal health officials in Brazil do not track cases by industry, so the total number of meatpacking infections is unknown. National food workers' union Contac-CUT in August estimated that as many as 25% of the nation's 500,000 slaughterhouse workers had been infected, based on its surveys of local chapters.
The Brazilian Association of Animal Protein (ABPA), an industry group representing pork and poultry processors, called those figures "disinformation" based on estimates.
Prosecutors allege JBS has lagged rivals in implementing steps to thwart coronavirus at its facilities.
Marfrig and BRF, both headquartered in S?o Paulo, are among 30 firms operating a total of 98 slaughterhouses and employing more than 185,000 people that reached settlements with prosecutors in recent months that largely enabled them to keep operating.
A key commitment agreed to by all those companies: They would pay for ongoing, routine testing of workers to spot cases early. Marfrig said it started testing all its 18,000 employees on June 1. BRF, which employs about 90,000 people in Brazil and is the nation's largest chicken exporter, told Reuters it has conducted 11,000 tests at its Toledo plant alone, located in Paran? state.
JBS often has opted to fight in court. Prosecutors say they have had to obtain court orders to force JBS to shut plants temporarily, and to make changes such as stricter physical distancing.
"Closing a plant is a measure of last resort," said Priscila Schvarcz, a prosecutor in Rio Grande do Sul state. She is directing litigation against JBS over conditions at a poultry facility in the city of Passo Fundo. That plant was closed for almost a month starting April 24 after some workers fell ill with COVID-19. At least 305 workers ultimately tested positive for coronavirus after two outbreaks there, Schvarcz said.
JBS told Reuters it prefers not to settle with prosecutors because it complies with all regulations set down by the federal government for operating in the pandemic. It said it would continue to defend its "robust" safety protocols in the nation's courts.
The company has had some success with its approach. On July 3, a state appeals court judge ordered the Passo Fundo poultry plant reopened, ruling that keeping it closed "could cause job losses, reduce tax collection and threaten food supplies."
Some JBS workers told Reuters they feared getting sick but couldn't quit because they needed the paycheck. Two employees at JBS chicken plants in Santa Catarina state – one in Ipumirim, the other in Nova Veneza – said in July the company provided them and their colleagues with one single-use face mask each to last five working days. JBS also rationed masks at the Passo Fundo poultry plant and the Dourados pork slaughterhouse in Mato Grosso do Sul state, according to a prosecutor and an attorney for a workers' union in Dourados.
"My colleague caught the virus," said the Ipumirim worker, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We really worked shoulder-to-shoulder and the company refused to test us."
JBS declined to discuss allegations that it rationed masks or that employees at Ipumirim worked in close proximity.
COMMUNITY SPREAD
Some JBS plants have been linked to community spread. In S?o Miguel do Guapor?, a small town in the western Amazon state of Rond?nia, 266 workers at a JBS beef plant were infected as of June 6, representing more than 60% of the town's cases, prosecutors said. They secured a May 26 court order to close the facility temporarily to stem the outbreak.
"The plant is the main source of contamination and transmission in this little town," Wadler Ferreira, a local labor judge, said in his ruling. The S?o Miguel do Guapor? plant, which employed 900 people when the outbreak happened, is the town's largest employer.
In Mato Grosso do Sul state, JBS workers from the Dourados pork plant started falling ill around May. Rather than seek a court order to close the plant, prosecutor Jeferson Pereira worked out a deal with JBS and local health officials to perform mass testing in July, funded mainly by the state. Nearly a quarter of the 4,300-person workforce tested positive, driving one of the state's worst outbreaks, prosecutors said.
Dourados, a city of 223,000, has been hit hard. Some 6,058 citizens have tested positive for COVID-19, while 82 people have died, according to Health Ministry data as of Sept. 7. In addition to JBS, other meat plants in the area experienced outbreaks.
"The entire pandemic in Dourados started at the meatpackers. This is an epidemiological fact," said Julio Croda, an epidemiologist and former head of the federal Health Ministry's department of immunization and transmissible diseases.
ABPA, the industry trade group, disputes Croda's assessment. It said the industry has always acted to control the virus as it works to maintain meat supplies.
A union representing JBS workers at the Dourados plant filed suit July 14 to force the company to pay healthcare costs for employees who contracted coronavirus. That suit is pending.
JBS defended its actions. It said testing at Dourados "yielded good results as it efficiently prevented and controlled COVID-19 at that plant."


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I love Louis CK but the way he pronounces Cinnabon is grating. I always thought the last syllable rhymed with "gone". On the other hand I suppose it should rhyme with "cinnamon", right? So unless you're from Jamaica then Louis is probably getting it right. Damn.


Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2003, 2326-2331.
In the context of real-time collision / obstacle avoidance this paper investigates a direct method of estimating dense scene structure and image motion. Our proposed method combines both stereo vision (involving geometric constraints) and optical flow (involving photometric constraints). It is applied to multiple motion images (i.e., images with vehicle ego-motion plus obstacle motion). Modifications to the direct method were introduced to improve the reliability of the motion estimation. The multiple-motion-estimation scheme comprises local motion estimations followed by a classification of these estimates in a simplified motion parameter space through cluster analysis. The classification enables segmentation of the different motions that are used to estimate more accurately the dense structure and motion of objects in a scene. Experimental results on both synthetic and real image sequences demonstrate the potential of the method.


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Bob Dylan To Perform 'Shadow Kingdom' Livestream Concert On Veeps
Bob Dylan is set to perform an exclusive livestream concert, called "Shadow Kingdom," on the Veeps platform on July 18 at 2 pm ET/11 am PT.
Dylan will be presenting songs from original works he has created specially for this event, which will be his first concert performance since he took the stage on December 8, 2019 at the Anthem in Washington D.C.
The special will feature Dylan performing "in an intimate setting as he presents renditions of songs from his extensive and renowned body of work created especially for this event," according to a press release.
"It's an incredible honor and a high point for us all at Veeps to have the opportunity to be working with Bob Dylan, and to be a part of what is sure to be a truly special and historic performance, not only as professionals, but as music fans too," said Joel Madden, co-founder of Veeps.
Dylan released Rough And Rowdy Ways in 2020. The record, which hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart in its debut, earned him the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Artist 100 chart. It also gave Dylan his 23rd career top 10 release.
Tickets are priced at $25 each, and access to the concert footage will remain viewable for ticketholders for 48 hours after the initial airing.
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Q: CSS Two preloader cause issue I need to have mutliple preloader. One on the body and now I want to add another preloader before displaying a form. Here is my first preloader :

            <svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 74.4 81.9" width="300"
                 height="300" xml:space="preserve">
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                    <stop offset="0%" stop-color="#76B442">
                        <animate attributeName="stop-color" values="#76B442; #A7A8AA; #76B442" dur="1s"
                                 repeatCount="indefinite"></animate>
                    </stop>

                    <stop offset="100%" stop-color="#A7A8AA">
                        <animate attributeName="stop-color" values="#A7A8AA; #76B442; #A7A8AA" dur="1s"
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My second preloader :

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                         repeatCount="indefinite"></animate>
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Here is the CSS for both the preloader :
#preloader{
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    background-color: #fff;
    z-index: 120;
}

#preloader_form {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    background-color: #fff;
    z-index: 110;
}

#status,
#status_form {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    width: 100%;
    height: 0;
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
}

I didn't have any issue with the first preloader. But the SVG of the second disappear when the first preloader disappear. And I don't understand why
Any ideas ?
Thanks